 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 show where we cover a variety of topics that may be of interest to libraries. We broadcast the show live every Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. Central Time but if you're unable to address on Wednesdays that's fine. We do record the show as we are doing this morning and it is then posted in our archives for you to watch at your convenience and I'll show you at the end of today's show where you can access all those recordings. Both the live show and our recordings are free and open to anyone to watch so please do share with your friends, family, neighbors, colleagues, anyone you think might be interested in any of the topics we have on the show. For those of you not from Nebraska, the Nebraska Library Commission is the state agency for libraries. So in other states it may be the so-and-so state library. So we provide services to all types of libraries in Nebraska. So you will find shows and topics on Encompass Live for all types. Public, academic, K-12, corrections, museums, archives that they really just could be anything and everything. Really our only criteria is that it is something to do with libraries. Something we think libraries could be doing, sharing what other libraries are doing across Nebraska and across the country, services and programs and things that we think you might be interested in. We do book reviews, mini training sessions, demos of services and products, all sorts of things. We do have Nebraska Library Commission staff that sometimes do presentations about things that we're offering through the Library Commission here. But we also bring in guest speakers as we have this morning. This morning with us is Sherry Limhouse. Good morning Sherry. Good morning. Very early morning for you. Thank you for being here. He's at the Brownsville Community Library in Oregon over on our west coast. And she is here in Nebraska. And obviously in Oregon and across the country, we have lots of small independent one show, one person show libraries out there. And she is going to tell us how she has been going solo in her library. I will hand it over to you Sherry to take it away. Thank you. Welcome to Brownsville, Oregon and going solo in the library. My tips and tricks for librarians. I know it's not the fourth, but may the fourth be with you. You know, may it counts. Exactly. So who is librarian Sherry? I came in the library through the back door. I was alive. I am still a library patron. I have three children. I joined the library support groups in my town. I joined the Friends of the Library in which I served as President, Vice President and Secretary for more than 20 years. I joined the Brownsville Women's Study Club that originally started the library. And I've held several positions in that. As a patron, I had overdue fines. I had the maximum amount checked out, and they were all way overdue. And then of course, a couple books got kicked under a piece of furniture. And I so I had lost books. And so my fines were a bit beyond my means to pay. And I'm sure we can all relate to that. So I asked the then librarian, how can I work or volunteer to pay my fines off? And he said, Oh, Sherry, I think you'd be a great summer reading reading program coordinator. So I tried that out the first year. And I stayed on for five years. I really enjoyed it. And so that's how I got started in the library. My I am a fiber arts, I suppose freak. I love anything to do with fiber arts. I'm currently driving myself crazy with one inch squares. Yeah, let me show you that picture. Actually, I got it all done that red and white quilt. I made that little tatted collar in the corner. I sew costumes for our local Scandinavian festival. That's my daughter. And she has a hardonger som apron on that I made. I'm also considered the canning queen in our house. And to do watercolor, drawing, doodling colored pencils, ink, you name it, I'm on it. You do the build up behind you there. I the field behind me is our Dahlia garden. One year we have an acre and a half of cut flowers that starts this year. It was like the end of February through Halloween. And we grow we start with daffodils and grow tulips, iris, lilies, dahlia is anything in bulbs. And then my husband now that he's retired, he's growing pumpkins also for Halloween. So we grow everything from minis to carving size. And we sell them at the roadside. It's just a little mom and pop stand. The money bucket is a diaper wipe box that I I trade a coupon with one of my patrons for now that my kids are all grown. And it's on the honor system. And we've done it all at our home for 25 years now. So you can find find that on Facebook also at Kalapuya Gardens. It's been fun. I started with just the flowers around the house. So that's a little bit about me. What kind of car does a Jedi drive? Oh, Toyota. Did I tell you that this presentation will be mixed with a bunch of very basic or silly Star Wars jokes? You're welcome. Think that is awesome. That is awesome. My library, this is a picture of my library. It was built in 1978 with a federal grant. Our then city administrator went out and got this grant to build a new library. And some senior housing that is kitty corner to the library. It has 2500 square feet. We have a genealogy history room, a magazine room, books and audios for adults, juniors and children, and a meeting room that holds about 33 people. Our library was established in 1911 by the Lady Self Improvement Club. And we have this little plaque that sits above our front door. 110 years later, we're still going strong. In the beginning, one member from the club would become librarian for the year. And so it's kind of really, for me, it's very neat to be part of that same club that started the library and then have the honor to be the librarian here at Brownsville. In 1978, the city took over the running of the library. Yeah, that's it. And we've been having a great time ever since. We've made a lot of changes over the years. This is a little tour of our library. We got the new front counter. I've painted several walls. Here's our little children's room. We have volunteers that Mr. Lee, he would come and read and he didn't want a chair. He wanted to sit on the floor with the kids. And they absolutely loved him. We got new carpet. And I wish I had more time to sit and read a book. But as many of you know, being an only in the library, you don't have time to sit and read. Our history room has 110 plus years of the Brownsville Times hardbound in green volumes. And then we have some local history and books about Oregon that folks can check out. Our magazine room has 18 plus magazine subscriptions to choose from. And we take our local newspaper The Times donates a week their weekly paper and we subscribe to the local regional paper. Our Kirk Room has a capacity for 33 people. And that's where we hold all kinds of programs here. I had invited the local Lynn County deputy to come and talk about personal safety. And I'll talk about other programs that I have held. What do you call Chewbacca when he has chocolate stuck in his fur? This is like my favorite joke, a chocolate chip wookie. Okay, so let's talk about being the only. We'll touch on volunteers, patrons, programs, readers advisory, back office tips, budgeting, and purchasing. There are many jobs in our library kingdom. What did Darth Vader say to the emperor at the Star Wars auction? What is thy bidding, my master? I told you they were bad. Okay, so welcome to Brownsville. Yes. Where would you like to volunteer? If you live in a small town like I do, you know that nothing gets done without volunteers. Volunteers, they are the big deal. They are super. They are community oriented. They're friendly. They're unpaid. And we need to tap into their expertise. There are many jaw balls to juggle as a solo. My library has 0.9 full time employees. I am 0.8. I have a library clerk who is a paid volunteer on Saturday for four hours. Our town motto is what Brownsville welcomes you home. I have wanted to write below it. Where would you like to volunteer in Sharpie for years? Folks get busy. They move away. They get ill. Some even get hangnails and can't come back to the library. So I am always looking for that next volunteer. Volunteers must apply here. This is a great way for teens to practice getting their first job. The application is a simple one. In the interview, I asked questions like, tell me about yourself. What kind of jobs or volunteer opportunities have you had in the past? What makes the library special to you? Do you have any hobbies? Then I asked myself, am I comfortable with them? I oftentimes I'm the only other person in the building with the volunteer. And if I'm not comfortable being around them, I'm not going to, I'm going, we probably won't find a time that's agreeable. I offer volunteer times that are open. We speak about appropriate tire confidentiality. And I give them a copy of the volunteer handbook and show them where the office copies are too. The city is covering volunteers on their workers' compensation policy. So we have a job description for volunteers that they sign, I sign and the city administrator sign. This is a best practice for risk management suggested by the city insurance carrier. For insurance reasons, volunteers must be 14 years of age or older when they start. I also require volunteers to be computer literate to work on the front desk. I do not have time to teach them how to use a mouse. They need volunteers are here to help me. I'm not here to train them, we need to set up a class or some practice session times on the public computers, if that's what they're here to do. If they, if they still want to volunteer and they're not computer literate, I have them read the shelves for correct placement. Teens bring new energy to the library. In all volunteers, I look for self starters. It is a great day when a volunteer can dive in and look around for things to do and not wait for me to say, do this, do that next. Now do this. With teens, I have found that lists work great. Each week they have their normal tasks. And when they get those done, hopefully, I have found or thought of another task for them to do to help me with play to the strength of the volunteer. I have several volunteers that don't want to touch the computer. They put books away, read shelves, help me with take a make crafts, all kinds of, you know, non computer related activities. Another volunteer loves history. She is our history room guru. She has gone through the vertical files and created an inventory of what was in those files. Since that first go through, she's been through the files three more times. Wow. I think she's happy with how they are ordered now. Yeah, it's taken quite an effort. And my suggestion is to find, like Miss Claudia, find interests that your volunteers want to dive into and let them go. That's what I thought was interesting. You mentioned that it's something probably that people don't always think about when interviewing someone. You asked what their hobbies are or what their interests are. And I think that's that's that's that little key there like focus on something they already are into. And it will make everything so much easier. So much easier. Yay. So my volunteer procedure manual covers topics such as opening the building, patron procedures, telephone etiquettes, how to for patron computer, closing the building volunteer benefits. If you don't have one, I suggest you start with patron procedures step by step. This will be a reference for when you are unavailable. We thank our volunteers here three times a year. We have a normally non pandemic, we have a volunteer dinner, which we call soup salads and sweets. At Christmas time, we host a cookie or goody exchange. And then in the end of the winter, I write a handwritten thank you note and send out a little gift, be it flour coupons, or whatever, something small, just a little note of appreciation. Patrons, patrons come in a wide variety. What are they looking for? They're reading for fun, for information. Do they need to use the computer? Don't don't tell anybody, but they pay me to play. I just love working in the library, people are happy to come into the building. It's the best place in town. It's our community hub. So let's talk about the times when they're not happy. There have been a few unhappy events and I'm happy that I'm happy to report there's only been a few. When it's all over, I type out an incident report. This includes date, time, who was involved, anyone that witnessed the event. I write about what was said verbatim if I can between all the parties. I write about the actions taken. Usually the person leaves the building. Sometimes I think they may come back and document that too. This report is shared with my boss, the city administrator. Writing out a report helps me put in perspective what and how I handled it. Sometimes I see a way I could have handled it better. It's a great learning tool. What do you call five sys piled on top of a lightsaber? A sys kebab. That one was good. I had heard that one before. Yeah, I had a lot of fun looking for these. Speaking of books, I am the slowest reader. But sometimes I amaze even myself. Passive readers advisory. How do you do that when you're in a webinar and there's somebody at the counter with a volunteer that has no clue? If I like Clive Kessler, I'll like whomever. So I thought of this idea. If you like, say Jeffrey Archer, you might try David Baldacci, Ken Follett, Daniel Silva, Steve Berry, Louise Penny, or Lee Child. Use what you have. Put authors who are in your library. I use a little address label. I started with 26 pages, one letter for each letter of the alphabet, and it has grown since I started. How do I find like reads? Well, we all know some of the big ones like the Amazon author page. I look there and list the customers also bought items by. Good reads is another site to look at if there's an obvious difference. I take them off. You do have to use your judgment, especially with junior books. The new like the battle of the books. I'll look at authors that, you know, are listed similarly. And sometimes they're like night and day. And I know that it's not a good fit. So just use your nuggets. I also only include authors that are in my library. It's sneaky, I know, but it works. And I have had patrons come back and say, Oh, I love this. Another. Little I've heard literature hyphen map.com novelist and the Kent district library series finder is another great resource. If you're looking to list the series out, I just typed in KDL series. And that comes right up. And we just had a question because you just mentioned that. So maybe you knew the question was there. Someone wanted to know does your state library provide access to novelist? Or does we have state databases that we pay for that everyone can have access to? Do you guys have novelist just for your library? Is the state provide something? I actually don't use novelist. It was another. It was suggested in a previous presentation that I gave. Okay. I have a suggestion or something that you could use as well for this. And one of our staff is watching and reminding me of it. And we have something in our library website, and I'll share the link with everyone to and to you to Sherry, the books in series database where we've been trying to track where if you've read, you found this one book, what else is there in the series? What are what are they all that you search by author title series? And we've had lots of people from all across the country and comment and say, we rely on this database. So, you know, I'm glad you're actually keeping it up with helping us figure out what's the next book in this one? What should I read next? How do I keep up on this story or this world? Right. Right. Yeah. I'll I'll definitely go check that out. I've always having trouble that when I'm trying to figure out, you know, if I'm going to start reading a new book that I found, how do what, where do I, how, how, what am I getting into? I guess is the question. Yeah. How far does this go down, get me down the rabbit hole to needing to read a whole bunch of, you know, follow us? Yes. Yeah. On my spine labels, I have the section that it goes in the author's last name, and then it has a place for a series. And so I try to put the series name and number on all of the books, because face it, we like to see the character development as we read those stories. And so it is that's another helpful way that I can guide patrons without having to stand there and say, oh, well, this is number one and this is number two. In my library, the author is jumbled. The books are not in alphabetical order within that author's section. The only time they're in a specific order is when it's a series. So like Ken Follett, for example, he has stand-alones, but he also has a couple series. And so his stand-alones are all jumbled, but the series are together and in order one through three. Yeah. Yeah. And you can order your library how it makes sense to you. Whatever works for you and whatever works for you. Yes. Yes. Because it's your library. It's your town's library. It's how your community's going to work and be able to find things. Oh, yes. What is Jabba the Huts Middle name? Yeah, I know. Oh, man. One of the other questions that I was asked was how often do you read your weed? I weed books. It's an ongoing process. We review sections of the library in rotation. I have a long time experienced volunteer that helps me with that. Adult fiction, if it's not read in seven years, is probably gone unless it's a classic. And I'll add that to the spine label. Of course, there are exceptions to the rules. Nonfiction, if it's not read in 10 years, maybe it might be sooner if I find something better newer or space allows. The 9454 World War Two history area is getting really tight and I'm going to have to make some hard decisions this coming year. And I hate weeding. I have to be in a real grouchy mood to do it. And then I just have you have to make the decision and let it go. Just let it go. Juniors is a lot tighter. Juniors, if they haven't been read in five years or less, and it's not a classic, it's it's gone. So that's that's weeding programs. When I first came, there were no programs here 12 years ago. I started with story time. I think getting kids and families into the library is really important to build community relations and get those great feelings and happy occurrences in bedded in their brains so that when they move off to wherever they go and a library bond comes up, they can think back to, Oh, Miss Sherry's story time was so much fun. I want to vote for that so other children can have that opportunity. So now with the pandemic, we're still limited to people in the library. So my story times are prerecorded and they're posted each Friday on our library Facebook page, our website, and I have a YouTube channel just for these. I do not read books. I tell stories. I have I have gone and what do I use? I use my old time story book from my childhood. I and I've looked for Native American stories. I have even written my own stories. And so I when I first started, I would pick three books and I would sit there like the Prim Librarian and read the book and close the book and put it down and read the next book and close the book and put it down and so on. And then I found out that I didn't have to do that. And that was like so much fun. So now I have an opening song and there's lots of opening songs to choose from. I use if you want to hear a story clap your hands and then we jump and then I've been including sign language as the third one. And so this week I'm working on Memorial Day and so it's flag and I'm looking forward to recording that one this afternoon. I add a song, a rhyme, a finger play. I tell another story and there's you know, as time allows, I just kind of keep repeating those. I like to pick a theme each week and then I have a closing song, which is hands go up and hands go down. I can turn around and round. It's fun. Whiteboard. Whiteboard has become really, really useful during the pandemic here. I'm telling the story of the owl and the pussycat and I'm drawing as I'm going along and it's more interactive. Cool. Very interactive, very fun. I've you know, so I show them how to draw kitty. I show them how to draw the owl. Then I went on and drew the boat and so we've learned to draw a lot of animals and other critters together. It doesn't have to be fancy. My whiteboard right there is a clipboard with a piece of card stock inside of a sheet protector. And when the sheet protector gets too dirty, you can wipe it down with alcohol or flip it over and use the other side and recycle it some other way. Like using it to cut it up and tape the edges and hold your vaccination card. Other places that I've got a question. Actually, I want to jump back to question before you go on to the next topic. Actually, something to question about when you're weeding. Yes, your process. What do you do with the books that you do pull when you weave? We put them through our book sale. So we basically give them to our friends of the library that holds an ongoing book sale and then a yearly book sale and they if they sell hopefully for a minimal amount and that what doesn't sell we box up and we take to St. Vincent, Nepal locally. I also save two like paper boxes of paperback books and I take those each year to my county jail. They have a library there and then they can put them on their shelves as they need them and they accept donations like that for the for the library. Only paperbacks, not hardbacks. And so I don't know if you know if that's unique or or what, but I've had letters from inmates that say they really have appreciated that so that they have something to do when they're by themselves or not not busy working on the work crew or whatever. And so that's been really cool. One more way to encourage folks to keep reading and better themselves. Jaybrary.com is another great place to get ideas for story time. Pinterest, do you have to just read saying no, I wanted to I thought about using buying an ukulele, but learning the chords was going to be problematic. I would have had to sit still long enough. So I found this little auto harp and I love it because I can push a button and strum and the kids and parents think I am brilliant, but they don't really realize how super easy it is. The hardest part is tuning it and I have a little tuning app on my phone and it's just super, super fun. So I use my voice, I use my auto harp. I found some finger pianos that play out of tune that sometimes I'll play with at story time. If you're good at finger ukulele or learning the ukulele, I mean I'm sure it's just learning one chord and strumming again. We've made kazoos. Other librarians use CDs. I mean the sky is the limit. Use your imagination. Bring your flute in from high school or your clarinet or your base flute. I saw a couple of those the other day or what's the other one from Australia? The didgeridoo. I mean go for it. Invite folks that play these unique instruments into your story time. Kids and families love variety. Pinterest is my friend. Or you can write your own story and we're going to hope that the sound works. The sound's not coming through on that I guess. We can see him dancing along. There we go. Anyways, so I wrote a very simple story about Hayden Hedgehog meeting a friend at the park. So you get the idea. So other programs like I use, I hold in our meeting room. I have chosen three programs for adults and teens. I rotate them monthly on a Thursday night because that's my slowest time. So it's easy for me to administer and help run the program. I chose Lawyer in the Library. I entitled the second one Savvy Families and Kindness Rocks Painting. These are programs that have brought people through the side door that don't check out books but they wanted to learn more about the topic and so they came in and then they said oh I think I'll get a library card too. Yay! Lawyer in the Library is a great way to partner with your state or county law library. We are fortunate here to have an attorney in town and so we choose a topic and the attorney speaks about that. They do not give advice. It's just general information and general questions are asked. So I can't say well my brother is but I could say well what if a family member was blah blah blah and they can answer those kinds of questions. My topics have included landlord, tenant, small claims, divorce, benefits such as social security, social security in SSI, SNAP, etc. We've had local authors, the sheriff deputy come in, a doula, insurance agent again general, the possibilities are endless. I'm really looking forward to having the pandemic over like we all are and I want to start a wills and trusts process and I had our local hospital chaplain come in and talk about advanced directives and and then we could fill them out and sign them if they you know they wanted to or they went home and thought about it. So I want to start that whole process over which would really take a whole probably a year and a half every every three months going through the process. Savvy families again is really a wide open topic and then rock painting is super popular. It was such a fun, easy program that we started painting whenever there was a fourth Thursday of the month. That was just rock painting and so then I went back on the times when my craft night was scheduled to do something else. Advertising. I do a poster. I posted on my library website, social media, with my local newspapers and then I have flyers at the circulation desk and various bulletin boards around town. For my posters I use postermywall.com. It has a lot of more more base posters and flyers than I could ever dream up myself. You can download a basic one for free. It has a little watermark in the bottom, left hand corner. I do one work session for each program. I make the poster. I schedule my posts on social media. One month out, four weeks out, three weeks out, two weeks out, week out, day. I send the same information to my local newspapers and I post that all on social media and then I do a half page poster with library information on the reverse side and I hand that out to patrons as we go. Were there any questions about that? Yes, we do actually. Someone wants to know, have you found local radio helpful for promoting programs? Do you have any sort of local radio? Yes, we have a little local radio and what I found was easier for me was to call up when he wasn't there because I could get flustered if he asked me a question that I wasn't quite prepared for and then I would sit there and go, you cannot edit out all of those ums and ahs. Yes, local radio is another great one. Thank you for that question. Budget, which Star Wars character travels around the world? Lobby, one, Kenobi. Budget can be confusing. It's normal to struggle with it. I am so fortunate here that my boss is a really good money manager and so he has a basic budget laid out and once a year he says, okay, what special would you like to do this year? And so I will say, okay, these are my requests um, right now. A couple years ago we were talking about a front desk and a new library and computer and so we were able to purchase those with monies that were set aside. I need, the laptop was a Windows 7 and so he's like, well, I'd like to get a new laptop for me. I'll just give you the one I bought last year that I can't stand and now I understand why he gave it to me. That's not it. It's a microphone. But that's okay. It is so much better than what I had so I'm not complaining. I use it once a month so it's not a big deal. I wanted a grant line for the summer reading program and we got that worked out. My request this year that we're it's probably going to be put on hold for a little while is a corner rounded bookshelf on wheels for my board books. I have a little wicker basket on the floor and it's starting to look tatty. I'd really like to be able to add more. I want to see what I'd like to do that may cost a little bit more and then we just go there. Go for it. Now I've also broken down. You can see we've got new carpet in the last five years. We got a new HVAC system. We've gotten a new upholstery and a new roof and we're coming up on painting and I am guessing that that number for new exterior paint is really, really low. But I took the expenses of what it cost us that time and divided it out by how many years it's supposed to last. And so I said we need to be saving $5,200 a year for these things to make it easy to purchase in the future. Always going to be planning and not have to make it easy to purchase. And so I think it's a great way to realize you. Right. Yeah. And so we have, we have, he's been really great about putting that money away and our contingency budget keeps growing a little bit each year. So it won't be quite the shock when the next librarian gets to pick up the money. So I'm going to go to the library conference and I like to go to the association of rural and small libraries conference. At least every other year. And I'm hoping to be there this fall in Nevada. So say hi when you come. Yeah, I should have mentioned that's how I found Sherry in her presentation that last year the air SL conference was really great. So I have attended in person as well. Most times over there highly recommended it for anybody who is in a small rural library. It is, those are your people. That's your tribe. And they have great presentations and I invited Sherry to come on here on our show to share even wider with what she did as a solo librarian. Yeah. But it's coming up yet fall sparks Nevada. It's coming up in October. I was just looking at my calendar. Yeah. So they're planning on doing it. In person. I can't remember if there's in person and some virtual or not or if they have that figured out yet, but. I don't know. And so it costs me about $2,500. A time to go. So if that's including plane trip and motel. So that. I don't know. They do move it around the country too. So depending on where it might be, it may be closer to you cost wise and you can drive potentially or something. Yes. Last year's was supposed to have been in Kansas actually. I'm so disappointed. Which was great for me here in Nebraska. We were, we had, we were like, we had given out grants. Yes, of course we're all just going to drive down. It's like three hours down. It's like driving back to. Another time maybe. Another time. Yeah. So that's kind of how I do my budgeting. If there's something special that I'm needing. I ask my friends or my, my Brownsville women's study club. They'll buy special books for the summer reading program craft supplies. That my friends buy all of the magazine subscriptions. So the only thing that I do not chimp skimp on my boss asked that I'd spend only 85% of my, my budget. But I spend 99.9% of my book money. Because that's why I'm here. So organizing my, my book purchases. I start, I'm already working on, I already have a list of 2022 books that I want to buy. So in my supplier, there's, I use Ingram. I know there's. Banker or Baker and Taylor. There's all kinds of them. You can purchase from Amazon too or wherever you choose. So I have lists for each month and I'm, I'm drop whenever a new book comes out that I see that I want, I'm dropping it in that month. That it's coming out or if it's coming out after the first week, it goes in the next month. Cause I'd make one purchase a month. To make it easier on my, my gal who pays the accounts payable gal. And so I drop it. So I have. What's the, this is May. I just ordered May. And now I'll have, I have June list, July, August, September, October, November, December, and then 2022. And when I get to about November, December, I'll break out 2022 into their months and keep going. That works. Does that, I'm sure that makes sense. So other library supplies, book covering supplies I order from Demco audio books. We don't, we're not big enough to allow, to be able to afford the overdrive or ebooks and audio books that way. So I actually buy physical CDs for folks to listen to. And I order those from Blackstone. The city is great about ordering office supplies. That as I need, I, we all love, have our favorite pen and our favorite post-it notes. And so I, and they have paper. I just walk over and pick up a ring or two and make sure that I have plenty on hand for the printers. And again, if I have something special, I order, I have my friends. Or study club purchase that. Why do doctors make the best Jedi? Because Jedi must have patience. Tips to keep your office saying, yeah, right. That is the actual picture of my desk. It is a mess. I think. I tell my boss, because he, his desk doesn't have anything, but his, his monthly planner on it. And I say, you must give me 10 minutes warning when you're coming. And I go get a box. I sweep it all off and I put it out of his site. Because it just drives him crazy. But that's okay. How do I keep on tasks? How do I keep on target? Over the years. My email calendar has, I have built that up. I have, I have plugged in weekly, monthly, bi-yearly, yearly things that I need to be doing activities, tasks. I have a list. I always have a list going. And, and keep it. Keep going through. Sometimes life gets overwhelming. And so I get bogged down. I feel like I'm, I'm in a rut and I'm struggling to get out. So I get back to that list and I write down the five things that I really don't want to do. And I do the one thing that I really don't want to do first. And by the time I get to the second and third thing on my list, I'm back up and running and I'm feeling better. And I'm like, you know, like the proverbial child. Why didn't I do my homework earlier? Step by step inch by inch, life's a cinch. Yard by yard. Life is hard. So those, that's kind of how I keep track. And I appreciate your time today. I have really enjoyed presenting for you and telling you how I really, really appreciate your time today. And I'm, I'm, I'm the solo in the library. Yeah, awesome. All right. Yeah. Anybody have any questions? We still have a time left in our session and our official year. Our show is officially 10 to 11 a.m. Central time. But if people have questions, they want to ask of Sherry. We will go as long as it takes to answer all your questions. We don't get cut off. So yeah, thank you so much, Sherry. This is a great session. Of course, lots of great tips for, you know, for people who are on the on, but I think for any library and really these are things that could be, you know, any, anyone who is struggling with organization or if you saw my desk, it's very reminiscent of yours. Like that, that just some awesome ways of, you know, keeping up with things. And while we're waiting for some of these questions, any other questions that you have, please type in your questions section if you want to ask or anything. I'm going to present your control back to my screen. So I'm going to show you. There we go. So this is the session page for today's show. And we do have a link here to your library's website, which I've opened over here. You're talking about the virtual story times and everything. And so I went over here and looked if you go under kids and teens and go to the kids and teens homepage, there are all the links to the various ones. So if you want to watch that, the one that she was trying to do, I think that was the second one here, right? Yes, it is. So you can go here and it goes right to the YouTube. There it is. And I think. And I use poster my wall to grab that little front video. So that was fun. Yeah. I'm going to show you. I'm going to show you. Hayden hedgehog. Went outside to play. He went down the lane. Past his favorite tree. And into the park. At the park. He went to the swing. A new critter was already there. Hayden hedgehog said, hi, my name is Hayden hedgehog. And we are the part of it. So that's just a little taste of that video there. It is very basic. It is very cute. So if you want to watch any more of them and see what Sherry had done, there's, I just want to show, there's the links to those right off of their library web page, which we have linked off of the session page. When our archives are posted, the recording is posted for this today. We'll have the same link and you'll be able to link right off of their library web page and find that there. Also wanted to show we talked about this and just want to share the page here. This is our books and series database that we talked, I talked about that we have deep up with here at the library commission. Free open for anyone to watch out there or watch anyone to use out there. So you can search here and use this. If you want to add this to your list of things to do. And specifically your books and series, we even have some other resources here that you can use as well. And our staff is always looking for input. If we're missing something or if you want to add something or, you know, a new books coming out from some series, let our staff know. For our libraries in the, in it for anyone in Nebraska, I mentioned here, we do have our Nebraska access databases where we receive funding from our state library, from our state legislature to provide databases to Nebraska residents. So just just for Nebraska. We do have that novel list in here that you had mentioned, both novel list and for a K eight, eight through eight for the kids side. I just wanted to let everyone see all of that there. So if anybody has any question. We just, I'm just popped up. Not a question, but thank you for some very helpful information. This Mary Ann from Charlotte, Texas. You're welcome. Hopefully it was helpful to everyone, but it doesn't look any has any desperate questions that they typed in right now while they, while we were chatting, I was showing all this, but that's fine. Reach out to Sherry. If you want to ask her about anything else she does after the, when we do get the archive for this, Sherry, if you're willing to share your slides, you can just send me those. You can send me the PowerPoint or link to wherever you post it, whatever you like. Do you want the PowerPoint or did you want a PDF? Honestly, to me, it doesn't matter. It's whatever you would like to share. We'll, we'll, we'll post anything. Okay. But I'll show you here. I'm not for everyone who's attending here for our archives are off of our main page. Actually, let me get to our main page here. There we go. This is our upcoming shows that we have coming up for the next couple of months. Here's where our archives are. So this is where today's show will be posted. Everyone who attended today and registered for today show again, email from me letting you know when the recording is ready. Should be done by the end of the day tomorrow at the latest, as long as go to webinar and YouTube cooperate with me. And the most recent ones will be at the top of the page here. And we can, we use slide share to post and share presentations that are either PowerPoints, PDFs, other documents. So you can send me either version of it. And we can put it up there. We'll also link to sometimes people have slides that they've used Google slides or other services to do their presentation. So you'll see links to those as well on here. So just depends on what our presenter has done. While I'm here on the archive page, I will mention, you can see we've got a search feature. So you can search our archives for any topic you might be interested in. See if we did a show about it. You'll notice that you can search the whole archives or just the most recent 12 months. That is because this is our full show archives from when we started and compass live and compass live premiered in January 2009. So we're in our 12th year, you know, over 10 years of the show. And we have, I'm not going to scroll all the way to the bottom of this because that would be crazy. But we have all of our shows are here. So just pay attention when you are, when you do search the full archives for topic, just pay attention to the original broadcast date to see, you know, when it actually was done on that. Some of our shows will stand the test of time, book review sessions, sometimes this certain discussions, certain products, but some things may be old and become outdated. Services and products may no longer exist anymore. Websites may have changed. Links may be broken. So just pay attention to when something first came out, if you're going to be using that as a resource for anything. Maybe we're going to watch anything out here. But we are librarians. We keep things for historical purposes. This is something we can very easily keep as long as we have somewhere to post and post all of those show recordings. We will always keep them up for you. We also have a Facebook page for and compass live. I've got a link here and here's our page over here. Where we post reminders if you'd like to use Facebook, here's your reminder to log in to today's show. Information about our speakers. When our recordings are available for the preview show, I post on here. So if you do like to use Facebook, give us a like over there. We also use our hashtag we camp with a little abbreviated and comp live for the show. We post onto Twitter and Instagram. And I'm not sure where else our PR people are doing things, but you can always find things out there under that hashtag for about our shows. But other than that, you can keep an eye on our page here, our home page here for our upcoming shows. So thank you so much everyone for being here. Thank you so much. Sherry for joining me this morning. You're welcome. Thank you for inviting me. Yeah, this is great. We got a lot of great tips and tricks. Definitely that I think a lot of people are going to be using. And I hope you'll join us for in our upcoming shows. And next week we are doing us our pretty sweet tech. This is our once a month. The last Wednesday of the month is always pretty sweet tech when Amanda sweet, who is our technology innovation librarian comes on the show talks about something techie related. This month is specifically about our Nebraska libraries on the web program where we provide free websites, free WordPress websites, to any libraries in Nebraska. So if you're in Nebraska library wanting to get a website or learn more about that, sign up for this. Or if you're just interested in our program, you can watch the show too. Amanda is also starting a new four part series the next week on June 2nd about teaching technology in the library. And you can see we've got one, two, three, four on here. So if you want to learn more about that, you can start signing up for those four sessions over the next couple of months. She's going to be doing a special series on that. And then interspersion. You can see our other regular shows coming up. Definitely give us, you know, sign up for any of our future shows. So thank you everyone for attending. Thank you Sherry for being here this early morning for you. And hopefully we'll see you all joining us sometime on a future Compass Live. Bye.