 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 a 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, and then it is posted to our archives, free to watch at your convenience. And I'll show you at the end of today's show where to access all those 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 may be interested in our show. We have quite a variety of things here on the show. For those of you not from Nebraska, the Nebraska Library Commission is the state agency for libraries in Nebraska, and that is for all types of libraries. So you'll find things on our upcoming shows and our archives for K-12, public libraries, academics, colleges and universities, corrections, museums. Basically anything that's a library, it could have a topic on our show. We do a mixture of types of things, book reviews, interviews, many training sessions, demos of services and products we think libraries might be interested in. We have Nebraska Library Commission staff sometimes come on and do things that are specific to what we're offering here in Nebraska. But we also bring guest speakers from outside of the Library Commission and outside of the state. And we have a mixture of those today. Before we get into today's show, I just want to make a brief comment here about on our Nebraska Library Commission website related to the COVID-19 pandemic that's going on right now. I'm reminding people that we do have resources for Nebraska libraries on our Library Commission website. The top post right here, as you can see, is a link to the resources we have available. This post is pinned to the top there, so it will always be at the top of our page. We also have a list of libraries with information in Nebraska as we hear about them or as they report to us whether they're open, closed, special accommodations they're making for people. It was originally for just closings. Now some libraries are working towards figuring out their opening and that information is there as well. On our blog post about the resources, we have a forum where libraries can report to us. This is from Nebraska libraries, what they're doing in their libraries. And then you can see the listing of that comes up here and just automatically comes up in a spreadsheet. So you can see your local library or your library's information is better to make sure it's up to date. We also have a link here of lots of resources to be pulled together for all sorts of different situations. Businesses, helping financial help. What do I do with my kids? Let's highlight here the page about libraries where we have our reference staff here and a lot of our staff here at the presentation, gathering resources to help our libraries at this time. So information about closing, reopening plans, suggested plans you can use as a basis for years. What to do with summer reading, what policies you have. Also it's a different link that we have in here. There's webinars we've seen that have been out there that we put links to that are coming up or that have recordings that you can watch for more information. So we're always adding to this, always updating it. So keep an eye on that if you're in Nebraska Library for more resources that we're gathering for you. So on to today's show. Today we're going to talk about census. The census is still going strong. Our 2020 census outreach for libraries is the topic today. And I am going to hand over to our presenter first. So Denise, I'm going to give you presenter control. You should see the option to show your screen. Yes. Go ahead and click on that and get your screen up. There we go. All right. And then do your slides from the beginning and it should, there you go. They're full screen. All right. So this morning we're, as I said, we're talking about the 2020 census. It is still happening, still available. So you can still get your data in there. And with us today is Denise Davis, who's from our Morton James Public Library here in Nebraska City, Nebraska. Good morning, Denise. Good morning. And also with us on the line is Mary Sowers, who is our government information services librarian here at the Nebraska Library Commission. Morning, Mary. Good morning, everyone. And she's in charge here at the commission for all the information that we push out about government resources in general. But at the moment, of course, census being the big thing. Well, we're going to, first of all, Denise is going to talk to us about what they've been doing at her library with the resources they've been given. So I'll just hand over to you, Denise, to take it away. Thank you very much, Krista. And thank you to Encompass Live for this opportunity to help further promote the census. I think it will go down in history as the COVID census. So it's had a special set of challenges. And so I'm delighted to be able to join you today. I've actually participated in your previous one in March when you went over the census in general with Mary. Little did I know I'd be on it myself a couple of months down the road. So again, happy to share and welcome all sorts of comments and questions as we go along. So thank you. So let me tell you what we received and how we went about doing so. So last year in the fall, LA announced a grant opportunity. I believe it was in part due to the fact that this is a historical census now for many other reasons, but especially as most of you, I'm sure, are aware, the first time it would be available to do online. And so that afforded a great opportunity for partnership between the American Library Association and the Census. So I'm so glad they did. And part of that partnership really is this grant because it was going to give many libraries across the country more resources with which to promote the census. So I saw this. I think it was maybe back in October when it came across, you know, various listservs and was on the ALA side. And I thought to myself, hmm, maybe I should look into it. I didn't say anything to anybody at the library. I just thought, well, they're only giving it to 25. So that first made me think I'm not going to do it. But then I thought, well, I asked the background. So I'll tell you a little bit about that. And while you recall Luca, you see the acronym there on the screen. That stands for Local Update of Census Addresses. Okay. And I had some familiarity with that because back, as far as the fall of 2017, so we're going back more than two years ago, I was approached by our director who in turn had been approached by our city administrator at the time that he had received information from the Census Bureau as had all municipalities across the country because this is part of the census prep for the census every 10 years. They have to clean up all the addresses, right? They don't want to mail those mailings we all received back in March to a lot of incorrect addresses. And so they give communities an opportunity to clean up those address lists. So the city administrator wanted to know if the library could help. He himself was not going to have time to do this. And so we said, yes, I mean, librarians, we love information, right? We love getting it right. So I personally was assigned this task. And so I started that in 2018. Again, I'm giving you this background just because it fed into the narrative that I put into our grant application. So when I applied for the grant, which had a deadline of November 22nd, right around Thanksgiving last fall, we could only use 250 words to make our case. And for those of you who applied for grants, that's pretty basic, right? It wasn't a heavily involved complicated grant application, which made it all the more appealing to apply before. We'd already gotten very involved in the community as we canvassed in essence the community to make sure we had correct addresses. Keep in mind we had to review 600 pages of addresses. Nebraska City is just over 7,000 people. So in census speak, we comprise about two census tracks. Census tracks typically have anywhere between three and 4,000 people per tract. That's the unit of measure that census data is typically relayed through. And so we needed to review all those addresses. And how did I do that? Well, I compared with the census sent us these 600 pages to the county assessor's list as well as our local utilities, the Nebraska City utilities. They were very helpful in providing their list of addresses. And so this was all very confidentially done. All of this census bureau information is title 13 information. So I had to work very much in tandem with the city administrators at City Hall. The documents never left the City Hall building. We were very respectful of the whole title 13 process. And yet when it came time to identify where there were discrepancies between the census list and local listings, I went out, did our version of field work, right? I was canvassing the community comparing, oh, are there really two apartment units in this building that looks just like a house? Or, you know, there's so much that goes into getting a correct count. And so I really had this kind of, you know, boots in the ground background and working with census. So I put that in our narrative. And I also mentioned that we would build on trust that we'd already established as a bridge builder in our community. I happened to be bilingual in Spanish and have established many contacts with our local Latino population. In fact, our library even hosted a forum between the mayor, the city administrator, and the then recently formed Latino community committee. And there was great synergy there. And so the library is coming to be seen as a trusted place for our Spanish speaking community. And so we want to build on that trust. And so these items below that you see there in the board of funding were things we promoted to do should we receive the grant. So submitted it and right before Christmas, the week right before Christmas, ALA announced the awarding of 59 grants instead of just 25. And that's because they were overwhelmed with the response. Evidently, they received over 500 applications for these 25 grants. Wow. We were very, I was just overjoyed. I thought, oh my gosh, we got it. And here's to give you an idea of the geographical disbursement of these 59 libraries. Okay, and I cannot tell you what the different colors mean. I have searched high and low online ALA, everything short of calling ALA because they never really outlined, you know, what's a myth without a good legend. But I don't know what these colors mean. So I can't answer that question. However, I can tell you where we are, right? There's the Martin James right there. And there is no other library in any bordering state other than the Garden City, Kansas. So I was pretty pleased that we went ahead and tried for this, right? Nothing ventured, nothing gained. So the mini grant is $2,000 and ALA is very open to how we spend that. There really aren't any restrictions whatsoever. So I wanted to show this slide as well because I think it shows the reason behind it being such a good idea to have this partnership between the American Library Association and the Census. I think this fact is just fascinating. And the premise between ALA or behind ALA doing this was because there were so many hard to count census tracks. A great desire to improve upon 2010's lowest response rate in some of these areas, right? And so to approve the response rates, it shouldn't be the same as 2010. Hopefully there'll be a note of improvement. Although again, the COVID-19 climate is proving to be a challenge there by all means. So I didn't really get started on working on this until January and had the very happy coincidence right when I was kind of putting in my calendar here and decided what to do when I had the good fortune to be contacted by a Census Bureau staff member. You see her name there, Clarissa Suarez-Russell. Perhaps some of you here in Nebraska have worked with Clarissa. She's assigned to our area. She worked with us. She kind of texted us here at the Library Commission as well, Mary, and has worked with her as well. Yeah, she's been very helpful. And it's just like I say, I didn't know about these partnership specialists when I submitted the grant. I had no idea. But it's just been a blessing because what these partnership specialists are assigned to do, they have been specifically assigned to work closely with census tracks that had low responses in 2010. And of the two tracks that we have here in Nebraska City, one of them was a lower response, meaning in their census terms that there was non-response of over 20%. So across the country, any census track that fits that metric in terms of having over 20% of its citizens not responding, then they are identified for these resources now in this 2020 census of a partnership specialist that would prove I suppose one of the reporters I might not be speaking with you today, since you did speak with all of you at the Commission. So as soon as you call, I said, oh my gosh, this person is she on her and didn't know we had the grant. You know, so it's like this great merging of new resources that happened when we had a chance to put our heads together. And so she came down to Nebraska City would have been days ago, and we met with our local economic development office, as well as our equivalent of the Chamber of Commerce and Tourism to share ideas and how to go forward. Mind you, some of you might be in communities that have what are called census complete count committees, and Nebraska City had elected not to form one of those. So in essence, we're kind of the equivalent, if you will, of a semblance of a complete count committee with our efforts. And so I had an additional meeting with Clarissa. She came right to our library. So with that work, we just took off. That's me at the table that Clarissa and I, and again, let's take a photo actually, so thanks for the lovely table skirt. I haven't had one of those myself, but we start that with Rodriguez. As you all know, Rodriguez is a great way to get the word out about different initiatives and programs. And so the mayor happened to have the program in February. He wanted us to talk about the census. And he wanted to introduce Clarissa at our local contact. So Clarissa and I together spoke at the library in February, and she brought packets for all of them and plenty of materials to distribute. The image you see here is at the school enrolment night at a local school. And it gives you an example of how we from the beginning have had materials of both English and Spanish. You see there even the questionnaire itself in Spanish. And as those of you have already completed the questionnaire, you know, it's so straightforward, only nine or 10 questions. So I wanted people to have a visual there from the get go of how straightforward and easy it is. Additionally, in February, Clarissa came from Lincoln and we went to a Head Start evening event, which was for both children and their parents. It was an activity night. So we had a chance to join them and give our little blurb. I actually took that display that you see in this image. I took it along with us to highlight the availability of responding in Spanish as well as materials in Spanish. Then after that event, I specifically visited our largest and main daycare facility here in Nebraska City and took materials. I spoke with the director ahead of time to find out how many children were in her care and took enough materials for everyone to get by. But that's not a good resource to be set aside as part of our label. Some are different audiences. There's one of counting children and counting them right, counting them in the right place. So I made sure I took plenty of those bookmarks to do the daycare. Again, you can see trying to do things in as much the bilingual manner as possible. Nebraska City, that was part of my grant narrative. We've experienced significant growth in our Latino population since the 2010 census. We do have a large meat packing facility as some of you may be aware. And so that was an impetus to for applying for the grant and trying to do more outreach to harder to count populations. Obviously Facebook have to use that medium obviously in our newsletter as well. So those are just some of the things we started to do in February. And as we all know, March started off fairly normally at least in our part of the woods. And that was the week or the month rather you all should have received something at home, right? So Clarissa actually came and shared debriefed the whole staff at a staff meeting to coincide with when we would all be getting our own census call to participate and was able to answer staff's questions. And at the same time kind of give us some background for when we in turn would be helping the public because we all know as librarians how mindful we are privacy and not wanting to cross boundaries as we assist our public, but also strike that balance between being helpful and respecting privacy. So that same month, I was able to promote census participation on our local radio show. And again, it was the very week that people should have been receiving their first mailing. I'm going to do their March Madness Brackets this year. And the two that you're meeting now for many of you are already, but they actually have a game called Population Bracketology. And it looks just like the brackets that people do during March Madness, I think it was even the same number that was 64 pairs of cities. You can either do the city version or the state version. And I encourage you if you are in the mood for a game or want to do something fun online that's related to the census, check this out. And it changes. I've done it several times and they mix up the cities in the state since time. So you basically, okay, you have to choose which has the higher population, San Antonio or Cleveland. And then you choose, then you move on and you find out at the end, you know, what the highest populations are. You can go by state or by city. So I talked about that on the radio show in the midst of no March Madness. We also work in the local newspaper a couple of times. They've been really great about promoting what our activities were as well as the general census timeline. I also had created a basic bare bones census cheat sheet, which we at the time place beside our computers as well as staff phones and also on Facebook. Spanish as well as the option because for many people who maybe aren't comfortable with English as a first language, they could call not only a Spanish hotline but 12 other languages at least are available to call. But given our community demographics, we were honing in on the Spanish. And so we have this by our phones still here at the library. And we also put it on Facebook, because everyone does count and now at this stage, you know, especially since paper is no longer an option, the last day to submit the paper was made first, I believe. And Mary, you can correct me if I'm wrong, but I do believe that has come and gone. There's no longer a paper option that really now makes the phone even more important for those who may not be comfortable online and have not yet completed the census. Absolutely. And did they was that was made first always the paper deadline or did they make any changes to the deadlines because of the COVID-19. I was sure it was always the original paper. Okay, we're going to send out reminder postcards. The online response is now July 31. And they are still sending out postcards as reminders. Mary, we can double check, but I did just double check with Clarissa before changing my last slide, because I had had, as you later see on my last slide, the final date to respond online. And now that has shifted as well now. Okay. It's people are going to have more time, rather than less. Very cool. Which is a good. Yes, that's good news. Absolutely. They're always changing the way nowadays. This is going to be remembered as the COVID census, you know, I mean, definitely will be a factor. So what happened in March is we all know we had to pivot in all areas of life. We had to postpone some things. We didn't even gotten permission as you see there under the first main bullet. We were going to have a chance to promote display at the local meat packing plant. They had given the green light for us to come and be there. Obviously that could not happen in the end. We were also going to be stationed at all the local schools when they had their primary night of parent teacher conferences where all the parents would be attending and that we would be right there. In route to where they had to go to, to give them that nudge about the census as well as some information. That couldn't happen either. In our grant proposal, we had pledged that we would have extended library hours to facilitate the online completion of the census that obviously had to go on the wayside there as well as church visits. I had hoped to just quickly do a little blurb. You know, after services or after a clergy member sermon, as I've done it with other events, but that couldn't happen now since many weren't even convening. And we'd also proposed to do a bilingual story hour and I'm hoping we can still do a version of that during summer reading. So obviously, as you see there under the second main bullet, everything was canceled mid March, which led of course to more online promotion of it. And that's when I really began to ramp up my personal delivery of Spanish materials to a local store, which you'll see more images of as we go forward. Our library has never fully closed unlike many in our state and across the country. We have stayed open to retrieve materials for our patrons. We have kind of a grab and go system set up in our lobby. So that has allowed me to continue to promote the census through those bags that go out and I'll show you an image of that in a moment. And I also moved our census display that had been up in our main area to the lobby. So moving to April, it's going to be kind of interesting this year. It's going to be April 1st. My response day is October 31st, Halloween. So I'm kind of kind of comical and it's April Fool's Day and Halloween. It's your census response window. Great way to look at it. We have a whiteboard in our lobby to not change the message, but previously was having completed your questionnaire yet. And on that day, each person I saw from a distance, of course, from six feet at least, I'd say, Oh, have you done your senses? You know, giving them that verbal personal knowledge, not just the printed word with their materials. And I continue to do that when I see people. They don't want to see me sometimes, I think, because I ask, Oh, have you done the census? Okay. Now, on the right, you have an image of El Mercadito, which is the main store I've been taking and keeping some materials. It's for Frider's picture there. She's been a great person to work with on this. And I'll tell you more about that. Coincidentally, on census day April 1st, our library was mentioned in a piece by ALA. I think I might have done myself the participating in one of your webinars in the late March and comments on the webinar. And I got a call from ALA's communication office just a couple of days later, basketball for permission to get my contact information to smart cities died, which I have not been familiar with yet. Some of you may be familiar. They do good pieces actually. And so they wanted to know what libraries were doing due to this necessary pivot of activity. And so I was very surprised that it kind of took on this form. But as you can see, they, they highlighted our efforts there and their piece that was actually published on census day itself. And so I increased my visits to El Mercadito in April to let these stored. And I really highlighted you can see on the left is what she's putting one of her windows. I mean, it's just like she's plastered her window. It's a mixture of official census materials with something from Sesame Street. And what you see there, let's see, I just lost mine. Oh, here it is. I want to show you the one and given a translation of what they're saying. Okay. That means nothing to fear and my concern just visiting with locals and having an awareness of the, which never appeared, right? So I'll recall at one point, there was the possibility of putting a citizenship question on the questionnaire, which never came to fruition. But I just, there'd be lingering kind of residue of fear about this because of that. So I really wanted to hone in on this. Thank you. Thank you. Supply these to give each customer and actually kind of where I've got the mouse cursor right now to give the numbers that I found in the previously seen census sheet. So, because here it is that you are able that they can get more information as fast, but there was no phone number. And again, some of these people may not have access to a computer and the phone for them is the best way to communicate. So this reluctance to participate. What we were doing, I guess, fake census news, right? This is just an excerpt from that piece and highlighting that. Nice. Make sure, you know, this is where she is on the inside of her store. And she's holding up a book for children. And so I've left copies of that one in the current one with ready to distribute to her customers. And she's holding up the odds and ends here. What did we use the money for that we got? Well, we purchased an extra laptop earbuds and many, many, many, many dollars spent on photocopies because the census, as I'm sure many of you are aware of already has produced so much. It can be dizzying sometimes how much is on their website that you can copy and reproduce and distribute. And of course we want to do most of that in color so it's more effective so that's more expensive. So also been copying the whole story activity book, which is 28 pages. So, you know, 28 pages in color that really adds up but we have the money to do it. Normally we wouldn't. So I've really been going kind of wild on that. I'll participate. If you just query your favorite web browser with smart cities and census, it should come up in libraries. We're also continually for summary program creators and people responsible that you might want to look at the things that are on this portion of the Census Bureau's website. I'm just blowing away every time I go there. I see something new. And this is the area where you'll see the information, the ability to download the complete activity book that I've talked about also in in Spanish. There you go. And it was kind of fun when I was at let these one time giving her some more materials. This image on the right. She placed it on her window and one of her customers there at the time she has stayed open the whole time she limits it to three people in her store at one time. So I'm mindful of that when I go. And so I've been able to see a couple people each time I go. And some children are with their parents and they were actually standing next to the window where this image was and they were counting the little heads. I thought, oh, this is so good. Just like the census does count them all. Yeah. That's right. So I need I need to bring her more more coloring books. Nebraska counts has done a great job here in our state with census information and making it available by a lingley. I like their graphic. They're the state of Nebraska full of people in its shape and then just bilingual from the very get go on that page. All the information. So I wanted to just highlight that additional resource. And so when all in all it's been a great partnership with the senses thanks to a la Clarissa has just been a godsend in terms of all the information the constant contact sending the updates. She also, as I mentioned, we met with many community leaders, including our mayor and a la due to this pandemic, of course, has been very flexible about our deadlines. I think initially had to submit a grant report in the July, which of course isn't doesn't make sense now because we're all continuing our efforts with the extended deadlines. So, very grateful for that. Our future plans. Well, obviously continue to promote the participation. I'm hoping I can perhaps do another quick blurb on our local radio show. Perhaps bring to coincide with summer reading program. Clarissa is even sending us some swag very soon. So I'm really excited about swag. Who doesn't love swag. And we can give that maybe as prizes or so and have it connected with our summer reading as well. I also want to point out and a couple of these I know are linked directly to the statistics in schools portion of the census Bureau website but Sesame Street and Dr. Seuss have some great resources as well that are census specific. The Sesame Street workshop. You can just query that and you'll find you can actually sign up to receive videos posters and specifically related to the census. And then Dr. Seuss has some great coloring pages, and I know that is specifically linked to the statistics in school site. And then as I was mentioning earlier Clarissa has confirmed the latest timeline they received from the head of the census Bureau. He requested that there be an extension. And so this should be it I don't believe it would go any further than this because of the constitutional requirement that the census Bureau present the numbers to the president by the end of the year so we do now have until October. So that's a lot of time yet to really ramp up so for those of you listening if your library hasn't had an occasion to do much yet because you're closed or you know obviously living in these circumstances there's still plenty of time to promote the census in your respective communities and I hope everyone's already done it themselves right we on our staff we all made a song that you can learn and do I'm not going to sing now you wouldn't want to hear that but it's another resource that people can make use of. I did ours for my house online the online version of it and I think I had the memory of previous ones and I don't know if it's a specific memory from 10 years ago or not but of like the paper forms and there's the short form the long form all of that. And how many pages and pages it was and I was dreading going into it because it's like all right get sit down get my coffee figured out all these questions going to have to answer and really it's not that no it was less. Three minutes maybe for all the questions that they're even asking it's very very basic information that aren't digging down deep very much. That's correct. Yeah. Clarissa to you folks at the Commission and encompassed live for this opportunity to share and everyone caps and I think this will be a census for the books. Absolutely. Absolutely. Thank you very much. And I'm glad they gave that extension of the deadline to officially because that I think will help a lot of people who've had other things on their mind. So I've not been able to maybe do this yet. Yeah. Very cool. Yeah. All right. So thank you Denise. That's great. Anybody has any questions for Denise by anything they did there at Martin James public library go ahead type in your questions section of your go to webinar interface. We just want to say congratulations on what you've done. Good job. She can answer some questions about anything they did in their grant. And let's see I think didn't look at anybody's typing anything in right away. That's fine. You can always reach out to Denise at the library there with her email address. If you do want to have any more get any more ideas from her input to share any of the resources she has available there. All right. So I think Mary you said you had stuff to share too. Just a little bit. Okay. I can hand over presenter control to you. Sure. All right. I'm going to switch over to Mary's screen now so you should see your pop up. There we go. I'm seeing your background though. Oh, okay. Let me move. Yeah, there we go. Okay. Yeah. Monitor. That's the model. You gotta figure out which one is which. So now if you start from the beginning, let's see where actually put your slides. Yeah. Did is it still showing with the slides on the left? It's showing those. Yeah. The presenter type view. Not the actual full slides. Yeah. So. What you should be able to do in go to webinar is choose which screen you want to be showing which monitor. Oh, okay. And go to the sharing section there. And there should be a pull down. I just have monitor one, monitor two. And go to webinar and go to webinars phase. It's not working. I do apologize. Actually, I'm just going to go for the sake of time. I'm going to go ahead and leave it the way it is just so I can. What I'm going to do is I'm going to give you presenter control again. So I took it back and let's see here. Now when it does it, see if it does have a pull down with showing each screen. And guys gives a little flipper. Oh, I see. My apologies. Take the one that has the actual full size. Okay. I think that's. There you go. Perfect. Okay. Awesome. Good morning again, folks. I really don't have a whole lot. First of all, I did want to mention that Denise was absolutely right. The extension. For responding to the census has been extended to October 31st, which is really interesting because I was just on their page this morning. And it still had the original. Old date. Versus. New date. And. If you go to 20, 20 census. And then click on get the facts. A drop down menu says important dates. And then see operate. If you go below the calendar there, it's monitoring COVID-19. See operational adjustments. The old timeline is still below that. So ignore it. Go straight to this operational adjustments. And it will, and if you scroll down, it gives you the status of current operations. So the self-response phase originally was March 12th. Through. May 1st. And then just this morning it was still March. Yes. And then the revised schedule was March 12th through July 31st. It's been updated since I looked at it this morning. My apologies, Denise. But it is now March 12th through March 31st or October 31st. So. The most up to date information possible. So. We started this morning. Yeah. So anytime you want to know what's going on, you know, at any particular moment. You know, you know, you know, you know, the 2020 census.gov is, is generally the most reliable website to, to go to. So. Yeah. So, and, you know, with that in mind, two main websites to remember. And is. Did my screen change? You're still on the right one. If you just clicked on your slides, it should advance to the next slide. Yeah. Okay. So. Two main websites to remember 2020 census.gov and my 2020 census.gov. The 2020 census.gov is the general information website. The my 2020 census.gov is the questionnaire itself. And. So. Just a reminder, you know, for those. Yeah. It's not advancing the slide. Are you trying to advance the slides? Yes. It's not. Yeah. Go ahead. Click on, like click anywhere on the main slide that you've got the, the display one and then use your arrow keys to go right there. There you go. Yeah. Anyway, a couple of other things I just wanted to cover is some general statistics is how Nebraska is bearing. In general, of all US households, it's almost 60% have responded. Currently as of this morning was 58.7%. So it is definitely going up. Just last week it was 58.2%. So like I said, it is going up and Nebraska is still in the top five for the long time. Nebraska was number one in response rate, but unfortunately, Minnesota has caught up with us and cast us. So Nebraska is number four right now, but we are still doing really, really well at getting the word out to, to, and households are responding, which is always really exciting to see that our efforts are having effect. So the other thing I wanted to show you is the 2020 census total self-response rankings. And if you go back to the 2020 census.gov main website under get the facts at the very bottom, it's response rates. So if you click on that, once the map comes up, there's a little link to an interactive part of this. This is just the general self-response map that you can see, but there's a little bit more detailed that I found really fun. And so, you know, if you want to point your patrons to something, you know, kind of interesting to look at under this 2020 census self-response by state, there's a rankings here highlighted. So if you click on that, it takes you to a Tableau public and it breaks it down by state, county, household responses by state, and then ranking by city. So what I did this morning was, and I had to play with a little bit to figure out how it worked, but because Nebraska City is about 7,500 people, you can narrow it down by population range. And I did, nope, not quite that much, one more. I think I did the 45 to 4500 to 91. And then by state, I clicked on Nebraska, and it does take a couple of seconds to repopulate, so don't get frustrated. There you are. So it changed by county. Nebraska is still number four by state. Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, and we're number four. But then if you drop down to county, and then you scroll down a little bit, Odo County is supposed to be there. But there are the city one. Yeah. Nebraska City came up. So if you click on Nebraska City, it comes up with a little box and then you can, it will take you to, again, takes a couple of seconds. The city and the response rate, and Nebraska City is at 65%. So at the 65 and a half. So they are actually doing really, really well. And I am sure most thanks to Denise and all of the things that you did, that I'm sure that's why that is so high right now. Great. If I could just, can you hear me? Yes. Yeah. I just wanted to point out the reason that looks so funny there. I mentioned Nebraska City is two census tracks. So that's what you see represented there. One craft is one shade of blue and the central one. And it's the central one that had the lower response rate. So you can also play with census tracks on the screen that Mary's showing and get the actual percentage. And the percentage rate for that smaller one is lower. Yeah. So if you hover over it. Yeah. You can see that totally it's only 60%. And if you hover over this one, it's 70%. Right. Yeah. But still, I am sure it's much higher than it would have been otherwise without your efforts, Denise. I don't know, but it's got to keep going. Got to keep going. Got to get higher. Yeah. Absolutely. And let's see. I think. Yeah. I was going to run into and see if I could locate Lancaster County real quick, but I'm not going to say, oh, Lincoln Nebraska there. Okay. No, that's Lincoln County. Sorry. Yeah. But anyway, I just wanted to point out that little rankings map so that you could play around with it and find some really interesting facts for your own county or community or, you know, some instances you have multiple communities, you know, within your county and you can display the statistics, you know, to people, put up a sign, put it on your Facebook page, you know, Instagram or Twitter, you know, things like that just to maybe create a little bit of a competition. And that's what I did with the blog posts and some of the Facebook posts that I did was Nebraska's number one, you know, let's do it. Let's keep it that way. Or, you know, as it was going down, let's, you know, still a little bit of a competition to keep things going. So going back to my slides. There we go. Again, real quick, just some real fast ways, you know, to remind people of how you can get the word out. And that's why social media is a very important part of your social media. Not, and as far as social media, do Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, blog posts on your web pages, you know, whatever way you have to get out the word. And I know money is tight right now and that's why social media is a very economic option is because it doesn't cost a lot of extra money to get the word out that's that way. I've been doing posts here on the commission web page, but I've also been doing posts on my own personal Facebook page to try to get the word out. You know, anytime anything new comes across from the Census Bureau, I've been trying to post it, especially on my personal Facebook page to try to reach a wider audience than just here in Nebraska, for example. Emails, if you're in contact with any of your patrons by phone, in the conversation, be sure to mention, have you responded to the census? Displays. And I realize that a lot of libraries are not open right now, but you can still do window displays. You can do displays inside the library, take a picture of it, post it on your Facebook page. And you can do that on your own personal Facebook page. You can do that on your own personal Facebook page. You can do that on your own personal Facebook page. You can go to the library, take a picture of it, post it on your Facebook page. Paper reminders. Now, this is where unfortunately sometimes it's cost prohibitive, but like Denise did, they did bookmarks. You know, put a bookmark in everything if you've got, you know, if you can run off some on your copier on some paper and then just cut them apart. You know, get the word out that way. And also too, as you're advertising for summer reading, which Denise already mentioned and which kind of goes to show, she and I were kind of on the same wavelength this morning, but, you know, put in as you're advertising for summer reading that your, that people still need to respond to the census. And if you want to subscribe to emails that, so that you're getting census updates, go to census at subscriptions.census.gov and they will sign up for the emails. They come every week, sometimes several per week, but there's lots of things that you can do just based on what they send you in the emails in sharing the word, you know, to get things out. So that's something just anyone in the general public just couldn't sign up for. It's not like a specific library thing. Absolutely. Yes. Anybody can sign up for it. So if you've got patrons who are interested in what's going on, you know, with the census, you know, they can receive emails as well. It's not just for librarians. And this is one example that I came across that was a result of an email that you could put out as a Facebook post or on your library webpage. The results of the 2020 census helped determine how hundreds of billions of dollars in federal funding flow into communities every year for the next 10 years. That funding shapes many different aspects of every community, no matter the size or location. And I followed up with impact your community, respond now, my 2020 census.gov. It's simple. It's straightforward. It's not overly wordy. And even if you don't want to use this, you know, in your post, just use this, you know, and it may catch someone's eye and they go, Oh, I still need to do that. That type of thing. This is another example I found how the state of Georgia is trying to get the word out. They created this and put it out that it's not too late respond today. So there's lots of ways that you can do this and lots of variations that you could do be creative. You know, it doesn't have to be fancy. But especially since they just changed that deadline date, that would be something to now grab and like, yes, modify one of these kinds of things to say, just extended the deadline. People love seeing those messages about new deadline being a deadline. Exactly. Yes. That's correct. Yeah. Several of them that I so several of the graphics I saw actually had just a picture of a clock and it's not too late. So, you know, it doesn't have to be fancy. Just enough to get somebody's attention so that they, so that they do that. Also at census bureau, a census.gov, there are promotional materials. And so feel free to go there. There's lots of information, overview materials, guides and tool kits, audience specific materials, you know, especially for a second language. And so feel free to go there and browse around. And you can print things off. You can download and print off. And then you can request items, you know, like posters and things like that. Like Denise requested or mentioned, you could also collect. Oh, I apologize. My voice is starting to go. You could also contact Clarissa. And she might be able to deliver some posters and promotional materials to you. We just received some. Post or posters. And I wanted to share that picture. They, these are up now in our front window here at the commission. And she gave us a whole packet of each. So I put up three and took a picture. And so I apologize for the reflection. But, but, you know, very good sized posters, bright eye catching. And, you know, you can put them up and like Denise did around Nebraska city, you know, put them up all around town. And these would be free to get from. Yes. Well, yeah, there's no cost for these premade. The actual promotional materials from the census itself are free. Right. So this, if that is a problem, I'll concern is the cost for you to print out your own things. You don't have to order it from them and they can send it to you and it's, yeah. Yes, that is correct. Right. This was one of the things I wanted to mention about doing a blog post and this is just the last in a series that I did about the history of the census. Those are really interesting. Yeah. I never knew about it. Yeah. And there were 20, I, there were 23 posts leading up from the very first one to the one that we're doing now, which turned out to be perfect timing. And it just gives a history of who was the president at the time and what the guidelines were and then essentially changes from census to census. And obviously the first one was have somebody had to walk around and actually talk to people to get them. Gradually moved to paper and then mail in and now we've advanced to the point where you can respond online and by telephone. This was another blog post that I did where this is an email that I get. It's called 2020 census infogram that has all kinds of information of relating to the census how it's going. And this one was just a couple of weeks ago. So still, and this is also geared towards just the Denver Dallas region, which is where Nebraska falls. So we're kind of the middle swath of the country from North Dakota all the way down to Texas. And I also wanted to mention the Nebraska accounts webpage, which Denise mentioned earlier. And this one you can post share on Facebook, but I also just wanted to double mention that it's in English and Spanish. And so I found that very timely and very interesting so that we can help our second language patrons. So that's all I have today. But just wanted to, you know, throw out some other ideas for you to be able to use. And if you have any questions, feel free to call or email me. And again, Krista, thank you for having Denise and I on today so that we can continue to promote this. Yeah, I was glad to be able to get you on the show so quickly Denise too. I know I just reached out to you like a week or so ago about this. It was actually at Clarissa. Clarissa had notified, let us know that, hey, by the way, there's this library in your state and we heard about back because I have like vague memory of when it was announced like you said back in December, but now it's months and months later and everything else is going on. Only so many brain cells working to remember everything. So I'm glad you, you know, give us, give me the nudge to give us the nudge to do this with you. Yeah. No, I could I just say, you know, she just been a God send all around and anyone out there who, you know, things. If you don't get materials from Clarissa directly, they are high quality, well done. You've seen the examples we've shown. They're there to use, especially like I said, the bookmarks, I geek bookmarks, I officially do. So they're really easy to reproduce and get the word out with. Yeah. All right. All right. Thank you so much, Denise. Thank you. Thank you, Mary. Anything we last minute desperate questions you want to ask right now you can or just a little after 11 o'clock so about ready to wrap up the show. But you do have Lisa's contact info from her slides, Mary's from here. Both of these slides presentation will be available when we put the archive up as well. Denise, if you send me your slides afterwards in here, I'll be able to click that with our on our archive page. Okay. So you'll have access to all their resources. So I'm really glad you this is great. That's amazing. All the stuff you're able to do Denise with with the grant and it is only $2,000. So not a ton of money, but it got a lot of a lot of work out of it. Yeah. From from alien. I'm glad they expanded that location too. Sorry. No, I still have something to spend. Yeah. That's a good problem to have. Absolutely. All right. I'm going to go back to my screen here. Whoops. No, no, stop. There we go. That's the right one. Okay. All right. So yeah. Thank you. 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