 Okay. Good morning and welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. I am your host, Krista Burns, here at the Nebraska Library Commission. Encompass Live is the commission's weekly online event. Yes, we are a webinar. You can call us that. We won't be offended by it. Thank you to offended by it. But we cover anything that may be of interest to librarians. We do the show live every Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. Central Time. But if you're unable to join us on Wednesday mornings, that's fine. You can always go to our website, which I'll be showing at the end of the show, and see any of our recordings that we have up there. We do a mixture of things here, training sessions, book reviews, just demonstrations, whatever. Basically, like I said, anything of interest to librarians. We're happy to have on the show. And we have guest speakers that sometimes come in, and sometimes they have Nebraska Library Commission staff, which is what we have this morning. Today with us is just to my left, Katherine Rockmire, who's from here at the Nebraska Library Commission. And I'm not sure in what capacity you're doing this presentation. Grant Program Manager. Okay, Grant Program Manager. And Laura Johnson, who's our Continuing Education Coordinator. And she's also on the Grant Committee. Yeah, she's also on the Grant Committee. And we do internships through the commission. But I'm just going to hand over to you guys to take over and tell us about what you're doing today. All the internships that people can get. The best way to do it. Good morning. Thank you for joining us today. Again, my name is Katherine Rockmire, and I am the Grant Program Coordinator or Manager. And I work with the 21st Century Librarian Internship Program that was funded through a grant to the Nebraska Library Commission from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. So today is serving as an orientation to the libraries that were recently funded an internship grant to hire interns in their own libraries. And I do see that we have individuals from out of state and from other libraries, other than public libraries, and we welcome you today. We're so glad that you're here. And we hope that you will learn something from what we have to share today and be able to apply it to your particular situation. I just want to show you the starting page for the internship grant program. This is where the applicants and potential applicants went to learn about the internship grant program. It's at now hiring at your library.nebraska.gov. And then you click on internships. And it gave a brief introduction to the program itself. So you are welcome to go through that and see what was required for the grant application, which also gives a great background and some helpful links to the various components of the grant program, the internship grant program. And so you're welcome to cruise through that. At the same time, we also have an orientation document that is tips for a successful internship grant program experience. And we can also share some of that with you. These links to the SurveyMonkey we'd appreciated if just the intern... If you want to go through and take a look at the surveys for the non-grantees, that's fine. If you want to get an idea of what we're offering, that's just fine. Keith Curran-Lance is our external evaluator. And so those are on his site. If you have any extra questions for him, please contact me and I'll put you in touch with him. He's with RSL Research. And so there's the tip sheet that we give to our recent awardees. Going back to the slideshow. This program is a Laura Busch 21st Century Librarian Program that we received a grant in 2010 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. They have generously funded internship grants. We are also in partnership with the Nebraska Library Association, who was able to give us some matching funds in our first year through a foundation grant to their association. And we have worked closely in partnership with them. They give us feedback. They participate in the grant application review process. And we work closely with them to make sure that we have a mutual understanding of the goals of the program. They're also a partner in the actual grant itself from IMLS. We welcome your questions and your comments all the way through this presentation because we want to hear from you and your personal experiences, and any kind of questions that you have will be of benefit to the entire group. So please do chime in. So for those of you that got an internship grant, and of those of you who are considering having an internship in your library, what are the next steps? What do we do next? First of all, you need to advertise for the position. And we have a job posting example that was provided generously to us from the looking for it. In Arbor District Library, they must have received a grant at some point in time, and so I had learned about their job posting. And so if you need an example of a job posting, that is available here. It's great to give your prospective interns an opportunity to submit a resume to go through an interview process. That's a huge learning experience, especially for younger individuals who this might be their first job. And so we have heard back from our internship grant recipients that that has been a great process for the applicants. Also, there's a way in Nebraska to advertise your position, and that's through internnebraskainternne.com. And that website looks like this. That's the Intern Nebraska program. It's through the Department of Economic Development, and you can post your internship and advertise through that and it is free, I believe. It should be. So when you're hiring, you might consider how you're going to pay your intern. Through our program, we prefer that you give them a lump sum or two payments. Right now, we are able to provide $1,000 to each library for their internship grant. That's what they've received. Some of them contract with their employees, and they are required then to fill out their own... Oops, that went backwards. They're required to fill out their own contract for that, and they are also required to probably take care of their own taxes. Others go through a temporary employee. What's really important is to talk with your city offices and make sure that however you're deciding to hire is in... Come with how they believe that they ought to be hired. Some of our libraries contract for $10 per hour. You might consider it for 100 hours. You might also take into consideration how much your other employees are making and perhaps change your tactics in terms of what you are going to offer your intern. If you would like, after you hire intern, if you would like to give a press release, we will be sending out a press release here from the Nebraska Library Commission that shows the awardees, the libraries that have been awarded. You can use that as an example to share that with your local news outlets. You might put some personal information once you've hired your intern and give some background on that intern. Talk about what a boon this is to the community and how it's going to benefit the library and how it's going to benefit the intern. Maybe talk about some special projects. But the example that we have right now, this year's press release isn't up quite yet, but we do have the previous years from 2013 and you can use that as an example as well. If you want to grab some quotes or use some of the language, it's there. We do have some required paperwork of our awardees. You need to inform us of the start date and the estimated end date of the internship. It's good to have a really good idea to be in communication with your intern in terms of your expectations for them and what they're able to provide. Please do awardees remember that your internship must wrap up by September 30th per year agreement with us. And then at the start of the internship, we need you to direct your intern to complete and sign the survey completion consent form. That's just that they're giving consent for their responses to be used. They only need to provide their first name and their last initial. That's just for tracking purposes. Otherwise, no identifying information is used in our reporting. It's for our evaluation purposes, not to evaluate them. And you need to direct your intern to complete the online baseline survey. That is a requirement of the grant. During the internship, we would like for you to track your interns hours and activities. And at the end of the internship, we would like you to direct the intern to complete the online post-internship survey. The supervisor will complete two reports. One about the internship program itself. And then for each intern, you provide a report. It's an online also through SurveyMonkey, an online report on each intern. Some of these libraries have decided to split up their funding and hire a one-on-one intern. So what are the goals of the program? This is what we reported to IMLS and decided on with the NLA interns get involved in real library work that takes advantage of their experience and interests. So through the interview process, you might find out what sorts of things that they're interested in. And if you decide to hire them, you might sit down with them and decide what sorts of special projects you might also notice. There are some areas in their background that you feel that they might like to learn more about in terms of customer service or working on computers. Maybe they're more interested in what goes on behind the scenes in terms of technical services. You want to make sure that the interns get involved in real library work that takes advantage of their experience and interests. And this does introduce promising interns to the varied and exciting work of Nebraska libraries. This is our recruiting aspect of our IMLS grant. This is the way for us to recruit the next generation of Nebraska librarians. Right here, I talk about that as a recruitment tool. Helping them view the library as a viable career opportunity. And then also, if you please, would have the opportunity to talk about educational opportunities in Nebraska. We have opportunities at the undergraduate level through Central Community College for an LIS certificate or an associate's degree. And then some of that can feed in through academic transfer to the University of Nebraska Omaha undergraduate program. And then we also have two master's programs available, three, actually. One is in education through the University of Nebraska Omaha, another through the University of Nebraska Carney. And those are the education endorsements. And then we also have the opportunity for students to go through the University of Missouri and Columbia with a satellite in Omaha. And you can ask me for more information about that, or you can go to NowHiringAtYourLibrary.com and go under Education, and you'll be able to find that information. So we want to show our interns every aspect of library work, from the front lines to behind the scenes. And also, one of the focuses of our grant is to focus on, that was redundant. One of the reasons for our IMLS grant is to introduce our interns to the role of technology in libraries. And so we would like for you to think about what you have to offer them and also what they might have to offer your library with insights. One of the reasons why we provide these to the libraries is it gives them a boost financially that they might be able to hire someone that they may not otherwise be able to hire. They might also be able to expand a program or complete a project and bring in fresh ideas. So once they're hired, you work with the intern to determine how supervision will be conducted and what projects will be completed. We have an example of a schedule of activities here, if you would like to look at with the timeline in terms of what all would be accomplished. This is an eight-week program. Some of you might go 10 weeks, some of you might go 12 weeks, but you need to hurry. We just have to be done by September 30, at least for our awardees. Laura, would you like to talk a little bit about the schedule of activities? And then we're also going to talk about the orientation. Let me just go on here. About the orientation for our interns, we'd like for you to give them a formal orientation as if they were a new hire. It can be an abbreviated orientation, but we do have a sample here just to make sure that you get to all areas of library work. One of the things we look at when we get an application from a library and the grant is to the library, not to the student or to the intern. But one of the things we look at in their application is, do they have a plan? Do they have an idea of how they are going to introduce library work to the intern and kind of a schedule for the activities that the intern will be taking part in? Because this needs to be a two-way street. The intern needs to be learning, but the library then needs also for the intern to be doing meaningful work. So we look at, and the only way we can, the way that's going to happen is because there's a plan. It isn't going to just happen magically. You have to give this some thought. And it turns out that, boy, there's a lot to learn in a library. Library work is actually pretty complicated. So we like to see that the library has an idea of who is going to conduct orientation, who's going to supervise the work, and what exactly the intern will be doing. We're really interested in interns. There's work that needs to be done in terms of shelving books, that kind of thing. But there's also thought in determining how collections are developed, how library administration interacts with the community and with the governance of the community and the governance of the library. And we'd like the intern to see all of those things. We'd like him to see all of the aspects of library work. So we'd really like to see not just a particular project, although having an intern do a particular project is good, but we'd like to see an intern get really a taste of everything. So that's kind of what we're looking for in the application. And the reason we look for that is because our experience has shown that that's what makes for a successful internship where both the library and the intern feel that they got a great deal out of the experience. Absolutely. And I think that speaks to helping, especially if you're hiring high school students or early college to give them a sense of what it's like to be a professional in a career. To give them a chance to gain some new skills in terms of customer service or attention to detail or communicating with coworkers. And so with their hands-on experience, they do gain or enhance the skills that they already have. And we hear back time and time again how essential this is for the success, as Laura said, of an internship program, and to help an intern feel successful by the end of their program because they do report on these things. And one of the things that they always say is I had no idea how much work goes into a library. I had no idea how much goes on behind the scenes. I thought basically what happened all day was checking books in and out and shelving. And so giving them a well-rounded education in terms of what does go on in a library, even if you have libraries that are larger that specialize where individuals work, the front desk, and that's about it. Or individuals are hired just to shelve. Or individuals are hired to work in technical services and cataloging and so on and so forth. Showing them that they can specialize in a particular area is very good. But in some of the smaller town libraries, it's a one-man, two-man, three-man band, one-woman, two-woman, three-woman band, but that you need to be a jack or jane of all trades. And not necessarily a master of none, that you need to be educated in the various areas. And Laura can speak to that if you'd like to follow up with her as a continuing education coordinator. She works on the accreditation of libraries to some extent. And she also works on the certification for our librarians and the certification modules that go into this. And so that is one way for you to think about really taking this seriously as opposed to having an extra pair of hands for summer reading program, which is what we do here often and we're very happy to supply the funding so that you can have an extra pair of hands for summer reading program or another project. But we would like to make sure that you do keep in mind and make it a priority to show them every aspect of library work. Oh, wow. I didn't realize I was going to do that. Oh, hey. Let's get dizzy. So I did share with you the proposed timeline and schedule of internship activities. Putting some thought into this is what we looked for from all of our library applicants and for them to focus on an orientation plan. We really needed to hear that from our library applicants to have an understanding that this is like Laura said, a two-way street. Some of the things that you could, again, we focus on technology and so we would like for you to show them some of the resources that librarians use and one of them is Nebraska Access. I don't have that pulled up here. Actually, I'll just go back to press release and over here, if you scroll down, there is Nebraska Access right now. You can show them some databases. You can show them these areas. Let's say you give them a particular reference question. You want them to go and find out how to answer it. You could take them to Nebraska Access and everything is broken down in categories and many of these pages are linked to vetted and reviewed and unbiased or balanced list of websites where they might be able to find their answer. Giving them a chance to answer a real reference question or letting them work at the front desk and standing with them and helping them find the answer and provide that to their library customer. Sharing information about, you might ask them to write an article or contribute to a blog post or make a Twitter tweet, making a flyer or a poster, especially if you have some individuals who really like to work on desktop publishing. That might be a fun thing for them to do, writing a library article or some librarians have a weekly, in their newspaper, they are able to write a weekly or monthly article for the newsletter and letting them help chime in or write it themselves so that they're disseminating what they're learning and putting it and seeing how librarians reach out to the community, share with the community what the library is doing. They also, in terms of technology literacy, having them look at a website and see what makes it unbiased and fair and neutral but informative. So looking at .gov websites, looking at .org websites and other websites where the information that's provided will help a library customer find the answers that they need. Anything else on that, Laura? Any other kinds of technology source? And we're looking at, you know, on the surface, one little, you know, one 30-minute introduction to something. We're not expecting this to be the focus, you know, of the entire program or to take up a whole ton of time. Well, there's really, there's a lot of technology used in libraries and sometimes in ways that we don't even think about. Generally, cataloging is very, uses technology, actually cataloging probably has started using technology before any other part of the library. So what goes into cataloging a book? How library catalogs work? Then what goes into checking out a book? Circulation seems like it's so simple and yet it turns out that there's lots of odd things that happen there. And it too has a lot of technology involved. And then some of the things, the services libraries offer like interlibrary loan. And then there's the patron access computers. We've been very lucky in Nebraska to, with another grant, provide a lot of libraries in Nebraska with computers for library user use. That's kind of productive. And so being able to help people with their computer problems I think is a very big part of what libraries are doing these days. Keeping all that technology working, which just takes some tech skills. You just need to understand what a network is and what makes it go. And we did have an intern who had some knowledge and savvy in this area. And he actually helped a library reconfigure their computer lab. So he had some knowledge of how a network works and some different things like that. And so he was able to jump right in and help them reorganize their computer lab. So in some ways we would like to see planning and we would like to see a schedule of activities that you're planning for an intern. But we'd also like to see you sit down with the intern that is selected to work in your library and kind of develop a cooperative plan where the intern also has input into what's going to happen and what they're going to do. I have to admit that probably no one chooses to do filing. But there's a lot of filing to do. We file cards, we file books. So I think people also have to understand because there's sometimes the first job that a person has had. They have to understand that there are certain tasks that just have to get done every day and certainly they would be taking part in those but that would not be the only thing they'd be doing. We did have one applicant who mentioned that the potential intern would be helping with landscaping. But who else is going to take care of that if they don't hire out for a landscaper if the city doesn't take care of that? Not that they'll be pulling weeds. I think they talked about more in the lines of planting flowers or helping with the maintenance. I don't think you want your intern out there pulling weeds for hours on end or anything but understanding that that's sometimes what the library staff actually do. I do have a comment related to what you're talking about about knowing the basic technology skills. Hardly agree with the need to be able to help the public with just very basic skills, many tech skills we take for granted using Word, being able to print to a printer, that kind of thing are unknown for a segment of the public that we serve. Absolutely. A lot of times what we do find is that the library staff really appreciate having a fresh face. They oftentimes learn tips and tricks to using the technology that they already have in Word, Publisher, Facebook, Excel. We have sometimes people who come up with book lists that need to be maintained and perhaps the intern has some Excel experience and they have worked on that before. We also love to have people who can discuss books. That's one of the things that happens at the circulation desk a lot. We're interested in readers and sharing reading with people and I think that's an important aspect of library work that you have to keep reading. But talking to your library users. Oftentimes what we saw in the grant applications is that they did want to hire someone younger to look at the young adult collection for collection development, to look at young adult programming, to actually if you hire an intern who's pretty well networked with a peer group that might actually draw a group into the library. We had one where a male was hired and he conducted a book group for young boys. That's not the only reason he was hired but that was one of the projects that developed once he was hired. What would we like for you to see and what would be a benefit to you as well during the internship itself? I've done this as a practicum. When I was doing my library science practicum is I kept a diary and then I summarized some of the things that I learned along the way. It's grant book or diary, taking pictures of the intern and action. If this does happen and you do share those with us which we would love to see these because we use those for reporting purposes and we also share those on our Facebook page. We do need a release. We have two photo releases that they need to sign and if anybody else is in the picture any other staff or any other individuals especially children that are in the picture where you can see their faces we do need releases from them too. If you get pictures of children from the back we don't need releases for them but we do need releases from interns and if they're underage their parent has to sign if they're under 18. Save copies of their written works and other projects or if they are highlighted in the newspaper or something to that effect we'd love to see news clips. We sure like to hear what has been disseminated and what kind of products have come out of that. We have somebody who posted to Pinterest they posted to Facebook they've done tweets about their interns they mentioned their interns. If you can, if you could mention that you received a grant from the Nebraska Library Commission and Nebraska Library Association through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services at least on your press releases or anything that really goes out to the media we sure would appreciate that you include that. We do have a Facebook page for our Nebraska librarians and for scholarship students who are also in another part of our 21st century librarian program and this would be a great way for your intern to see what professionals do to stay abreast of current topics and issues in library service and for them to take a look through what we have to say on there and what our fans of the page have to say and sometimes they make comments on the posts. So even looking at one of these posts and following the link and reading up on current events and that sort of thing you can see those here and so we welcome you to visit the page or become a fan and then we do ask that you stay in touch with us keep us updated if something happens let's say that this intern doesn't work out and that does happen and that's okay but you've only expended $200 on the intern you do need to hire again just let us know that that other individual has left the program and that you plan to hire for a new individual and then give us their name have them fill out the baseline survey the previous intern could do the exit survey depending on what terms you end if they just it's a time commitment and it's not working out you might ask for them to complete the follow-up survey just so we can bring things to a close with them. I think that we've covered basically everything we talked about again about technology some of our interns have actually started Facebook page let's talk about this for a second the brainstorming we'd love to hear from you who do you plan to hire are you looking to hire somebody younger are you looking to hire somebody or have you had somebody express interest who's looking at a different career they've already had and there is no age limit except for the lower age limit in terms of who you can hire legally in the state of Nebraska and you might want to look at how mature they are how mature they are but we also have had college students that are back for the summer you never know they can finish their undergraduate degree and they might consider a master's that's great so high school students, college students students who aren't in college but are younger still living in your town considering they're in transition other individuals who are considering a career in libraries it actually could be somebody and this has happened someone that you're looking at you see down the line that there's going to be attrition in your library that people are going to leave your library and you kind of like for them to try it out and see if this is something they might be interested in doing we have had interns that were later hired on at the same library where they did their internship and that's great this is a recruiting tool we'd like for you to give them a chance to learn about it and we'd like for you to try them out that's absolutely fine like taking a test journey right and then we talked about some special projects if one library that we had they decided to do some work with the student doing e-books and that sort of thing and so they went to our previous Encompass Lives another was on genealogy and they went to our previous Encompass Lives which you can access and I'm doing a plug here for Krista but under education and training there's Encompass Live webcast you can see what's coming up which would be fun for them to sit in and actually be able to comment and see how that works what it's like to be in a live webinar or you can go to the recordings and they were looking at genealogy and so this librarian was a real engaged librarian with the Nebraska Library Commission so she was aware of these previous recordings and so they went in and they viewed a recording she also at one point in time took her student they were redesigning their website and this was a different intern and they went to a training that was provided by the Nebraska Library Commission on WordPress sites called Librarians Nebraska Librarians on the Web Nebraska Libraries on the Web and so she took her to the training the intern was on the ground with her laying the groundwork for their new website and had input into how that went and there are of course many other special projects there are summer reading where a student could actually lead one program or do the story hours they can hand out prizes too that's what a librarian does but we certainly want you to focus on some of the more professional aspects as well of summer reading program also looking outside the library walls who do you partner with what kind of outreach do you do if you go to attend a Lions Club meeting and you're going to talk about summer reading take them along transfer knowledge and that has to do with them what kinds of projects again can they do to show what they have learned can they write a newsletter article can they tweet can they help you set up your Facebook page so that they see what it's like to do publicity and that sort of thing and then what else what else can we think of so this is our time for our attendees to please weigh in and talk about any of these or ask any questions or any of these topics or any other topics that you can think of or if you have a question for the group in terms of I'm looking to do this project what are other people what is their experience if you have any questions or comments or ideas use the questions section and you go to have an interface go ahead and type it in there and I'm watching here and while we're doing that I am going to open a report from a previous year goodness me goodness me I bet this is it this was some internship grant program press coverage that I was able to glean from Google in terms of what libraries were able to get out to the press or from the press release that we sent out so they used our wording basically and also blogs Skyler Public Libraries blog they basically took the press release and they posted it on their website Omaha World Herald picked up the information McCook, Daly, Gazette featured a student who was doing a joint program through the local community college library and his public library and partnerships are encouraged if you could if you wanted to take your student on a field trip and go look at a different kind of library or to visit the school library in your town so that they can see that there are other types of libraries and other opportunities for various careers not necessarily in a public library perhaps when they go back to college and this has happened one of our interns recently got hired on at their university library and so now they are working part-time in their university library and who knows you may have plans to deceive they plan to deceive and they're working it's got to start date and end date when they graduate from college they may lead that but you may have plans to deceive in the back of their mind to be thinking about a master's program or going back and getting a certificate in library science and working in the library you just never know I think this brings up one thing that I'd just like to mention which is there's a picture here and many of your smaller newspapers love their photo opportunities they love to have a picture so trying to include a picture with publicity materials is really a good idea and you know today a picture is so easy to take and you can take 27 of them to get one good picture digitally so do consider trying to make sure that you get pictures that was a really lengthy article it was a great article on what he was doing Republican library Republican Valley library system also picked up on that article let me see here I want to show you what happened on Facebook oh dearie me let's see if I can find it excuse the scrolling I hope I don't make you dizzy got to get down here to the report on internship grants what we like about this is that we reach libraries that are not necessarily in metropolitan areas but we have a nice cross section of libraries across the state if rural libraries can afford it we highly encourage them to hire an intern if they haven't received a grant but to help the city see that there is a need for this that there is need for gainful employment which is also what we hear oftentimes from our library applicants is that they would like the community to see that there is an opportunity for gainful employment for their local youth here a student in the newspaper there was a picture of her working with a display here an intern visited another library a larger library and got us a tour of their library and then the small library Rock County Public Library posted that on their Facebook page then one of our library interns actually wrote on our wall and it was really nice to hear from her that she was engaged and she found a place to share what she had learned and she showed that her satisfaction and her gratitude for the internship grant so that was really professional of her to do so that takes care of one of our most recent reports and so this is what we share with the Institute of Museum and Library Services to show what the outcomes are and what we really love to hear from libraries later on we follow the libraries and ask where is your intern now and we did this this right here one of the things that she did while she was an intern was that she learned about the story walk and they watched an M.Cupus live on the Hastings Public Library's story walk and so she came back over break from college and she put together the story walk and there was a real high participation rate from the kids and so right there that was something that she learned and then after her internship was over she did come back and implement the project that she had worked on right so there was some follow-through there we really appreciated hearing about that don't be shy we do want to hear what you have planned for the summer please please chime in at this time right in type it into the comment section how many of you listening right now do have an intern coming in this summer could we see a show of hands maybe you can click the raise hand on your interface who's here at the check-off one if you know who they are Rose at Levista and Jennifer Norton are we seeing any Amy Jennifer has raised her hand thank you Jennifer Selene Swan from Grand Island Terry Wimpy from Omaha Lori Yokum Wilson yep she just said Selene we have Grand Island Wilson okay so we have a lot of people here we're gonna have an intern and we do have one that we do have today Ruth Strassler because she's with the Antelope County Archives and she is working with her local library and they are interested in starting a special library and they actually just contacted the Nebraska Library Commission to be recognized as a special library so the intern will work through their public library in partnership with this Antelope County Archives to look into what goes into developing a special library this person is going to be you know just right at the ground level and right at the start of something very special and so they are going to see what goes into organizing and developing a special library that will be the thing outside the box that you're saying yeah I think about other things that could be related to libraries even vaguely yeah so if you have a historical society and you would like for the student to meet with somebody from the historical society and learn about how they catalog or organize their holdings even if they don't necessarily have a library because it would be interesting then for the student to sit in and listen to what you the librarian have to say and contribute to somebody from a to the conversation with somebody from a historical society Amy from North Bend says they have one as well so that's another thing to consider and you know there's plenty of time if you go into the middle of the internship and something exciting pops up just because you wrote something in your orientation plan or your schedule of activities does not mean you can't change it you can tack something on and you might downplay something else once you find out what the strengths of your intern is another thing to consider is ebooks, e-readers then learning about overdrive which is the downloadable ebooks and audio books and how to help your patrons or your library customers utilize that service and helping them learn about what a consortium is you know some of this might just be too much detail you only have so much time these are certain things that you can mention in passing another thing you might consider is attending a town hall meeting or a committee meeting meeting with your board, meeting with your friends group just even if they stop in for five minutes and they're introduced and they say hi to everybody and let the president explain a little bit about what your friends group does just so that they have an understanding of what all goes on in libraries and in the library world because it's many and buried and you never know that might also be of interest to a student they may never actually go into the profession but they may keep it in the back of their mind at some point in time that they would like to serve on the board or that they would like to volunteer in some capacity for a library in the future and that's another way to recruit because they are our best advocates they are our supporters and they can be a voice to the community for us come on now, don't be shy any special projects? some are reading projects, we want to hear about those too yeah, we know you all just said you have interns, what are you doing with them what are you planning on doing with them if you haven't started yet some of them might not have actually started the projects because they have till September right, that's right or what are you looking for in an intern Amy has a question Selene has a question no they raise their hand when you're asking she has an intern that is when they said the big idea these grant applications are Amy Amy and North Bend says at North Bend we'd like to start a teen advisory board ah, good idea and I have no idea how so that would be a good project we've actually done a previous EncompassLive about that, LaVista Public Library has one there New Services Library and there did one so you could look at that for ideas Susan Wilson starting at the end of May they've hired an intern, I'm very excited to start at the end of May our big project will be helping us with social media great that's right, I was excited to hear about Pinterest that this one library had started to use Pinterest and that they were posting to Pinterest because you find you find a different population maybe you don't have your Pinterest users may not be Facebook users and so there's also on here if you haven't started a Pinterest board or I count there's also an EncompassLive I believe on starting Pinterest, is there one out there? there might be, for a while I don't remember there might be, but this is also something there's something on Pinterest and perhaps your intern has used Pinterest and so you can figure it out together so that would be something exciting to do I did have a student who they had never had and started a Facebook page and so they did it together, they navigated that together, decided what to post learned how to post, when to post how to be an admin of a Facebook page so that was pretty exciting and they were actually calling me because I've got some experience being an admin of Facebook so they are calling me to say what's the best way to set this up and I actually was on the phone with the intern more than I was with the librarian we have a couple other comments here, Terry Wingate we want the interns we want interns who are able to interact with both the patrons and the staff, young and old, they'll get a taste of public service and the behind the scenes work so like you said putting them anywhere and everywhere I was thinking about that, you never know where what might catch this particular interns attention at the library, like you said there's so many different things we do in the libraries that you can't just say make them do one thing because that might not be the thing that clicks with them it might be the behind the scenes cataloging public service so, you know, customers everywhere and she says in a previous year one intern had a journalism VA so she conducted some writing workshops with the young adult and the journal users in the library and we actually reported on that because that student heard from that student heard from one of the youth and their parent how excited they were to participate in that workshop so one of the things that we like to get back to that we like to get back to is how is this affecting your community are you receiving feedback from your community are they happy to see a new face has your intern done something that garners some sort of feedback or surprise or you know something to that effect we absolutely want to hear those success stories those feel good stories Terry said they hired her that intern we hired her she's doing an after-school outreach program now for Omaha Public Library there you go perfect follow-up and success of the program and Jennifer Norton going what you're just saying about community and she posted this before you even started talking about that at Neely Public Library says our intern will be participating in our community's 4th of July celebration by helping with the flow the library will have in the parade so the library is going to have a float right there in the city free that's great super and they learn about how the library participates as is an active participant in the community along with other organizations and businesses and how librarians or libraries are seen as an essential service to to the citizens of their town and that a float is one way of putting their name out there it's it's promotion it's publicity it's you know getting your name out there and seeing the faces of people that work in the library and celebrating that so and that's you know in terms of a smaller town that's some free publicity right there and I think one of the things we're hearing here is the amazing things that interns can accomplish teenage I don't I don't think we always remember I don't because I don't have teenagers at home how energetic they are an intern really can accomplish a great deal they and they do have some great ideas they do and a lot of our interns help with the end of summer celebration and that brings in the parents the parents have helped the kids monitor their participation in summer reading and so that you know you're doing some outreach to the community the parents are involved and so end of end of summer celebrations is also great another thing that's the interns learn about in terms of their energy is focus can they can they design a project can they follow through and they can they bring it to a completion and can they reflect on it so that's also another huge opportunity for learning and gaining experience nothing nothing we we really appreciate you weighing in we hope that we've given you some some we have some we have some participants from other libraries we'd love to hear from you why are you here today what were you hoping to learn what kind of library are you from you already have an internship program in place and you are looking for new ideas we'd love to hear from you what do you have to tell us because you know there's an opportunity in possibly in academic libraries in special libraries in I think we have somebody from a library system here and perhaps you're trying to learn how to internships to the libraries in your system and what what what advantages there are to spending the money on having an internship at their library or to show justification for having an internship at your library Jamie Poster who's at the Denton High School Library in Texas but she's a native Nebraska they got interested in their high school they came here to look for ideas what to do with them that's great you know in a school library there are other aspects that go into a school library that distinguishes it from a public library and so to focus on that to talk about what a school librarian does to talk about your user population to talk about how that's different from public libraries to talk about the different kinds of focus that a school library has to offer to students I'm remembering now and we've done sessions previously also about the internship program here where we actually bring in the librarians at libraries who've gotten the grants and sometimes they're interns too to talk on an episode in a couple of slides you can see but one of them I remember as part of their plan had that the the intern was mainly working at the public library did a field trip so to speak of a day or something at the high school library then that was one of our Cambridge library of course but I remember seeing that in one of the library's plans and they came and talked about it so even if it is the public library gets it they can still introduce them to other types of librarianship out there absolutely and Laura Hess is here from our State and Public Library says they're interested in learning more about the internship they're a very small line with the two person staff so looking for ways that they could you know with a small staff be able to benefit absolutely and you know this is another way you know you might be looking at having in justifying for a small for a small increase in your budget to hire to hire a shelter or to hire you know just somebody who works five hours a week or something to that effect and you could use some of this information in terms of where we're talking about an orientation plan or scheduled activities even just to carve out a little bit more to add to your budget or perhaps you're thinking of some volunteers and you're looking at what sort of things do you want your volunteers to learn about the library so this can be transferred to other aspects too so we're glad that you're here and also again if you can find some reasons for justification for an increase in your budget we're hoping that you learn a few things here today we have had a number of quite small libraries libraries with staffs of just one or two people who have had successful internships the the grand application is not really that difficult or that long it just it does take a little bit of thought about what you really to put together a plan of what you would do with your intern but your size has not the size of your library is not a real consideration for us in terms of who would get the grant we also of course and we always have to put in a plug for grants grants are one ways one of the ways the library can really get extra funds for particular projects or to expand and this is a good place to practice your grant writing grants to the Nebraska Library Commission by and large get a very sympathetic reading we really want you to get the grant we want you to succeed we're happy to discuss it with you beforehand before you turn in your application to help you you know to go over your application with you help you improve your application and it's a great way to get your feet wet in terms of how you write a grant so we really like to encourage people to try these things and Katherine has also done previous shows on Encompass Live of how to write a grant so more specifically with all the steps in that and what you need to do about creating your grant application in the first place so that would be a good idea to look at as well yep what a great program today thanks for hanging in there with us thanks for timing in we hope you found the information that we provided and if you have any questions regarding any of this you can contact me at Katherine.Rockmire at Nebraska.gov you can contact Laura Johnson at Laura.Johnson at Nebraska.gov Mary Jo Ryan who is the grant coordinator from the IMLS grant MaryJo.Ryan at Nebraska.gov especially as if you have any questions in terms of how the money, the flow of the funding goes and then Robin Clark is the president of the Nebraska Library Association and so if you would like to talk with her about the bigger picture too they too work with libraries of all kinds and all shapes and all sizes and so she might have some insight for you too in terms of what you would like to see in your internship we have some thanks coming through and Celine Swan from Grand Red Island saying thanks if you can wind up at Nebraska and when they will receive their packet I suppose that's something that has been I don't know absolutely okay well Celine actually there's some coordination with the foundation so we're working on that so you can ask Steve about that too and Jamie who is our native Nebraska down in Texas thank you very helpful billmaskers alright cool thank you very much everyone so that will wrap it up for this morning's Encompass Live so thank you very much for attending it has been recorded it will be available later today for anyone who wasn't able to attend or if you want to share it with any of your colleagues that will be here on the page but I hope you'll join us next week when very exciting our topic is a conversation with Nebraska's new state poet which is new as of I think last year Twyla Hansen she will be joining us Mary Jo Ryan and Rod Wagner here the library commission will have her here in the room with us and so we'll be chatting with her about being the state poet, poet tree yeah I like it when we bring on people hopefully she'll do some readings maybe we'll see so you can sign up for that definitely and any of our other shows that we have coming up in the next few weeks also we are also on Facebook so if you are a big Facebook user definitely go over there like our page on Facebook there it goes and you'll get notices of when new shows are coming up, when the recordings are available I remind people today's show the current show for Wednesday is about ready to start so you can pop in on the fly so definitely do if you like Facebook do that and you'll get our news from there as well other than that I think we are good to go thank you very much everyone thank you Laura and Catherine this is great to be here we'll see you next time bye bye