 Okay. Good morning and welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. I am your host, Krista Burns, here at the Nebraska Library Commission. Encompass Live is the commission's weekly online event, yes, you can call us a webinar, where we cover anything that may be of interest to librarians. We do these sessions live every Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. central time, but they are recorded, so if you're unable to join us on Wednesday mornings, that's fine. We always go to our website and watch and listen to all of our recordings of all of our previous sessions that we have done. We do a mixture of things here on the show, presentations, many training sessions, interviews. Basically, if it's related to libraries, we'll put it on the show. We are not very picky in that way. We have commission staff that do sessions sometimes, our own Nebraska Library Commission staff sharing services and things that we do here, but also do bring in guest speakers when we want to. So that's what we have this morning. We have officially three different staff, people, and you'll see what I mean by that in a second, from the University of Nebraska Extension Office that are going to talk to us about the services and programs that they have there available to you. First, well, I'm not sure who will be up first in talking, Carol Larvick is on the line with us. Carol, can you say hi? Hello. And I know you have with you there... Angela Apps is here. Good morning. And we have on video Dennis Call. Great. Okay. So I will just hand over to you guys. You can start your talk. And, okay, there we go. I see your slides. Just switch to that. So you are good to go. Go ahead. Well, good morning. We're here today to share about the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension and some of the great resources that we have available to the public to help them in making decisions. The major focuses of UNL Extension and some ideas to how we have partnered with our local library to give you some ideas how you could partner with the University of Nebraska Extension in your own area. Again, my name is Carol Larvick and I am an Extension Educator with the University of Nebraska Extension. And the picture should be coming up there so you can see what I look like. We have Angela with us today also and she'll be talking some a little later. And Dennis was not able to join us. He is out teaching a leadership class today, and he supported a few of the things that he wanted to talk about. So we'll be watching those in a little bit. When we first start out, the best way to start out is to get an overall picture of Extension and how it connects to people in each county. And so when we think about that, we want to think very broad and realize that there are Extension offices in almost every state in the United States. And if you were to explain Extension to someone not familiar with us, you might say that Extension helps people understand and apply research. So somebody on campus does some research, and the picture that we have here is a scientist, but there's a lot of different kind of research that goes on. And then we need to get it out to the people so they understand how that research can better their lives. The land grant universities were established by Congress in 1862 and 1890 by the Morrill Acts. And then in 1914, the Smith-Lieber Act included Cooperative Extension. And that's the red arrow, sending somebody from that university that has learned what happened in research out to the people to be able to have the people be able to use that research. So our mission in land grant universities are to teach students on campuses and off campuses to conduct research and then to extend that research to every community in the state. On a national level, we've collaborated across many of the Extension offices and we put together a program we called E-Extension because it encompasses so many different organizations of Extension in so many different subject matter areas. And we put that all together so that if the University of Nebraska doesn't have the answer, we might be able to get it from a different university. And that website, you can see it up on your screen now of where we go to and I've actually pulled up the screen that talks a little bit about some of the different things that are on Extension. Today we're going to focus though on the University of Nebraska and we cover not only Nebraska, but across the world, but our focus is in Nebraska. So think back with me. Have you had an encounter with Cooperative Extension? In the University of Nebraska right now, we just call it Extension, but it started out as Cooperative Extension with county agents. And when you think of Extension, if you've had an experience with us in the past, is it like this picture of the county agent? What do you think of when you see this picture? Well, I think of Extension as a family affair. Notice the whole family is there. Families long ago may have looked like this. Families today may not look exactly like this. They may have a different number of kids, a different number of parents. They may not live on a farm. But when I think of Extension, I think of the whole family learning. And in this case, they're learning together. And the Extension agent in this picture is teaching by an example. He's showing how to judge that dairy calf. The young girl that is holding the calf is not only learning about the calf, but if you'll notice tucked underneath her arm is a record book. She's learning about keeping records. Also, there's diversity in this picture. Do you notice that each child in this picture has something different they're going to bring to the county agent to learn about? One has the calf. Another one looks like a rabbit. And the third child has what looks like maybe something that she sewed or some kind of piece of clothing. Today, Extension still includes cows, rabbits, clothing, families. But we don't ride around in the 1953 Chevy pickup that this agent probably came to this farm in. Today we use computers, smart phones, and the tools of today to teach about the topics of today. So let's take a look at how you can know the current topics that UNL Extension is working on and how it can help you in your library. You can see here in this slide that we may teach by different modes. We may build community and teaching and learning using technology. We try to be research-based and current to what's going on in society. And we look at learning experiences to accomplish intended outcomes. We know that learning is a process, not just an event. So in the next segment, we're going to share with you some highlights of each of what we call action team focus areas. We also will have a principal PDF that we'll share with you that has a handout to a lot of the resources linked on there. It's got the main links of the websites that we'll visit that you'll be able to then go easily and find what you're looking for. You may want to have those available. You can link them on your website or you just may want to have that available. So when somebody would ask you a question, you could go to their email. As we said earlier, Dennis is not able to be with us today. He's teaching a leadership class. But he did record a session talking about many of the focus areas of UNL Extension. His segment is about 10 minutes long. And now is the time that we'll look at that segment. Okay, great. Thanks, Carol. I just want to let everyone know too, yes, before I get the video going, you were mentioning the PDF handout. I have that. So as some of you know, when we're done with this, I'll post that up on the recording page along with the recording of the show and all of the links that are on it. And some things that I know, Carol, you already showed one page there. We'll also be put into the commission's delicious account. I've been working on that this morning already since I had the PDF. So you have access to all of those web pages and anything that's been mentioned as well. So hold on just a sec here. I'm going to switch over to myself and... All right, you should be seeing the video. I haven't started it yet. Can you see it there, Carol? Yes. Okay, great. All right, hold on a sec. I'll start his video. So as we look at the action team focus areas, start to think of ways that you might partner with Extension in the future with resources and educational programs for youth and adults or how you might reach additional people with online digital tools. Here you're going to see the six key focus groups, the action focus groups that the University of Nebraska Extension addresses. We're going to briefly explain the key education and information focus of each group and provide a wide range of information that can reach a lot of different types of clientele. Beef production is one of the largest industries in Nebraska. The University of Nebraska research has provided cattle feeders and cow cat producers with the research necessary to keep the beef industry strong. With the following few glimpses of beef websites, we're able to access the key beef.unl.edu information to help people find good solid research-based data. At beef.unl.edu, cattle feeders and producers are able to find the information they need to make those economical decisions. As you can see by the sidebar on the left, UNL Extension provides cattle producers with research-based information on caring for their cattle, preparing quality feed, budgeting, and much more. Last year's drought created new issues for producers. Immediately, UNL Extension was ready with lots of drought information. Resources to help producers design a drought management plan and ideas to consider before and during a drought was great. The National Drought Monitor at the top is a national-wide resource that is headquartered in Nebraska. In the lower right bottom of the screen, producers can click on that drought resources graphic that will take them to lots of information to help with drought decisions such as culling cows, reducing feed costs, etc. The interactive call-in with phone and or use chatroom type webinars can be viewed live or participants can do archived webinars. In addition to that, there are some beef short courses and other courses and programs that are also available to producers. Family topics for producers are also important and they encourage people to subscribe to newsletters to keep them up-to-date with the latest information which this time of year there tends to be a lot. Online learning opportunities are also available for producers. There are several mobile apps for producers to use with cattle. Mobile apps allow producers to have the app on their phone to record data or find answers. This area in the beef reports has a summary of the research conducted by scientists and graduate students in UNL Animal Science Department. Another focus area is water and environment. It includes several program areas including acreage, lawn and landscape as well as water. You can see some of the highlighted programs on this website. The website environment.unl.edu focuses on education and outreach on sustainable landscapes for the environment, economics, energy and emotions which are social benefits. Last year's emphasis on drought mitigation helped prepare landscapers and homeowners for planting and preparing and protecting their plants through the drought. Backyard Farmer is a second longest running TV show and it's part of the acreage and landscape program. We have weekly TV broadcasts of Backyard Farmer as well as horticulture updates for lawns, trees, shrubs, landscapes, fruits, vegetables and more. You get a monthly to-do calendar of things to do in the garden as well as on the lawn and lots of videos on horticulture topics. We even have some apps for iPhone and iPad and androids right now. Turfgrass, turf.unl.edu is also a great science, provides turf information for consumers and professionals. It's updated often during the growing season. Lawn calendars for different turf grasses with mowing, fertilizing, herbicides, insect control, patch removal and other things or recommendations are in that calendar. And information on presentations given by UNL staff and publications are also at this site. Master Gardeners are a great part of the volunteer network we have. Information about becoming a UNL Master Gardener and resources for Master Gardeners is available also on this site mastergardener.unl.edu. Acreage Insights, topics of interest for those living on acreages with videos and how-tos. There's a great newsletter that comes out each month that kind of gives some of the latest things you should do and the things you should be doing, prepare for the next season and so forth. Create resources for animals as well. Water.unl.edu provides research data to Nebraska's most important resource, that of water. Work with Nebraska's public water suppliers and customers as well as families with private wells to help them manage their water systems and use water for indoor and outdoor needs wisely, especially during drought conditions. Research and education is available to help producers and commercial service providers such as lawn care companies and pesticide companies as well as hometown homeowners in protecting the quality of our state's water resources. They have efforts in wise manure management, sewage treatment, nutrient management, pesticide use and many other things. And then there's, of course, the irrigation. Nebraska has a lot of irrigation sitting on a great aquifer. We continually are doing research and education to help producers grow more crop for the drop, or in other words, to be as efficient as possible with irrigation water. Extension has always been about rural communities and now has an action team that focuses on hands-on educational processes that help members of communities be innovative and their plans to be sustainable in the future. Here are the Entrepreneurship Action Team's three signature programs. ECAP, ESIN Beyond, Business Ventures and Innovation. We also are very much connected with the Angular Agri-Brisness Program for students at the University of Nebraska. Note eship.unl.edu as our website. Entrepreneurial Communities Activation Process is a statewide research project with communities to help the community learn their strengths and to capitalize on strengths, thus making improvements to other characteristics that will help make their communities sustainable. ECAP is a holistic approach. ECAP helps communities understand unique characteristics, community assets and potential opportunities for growth. Extension is one of the three tiers of the University of Nebraska, bringing application of the teaching and research that the University of Nebraska does for residents of the state. When we bring individuals, businesses, and community organizations together to create change, we have a dynamic focused task as an eship team that's helping communities learn to help themselves be sustainable. ECAP evolves around eight community characteristics that research has shown are important for a sustainable, successful community. Several social media tools are used to share research and entrepreneurial tools. Huskerpreneur.com is our blog. And Twitter is a constant social media tool to reach out to a variety of entrepreneurs and resource providers. ESI and beyond is a comprehensive plan to help youth develop their entrepreneurial skills and find their business niches and help communities support and encourage their young entrepreneurs. This series of youth curriculums is centered around building the next generation of business leaders beginning at age 10. ESI, Entrepreneurship Investigation is an exciting, interactive, and comprehensive curriculum project designed for youth ages 10 to 19. Over 10,000 manuals have been distributed across the United States. One of the popular offshoots of ESI is the ESI camp. Leap into careers is a learning educational action plan curriculum that was developed to help youth understand various career opportunities in Nebraska and career education fields and clusters. School standards are included in this curriculum. Community connections is a guide to help communities encourage youth who are learning about entrepreneurship in their communities. This is a project of needing encouragement and respect from adults in their communities, as well as needing community members to support them by being their customers. Every one of the entrepreneurial youth told us they'd like to stay in their home community to build their business. So this guide is designed to help communities understand that. Business Ventures and Innovation, BVI. The BVI signature outcome focus is creativity and feasibility programs aimed at increasing the number of entrepreneurial opportunities that turn into sustainable agribusiness entrepreneurship. BVI team members deliver workshops and seminars. They provide one-to-one coaching and collaborate with other university and extension business support services, such as food science and technology, to assist businesses as they move through the various business creation stages. The Angler Agribusiness Entrepreneurship Program at the university is aimed to support and encourage entrepreneurship among UNL students. It facilitates entrepreneurship potential through lots of different things, including courses that lead to a minor, lectureship series, entrepreneurship training camps, internship placement systems, and student travel. It will also help create a venture capital fund to support student startup businesses. And this team actually focuses on helping producers conduct on-farm research that then leads them to learn and make decisions that will provide them with increased yields, lower inputs, and profitable sales of their projects. CropWatch.UNL.edu is a full-access website providing crop producers across the state valuable and timely information to make decisions by. By looking at the CropWatch.UNL.edu website, visitors will find links to any information they wish on the left-hand side of that screen. A second resource that this past year has really become a very national, or at least a Midwest resource is our own UNL's drought resources. Found at droughtresources.UNL.edu. It's a nationally recognized source of education and resource assistance as the Midwest suffers from drought. Social media, such as follow at UNL CropWatch on Twitter provides immediate response by extension educators visiting producers in the field by taking videos or pictures that can be uploaded to the links to Twitter. Producers can keep up to date with the latest concerns and thresholds of insects and diseases in their crops. I believe that's it on the video. Looks like it. Okay. Hand control back to you. Should be able to share your screen again. There you go. See your website. Good morning everyone. My name is Angela apps and I am a extension educator just like Carol with UNL and today we're going to be looking at some of the topics in early childhood as well as school age kids with some of our programs that we offer through the university. And one of them that you have can see here on the website is with early childhood and it is focused on the learning child is the kind of the name that highlights this area. A couple of the resources that are on this website that are very helpful and could be excellent programming opportunities would be the pyramid model which is for social and emotional development for young children. And so this would be a training modules that would be available for staff to come out and teach within your local community. Another resource that parents can download and use for themselves happens to be the parenting app which is you are parent and it has a wealth of information there for parents on ages and stages of their child's development as well as parenting resources that they might be able to use with different topics relating to that first year of life. The plan on this app I know is starting to work on expanding it to up to age 5 and hopefully even up to age 8. So this is a continuous process right here with you are parent. Another piece that is available out there for parents as well as child care providers happens to be the just in time parenting. This has some information here that really focuses in on some of the you are parent app pieces but other things that parents can have an email sent to them once a month that gives information on the development of their child as well as other research articles and this is from the extension that Carol mentioned earlier. The other one I want to show you if you know of any school teachers and I know the season for school is almost over but this would be a great one for teachers is text for teachers and I know I get this ever so often a text that's sent to my phone and it has helpful research based information for teachers to use within their classroom. It is focused on kids from age zero to eight so it does focus on the early life of the child but very good resources to help out teachers during that process. There are a couple other websites and things that you might want to think about and I wasn't able to find them on this page but one resource would be Building Better Kids and that is a Facebook page that has lots of information for you to follow on Facebook as well as on Twitter for parents and child care providers. A lot of the same information that's here on the website is basically sent on Facebook as well and then there also happens to be co-parenting for successful kids they have an online version of this training as well as face-to-face and so this would be another resource out there for parents to look for as another opportunity. I know it's focused on divorce but there are some resources here that focuses for anybody or for any child at that age for parenting since that is an area that a lot of families need. There's also I don't know if Carol hasn't mentioned it yet but UNL website has publications and there are several publications focused in on the family as well that has a lot of different topics and some of the topics I've seen happen to go with bullying in schools to anything to volunteerism there's lots of different topics out there and they are there for families to use as well. One of the other areas when we talk about youth it happens to be probably the 4-H youth development program and this is probably the program that we're most recognized for here in Nebraska as well as across the United States and extension but 4-H is a community of young people and they happen to be about ages 5 to 18 across America and one of the national goals happens to be that they're learning about leadership, citizenship and also life skills. Youth can be involved in 4-H programs in many different ways they may be in a club experience, an after school program school enrichment which would be staff visiting the school that the child is attending the classroom camps and conferences that are held at the state level as well as county and district level as well and then also there might be a specialty program that might be out there or the kid might be interested in joining in on that too so there's a lot of different ways that kids are able to participate in the program. Nebraska, one of their numbers or accomplishments one in three age-elible youth across all of our 93 counties in 4-H or I should say across the Nebraska are involved in 4-H in some form, either the camps and the conferences or even the school enrichment and this last year it equal to about 140,000 kids involved in youth development programs from the university. For youth in traditional 4-H there's over 150 projects for them to pick from and of course a lot of that is under your pick the project which is on this website and there's lots of information here and things to do for those families to look up information on project areas and I know we just heard from Dennis on that E, that entrepreneurship piece, that curriculum piece can be found on this website right here as well as other areas that might be of interest to that child. There are five different core areas that 4-H and youth development is focusing in on in the state there are one big area of science that we want to increase our number of scientists in the future and so one thing that 4-H is doing is working on science activities and one of the highlights would be probably robotics or even just doing some simple science experiments based off of I know there's kids out there dissecting eyeballs and learning how that all operates as well so there's a lot of research going out there that the youth are doing in our programs with science. Ag literacy is another core area where we're teaching youth about agriculture and where their food comes from so that is another place where we want to make sure that our youth are aware that Nebraska is business wise is very predominantly in egg and so we want them to be aware of where their food is at. Career development I think that Dennis showed you some pieces of the career curriculum that's out there there's also another career website as well that focuses in on the children learning about different opportunities maybe their 4-H project that they take helps them determine a college profession and then maybe even lead to a future job so that just gives them an opportunity to practice those skills as a youth decide to go in and train in that area of the college and then take a career out of that. Another area of citizenship and leadership where youth are learning how to be responsible citizens and so of course our theme this year is joining the revolution of responsibility which hits right into the citizenship and leadership part of 4-H and then the last core area that the youth are involved in are healthy it happens to be healthy living where they are learning skills on research information on nutrition to healthy behaviors rather than at risk behaviors how to decrease those as well as looking as exercise as another opportunity so there's lots of resources out there that youth are focused in on in those five areas. Also one other thing that we deal with with 4-H and youth development are finding volunteers and so volunteerism is a very big piece of our 4-H program and so the more volunteers we have the stronger our program is in our local communities as well as our counties and so this is probably that piece right here we are looking for volunteers and so there's lots of resources here to help volunteers feel comfortable in working with youth development opportunities. Some of the curriculum just so you guys are aware there's a wealth of curriculum on our website and I'll just kind of push here to show you that that there's several different areas that you might want to think about that might be an excellent opportunity to do a class or a workshop at your library on some of the different topics here this is in the Nebraska 4-H curriculum there's also a national curriculum as well that we have access to from the National 4-H Center that has other resources out there for kids there's also online webinars for families and volunteers. I know there's one that's going to be happening that's actually in the process right now of giving your best which is basically for volunteers as well as some older youth audiences on how they can volunteer back or give back to their local community and I know that there in the past has been what's called winter warm-up which is an opportunity for kind of like a judges training for anybody who is not familiar with the new project area or project area that we're best known for would probably be cows and cooking but sometimes we also need the latest technology updates in those four areas as well. The youth also have opportunities to be involved with camps and conferences and the big one that's coming up very soon in the month of June which is actually on UNL's campus is called the 2013 Big Red Summer Academic Camps and so you can see listed there these are the courses that the kids are retaking they focus in that whole time in June on that particular topic so it's a wonderful, in-depth kind of career college classes a little bit as well on what's going on on campus too. There's big the Nebraska 4-H Summer Camp right here. There's two sites currently right now in the state of Nebraska and so there's lots of different campsites and opportunities for the youth to participate in and then you can see there is a camp brochure there that you can download to look at the different camp opportunities out at the different sites across Nebraska. There's two main ones this year with camp opportunities for kids and not only that from the state level but there's lots of camps going on or different events during the whole year that are opportunities for youth to learn that might be from doing some simple classes maybe on learning on how fabric is made could be to how the digestion system of a cow happens I know they've got the mobile beef the mobile beef tech lab can actually put their hands inside the stomach of a cow and pull out and see what does that look like so there's lots of research lots of opportunities during the year for families not only that but we can also go into social media and mobile apps and like I said Facebook and Twitter as you can see Nebraska 4-H is on those social media opportunities we also have apps out there there's a career explorer app with a website that helps kids make career decisions snack planet might be an app that you might be interested in learning some nutrition as well as some exercise I know when you finish your little activity on your iPad or your Android phone then during the break you're supposed to use several different forms of exercise so it shows kids that tie in of choosing healthy foods exercise as well and then of course there's the grow it know it app which is showing kids some of the different products knowing where they come from and how it fits into Nebraska egg and then we do have a state fair app which some of you may have seen before which the state fair here has our schedule and dates here but there is an app out there that will show you results from state fair as well as some of the different events that are going on for each information so that we're able to keep families updated that are not able to be at state fair during that time you can still look up that information and see how those kids from your county or your town are doing so I'm going to turn this over to Carol we have questions about any of the stuff that we have shared so far please share or type in and we will get them answered thank you Angela we have one more area to cover and I'm excited that I get to be the one to cover it so let's move on to that it's food how many of you like food well I like food too but it's not only food it's nutrition and health and that's at food.unl.edu and you can see the site here there's a blog on the side and there's numerous nutrition blogs that you can go to it has lots of information on this site as we work to eating healthier it may be specific information such as diabetes or allergies it may be how to keep food safe or to preserve food maybe it's on buy fresh buy local Nebraska if you want to start a commercial food venture you can go to the site and go on to the site that will help you with that let's take a minute and look at my favorite one that's food safety most of the extension educators across Nebraska have a focus area that we work in quite often and minus food safety so as we look at the food safety site you can see that it has food storage safe food preparation and handling food barnelises and education and if we just scroll down you can go to each one of those one of the ones that I want to highlight is this one down at the bottom called four day throw away shooting my own horn here just a little bit it was one of the first apps developed by the University of Nebraska extension and we actually aren't able to do that on our campus we team did this app with Iowa State and so Iowa State did it and this happens to be the website not the app from it the website is pretty basic the app has a lot of details on it the app includes all of the micro organisms that you generally would get sick from about them how long it would take to get sick what kind of sick you would get from them and what foods would be commonly those micro organisms would be commonly found in now that's a difficult way to look them up so how you get to look them up is by the food and you can look up the food it will tell you how long you can keep it out in the open in a refrigerator or if you freeze it how long it should be kept frozen and then it says if you were to get sick from this food what most likely would you get sick from so I just have to make sure that I got that little plug in there before we go on let's go back to food safety and as you can see here there's education for different groups we might pick consumers and go to that and you can see some things that as you would maybe teaching consumers you could use hand washing posters table pens, handouts general food safety videos you might do and one that I thought we'd click on today to just give you a little piece of what's here it's test your summer food safety savvy it was put together by one of our educators Alice who does great work in the area of food I'm going to click through some of the slides here so you can see what it's like and then we'll come to the first question so this is your test for today why do food barn illnesses increase during the summer is it A bacteria including those that cause food barn illnesses tend to multiply faster and the temperatures are warm or B people are cooking and eating outside more away from the refrigerators thermometers and washing facilities of the kitchen or is it A and B the answer yes is C it's a combination of that warm weather leaving food more in the temperature area where the microorganisms can grow and being farther away from the kitchen so we may not store our food once it becomes a leftover correctly for enough time to just to show you general of what you could find on this website now let's say you have a food product that you're interested in maybe making it into a product that you'd sell at the grocery store and so you could come to where it says food processors and you could go and visit the food processing center pages and here you can find out some of the more general information that you might want as you're looking into that process and I would suggest the food processing center for anybody who has any interest in developing a food product for a sale now that's kind of the general just of all the different areas that we work in and we only touch the very surface of many of those areas we have educators, specialists and assistants who all are developing programs in that area working in that area can do a variety of things in that area to help out if you need help in that area you'll want to go to a few things that might give you a few other resources kind of combining some of the things from all those different areas the first one is Extension TV and the website is extensiontv.unl.edu and it has one at the top that would give us an overview of what's there but as I scroll down it's the most current ones right here if I scroll back up just a little bit you can list by new by popular or by all and you can work on it by categories too and the categories are listed up above there's a lot of videos on a variety of things backyard farmer market journal lead class pesticide container recycling we can see tree and shrub replacement if that was a problem from the drought you can go there and look at that adjunct or robotics robotics is becoming a major thing that Angela mentioned that that 4-Hers and youth are working on through extension all sorts of and it keeps coming up with more the farther that you scroll down the next area I'd like to look at is the mobile apps area and this particular one has a longer URL but it is on the handout that you'll get so you'll be able to go see that the beef ones are fairly new so you can see they're listed here and the alfalfa one is also somewhat new there is an extension one just to locate the extension offices if you'd like and we can scroll down and you can see some of those beef ones Angela talked about the U.R. parent there's crop watch I believe Dennis mentioned that one Backyard Farmer, Market Journal the 4-day throw away and you can get if you want to know what apps we're working on or have just completed this is the place to go for them Angela mentioned publications this is one of the things we've been known for for years we have great publications this is the website that you would go to define that out it's IA in our pubs at unl.edu extension is part of the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources at the University and so that's what IA in R stands for and so that's where the publications are located you can just google University of Nebraska extension pubs and this comes up at the top of that google search if we want to go down we can search by a variety of different things how I like to do it is in the publications and as you can see there's a whole range of publications listed here in our office right now people are interested in things outside like insects and pests lawns and gardens and some other things like seed wildlife management at my house we just got to go for the other day so they are out and they are moving so as you can see you and I have a lot of resources available for you and we stopped here at the slideshow and we'll go on this is who we are just so you know who talked today my advice for you if you are interested in working with us beyond just looking at our website which we would love to do that with you is to find out who your local extension person is and your local county office and their focus like mine is food safety may not be the one you're interested in but they may be able to share a resource with you or let you know of a person close to the area who could help you with that particular area so we partner just as you partner with others in the community and we would love to partner with you now we'd like to give you a few ideas of some ways that we've partnered with our local library and I see that they're online now so Dave if you want to type in a few more as we talk through we would love to have you do that Dennis before since he doesn't get to talk has partnered a lot with some technology things with computer training with his library in the past some of the areas that we've worked with our local library include parenting classes that I know Angelo worked with our library on well, robotics that's an area that I know Angelo has done some things in quite a few of us have worked with our local library as we did a local gardener and helping the people who are working with that garden learn about gardening we had another educator who works out of our office, Keith Jarvie he's an entomologist talked about insects with the garden Angelo worked with youth and the gardening we had another staff member Brenda who talked about eating out of the garden and how to cook healthy I know I talked about food preservation and the things that you grow in your garden Angelo also worked with summer reading program with the library she works with youth and she's done the national science experiment which Angelo has done nearly every year they have a new science experiment usually in the month of October and so this last year it was on robotics a little bit where the children made a simple robot out of a toothbrush and they learned how to clean up a landfill and how important it is to be very conscious of our environment and not to have landfill landfill but stills happen on our beaches and everything so it kind of showed them the importance of keeping how important it is to clean it up and such we've done power of wind which was a wind technology piece and we've also done one where we tested a little bit of starches and how kind of like the biofuels as well as the ethanol and the biodiesels and so the kids were able to kind of explore what type of research is going on the scientists would do in order to come up with that research they never made any gasoline or diesel it just showed them the process of how much the bullens would blow up with the different gases from those different products and then I know you've done some school out day doing some experiences with youth when the kids were out of school for the day we offered a program of the library which basically kind of themed but then also following some educational resources for the kids I know one of the favorites was when it was October and we did kind of a Halloween party but then also threw in the importance of calcium and teeth and bones and then they learned some of the different bones did some fun little games did a science experiment where we did the blue bubbles where the kids went about bubbles but they were able to see the dry ice gas inside the bubble and so we kind of gave them a chance to talk about science some educational stuff but then also tie into some of more fun themed parties and I know one option for libraries if they have a place a meeting place might be to host a traditional 4-H club as they hold their meetings we want the library I know in our community to be a community resource just as you want your library to be and we have a lot of children going through our library locally and so it's a great place for a traditional 4-H club to be at now we've also our library has an opportunity to put displays up and we put a number of displays up promoting different things that we've done or things with libraries or just topics that are of interest to people that we have some expertise on either advertising an event or giving some knowledge for the public to see as they go past that display so we like you and help better our communities and we hope we've given you a slice or a little piece of how extension can work with you and kinds of things that we are focusing on and working to better our communities with if you do have any questions please please type in the chat box or on the handout it does give both or all three of our email addresses that you can contact us on or if you would like to call us on that handout also as a way to get on the web and find out the phone numbers of our local extension office here or your local extension office where you work actually any parting thoughts? Carol this is Christa yeah Dave from South Sioux City Public Library is on the line and I'm going to unmute him now he's got some share some of the things that he has had extension come into their library for I'm going to unmute now Dave so you can go ahead you're unmuted Dave can you hear me? Yes we can can you hear me? yeah extension has been okay extension has been a godsend for us here I mean we utilize them a lot we utilize the website we get a lot of our information for all our specialized programs that we do I don't know what we wouldn't do without having the extension around our area so if you have access to it I highly recommend incorporating them into your program I see you mentioned first when you typed in some things about they did robotics canning classes and you actually did host 4-H Club I guess it said? there are so many different things that we've done I mean you can't even keep them in track in your head when we first started our community gardens here in Pound we were working predominantly with Hispanic population and trying to teach them actually how to garden here in the Midwest how to do that well then the next step was what do you do with all that stuff we actually had cooperation between Dakota County extension and Woodbury County extension they came in and did a canning workshop and I believe everybody that was at that workshop was Spanish and so taught them actually how to be able to preserve stuff just something like that every garden class or seed savers group we utilize the extension materials I can't tell you how many times I've seen some of the websites looked up information passed out when we have questions come in and ask us that kind of if we can't find the answer we direct them down there Keith is coming in this next month and doing a program for the community garden group on good bugs, bad bugs in your garden Angela in fact I think we have a second desk for her somewhere in the library she's here so much I just can't emphasize what you can do with your extension I mean it's just incredible yeah great it does sound like there are really appreciate Dave also yeah it does seem like there's just anything and everything you could possibly get brought into your library thanks Dave we do have one question actual question from the audience let's do it here Karen Mayer from Platsmouth Public Library was wondering and I don't know if it was mentioned earlier I may have said is there any sort of a charge for this for the libraries to bring you guys in for mileage or anything to have a program brought into the library you would need to talk to the specific person that you are bringing in sometimes that would depend on the program that you're doing some programs are easy to do there's no cost involved in them some of the other programs Angela was doing some things with youth and she needed supplies and maybe that would be a cost it may also depend on how far away if you're bringing a person in how far away they have to drive if they would charge you mileage or not so it would be specific to whatever you're doing so I would definitely contact your local extension office and tell them you saw this webinar and maybe one of the areas that you might be interested in specifically okay great thanks and a lot of the online webinars that are on the UNL website they might even be a great spot to host at your local library so that there are some of them have some classes associated I know some of the Master Carbner classes have a little bit of money but I think as to hooking up I think you'd be able to access it fairly easy another opportunity too is just to write for those online webinars yeah that's a good idea bring in people from the community all together to watch something that's being broadcast okay anybody have any other questions or comments thoughts anything you want to ask of Carol or Angela or Dave since he is here with us nothing came in while we were chatting at the moment there was a lot of information on your sites and everything and as I said most of the web pages sites you were mentioning I got into our delicious account as you were talking about Carol and Angela so hopefully if not obviously just exploring the extension website is a good way to find all those things as well I do have the PDF already uploaded to the commission slideshare account so that will be available after the show looks like nobody's got any last minute questions coming in but you guys as you know you can contact Carol Angela and Dennis whether contact information is here or calling on the extension website anything else you guys want to share last minute before we wrap up for this morning last minute comments we're excited to be able to share what we do with you and we hope that we'll be able to work with many of you in the future I hope so too I hope a lot more people watch the recording of our show here and get to use some of your resources oh we do have a comment from Laura Hess who's our librarian from Stanton Public Library she loves the extension office has been a 4-H leader herself and belonged to an extension club and a master gardener awesome my mom back in New York is involved in the master gardener program there as well to our cooperative extension offices in New York so I do know a lot about that part of the program thank you very much well since it doesn't look like there's any urgent last minute questions coming in I think we can wrap up the presentation of this morning thank you very much Carol and Angela and Dennis too the show has been recorded and we will post it up as soon as we can as soon as we get off the line here it will be processed I'm going to pull back control here to my screen ok thank you very much everyone for attending and this was today's show on University of Nebraska in your neighborhood in the UNL extension office I hope you'll join us next week when our Encompass Live episode topic will be library planning a customized program for success Laura Johnson the continuing education coordinator here at the library commission has been working with our regional library system directors Eric Green, Denise Harder Sharon Ozinga and our newest one Sarah Warnacky to put together some resources and videos and documents to help you do planning in your library strategic planning technology planning anything like that so they will be on the show together next week to talk about library planning so hopefully you'll sign up for that also if you Encompass Live is on Facebook so if you are a Facebook user please do follow us on Facebook we have a page here whenever we have shows coming up we will announce them on Facebook share when we have our recordings are available any other links and things that we find of interest pages that we like you can all find them here through our Facebook page if you are a big Facebook user please do follow us there and if you're interested in any other continuing education opportunities I just want to remind everyone of our Nebraska Learns 2.0 program this is where we share each month we share something that you can learn a tool a product something online that you can learn about it this month we are here talking about actually use choosing your own topic to talk about the webby awards for in websites that are out there they are pick websites and tools and resources to give awards to and you can go there and see pick some of them to explore and tell us about we also do our book thing every month where you can read a book and earn continuing education credits for reporting back on that book this month is Confessions of a Public Speaker which if you're interested in presenting yourself as Carol and Angela and Dennis did this morning might be useful to you so definitely explore our Nebraska Learns 2.0 page if you are a Nebraska Library and more continuing education credits you can get them there and if you are not from Nebraska Library you can just follow along and see the things that we do so that will wrap it up for this morning thank you very much everyone for attending thank you Carol, Angela, and Dennis and hopefully we will see you next time on Encompass Live so long