 All right, good morning and welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. I'm your host, Krista Porter, here at the Nebraska Library Commission. Encompass Live is the commission's weekly webinar series where we cover a variety of topics that may be of interest to libraries. We broadcast the show live every Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. central time. But if you're unable to join us on Wednesdays, that's fine. We do record the show, and then it is posted on our website in our archives later for you to watch at your convenience. I will show you at the end of today's show where you can access all those recordings. Both the live show and the archives are free and open to anyone to watch. So please do share with colleagues, friends, family, neighbors, anyone you think might have an interest of any of the topics we have on Encompass Live. We do quite a mixture of things here on the show. Our only criteria that it is something to do with libraries. So things libraries are doing, things they think they could be doing, services and products we think may be of use to them. We have presenters come on and demo something sometimes, so what presentations, interviews, book reviews, mini training sessions sometimes, anything and everything. Here, the Nebraska Library Commission is the state agency for all libraries in the state. So you will find things on our show in our archives for public, academic, K-12 corrections, museums, anything that's a library has a library in it. There's probably something we've done on the show. This is the 11th year of Encompass Live, first show was in January 2009. So we got quite a group there. We do have Nebraska Library Commission staff that do presentations on things that the commission is involved in or things that we're doing. But we also bring in guest speakers sometimes and today we have both. Yeah, all the way around the end there is Sally Snyder who is our here from the Nebraska Library Commission, the coordinator of our children's and young adult library services. Good morning, Sally. Good morning. And then in the middle here is Kathy Schultz who's from the Golden Silver Award, chair of the committee chair of the giving of the award. So they are going to tell us this morning all about the Golden Silver Award, which were announced actually earlier in the year for this year. But we're going to hear about them and then just how the whole program works. So I will just hand it over to you guys. All right. Thank you. You should be able to use the keyboard. Well, this, we were talking earlier. This is the 39th year that the Golden Soar Award has been presented. If that's just amazing to you, it's been going on that long now. And I know that we have people who are newer to the library world and maybe not aware of the whole history of the award and how it works. And so I'm hoping I can answer questions you have and that you feel free to send in questions if you have them. The award was initiated by Carla Hawkins-Wendell and Indy Story who are at the University of Nebraska at the time. And the first award was presented in 1981. But it is currently sponsored by the school children's and young people section, the skip of the Nebraska Library Association. I believe it was turned over to skip probably after a couple of years maybe as this all. And it is named for the statue atop the Capitol Building. The goal of the award, excuse me, stimulate children's thinking, introduce different types of literature, and encourage independent reading, increase library skills, and foster an appreciation for excellence in writing and illustrating. So we try to find nominees that will appeal to kids of all ages. And we know that they don't all like the same thing. So we try to have a variety of books on the nomination list each year. And there are three categories now. Picture books are basically aimed at Kim DeGarton through second grade. Chapter books, third grade through fifth. And then the Golden Sword novels, sixth through eighth, or older. These would also appeal to older kids. But we're aiming more at the middle school age. And that would be the highest, the oldest would be the middle school. Right, right. There are books on there that high school kids would enjoy also. I think high school kids have less time to do independent reading. And the teachers in the high schools are not necessarily going to have the time to support the award and promote it in their school or their classes. So, but I wanted to emphasize that kids should be, feel free to read whichever level is right for them. If you have, excuse me, I forgot to throw it. If you have a fourth grader who reads a second grade level and wants to read the picture books, that is fine. We don't really care. If you have a fourth grader who wants to read the novels, because they're a more advanced reader, that's perfectly fine. Yeah, maybe I'm jumping ahead. Go ahead, I can't remember what's on these slides either. Because initially, the award was only given to one category of books, so to speak. Oh yeah, we'll get to that. Yeah, so it's in there later. Right, right. Sally does the same thing when Sally does her review sessions about books, routines, and kids and summer reading program that they're generally categorized by age, but I think she's very, makes a very important point that it doesn't have to be limited just to them. Let the kids read what they think they think they're interested in. This may be on a slide later, I can't remember. But a few years ago, we did change it. It used to be that children were only allowed to vote in one category. But now if they have completed the necessary reading, they could vote in the chapter books and the novels, or the picture books and the chapter books. The first award, as I said, was... We actually have a comment here from someone, which actually relates to what we just talked about. I'm going to get in here. Tammy, who is from Genoa, says that in their area, a fifth grade teacher checked out all 10 picture books and read them all to her students in fifth grade. Sometimes kids like to see nostalgia back to your past. Oh, I'm really glad to hear that. And they would be very welcome to vote for that level. Right. If they had gone through those books, they can put their opinion in. Yes. And I said they did. They all... Oh, good. Good. I'm glad. Yeah. In 1981, the first award was Benicula, which was a favorite of mine. The category was called Intermediate then. We changed the name of the category. And that very first year, there was 4,185 students who voted. That's pretty good for a first year. It is. And then the first... It was called Primary Award, but now we call it Picture Book. And that was Cloudy with the Chance of Meatballs, another favorite. The kids picked some good ones, don't they? But look how the amount of votes jumped. When you added that second category. And that was just the second year. That was the third year. That was the third year. For two years, it was just one level. And then the third year, they added the Picture Books. And then in 1993, they added what they called the Young Adult Award. And we changed it to Golden Sore Novels. Look at the number of votes then, too. One reason we changed the name, I think, of the category, Young Adult, the type of books that are considered Young Adult now have really changed over the years. And a lot of them are wonderful books, but they're maybe more appropriate for older high school kids. If not something that I would necessarily recommend for a sixth grader. And so we wanted to kind of eliminate this confusion. The award is basically aimed at middle school students, but that does not mean high school students wouldn't enjoy reading the books, and they are welcome to read them and vote also. It's very easy to participate. Any school or library in Nebraska may submit votes, and there is no fee or registration required. The only thing you need to do is provide copies of the nominees for students to read. And I know a lot of the Picture Books are read by either the teacher or the librarian. And I think that's why we get the most votes there, because more kids participate then. You have to have read or heard at least four nominees from one list. There's ten nominees on each list. You have to read at least four. You don't have to read all ten. Some students enjoy doing that and want to. That would kind of be probably me when I was a kid. How do I know this is the best if I can read the other? If I don't try them all, yeah, absolutely. And as I said, students may vote in more than one category if they do that is a requirement reading. If they read four Chapter Books and four Novels, they could vote in both of those categories. And the votes have to be submitted online by the teacher or librarian by April 15th. Now that should be a very easy date to remember, because of other things that are true. Yeah, right. April 15th, each year, and then the winners are announced on our website and on our lists are on May 1st. When are the nominees announced? When do they first know what are going to be the titles, like we know the ones for next year? Oh, yes, yes. They are actually, they are actually posted on our website by September 1 to the year before. So that librarians have a chance to order them copies and get them right at the beginning of the school year. Right. So then they have a chance to get them ordered, get them on their shelf so they're ready for the following school year. So right now, you could go to the Golden Sower website and you would see, which we will later as a matter of fact, you'll see the nominees for this coming year. And by September, yeah, for the 2019-2020 school year. And then September 1, you will be able to see the list for 2020-2021. Okay, it's your way ahead, yeah. Right. So when we start talking about years, it gets kind of confusing. This year, last year, next year, the year after that. And then the winning authors and illustrators are invited to attend the conference in October to receive their awards. Now that's why we have a gap between April 15 and May 1 so that we can make sure all the votes are tabulated and it gives me a chance to contact the winning authors and illustrators to make sure they get the word first before it's spread. I think that's courtesy, and we want them to know, and then hopefully they can let us know right away if they're able to come or not because, right, this sounds like a long gap between May 1 and October, but a lot of these authors are very busy and they are scheduled way in advance, and they may not be able to attend because of conflicts. This year, there are three winners, the picture book winner, Lisa Papp, Madeline Finn, and the library dog, and the chapter book, Lynn Plard, Maxi's Secrets, or what you can learn from a dog. Dogs wins. There's a theme here. Yes, yes. A silly get to it. Actually, yeah. There's dogs in Madeline. I don't think there's a dog in that one, no. Jill Schusterman wrote SIDE, and we are so excited this year, first time since 2007, that all three of these winners will be coming to La Vista to receive their awards. It is awesome. That's awesome. Oh, I'm just so over the rainbow here. It's just exciting. Well, you know, before I should mention, Lisa Papp is originally from Nebraska. She graduated from high school in Omaha. That's so great. And she says, oh, this is exciting, and I'm just going to stay with my relatives while I come. And her parents want to come to the banquet to see her receive her award. And the other interesting thing is her husband, Robert Papp, already has a Goldsor award. He was the illustrator of Titanicat that won in 2011. He was not able to come then, so we had a picture of him holding his black and greening. And I said, is he coming with you? And she goes, yes, yes. And then the last email said, well, now it looks like he can't come. So I was looking forward to meeting him. But here's the information. I want to be sure everybody gets that. The Goldsor Gala and Dinner will be Thursday, October 3rd at 6.30 at the La Vista Conference Center there, where the conference is being held. The gifts for the gala are $40, which sounds like a lot to me, but that all goes to the hotel to pay for the meal, because hotel meals are expensive. And it is not included in the conference registration this year. It's a whole separate event. Yes. It's a whole separate event. So if you are attending the conference, you must check that box and pay the extra $40 if you want to attend. But you do not need to be registered for the conference in order to attend. So you don't even have to be a librarian. Anybody inside. Anyone is welcome. But you do have to register and pay for that ticket on the conference website. That's the only way to get tickets. And it's kind of a, if you know the conference website, go to that. That's fine. I created this tiny URL so we could put it on posters and things, because it seemed a little easier. Yeah, absolutely. I want people to be aware that when you go to that, it will take you to the Iowa Library of Social Waves. Don't freak out. Don't panic. It's okay. Because this is a joint conference this year, and all the registration is on the Iowa website. So you are going to the Nebraska conference, and you will see these Nebraska winners, even though it says Iowa on the website. And you will see when you go to the website, it does say Nebraska, Iowa, and it's a joint conference and everything. But it is being, they're doing all the online hosting. Right. And so yeah, if you're not registering for the conference, all you do, fill out all the required little boxes, and it'll say work address, you can put in home address if you're not working, it doesn't matter. And then you just skip any non-required fields and go to the conference registration, and you just check gold and silver gala and dinner only. And that's all it takes. I did mine. We're fine. If you've got two people going, you just have to run through it twice. I did not see any way that you could register to list many tickets. Everybody had to go through and put their name in separately. So when I registered, I registered myself, and I registered all three of the authors. So I was on there a lot. This might be something that might be funny, obviously it's an evening event on Thursday, but if some of the kids are really excited and want to get the authors or something. Exactly. Unfortunately, I tried to find out if we could have seating, I know it's expensive if you want to bring multiple kids or whatever, and I tried to arrange for people to come after the dinner just to hear the authors speak and sit free in the back of the room or something like that. Sure, sure. And they were not able to do that. So, yeah, we'll see what we can do next year, but this year, unfortunately, it's $40 ahead, and that's the way it is. Now, do you know, this is a joint conference with Iowa, do you know, does Iowa have one of these children's choice awards? You know, I would have to go back and look, most states do have some, but they're all handled separately and have different rules and requirements. There's not like a national organization for this, each state has just done their own thing. Each state's, you know, the rules for getting books nominated, the rules for voting, it's all very differently handled. And so I'm hoping our Iowa friends will come too and get to meet these authors, because it's so exciting, they will get to speak too. This isn't just Nebraska books that the kids choose from either. This is any book out there, obviously, you can tell from the authors and the magazine things. We have other awards here in Nebraska that are specific for Nebraska writers and authors, and or Nebraska is that the publishers or the location of the book. But this one, it isn't. It's any book out there. Right, right. The only requirements, we'll go into this later, but the authors have to be residents of the United States. But I mean, that's pretty much it. I guess I'm a lot anyway. And the authors will each speak and then they will be available for autographing books at the end of the evening. If you want to bring your own books from home, you may. The Golden Soar Committee will also have books available for sale. So if you forget your books or want extra copies for Christmas presents or something like that. And oh, they are also going to be that Thursday afternoon at the Bookworm in Omaha, signing books. Oh, yeah. And they're excited to have them there. If you can't make it in the evening, go there instead. Unfortunately, I believe it's a school day up there. So kids will be in school. But I think they said they were going to have parents could go in and pre-purchase books and have them autographed that they could pick up then later at the store. Yeah, that's nice, too. Yeah, that'd be fun. All right, so how do titles get on these nomination lists? Well, teachers and librarians, students, parents, anyone in Nebraska basically may submit a title that they think should be considered for the nominee list. These lists are provided to we have a selection committee. We have volunteer readers around the state who try to read as many of these as possible. You may have 45 to 75 books that are suggested. And we try to read as many as possible and narrow it down to the best of the best, the 10 top books, not 10 dog books, although it looks like well, it kind of looks like dog books. That is not a requirement. Right, 10 mysteries, 10 history books, whatever. We try to get a variety of topics. So there's something for everyone on the list. And fiction and nonfiction? Well, that's a thing. Nonfiction could be nominated, but I'll go into that. I think it's on the next slide, maybe. I'm turning ahead. Yeah, well, that's all right. That's fine. Yeah, we'll get into the criteria. The person nominating the book must have read the book first. You must read it and decide, yes, this is outstanding. I think this should be on there. Not just reading the book review in school every journal or something like that. This sounds good. Or I always like this author. I think I'll put that on there. And each person may only nominate five titles per list per year. Don't send us a list of your 25 favorite chapter books, whatever. We're trying to narrow it down to the cream of the crop. Elementary students may nominate titles for those lower two lists in middle school or junior high. Students can nominate for the older list. And students may submit, but they need to go through their teacher or their media specialist librarian or parent for them to put it on, just to make sure if they look at it and say, yeah, this does fit the criteria. And here's the criteria. It should exhibit literary and or artistic merit. The eligible titles must be published in the last two years. For example, the ones we are reading now that we will narrow down for the 2020-21 school year have either an 18 or 19 copyright year, 2018 or 2019. Last year or this year? Yeah, that's it. And they should reflect an equitable consideration for a culturally diverse society. And it must be age appropriate for the readers of that category. So if you're recommending for the novel list, we want something that's age appropriate for junior high middle school. And that doesn't mean it's not appropriate for older kids to read, but we try to look for that. Nonfiction titles that are nominated should have narrative and or artistic quality. Something would be suitable for reading allowed to a class. It may be a wonderful history book, but it might read very dry. Well, yeah, it has a lot of good information. And as far as series, only the first title in the series. Sometimes people want to nominate the second title in the series. But often that book is not as enjoyable if you haven't already read the first one. If you don't know what's going on, yeah. Right, you feel like you've been dropped into the middle of the story. And we don't want that. And we also don't want cliffhanger endings, which is often a problem these days. The series, yeah. Yeah, it needs to be a self-contained standalone story, something that a child could read and enjoy all by itself and never have to read the second book in the series. But if they want to, they can go on. Sometimes they do encourage kids to pick up the next book and read on. But they could enjoy that story all by itself without having to go on. If the person is like, they're falling and they never hit the bottom until you read the second book, that's not much fun. And I'm afraid that as time has gone on, more and more times, in my experience, the first book of the series is a cliffhanger. Sometimes it's just trying to get you to do the next one. Well, and sometimes it's just a hint to what might be coming next. And that's OK. Because, yes, this story had a satisfying conclusion. But now there might be something else that's going to happen. Now, if I want to know what happens next to these characters, I could read the next book. But I could have a very satisfying experience reading just one book. The title has to be in print. It's time and nomination. And Newberry and Caldecott Award winners are not eligible. But the honor books are. And the authors and illustrators have to be living in the United States at the time the book is nominated. Only one title from any book or illustrator can be on a current list. For example, you have people that are very prolific with picture books, then we can't have two by the same author on that list. Now, it has happened in the past. It's kind of rare where authors write in more than one age bracket. And I think one year we had an author that had, say, like a chapter book and a novel the same year. But those are two different lists. They're going to different audiences. So we said that's OK. They, authors can appear year after year if they keep writing good books that the kids like. But the same title cannot come on the list again. So once it's had a chance, one chance, and that's it. And then, of course, the copyright year would probably make it an eligible two. Eventually it will fall off. And then the winning author or illustrator is excluded from the voting competition the next year. Can't win two years in a row. Right, you cannot win two years in a row. Now, sometimes you'll see an author that has a book on the list two years in a row. And if that happens, and their book should happen to win, say, this year, it's on the nominee list. The kids can read it. It's one of their four that they need to qualify. They just won't be able to vote for that one. You've got the same kids reading and voting. And we don't want them to just get on this train. Oh, I really like that author. And so we just keep voting for the same author. We want to give other authors a chance. We want them to expand their read, too. Read that they wouldn't necessarily. And I think often kids do that. They'll pick up a book and because it's on this list and they want to get their four and they didn't necessarily know it was something they were going to read, but it surprised them. Yeah. We have to keep in mind when we're putting these books on the list that we want kids, books that children will enjoy just for something to pick up from pleasure reading. Not necessarily because it fits the curriculum. This is the World War II story. We're studying World War II. So let's put this on there. Or let's have three of them on there. No. Right. And there's April 15th date again. Deadline to nominate titles for these reading lists is April 15th. And this is how you become a volunteer reader or suggest these titles. Shauna Linder at the Carney Public Library as charge of the picture book and chapter book list. So she would be the one you would send the titles to. You would need to send author, title, copyright date, publisher, ISBN, all this important information. And if the author is living in the United States. Exactly. Which state the author lives in? Often you could pick that up from the book jacket. But if it's not on the jacket, do a little research because she didn't have time to check them all. And for the novel list, you would want to send it to Jill Anas. And these people are in charge of the volunteer readers also. If you want to be a volunteer reader, it's very easy. Just send your name to them. And they will add you to the list. We do have a Goodreads groups for each of these categories. And these are private groups on Goodreads that you have to be invited to join. And it's only our readers. You can get in there and make comments on these books. And that is very helpful. That's how you can have a little discussion with the different readers that you don't have to have an in-person meeting that you have to travel to or something like that. And I appreciate reading that. Sometimes I read a book and say, oh, I like that one. And then I read some of the comments and say, oh, I never thought of that. Yeah, they've got a good point there. We do have a face-to-face meeting through the end of July where we can talk about them. The ones who are able to come. But we also do refer to these comments on Goodreads. And look at this. Did you think about this? And so all that comes into play before we set up those final lists. Now the in-person meetings, don't you do multiple ones across the state now? Reading. That's the reading of the picture books. Oh, yes. Two, this year. Right. Seward Memorial Library and the Southeast Library System has sponsored one for many years. Seward buys all of the picture books and a few short novels that sometimes are on the list. So they have all the books there. Then we just, this is my favorite meeting of the year. I tell my supervisor, I have to go to a meeting now and sit and read picture books all morning. And that's how you can get a hold of all of them. It's your lucky. Yeah, so if you're not. Not every library has all the books or you're not able to access them. And so she'll have them all. And we just sit around a table, big table, and you just pass and you read it. You pass at your left, pass at your left. And I think there were about 71 books on the list this year. And you were able to get all 71 of them read that day if you hadn't read them ahead of time. If you hadn't seen them before, yeah. And you can make notes on them and go home and decide which 10 you liked best and submit your votes. And it's the quietest group of librarians that I've ever seen because you might be 20 people in the room and now you're not even here at Pindrop. But there are page terms. Yes, everyone's busy reading. And then this year, Shauna sponsored one in Carney. Yeah, so it's just looking to see. Yeah, so being a good, old, and so-called committee member, I went to both of them. So we had a few books I didn't get to the first time. I believe the one at Seward is usually the last Friday in May. It's the Friday before Memorial Day. And I think Shauna did hers the first week in June. Yeah, so I'm like, yeah, Golden Soar reading day. Right. Over the years. And so it's a really good way for you to get access to all those picture books. Obviously, you can't read all the chapter books and novels in one morning. No, I didn't. But you can't sit and talk about them if you want. But it's really a wonderful way to access all of those picture books. And we do have a few little discussions between neighbors to say, oh, what did you think of that one? Yes. Or you'll hear somebody burst out laughing. And you go, OK, which one are you going to read? So I want to see that one next. Right. OK, and if anyone needs to ask me a question later on, I'll put my email address on there. Feel free to send me an email. I'll try to answer your questions. It's on the Golden Soar website also. So and I just wanted to say that I had not been a member of Goodreads until the Golden Soar different levels went to using Goodreads for discussion. So I signed up. It's easy. It's quick. It doesn't cost you any money. That's right. You just have to remember your dang password. It's dang OK to say. Oh, I know. Can you believe that? But that has worked really well. And another thing that it does for you is I think there are there 45 or 50 chapter books. And you may not be able to get a hold of them all. But also, as the time is getting closer, like I have to vote by this Saturday. So I've already voted for my picture book once. You can look at what chapter books have I not read. What are people saying about this one? Is it something I think might be a contender that I should read? Yeah, is everyone raving about it? Or do we have three or four negative comments that are thinking, well, maybe I could skip that one. Maybe I'll read this one. Or sometimes there's, I love it. I hate it. And please don't say I love it. I hate it. Please say, this book has these qualities that I like. And these qualities were a problem for me. That's helpful. Right. Some of them said, these are the pros. These are the cons. And you can love it or hate it. But really, when people say that, I'm thinking that they're looking at it from their own point of view and not as a child. And that's hard to remember. It is. The other thing I think is very helpful about that Goodread site, years ago, people would submit these titles and submit them and submit them. And you never got the reading list until the spring. And then you had two or three months to try to get through all those books. Now, as soon as someone nominates a book and says, I think this should be on the reading list for consideration, it goes on to that Goodread site. So you can start reading them as soon as you want. And read of all winter if you want. In September. They start the next year's batch. In September, I think it's for September. And so you can be reading them all through the year. And it might help you get through more of them also. OK. There's the GoldenSore website. Information for the adults working for the program, not so much for the kids. But helpful information that you might need. The GoldenSore award store is there where you can purchase lovely shirts like I'm wearing. Yes, that is delightful. Thank you, Sally. And you can purchase the manual, which has activities for all 30 of the nominees each year, things that you could use in your classroom or your library, information about the authors, information activities, discussion questions, battle of the books questions. If you do that in your school, bookmarks that have been prepared. Sometimes the winning illustrator will send us a little drawing that ties in with their book. And we have bookmarks made. A special drawing for them. It's a special bookmark. And Lisa Papp said she's going to do one for us. So look forward to a new bookmark that has to do with Madeline and the library dog. Hopefully, we'll have them all printed and ready to go before conference. The Virtual Museum, unfortunately, is not currently available a number of years ago. Our website crashed, which is really sad. And we have had to recreate everything. And this is a lot of work. I don't do it. I just help the person who's on charge of it. Have you done this yet? Usually, it gets up right away. But this Virtual Museum, it was pictures and information, like copies of the pictures with their authors saying they're holding their plans, pictures then with the student that presented them to it, our letters that they said, thanking the students in Nebraska. Wonderful information that we have in our archives that we wanted everybody to be able to see. So I am hoping that sometime we'll get that back up again. And I guess that's the last slide. Actually, if you go back. Is that a link we can click on in here? Will it try and see? Oh, looking there in the work. What it should do is automatically. That's a good idea. That was a good idea too. There we go. There it is. OK. So on our home page right there. Oh, I have to use that now. You can use the mouse. Right. On our home page, you will find the announcement of the winners there. And if you scroll down, we have the manual this year for the first time we are offering it available. You can order. You will be able to order a print copy if that's what you want from our website. You will also be able to order it on a USB drive that you can just put on your computer, which I think will be helpful for people because a lot of it, we have internet connections for all the books. And instead of having to type those things in, you should be able to just click on them. Or copy and paste, at least. And then here's the information again about the golden sore gala and where to go to register. If you didn't get that written down, go to our website. It's right there. And this was put up a few years ago about children being able to vote in more than one level and adults being limited to five suggestions per year. Back up here at the top, you can go to our Facebook page. We'll post announcements. We'll post pictures. Here's a link to the nominees for the coming school year. And if you click here, you can join our mailing list. Now, be assured you're not going to get a lot of spam. I'm not real good at sending out messages, like weekly or anything like that. But you will get reminders of it's time to vote. The new list has been posted on our website. Go check it out. November 1st, when the voting site opens up, hey, it's there, ready to go. If your kids have read all the picture books and you want to vote and submit your votes in November, you can do that. Things like, ooh, all three winners are coming. And here's how you can register for that. So you will get useful information, hopefully. This will give you information about the award, the history of the program that we talked about, all this information that I just went over is right here on the website, the nominees. You can go here, and you can get this. OK, now we have to get these updated. I thought I was going to be on the fake page. I didn't have the link. Well, this one, I thought she had these updated. Glad I checked. Yeah, she needs to get these changed. So I will send her an email when I get home today, Sally. OK. Where's the back button? I can't see it. This is up right there. Up here at the top. Right behind that speaker. Behind the speaker. Oh, there it is. OK, we'll get those updated. But also, you can access the winners. And when we're on the home page, let me go back. This one, that one, yeah. They're there. They're right there. But we need to get those others off now. You need to say no thanks on Chrome. Oh, no thanks. That's better. That's the problem with websites. You change it one place, and all of a sudden you think, oh, I forgot to change it over there. So here is a list of all the nominees for the coming school year. There's two pages for each one. It's just a PDF, and they're all there. So this is right now would be the time for the schools and libraries to start getting all the pages together. Well, actually, they should have them. This was posted on our website, September 1, last year. So that everyone could get them purchased. People said, if you wait to post it later, my school budget has already been spent. Then I have to wait a long time. So you can plan ahead. Now, my favorite PDF is under winners. Oh, yeah. And go down to PDF pass nominees slash winners. Because there's our history as far as nominees. Back to the very first year. Here's the winner. The honor book saw the runners up. And it's kind of like with the Caldecott in Newberry. And here's every other book that was nominated that year. Now, this one we've had a problem with. I've sent the document to our webmaster, and she said, Google made some changes, because it's like a Google website. And she has not been able to get it posted. We're still working on that. But so this will go all the way up through 18. Eventually, it will have all the 19 books on there, too. But she's not been able to get it to go on there yet. Oh, that's true. Yeah. OK. And she'll be able to go to the other tab, I think. Well, there it is. Yeah, it opened a new tab. But yeah, I think it's very valuable, because it's fun to go back and see which authors have one before, which you can probably search that document for a keyword How many times has this author been nominated? Because we do have authors that have won multiple times and been nominated multiple times. The voting is very important. All voting is done online. And this will not be live until November 1. But then you'll be able to vote any time between November 1 and April 15. I have to tell you, most of the votes come in between April 10 and April 15. I believe it. That's OK. That's OK. And this tells you, again, the criteria in who can vote. And yeah, they cannot vote for a book that they haven't read or heard just because their friend said they liked it. It's up to the teacher in the library to keep track of which ones the kids have read. I worked in a public library. I just told the kids, you're on honor system. Yeah. If you go into school, you can't come in here and vote also. And but you know, homeschoolers are very welcome to come on and bring that up. I'm hoping that public libraries will make it available for their homeschool families to come in and read the books at the library or check them out there and read them and vote there. And here again, readers select the category that is best for them, regardless of grade level and the voting deadlines. And this is for the teachers and librarians that are submitting the votes. So it's very easy to do. You don't even have to put a stamp on it. Yay. Yay. But you know, be very careful. Sometimes everyone's all, we have somebody say, OK, this is the one that vote in the book that won in my school. And that's the only votes they submit. No, no, no, no. We want the votes for every single book. You know, you fill in a zero if nobody voted for it. You put in one if one student voted for it. Because we tabulated all, right, we tabulated all the books. Yeah, it's not what is your school like it's each individual child gets to have a vote. Right. To this. Yeah. Good. Yeah. And here, if you've got questions, you can go here and get some of the answers. If it's still not clear, send me an email. And here's the link to the store. And here's some of the items we have for sale. Yeah, that's great. Right. The new manual will be posted shortly. I believe the price is going to have to go up because of postage and printing costs. But it will also be available this year if you want to purchase it on a USB. You can purchase stickers to put on the books and mark them in your library. I always like to put the golden store triangle sticker on the cover. So when kids picked up a book, they knew that that was the winner. And I also used a rubber stamp in my books at the library. I stamped them inside the back cover and put what year they were nominated. So even if they didn't win, the kids could pick it up. Or if they won, they can pick it up and figure out which year it was, too. There's a little pin of the store they can order. There's some other items that they, if you want prizes or something for your school. We have a new mug with the Peter Reynolds little sewer design on it. Just a number. Here's some of the bookmarks. There's lanyards. So yeah. And creepy carrots. That's a good one. And even monsters need haircuts. That was a fun one. And here's a golden sewer tote bag. It's really handy. And there's the t-shirt that Kenny's wearing now. You can't really see it on her in the camera view, but you can see it there. The whole shirt there is kind of a turquoise color. I don't know. Maybe it shows up better on the website. But you can order. It shows up nice on the camera view. Oh, good. You can see there, yeah. Yeah, you can order the ladies v-neck polo. You can order t-shirts. And it has this design on the front. And I think if you wanted kid sizes, you contact artists down here. Artist Moody is in charge of our store. And if you send her a message, there's an order form here. If you click there, it takes you to the order form. And her email, her email is here. Her address is there. Tells you how to make payments. You can use credit cards, debit cards. But you do have to pay the extra charge because we have to pay a charge to take those cards. But postage and handling costs are included in the items when you purchase them. Oh, there's a lovely pen there, too, now. That's something fairly new. We forgot Brock. There's another bookmark. Yeah. So all these things are available. Then if I go back up to the top, contact us. This tells you some of the committee members and their responsibilities. So my email address is right there. If people need to contact me. Artist Moody with the store. Dana Fontaine is the manual editor. If you have questions about that, if you'd like to volunteer to do the activities and things for one of the books, if you prepare pages for the manual, you can get a free copy of the manual. It's like not a lot of, I mean, not going to get paid by the hour or anything, but it's nice to get a free manual. And so these are the different responsibilities here. Also, you've got the contact information for Shauna and Jill who are in charge of the readers and the nominee lists, our webmaster. Oh, I do the Facebook. That's why you probably won't see a lot of Facebook posts. I'm not real good at that. Marsha Bradberger and Lincoln is our historian and she's done a wonderful job keeping archives which are stored here at the Library Commission, Sally. Yes, that is true. They are still there. We have a nice, safe place for those. We do purchase a copy of each of the winning books and keep them here also. So we have that in our archives. You can see all the books that have won in the past. Anything else that we forgot? Oh, that's a good one. If you have any questions, type into the question section of your good webinar interface, the questions, comments, thoughts. Right. If you have a microphone, you can use that. Here again, if you need a note, why not use it? I encourage you to sign up for the mailing list if you want reminder emails about, oh, say, you know, if you've read any good books, suggest them to Shauna or Jill for the reading list. If you'd like to be a reader, this is, you know, once they have your name and contact information, they will send you the reminders too. I need to have this by a certain date, or this is when the readers are going to get together. They will send you an invitation to the Goodreads site, things like that. So we do have a question, and it's a good question. Are adults able to vote, or is it just children? Oh, this is a children's choice award. Only children are allowed to vote. Adults pick the nominees, though. Right. And then it's passed on to the children to vote for the winners. Right. We try to pick 10 books for each list that the kids will enjoy reading, just to encourage them to read for fun. And, you know, not all kids think that. Usually reading is associated with schoolwork. We want them to be able to pick up a book and read it for enjoyment. And so we try to pick books that they will like, but yes, the book, the adults pick the nominees. The students and the children do the voting. Kids could suggest titles, though, too, right? Oh, sure. That could be something we have as part of your program related to this, is to have your students, or the kids in your library, suggest the new titles that we are coming up of. Right. And then they suggest it to your librarian. And the librarian can make sure it fits all those criteria. It's the copyright date, the author lives in the US. And the librarian can submit the title for them. And I think that's a wonderful way to do it. I'm hoping parents will read the books with the kids at home. I'm hoping it's a teacher's halftime, read them in the classroom or in the library. It's, you know, with all the things going on in school, I know I've heard from other elementary teachers that were reading chapter books aloud, you know, like a chapter a day during a certain time, that they say, we just don't have time for that anymore, which is sad. Because reading is so wonderful. You kind of answered this question already, but I just want to kind of re-emphasize it, because I had a couple of public librarians asking me about offering voting at the library. Yes, the public library. And I told them, as you have verified, that they need to see if the school is doing a vote, because many, many schools do. Not every single one, but many, many. And then have the kids say, are you voting at school? Right. And then we talked about the homeschool groups, because lots of public libraries do have homeschooled families coming to the library or coming as a group to have a homeschool day where they give presentations and that. And that could be the site where those people vote if you want to. Well, I think if you have homeschoolers using your library, it would be very helpful, encourage them, show them where the golden source are, maybe have a manual on your shelf that they could check out. And they could use for the activities also. I always had a library copy of the manual that anyone, teacher, homeschooler, could check out and use the activities. So make it as easy as possible. I found it worked well, usually to put it. I just had the ballots available. They had to ask for them at the desk. But I just had the rules printed there, instead of you've already voted at school, please don't vote here. And this is the honor system. You have to have read at least four of these books. But make it as easy as possible and put the responsibility on the students. I think that's important for kids to learn that type of thing, too. It might be good also from either side of the school or the library to work with your, if you're at the school, contact your public library to see what they're doing. And the other way around, if you have a public library, don't just depend on asking the kids, is the school to this, just reach out to your school and say, what are you doing with Golden Sower? What can we do together? Can we cross promote this or something? Or at least so we know what's going on. We know to ask the kids, did you already do the school vote? Because we know they're doing it there. Or the other way around, work together on this, definitely. Another thing I wanted to mention, you had said that the manual this year for the first time is available via teachers pay teachers. But one of the things we did, and I haven't looked to verify this, but on that site, you could order just one group of them. If you only want the picture book list and the information that goes with them, you could buy just that section rather than the manual. Oh, I'd like to mention that. Yeah, it's up to you. The entire manual includes all three levels. Activities and everything for all the books. You can buy on teachers pay teachers just the picture book section, just the chapter book section, just the novel section, or you can buy just the activities for one book. Because we thought we've opened this up so people anywhere in the country, if they're interested, I'm gonna be doing this book. I don't want your whole manual, but I want the activities for this book. Yeah, I see you can pick and choose how much you want. If you go down to the website there, yeah. And then the battle of the books questions for the picture books will be in that section. The battle of the books questions for the chapter books will be in that section. I'm glad you mentioned that, because I forgot to say that. I think that would be very handy for some people in Nebraska and also for like you said, people across the country. And that one then, all the manual and all that stuff is strictly just online. It's not like they send you a paper. No. It's all just online. Yeah, it is all just download. Okay. If we're all new to this, this year. Yeah, we're hoping to work really well. I'm thinking that's how it works. Yeah, it's just, it's down loud. And it would be, if you ordered the same manual from teachers paid teachers, you would get the same ones you'd get from the USB store, from our store. But I'm hoping if you really want the whole manual ordered from our store, because we'll make a little bit more money on it. That way, teachers pay teachers keeps a cut. Of course. So we don't get the entire amount. So we'll see. That's a good point too. But we thought by opening it up that way. It's nice to have those options. Yeah, but we could make it available for somebody that lived in Texas or Florida or wherever, if they wanted the activities that had already been prepared for that book, they could purchase just that one piece. Cool. Yeah. Any other last minute questions? Questions, comments, thoughts? Oh, yeah, sorry. For those who are attending the conference this fall, and please look for the table of Golden Sower thanks to the Nebraska Library Association for Golden Sower having a table at the conference. You can buy the items that we showed you that are in the store. Usually have a collection of those for sale at conferences as well. And I'll just tell you, usually she has the prices a little lower because we're not having to pay the portion. There's no varsity, there's no shipping, yeah. So you'll get a deal if you buy it and carry it home with you. So look in the exhibits area for the Golden Sower table if you want to stock up on all of your materials. This year, in the past, the conference is always offering us a free booth. And this year, there were no free booths for anyone. But the Nebraska Library Association was very generous. They said, we think it's important for Golden Sower to have a presence there. So we will be there all day Thursday, selling these items. And then we will move to the banquet room, wherever that is, and you can buy your copies of the books for autographing or whatever you want. I'm gonna be there early for my books for autographing. Exactly. I'm gonna buy all my books right away. Right. I wouldn't wait till the last minute because Sally will apply. I'm looking forward to having all three authors here. I'll probably have my fingers crossed until October 3rd, hoping nobody gets sick. Oh, yeah, yeah. And there's no delay, so travel issues or anything like that. Oh, exactly. There's been years before, because in October, I know I'm gonna say it can snow. It has before. There was one year, the illustrator didn't make it because he was having to fly through Denver and there was a blizzard going in there. Yeah, he said I, they said I'd probably make it, but I chickened out and then one year, I think the author's husband got sick and was in the hospital. Well, of course, you know, that happens, right? And we realized these things happen. So think good thoughts for them all. Hold our breath. Everything's gonna be great. Right, awesome. All right, well, it doesn't look like anybody's got anything desperately need to ask you guys right now. That's fine. As you saw, all of the emails that you might need to get in touch with anybody is on the website. Right. So if you're interested, if you haven't been doing GoldenSore before, or you might need something. Now, I should mention, if you look up at the top, it says, the address says sites.google.com because we are on Google site now, but you type in goldensore.com, that's where you go. It'll go up there. Right, forward. You don't have to remember all of that. They have nice. Just remember, foldingsore.com. Yeah. Excuse me, goldensore.org. I've got to ask that. Org? Org. Oh, excuse me. Isn't it Org? No, who would have gotten close? No, I don't know where you would have gone. But yeah, it wouldn't have been there. Goldsore.org, excuse me. Oh, how many times have I said that right and then when it really does, I said it wrong? That makes it more memorable now that you all remember Org. Right. No problem. All right. Well, I think then we will wrap it up for today. This was great. We haven't had an update on the goldsore in a while. And a few years here. I know I looked it up. I can't remember when I told you this, but was it? Oh, okay. So it was great to have an update on everything, especially all the new things going on. And it was kind of a conference this year. It was very exciting. So thank you everybody for attending. Thank you, Cathy and Sally for being here and joining us today. I'm gonna go to our Encompass Live website now. And so far, if you just Google, use your search engine of choice, Encompass Live. I can't read the archives first, but we are the only thing that's called this so far in the world on the internet. So luckily, all you'll use whenever you type in Encompass Live online, you'll find us. This is our upcoming shows, but I wanna show you first here for today's show. The archives will be here. The archives link right underneath all the upcoming shows. The most recent ones are at the top of the page. So sometime by the end of the day today, I'll have the video all processed. And up on here and the slides will be linked on here as well. You can see here from last week's show, we have a link to recording and a link to presentation. But the same thing for today's show. Everyone who attended this morning and registered for today's show and was able to attend will get an email from me. We also post out to our various social media. We have a Facebook page for Encompass Live. We put out to Twitter, mailing lists. They'll be out there for everybody. While I'm here on the archives, I do wanna show you, I did mention that we are in the 11th year of Encompass Live, which is a lot of shows. We do Encompass Live every Wednesday of the year. The only Wednesday we don't do it, which is considering it in that you mentioned, is the week of our state conference, the NLA, NSLA, and this year, ILA conference. People are just busy with conference that year. So 51 weeks a year, we have a show. We have our full, all of our archives here on the site, going back to the very beginning show, which was in 2009. So when you are looking at our archives, just pay attention to everything has a date, so you can see when it was originally broadcast. So just pay attention to that. You will find things on here that are possibly old, outdated information, services of products that don't exist anymore. Things may have changed since the original broadcast of it. But we are librarians, we archive things. We save things for posterity. So they'll always all be up here. Just pay attention to the date when you are searching through the archives. We do have a search feature up here where you can search the entire archives if you want to by keyword. Or if you do just want really up-to-date information, just have it searched the last year's worth the last 12 months and we'll only do the last today, back 12 months. So that is our archives. Like I said, by the end of the day today, I should have it up there. And I hope you join us for next week's show, which is how does your library garden grow? This is a session, or yeah, the Beatrice Public Library has a library garden. I was actually out there a month or so ago. I took a bunch of pictures, I should share them. Where they have letters of the alphabet in the library in the garden and it's reading and you can see it through the windows and they have events and things. And so Joanne Neiman, who's a youth services librarian there will be with us along with someone from their Master Gardener program. Mary Ann Gackle will be with us next week to talk about doing the library garden programming at your library. So please do join us for that show and any of our other upcoming ones. We have all of our August ones booked. I even have things scheduled for September. I'm working on final descriptions. Can you do one for me, Sam? Oh, yes. I can get on. Summer reading program session is gonna be coming up in September if you're looking at that. It's about the Collaborative Summer Library Program organization and how things are changing. Yeah. For the good. Yes, in my opinion. So look for more things to be added. And as I said, we are on Facebook. We've got a link to our Facebook page here and on each of our session pages. It's kinda wonky on this browser, but so if you are a big Facebook user, do go over there and give us a like. We do post reminders. Here's your reminder to log in to today's show if you wanted to. When our, no, I don't wanna log in right now. Thank you. When we have our recordings are available. I post on here. So if you do like to use Facebook, give us a like there and you will get notifications of when we are doing things a couple of times a week. Not too overwhelming. Let me go back. There we go. Other than that, that wraps up today's show. Thank you everybody for being here and I hope you'll join us on a future Encompass Live. Bye-bye. Bye.