 We're going to call this meeting to order. Do we have to take a motion to call the meeting to order? I think it would be better if we move a little bit closer to the mic so Amy doesn't have to strain to hear us. I should ask, Amy, do you have a microphone yourself? Because we can unmute you if you want to, or you can just keep typing in the questions there. Okay, she says no, she's pretty hoarse anyway. Okay, that's fine. Just was checking. Okay. Okay. She had surgery today, so Amy, that's pretty big of you even being with us in this capacity. So thank you. We need someone to make a motion to approve the agenda and the minutes. Very good. Somebody do you want a second? I'll second. Okay. Okay, and the minutes. We'd have done that already. Nancy. And Connie. Very good. Okay. She says thanks for the meeting. No, no, she says that's her asking. She says who was that? I don't think anyone here is typing. I think she was listening. You know what? Nancy made the motion to approve the minutes. Connie seconded. Yeah, it would be nice if she was on a microphone, but she's hoarse. Got it. Okay. Great. Very good. Very good. Okay. Officer reports. Thank you to all of the attendees and the coordinators. This is a terrific team of women. I wish I could say people. I wish there was a guy or two on our committee, but that's okay. We've got an awesome group of women who are very supportive of one another, and together we know how to get things done. So that's really great. And I would like to make a plug for anyone that will be listening to this or reading the minutes to seriously consider joining the paraprofessional section. It is a valuable. You have opportunities to make valuable contributions to your library or community, and there are 10 good reasons to join. We've got that publicized all over the place. Plus, we're fun. And with that, I'm going to turn it over to Nancy Black, and she'll give us a little recap on what's going on on her plate. Thanks, Chair, because what I've been working on is our paraprofessional section programs for call conference. We received word from Erica Rose at Colorado that her schedule permits her to come and do a pre-conference presentation for us on Wednesday during call conference in October. The fee will be $300. So we are going to see if we can find another section with costs of that and go sponsor the pre-conference session with us. Kelly Olson will be coming from Keene to do a session on Tech at your library and setting up a patron computer classes. With the lesson plan that he used at Keene and Dr. Rebecca Pasco from UNO is putting together a panel of other library educators to talk about the importance of education in today's library science. We also have Sally Snyder, who will do, I know for sure, two, and I think maybe three presentations. I thought that we could touch on the topic of not sharing the expenses of another section. We could afford to. Okay, so we are just going to sponsor ourselves. Okay, maybe that was back when we thought that when we were concerned about hotel itself. She said, no, I've got a friend to stay with. So all she needed was $300 travel. Okay, let's strictly prepare a section that will do a pre-conference session. Now that's, I'm counting four presentations that we just talked about. Erica Rose, oh no, that's a special presentation. That's a pre-conference. Kelly Olson, Dr. Pasco, Sally Snyder. Didn't we decide three or four presentations? Yes. Can't be enough? Right, so we're set. So where's the set? So this deadline proposal is April 30th. It's sort of moved, but we're not. Okay, but do we have to submit something to the NLA then? So they know what we're proposing? Where do we get those? They're on the other side. That's not part of my plan. I did not get anything. So is that the April 30th deadline where I need to get what our peer presenters need to submit a proposal as a formality and as courtesy, what I would do is go ahead and do it out, especially for somebody like Erica Rose, Sandy Tuer, it's already almost no time to show up. They've all been asking where are the proposal points. And I'm like, nobody has taught me where to find them. I will find them. Okay, and then I will get it to them. Right. Okay. And I will do that. Awesome. Yeah, so it'll be no problem because they've all already been asking about it. So once I get it, and I can shoot it, send it an email, April 30th, I'm not an issue. Okay. We will have those in. Anything else? The only other thing that I would like to mention is one of the next NLA board meetings that you go to, April 11th. And that one is in Columbus. I think it's in Columbus. I would like to attend with you just so that come next fall, I kind of have an idea of what's going to happen when I take over your place. That would be good. So my thought, I know it's in Columbus but my thought is I could go up to Skyler the night before I spend the night with my daughter and my family. Okay. Very good. And then meet you at Columbus the next morning. That sounds great. Okay. I think you are. I think you are. Excuse me, whoever's talking right now, we can't hear them. We were having a discussion about Wednesday accompanying me to the April 11th NLA meeting and Crystal followed up with the NLA board has a special meeting during the summer where the vice chairs of the sections are invited. So Nancy will likely go into both sessions both the April 11th NLA meeting as well as the one held over the summer. Cool, thanks. And Amy is now talking. So we're going to cut her some slack today. Is that all right with you, Amy? You can say yes or no on the little chat box. It's $749.02. That's all I have. No, no, no, no. And I'm a terrible person at the budget. And I know this is where we should be. I'm sorry, I don't need to be putting you on the spot. Sure. Today, for our meeting, we had 16 people sign up for the desk. They were from Brawlston, LaVisto, Waco, Sydney, Hastings, Lexington, Imperial, Brookingsville, North Platte, Lincoln. We had 13 skip members. We had four non-members. Five at Lincoln. We had signed up 17 at Adrian's where we 14 showed up. And 17 of them signed up online. And we had seven dark black things, Laura, Eagle, England, big, for stepping in to Mary's spot and giving us such a wonderful presentation. And she was from the King. Yes. She was from the King. Yes, she was from the King. And then Kathy McMahon who did a wonderful job. I know there's a lot of energy there. Yeah. And Kate Bradley was a pretty good person. She was a good person. Kathy was from South. Just from the evaluation reports that I think up here, everybody enjoyed the meeting. Everybody was in the meeting. So I think it was all good. It was funny. This day is still. I saw you taking pictures. Yeah. You are so good. You are so good. My phone. That is cool. Well, I have a phone. I don't like yours. Anything else you would like to report? I just want some guidance. You're doing it. You're doing it. Please post on Facebook. Yeah. You're doing it for each other. Yeah. You're doing a great job. And your impact. Cynthia. Cynthia. You don't need this, did you? Yeah. Cynthia, we cannot hear you out here. I am sitting right by the microphone. Okay. No, not you. But the other people that are talking, like when Connie was talking and Dana was just talking, we can't hear them. How far do we need to back up? Oh, Connie's is fine. It's just really, really low. But you guys were talking to Dana about Facebook and pictures, but we didn't get that. Just what Dana was talking about. Dana expressed an interest in wanting a little more guidance in her role as the Archives and Publicity Chair. And we were just reassuring her that what she's doing is fine, almost above and beyond the call of duty. She rocks on Facebook. Anything else you want to add to that? No? Okay. And that was really nice of you to offer to do something else as far as bringing computers or whatever you brought. Who was off at 1 and 15? Sorry, Amy. Okay, that's it. It's Dana who needs my address. Okay, sorry about that. I'm here, and I really don't have anything to report for the Bylaws Newsletter Web at this time. On the evaluation, do you need anyone to join the Paris Section term, or what can I send for her to, you know, to get the scholarship and stuff like that? Okay, first of all, you're a member of NLA, right? Okay, then she's already in a Section R Roundtable at this point in time, so you need to determine which one that is. Okay. And then if she's already in one, then what you do is you have to add a second section onto your NLA registration. Now, you can go back and email the NLA Executive Director, Michael Stratman, and let him know that this person wants to be added to another section, and I believe it is $5 for each additional section that you want to be a part of. She might not have marked to join a section when she joined NLA. I have several friends who didn't know anything about sections, and so they are NLA members, but they do not belong to a section, even though it's free for the first one. Then Michael will put them in a section and inform them of what section they're in, because you have to be in a section to be a member of NLA. So if they didn't mark it on their register when they signed up to be an NLA member, Michael probably put them in the public library and trustee section, because that's kind of the default section. And they can look on NLA and they can look to see, and you can also look to see what section they are attached to in member clicks. And also, I think it might be more than that. I think it's a percentage, but we'll have to look at that. Yeah, this is Krista at the library commission. I just looked up the membership form to see what it is now. They did change it a little bit. For roundtables, it's $5 extra, but for sections like paraprofessionals, it's 25% of whatever the basic dues you paid. So depending if you signed up as a student or a retiree, based on your salary, it would be 25% of whatever that is as the cost. She's a stiff member of roundtables. She did two sessions already, but she really wants to become a parent ever, so that's great. We have to figure out what it is. Do we do scholarship or membership? We don't do scholar. We haven't advertised that this year to do scholarships for memberships. Well, thank you. That should be a way that we're making money for our section. If we're giving away money for people to be a member, how are we ever going to have money to pay for stuff we need to pay for? Membership is quite so many things that we're not making a profit. I understand, but we still have expenses. We still have to get it. Membership dues is one of the ways that we make money. Scholarships, to go to attend meetings, to come to attend here, I don't think we should be giving away scholarships to make them join us. All right. The organizations are not paid for their fees, and if they're a little bit strapped, we offer a discount. We offer a discount to help to create a lease. Rather than have them not be a member because they can't afford it, we rather help them out with a discount than a member. So it's not the following. We're not just really giving money away. Okay. More than five dollars. Thanks, Krista. Wouldn't this follow under others? Yes. Yes, thank you, Amy. Nominee. Anybody else have anything to add before we move on? Okay. Nominee. Okay. What I have is, if anyone who is listening is interested in running to be on the board, I would greatly encourage you to send me an email or whoever's email you know, send it to them. Right now, we have two positions that will be open in the fall. We have our Secretary of Treasure, which is running again. Thank you. And then we have our Vice-Churchary position, which right now we have one candidate, Christine Woods, from Bellevue Public. Right? So I'm very excited to run, but I do need one more name to put on the ballot. So I, someone you may have heard from me and I will continue to be persistent to get another name. So if you are interested in running, this is a great committee, a great way to meet people and networks, so please send me your name if you're interested. Thank you. Very good. Thank you, Crystal. And you can find websites, you can find Crystal's, excuse me, I said website, you can find Crystal's email address or any one of our email addresses or the early paraprofessional questions or the early paraprofessional email address on our website. Very easy to find an LA paraprofessional section. And that will be the first link in a Google search. Crystal, your hard work is very much appreciated. Thank you. Okay, liaison. That would be me, India. I do plan on attending the April 11th board meeting, an LA board meeting. I did get a call from an email from both Lindsay Pomsu and Martha Gresniap about submitting an article. So I do plan on doing at least one brief article. So the paraprofessional section can be represented. In the next issue of Nebraska Libraries. And the paraprofmarks, that's the responsibility I took on last year. The project got shelved because the files were on a computer of mine that was stolen. So we've been getting by with flyers. I noticed the flyers I brought today need to have our website but none of us caught it. So we're doing flyers and little bookmarks. And that's all I have. Old business. Of course, we always have increasing memberships on the table. I think considering that this is a general meeting and we do want to keep brief today, we're going to reserve for the discussion on increasing memberships. Unless anybody here doesn't have a day, we will save that discussion for our next executive board meeting. Is that alright with everything? I see a couple of hips nodding. I'll take that as a guess. New business. Actually, we scheduled our next meeting for 2.30 p.m. We did this at our last executive board meeting repair our officers. It's scheduled for 2.30 p.m. on Friday, April 18th. So mark your calendars and that's over at Miller's, right? And that's at Miller's Ranch, yes. And 3 o'clock. We go back to 2 o'clock. 2.30 p.m. Okay. I had too long. I changed it to a 3. So I think we go back and forth and compromise it on 2.30 p.m. And Sarah, it's nice to have you here. By the way, we have a guest. Sarah Nelson, who is a library specialist currently working at the South Branch of the Omaha Public Library. Excuse me, the Washington Branch of the Omaha Public Library, thank you. 3.30 p.m. And she is also, she's a busy lady. She works over 40 hours a week. She's in team services at Gloucester Public Library. Are you interested in joining our membership? I mean, for joining the board? No. That's what we do. Yeah, this is what we do. We have another interested person here. Great, thank you, Sarah. We're nominated for a single. I'm sorry. Good, these guys are welcome. We have another person. Nice chair. What? That's what I've been doing since last fall. We're thinking now, people that you know in the library profession that will get up and do presentations. And it's going to be all helped, too. Yeah, and everybody else helps, too. So, it's a remarkably supportive group. Yeah, nobody's left. Think of something more quick, I'm sure, when you were in school. Because that's how you got back to Pascal. It should be a golden upgrade. And at the lowest. And that's the hardest thing. It's getting all of these people. So far, that's been the hardest thing. Yeah. And fighting people to run. Yeah. Well, I'm going to be sharing. Nancy has a kind of personality. It would be a lot easier for her to do something. So, if you get up in front of teens, you can get adults to kind of present. Yeah. I'm going to tell this girl what's wrong. Practice. Okay. Does anyone have any other issues they'd like to bring up? This is going to be a short, sweet meeting. I do rely on a lot of participants. I lean on them a lot. I'm going to do it again. Good song. Then, the meeting is adjourned.