 Good morning and welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. I'm your host, Christa Porter, here at the Nebraska Library Commission. Encompass Live is the Commission's weekly webinar series where we cover a variety of topics that meet your interest to libraries. The show is broadcast live every Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. Central Time, but if you're unable to join us on Wednesdays, that's fine. You can always watch any of our archives later when it's more convenient for you. And I will show you at the end of today's show where all those archives are on our website. Encompass Live is run by the Nebraska Library Commission, so we have, and the Nebraska Library Commission is a state agency for those of you who aren't from Nebraska, is a state agency for libraries here in the state. So we provide services and training and consultation and grants and whatnot for all types of libraries across the state, so public, academic, schools, correction facilities, museums, if you're a library, hospital, yeah, if you got a library, we're here for you. So we also have the same kind of programs on our show here today as well. So we will find topics on our upcoming shows and our archives that should cover anything. Really, our only criteria is that it is about libraries. Libraries is our focus. Anything libraries are doing, something we think they could be doing, cool new services or products that they might be interested in. So it's a really broad of topics that we have. We do have Nebraska Library Commission staff that come on and do presentations on things that we are specifically offering here in Nebraska. We also bring guest speakers from outside of the commission, and we have a mixture of that here today. This morning we are talking about the Great American Read, which is a huge, great new program recently done by PBS, and we're going to get more into the details about that. And with us this morning is, and we'll get more detailed introductions, but Mary Jo Ryan is the communications coordinator here at the Nebraska Library Commission for how many more days? A few more days. A few more days. Mary Jo's retired. I'm going to retire. This is her last and compass live with us. Yeah. It's been swell, thank you Chris. And also right next to her is Martha Ellen Florence, who is from our Nebraska and ET television, our local PBS station in Nebraska. And at the end there, Katie Murphy from Lincoln City Libraries, just up the street here in Lincoln as well. So we're going to talk about the Great American Read, what it is, what it's all about, and what you could do at your library to help promote it, because it's getting geared up again just next week. Exactly. So, and Martha Ellen, you're going to take it away first. I am, and I'm very excited to be here this morning to give you a little idea about the Great American Read. So the Great American Read is an eight-part series that explores and celebrates the power of reading. And so we're really excited to be able to bring this to Nebraska. What happened was they looked at a hundred different books, and if we would change the slide, so how were the top, how were they chosen? And the PBS and producers worked with the PBS polling service YouGov to conduct demographically and statistically, that's a mouthful, representative survey, asking Americans to name their most most loved novels and approximately 7,200 people participated. So here is a list of how they narrowed the list of the top 100, and they had a group of 13 literary industrial professionals. And so each author was limited to one title on the list. Books were published in a series of featuring ongoing character counted as one eligible entry. So for example- I like that feature. Yeah, that was a good idea. Well, so example, if you had Harry Potter, you had every Harry Potter, but just the whole series. My favorite one is, but no, we don't have that. Exactly. So books could be from anywhere in the world as long as they were published in English. And their only fiction, and we'll talk about that in a minute, could be included in the poll. And each advisory panel was permitted to select one book for discussion and possible inclusion on the top 100 list from the longer list of the survey results. Okay. So why are, why, why fiction? You know, why weren't their religious works? So the Great American Read is searching for the country's best loved novels. So why we recognize the broad categories of books available, we chose to narrow our focus to work on works of fiction, because it would be impossible, as you all know, to cover them all. So the course of the course of an eight part series. I read somewhere that people were concerned about, well, what about nonfiction? That's a great, you know, why is it that? That's next to you. Yeah, that's right. Sure. You know, tell, tell PBS, we want to go on nonfiction books. Yeah. And, you know, we have a really extensive web page for PBS national. So go online and say, you know, we want nonfiction next time and see what happens. So the books are books included on the list, her fictional titles, authors, periods, countries, genres, subject matter, and the list includes books from as far back, which I think is really exciting, 1600s. Yeah, that's awesome. And as recent as 2016, which some of those, I'm like, really? Okay, but from that's just me. You weren't in that sample. I wasn't in that sample. So some of them are the kind of the classic beloved ones that, you know, many of those I said, oh, I read that in high school, I read that in elementary school, right? You know, so as a young adult, so it was very exciting. So there's, there's thrillers, there's classics, there's sci-fi, there's adventures, and the actual broadcast would be divided up into six categories. So here's the schedule. We had the launch of May 22nd, and you can actually watch that online now. And I will talk a little bit later on in the presentation about the NET website, because that goes up on September 11. We're going to keep that off. And that actual, that video will actually be available. If you'd like to show that in your library, if you'd like to show that to folks, it's the two hour overview of what the Great American Read is. So that's called the launch special. Then we come back on February, I'm sorry, September 11th, which is the fall kickoff. Next week. Exactly. And it kind of it's, it's a more condensed version of the one that aired at the 22nd. So then we go to the genre. So it's like, who am I, the heroes, the villains and monsters, what we do for love, other worlds, and the grand finale on the 23rd, when we announce the one book that people love. So here's your job that you're supposed to vote for. Help us choose the favorite book out of the hundred books. There'll be a hundred, there are a hundred books, but there's only one winner. And you'll see at the bottom there, that's NET Nebraska dot org slash great read. And then there's not a space there. It's great read. I should have put it together. But and all the information, we're trying to make it as easy as possible. So we'll have links to the national site. We'll have links to other things, other, especially like YouTube and Facebook that they're doing special for this particular initiative. But just go to anything Nebraska dot org, great read and that'll, that'll And I think people can vote as often as they want, right? Every day. If they want, Jay, I've been doing it as often as I have. So this is a case to vote early and vote often. Yeah, this is one chance you can hear to pop to the top. There you go. So here just this, you know, I wouldn't be a good steward to the station if I didn't show you the funders. And then also the partners. And I'm sure you see some of the logos that are very familiar to you on the partner list. And we're really excited about having these folks as our initial national partners. So it's overview. It's a celebration of the joy of reading. And so it's an eight broadcast episodes. There's going to be a very extensive digital campaign, social media campaign and community engagement. So we'll talk a little bit more about that. And of course, you can find all that information again on any t Nebraska dot org slash great read. Sometimes this thing just does not want to do it, does it? There we go. So how do you vote? And like we said, you can vote every day. So voting began on May 22nd. And so did you can vote on Facebook, you can vote on Twitter. And then in July 17th, you can, we are now able to text and then starting after the kickoff, the recap of the kickoff, you can do it by phone. That'll be interesting. I know, I know. And all that information will also once again be on our webpage. This kind of gives you an overview. There'll be information. We will like I said, we will link you to the national site. And I can't tell you how much stuff there's there. There's there's crazy, crazy amount of resources. So in addition to the things that any t dot org will be providing for you would also encourage you to go to the PBS site as well. And then if you want to share your story, you can do it one of two ways. You can go to the national site and upload, you know, your texts, your videos, your audio, using the site on the upload button on the national site. Or we also encourage you to come to Facebook.com slash any T Nebraska because we want to hear what your favorite book is. We want to hear, we want to see video, we want to see pictures of what you're doing in Nebraska. That's what's been great about this is seeing people talk about the books and about the books that did not make the list. Like, why didn't my favorite? There's a Facebook group that I found, and I assume I found it through the Great American Read. That's actually a Great American Read book club group. It's an open book. Yeah. And there are people there constantly doing this exact thing, sharing, you know, I love this book, or I'm just starting this one. I've never read it. Can someone, you know, tell me more about it? Or I started this book and I can't believe I hated it. It was just, I can't believe people thought it was good. And it's since you're so cool to see so many people with different opinions and stuff. Which is so much what a book club is like. Exactly. For all of you who are involved in book clubs, you know, you sit, you go around the room and people are talking and it's like, what are you thinking? I didn't feel that way. You know, it's really a lot of different feelings. So the available resources, these are some of the books that will be featured, and we're going to change that. So PBS Digital Studios, we're developing some original programming that will be on YouTube and Facebook. So there'll be a whole host of little mini platforms. So say, for example, in your library, you have a monitor that you can loop things. You know, you can use the YouTube and Facebook. It's not my grandma, the YouTube. And Facebook and there'll be a little mini series that kind of highlights some of the books. Is this the one I've seen? Every now and then there's like a little, like a short video of like a celebrity talking about their favorite. So this is something different from the actual long hour long episodes. Exactly. Exactly. A little, maybe a minute piece or 20 seconds. This is something quick you can share. Exactly. I think that's great. And so the digital, here's some of the themes that the Digital Studios will be producing for the Great American Read and it's called Facebook Watch. So there's an actual Facebook page that's Facebook Watch and we will be able to link you to all, all this information will be either on our site or link you to that, to the site. So these are some of the things that folks will be talking about. So the worst villain in literary history. Moriarty. I know. So is the book always better than the movie? That's sort of what our next Encompass Live is going to be about. On September 11th, we'll be adding some of our stuff. Right? Next week is the 12th. Well, September 12th. Yeah. We'll be talking about that. So that will really fit with the Great American Read. Right. Right. And then of course, here are the resources that are on, it's pbs.org. Now, those are everything that they have on the website. So it's SourcePBS, and you'll have to sign up. It's free of charge, but you actually just have to set up an account. So there'll be stickers, there'll be buttons, there's all those, everything's printable, and then you will also able to customize it to whatever your library needs are. That's great offering those, because I know a lot of libraries are probably trying to, what can we put together graphically ourselves, but pbs did it all for you. Right. Right. Yeah, you have no designs at all. It's perfect. There it is. And so once again, our NET webpage kicks off the September 11th, following the one hour recap, and then voting online, as I said before, started May 22nd, and it's open through October 18th, 2018. The NET webpage will have show facts, provide the book list of the hundred books, the voting rules information, and little snippets of some of the episode details. And some of the features users can log on, and then you can actually click on the list by either title, last name of the author, the year, published or the genre. And then there'll be like a, we call it TGAR, a T. Great American Read button that will link you to the national site. So you can either do NET Nebraska dot org slash Great American, Great Read or source dot pbs dot org. And so what is available from any team, we are, we prepared 200 Great American Read posters that we will be happy to send to libraries. So you just need to either email me and my email information is at the bottom there and my phone number and say, I would like a Great American Read poster. And then we also have a limited number probably, I don't know how many we have, I'm not going to say because I don't have my printing, but there are two cited bookmarks with not only information about the Great American Read and the web, and our webpage, but also the series schedule. So you can keep your, you and the folks that visit your library can keep track of the actual schedule. And if you're interested in, in hosting either the original kickoff show or one of the upcoming theme episodes, let me know. And I just might come out to your library and bring the show with you, bring the show with me. Yeah. So when you want people to get a hold of you, can they start contacting you right away? Right away. Right away. And we, it will go straight up to, if it's a theme series, if you want to do that leading up to that particular week, and you'll, and you can, that particular episode, then let me know. But we can give me a call and we can chat and see what's best for your library. So this is great. If you don't have the ability or to do a print out, like print up your own posters or bookmarks, and these will be bigger and prettier. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. How big is the poster? 11 by 17. Oh, nice. Okay. Yeah. And then of course the two-sided bookmarks are the two-sided bookmarks, regular, but you get a like, it's got, I always like this like souvenir kind of thing. It's very nice. So then our Facebook, facebook.com, Nebraska, in UT Nebraska, we invite you again to share your story about your favorite novel. The novel does not have to be on the Great American Readbook list. And please send your pictures and your videos. And if you look on, like, like Christa said, if you look on the website, you'll see some examples of some of these videos and they're really cool. They're very cool. Very cool. You know, for some reason, this is a little delay. Yeah. Oh, no. Okay. There we go. Oh, I got two of them. There you go. So just, if you have newsletters, if you have information, you have listservs, to get sort of people excited about the Great American Read in your particular community, I've put up here Meredith Vieiro, who is our host, you know, where she will appear on television so people can actually see and get excited about the Great American Read. And then, of course, I think it's also interesting that Martha Stewart Living is going to run a piece. I know it's not fun that Great American Read ends in the September issue, which is now. I know. I was just smiling because I was thinking how much fun it would be to see her and Steve Goldberg. I know. Okay. Here we go. Why is it important to read, you know, that kind of thing. See what his favorite book is. Exactly. So once again, this is the overview of the fall broadcast schedule. So you know what you have. And this actually will be the information will be on the back of that bookmark as well. So folks will have that at the ready, so they don't have to look. But we would invite you to come to the Nebraska, netedembraska.org webpage. But that'll be on there as well. So, you know, you are our secret weapon. And the folks that come to your library are your secret weapon to really get excited about the Great American Read and vote. So the following pictures are things that folks have already started doing in their particular library. So this is a series of pictures. Oh, maybe it's coming. So if you have an upcoming event around the Great American Read, please let us know and we'll post that on our webpage. We'll have an events page. And if you know someone in your community or you're playing the band or someone else is playing band rather make Great American Read, please let us know. Please let me know and I'll make sure that gets on our webpage. And Martha Ellen's email is right there. It's mflorentsatnetad.unl.edu. Right, right, right. And here's some pictures. Here's some pictures. Looks like somebody set up a voting booth in the library. Right. And they have it attached to like an iPad, which goes directly to the site. So you have your vote right there. Exactly. And a book display. I know some libraries in Nebraska have been doing book displays. So that, you know, some of the more and then also on that webpage, on the national webpage, they'll tell you the top 40 books that are in contention right now. Oh, that's what Chris just said. I had seen that. Yeah, that you can see who, so here's, isn't up at the top there. You might want to have a little more. And the previous, oh, okay, well, there you go. And so. I know. That was very fun. So in this kind of what PBS and Charlotte did with just their display. So it kind of gives you an idea of potential displays. It looks like a school. A little voting box. A little voting box. A school. And then, I mean, they posted some of the very, some of the top 40. So read, vote, share. Once again, it's needydebraska.org slash great read. And finally, if you have any questions or you need to get a hold of me, or you just want to talk about books or anything, Mark Ellen Florence, director of community engagement and my emails there and my phone number. So thank you very much. Appreciate that opportunity library to do a program. Yeah. And she will bring a tape and not a tape. She will bring a DVD. I will bring a DVD program. Now, if you have any questions right now, please don't hesitate to just type up. You can raise your hand and Christa will unmute your microphone. Or you can just type in the chat box with your question. Because, you know, if you have questions for any of us, for me, for Martha Ellen, for Christa, Katie, just please do ask them right now. Don't wait for the end when we have questions and answers. And if you have any want to share what you have been doing at your library, what you're planning on doing, go ahead and type that in and we can share that with everyone as well. Yeah. Any ideas that this sparks? Because I know it's going to. Yeah. We're going to switch to new slides. And just a reminder, voting ends on October 18th, I think at midnight Pacific time. Right. So, you know, make sure you get your votes in before, don't wait until the last couple of days. Do you want the mouse to control you? You can go ahead and change since I've been doing such a good job. Right. So I'm Katie and I'm going to talk to you a little bit about the programming guide. So this came out in its 60 page free downloadable programming guide that will help you decide what kind of programs you want to do. There's all kinds of great resources in it. The link is right there. And I'm just going to highlight some parts of it. So if there's a lot more to the programming guide than what I'm going to talk about. Another resource I just want to mention is this one here that features posters that you can adapt for your own library. There's memes. There's quotes. So and at the end, I'll show you something that we put together using one of these. So this is another great resource that you can use. Like Martha said, the episodes are kind of set up along themes. And so the programming guide gives you the exact books that are going to be in that episode. So that might help you if you want to do weekly displays or if you want to do anything that's kind of weekly related, it will tell you the exact books that are going to be profiled. And in addition to that, if you want to have, we also have like an hour long little episode that highlights those books. So if you want to do that the week before to preview in your library, that's available as well. Wow. Okay. So one of the things that the programming guide talks about is discussions. So it's really great because they have the weekly discussion questions that are related to the books that are on that theme. So that's really helpful. And then they have just general tips for leading discussions. If you've never led one before, it's kind of fun to look through. And they also have a highlight TED Talks with the author. So if you want to focus on the author rather than the book, these are things that you can show possibly a program about a certain author. That's awesome. And I would say, in addition, if you're going to show anything, what we've found especially is that you have to have a reason for someone to come to your library rather than watch it in their own home. So you need to think about what you can add to whatever program you're putting on that's going to be an incentive for people to come out. And I think that these TED Talks with the authors is a real value-added thing. I know in my book club, people will often watch either an interview with the author or a TED Talk or something like that. And that really adds to the discussion a lot. And you learn so much about the author's motivation or something that they've some experience that they had they wanted to share or incorporate in their books. So I always find them fascinating to listen to. Now, if you're programming with film, they have a list of all the books that have been adapted into film. So that's kind of nice. It kind of gives you a starting guide right there. They also provide films with modern twists. Then there's also like any kind of satires or spin-offs. A lot of those are kind of especially if they're more modern, their web series things. I know my daughters absolutely love the Lizzie Bennett Diaries, which was a take-off on Crime and Prejudice. There's so many take-offs on them. I think that was the one film that was the most film adaptation. So it's just a great resource in terms of giving you places to go or look and kind of get ideas from. And then you also have the author documentaries, which are kind of similar to the TED Talks. So there's a list of those. And then any time you're doing a public performance, you want to make sure that you're within copyright. So I have a link there to the Nebraska Library Commission, which we'll talk about the site licenses available for Nebraska libraries. But the other thing that is great about this is that it gives you a way, if the movie that you want to show is not covered by the site license, it kind of tells you the steps you need to take in order to get the copyrights that you can actually show. And like I said, think of things that are fun that will entice people to come. It's not just viewing a movie with popcorn. You better do something more than that. And so that public performance site license that we have, that's something that we do here at the Nebraska Library Commission too. For all public, all credit libraries in the state can don't have to pay yourself to get these site licenses for certain ones. There's multiple companies that do this and we work with a particular one. So yeah, go to our site, see which ones movies are covered by that. And you may be able to just use that to be able to show any sort of movies at your libraries. And if you can't remember, all you have to do is just go to our website, which is nlc.nabrasca.gov, go into the search box, type in motion picture, boom, y'all have it. Because I can never remember all the long addresses. That's what I was searching. Okay, so we're going to talk about some of the reading programs. Like I said, there's a lot more in this guide than what I'm talking about. But these are just some of the things that I thought were kind of fun to do. Just a book share discussion, which is always really fun just talking about what book meant most to you and why and learning from other people and kind of getting ideas on what to read next. They have the speed dating type of a book swap. So you bring a book that you're willing to give away. Preferably something that's nice and new. But you know, it's like a speed dating. If you've ever seen the speed dating where you sit down at a table with another person and you have like a minute or two each, you know, and have a little bell that dings, and then you get up and you go to the next table and you meet the next person with their book. And at the end of this, you get to swap, you know, you figure out which book you might want to read and swap a book with somebody. So you got like a minute to sell the book to the person. Why do you want to read this? And then they had a book tasting event where you kind of, the library staff kind of serve books like you would if you were at a restaurant and have different offerings, different courses types of things. You're an appetizer. So, you know, and have it kind of food inspired, and it just sounded a lot of fun. I think I might try to do that in the future. We're also moving into Halloween. So this is the 100th anniversary of Frankenstein. So you can do, Frankenstein was published, I guess in 1818. So, I mean, I'm sorry, 1918. So, you know, you could do something related to Frankenstein or Halloween or something like that. We're getting kind of close to the end of I think the county fairs, but you could do something Midwest inspired fair related that would tie into Charlotte's Web. You can try to do programming for all ages because they're, they give you a list of books that would be appropriate for your younger children as well. But you could always do some sort of Mad Hatter's Tea Party for, you know, that's multi-generational, trying to pull in other generations and get, you know, younger people inspired about reading some of these books. Because I know some of them, I kind of felt like I needed to be an adult to really get it. I think the Great Gatsby wasn't a part of my high school reading. So I tried to read it three times in high school and could get to it. And then I read it, went back to it in my 30s when I had kind of met a Tom and Daisy Buchanan and kind of got ran over by those people. All of a sudden it kind of clicked to me why this book was so important. So, you know, that's kind of, it's kind of fun to, you know, you think about what, you know, what's appropriate for different ages, but it's kind of fun to do something that you can bring your kids to. Yeah, there's a lot of books that were, you know, we were taught, you know, had to read in high school and that would fit that. Many of them, I remember now, I don't know if it's true, it seems like it feels like there's more young adult books out there than when I was in high school, a long time ago, we'll not mention. Because I remember all the books I read that we're told to read were about adults doing things, you know, Jane Eyre and Great Gatsby and anything. Of course now you realize they weren't really that adult. They were only like, it felt like they were adults when I was reading it. Yes, they seemed grown up. And we talked about it in the whole what you're supposed to discuss about, you know, books in your English class, but identifying with them, not so much. Well, sometimes you just have to have the experience to really appreciate. Those are some, some kind of fun reading programs. There's other ones in the programming guide. So, go ahead and get that program guide. I guess it's a free download. So, in terms of display ideas, the nice thing about this programming guide is it gives you subject headings for each week's episode. So, it's really easy to search on where you can't hold things and find out what do I have that's going to be appropriate for, for the week, beyond the just the hundred, the list of 100. Right, right. You can, you know, grab anything because hopefully you're, you know, 100 are checked out at this point. I know we'd run into that where we looked up and our display is empty and it's okay, what are we going to put up there right now? That's a good problem to have. And you might not think about maybe some interactive displays. One of the things we've had a lot of success for was like, you know, voting, but if you're going to do a voting, make sure it's really obvious that this is not going to be, you know, you need to go to the PBS website to do an actual vote. So, like, you know, you might want to think of things like within the week's themes, which one of this is, you know, the local favorite in our, in our library, but make sure that you're encouraging your customers to go directly to PBS to vote and get their vote counted there. We also have Band of Books Week coming up, and I think there's about 40, approximately 40 books that have been banned or challenged at some point. So that's a great tie-in for Band of Books Week. And the guide also has all of the settings for all these books. I think that's just a cool idea. That's very nice. You could do a travel log based on settings or, you know, visit these different parts of the world where these settings take place. So there's all kinds of great display ideas as well in this guide. And then I want to talk a little bit about what Lincoln City Libraries is doing. And you see the picture here. This is the poster that we got from that previous, the link where you can get the free posters and we just changed it. But we started with a launch viewing. So the two-hour viewing we did a couple of weeks ago. And it is two hours, so we broke it up with dessert. Great dessert, by the way. Which is nice to kind of take a little bit of a break when you have something so long. But we're going to start out with the fall kickoff on September 11th. And we're doing a taco about books. And so we're offering a taco bar. Everybody who comes can get some tacos. But we're also bringing in our local booksellers. So we've got people from Francine Finch and from Indigo Bridge that are going to come. And they're going to talk about what's selling. So I think that's kind of interesting too, what people in Lincoln are really enjoying. So we have like an hour for the eating and discussion. And then we're going to go back and to watch the kickoff. And that's going to be an hour long. And then we have two book clubs that meet at different branches. So we're going to do book shares at those two branches in September and October where we're basically talking about everybody's supposed to bring in the books that meant something to them. And be able to talk about what they enjoyed about that book. Katie, if I may, on the launch, and one of the things that happens just inadvertently when you sit around like, oh, I really, I forgot about that book. Or something that attached, you can attach a life experience that's happened. You know, oh, I remember I read this book when this happened or this, you know. So it's, I mean, this is a really, really exciting opportunity for libraries to take advantage of this as well. Well, and it's interesting because you get a lot of people that are like, oh, I want to vote for this one. I want to vote for that one. And they can't decide which one to vote for. Vote for as many as you want. I know. I know. I know. They want to do it. Yeah. You don't have to just vote for one. I've got it. Yeah. And I'm like, I just got, I think it was at least 15 or so on the list of 100 that I'm voting for every time. Right, right. So that's just my contact information if anybody wants it. But that little quote there, that's another one of those downloadables that you can get. And I guess it's very easy to use. Yeah. There's a lot of cool things like that that you can very easily just take and take the graphic and send it out through your Twitter or your Facebook. And it's already put together. And there's multiple ones. And there's ones with the book covers on them or these quotes or the. And I think we're going to go to that website, right? Yeah. To show people. Yeah. And everything is editable. So you can change it to customize it to whatever your needs are. Add your libraries info to it if you are having an event. Right, right. Do you want to do that? Yeah. Let's do that now while we're talking about it. And also, do you have any questions or any suggestions? Did any of the things that Katie mentioned or that Martha Ellen mentioned bring up any ideas for you? Please type right in your chat box and or ask us. Raise your hand and we'll unmute your microphone. So this I think is what I would say is a really useful website because it's like you've got your vote now button right here. So if you send people here, they can vote right now. And you've got and the NET website is not up yet. It'll be up September 11th. Okay, so we'll be ready for that. You can also watch the launch special, which you can watch on TV too, coming up September 11th. No, no, that's that's the one that was on May 2nd. Oh, that's right. That was the major one. That's the big, that's the real long. This September 11th is be the relaunch. Relaunch. Yeah, okay. This is a smaller hour long version. And you can join the book club, which I think is what you were talking about. I think so, yeah, yeah. Re-discussing also on Facebook, yep. You can share what has had the biggest impact on your life. And there's also the launch quiz. And one thing I like about the launch quiz is, there's a list of all the books here at the launch quiz. Where is that? Actually, we're gonna have to go back a bit. That you went too fast. Right there, download a new one. Okay, you do it for me. There it is right here. Oh, there it is. There is here that we're just trying to show is on this list, this is where you take a quiz, you know, but there's a downloadable checklist, a PDF that you can print out for yourself. There it is. And track, it has little tips here about go-to-vote, but you can track what books have I read, what books I want, three, did I vote for the book I wanted to. And this also, they've been updating this throughout the program. We discovered Mary Jo had one printed out, but it was totally different a month ago. But it's the same list. There's not any difference, yeah. It's just a design. And what it also shows here is each one, each book they've given a hashtag to for voting as well. That's how you do the Twitter voting. And I think the Facebook as well. Yeah, you've got to include that hashtag and that's how they're counting your votes in those social media areas. And it was so weird for me when I first got this list because I started checking off all the ones that I've read and I thought, I've read a lot of these books and you know what, I'm not sure I remember some of them. Like that Agatha Christie book, I know I've read this and then there were none. I can't remember exactly which one of the Agatha Christie books it was. There's so many. So I'd have to look at it again before I know if it's going to get a vote. So this is a two-sided PDF so you can just, and I recommend, we did some playing around with this, I recommend downloading this to your computer first and then printing it out from what you download. Otherwise you have to go find it every time. And we had some weird technical issues trying to just reprint it over and over again from the site. So don't do that, just download and then go wherever you saved it and print it out from there and you can print it on as many copies as you need very easily. And this is to hand out in your libraries, of course. That's just what I was going to say, this is going to hand out for your libraries because it tells you what to do and what all the books are from there. Give you a little cheat kind of thing of the hashtags. And I wanted to go back to that resources section that Katie was talking about. Where did they get it? There, yeah. And then, is this, do you have to go back to the little lines to find it? Yeah, this is the downloadables, posters, names, book facts. So these are pretty cool. Aren't those cool? There's the one that you guys used. And we used the Join Us one for the two-hour book one when we did that. So they're really easy to edit and they look quite nice when they're done. I like these ones. They did a lot as tourism, like tourist posters. Come visit Mars. I know. They checked the galaxy. These ones, they did some really great designs. They did a great job with these. Come visit Narnia. Now, Katie, you said those are pretty easy to customize. So did you do that? What software did you do that in? Did you download it into like Adobe Acrobat? Oh, you know, the Barbara Hansner administrative assistant was the one who actually did it. But I think if you just download it, however, you download it, it pops up and you just have a place to fill it in. And then it comes up and you just have a place to fill it in. There's here's what you can do. Text boxes and things that you can add. So I mean, I edit a book document to begin with when you get it. Great. That's fabulous. We do have a comment from Kelly here. She said, she's at a high school library. I think I will print out the list and see if we can check up all 100 collectively. Oh, fabulous. Work with your staff together. I think that's great. You might not have read all 100. Right. And make sure she posts that and if you're getting kids excited out of here. Yeah, share it. Yeah. Post it on Facebook. Yeah. Be sure and put the hashtag in your letter. Right. And now here's the fun games that I've seen. Yeah. And you've been seeing these in post posts. That's great. My idea of an arm workout. Bookmarks are for quitters. We know we're going to be on bookmarks, but it's not hoarding. If it's books, that's me. Absolutely. And then some cool book facts. These are really good too about readers are 10% more luckier for good self-esteem than non-readers. Book readers burn 50% more calories. Okay. I don't know about some of these, but it's all mental. Yeah. Well, I'm glad to know that. Yeah. And then the quotes. Just quotes. Those are like various. You use writing. Yeah. Yeah. And they're just real easy to copy and paste. I would always rather be happy to dignify them. Stay there. Yeah. And there's always also a newsletter that you want to stay up on national. You see the very bottom there. Yeah. Stay on date. Yeah. You can always put your email address in and then also keep up with the newsletter while the national changes. Because traditionally the way that we do these big initiatives is that things will evolve. Things will happen. So it's very organic. So you want to stay up on what's happening, what's available to you. Like I said, that list has changed constantly. And let's see what else do we have here. And here is the list for what you can also turn the checklist for me or do. Oh. There's a variety of ways to do that. Read more about them. Tells you this is cool that this little synopsis of the book. And you're not sure. Don't remember. Like you said, I don't remember what it was, but that one was about. And then I'm sure I read it. Because I read them all once. Yeah, something like that. I have to say I was surprised how few I had read. I read a lot and I thought that I had a pretty decent background. But you know, some of them I looked at. I'm not too sure I want to read this one. So. Yeah. I got a new respect for my high school and college English teachers. Because a lot of these books I have read only because of their insistence. All because of them. Yeah. Right. Okay, I got to say here. This is a book that absolutely surprised me that it's on here. A Confederacy of Dunces. This is a fabulous book. It is so wonderful, but it's just not hugely popular or well known. And so I couldn't believe it showed up on there. Enough people. It's one of my all time favorite books. I wouldn't say it's number one, but it might be. I mean seriously, it's amazing. I was expecting all books I'd heard of, but there were a few on here that I had not heard of, which might sound bad, this librarian. But you know, I can't know and read everything. And everyone has their preferences. And I thought, boy, I would like to have my book club read this book, but I'm not sure how many copies the library has on it. Because it's just not that popular. It's so good though. I'm very sad that we had no Nebraskans. So because I was. We did have Nebraskans. But we didn't have a. We had a person who lived in Nebraska, but it's not. It's not like, I'm just going to say. You got to say it doesn't. And a little cather didn't make the cut. That's what I'm just saying. Is it Sanderson? Yeah. Yeah, he is. Brandon Sanderson is on here. And also Nicholas Sparks, I think he has some. He has a connection to Nebraska. But I wanted to see my interview. But Brandon Sanderson, he really is. Brandon really is a Nebraska author. Oh yeah. But he only hasn't lived in Nebraska for an awfully long time. Right, right. I saw, I hadn't signed a book for me. I had an ALA once. And he said he wrote Go Huskers. Because it's on the tag said in Nebraska. So he knows the. He's a wonderful writer. Yeah. So there are a variety of ways for folks to vote. And we just want you to make sure that you vote. And it's interesting that they'll also keep track of the states. So when it's all said and done, you know, we'll be able to be able to say, well, this many came from this state. This many came from that state. All right, Huskers. You get out there. Yeah. Okay, well, which one of these is mine? It's getting a little bit right. One of the ones. Okay. Oh yeah. Okay. So and then just I'm going to let you know we got it. Boom. There we go. I'm just going to show a few slides and ask a few questions. And hopefully get some participation here from some of you that are out there. Because I really think important local library partners are all of you from libraries and particularly those of you in Nebraska. But I know we've got viewers from all over the country. So what are you thinking, just like we just heard from Kelly about what kinds of ideas this part is your library planning to do any activities or are you already doing any activities to take advantage of this promotional opportunity? Because you still have time. I mean, it's like, yes, the launch was a few weeks ago. But here we go. Now we're going to get the programs one after another. All we, you know, every week, people are going to be talking about them. I mean, I know when I came to work the morning after the launch, people all over the office were talking about the program. They read lots of people had seen it and we're talking about it. This is going to be happening in your community. So what are you thinking? Anybody give us any ideas on the chat box or anybody want to raise your hand and we'll unmute your microphone. Yeah, let us know. I see Susie, you've got your hand raised. Do you have a microphone that you wanted to say something? I can unmute you or do you want to type? Let's unmute Susie. See what happens. Susie, you are unmuted. If you have anything you wanted to share or if not, you can type into the question section. And anybody else can just type in as well too. I just saw that you had your hand up there. Let us know what you're doing at your library, what you're thinking about doing. If you already held an event when the launch, how it went. And while I'm waiting for you to type, is somebody typing? I don't know if somebody's typing. Yeah, she said accidental hand raise. No problem. Well, I just wanted to remind you that if you want, you can contact Martha Ellen today, and she will send you out a poster and some bookmarks. Not until September 11th. September 11th, just that. But you'll get on her list. You'll get on her list. But we can't do anything until after the launch. And you can, right now, you can start sharing your stories of your favorite book. You can do that right now. On our Facebook page. On the Facebook page. Which is Facebook.com slash NET Nebraska. You can do that. And you can encourage your staff to do that. And you can encourage your book club to do that. And you can encourage just your random customers that come into the library. You can encourage them. So this is a way to get started. I know some of you have done some book displays and now is a perfect time, if you haven't done it, to do your display. And you can add your poster to it when Martha Ellen sends them out, poster and bookmarks. I also wanted to mention. Oh, I don't need to mention the resources. We already talked about this. And then, oh, the other thing I wanted to mention is that we did do, we asked our talking book and Braille service folks to take a look at our collection and see what books are available and for to our talking book and Braille service customers. And what we did find is that we have almost all of these books. We have a lot of these 100 books. That are available to our customers, our talking book and Braille service customers. So if you have folks in your community who can't see to read or who can't hold a book because of a physical disability, folks with dyslexia, people that have reading disabilities are eligible. It can be eligible to get books through us talking books. There's a lot of ways for them to get them. They can get them physically through the mail, which is like a little flash drive that comes and we send them a player. This is all free to them and they can also download them automatically themselves and they download their phones. I mean, it's all sorts of ways to do it and they can participate in the Great American Read. And what's great about the talking book and Braille service that Mary was talking about, it's not just people that have permanent disabilities. This is also for temporary situations as well. Break your arm. Some people don't realize. Yeah. You have an accident. You can't physically hold your book because you're recovering for a month or two. You are eligible for this as well. So it's not just for your grandmother who can't see anymore or someone who is visually handicapped. It's just for those temporary situations. That's right. Yeah. And for sure, those of you who are school librarians, please do talk to your special ed teachers about the fact that students with dyslexia are eligible to download these books. And there's a lot of books. It's not just these 100 Great American Read books, but books in support of their education and pleasure reading and all kinds of books. So in addition to that, I forgot to mention that, although the books had to be in English, the resources are also available in Spanish. Oh, good. So when folks download, go to the source, the PBS source site, all those are available in Spanish as well. So for the many Nebraska communities that have a large Spanish-speaking population, you can download twice. You've got one poster in English, one poster in Spanish. Exactly. I was just double-checking that post, because I didn't see it up there. In the talking book and Braille service, it says all but four of the 100 titles are available. I knew they were most. Yeah. Which is a few. That hadn't been done yet. That's great. Thanks for checking that, Krista. And then the other thing I wanted to mention for those of you in the state of Nebraska who are part of the Overdrive project, oh, oh, oh, there it is. There it is. Oh, let me just say, in my defense, it's got a hair trigger. And Krista just moved it away from me. Why are all of us this alone? So there is a category in Overdrive that your library customers can go to when they're downloading Overdrive books. And it says Great American Read. And it's got all of the books right there so that if they want to just go click, click and put them on reserve, they can be reserving a bunch of Great American Read books. And that's pretty much all I think I'm going to be allowed to do with that. It's okay. It's your last theory. It's my last. And I'm worried about this again. It's my retirement encompass program. And so yeah. Perfect for my reading, yes. So we just have one comment. Someone didn't have anything to offer, but the presentation is enlightening and terrific. Oh, thank you so much. Thank you all for being here. Anybody does have anything else you want to share? Type it in there. Yeah. And let's put Martha Ellen's information up again just in case they forget who to contact for their poster and their bookmarks and their, perhaps, screening throughout the day. Screenings, yes. Who's to say? There we go, Martha Ellen. Yeah. So this is the local PBS, any TV television, work with them on all of this. Absolutely. Anything else anybody would like to add for the Good of the Groups? Sounds like Lincoln City Libraries has got some fun activities coming up. It's been a fun thing to do and to look at them and it kind of reminds you of books that you read and when you read them. And I've always found it's fun to go back and reread a book after a long period of time, like several years for those people that are kind of a little bit more mature. But it's fun to read something that you read as a teen or in your early 20s and then go back and reread it later and see what is it still as meaningful as there's something else that happened. So it was fun for me to look at the list and think, oh, I haven't read that in a long time. Maybe I should look at that again. A different perspective. Yeah. Right. And just even watching the overview, the video, I'm like, oh, I forgot about that. Ooh, that's exciting. So I've probably read a lot more than I have and probably, I don't know how many years in this last year. So this has been a very exciting opportunity. It may just be to see the ones that, because this happens a lot with other things like TV shows or cartoons or whatnot. I love this book when I was a teen. I want to read it again. And then you reread it and you're 20s to 30s and you're like, oh, that was horrible. I was so wrong when I was a 13-year-old. OK. But it goes both ways. And that's OK. Yeah. You watched the cartoon that you watched with you or five and thought was the best thing ever and now it is embarrassing. Right. Yeah. So it's OK. And that's OK. Well, it goes both ways. Reading is all about, is all about learning and discovering more about yourself and about the book. And it could change over time, absolutely. Well, and I remember reading, trying to read The Catcher in the Rye when I was a teen, because it was like, you know, this was really before teen literature really kind of took off. YA literature took off. So rebellious. And I just remember thinking, I don't get it. And there were so many parts of that book that just went straight over my head. I had no clue. And then when I went back and read it as a doll, it was like, oh, OK, I get this one now. So. And the other thing one of our staff members mentioned, and I'll just throw this out there as something that you might think about when you're thinking about talking to your customers or your book club about this, is it's one thing to ask, what book do we think will win? Now, not the book I like the best necessarily, but what book do you think will actually be the top vote-getter among all the people all over the country that are voting versus what book do you think really should get? It's just going to be two different things. Because everybody has a different opinion. Yeah. And also because you wonder, am I that odd? Is my favorite that odd that's only like 10 people will vote for it? You know, it probably couldn't be because it wouldn't be up there. It managed to get through a screening process. With 7,200 people. Now, Martha, you said there is on the main page, there is somewhere they're listing what are the current votes, like the top 20 or 40? About 40. About 40. That'll be on the PBS site. And we'll put that on ours as well. So it'll get a link. So you can see how often you have to vote to get yours. I was also going to mention that there are several PBS stations, particularly on the East Coast, that are also using this as a social justice initiative. So they're focusing on some of the books that have, like as Katie said, I might have read it then, and it has a whole different meaning to me now. Because oftentimes, authors will embed a secret message into their work. And so oftentimes, people have been investigating, doing investigative on what's the real meaning behind that. And I mean, we were talking about our perspective has changed personally. But the climate, just in general, of what's going on in the world today is different from when you were a teen or a young adult reading it. And that you might read it with a different view from the outside that will affect your reading of the book because of what's happening in the world today. So that's a whole different way. There's all kinds of ways to look at this. But just very excited that people are excited and want to participate. Yeah. And I guess we thank you all for joining us. It looks like it's getting lots of traction. I'm seeing it all over. Now, of course, in my Facebook and Twitter, there's lots of libraries and librarians on it. But I do see people who are not in the library world. They're responding to this. So I'm like, I love when my work creeps out, seeps out friends. And I'm like, hey, how did you know about this? It's working. Libraries are working. All right. So it doesn't look like anybody has any comments or anything I share right now. That's fine. Hopefully you'll use some of the resources that we shared here at Contact Martha Ellen about what you can get resources and visits from her. If you want to reach out to Katie and get some tips on what they did at Lincoln City libraries here, I'm going to hop back to our browser here. And then check out the website. Vote to see what your book is doing. And there is links here to their Facebook page and everything. What I'm going to do now is I'm going to go to our Encompass Live website. So far in the world, if you just use your search engine of choice, Encompass Live is the only thing called that on the internet. Yay. Yay. Nobody else use that name. So you can Google us and you'll find our main page here. This is where we have our upcoming shows listed. So you can sign up and register for anything we have coming up. But today's show has been, is being recorded right now. And we'll be posted to our archives here. The link to our archives is very underneath our upcoming shows. And it will be at the top of the list. The most recent ones are the top here. And we will post a link to the recording of the show, which will be on our YouTube channel. And all three of these PowerPoint presentations, we'll post up to our slide share account, whether they'll be available for you to view and download if you want to have access to them as well. So we'll have all of these links there. Hopefully later, by later today, I should be able to get that all done, as long as everything YouTube cooperates. Everyone who attended today and who registered for today's show will get an email from me. And I also post out to our Facebook and Twitter, our usual places. I'll just mention here, while we are looking at the archives, if you want to look at any of our previous shows, we have our entire archive here. 2018 is actually the 10th year of Encompass Live. How did that happen? I know, it's crazy. I've been here this long. I've been here longer than that, but that's a different story. And we do have all of our archives here, all 10 years. So if I scroll down really fast, close your eyes and get you dizzy, this does go back to the very beginning, January 2009, where we met the NLC. So do keep that in mind as you're going through our archives. There is a search feature at the top, as you saw there, that you can search for through our entire archives, or just most recent year, if you want just current, really current information. But do keep that in mind when you're looking at things here. You may find old information, outdated information, some websites might not exist anymore. It's still a little trip down memory lane is what it is. Some of them may still be good, but we are librarians. It's what we do. We archive and historically keep all these things, so we will have them all up there. But everything has got a date, so you can see exactly when it was originally broadcast to know, okay, this one about using Facebook was about Facebook in 2010. So it might be interesting, but it might not be as useful as one more recent. So keep that in mind when you're looking at our archives. So speaking of Facebook, Encompass Live is also on Facebook. We have a click link here and from all of our pages. So if you do use Facebook a lot, give us a like over there. I post updates, reminders. Here is the reminder about logging in today's show on the fly, when our recordings are available. I post done here. When new shows are coming up, we post done here. So do give us a like if you do like to use Facebook. And you'll keep up to date on there. And I hope you'll join us next week. You can join it for any of our shows. But next week our topic is, as Mary Jo mentioned, book versus movie, the ultimate showdown. Fits right in. That's right. The Great American Room. You can put us here at the Library Commission. We do every now and then we do some shows here where we talk about books that we've read here at the Library Commission. We actually have a Friday Reads blog post that we do where every Friday one staff here posts a blurb about a book that they've read or they want to share. And some of us have decided to get together and talk about comparing books to the movies that were or TV shows that were made of them. So it could be controversial. Hopefully there will be no big battles but about it. But we're going to chat about that next week. So if you're interested in that or if you have any opinions on that, join us for that conversation next week. So please do sign up for that. And any of our other shows we have coming up. So thank you very much everyone. Thank you for staying with us. Mary Jo, thank you for being here for your last time. Awesome. Wow. Bye everybody. Bye. Congratulations. Enjoy. Hope we'll see you next time on Encompass Live. Bye-bye. Bye-bye.