 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, or a webinar, or a webcast, or an online show. Call us what you will. We are here live every Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. Central time. But if you're unable to join us on Wednesday mornings, that's fine. We also record all of our shows and they are posted onto our website for everyone to watch later. And I'll show you at the end of the show where all of that is. We do a mixture of things here on Encompass Live, demos, many training sessions, book reviews, interviews, basically anything library related, we put it on the show. We have guest speakers that sometimes come in and join us both in person remotely and we sometimes have sessions with Nebraska Library Commission staff. And that's what we have this morning. With me today is all Library Commission staff. I don't know how many. Sort of a series of things of these types of shows we've been doing just this year. It's an occasional yes. Book talks, books on certain topics that Library Commission staff have read. This week, this week, this time, our topic is mysteries, obviously. Who done it? Who figured it out? We probably won't give away the endings of any of these. No. Sometimes it's obvious depending on the mystery. They tell you at the beginning. But what the state talked about their favorite mysteries is Cecilia Ramsey over all the way over there in the middle, Laura Johnson, and right here, Debra Dregos, all Library Commission staff. So I'm just going to hand it over to you guys to take it over and tell us all about the mysteries. Well, good morning. So let's just move right into this. We might need to click on to the PowerPoint with the mouse just quickly. Just one look. There you go. We're going to book talk mysteries. We'll have our contact information at the end of this if you need to contact us for some reason. I thought it was very interesting. The public libraries online weekly, their little newsletter, has a poll every week. And a couple weeks ago, they asked what genre do you prefer out of these genres? And 33 and a third percent of the respondents liked mysteries. The next most popular was nonfiction. But I thought this showed kind of clearly that mysteries are terribly popular. They're usually a big part of any library's fiction collection. And there's an awful lot of different kinds of mysteries. So we're going to talk about several different kinds today and hopefully give you a good sampling. We're going to start with Debra. And my first title is called After the Storm by Linda Castillo. And this is the most recent in her Kate Burkholder series. Kate is the chief of police in Painters Mill, Ohio, which is right in the middle of Amish country. Kate was formerly Amish herself, but she no longer is. So we have insider knowledge into the community and the culture of the Amish, though. And that helps her in crime investigations when they involve the Amish people. This latest entry starts off with sort of a teaser scene of a murder that occurred some years previously and then switches to the current day and a tornado is bearing down on the community. I don't know what tornadoes are like. Well, in the cleanup afterwards, some bones turn up. So Kate is on the case. This is a rather dark series. It can be rather gruesome. The crimes can be rather gruesome. Kate has a very fraught past history and still carries that baggage with her as does her love interest, John Tomassetti. In each book you learn more about Kate and the different members of her police department. It's really interesting. I have found in all of the books to follow through on finding the solution of the crime. They're very involved, but it is fast-paced. Often it's suspenseful. You never know. There's a danger to Kate or other members of her team. It's definitely not the picture of the Amish community that you get if you're used to reading Amish romance. But I find it a fascinating read. You think that the setting contributes a lot to the overall? Yes. Some member of the Amish community is involved in every book. It's not just... Our next thing, Dry Bones by Craig Johnson. This is the 11th novel in the Long Wire series. There's also a book of short stories. In this, our sheriff, Walt Long Wire, from Absaroka County, Wyoming, gets involved in a case where a Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton has been found. There's quite a bit of conflict about who owns it, what's going to happen to it. Meanwhile, there's been a murder, and Walt has to figure out how the murder, which is related to the bones. So we have lots of bones here today, is how it works out. Walt is his usual stoic self. We also have the overarching personal story, and there's more developments in that. We see his great friend, Henry Standing Bear, helps him with the mystery. So it's an interesting look, once again, at Western culture. So I think it has a very double appeal. Not only is it a nice mystery, and well, really a procedural with a twist, I guess. But it also, I think, would appeal to readers of Westerns. And the Long Wire character, of course, is really an estimable lawman, and we all enjoy visiting with Walt and the cast of characters. Because this has been on television, and now they're getting ready for season four with Netflix. I think it came out. Did it? Yeah, I do believe. It's the entire season. I would think there would be quite a bit of interest in this in the library, simply because it has been on TV. Craig Johnson is, if not local, just a neighbor. And we all enjoy Walt. If you want to know what all the books in this series are, you can go to our website, the Nebraska Library Commission's website, where we have a books in series database. And it lists all the books, which I thought was kind of cool. So if you enjoy Western, if you enjoy procedurals, it also does bring up the issue of the idea of, I don't know, it's not really cultural remains. Tyrannosaurus had no culture. But the idea of who really owns these things and how, unfortunately, they've become big business because they're worth a great deal of money. I think you really enjoy this. And it's well written, as Johnson's books tend to be. OK, Cecilia. As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust by Alan Bradley. The main character, Flavia de Luz, was actually introduced in her first book, Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, which is, she is an amateur chemist at the age of 11. And yes, there are dead bodies, but she figures it all out. It's 1950s, so there's no cell phone to help her out. Occasionally, she has her trusted bicycle lattice to get her where she needs to go. But the mystery seemed to just kind of drop into her lap. In this case, it's a charred skeleton wrapped in a Union Jack flag that falls out of the chimney of her bedroom at her school. She's been sent to Canada to a boarding school. You just click on that and I'll get rid of it. Just click on that and get rid of it. And what I love about her is that she's just a child, but she uses big words. She has great language. The title alone kind of gives you this idea that you're not talking simple in anything she does. She finds a way to get to the answer, even breaking the rules a little bit, like being up after hours or being off campus. But when it comes down to it, she figures out a way to sneak into places that she shouldn't and do the things that a kid would do, but she's very smart in how she handles it. And her interest in chemistry always takes her to the final conclusion, but because you're with a child, it tends to be a little ADHD in that she will take you on other little trips and you think you figured it out and then she twists you and makes you believe it went somewhere else. And this is the seventh in the series. And I fell in love with her from book one. I just think it's very, it's kind of lighthearted because you're talking about a child, but she takes care of some serious business and she isn't, in this case, some of the adults she has to figure out who she can trust. And she's been warned not to talk to certain people, but then she's like, how can I figure this out? If I can't talk to anybody, she figures out a way around that by having some of the other people do the talking for her. It's very clever in what she does. And I personally am a listener of books, so part of I think what won me over to this series was the narrator. I work for the Talking Books and Braille Service under the Nebraska Library Commission as part of that. And so all my listeners, all my readers are listeners. And so I was just won over by the narrator, so I thought I would share with you a little sampling of her... It's long just here. Right now there you go. Okay. We'll get to... This is Jane Enschweil, Whistle, and she does the voice of Flavia, and she's just going to give you a little hint about this particular book and introduce you to Flavia, a conversation that Flavia has with the character. And all of that credit goes to Alan Bradley because it's his heart that has created this wonderful series that all of us love so much. So now I'd like to read you a passage from his latest book as chimney sweepers come to dust. We know Flavia has gone off to Canada to go to Miss Body Coat's Female Academy, and in this scene she's talking to the headmistress, Miss Fourthorn. Flavia, Miss Fourthorn, setting reply to my knock, I squeeze through the very open door. Sit down, she commanded, and I obeyed, perching myself on the edge of a leather divan. First things first, she said. You will have for no doubt that I promised you punishment. Yes, Miss Fourthorn, I said. I'm sorry, I... She said, holding up a restraining hand. Excuses are not legal tender at Miss Body Coat's Female Academy. Do you understand? I didn't, but I nodded anyway, imagining a red-faced magistrate in a horsehair wig glaring down at me from his elevated bench. Rules are rules. They are meant to be obeyed. Yes, Miss Fourthorn, I'm sorry. The old, old formula. It had to be played out step by meticulous step according to some ancient ritual. Perhaps they should have business cards printed to hand out each and past with my name and the words, I'm sorry, Miss Fourthorn, every time I offended, I would pluck one from my pocket and hand it for your punishment. I want you to write out 500 words on William Palmer. He led, I believe, an interesting life. It took a moment for the light to come on, but when it did, my brain was dazzled by the sheer brilliance of it. William Palmer, the rougely poisoner. Why, I could write 500, a thousand, ten thousand words on dear old, jolly old Bill Palmer with my fingers frostbitten, my wrists handcuffed, my ankles bound, and my tongue tied behind my back. That is the world of Flavia de Luce. Her imagination, her language just sucks you in. Put that, tuck that out of our way. Okay, so now we're going to go on to the Darling Dahlia's and the Eleventh O'Clock Lady by Susan Whittig Albert. This is a, I've talked about a very dark series the first time. This is the total polar opposite end. This is a cozy mystery. The series takes place in Darling, Alabama during the Great Depression, and the main characters are the women of the Darling Dahlia Gardening Club. Their husbands and other members of the community do show up as needed, but we do follow the ladies. And in this latest entry of the series, one of the town's telephone switchboard operators has been murdered, off scene, of course, because this is a cozy. Why was she killed? What did she know? Uh-oh, did she listen in on somebody's telephone conversation? This is the 1930s, so that was an option. As the story goes along, you discover the clues along with the Dahlias as they go about their work around town. They work at the diner, or they own the diner. The beauty salon, the newspaper office, the county courthouse, lawyer's office, you know, wherever, there's one of the Dahlias. And of course, there's the new Civilian Conservation Corps, or the CCC camp, just outside of town. And what does that mean to the town, and what does it mean to the murder? Uh-oh, we'll find out. One of the greatest appeals of this book to me is the research that Albert has done on the Depression, and how she weaves it into the story and shows it to you through the characters' lives. It's also about women being supportive of each other and helping out the community. The characters grow through each of the stories, and you really cheer for their successes. The books are a really quick read, and for me, thoroughly entertaining. Like many cozies, at the end of the book, there's extra materials. Albert always includes a historical note, but there are also some recipes. As you know, a gardening club, you know, town, Fourth of July picnics, you always have to have food, celebrations, so there's always recipes. But these particular books also include tips on gardening, and household tips on how to save money. Because remember, this is the Depression. So, how do you get by with a little amount of money and limited resources? Sounds like a lot of fun. Yep. Okay. Now, we're going to go to another mystery about the 30s, although this one was written in the 30s. So, she was writing contemporary mystery, but now, of course, it's historic. Dorothy Sayers, one of the greats of mysteries, the Golden Age of Mysteries, wrote a series, her detective is Lord Peter Wimsey. Very often, he is also involved with Harriet Vane, the lady he really would like to marry, but she has her reservations. So, five years into their relationship, Harriet goes to the Gaudi, essentially a college reunion. And there, she encounters, well, they call it a polsergeist. It's a small women's college in Oxford. It's part of Oxford University. And the female faculty members are getting kind of concerned because weird things are happening. They think that since Harriet is actually a mystery writer herself, she should be able to help them solve a mystery. Harriet tries, and things are escalating. Things are getting a little alarming. So, she calls on Lord Peter to come help her out. And, of course, they solve the mystery. And this one, I think, is rather unusual because there's actually no murder. It's just this polsergeist, and we discover who done it and why. And it deals very much with issues of women's education because in the 1930s, the idea of women with university educations, especially someplace like Oxford, a very high prestigious college, were still open to some debate. Some people didn't think women, you know, what did they need to have an education for if they were going to stay home and have babies? It also sort of deals with what the idea of a relationship, because remember, Lord Peter has been wooing Harriet Vane for five years now, and Harriet is just very skeptical of how a relationship can work and what a relationship would do. So, there's a rather serious discussion or treatment of the idea of what a romantic relationship means to a person, and that does have something to do with the mystery as well. So, there is some very serious discussion of issues underlying what is, in some ways, a rather light-hearted or has light-hearted moments. It's whimsical. It is whimsical. Yes, it is. I will tell you, a big spoiler here, it does end happily, okay? But this is one of my favorites. Dorothy Sayers is a classic. They've been around a long time, but she's still the quality of the writing, the characterizations, the mysteries are darn good mysteries. The clues are there, if you can find them. It's just really excellent work, really quality work. Goddy Knight is one of, I think it's like, and I did, I looked this up also on our website in our books and series database. It's one of 11 novels that Dorothy Sayers wrote about Lord Peter Wimsey. She also wrote some short stories, and the series has been continued by Jill Payton Walsh with, I think, somewhat uneven results. But I think this is one of the classic series that you still might want to consider having in your library because I don't think it's ever going to go completely out of style. All right, well, I grabbed up this book off a digital thinking I was grabbing a standalone. The boy in the suitcase title grabbed me from the minute I saw it and was introduced to Nina Borg. And it turns out she's not. It's standalone. It's actually the first of four books in a series. But Nina Borg is a Red Cross nurse in Denmark. This book is actually a translation. We originally published a few years back in Denmark. And it's in the thriller category. It's darker. It goes well as a standalone, but it also introduces you to this character who can't say no when asked to do a favor for a friend. She actually works at a refugee crisis center. And that's how she tends to make her connections, which lead to these very different and serious cases that oftentimes she forgets about picking up her child from daycare or contact call giving her husband a call. In fact, in this one, she loses her cell phone at some point. And so she just focuses on what she said, yes, she's going to find work things out till the end. And this different series have her dealing with serious issues, immigration, genocide, abuse. And then, of course, in this case, we have from the minute you open the book and she has unzipped a suitcase she's been asked to pick up at a transit center locker by a friend and she discovers this boy in the suitcase. Barely breathing. That's when you first see your first sigh of relief. Okay, so he's alive. I'm not giving away any ending here, but it leads her to say, well, now I've got to figure out who this boy is, why he's in the suitcase, and what I can do to bring him back to his mother. One of the things that a neat freeze and lean caribou do is they weave parallel stories. So you have Nina's story from the beginning, but then as you're introduced to characters, you start to see where they are and what they're doing to, in a way, solve the same mystery, the same... but in the process, or in some cases, try to conclude the crime that they've started because there was also supposed to be a suitcase with some money in it. So then you start to wonder why they're looking for money and they're also looking for Nina once they figure out she has the child. So you are kind of thrown into it and those sighs of relief come and then you gasp again because something else... this is not your cozy mystery. This is your darker thriller because even the main character can end up in a brawl. There's going to be violence and there's going to be some serious issues discussed amongst the characters or as Nina unfolds what's going on. There's three more. The fourth one is not yet available in the US. It comes out in March of 2016. So if you get hooked, you're going to have to wait until then to get to the conclusion of these characters. And it takes place in this particular two different countries, Denmark and Lithuania. And because of the refugee center, you're going to meet characters from all over the world and their situations are political in problems and all of that come into play. Okay. We thought that mysteries were interesting because they do first bring up the idea of what do you do with series in your library? So many mysteries. In fact, I think every mystery we've talked about here is part of a series and I think publishers like series because they tend to help sell themselves. But what do you do? Do you just keep collecting? I think the series we talked about today for the most part are fairly short. But what about, you know, Air Q Perot or some of those that are or have been helped us in J.D. Rob in Death series. What do you do when the series gets really long? Do you try to have part of the whole series? Do you just have the most recent ones? Sue Grafton. We're up to X from A. Yes, we are. We're up to West 24 then. Where's she going to do it? I don't know. Go retire. Go reek. But you know, this really is, I think some people would tell you to have series while they're going on. Yeah, as long as something new is being printed to continue. I would suggest that even that may end up being a little bit difficult. Well, and especially if you have, if book number three in the series was a paperback and it wears out and, you know, or it gets lost, do you replace it? Yeah. Or do you just say, well, you know, this series will end and we'll lose its appeal and so I'm not going to bother. I don't have the shelf space anyway. Whether the mystery, the series has a arc or not, a story arc. Yeah. If you can pick up anyone along the way and you're okay, then those missing volumes are not necessarily need to be replaced. But if there's that story arc that people want to know what happened between this book and that book, then you've got an issue. It seems to me that this is one of those places where some work with some of your neighbors might be in order. If you know, for instance, that someone is collecting a particular series, maybe you could collect a different one and you can all share. If the back volumes are considerably older, you know, maybe not everyone needs to have them. So I think that's one of the things that you can talk about doing. It would be lovely if we could talk about, well, we don't have to have them on the shelf because we can have them electronically. But so far, the publishers... Well, the publishers don't always provide every single title in a series to a library for an e-book or an audiobook. And sometimes, depending on the publisher, the library can only have them for a certain number of checkouts or for a certain period of time. So once those checkouts are used up or the time has expired, then the library is faced with the issue of, do we pay again for that same title or do we spend our money on other newer books? These are issues. They really are. And really, there isn't any one-size-fits-all, I don't think. I think it also does mean that you kind of have to know what you're talking about. You have to know what the series is and there are places to find out. You know, if you're not familiar with a particular series, you can find out. And you have to keep track of how popular they are in your library. You really kind of have to know how many times they're being checked out. So series do bring up problems, but they're very popular and haven't helped you if you don't have X, since we're all dying to find out what Kinsey Milhohn is going to do next. There's also, I think, a problem when we have some of our favorite authors go to that great beyond. These are some who mostly are recent. Edgar Allen Poe, of course, has been gone for quite a while. Although I would say you have to have his books because they really are classic. I don't know. And there are... All of those English teachers keep assigning that. Yeah, if they do. Yeah, available somewhere. Some of these series are done because the writers no longer with us. Elizabeth Peters, who wrote the Amelia Peabody. A series. Ellis Peters, who wrote Brother Catbough. They're wonderful series. They really are wonderful books, and I would think a lot of people would enjoy them. In those cases, they were set historically to begin with, so they aren't going to date. But they're done. And maybe you have to read those so you have room for some new things. Now, Robert B. Parker brings up another issue. Right. Robert B. Parker, Dick Francis' son, has picked up his books. Robert B. Parker has... There are a couple different authors who have picked up and continued his series. Same with Vince Flynn. Someone else is finishing off his last book. Ariana Franklin, her daughter, finished off her last book. I don't know if anybody's going to dare pick up P.D. James. She's come back from the grave and get you for it, I think. Someone just said that Vince Flynn is being carried on by Brad Thor. Oh, yeah. So, there's that. Do you stop carrying a series when the author goes? Do you keep it because they're going to continue? Evidently, they feel continuing the series still makes money. Right. And, really, I would tell anybody to keep Brother Cadfile. But that's my personal opinion because I really enjoy Brother Cadfile by Ellis Peters. Could I justify keeping that if it meant that I couldn't have a lot of new things on the shelf? I don't know. It's tough. These are tough and you have to kind of make decisions. Right. Again, maybe you want to have work with some of your neighbors and some of you can have some older mysteries. Others of you have other older mysteries. I don't know. The one thing to consider there, though, is that if you don't have them on the shelf, you can only borrow them from the library if people can't discover them. Yeah, it's a tough one. And, probably, again, your user's taste has a lot to do with what you keep. But these are issues and they're things that libraries have to grapple with. I actually answered someone type in a question that when you're limited on space, do you delete half of the collection that is not popular or do you keep it? I think it's going to depend on your situation. It is. And you're going to have to pay attention to what, well, if it is popular, obviously keep it. And maybe pay attention to circulation records or these not going out. Do you get rid of them or do you try to promote them more because you think they should be going out? I mean, you're going to have to. It's not something specific to mysteries, really, but... Yeah, collection. But mysteries, certainly, I think... They have their own issues with the series and whatnot. Yeah. It also... Do you keep part of a series or do you make sure you have the whole thing? I can't help myself. That need for completion. I like to have whole series. But maybe you do have just some of the volumes that gives people a way to discover the series, but it doesn't take up quite as much space on your shelf and you can get the other... Interlibrary loan does mean that we have a way to enlarge our collections when we need to. You just have to make sure someone else is actually keeping it and not weeding it, too. So, again, cooperation. And does classic mean we have to keep it? I would say Dorothy Sayers was classic and you probably ought to have her. But then I really like her. Maybe somebody who didn't like her wouldn't think it mattered. Well, and you know, I like almost every single Dorothy Sayers book, except Goddy Night. Yeah. So, you know, everyone has their own... Well, yes, they do. And you can't just keep what you like. No, you can't. You have to watch your personal opinion. But it also, you can't just keep... You want to serve those people who come in the library every week, but you also want to serve the people who maybe only come in occasionally or maybe would come in if they knew you had some of this stuff. So, again, do you have all of Agatha Christie? I don't know. That's a lot of books. That is a lot of books. And I think some mystery writers or readers are very much... They're just happy with the mystery. You know, because 33%, as you mentioned earlier, a third of the people who respond in mysteries, they'll eat up almost anything that has that sticker on it that says it's a mystery. Mystery certainly creates a plot and it creates suspense. So there really are issues with this stuff. Okay, so how do you find out about new authors and detectives? We're talking about some of the issues about keeping old ones, but there are new ones all the time. So how do you find out about them? Well, one way, of course, is the awards. There are mystery awards. The Edgar Awards from the Mystery Writers of America. The Crime Writers Association is British, but, of course, nobody does a mystery quite like the British. The Agatha Awards are for cosies, but... Flavius won the dagger. Yes, Flavius won the dagger. Sometimes the old... I think you want to watch these. I don't think you have to follow them slavishly. I think you also have to think about what people in your library like. Right. Because some of these get a little literary sometimes, I think. Yeah, just my personal opinion. They're just mysteries you don't like. Well, okay. But it is one of the things that you can watch, one of the clues for you. And we have a new tool. So take it away, Debra, who's going to talk a little bit about this wonderful tool. Okay. And before we get into new ones, first I'm going to just talk about Novelist in general for a minute here. And y'all know that you can get to Novelist through the Nebraska Access website. And I'm just going to click on Novelist here. And it'll take one minute to come up, or hopefully not a full minute. Okay. What I'm going to search for first is an author. And I'm going to use Laura's example of Craig Johnson. And you'll notice it starts auto-filling. And I'm going to go ahead and click on that. That just means that I am actually going to get his author record right off the bat. The author record usually talks a little bit. Sometimes it gives more detail about their writing history, but it always does give some idea of what genre they're writing in, the writing style, the book appeal, and things like that. There is also, to the right, I'm going to just point out here too, read-alikes. When you're in an author record, you will get a list of other authors that write in a similar manner. And then in the center part, you do get a listing of the books that this author has written with the most current title at the top. It will also list, books are always first. It will also give you a listing of audio books that are available. You could go to series. If he had written more than one series, there would be information there, more information about this author, which in this case just mostly repeats. Sometimes there's more information. And then there are other... This site offers a lot of different lists for different types of books that you might want to put together. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to go back to books here for just a second, and I am going to click on... You could click on the title and get more information about that specific title, but what I'm going to do right now is click on the series link, which will take me to a series record, a description of the series overall with its appeals, genre, et cetera. And then in this case, it lists the titles in the order that they were published. So the first book in the series is listed first. So all of the series titles are here. Again, you can find audio books, more about this series. This is where I would like to point out that there is a note here that says this series has been adapted to a television show. So you get other information like that, too, things that go beyond just the books. Okay? Another example will take the boy in the suitcase. And of course, if you do have to put in the proper spacing. Yes. Okay, you'll notice when you go to a title record to the right, your read-a-likes are now titles as opposed to authors. You get read-a-likes for whatever type of record that you are in. Okay? With the title record, it does give you a bit of a description about the book. Some appeals, storyline, pace, tone, et cetera. And then the first link, first tab, if these are available, are reviews. And the reviews that are included in Novelist most generally are from Booklist, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, and Kirkus if they're available. So those are there. Things that we are as librarians read. For under audio books... Whoops. What happened here? I didn't click it. Oh yeah, here we go. Okay, for audio books, it does tell us that there is an audio book version available and it gives us the narrator and the duration of the audio book. And then if I went to more about this book, it would tell me, because I'm on a book record, it will tell me how many pages, the publisher, et cetera. And also in the notes, it tells me that this was translated from Danish and it gives the Danish title. So just a bit of... a bit more information. At the bottom of each screen, you know, I've been mentioning appeals for each of these items. And they do show up at the bottom of each screen in the format of offering you a way to search for those particular appeals. So if I had read this book and what I liked most about it was that it was a Scandinavian crime fiction book and that it was suspenseful, I can pick those two and say search and it will search for other books that have those same headings applied to them. At least then we get a totally different listing from what was suggested as read-alikes. And you'll notice the most current one right here is The Girl in the Spider's Web which is really hit hit the best seller list and is going great guns. So those are some of the ways that you can help a reader find more new authors and more books. If you know what books that they've been reading and what they like you can go in here and find read-alikes or other books with the same appeals. That's very helpful as a reader's advisor to the talking books because I use this all the time. We'll see if this is working this morning working now. We had a slight hiccup. It's working great. Under Browse by you can go in and find. We're going to scroll down to Mystery. These are some of the different genres but we're going to say Explore Mysteries and you'll notice the first grouping under Mysteries is Fourth Coming Mysteries and you can do a View All and you'll get a listing of titles that are going to be coming out over the next couple three months. So that's another way to figure out what's coming. Yeah. I thought it was interesting that they broke down Mysteries into several different kinds of categories. Yes. We've been talking Cosies or Dark or you know Mysteries actually this is one little thing that we're going to go back to Explore Mysteries Mysteries are all there are all kinds of categories. We talked about Police Procedural we've got a Sheriff we've got a Police Chief we've got Amateur Detectives we've got Historical There she is and there she is again under Cosies you have the Noir and Hard Boiled Mysteries they're just so many different kinds there are it seems like one writer starts writing about some little thing like it's a bookstore owner well then you get a whole bunch of series that are about bookstore owners or you've got somebody who's doing quilting, has a quilting shop so then you get a whole bunch of other series that are craft related in some way. They're knitting mysteries so those things are out there too that you can divide things by just one way to find new titles and we'll put back to the PowerPoint well I thought this was fascinating too because you saw that they also would deal with ages so there were children's books in here those adult books I novelist is one of those things that I could spend a lot of time with but it's very useful really it's fun okay so let's go on if you need your Nebraska Access password to get into novelist and we know that Nebraska Access passwords change twice a year and Alana will send it to you and if you forget it if you ask Alana she'll send it to you again but you can get into Nebraska Access and of course not only can the librarians use this tool but their library users can as well so this is pretty cool I was very excited there are some other things as well that you can look at Booklist does offer webinars and here's two about mysteries that are in their archive you can go to the archive of webinars and look at the Booklist webinars and you do get CE credit for them of course there's the stop you're killing me newsletter this is actually a website but you can sign up for a newsletter so it comes in your email it's twice a month and you don't even have to go look for it it just shows up for you and they will list new mysteries they will list award-winning links to the awards yes they I think they do a really good job actually they really keep up with a lot of series and a lot of popular series that are not real literary which is what people actually like to read so I think the stop you're killing me newsletter is a great thing to look at just to stay kind of aware of what's going on in the whole genre there are some books and we have them here and you can borrow them if you're a Nebraska librarian so there are readers guide kind of books on mysteries this is one of them we have more than one and the adult reading round table a group of people who are very very serious about their readers advisory do studies of different genres right now they're in the middle of a two-year study on mysteries and there is some material on their website so this is a it's a source of information to consider so there's lots of places you can find out about mysteries are a great big part of most libraries fiction collections we've only dealt with adult mysteries today but really there are mysteries for all age levels I've been reading mysteries since Nancy Dritt yeah and they bring people a lot of pleasure and we all have you know this house gives you some ideas and maybe some new titles to investigate you can contact us anytime if you like and do we have any final words? did anybody have any questions? a couple comments and things that came in during the show did anybody have any last minute questions? and you know you don't have to read every title in a series yourself but it does help if you read at least one title from an author from across the different types of mysteries just so that you have an idea of what the different types of appeals are yes I think you're right there sometimes we read things that and you know it's surprising what you will find that you do like that you didn't know you would like so you do need to go out and sample I love sorry your advisory person oh Nancy Perl I like Nancy Perl I'm sorry I love Nancy Perl's rubric which is if you're under 80 you take your age and you subtract it from 100 and you have to read that many pages of a book before you decide you're not going to read the whole book if you're over 80 you can just put it down anytime there's a lot of time to mess with that kind of thing in other words it is okay to sample books sometimes even if you don't want to read the whole book if you just read a chapter it gives you a flavor so there's nothing wrong with that and sometimes publishers don't promote books as mysteries they promote them as suspense or thriller but there's a crime there so most people will read them as mysteries well I think that brings up a whole other issue that we haven't really dealt with which is do you keep them separate or do you inner file them there are people who write mysteries but they also write other kinds of books so if you keep the mystery separate you're going to separate an author's works um it's tricky but anyway thanks thank you to everybody doesn't look like anybody had any urgent desperate questions they needed to ask you but you guys do you know where to find them all um if you do have any questions just take it and have it live so if you do have any questions contact just contact Laura or Debra Cecilia whoever and they can answer your questions I did I think capture all the different websites links you mentioned I'll go back and double check for the presentation just to make sure so after recording guys y'all have access to all of those they'll be along with the recording for the show and the slides themselves too you'll have all of that available to you afterwards thank you guys very much for attending for doing this course that was great um lots more books that I now need to read of course if we do one of these I got to write that one down I got the new play for you oh alright so then we'll wrap it up for the day show it was recorded as I said here in our archived Encompass Live Sessions links which is on our website where we post all of our shows afterwards um let's see last week yeah the recording, the presentation and this one, this one happened to have an extra handout and the links so this one will all be on there for you probably available later today you'll get an email I'll let you know when I've got it done um that will wrap it up for today's show hope you join us next week we'll start talking about books again um Nebraska's One Book One Nebraska where we read everyone in the state reads the same book each year this year it's Death Zones and Darling Spies Seven Years of Vietnam War Reporting that Beverly Deepkeever I think I pronounce it deep and so next we have people joining us from the Nebraska Center for the Book to talk about the this year's program and the book that we're everyone is reading um and then also sign up for any of our other shows we have on here um we've got our new topics always coming up on here so keep an eye on it also Encompass Live is on Facebook so if you're a big Facebook user do go ahead and like us over there you'll get reminders as you see here I told you to be reminder this morning don't forget to log in when the recording is available I post it on here when any new things are coming up I post on here as well so definitely like us over there on Facebook if you are a big Facebook user other than that that wraps up for this morning thank you very much for attending and we'll see you next time on Encompass Live Bye Bye There we go