 Good morning and welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. I am your host, Christa Porter, excuse me, 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 as we are doing today. And it will be available for you to watch later at your convenience. And I'll show you at the end of today's show where you can access all of our show recordings. 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 might be interested in any of the topics we have on Encompass Live. For anyone who's here not from Nebraska, the Nebraska Library Commission is the state agency for libraries. So we provide services and resources and training and grants to all types of libraries in the state. So we have shows on Encompass Live for all types of libraries. Public, academic, K-12, corrections, museums, archives, relay or only criteria, it's something to do with libraries. Book reviews, interviews, many training sessions, demos of services and products, all sorts of things. We have, we do some presentations from sessions with Nebraska Library Commission staff talking about programs and resources and things we have here through the commission. But we also bring on guest speakers and that's what we have today. With us today is Anne Price. Good morning, Anne. Good morning. And she is a member of the Nebraska's Golden Sower Award Committee, as well as Children's Librarian at North Platte Public Library here in Nebraska. And I invited Anne to come on the show. This is a session that I saw colleagues of hers do something talking about what's happening with our Golden Sower Award here in Nebraska at our Youth Services Retreat back in September and of August. It's been a long year. And I asked you to come on to Encompass Live so we can spread the word more about what's going on with the Golden Sower Award or the changes that have happened recently. So I'm just going to hand it over to you and take it away and tell us all about it. All right, sounds good. So as Christa mentioned, this will be an update on the Golden Sower Award. Hopefully, if you've been following the award for a while, this will help demystify some of the changes that have happened in the last couple of years. And if you're new to the Golden Sower Award, hopefully this will give you some information just about what the award is and how you can maybe incorporate it in your library or school. So really briefly, we will start off with who I am. So my name is Anne Price. As Christa mentioned, I am the children's librarian at the North Platte Public Library. Previously, I have served on the Land of Enchantment Book Award Committee in New Mexico. I've only been with the Golden Sower Award for about a year at this point. But hopefully I'll be able to answer any questions you might have. And I hope I have some good information for you going forward. So first, we'll start off with what is the Golden Sower Award? The Golden Sower Award is the Children's Choice Literary Award for the State of Nebraska. It is a full committee under the Nebraska Library Association, meaning that members of the committee are current NLA members. And the committee chair is appointed by the NLA Executive Committee. If you were familiar, previously, the award was part of schools, children, and young people under the Nebraska Library Association. But this is just a change that gives us a little bit a little bit more oversight to the committee. So it's been a part of NLA, but just always been a part of NLA. Not always a full committee. That's all. So a little bit about our vision and mission. The vision is to foster a lifelong enjoyment of reading for pleasure in Nebraska's youth. And our mission is to empower young people to experience literature of various styles, emotions, situations and characters that mirror themselves and the outside world and foster respect and compassion for others. There is a full organizational document that is linked here in this slide. If you wanted to see our full list of values and kind of how have the committee itself is organized in that sort of thing. And I'll mention that you were talking about the slides I mentioned before when the recording is available later of the show. You will also have a link to the slide presentation as well. So I'm going to have access to these links and all the information in it. Yes, absolutely. All right. So moving on to the list, the current list that we have are Little Bluestem, Honey Bee and Meadowlark. And these have taken the place of the lists. Previously, we're called picture book, chapter book and novels. So Little Bluestem is intended for those grades K through two. So that would take the place of our picture book list. Honey Bee is what took the place of chapter books for that grade three to five. And then Meadowlark took the place of novels intended for grades six through eight. I know this is this is of the changes that have happened. This is one of the bigger ones in rebuilding some of the structure around the award, the committee looked at a lot of how other states were structuring their awards. And many of them were using state symbols in differentiating their lists. For example, the Land of Enchantment uses Roadrunner, Coyote, Lizard and Black Bear. Wyoming uses Little Buckaroo, Indian Paintbrush and Soaring Eagle. So the reasoning for some of this is twofold. We don't want to limit students to what list they can read from. And it also allows for more variety of literature. So Little Bluestem in particular can span into like beginning readers and transitional chapter books, whereas picture books sets us with slightly more limiting parameters. True. And next up, we have the manual. So this was something I didn't know existed until I came on the committee, was that there is a manual for the Golden Sower Award that can be purchased on teachers paid teachers. The cost is $15 and it includes activities, discussion questions for all three of the lists. There are also digital downloads like bookmarks, ballots and other printables you can use. If you are part of a school district that would need multi person access, you can contact the committee for a special price and get a file that can be uploaded to an internet or a shared server. I know the Millard School District has done this for the last few years and has had success with it. Let's see. Some things that are coming up soon. Voting is now open for the 23 to 24 Golden Sower Awards. So those ballots went live today, November 1st. You can be able to coordinate that. Coincidentally, November 1st is a Wednesday, so. Yes, I thought it was very serendipitous that it all works out that way. But those ballots are live for you to start inputting. All of the information and guidelines for practices on voting are listed on the voting page, which this link does go to. The list for next academic year, which would be academic year 24-25, has been finalized and it will be announced during Nebraska Libraries Week, which is the week of November 12th through the 18th. So in a couple of weeks, you will get that full list. And then the last kind of big update we have is that we have a young adult list that will begin for school year 25-26. And we did let our young adults vote on what they wanted to be called. And they chose Bald Eagle. So the Bald Eagle list will begin for that 25-26 school year. I know I remember you were looking for what to call the new one. I think that's cool that you had the actual the teens decide what they wanted to have it be. Yes. So. So how is how the Bald Eagle one that's waiting for another two years? Then it is. Well, it is because we are currently reading for school year 25-26. So the that selection committee that reads the books and kind of gives us our preliminary list is reading books for that. Ready. Yeah. OK. OK, that's if you are interested in helping make decisions on that list. I will move on to my next slide. Yes. So there is, as I mentioned, I'm a member of the the Nebraska Golden Sower Award Committee. We also have a selection committee. So that selection committee is who reads books and puts books up as possibilities to be on the Golden Sower nominees. The only parameters we have for that is that you must post four reviews to Goodreads to the Goodreads Group annually to remain active. And you must vote every other year. There is a Google form. If you are interested in serving as a selection committee member, you can read for one list. You can read for all the lists. It's up to you if you read a lot of literature for youth and you would like to contribute in that way, we would love to have you. There is also the award committee is right now fairly full, but it coordinates the nomination list, those finalists, the voting and the manual creation. And we do the merchandise sales. So the stickers and things like that that are available for purchase are through the committee. And if you are interested in participating on the committee in any capacity, NLA Golden Sower at NebraskaLibraries.org is who you would reach out to. We are currently in the process of appointing an interim chair for the next few months until we get to January, when we will hopefully have a new person in place. But as as mentioned, there is plenty of room on the selection committee. That's, in my opinion, the really fun part is getting to read all of the books and put forward what you think is a really, really great literature for the award. There is a Google form we do ask, I believe, for your. Whether you're a teacher or a librarian, kind of what your affiliation is that way. But otherwise, the form is open for anyone to complete. And with that, I will open us up to see if we have questions. Hmm, I know that I went through a lot of information very quickly. Yes, yes, yes, of course. Yes, if anybody has any questions, type into the question section. And if you have any questions about what's happening new in the ward, what's been happening, how to get involved, what details about that? I do have a question here. You mentioned merchandise is is that something that's unavailable? How does that all work? What's the merchandise that's available? And how is that all? Yes. The merchandise, let let me look really quick. OK, I know there's things you can bridge. Is this thing says are available on the website through the website? Or do you I believe every I believe our full inventory is available on the website. But let me double check just in case I speak out of turn. Yes, so do you want to share the if you share your screen again? You can show the website if you want to do and go. So I think we want to see that we'd like to see what the website's got has on it now. Let's see. Maybe. OK, yes, perfect. Here is our screen and over over here in the upper right hand corner, there is a store that is kind of a lot of information up at the top right now. We are compiling most. Most things are being compiled like via email and things like that, but you can purchase manuals. There are various stickers for the award. Some of the other we also just have some older merchandise that feature. Peter Reynolds had made a version of the Golden Sower Award logo. So we have some things that have his illustration on them, things like that. Just a few a few extra things that are kind of left over from previous years and things like that. So anything that you'd be interested in purchasing would be available here. And then this stuff actually has the years on it so you can still know anything any year. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. So everything, everything is still usable. And then you just keep using it too. Yeah, before if you still have stickers, sticker design hasn't changed or anything like that. I was going to say on our homepage here at the bottom is the link to that PDF of our full mission and values statement and all of that. There's, like I said, a lot of information, but that's where it can be found. So right down here at the bottom. Yeah, I mean, you can give a little tour of the website since we're looking at it here. Well, since we're here. Yeah. So here are all of our current, all of our current lists. The voting links that went live today. So right now, here's the one for Little Bluestem. And all of those links went live this morning. Let's see what else is the voting through April. So voted through April. Yes, April 15th. So. Let's see. And then the selection group that I was discussing, the people who do the reading, they have their own little about page here underneath about selection group and committee members. And if you scroll all the way to the bottom, there is the link to the Google form, if you would like to be part of the selection committee, there are sort of a list of guidelines that we that we ask that people have some some interaction with education or with literature for young people, whether that means they're a teacher or a librarian, a retired teacher or a librarian, things like that. And as I mentioned, committee members have to be current members in good standing with the Nebraska Library Association. Such there is actually something just as you jump right to this. That's awesome. Someone asked, wanted to know how are the books actually nominated? The ones that are, you know, like, how does it how do you get started in the first place, getting a book into this? Possibly one that might get. So titles have to be published in the two years prior to the year that the list comes out. So like things that are being read for 2526 will have to have 2324 publication dates. Titles have to have at least one positive review. Doesn't have to be a start review, but a positive review from one of the following, whether it's Kirkus, Booklist, Horn Book School Library Journal or Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books. So first titles in a series, maybe nominated sequels are eligible, companions are eligible, but not sequels. Yes, companion books would be eligible, but not sequel. So the second book in a series wouldn't be able to be nominated for an award only the first. We do allow there are spaces for publishers down here at the bottom. Publishers can submit books if they've got something that they feel passionately would fit really well with one of our lists. They can. Propose that we read it and see for ourselves. There is no pressure when people when publishers submit titles to select that title for the final nomination list. It's just the same as anyone else recommending a title. The Goodreads group is where most of the selection happens. Most people, most of the librarians, as they're reading things, you know, for their own collections and things like that, would be like, hey, I came across this that came out this year and it was really great. I'd like a few other people to read it and see if you think it would be a contender for the next set of Golden Silver books. So there's nothing about these can be books published anywhere and about anything. It doesn't have to have like a Nebraska connection. Doesn't have to have a Nebraska connection. No, there are we you do have access to all previous winners and nominees and that's available. The big widget takes a minute to load, but it is available by year for a long time. I mean, it looks like it's the first year. Yeah, yeah. So let's know, Ken, obviously not a previous winner, but if there's been do you have winners and like honorable mentions or how does what are anything like that? I believe this last year there were honorable mentions that have to go back and look, I want to say that we kind of point out the things that have gotten the most votes and if something was a close second that that would maybe be mentioned. It wouldn't be like an official designation, the way you have like Caldecott honor books and things like that. But if if say voting were particularly close, that may be something that we mentioned. Because the question is kind of I know you said the publication is within the last two years, but if someone was just on or didn't win the first year, maybe they were nominated, they can be nominated again in that same time frame. How is that allowed? The same, I would say the same author could be nominated again, not the same book, if that makes sense. So I know Dusty Bowling writes quite a bit and I don't she hasn't won yet. She's on this year's list too, but a previous novel of hers was also on last year's list that didn't win. So she's up again for another award. No, no, no, yeah. OK, cool, cool. Someone else does have a question. And I think this is either possibly for you and possibly for anyone else who's in the audience. I will have an answer of how you all do this. They want to know is do libraries typically, you know, using those labels, the stickers that you had with the spine labels and whatnot. Do they just do libraries typically label just the award winners or nominees as well? I can tell you what the North Platt Public Library does. I can't, I can't speak for whatever one else. If anyone else wants to answer and say what you do at your library, type in the question section and let us know how you all do it. The way that, the way that we do it at North Platt is the spine label on the book has the regular information. So picture book, author's last name. And then we also put an addendum for Golden Sower and then the year. So the nominees all have Golden Sower 2324. And then we mark out the winners once the winners happen. So then you'd be labeling nominees and award winners, you know nominees. As soon as you know what the nominees are, yeah. Yep. But I'd love to hear how other people do it. Yeah, yeah. What does everybody else do? How do they label their books? Type into the question section and let us know. So this is something that question about this is for both public libraries and school libraries or I guess how would that work for like promoting it in your library? Okay. So for myself for the public library, we place all of the nominees on display. We do some programming around them, not as much as I've seen some of the school districts do. I know a lot of, especially our elementary librarians do a lot of curriculum development around the Golden Sower manual and making sure that kids hear all of the things nominated on that little blue stem list and things like that. I would say that is probably where we get the bulk of our votes from would be schools, but that's not preventing public libraries from taking their own votes or if you've got a large homeschooling population, homeschoolers are able to vote too, that sort of thing. Yeah, because this is the children's choice award. All children in Nebraska are eligible to vote. Yep. You do have to have read four titles from the list that you were voting for. So four items from either a little blue stem from Honey Bee, you just have to have read four titles from that list to vote for that list. And kids can vote in multiple categories? They can vote in multiple categories if they've read four books from multiple categories, absolutely. Okay, so there's no like age restriction on who's allowed to vote in each group. No, no. The last thing to talk about for a lot on the show is when Sally Snyder, our coordinator, she comes on to give her book list. She's like, these are just general, kids read at different levels and you never know who's gonna jump up to a level or wanna read something younger just because they like it and don't put them totally in that box. It's okay if they cross that line, either way. I had another question with that camera. Okay. Oh, so we do have some other, I always tell them what they do. This one, they label all nominees with the year for kids to find easily and they're in a K-5 school and they do a book club for the Honey Bee books after school program. So that is something you could do too, either at a school or at a public library. And book clubs are hugely popular now and you could do a book club that specifically for reading these books, like I said, you gotta read multiple ones in a category. So you could say we're gonna read whatever books you wanna read in this one and talk about them amongst ourselves if you want to. Absolutely. Awesome. I was gonna look here because I think I just wanna make sure, I have to check and see if some of the, we have book club kits that we loan here through the library commission. And I'm not sure, there's so many things to search on here. If we have, we may have some of those as, we have book club kits for all ages and levels at the library commission. So if you wanted to see, if you did wanna do a book club, check onto our book club kits page and see if we have a kit for any of these titles. We're always getting new ones. It's a huge program. I would like to remember all the most recent statistics but just more and more all the time. So, you may need multiple copies of the books that we're gonna do a book club. Oh, and the same person says, Lincoln City Libraries has all of the golden store books in book bags. So the books together still to loan out. So yeah, if you're here in Lincoln and at a school or wanting to do something with homeschooling or something, look at Lincoln City Libraries to see their book bags about the golden store titles. Awesome. All right. So I see there's a link there for the current winners the 2022 to 2023 winners too. So those are the ones that were from, I know there's been some transition times and everything but the program still kept going even though there was some changes being happening. We didn't miss any years, did we? Nope, no years were missed. I think the only thing that those 2022, 2023 winners I don't believe got an award ceremony the way previous years have gotten just with everything going on that the bandwidth wasn't quite there to get that off the ground, so. Right. And now would that have been this year that they would have, the ceremony would have been because we didn't have, usually this kind of this usually our golden store awards are done in conjunction with the Nebraska Library Association Annual Conference which the conference has gone to an every other year to doing every other year now and there wasn't one this year anyway. Yep, so we, the committee had discussed doing a virtual award ceremony with everything else going on it just didn't quite happen this year. So we're hoping that we'll maybe get that back for our 23-24 nominees. Right, because there will be a conference next year in, Karni I think. Okay, I think that's right. Yeah, so do you, we might not know yet would it still be in conjunction with the conference or something of its own? That's still something the committee is discussing. Okay. I know some people it's nice to coordinate attending something that you're already attending something and just adding on an extra activity or something. Absolutely. And I know I've seen sometimes the authors will participate in the awards ceremony. We've had that happen. I know I've seen that before and the kids really like to have that interaction with authors whether it's in person or virtual or whatever. I've seen it both ways. The questions, does anybody have any questions about the Golden Soar Award? What's been happening with it? Getting involved? You said that the committees are kind of full but there's no, is there any limit on how many people you have on your committees or you just try? Of course you don't want to be too unwieldy. But not that I know of, is there a limit? I just know that our meetings seem to have a lot of people in them. We do have a couple officer positions that are coming vacant. So if anyone's particular, if anyone is interested in being a treasurer that's something that we're looking for at the moment. But I want to say there's between 12 and 15 of us at the moment on that Golden Soar Award committee. So not too bad yet. And like I said, we're always taking names and things like that. So and again, if you would like to be involved we'll find ways to get you involved. Oh no, okay. So I just have a question about the voting process for the children. Is this something where they just say, do they need to like write up anything or explain like this is why I like this book or like give more of a, or is it just a, I picked this one. How does that, how does the actual, like what does the voting form actually look like? Is that something we can look at or? Yeah, so the voting for the children looks just like the voting for the adults to put it in. The ballots that come in your manual look a lot like they do here. It's just, you just select the title that you preferred. So the ones that come included in the manual are I want to say like a half sheet and there's just like spots for kids to tick off their favorite. Oh, okay. So there's an online form and there's a paper that they could submit. So the online form is intended for the adults and for the teachers for the librarians because we want the total, what we would like people to do is total their school, their library's votes and put in their full numbers on that online form. Okay, I get it. So the children just fill out the paper one at their school or library whatever and then the adult in charge would go here after they've compiled everything and submit. Absolutely. But those paper ballots look the same as once here, so. There's no, you don't have to write up a little, you have to convince them that this is why you like this book. You just say, I don't want this book. They don't have to like write a review or anything like that. We just trust that they're like, yeah, this one was my favorite. The review thing in Goodreads, that's for the adults when you're doing the nominating and deciding they're gonna be the final selections. Yes, and I will say that selection committee, generally the selection committee is asynchronous through Goodreads. They do meet in August every year to kind of make a final decision on the books for the next school year. So that 24, 25 list that's already been decided, they met in August of 2023 to make those final decisions. So this is really looking ahead, yeah. So it's hard and sometimes it's hard to look that far into the future, but that's, yeah. But you need to plan for that. It's all, with all the reading that people need to do absolutely and figure out what, because I know the years I've been in the past has been so which year are we talking about now? Which year, why? How far ahead are we? Which ones can we vote on right now? Which ones are? Yeah, and then we do announce, we've discussed that the primary reason for announcing next year's titles during this school year is so that schools can plan to do their purchasing because most schools do the bulk of their purchasing in the fall, so. True, true, oh right, yes. If you wanna have these books, if you don't already have them, you definitely, and these are, like I said, these are new books, so they're not necessarily gonna be something that is already in your collection that you come across. So you had a good head start before you get into the voting period. And then something to the voting is available now, but the reading and the distance that can be done by these kids at any time. At any time, yep, at any time. But just you've got till April 15th to total up all of the votes from your school. And I know, previous I've seen statistics on how many children or how many votes there have been. Do you have those, that information? I know it was like some huge numbers that were. I don't have them handy at the moment. I'd have to go back through some emails and find. But it is a pretty, it's a pretty good sized number. A pretty good sized number of kids vote every year, so. Yeah, I mean, if I'm remembering from previous sessions you've done, we were talking something like 10 or 15,000. I mean, that's what we're talking about. Either of children or votes going in. I mean, it's at least that much, possibly more. I don't want to say a big number of them out, but I know it was something like that was stunned to me. I'm like, oh, that the kids are, okay, that is huge for something like this. So you mentioned there are other states that have done this before. And I didn't know that because sometimes people we talk about the Golden Soar Award and I more often I get like a look of like there is, there's a children's can choose things, but it's in other states too. This is not something like unique to us. People just, I thought that was very interesting that people are like, oh, I never even heard of it. Well, there's 15,000 kids in this state doing it. Yes, but you said other states have similar programs too. Yeah, I've worked in four different states and every state I've worked in has had a version of a state children's choice award. And so someone has a question then, is this a national program, like something that comes out from ALA or something or is there any sort of overreaching organization? Not that I'm aware of. Like I said, it's just so happened that all four states I've worked in have had something similar. Usually through the state library association is usually who's overseeing those awards, so. All right, so you're not, we're not going to have to answer to anyone above us. No. It's kind of locally run, locally as far as the state locally run. It's good to have that local control. And then as far as the programming and is there any sort of, someone's asking about, is there any curriculum or programming suggestions or anything like in the manual about things that, ideas for what libraries and schools can do as far as programming for this? That there are, there are. And if you're not certain about buying the entirety of the manual, you can buy previous manuals piecemeal for like a dollar to $2 a piece if you wanted to take a look at some of them and just see kind of what's being offered and see if it's worth the $50, but there is information about like how to kind of coordinate voting for your school or your library. Like I said, different programs that you can do. There are a battle of the books, questions and trivia and things like that. And this was. Yeah. I'm trying to think what else. A lot of, there's also depending, the volunteers for the committee also help write the manual. So I know there's like word searches and things like that that go with different books from the list. So there's a lot of options for you if you're interested in purchasing the manual which I think is incredibly helpful. Good. So a library, because I know typically we hear, we think of this as something that the schools do and we've always been trying to get more libraries involved in it. So if you've never done this before at your library, you're not going in like blind. Right. Yeah, you don't have to reinvent the wheel. We have a wheel for you to look at and use. Nice. Okay. All right. So we do have a question too here. Okay. So how does it work if a school is doing this and the public library is doing this with, is there a potential for kids to vote more than once? Like if they do it with their school and how are you supposed to not let them vote more than more than once? Like if they're also, their school is running a program and the library is running a program, is that going to be in conflict or confusion? How is that, is there a way to figure that out? You know, we haven't really talked about like kind of the, I guess like the quality control of votes in that way. My understanding is most of our votes, that the lion's share of our votes do come from the public schools. I do think that public libraries, I don't know that you would have as much overlap as you think you would, because I think a lot of kids would be like, oh, I've already done that. Like, at least that's what I get when I ask kids about it. Is there usually like, oh, I did that at school or I did that with, you know, Mrs. Kelly, who's the elementary librarian. So, I don't, yeah. So it's not something we've really talked about and if a kid does happen to vote twice, I don't know that it's the end of the world. Okay. Hopefully most of the kids would just be honest in saying. Yeah, that's been my experience as most of them are pretty honest about it. There, yeah. See, you got the, how the compiling of the votes and everything would be done. Yeah. I think it's something too that some of those men actually just mentioned, you could work together with this partner, with the school and the library. It doesn't have to be two separate programs. They said, you know, we, you know, bring the school to, you know, talk to each other, coordinate with the school to make sure that we are, you know, we're doing things that work together or that both promote this. So, from the library, we can tell them, okay, when you go to the school, this is what you're going to do and the school can say, well, here's what's happening at the library related to this, but we're all in doing this together for this one program. And so that would be a great way to partner with them and rather than just trying to do two separate things. Yeah. Yeah. Opening those lines of communication always, always helps. Getting things rearranged on my screen here. All right. All right, I don't see, anybody have any other questions? We still got about 15 minutes left. We're almost to the end of our hour here. Does anybody have any questions of anything else that you want to ask of Ann about the program, about what's happening with it? I like there is the history there too that you can go back and see what was done in the past with the programs, because we know it's been around for a long time. Yeah. Any ideas or anything you want to share from your libraries of how you've been doing the programming for this, either at your school or your public library, I'll type in the question section there, because we can, since we are getting down to the end of our time, we don't want to go too far over if we don't have to. You can't see if you're typing things. Always have to wait and see if anything comes up until you're done typing. Ah, Claire, a question about the new level for the young adults. Yes. That will be available in which year? So it will be the school year 2025 to 2026, so not next year, but the year after, which I know feels like it's forever from now. But as I mentioned, like the group of people who are reading right now are reading for that selection year. So if you're interested in reading for the young adult list, please do let us know. We're still trying to fill out that group of people. Okay, great, yeah. So not 2024 or 25, the one after, you've got to wait, because it takes a lot of prep to get this all ready for the future years, yeah. Yep. But young adults can are welcome to read anything on the other levels right now. Yes, absolutely. They want to give their... Do we know anything, anything, is that the potential list for the 25, 26 year available anywhere, or you're still working on it? It is not the only people it's available to right now are the people on the selection committee who are working in Goodreads in that group for it. Right, because they haven't finished yet, yeah. So yeah, so we don't have a final list yet, so there's no list to put out. But like Ann said, if you're interested in wanting to know more about it, sign up where, I'm sure where that was again though, kind of join the group here, yeah. So if you would like to be part of that selection group here under selection group, there is all the way at the bottom, the Google form for you to fill out with your information. And then you can get involved in making those choices for the new, and any of them, and other levels of course. But if you're interested in what's happening and what they're discussing for the new level, the new young adult level, that would be the way to get involved in that. All right, any other questions? Make sure everybody has a chance to ask whatever they wanted to ask about the program. Any, while I'm waiting to see what comes up here, any final words, Ann, of encouragement or? I guess, yeah, I guess we just, we appreciate all the support from librarians across Nebraska, continuing to be so supportive of the award and continuing to promote it with their students and their patrons. And we hope to continue offering quality, programs and curriculum for you guys and things like that. So any feedback is greatly appreciated. Absolutely, yeah, if you're an NLA member or get involved, highly recommend it, yes. Great, and we have a comment just saying, I've enjoyed this and I'm looking forward to labeling nominees and winners. You may be getting an order in for some of those stickers. Oh, good. And yeah, and you can use those stickers to, like I said, there is the list of the previous ones. You can go start marking the previous ones too, so people know previous award winners that you may already have in your library. Absolutely. They said 1981 was the first award year of this, so there's a lot. There are very many titles there, yeah. So definitely buy some stickers and find all these books that you might have in your collection already. And they said putting a year on them is a good idea too. Definitely, yeah, you can add on to the sticker yourself, which particular year it was for, so people know how that all works. And you're a little year sticker there. Good suggestion. All right, I think we will work on wrapping it up and do my closing here since we're getting to the end of our hour. Thank you everyone for attending. If you have any questions, anything about the program, reach out. There's, I see there's a contact us link right there on the golden sewer page as well that you can link, you can click on if you have any, obviously there's a Google form if you wanna just participate, but if you just have any general questions, reach out to them and reach out to maybe anyone on the committee, which is there on the website that we'll get back to you. And thank you so much, Anne, for being with us today and talking about the golden sewer award. I hope a lot more libraries. And we've done sessions about the golden sewer over the years here on Encompass Live and always encouraging more public libraries to definitely get involved. I know some people think of it as a school thing, but it's not, it's a children's thing. Absolutely, thank you so much. So, absolutely, all right. So thank you, I've got some thank yous coming in as well from the audience. Thank you, Anne. Thank you everyone for being here today. As I said, we are recording the show and it will be available on our website. Here is the event page of today's show. I just have a link to the golden sewer website that Anne was showing. So you'll have a link right to that when I let you know about the recording. Down here, this will be changed to have a link to the recording that will go up on YouTube and the slide presentation that Anne is going to send to me. I'm gonna pop over to our Encompass Live page to show you how to get to all of this. This is our main Encompass Live page. If you use your search engine of choice and just type in Encompass Live, the name of our show, we are the only thing called that on the internet right now. No one else is allowed to use it. It's not official, but you'll find a link to our main page and a link to our archives. Our upcoming show is listed here and our link to our archives is at the bottom here. This has got the most recent shows at the top here. So today's will be there, should be up and done and ready by the end of the day tomorrow at the very latest. So everyone, it'll be here. Everyone who attended today's show and registered from today's show will get an email from me that I'll send out. It also goes out to our mailing lists and onto our social media. And it will, there will be a link, like this is the one from last week of link to the recording and a link to the slide presentation will be added to this event page when it's posted here. While we're here on the archives, I'll show you there is a search feature. If you want to search and see if we've done any shows on a particular topic before you can. You can search the full show archives or just the most recent 12 months if you want something just very current. And that is because this is the full show archives for Encompass Live. And if you look at it, if you can see it behind the right, we've got a long, you know, the scroll bar is huge. And that is because this goes back to, and I'm not gonna scroll all the way to the bottom because it is huge list. But this goes back to when Encompass Live first premiered which was in January, 2009. So we're 15 years old. So, but do pay attention if you are watching any of our archives to the original broadcast date. They're all dated here when they first were done. Some shows will be fine. We'll stand the test of time and be great, good, useful information, but some things will become old and outdated. Products and services may change drastically, may no longer exist. Links might not work. People may work at different libraries than they did when they presented to it for us. So just pay attention if you're watching an old show about the original broadcast date. But we will always, you know, as libraries do, we keep things for historical purposes. And as long as we would place to host our recordings which right now all of our recordings are on our YouTube channel. We'll always have them up there for everyone to look at. As I said, when the recording is ready, send an email out to our mailing list and to our registered and pre-registered attendees. We also push out on our social media. We have a Facebook page. If you like to use Facebook, give us a like. What we do are reminders here. Reminder to log in to today's show. Meet the speaker. Here's to remind the announcement of the recording of the previous week's show. So you'll get notifications about what we're doing here. We also do Twitter and Instagram. We have a hashtag, a little abbreviation of our show name, Encompass Live, that we tag things in everywhere too. So if you're looking for more social media type posts about Encompass Live, you will find them out there as well. So that will wrap it up for today's show. Thank you again, everyone for being here. Thank you again, Ann. That wraps up for today. I'll hope you'll join us for next week's show and we will be talking about racial and gender bias in search. Marcella Fredrickson will be joining us. She is from the UNC Wilmington and it's a session that she did at computers and libraries conference. You can't remember now. I saw this session as a conference elsewhere and asked her to recreate it here on our show. So she's gonna be talking about search in racial and gender bias in search that you may need to be aware of and dealing with at your library. So please do sign up and join us for that show and any of our other shows we have coming up. As you can see, we've got everything booked up through this year and even starting to get January 2024 sessions on the calendar. So thank you everybody and we'll hopefully see some of you on a future episode of Encompass Live. Bye-bye.