 It's like we're a video. All right. Good morning and welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. I am your host, Krista Porter, here at the Nebraska Library Commission. Encompass Live is the Commission's weekly webinar series where we cover a variety of topics of interest to libraries. The show is broadcast live every Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. central time. But if you're unable to join us on Wednesdays, that's fine. We do record the show every week and it is then posted to the Nebraska Library Commission's YouTube channel and onto our website. So you will be able to watch, you can go to our website and watch at your convenience. And I'll show you at the end of today's show where all those recordings can be found. We do a mixture of things here on Encompass Live, book reviews, interviews, demos, mini training sessions, basically anything related to libraries. Libraries is really our only focus here. So as the Nebraska Library Commission, we are the state agency for libraries across the state. So public, academic, K-12 schools, special correctional facilities, anything and everything you think of that has a library, we've done something for them. Both our live show and our archives are free and open to anyone to watch. So please do share with your friends, family, neighbors, colleagues, anyone who you think may be interested, excuse me, in any of our shows, they're welcome to join us live, or watch any of our archives that are on the website. Excuse me. We do bring in guest speakers sometimes to do sessions from libraries across Nebraska, from organizations around the country, but we also do have library commission staff that do things that we have this morning. Today, with me is Holly Duggan who is our continuing education coordinator here at the Nebraska Library Commission. So anything related to learning your CE, taking basic skills classes, doing courses, education, professional development, related, all that is Holly's preview. And she and I together are actually going to be talking about today's topic, which as you can see here on our library commission website is our second item here on our blog is about our continuing education, training and internship grants. This year, we have a few different grants that we're offering through the Nebraska Library Commission available to libraries in the state. And we had a session last week about our youth grants for excellence, Sally Snyder, our children's and youth librarian, youth services librarian talked about that. And we also have our CE, training and internship grants. Now I'm gonna show you here on our website, if you go to our commission's website, nlc.nebraska.gov. We have here on our fly out menu, a section on grants, funding and e-ravis, anything, ways to get money for your library, basically everything that you're doing, yeah. And lots of resources here, but over here we have our NLC related grants, things that we do here through out of the library commission. There is our CE grants link. We have a current library innovation studios projects that's putting makerspace equipment into libraries across the state that we're doing right now. Internship grants, library improvement grants, we have a Sparks grant and my IMLS Sparks grant, we're putting home work hotspots and internet connections into public libraries and youth grants for excellence. The two ones that are outside of commission grant funded monies from the IMLS, the Sparks grant and library innovation studios have their own pages, but all the other grants are things that we do via through the library commission, where we disperse the grants, we evaluate the grants and everything. So we have a general link here for about NLC grants that talks about all of those. So this would be then your main page for the grants that we give out through the commission so that you apply to us for and that we then distribute to you. So we have links here to our specific pages for the four grants that we have done over the years. This year, with the budget that we have available to us we are doing three out of the four. Continuing education and trading grants and internship grants that you're gonna learn about today. And then the one at the bottom here, youth grants for excellence are the three that we have the funding to do this year. Library improvement grants, we have done the past. These are grants mainly for doing things that are related to your library building. More, we need equipment for something, we need to update, make our entrance ADA compliant, do a digitization project, things like that is what library improvement grants are generally for. And this year just due to budget restrictions that we have here at the State of Nebraska, we did not have enough funding to do all four of these grants. So this year we are skipping the library improvement grants, look for them maybe next year, hold the fingers crossed that our budgets will make that available. But with the money that we do have, we did lose grants for excellence, which last week was the end of this live session about that, so go back and look at that if you wanna know more about that. And then our internship and continuing education and training grants. Internships grants we pretty much done every year regularly. They've been for different purposes sometimes. Last year they were focused for those, the library innovation studios, maker spaces. This year we're opening them up to anybody and everybody. Continuing education and training grants have worked a little differently over the years. And we're gonna talk about those first. So I think I'll hand over to you, Holly, if you wanna talk about that and explain what we've done in the past, what we're doing now, what's up with all that. So the past, or last time we did this was 2016. And before that, I think it was 2012 or 2013. But it's been focused on the ARSL conference attendance. So then this year we wanted in 2016 to go to ARSL, Association of Rural and Small Libraries Conference because that one was in South Dakota, so it was close enough. And then the one, the one we did before that was back in 2013 because ARSL was actually in Omaha. So we did it then and sent people to that. And then 2012 was last time we did it where it was just this more open to anything. And that's what we wanted to do again. Right. So you can either get it from that page or if you go back to this fly out menu and just go straight to under the NLC grants, continuing education grants. And then this is the main page. So really the purpose of this grant is to improve the library services provided to their communities through continuing education and training. So that's the main goal of these. If you click on this 2018 grant information, this will take you obviously to the details, what you need to know. So this year as we're opening it up again to the three kind of different areas, you can either attend an out of state professional conference. This doesn't have to be ARSL. It can be anything outside of Nebraska. We're trying to get in so that you can look outside to find a conference that you really wouldn't be able to attend without a little extra help. And then second, taking an online CE course. And then the third is the bigger, larger CE project meant for groups and staff training. So then going through each one, conference attendance is pretty straightforward. Out of state conference, eligible expenses, registration, pre-conferences, meals, travels, watching. That's a lot. You can do everything you need. You really can apply for it if you're covered. Yeah. And it doesn't have to be, if you have a question about a conference that you wanna attend and you're not quite sure if this grant would cover it, just email me and I'd be happy to take a look at it. Yeah. Because it is interesting that we would specifically say just out of state professional conference. Because it could be a technology, it could be, right, not just library conferences. Think outside the box if there's something, if there's a marketing conference. For literacy. Yeah. Really, what would you like to attend and what would be most relevant for your position? Right. What would be most helpful for your library and your community? And I'll go through the application form separately. But then second, so we have the taking an online CE course. So this would cover tuition for an individual to take an online class. These could be from Library Use Academy, ALA, Info People. It can be from other providers of online CE. But again, if you have a question about if it would be eligible or not, just let me know. There's lots of different places out there that do online courses now that are available. There's a lot of things that are for free, like our webinars here, but there are still ones out there like ALA that are still charging you. And I know for some people that can be a struggle. Yeah, because some of your classes are about $200 each. And some of them are more, like we do these one-hour webinars. So these are like a month or a month and a half long. It's an online course that you go to every week type thing. Yeah, more intensive hour specific. So there's maybe a cataloging class that you really wanted to take, apply for the grant. So then what's not eligible for the online courses is anything offered by NLA, NSLA, Library Commission, regional systems. Because again, we're trying to expand and offer you opportunities that just wouldn't be possible otherwise. And then online courses that would count towards a college degree or professional certificate from a college or university are also not eligible for this grant. So I'm just trying to adjust our camera. Oh, thank you. So then last are the bigger CE projects. These are intended to be for groups of librarians, staff. It doesn't have to be staff from a single library. It can be, but if you want to collaborate with another library, multiple libraries within the system, within the state, that's awesome. Just identify a CE training need that you, that your community area, state needs, come up with a project. This is like when you're bringing in, like do an in-service day. Yeah. And you're paying to bring in some special speakers from out of state or something. Speakers, workshops, there are some example projects of what has been done in the past. So bringing in a speaker for trustee training, bringing in a speaker workshop or a home in service day, half day training, just whatever you can think of. 2013, well, so 2012, they applied a group with the systems and an LA collaborated to put together this ALA Chicago road trip that allowed, I don't remember how many librarians, but a group of librarians to attend ALA Chicago. This was on the bus trips. They did, okay. So, and that was a little different. It's kind of a conference, kind of a group project, but it sounded like it was very successful. So. I noticed that just recently an email went out last week about trying to organize people going to... Is it MPLA? MPLA? Yeah. When is that? Yeah. I don't remember. So that kind of thing, if there's costs involved in that or if I'm not sure, how are we going to do that? It just depends on when it actually is taking place. Yeah. October 24th. And it's just down in Wichita. So that makes it, that'll be an easy one to get with us trip to, so it doesn't have to be necessarily a bus trip, but that's just one idea of getting a group together across the state for a single to attend a national conference. So then with the larger project, like the youth grants, we require the 25% match. And again, it can't be used towards an individual because we really want, if it's an individual who wants to attend a conference or a class, then they should really be... Appliance for themselves, yeah. And they could use the other two for a specific grant to do that, yeah. So we do have two different applications. The one for the CE project is obviously more in-depth and more detailed. And if you're an individual taking class, you probably don't want to tell them off. Yeah. So the basic way that this grant works is that the applications will be open tomorrow, the 27th. You have until December 7th. To submit the application, it's all online. You must be employed and accredited in Nebraska Public Library when you apply and for the duration of the conference course project. By December 7th, we need to have the application and then an acknowledgement, just the support form from either your library director or your library board just saying, yes, we know that this person is planning this, will help the best that we can and we support this. You should be able to click on it, is that? Yeah. Oh yeah, that's good. So just basic, just this is who's applying, this is the library, yes, we support this. And now this is something as you can see at the top, it's the form itself, the applications for all three are online. Yes, just an online web form you fill in the blank tick things. This is something as you can see in the instructions, it's coming up as a PDF. You actually have to physically print this out, sign it, scan it, email it back. Back to me. Well, yeah, I'll, yeah, but just out there. So then that's all you need to take care of by December 7th. Then by January 11th, we'll evaluate all the applications and let you know whether or not you've gotten the grant. So then if your application is approved, then we will send out the agreement form that you can read through and agree to. And then more information about requesting money and reimbursement and how that whole process works. Now the forms themselves, you said they'll be, yeah, the application month, they'll be available tomorrow. Is there anything about that? Yeah, they're online, it's just we'll start accepting the applications tomorrow because they're not quite finished yet. Yeah, okay, cool. Just fill things out. Our computer team is working on this as we speak, so. Okay, so first. As you can see, there's a big red, no, it's okay. Be available, not quite. But so this, well, let's, okay, go back. We are going to start with the individual one. The conference, so this is if you want to go to a conference or if you want to take an online CE course. So the first two have the same map form. Yes. So there's actually two different forms. One for the, okay, yes. So this one, it says conference, but it's also class. One thing that I'll have to ask to change. But so easy enough if you fill in your name, your library, your information. What's the name of the conference or class that you want to take? The URL. So we can check it. Start date, end date. It's just a short justification. Why do you want to attend this conference? How will taking part of this experience help you provide better service to your users? Where you're also like, how does this relevant, how's this specific event relevance to me specifically? Like, why am I asking to go to this business marketing conference? Because I'm in charge of doing the PR at the library. More than just, this makes my resume look better. How does this actually help you in your current job with your users, with what you're doing? And more details than just it would be fun. It would be a good project. Just lots and lots of details help you. And that size of that box, that is not the only space you have. If you load resources a little, yeah. It will go as long and open up as long as you keep typing. So you can be as detailed as you need to be. And then you'll put in your estimated expenses, total cost, hit submit again. And remember to do that form. And that's all you need to do for conferences and seeing courses. And that's just telling me that I need to submit. When you do these applications, they don't save. You can't save and come back and do it later. So if you want to fill everything out, maybe in a Word document, and then just copy and paste so you don't lose anything, it's probably a good idea. Especially with this next one, with the longer one. Right, you're going to want somewhere where you can think about what you're writing, Yeah, especially if you're collaborating with other people and you want to get, obviously, the details. And we'll go through the application, but it's probably not something that you're going to be able to sit down and do in five minutes. So then just going quick over the application. So this is the application for the projects, the bigger groups, and it's obviously a little more detailed. And it's very similar if you've done a youth grants application for Sally. So again, you'll fill out your information at top, project title, what are your goals for the project, a description of the program or activities, what's going to happen, what are you planning to do, a detailed timeline of the training project, when is this going to start, who's doing what, when are you, if it's a workshop that you're doing, when are you starting to take registrations? So it needs to be a little more detailed than just we're having this training sometime in June. What is the CE need on which this project is based? So if it's a staff project, is there a customer service component that you've noticed for whatever reason needed filled and that's what this training is, is there something in your community that's happened that you really need, that you really feel that your librarians need some extra CE to help with better, or are there new services that you want to bring in that you need training on? That's a good thing to think of, is there something, and it's not a bad thing, is there something we're lacking? Yeah, something that we're having trouble dealing with, so we need the extra training. And this is a great opportunity to provide that training and get those new services and to fill that need. Background information, again, this kind of goes with the CE need, but background information, how did this project come about? Where did you find that something was lacking? Maybe it's background of about the community. If you're bringing in a particular presenter from outside, you've either seen them present, did you see them somewhere, how did you find out about this particular? Yeah, were they recommended by somebody? Yeah. And then personnel who will be involved, so is this just something that you're taking the lead on and your staff will be in the training? Are you opening this up to other librarians in the state? Are you collaborating with other people in the system, within the state, just who's in on this project, basically, and then means of evaluation, success for outcomes, this is again, so your goal is this training will bring about this change. How are you going to show that? So for example, for the ALA road trip, one of the goals was provide broader attendance from the basketball librarians at a national conference. So the measurement of that would be 100% of those attending ALA will respond positively on a survey. Writers will represent multiple communities of all sizes and multi-type libraries. So that gives us a good idea that there's going to be a survey that you'll get feedback, so you know that this training, this project was successful. Proximate date to begin projects, and then if you would be willing, if you're awarded a grant, would you be willing to make a presentation either here or at some other state events? Through our systems, do they're on the spring workshops that they do, or spring sessions here on Encompass Live. We may ask you to come on and talk about what your cool project was to share with other libraries and see if they can get an idea of what they want to do. And then of course, most importantly, budget. So then just go through each one, services, materials, cost. Does there need to be extra training before you can do the workshop? Equipment, promotion, if that's something you'll need to do. Then you have the total budget and then the amount requested by us. And then again, you'll have to have that local match. Then down below, you'll just more details about the budget. So what are the services that are being contracted? What are the library materials? So if there's anything that you're buying for training that will be added into your collection where it goes, are there anything for the program materials that you'll need? So the difference between those two, those are something that Sally talked about last time too. There is the sound similar, but the idea and you can see the difference is the library materials is like what would stay in the library. If you had to buy some equipment or the handbook on how to do this training that you keep in the library for future use, but then the program materials was here's the worksheets that everyone filled out during the class they take with them. Or if it was some sort of more interesting thing like prizes or getting right on a test or something or on a quiz. Yeah, things that don't stay in the library. So that's the difference between those two there and down the actual, I think they're separate out in the budget part too. They've got different lines. And then any other equipment? Promotion, if you're doing any of this, again, getting people to register that would go here. And then we have next little other box or anything else that you just don't think fits anywhere else. More information you want us to apply to convince us to give you the money. Yes, please. So then for this one, again, you'll submit the application. We'll need the support form. And then if there's anything that you can include for like the material, the quotes, the letters, anything that you're planning to purchase, if you can send those to me through email, I can put that with your application. Because there's no worry here to attach that those kind of documents, but they used to be mailed. Yeah. Now I just say obviously the application itself, it says their faxes and mail does not be accepted because the application form itself is just the sign-line form. The signature page is a separate document, yes, is the email. Would those other supporting documents, do you think of, because would those be okay if someone just says, well, they can't be a piece of paper? Can I just fax it over to you? I mean, that would be fine. The supporting ones. But I would say that they should make a copy. So you keep your piece of paper and then just make me a copy and email. But if you want to email that kind of, or send me or fax me those kind of documents, that would be fine. We prefer to have it as much as possible, scanned in electronics, so it can keep it that way at all. Trying to go as paperless as we can. And then also for the CE projects, it does say, so everything is due December 7th, but for those support documents and like the quotes and things, those can be submitted during the following week. So the key is hit this save and submit button by the end of December 7th. But then if you're still gathering up all of your paperwork stuff, that can come in the next week, actually, yeah. And if something's missing, that's when we may ask you about it, too. If you mentioned something and it works like, do you have a copy of that? We'll ask if there's something we don't, we want to look at or need to look at and that we haven't gotten. And if you have any questions while you're going through either of the applications or if you're, if you wanna do a rough draft of the application and you want to ask me to look at it, I am more than happy to. Just, again, just email me, call me, and I'm happy to do one. And I think that's about, and okay, so there's the previous grant recipient. So if you wanted to look at what has been done and this is good for all of our grants, as you can see from that pull down there, any grants that we've offered here going back, I think as far as 2008, or sorry, 1998, you can see what has been, what we approved to give monies for, for all of our different grants, and you can see there on the right, this explanation about some of the grants change names over the years, but then you get just this basic info. You can kind of see maybe what they've done and sort of say, I don't know if that's what they want, the bridges out of poverty. Yeah, I heard that was really good. I wasn't here, but. I believe you did do a follow-up and help us talk about that one that came on the show. Okay, so I think that's about all for the CE grants. Really, again, if there are questions. Yeah, any questions, excuse me, while we're talking, go ahead and type them in. And dance them now, or you can always reach out to the rest of the team. All right, so we combine both of these, the CE training and internship grants, I think into one session, because they kind of are related. They're all about education and learning more about whatever you're doing. So for the internship grants, I'm the one who's in charge of those. So I would be maybe talking to you about the internship grants. Same way here, you can go to the main page, the NLC grants or to the internship grants right here on the fly out page. And this is a very different looking from our main library commission website. This is a separate site that was created for encouraging people to join, to become a librarian, to get into the profession. So it's this now hiring at your library at Nebraska.gov website. So you may have seen this is where we post job notices, scholarship information, all sorts of other things about just, do you wanna be a librarian? Here's some information to get you there. And that is the main purpose of the internship grant program is to encourage people, students, high school and college students to get involved in libraries and to potentially think of that as a career for themselves. The internship program as we've had it done pretty much every year over the last many years and super in this list. Yeah, we did in 2016, 2017 and now we're doing this one this year of 2018. And so this has been an ongoing grant that we've done every year for libraries. We've got about up to $25,000 to give out to libraries to bring in someone to work in their library. Now this would be specifically for high, as I said, high school and college students who have never worked in a library field before. So not a college student or someone who's currently one of your library assistants or someone's already working at your library or anything, no. This is, they're not already staffed. Yeah, newbies, yeah, that's a great, yeah. And what you can get is up to $1,000 per library or library branch, if you are a multi-branch organization like on the Lam Lincoln to pay the salary for these people. This is not bringing in people to be free insurance for you. They are going to be paid. You can do a one person who gets the $1,000 in a stipend for the time you use them, but you can break it up into two people, however, works out for you to do this. This application will also be available starting tomorrow. We're working on getting the electronic version ready. I've got a PDF version of it that I'll show you to see exactly what is involved in the application itself. The deadline for this one is November 9th, a little earlier than the CE one. Excuse me, we wanted to space out each of the grants. We've had comments in the past for the both the youth, the internship and the CE and training ones, not to have them all do at the same time. So we try to space them out each one month. CE is due in October, internship is November. No, youth is due in October, sorry. CE, internship is in November and then the CE ones are in December. So as I said, the goal for this is to try and introduce high school and college students to Nebraska libraries and this will be involved in an actual real library work. This is not just get someone to be your page and shelve your books. What we are talking about actually working in the back room and helping the cataloger potentially or working on the library's Facebook page. Being involved in the summer reading program for next year and actually helping run the programs or create something, the crafts for that. So this is real library work that we're talking about. Now it can be something that you already do and you just need an extra hand or you want an extra hand on doing that and wanna get someone involved in that or it could be a special project you've come up with just for the purpose of this internship. So for example, we want to have a website for the library but no one here has the time yet to get one up and running. So can we hire someone who can come in and do that for us and be the social media type person from that get that website going for us doing. So something that could be in these examples. And they can do just one project, one thing that you focus on them or you can have them, we've had some of these I know in previous sessions we've done where they had them kind of bounce around to each department in the library too. So not just a specific one project, they're just gonna help us out with summer reading all summer, they're just gonna work on the website but one of them was each, every two weeks they bounced from shadowing the catalog and learning about that and then doing reference and then with the children's librarian and maybe working with the director for a while. So you can also have something where you give them a little taste of everything as well. That's really creatively anything to think of that will get them, the idea is you are being a recruiter for the library field. You want to bring in more, be one of us to them. So that's the idea of the whole, I think the whole, the whole grant. So as I said, the forms will, the application should be available tomorrow. This session I've got linked here right now because it was for anyone to watch today's session. Once this is done and the recording is up for this, I'm gonna change that link and I'll link to the archive page so anyone who wants to listen here today with us will be able to go and watch that. The deadline is November 9th as I said at the end of the night there, 11.59 p.m. And we will about a month later on December 14th by then as I put here anticipated of when we will announce, let you know if you have been selected to have the branch. The internships themselves, the way the month, this is working for both this grant and also for the CE ones, which I know Holly didn't mention this specifically, but it was on her page as I saw. The project you're doing, the event can happen pretty much any time through 2019. This here says on it before November 30th. That's my starting, the latest, we want you to maybe do something so that by the end of 2019, we have this year's grant process all wrapped up. That can be a little fledgid if need to. However, getting the monies from us based on what our fiscal year is here at the library commission, we need you to request the money by June 1st. That's just a thing that goes with our budgets. So you'll have to know this is why we're having all of these applications wrapped up and approved and so you know what's coming by the end of this year so that by June of next year, June 2019, you will have at least figured out what it's going to cost even if you haven't had the event yet or attended the conference yet or done the project with your intern or if you're in the middle of it, that's okay. We just need to have the request for the funds by June 1st of next year and then if you've already paid for something ahead of time, that's great. If you're still going to be paying that money afterwards, that's fine. That's just when you need to request it from us by but when your thing takes place, could be pretty much anytime in 2019. This is only eligible, officially only on Nebraska's accredited public libraries are eligible to apply, but we do encourage partnering with someone, other groups you want to. If you are not a public library but you want to do something like this, working with a school or a special library or the university library or something, definitely partner with them. Find someone who is a university near you that has something related to library programming. We do have library programs, library school here in Nebraska and someone wants to do their practicum or something related to their in library school and they want to actually test out working in library. That would be something you could do, work with the university to then but the library, the public library is one who would actually be the one applying for this grant but then explaining we're actually working with UNK, UNO, whoever to find the college student that we're going to give this out, the funding to. So then this particular grant, there is a specific amounts that you would be getting for this anywhere from $500 to $1,000 and that's just the, so this isn't something that you decide it's going to cost me this much, the idea is you either ask for, we give you $500 for one person, we give you $1,000 for one person, $1,000 that you split between two people, however it works out. There are no matching funds required for this one unlike the, I think we want to see the big group one requires matching funds as does the youth grant one. This one is no matching funds, we are simply giving you the monies that you need to pay the person to come and intern at your library. And this is specifically just for wages just to pay the individual to work at your library. And as it says here, you can debate up how much you want to, if you could have multiple projects, we're going to do two different projects with two different interns, but one project for just one intern, whatever it you need to do. And now there's more details on the page you can look at as you're trying to figure out what you want to do, so I'm not going to read through all of this, you're going to be able to mainly the highlights of it. So they said they must be a high school or college student and never been employed by a library or done a previous internship at a library before. So not at a paid position, as you can see here, just say if they have been a volunteer at your library and they've kind of already gotten the idea, hey, I really like this. And you've kind of targeted them as someone who may want to cross that line and actually become a librarian. You're a good one. Yeah, that would be somebody to ask you, that's a way to do it too, talk to the person first thing. Would you like to intern with us? Cause we have a way to make that happen. And rather than just volunteer, you can actually get paid for a bit and get really more, yeah, do more than just whatever they've been doing as a volunteer. Now there is information here on about what you do need to pay them for for stipend-based internships. You do have to pay the minimum wage in Nebraska, which right now is $9 an hour. If they are students hired as part-time employees, it's a training wage at least 75% of that, which is $6.75 an hour. So it depends on how you're setting this up and you can see we've got all the details here about that, what, how long your internship's gonna be and who it is that you're getting to be that intern will depend on here. And you see, if you do have more, you need to know more about the federal law about working, I'm not the expert on that. And I'm not gonna give that specific information. We have some of the details here, but there isn't actually, which is great here, the Department of Labor and the National Department of Labor has its online form. You can ask more details if you're concerned and unsure about how is the best way for me to go about doing this. We have a question here about this. Okay, for the intern project, if we have multiple libraries with one person, can we say do 500 each for two libraries for 12? I think we haven't actually had that before. Yes, we're, and I'm trying to, and what I'm remembering is that we did have one where a public library and a K-12 school, I think did a combo application and part of the time the person worked for the public library and part of the time for the school. So I don't see why it wouldn't work if you were talking about two public libraries wanna share an intern share. I know some of our smaller libraries might not have as much for them to do or they want to work together already on something. That would be totally, yeah, we could totally do that. Just they would then just partner together and submit one application. If we're gonna share a person, I'd rather to just have one application about that particular position. I used to say position. Yeah, but definitely we could do that. So here's where the link will be to the form. It's not a link right yet. And a PDF version that we are, for this one I do have a PDF of it, which I'm gonna show you here in a second here for you to help prepare your online form so that you can use that as a cheat sheet. You do not submit the PDF though, just like our youth grant and our CE and training ones. You do the online form, which this will have a link to that. As I said, they're working on it right now, so I don't have a link yet. But you would submit that. There is also for this one a signature page that you have to send in that say anything, print it out, sign it, scan it, email it back to me to message your official signature of that we are applying for this grant. And here I'll show you those right now while we're at this. We have here is the PDF version of what the application's gonna look like when it's online for the internship. So this full screen, there we go. Basic information about the applicant, library director information, whoever is going to be the supervisor, when you do have an intern you're gonna bring in, you depending on what project you're gonna have them working on or what area of the library you're gonna want some person, one person to be the main supervisor for this person to keep track of what they're doing, make sure they're on track. Now, if you are doing a thing where you are moving around the library to work in different areas, of course during that time that they're like working with this children's librarian that would be the person telling you what to do. You do a one person who's ultimately in charge of this intern to make sure everything's being done. Now, if you're just doing one project and the project is they are my assistant for summer reading next year, then the supervisor would be whoever's in charge of your summer reading if it's the children's librarian, library director, whoever. How much are you requesting, 500 or 1,000? Are you planning on being a high school student, a college student who you recruit or either? Are you maybe not sure and you're just gonna try? Or do you already know who it is? You can put that in the web. We know it's gonna be a college student. Are you gonna do one or two interns? Preliminary what your period would be that this intern would be. Now this is just an example, June to August that's kind of thinking about that's when our summer reading is full last going. But you could put that in here. And as I said here, it's preliminary. These things can change as you get into exactly what you're doing next year and you have to change the schedule for some reason. That's okay. That's just to give us an idea of when you're thinking about doing it. And now we do have some, and then we have the more detailed questions that you would answer after just the basics here. And if you are gonna be doing more than one intern, like you just asked about on there, well that's one intern at two different libraries or two different interns in these questions for each of these questions you wanna give us information about each of the interns if you're gonna have more than one or in the case of the question here if you have two different libraries sharing an intern for different purposes, you would say at library number one, so-and-so public library, the intern will do this at library number two, so-and-so school library, the intern will be doing this, that is how you'd wanna answer these questions. So we don't have these questions not gonna be multiple copies of these questions, just like there's one background question. If you wanna do more than one person or more than one library, you're gonna wanna do that right up twice which is why you definitely want this as small as the book four, right up ahead of time, just like her online form, when the one for this is up, and it is not a form you can save and come back to later and pick up where you're left off, you have to just do it all in one shot in one sitting. So you're gonna want to definitely plan ahead to write all this stuff up beforehand. But we'll be providing you with this PDF version of it that you could print out or type into and that's just your little cheat sheet or copy and paste it into the web form and that is available from this. So first question here, we go to background describes the reason your library wants to participate in the internship program, say the underlying need or opportunity. Why do you want or need an intern? Has there always been something in the library that has been understaffed and you wanna help that area out a little bit is some are reading always crazy or do you have a specific project you want someone to do and you don't have the staff to move old, give them free time to do it? Hopefully also, I mean, this is help. This is, there's two problems to this internship. Unlike some of the grants like for the youth grannies, we're doing something to provide whatever project for the kids or whatever program for the continuing education CE, it's we're trying to teach ourselves with something for librarians and the staff. In this case, there's two goals for this. There's the library needs help doing something, an event, a project, whatever, and you want to encourage someone new to join the field. So you do have two different things you'd be thinking about as you're doing this application. Talk about what the library needs, why you need an internship at your library, but also mention how this would benefit someone who is a high school student or a college student to want to be a librarian in the future. Schedule and description of activities. This is where you get into exactly what you plan on having them do. And we're gonna need some detail here. Things can be adjusted, you know, as you get into the day to day work next year when you're actually having the person on board. But this is definitely where we need to know you've thought about this, you've thought about what projects they can do, the specifics of what they'll be involved in. If you are partnering with another school or another library, as was mentioned, how is that gonna all work out? Oh, this one talks about field trips to other libraries. That was one that did the, they mainly worked at the public library, but a couple of times they took them on a field trip to the university for a day, the university library. So that kind of focus on that we're, you know, trying to convince this high school student to go to library school and they go to college. So we're gonna bring them over to the university to show them what it's working at university library is all about. And then we're taking them to the K-12, you know, the elementary school library for a day to show them how that's all about, what that's all about. So that is a really good way to get them all interested and hopefully they'll find the one that they really need. Um, orientation plan, how are you gonna get them oriented into what they're doing? And I'm actually gonna show you, there's actually also on the website, which I was just getting to on the page here. We do have some additional resources here, things to help you prepare for the internship. There is a sample library orientation plan that you can use to, and let's see what this one does. The basics that you're gonna want to teach this person, if they're not already a volunteer who kind of knows some of this stuff, this is gonna vary depending on your situation, orienting them to just what the library is, the different things that you do. This is just a sample of what you could show them in your library. This is basically every part of the library they might be involved in. But it will depend on what your project is. You probably generally do want to tell them an overview of everything the library does in the first day or two, and then jump into focusing on, and here's the part that you're gonna be involved in while you're here, or the parts that you're gonna be involved in while you're here. We also have a proposed timeline and schedule that you can use as just an example when you'd be advertising, if you don't already have someone in mind, of course. That is, we've had applications that say, we have a volunteer so-and-so who wants to learn more or who we want to bring into the fold, so they are gonna be the intern and that's why we're applying. That's fine. But if you're just saying we're going to have this internship position available and we're gonna do an open call, so to speak, that would be part of your timeline here. And then you just have your weeks, different weeks, what they're doing in here. This is one where they have been going around the library to do different things, as you can see. Week one was completing a baseline survey, expectations, what do they know already? What do they need to learn more about? Week two, they'll be all working use services and about borrowing and Dewey and library careers, library training, so this is just, as I said, just an example of what you could do. But this is the kind of information we do want in the application form is, here, your project activities will be involved in your preliminary orientation plan. And this is gonna be just like on Holly's, a big free text field that you can type. I just saw that document was there with a few, three or four pages long. You'll be able to paste into here as much as you need to get the health information in there. It's not just that little bit, so be detailed. And then a timeline, that timeline was just showing it for recruitment, interviewing, start and end. And as it says here, it's highlighted and emphasized. Tentative timeline, that's okay if things change. Just at least you've thought about if we advertise this on this date and pick someone by this date, we can then have them do the project over this timeframe. If things change by next year, because when you're putting this application in this year, that's okay, just at least have a general idea of how long these things should take. And then you do definitely have it all wrapped up by the end of the year for the end of the actual internship itself and submitting reports to me about it. And we also have, oh, Department of Economic Development, Nebraska has this great guidebook just in general about doing successful internship programs. So we'll into that as well, that's a good guidebook to just give you some tips and help about how to handle your internship. But on the application form, then the next question is the outcomes is what we're looking at is last one. What are the benefits or outcomes to the students, the library and the community in general? If you noticed on our goals on our main page there, let's go. I, we do mention that there are varying multiple goals for this. The internship introduced the high school or college student to the varied and exciting work of Nebraska libraries. It's a recruitment tool, provides students with a view of the world's libraries. The libraries get financial assistance and get the project completed, but also showing how that this, the whole community benefits from this experience from the grant from the library getting this grant. How does the community, and that will be one of your outcomes. How does this benefit the community as a whole? That's one of the things that could be that because we're able to bring in the student to do this internship, we're able to have, normally we have 30 kids at the summer reading program because we had an extra person on hand, we could have 50. We didn't have to cut off the registration for it or because we were able to have them come in and help design and set up to get started with our website. We now have a way to reach out more to the community and show them what services we have and give them better access to what we do. So thinking about beyond just the student, the library and the community in general, how this will benefit all of them. And then last thing, it will be on here, we'll link to that signature page, which is over here. There we go. And the signature page here, this is just the official, I'm signing off that we're applying to that. The library director and library board president we wanna make sure that both your boards aware that you're doing this and is on board with fact and bring in an intern to the library. So your library director, your head of the library board will sign this and then email it to me. I've got two, I'll have to update that, I'll fix that. And so that's the application. Yeah, it's not too long, but there's not very many questions, but this is where you give your detail, explain what your thought process is, what you're doing, what you're thinking of having this intern be involved with at the library. We do also have on the internship website, some as you scroll down into the very bottom here, it's some information about expectations, a lot more detail. I know you'll get a lot more detail about this when we do approve you and get your application, your agreement forms and everything too. So something to look at later that I won't worry about going into right now. I just wanna get out there, that's these grants available, what it's for. Anybody have any questions about doing an intern? And I did have a link here as well at the very bottom. Yes, we'll have to update this. I know we've had interns or some sort in 2017, I have to find out if they were, but we have a map here, interactive maps. You can see who has done where we've had interns previously across the state and at which libraries they were. So if you wanted to potentially talk to a previous library who's done an intern, you can get that information from here. And or if you wanted to do that grant recipients database that we have, oh, this is the list of the ones that have received the grants, specifically internship grants. So you can see who, oh, there's this work that we did. Those were all related to the Maker Space, Library Innovation Studios, Maker Space grants that we're doing currently. But before that, it was all open to anyone. So we're doing again this year. Oh, and you want, as well as the library, Maker Space, the library's involved in our grant for this upcoming year. So this is just a list of them, but you could also use the intern, the grant database to find the same information as well. Or are the internship grants in there? Yeah, we do a lot of things like that, nice little visual representation. And this is all good if you're wondering to someone near your library, do one and you can just pop down and go and chat with them. Maybe there's some library in your area that you are more closer to them just as a colleague. And you can now pick up the phone and say, hey Sue, I saw you did an intern. I wanna ask you about it because we're interested in one too. Great. So any other questions about doing internship grants? We have about five after right now. We did start a little late today, wait for people to log in. So we're just grabbing up a little late and not a problem. Everything is being recorded. So if you weren't here for the whole time, that's fine. So anybody have any questions about the internship grants or the continuing education training grants? Type them in now. And let us know. Anything else you wanna say about yours that you didn't? What is it? Those were the basics. Lots of details are good. Yes, the more details, the better. If we get an application that just has a couple of sentences in each, we're gonna not know what you really want. And... Cause you might have a project in mind, but for us who has no idea, can we read through your application and understand what you wanna do and what the project's going to be and why you're doing it? Yeah, it's easier definitely because we each put together a committee, I suppose, a group of people, not a huge committee. Not just us. That help us decide this. So we need as much information as possible to share with them about what you're doing so they can properly evaluate it. So if you're too vague or too short, there's only so much we can do to ask you for more information. Ideally, by the time you submit get one of these applications together, that's what you should have thought about and give us as much detail as possible. And there may be a few things that we may want more information on because as we're reading, we say, I get this and it's great, but I wonder about this a little bit here. Yeah, we'll just reach out to you. No big deal. So it doesn't look like anybody's typed any questions while I've been talking and that's fine. Look for both of these applications to go live tomorrow, as long as our computer teams, they've told us that will happen. They, as you saw on Holly's C and training grant pages, the forms are there, work in progress, not available to hit submit yet. Mine will be posted as well. We will post an announcement officially tomorrow when we, so you'll see something go out on our mailing lists and blog on our websites to let you know when they're actually live and ready to go. So don't go looking at like 7.30 tomorrow morning. Can't guarantee that will be exactly. But sometime tomorrow, we'll go to the send out notifications so that you know that it's ready for you guys to go ahead and apply for. All right. Doesn't look like anybody's gotten other questions they want, but I think we weren't able. Okay. Yeah, thanks a lot, Holly, for sitting here with me doing this. Thank you everyone for attending. I hope you will apply for any of these grants. We've got, for each of the three grants, we've got about $25,000 each to be distributed. So 25,000 in C and training, 25,000 in youth and 25,000 in internship. So we've got a good chunk of money. And we want to get the ideas to give it out to you. Yeah. And in the internship one, as you see, it's 500 or 1,000. So that's a lot of money to fill around for the CE training and youth ones. It's however much you need to spend on something. So we want to get out. That's what money is for, is to give away. Nothing else we can do that if we just allow to it. So apply and get those applications in. The youth grant is already out available. That was our training session last week. And these two will be available sometime tomorrow. Yeah. All right. So that will wrap it up for today's show. I'm going to go to our Encompass Live page, which is under education and training, or you just Google Encompass Live, you find us. The archive of today's session will be right here. This is our upcoming shows. But this is where our archives go. There's a link right underneath our upcoming ones. And here's a link, as I said, to the youth grants for excellence one. It's a recording that Sally did last week. The recording for today's show will become right up above this one. And you'll have a link to that. And then link to both pages for the CE and training grant page and the internship grant page. You'll put links to both of those. Everyone who attended today's show and registered will receive an email directly sent to you, letting you know that it's available, and it will be posted onto our various social media and website email lists. So look for that. Now, normally at this point, I would say, I hope you join us for next week's show. But we do not have a show next week. This is the one week of the year that we take a break from Encompass Live. Encompass Live is our weekly show, 51 weeks of the year. One week we take off is the week of our state library conference. This is our Nebraska Library Association and the Nebraska School Librarian Association annual conference. And that is next week here in Lincoln, October 4th or 6th. And we do not have a show next week. So we take the date that we go off if you're attending a conference, enjoy that instead. Our next show after that will be on October 10th, virtual tours in the library with Nebraska History. And there's our genius picture there. This is Annie Mungard who is from the University of Nebraska State Museum. We'll be coming on the show with us to show about how you can have virtual tours that the University of Nebraska State Museum can do for your school or library. They will come in virtually through like this, like an online webinar, and do tours and training and educational visits about the things they have in the library. So in this case, we're gonna do a demo. I should talk about it in a demo of the Elephant Room where Archie Lee, I think, is the world's largest intact mammoth skeleton is here in Nebraska. So she's gonna show a demo of how that works and how you can have this brought into your library. So definitely join us for next week's show and any other ones we have coming up. I've got other shows coming up. I'm scheduling for November and December. So as they get booked, they'll be on this page as well. So please join us. Also, Encompass Live is on Facebook. You'll see I've had some links here everywhere. So if you are a big Facebook user, give us a like over there. Okay, loads up, there we go. We do post reminders of, here's a reminder to Longing for today's show. There it is, when our archives are available. Here's reminders about when our last week's recording was available. So if you are ready, it was ready to be watched. So if you are a big Facebook user, give us a like over there and you'll keep notified and be up to date on what we're gonna end up as live. Other than that, that wraps it up for today's show. Thank you so much for hanging out with me for an hour with me and Holly. Thank you everyone for attending and hopefully we'll see you in two weeks at the next Encompass Live. Bye.