 All right. Good morning and welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. I am your host, Krista Porter, here at the Nebraska Library Commission. Encompass Live is the commission's weekly webinar series where we cover a variety of topics 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 join us on Wednesdays, that's fine. We do record the show every week as we are doing this morning, this afternoon. I say this good morning. I'm sorry. Good afternoon. We're at a different time today, so things are a little... I'm all confused. Anyway, the show is recorded and I'll show you the end of today's show where you can access all of our archives. Both the live show and the recordings are free and open to anyone to watch, so please do share with your friends, family, neighbors, colleagues, anyone you think that might be interested at any of the shows we have on here. For anyone who's not from Nebraska, the Nebraska Library Commission is the state agency for libraries in Nebraska, similar to the state library in other states. So we provide services to all types of libraries. So you will find things on our show for all types of libraries, public, academic, K-12 schools, universities, corrections, museums, archives, anything and everything. Our really our only criteria on the show is that it's something for libraries, something libraries are doing, something we think they could be doing, interesting resources and services and products for libraries. We have guest speakers that come in on the show from all across the country sometimes. We have library commission staff that come on the show sometimes and today we have a mixture of that and today we are talking about our 2021 One Book One Nebraska Selection Prairie Forge, the extraordinary story of the Nebraska scrap metal drive of World War II. Oh and metal is a typo there, that's okay. And so this actually be a session that might be good for anybody to watch, not just libraries to find out about the book that we're hoping a lot of everybody in Nebraska might read. So I will hand it over to I'm not sure whoever's going to be talking first. I can start first. And you guys can introduce yourselves as you do talk I didn't mention that I didn't introduce everybody but I figure as you guys come up with your parts and whatnot you can introduce yourselves. Yeah, I'm Tessa Terry, I'm the communications coordinator at the Nebraska Library Commission. So we work with the Nebraska Center for the Book, Humanities Nebraska as well as the author themselves just to get this program working every year. So do you guys want to introduce yourselves first and then we can kind of move on. Christine you want to start? Sure I'm Christine Walsh and I work at the Carney Public Library but I'm president of the Center for the Book Board and so we have a great board that helps put together these kinds of programs work with the committees that select the one book one Nebraska and lots of other programs that support readers and interesting conversations across the state. Becky? I'm Becky Faber. I am a member of the board for the Center for the Book and I was the committee chair selection committee chair for the one book one Nebraska project. Rod? I'm Rod Wagner. I'm director of the Nebraska Library Commission and an ex-officio Center for the Book Board member and I'm on Becky's committee. Erica? I am Erica Hamilton. I'm the director of literary programs for Humanities Nebraska and I'm also an ex-officio board member of the Nebraska Center for the Book. And of course James. Hey everybody I'm Jim Kimball. I teach at Seaton Hall University where I'm a professor of communication and the arts. I'll ask them not on any of these boards but this sounds like it's a great lineup. So Christy do you want to go to our next slide? Becky or not Becky. Christy do you want to talk a little bit about the Center for the Book and what it does? Sure I would be happy to. The Center for the Book is an affiliate of the Library of Congress National Center for the Book and so there are centers for the book in each state and several territories as well. And the goal is to kind of be to face the Library of Congress outside of Washington D.C. but also to support local or regional literary programs that support literacy, encouraging to learn more about the wonderful authors that each state or each state has. And to work in Congress with you know humanities organizations, authors, local book groups, all of those sorts of things. So the Center for the Book is promoting authors, writers, publishers, all of those in our particular states. And it is a volunteer board of people from across the state of Nebraska that make up the committees that select the one book, one Nebraska and other programs, the Celebration Nebraska books and things like that. And of course always working with the wonderful people at the Library Commission and Humanities Nebraska because it's a team effort. So I think that's what I've got. Thanks. Becky would you tell us a little bit about the selection process and how we pick books each year? Absolutely. The books are nominated by the general public. And so our deadline for that is June 15th. And that may seem like quite a ways away. But I would encourage people to check the One Book, One Nebraska website. And they'll find a link, I believe I'm right, for nominating a book as well as the list of books that have previously been chosen as a One Book, One Nebraska. The website will also lay out the criteria that the book must be written by a Nebraska and that could be someone currently living in Nebraska or who has previously lived in Nebraska. The book could have a Nebraska theme or setting. So those are the first two criteria and then two other important criteria. The book must be in print and readily available. And also the book should lend itself to group discussions. So once June 15 has passed, the committee looks at the nominations to make sure that the nominated books fit criteria. And then they begin to review the books. For 2021, we had a committee of six readers who reviewed the nominations. And we were able to move forward on 16 books that fulfilled criteria. And each book is given at least two readings. So we're very much reading thoroughly. We're giving feedback. Every book goes, as I said, to at least a second reader, sometimes a third reader. So we're looking very seriously at these books to make sure that they are applicable and also will engage readers in a strong discussion. So it's a very thorough process. And I would say it's also for those of us who love to read, it's a very fun process. And we always end up with a selection that is exciting to present to the public. Thank you. And later on, we will have a slide that shows everyone what where the nomination form is and what that looks like just for you guys' knowledge. Also, you can nominate all year round, even if the deadline has passed, you can nominate the very next day for the next year's book. So we never close the nomination period. It's always available for anyone to log on and nominate. Krista, can you go to the next slide for me? And so here are all of the titles. Rod, will you speak a little bit just about the history of our One Book One Nebraska program? Sure. The program actually began back in 2005, during the Willa Kathy Foundation's 50th anniversary year. The foundation had planned a number of activities and events and events during the year to celebrate that anniversary. And one of the activities was the statewide reading promotion that they initiated. In January of that year, January 2005, Governor Mike Johans encouraged Nebraskans to read Willa Catherine's My Antonyum. The foundation sought other organizations to help promote and assist in encouraging Nebraskans to read the book and to join in celebrating the foundation's many activities and events and accomplishments during their first 50 years. So we were very pleased to be involved in that, along with the Nebraska Library Association, Nebraska Humanities Council, or as we know today, Humanities Nebraska, Regional Library Systems, Nebraska Libraries. These organizations all contributed and it was a very successful program. It was so much so that people started asking, well, what are we going to do next year? What book are we going to read and promote? So there was much encouragement to continue the program and we did that. It evolved over the years and now we have a fairly well thought out and a good process for arriving at a selection each year. So it's been a fun program to work with. So but anyway, credit the Willa Catherine Foundation for actually being the group organization that got us started back in 2005. Krista, can you go to the next slide for me please? So that brings us to this year's selection, Prairie Forge. And once again, I must have copied this title from the first slide because there's a typo. Just like everything I write, apparently. James, we don't always get the author to be involved every year. Sometimes we pick books where the authors passed away or just isn't available to be a part of the program. So we are really excited to have you here. Do you want to talk to us a little bit about just your book in general? Sure. And first of all, I kind of like this title better. The meta drive sounds very philosophical. So Rod was mentioning Willa Catherine and how important she is to this program a little bit ago. And I'm not really fit to carry Willa Catherine's anything. But I think that this story, I'm glad that it's in that array of books that we saw a slide or two ago because this story really isn't my story. It's the story of World War Two Nebraskans. And what they did was just tremendous. So the book that this story that is so central to the state's identity at a formative time in American history can be part of this program and that the word about what these scrappers did during World War Two can spread further across the state of Nebraska, my home state. It's an incredible honor. So I'm glad to be here to support it. And I would just like all those viewing to know they can type in questions at any time. Crystal is keeping an eye out for those. So if you guys want to ask a question of Jane or any of us, please do so and we'll get to those as they come in kind of sporadically. Yeah. So about the One Book One Nebraska program, do you want to go to the next slide for me, Krista? We have a lot of ways that you guys can be involved in this program. We have book club kits that you can check out from the Nebraska Library Commission or your regional library systems as well. If you want to have a book group, read this book and talk about it. We have an events page. We would love for you to send us information about the events you're having around the One Book One Nebraska title. So we would love to get those posted to help you market those to your community and those around you. And then that kind of leads me into our Humanities Nebraska connection with Erica. Do you want to tell us a little bit about how Humanities Nebraska and your speaker's bureau really plays a part in the One Book One Nebraska? Yes. So Humanities Nebraska, we provide the funding for those book kits that Tessa was talking about. So we support One Book One Nebraska that way, but we also use our speaker's bureau. Do we have that available so we can show them how to find our speaker's bureau on our website? I believe it. Maybe it's on the next slide, Krista. Go one more. Because James has very generously offered to be in our speaker's bureau, which means that any library, any school, any public organization who would like to have James come and give a virtual online presentation about the book, can't do that by contacting him, getting it scheduled, and then going on to our website. Here you can see our new website. It was newly designed. We just went live at the beginning of the year. So this is our new design. You go to speaker's bureau. The best way to find James, I would say you can do it either by going to catalog or speakers. Let's click on catalog and scroll down a little bit. And then where that little pull-down menu is for speaker, you can find him in there. Click on him. And there's his program, Prairie Forge, The Extraordinary Story of the Scrap Metal Drive or the Scrap Meta Drive, whichever one he wants to talk about. But there's an explanation, a description of his program. Add his contact. If you go into speaker info, you'll have his contact information, so you can contact him and schedule the program. And then once you get that done, you'll want to go, actually, if you click on how to book a speaker, you just read that information. These programs are meant to be for public, for the general public. We typically do not do ones that are private only, even though, I mean, we have in the past, but mostly these are for general public presentations. And so just read through that information. If you scroll down, there's a step one that's talking about selecting the speaker, contacting the speaker, and then arranging for funding. And if you click on that online application, a lot of you have probably applied already for a speaker's bureau, so you know how this process works. You go in here, you log in, and then you simply just apply for funding. And it's a $50 application fee, but we pay James for his stipend, which is more than $50. And so in that way, we help provide funding for any organization in Nebraska to have a virtual One Book One Nebraska program with James. Thanks, Erica. We love having the speakers bureau as a program that goes along with One Book One Nebraska because it makes it so easy for the libraries in Nebraska to just have access to so many presenters that go along with the books that they're reading to let them dive in deeper and learn more. So we really encourage if you're doing anything with the One Book Program, book a speaker and get them on the book so that you guys can just expand that learning and that conversation that goes around the title. We do have on our One Book One Nebraska webpage, we have a list of other World War II speakers that might fit in as well. So if James is busy on the one day, you want him to speak, there might be some other options as well. And there are just so many topics around World War II that you could dive into and maybe keep exploring. So we just encourage you to use the speakers bureau as much as you can as a library and a book group. With that in mind, James, do you want to tell us a little about your story about the book? And then if you wanted to read any parts of it, we could do that and then take some questions. We can do that. So as the title gives it all away, I suppose this is really a story about what Nebraskans did during World War II. I thought it was pretty extraordinary when I came across it for a number of reasons. One is that I'd never heard of it. So I'm a World War II historian. My focus is on domestic propaganda during World War II. And I was doing research a number of years ago at the advertising archives at Duke University. And I came across in this archive, a folder that was labeled scrap metal drives. And inside was this booklet that had been created by the Omaha World Herald in 1942. Of course, I knew the World Herald. I had been growing up reading it every weekend, reading about the Cornhusker football team and so on when I was growing up in Norfolk. So it really piqued my interest. And it talked about this drive that as a historian of World War II, it was astonishing. I had never heard of this. So it was Henry Dorley talking about what Nebraska had accomplished in the summer of 1942. How prior to that, Americans had been encouraged by the government, by the Roosevelt administration, to collect metal as widely as possible because it was necessary to keep the steel factories going, how those appeals were falling on deaf ears, I suppose, and how Dorley figured out a way to make it happen within Nebraska. He made it into a competition. The competition was at numerous levels, but the primary fronts was county versus county. So I grew up in Madison County. So I was very interested from the start. How did Madison County do? They ended up in sixth place in the competition. And it occurred to me that this is the kind of story that Nebraskans would be interested in because I assumed most of them had not heard about the scrap metal drive. And the inherent competitiveness of Nebraskans would have this kind of story appeal to them as well. So it's the story about Henry Dorley had this great idea for getting Nebraskans involved in the war, how against all odds they succeeded and set an example for the rest of the country. And then in the fall of 1942, how the rest of the country adopted what they called the Nebraska plan and had a state versus state competition, which was eventually, unfortunately, won by Kansas. So that in a nutshell is what it's all about. Does anybody have any questions for James? Or do you prefer Jim? Either works fine. Most people just call me Jim or even Jimble, but... Yeah, if anybody has any questions, yeah, type into the questions section of your GoToWebinar interface. I can pass them on. One of the while they're asking questions, one of the features that I really enjoy when I'm giving presentations in Nebraska. So I know Becky is here, who is the director of the Seward Library. So I've been presentations there in Norfolk in Omaha, is that Nebraskans do ask a lot of good questions after presentations. So I'm here to be a part of these presentations. Yeah, I wonder if Becky would want to talk about what they've done there. Becky Baker from our Seward Public Library is on with us. Becky, would you want to talk a little bit about what you've... Sure. Got it, your library. I'm unmuted, you're surprised. Yeah, good thing I'm here. Well, I think the first program we had, Jim, was the Rosie the Riveter one. Is that right, do you remember? That sounds right, yeah. And we've had him back many times. He's a wonderful presenter. I can't say enough good things about him. You will never be sorry, because really who likes history, but Jim makes it very interesting. He comes up with stories we don't know about and think how did we go to school all those years and never hear this story. It really makes history come alive. And when it's about Nebraska, it's even more important that we know, I think, what life was like then. And we can appreciate what all they did. I don't know what else you want me to say, Jim. Anything come to mind? You know, one of the really nice elements of the way you set it up there in Seward was the local bookstore always got involved. And that seemed to get an additional level of enthusiasm and excitement on the part of everybody. Right. And Carla was very happy to be involved. Gotta unmute myself. We do have a suggested question here for Jim. What do you think will surprise readers most about the book? My first impression... All that apparently none of us knew. My first impression is that I think almost all Nebraskans have heard the name Henry Dorley, but very few people know who this person was. They think of it as a zoo in Omaha. Of course, it is a zoo. But the fact that it was a real person who had a history and not only just being a person having a history, but played a pivotal role in American history, I think will be enlightening for people. I kind of assumed you as some sort of big philanthropist or something with the zoo. I've been to this Henry Dorley zoo in Omaha many times and never actually really bothered to research about him. Let me offer another response to that question since I'm thinking about it. Something else that I think is a useful sort of conversation to have during a pandemic in particular is that this story talks a lot about how the different parts of Nebraska, the rural and the urban and different ethnicities and groups, all these rivalries that existed back in the 1940s in many respects are still with us today. How I don't want to say that they overcame differences, but rather that they found ways to collaborate and to work together. How in a sense that this drive was a unification drive, bringing people together and working on a team. And in a time of a pandemic, that's really a message that I think we all ought to be of interest. And we'll surprise people about Nebraska history. Okay. Yeah, definitely. We do have a comment from one of our libraries here. Let's see, it's a long one here. I was just reading it to make sure whatever he said here said. And this is, all right. I've been researching this topic in our old newspapers. I found an article from the local air base. This is Brown County. It started out, residents of Brown County, and this is the quote, the title of the article from the Air Force Base. So I want to preface that before I say this, because it says get in the scrap and help kill the Jap. She says I was kind of surprised by the language, but no, for the time, I think that's makes sense. Yeah. Caught me off guard, even found some ads for farm men and women to turn in their scrap. So there might be actually things in other than local papers that people have, don't realize if you're looking for that. Yeah. Now that this book is out and people are hopefully more reading it this year, they might find some more. Is this stuff that you had found in your doing your research as well, Jim? Absolutely. I spent a lot of time in the state historical library looking at microfilm. Of course, newspapers.com, which has lots of old microfilm newspapers as well. But yeah, this is a state story. It's a national story, but as the comment implied, it's also a local story. So I really hope that anyone who reads it will spend some time going to look at their own local repositories and finding what local history is there about this drive. And maybe even if possible, reaching out to folks at retirement homes, because many of the scrappers are still with us, and they have stories and memories of that time that are just precious. It's really interesting, I think, and also important to memorialize those stories. Yeah. And this is Gail Irwin, who's a director at our Ainsworth Public Library. Had found this particular article in Brown County. Yeah. Excellent. Very interesting. Becky from Seward wants you to talk about the video too. Okay. So actually the first, this project took place in multiple phases. It began as a journal article in Great Plains Quarterly, which is published by the University of Nebraska Press. And so there's that Nebraska connection. And in the course of writing that reasonably short article, I had come across a number of visuals that I thought were pretty striking, including the image that's on the front of the book here with the two women very self-consciously and yet confidently standing atop this pile of metal, this load of metal, and being proud at their role. And we have to think, what would that have communicated back in 1942? We see it as an image of empowerment, and I think it was, but it would have been very striking for people of that time. But in any case, I had happened to have just started at Seaton Hall about that time. And so I had my article manuscript, and it so happens that my next door neighbor was a movie maker, Tom Rondinello. And I don't know what possessed me, but one day I just walked into his office and I said, Tom, I think this story, holding up a copy of my manuscript, would be a great documentary. And he said, huh, I'll read it. And then he came back to me a week later. He said, I read it. Let's make it. And I hadn't thought that I would be involved. I just thought it was a great story that he could do something with, but he wanted to involve me. And so I ended up making this documentary called Scrappers, How the Heartland Won World War II. And it offers a visual take on this story with lots of newsreel from back in the day, as well as lots of interviews with surviving scrappers. That's cool. Is that something that we have available through here somewhere through a website, Tessa, or how do we get to watch that documentary? I guess it's my question. We do not have that documentary that I know of. James, how would we come up to find that? I know the Omaha Public Library has a couple of copies, and Norfolk Public Library does. And maybe there's a way for the Library Commissioner of the Humanities folks to have a copy. And I can arrange to make that happen. That can be loaned out to libraries that are interested. Because I can just send one to that can be loaned out. That's fine. Yeah, definitely. It's available on like a DVD or something. We can definitely have it as part of the program. Yeah. Yeah, it's a DVD. So let me know when I can mail that to Lincoln and it can have its own adventure. That documentary was funded by Humanities Nebraska. So the more people who see it, the better, the happier we will be. Well put. Awesome. Would that be something, Erica, that people could contact you guys to get a hold of? Or is it mainly, you know, we would buy it for the library? We don't have it. You know, distribute it. Okay, not a problem. I want to make sure I don't point people. I don't want people going to the wrong places looking for this. So we don't even have a copy in our office. So. Okay. We would point it up to you. Yeah, we will figure that out and make it available. Not a problem. So here, here, I'll be, I'll be mailing this to you. So yeah, we'll see what it looks like. That's the fist holding up metal next to a barn. Appropriate. Let's see if we have a question. Can you talk about what motivated Henry Dorley to initiate the project in the first place in Omaha? Sure. So Dorley had a public sensibility. He had a history of seeing a cause that needed to be done somewhere in the state and putting the resources of the world herald behind that cause. So he was very campaign oriented. It makes sense that he was the kind of person who would be interested in a drive like this. But more topically in the spring and summer of 1942, there were all these national appeals with the war production board trying to convince Americans to gather scrap and they were just failing miserably. And it wasn't just metal scrap. It was also rubber scrap. And how this all began was in late in June, later in June 1942, the world herald produced a number of stories lamenting the fate of the most recent rubber drive, this national appeal, which had failed miserably. And he was taking his wife Margaret Hitchcock Dorley down to the station. She was going on a train ride somewhere. And the whole drive down, he was complaining about how Americans weren't doing anything and this rubber drive just failed and we're going to lose this war. And at some point, he paused and his wife looked at him and said, Henry, what are you going to do about it? So in other words, stop grousing and try to solve the problem. So he dropped her off and he was at house in the house by himself and he stayed up late and he brainstormed this idea. Well, maybe we can get the scrap metal drive into gear here in the state. We'll show how amazingly well it can be done. And then the Roosevelt administration will use our pattern as a national model. And that's precisely what happened. That's awesome. Yes. And actually, someone's from the audience had just actually commented because she's read the book that she liked. This is before you even said it. I liked how Mr. Dorley's wife challenged him to do something about the scrap drive. Yes, except for, but for Mrs. Dorley, as they would have called her at the time. That issue comes up on the book as well. The scrap drive probably wouldn't have happened. Put him in his place, I suppose. And he felt challenged and he rose to that challenge. It's very successfully, yes. Do you want to, is there any passages or somewhere, something that you'd like to read from the book that may be of interest? I can read a little bit here. So I knew ahead of time that this might be a possibility. So I got to choose different passages and so on. And I thought I might share about two paragraphs. This is from the introduction and it's kind of summarizing the successes of the program, but also how it overcame challenges. So this is from page nine. So the Nebraska plan fostered remarkable successes. This is not to say that the effort had no imperfections. The World Herald's team, for example, would probably admit that it could have used much more time to plan and organize the summer campaign. After the drive started, some of the state's citizens proved reluctant to take part, at least until their friends or neighbors prodded them into participation. There were even times when Dorley's ambitious plan appeared to have faltered. Such shortcomings were probably inevitable. Nebraskans were already leading busy lives when the scrap campaign came along. Working, harvesting, bailing, housekeeping, and the other tasks of daily life could become overwhelming amid the labor shortages of war time. Moreover, many citizens in the western portion of the state were already donating significant time and resources to the famous North Platte canteen. To expect that these citizens would forget everything else in their day to engage in the hard labor of gathering scrap metal would have been quite a bit to ask. The fact that the campaign somehow found a way to succeed in spite of its shortcomings makes its dramatic story all the more remarkable and suggests that it deserves a more central place in our cultural memories of World War II. Indeed, for those who experienced it, the 1942 quest for scrap metal, what one observer called the greatest treasure hunt in history, arguably had all the drama of the Battle of the Bulge and all the historical necessity of the battle for Iwo Jima. Like those battles, the search for scrap metal was dirty, sweaty, and even dangerous. Unlike those battles, however, the story of the scrapers has received little post-war attention. Perhaps these patriotic citizens would have wanted it that way as their work was not directed at personal glory but at community competition and patriotism. Nonetheless, some 70 years after their labors, it is high time that later generations acknowledge and appreciate their accomplishments. So that kind of gives an overview of the attitude the book takes. It's an admiring perspective of what they did. If I may make a comment here, one of the comments that Jim just read had to do with the North Platte canteen. And if we have people on the webinar today who have not read the 2014 One Book, One Nebraska, Once Upon a Town by Bob Green, it's another very parallel example of how people in Nebraska worked very hard and made a solid commitment to those who were serving in World War II. And at the beginning of Prairie Forge, Jim sets the context for the need for scrap metal coming immediately after the attack on Pearl Harbor in December of 1941, which again, the book is just a wonderful segue of what follows from our 2021 Book, One Nebraska, All the Gallant Men. And for people who have already read them, we've had some just incredible response to the 2015 Death Zones and Darling Spies, which was written by a reporter who was embedded in Vietnam for seven years, as well as, I'm scrolling to find the year here, but 2016, the meaning of names, which also takes place during World War I and the 1918 pandemic. And I so appreciate that Jim is a Nebraska, because it adds such depth and credibility to what he's exploring. And this book just works so beautifully with many of the other books that deal with the commitment of Nebraskans to taking care of their own and others. What you said there really resonates with me because all those different contexts that those stories are taking place in are what my colleague here at Seaton Hall, Brian Price, calls a crucible moments, those moments of stress and crisis that tell you a lot about yourself. And in these times of crisis that you mentioned, we learn a lot about Nebraskans and their true character, all to the good. I also think that it encourages storytelling, both in the oral format and the written format. And I think that many people probably have inherited scrapbooks and journals and other things from previous generations and have said, oh gosh, what am I ever going to do with that? But sitting down and going through these materials is another amazing way to understand community and a sense of history. And I'm sitting right now with this scrapbook that my grandmother made during World War II. She lived in a small rural town in Iowa. And I always knew one of my uncles had been a POW in Germany, but I didn't know very much about it until I opened her scrapbook. And she has cut out all kinds of articles from the local newspaper. And it's just incredible to me historically and in a familial sense. And I hope that as people talk about Prairie Forge, they're going back and opening up lines of communication and talking with some of the elders in their communities, as Jim mentioned earlier, and enhancing and enlarging the story. Yeah. I love what you said there about the storytelling because every family's got World War II stories in some capacity. And so to use this as a springboard to continue those conversations and capture those where while the generations are still around to share them. She grows up there. Oh, yes, he looks like Christie's frozen. Oh no. That's okay. Christie, you froze up for a second there. Oh, sorry. That's okay. We just started talking. I wasn't supposed to be talking. Okay. Can you repeat what you're trying to say there after? Oh, yeah, sorry. I just wanted to piggyback on what Becky was saying about family stories and using this book and the others that are previous one book, one Nebraska selections as a springboard to capture family stories because everybody has them, whether they were stateside or somebody was overseas or their relatives were in other parts of the world. I think that appreciation of everybody was impacted in some way, but there were all kinds of ways for everybody to respond in a positive way are really important to remember. And it continues to happen, like you said in Nebraska, I think of the floods we had in 2019. There were incredible things that came out of all of that destruction and sadness, but some, wow, huge bright lights and people unifying to help each other out. So that spirit is still alive and well, which is great, but it's fun to see that progression through history. And I love the history part of it, so yay. You're here. All right. Other questions anybody has? We got officially five minutes left in the hour, but we did start a little late with our slight technical kind of issues at the beginning, no problem, but we'll go as long as it takes for everyone to say what they want to say. Any questions anybody has? Please do get in. And we did have some questions about the video, the documentary scrappers. We will look for more information about that, about are they allowed to show it to any groups and how much does it cost, how to get like for the library to purchase their own copy. I'm not, I've looked, tried to look up some site licensing things. It looks like it's not part of the site license, movie license that we offer here and through the commission for everybody, but there you can reach out to see what it would cost. But also just looking online in WorldCat in OCLC to see there are a lot of libraries in the state that already do own a copy of the of scrappers. It actually came out in 2010. So this is not something recent. So maybe a little more difficult to purchase, but Seward, Platsmith, Omaha, Hastings, Central Community College in Hastings. That's just the first few lists here. So there are a lot of libraries in the state that do have it. And we'll see about looking into what performance rights would be and how that would all work. Yeah. I mean, let me say for the record here and the librarians who are logged on can spread this around to anybody else. Show it as many times as you like to as large an audience as you want as the co-producer. I think I can say that. So have at it. The more people who see this story, the better it is. Yeah, it was hard to find out like who is in ownership. Who would you even talk to about it now that it's been out for a while? And so, yeah. Yeah. We'll get that WorldCat reference that you had, Chris, to add it to the one book, one Nebraska website. So people can access that there as well. They can already access the book WorldCat from that website. So we'll add the documentary to that as well. Cool. That'd be great. Well, we wait for any more questions to come in. I just wanted to give a quick log out to one website just for people to have access to any of the Get Involved editions that we have on there, whether that's booking a humanity speaker. If you do read the book, we have links to reviews and a questionnaire that helps us just keep track of how many people use our book club kits and what they thought of the program and the book itself. And that really helps us. We submit a report to Erica about how we use their money and how our program's going. So that's really helpful to us if your book clubs could fill out our survey forms. That's online, but we also send them out by mail to each book club kit recipient. We've also got a Facebook page in our NLC social media where we would love to see questions or see the posts about the events you're hosting. And we try to keep it as up to date as possible with what's happening with the one book program and any reviews or pertinent information we have on there. We try to get out to you. So if you send that to us, we'll put it back out there so that more people can see it, hopefully. Tessa, on the page before that, could you please mention, talk a little bit about the questions, the discussion questions? I don't know if everyone saw that. James wrote some discussion questions. Our book club recipients always request discussion questions to go along with our one book titles, and he has supplied those for us, and they are available online for you from the one book website. Lots of questions. I'm not going to go through all of them. Yeah. Feel free to use the group chat for a while. And what will happen is I'll give a talk and somebody will ask me those questions and I'll be stumped. And here's a link that tests them up, find a copy of the book, and this is what I was looking at. This is coming up a lot fewer than what I had on my phone. It's because it's the digital commons version, maybe? Yeah. There's the print book, yeah. Lots of the universities, but if I go along, there we go. Some are public libraries, yeah. We just ordered another book bag because the book clubs are really excited, and it's getting a lot of use. So we wanted to get more books in people's hands. Awesome. Yeah, and here's where you can, the book club kits that we have for the commission and our regional library systems. This jumps you right to our book club kit for... It looks like there's also a link to the Speaker's Bureau, which will help you find it instead of trying to find the Humanities Nebraska page. Yep, right here, yep. That's that how to book speaker that we showed you before, yep. On the Humanities page, my email is listed, so that's my seat and hall accounts. I'm on that all the time. It's the easiest way to get in touch with me, and please know that I'm a very accessible person, and I really want to help tell this story. So those of you who have book clubs and want to organize talks and other events, feel free to reach out to me, and we can talk about what we could do. Very good, thank you. Tessa, did you have, wanted to show more of the slides, the rest of the slides we had? Or... Yeah, we hopped to the One Book One Nebraska nomination page. Club kids don't know where we got here. There's the Facebook page, where we talked about all this Celebration Nebraska books. There it is. So, yes, it's on the center for the book, Nebraska Center for the Book website, and the nomination form is always available. This is what it looks like. We, this is still last year's flyer, but we love getting as many nominations as possible, just so that we have a wide variety to pick from, and that the board just, if we don't know about the book, we can't put it into the groups being read. So if you have a book in mind, please nominate it. You can nominate any book, and as long as it meets those criteria, it'll be considered. So we really urge people to, if they're passionate about a book, and think more Nebraskans should be reading and talking about it, we want their submission. If I could just add one thing to that, and that is that the books should be for adult reading levels, not young adults and not children's. That is not a question I've ever thought about before, but do you? Well, we sometimes have books that are nominated that are not adult-level reading, and so as we go through the initial nominations and we see that something does not fit an adult audience, we're having to dismiss it from consideration. I see. Yeah, that's a great thing to mention. Maybe one day there'll be a One Book, One Nebraska Junior version for younger readers. We do have a One Book, One Nebraska for kids and for teen selections. They're not the same program that our adult One Book, One Nebraska, as we're talking about today is, but we do have those selections that we, I think we're still working on the web page for them, but yeah, those are programs that are available, but they're not nominated in quite the same way or have the same statewide reach as what we're talking about here. Yeah, One Book for Nebraska kids, One Book for Nebraska teens. It's done by our youth services coordinator here, Sally Snyder here at the Library Commission. Every year she puts out the books that have been chosen. Some day maybe we could team up possibly. And there are some states that do have those programs, and certainly we do want to encourage everyone regardless of age to be reading. And one thing that's unique to our program with the One Book, One Nebraska is that selected books need to have that Nebraska connection, and that's not true in all other states, One Book programs, but it's worked beautifully for us, and it's wonderful to hear readers say, I didn't know about that, or I'm so glad I read that book because I learned something about Nebraska that I didn't know before. And what you were saying, Becky, about other states having similar programs, one good thing, if you can say that out of having to do a lot of virtual programs, is you can participate across the country. So you can go to the author talks, you can go to the virtual discussion groups, and if you go to the center for the book for whatever state it is that most interests you, they will have information for ways for you to participate. And it's really kind of a treat because you don't have to travel, and you can learn from home too, but also participate. So kind of a continues to broaden your horizons and support the centers for the book across the country. So I'd encourage you to check that out. And all of the related humanities programs for their state humanities organizations as well, because there's lots of hand in hand programming that goes into all of this. I like also how the nomination page here, unlike some of the programs where you have to, there's like a deadline to submit your suggestions for awards or things like that, this is open year round. So whenever you come across a book that you think would be a good title, just go here, get the information to the group, and it'll be added to the list of books to consider. You don't have to wait and figure out, did I get it in on time? Did I miss the deadline? There is none. And there's also a response that the nomination has been received, and that's a very solid part of this as well. It's not just disappearing out into the ether. It's not just a meta nomination. Isn't it going to be typed in any other questions? Just yay for the discussion questions. Thank you so much for those comments coming from people. They always appreciate that. And people have already read it saying they really enjoyed the book. Thank you so much. Look forward to having you, Jim, having you come and speak at our library at some point. So hopefully you'll be getting some requests from people. And of course we're talking going as this would be all virtual, the way Jim's in New Jersey. We're here. But over the past year we've all learned, if we haven't already been doing this, how to do these virtual events and sessions. So it should be no problem to get this all set up for you. Great. I look forward to it. Anybody have any other last minute, desperate questions, comments, anything you want to say? I think maybe we can wrap it up now. We're a little after 2 p.m. here. We'll get a good Erica. She left. She had a leash at another meeting at 2 o'clock. She's already gone, which she had another meeting to go to. But anybody has anything else you want to say? Anything you want to wrap up? I think we have our last slide here was just the contact info for Tessa here and the page for the one book. Awesome. Thank you. Yep. I'm available for questions. If you guys have anything that you're confused about the one book program, you can send me an email or give me a call and I'll try to answer them for you or get you to the person who can answer them for you. And of course go to the website for even more information to get involved, get the copy of the book. We'll add information about the documentary onto here. And if Jim's sending us a copy, we'll have a copy that we'll be able to lend out from here as well. For people. Yeah. Perfect. Bring your popcorn. All right. I don't think I have any other questions. This is great. All right. Thank you so much, everyone, for me. Thank you so much, Jim, for joining us and everybody for being able to accommodate our special time. Usually our Encompass Live is usually at 10 a.m. on Wednesday mornings, but we did a little adjustment for today to make sure we get everybody to participate, especially wanted to have Jim with us, the author of our one book, One Nebraska Selection, Prairie Forge. So this is great that we've got everybody here. So thank you everybody for attending. As I said, we are recording. Let's see. Let me get my back to my Encompass Live page where I was. There we go. And this is our Encompass Live website where we have our upcoming shows here. If you go to your search engine of choice and just type in Encompass Live, the name of the show. So far, it's the only thing called that on the internet. No one else is allowed to use the name. And you will come up with our main page and our archive page. These are upcoming shows. The archives are right here, and they are the most recent one at the top of the page. So today's will be there. Should be done and posted by the end of the day tomorrow, as long as go to webinar on YouTube. I'll cooperate with me of a link to today's show, link to the slides that we may or may not fix typo intents. And if we like it that way or not, everybody who attended today and register for today's show will get an email from me letting you know the recording is ready. While I'm here, I'll show you this is our search feature here on our archives. 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