 Good morning, and welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. I am your host, Krista Porter, here at the Nebraska Library Commission. Encompass Live is the commission's weekly webinar series where we cover a variety of topics that may be of interest to libraries. We broadcast the show live every Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. central time, but if you're unable to join us on Wednesdays, that's fine. We do record the show as we are doing this morning, and it is then posted to our website for you to watch at your convenience. I'll show at the end of today's show where you can access all of our archives. Both the live show and the recordings are free and open to anyone to watch, so please do share with your friends, family, neighbors, colleagues, anyone you think might be interested in any of the topics we have on the show. For those of you that are not from Nebraska, the Nebraska Library Commission is the state agency for libraries, similar to your so-and-so state library, and so we provide services to all types of libraries in Nebraska, and we will have shows on Encompass Live for all types of libraries. So you should find things for public, academic, K-12, corrections, museums, archives, it's really anything and everything. Our only criteria really is it has something to do with libraries. We do book reviews, interviews, many training sessions, demos of services and products, all sorts of things. We do bring in guest speakers from around the country, from Nebraska and around the country, but we also have Nebraska Library Commission staff that sometimes do presentations for us, and that's what we have this morning. What we have with us today is Sally Snyder. Good morning, Sally. Good morning. She is our coordinator of children and young adult library services here at the Library Commission, and Amy, oh, good morning, Amy. She's in our Information Services Librarian and our Reference Department here at the Library Commission, and they are both going to talk about our Nebraska's One Book for Nebraska Kids and Teens program. And since I know how Sally mentioned, talk about history and whatnot about it, I'm just going to hand it over to you to tell us everything we need to know. OK, thank you. Well, I just give you a little bit of background for anybody who doesn't know how this program started. When I became the youth services librarian here, which is a lot faster to say than my actual job title. Yes, yes. My job title, but I shortened it some. Sharon Osanga, who was then the administrator for the Meridian Library System, invited me out and we had a chat about a number of things. And one of her, this was her idea. She says, you know, we have this One Book for Nebraska. I think it would be great if we had the similar thing for kids. I thought she was on to something. So she had a suggestion for the first book that we chose for this program. And it was Rescue Josh McGuire by Ben Mickelson. And so we picked that and we had it for a two year span. So that was 2007 to 2008 because at that point we were going to have One Book for Nebraska Kids, which is what Rescue Josh McGuire was. And then the next year we were going to pick One Book for Nebraska team for that we would have a new book every year. But one would be a kid's year and one would be a teen's year. And the other book would just carry over until we picked a new one. And they alternated. Yes, I remember that. Because we think there's still good books for discussion. I mean, I keep, I mean, if I keep them, they're still on the list, which we'll see later, because they're just going to show us all about the web page for them. And we started in 2007 picking a new, two new books each year. One for the kids and one for the teens, because I have several librarians asking me, please pick and we need a new teen book every year. And it was really tough. So that's what we do. I hope that they're using those. And I hope for picking ones that they really like. Speaking of which, another question I did is, how are these decided? Well, kind of gone through several changes through the years. At first, I had a youth advisory board for a number of years, and that was made up of librarians throughout the state who were children or teen librarians or school librarians who gave me advice on different things. And sometimes I present an issue to them and they talk about it. But as time and then they chose the book for teens and kids. And as time went by, more people dropped off of this. And it was kind of hard to get this all together, because we didn't have the Zoom option so good back then. But then a special committee was formed for a few years, which was just the Library Commission staff and a couple of librarians out in the field who were still hanging in there with me. And now it's a small group of librarians here at the Library Commission who consider suggestions and we read the book and we make a decision about it together. And that's how they're chosen now. If anyone wants to help decide this, you can sure let me know. And we'll we'll send you the list of books that we're considering. And you can tell us your ideas and opinions about it. We were doing it by email for a few years, just because that works best for the librarians and for me. So it could be any of those ways to do that. For the most part, when we choose the team book, it's been more of a high school level title because that was also something that a number of librarians told me. They said with the Golden Seller, we have the picture book, the chapter book and the novels are really a middle school level and we don't have anything for high school level. So we try. It's not always the case, but quite often it is. A teen high school level book, and that's based on the kids in high school, for one thing, and it might be a slightly normative or thought or issue that they're grappling with. So that's kind of what our thinking is based on what librarians have told me and asked for. The criteria for selecting a book for either the kids or the team is pretty basic and might you might think it's pretty self-explanatory, but it's to get it written down to remind people as we're considering titles. So we want them to be available in paperback. That's for us to put in our book club kit collection. And also anybody who thinks, you know, I'm just going to buy 10 copies of this book and we're going to talk about it at our school. That's great. It also needs to be of interest to the age group. Again, I said it within self-explanatory, but it's the delighted guy. And the book needs to provide discussion because there needs to be some issues in there that may get people talking about the different sides of why the issue was a problem for the character. And then we did relate our fourth and final criteria is that if it's for kids, one book would have asked the kids, it cannot be a recent Golden Sower nominee because they're already getting that book as a Golden Sower book and to make it a one book for Nebraska kids could either give it an unfair advantage or it's kind of, you know, piling it on top of things. You want to get the kids looking at as many different books as we can, not just not just the same one, so it's that. Now, the people who were in charge of the Golden Sower did say it's all right for the one book for Nebraska team selection to have been a recent nominee because we weren't getting as many votes and there weren't as much activity with that one as there had been before, although I think that's slowly been increasing over the years. So we and I think it doesn't say this here, but one of the nice things about the one book for Nebraska kids and teams is it doesn't have to be a new book. It can be a new book. Yeah, what do you find as recent? How many years? Imagine we go. We can make it whatever we want. I'm sorry, so evil. That's yeah, that's open to interpretation. For example, our one book for the rest of the team for next year was a golden note. Is that right? Yeah, it was a golden nominee several years in 2015, but it's been long enough that the kids who read it now wouldn't have read it back. That's what it is. Yeah, so really probably like two years left. Yeah, I guess high school is four years. By the time it's a nominee officially, it's been around a couple a year or two already. So that's pretty much my background. If you have any questions to anything I've said so far or you want to know something I haven't covered, just ask and both be happy to answer your question. But I'm going to ask Amy to guide us to the web page for one book for the rest of the team. This is our home page of the commission. And if you go to Children in YA, you can find the different programs that we went through. Bones Bar and then Read Alarm Nebraska. And then the one book for kids and teens. And it's got the histories that Sally mentioned starting in 2015. We used to have every collection on this page and you had to scroll all the way to the bottom. But I have taken those off and I've moved into a different page. So if you are looking for half years, you can jump here and it will show you the book from the beginning. But that way we don't have to have as much scrolling as we did in your past. I think that's a good change. That's helpful to make the page a lot less busy. So right now we have the current year book which are Harrow Meets by Jacqueline Woodson and Kissing You Together by Renee Watson. This was in 2021. And then we have the next year's book that we have chosen. With a little less detail, we still need to fill those in. But then you can be prepared for the coming year selection. And these include some activities, some author information as a discussion guide and the links to the book. So we do have at least 10 copies of each of these books that you can reserve and just go out to the book and you can reserve these. And then there's some additional questions. Most of these books, I believe are available for talking books readers, which I know some schools do have children in the talking book program. It will be available, but you need to go through talking books to get those. That's always good to have, definitely. Yeah, we try to always have that option. Yeah. The book website, if you're in the morning and she has. There it goes. And then we've added some read-alike books. So if you want this book to your class and it's not available. We've added some. Some additional books that are very similar. So second books in middle grade, realistic, systematic characters and moving tone. So some of these other books will have similar theme and writing styles. And these are all all these books on the read-alike page are book club kits, as well, that one have. So they would be available from us. That's very. Yeah, I like that. That's just a new option. Yeah, yeah. And that page, if you're using a book club kit. I've tried to add read-alike for many of our book club kits, but not as many are the children and team selections. We've been adding those first to bottom. But yeah, but if your favorite selection is checked out, we do have other options for you. Or we could recommend something. Each of these titles also has some puzzles that we've put together, just some printouts that you can use to hand out to your class. There's a tile puzzle where you rearrange the letters to make a phrase. Props for a puzzle. A letter about a puzzle where you drop, or to be a letter move-up puzzle. I don't know why they put them in that order, but you just move the letters. One of these letters will fit in that row to make a phrase. Not necessarily in the order. No, you have to figure that out. And a word search. Just some pretty basic activities that you can do after reading the book. The answers are also there, but I'm not going to show you those because that's convenient. We've done that for each of the books. I don't currently have three-to-likes for two-to-meet-together, but I'm working on that list still. I know it's often been done for the upcoming book. Amy's done all that work. I have to get credit where credit is due, because Amy has done the puzzles for us. Found the discussion guides and fossil information and everything. It's a hard job making games. I want you to do it. I appreciate that. Yeah. So, if you have a couple of things, if you have ideas for a book that might be a good discussion book for kids between, send me an email. I'll just say, hey, I read this book. It's too late for it to be on the Golden Sowers. Maybe it's a couple of years old. But I think it'd be a great discussion book when we can consider that. And also, if you have a different kind of puzzle that you think would be great for Amy to do, or you could do it. I'm not stopping people from making puzzles yet. We're getting tired of proper puzzles and researches. We can come up with other options. I did four. Next year, we're doing the Adventures of Bean Boy, in which the main character likes to make comics. So, we included some blank comics, templates, so kids can make their own comics or just create superheroes with their own sidekick. And I'm looking for additional activities for each of these just other ideas. So, thank you. That's pretty, oh, that's cool. The comic gun. I know that's been something that people have done is mute sometimes for programs or projects that make your own comic thing. Yeah. It's nice to have something that is specifically related to what's going on in that book, not just the... Yeah, right. Which makes me think of something. I've been, as I consider things that we might want to read and look at as a next, not now, it'll be 2023, book. We haven't had a graphic novel yet. No. As one book for kids and teens, so I'm not going to get that. And you might find something that's just right. I know you mentioned graphic, you include graphic novels in your lists for Best New Teen Reads and Best New Children's Reads and some reading program lists, yeah. Yeah. So, I've also, over the years, been aware that our list was pretty white. And so we began to really consider books that represent groups in our country. So we try to keep that in mind, too, as we're making suggestions to each other and considering titles. So, this year we have Renee Watson's book, the black main character, and the Harper Meade kids are a variety of kids. So, I think there's six in the class. There are a lot of children in the public and there's a lot of children in the background. So, yeah. I'm trying to be as broad as possible for ideas of what people might want to consider a good choice for the kids or teens for it. Yeah. Because we want to open them up to even more, you know, titles they might not have thought of. Reading themselves. Topics they might not have thought of. Reading themselves, yeah. Yeah. So, that's now after this session developer, and we're going to go to this page and go down to the all this book and look up through there and see how long it was. Jason Reynolds book was an earlier one that we chose for the teens. I think it was a boy in the family. Oh, yeah. That year, along to Tom, that boy was from that's another thing. Boy, main characters, girl, main characters. We try to mix that up, too. It's kind of tricky to get everything in there that we're not always doing white girls who want to date somebody. I think it's great to fight girls who want to date somebody. Not always for our books. No, and that's what I enjoyed about this year's watch and keeping me together. There really is no like romantic element. It's really more about her and her life and the times and the kind of who she wants to be. It was not really any kind of romantic subplot, which I think is an unusual. I think it is. That's true. And look, we have tile puzzles and letterbox puzzles. Four letterbox puzzles. Yeah. Out of my mind. Like the year it came out. And then it went on the golden color list. I said, at the meeting I said, I'm going to vote for this. I just want you to know what a sacrifice. It just so means. Now we can now. Number of years since we've been on the list. Yeah. We had girl girl. The boy boy the year before. This is a Native American author and protagonist. I was thinking it was last year, so. So it's interesting, I think it's interesting to that how, you know, in one book programs they know it. The idea of all these kind of one book programs is something that will get people not just reading books but talking about them and discussing. So they're not just, oh, it's a fun reader. It was a good story. It's something to get people talking, really. Not necessarily controversial, but just interesting. You know, some books lead themselves more to that than others, lend themselves more to that than others. So I think that's interesting that specifically if that's something you're looking for in your school or in your teen or children groups, something that will get them talking, not just hey, here's a book you'll have fun time reading. This would be one of the ones to look for to look into because they've been evaluated for that purpose. Correct. Good point. You can have a book discussion when we used to have two book discussion groups here at the commission made up of staff, and one was about books written for adults. They didn't tell them about books written for adults and one was a group of people reading books for children and teens. And I remember the children and teen group I can't tell you the title of the book but we had a book. Everybody loved it. Nobody had anything else to say about it. It was interesting. It was fun. It was unexpected, but no one that was nothing else. And we thought it was a great book and it was, but it wouldn't be a good choice to this because how can you have a discussion in that case. I try to find things that have, you know, all useful issues things that they've just taken us to space. Any talent or in the case of harboring, there's six children they all have an issue. So, and it's how they relate to each other and how they have found the truth that they can talk to that to about things that they wouldn't be able to talk to their friends about. Maybe it's raised or having a parent in jail or having a parent be forwarded or, you know, money problems, things that they would not regularly be able to discuss with friends or even teachers or family. And I think a lot of kids. They got to realize though. And with that book it was really interesting how the group got organized because actually the teacher. Each of them to come with her to a classroom that nobody used. Well, an art room. And went for one hour every Friday. They went in there. There was no teacher. There was no. In the study it was just their time to talk. And they were very suspicious. And I don't blame them. You know, you have this secret in your heart and, and you're not going to just work it out to a group of other people you don't know very well. You're not going to be in there and talk. And so how they're rapport. So yeah, there's also a part of that made a strong book. Yeah. That was definitely a good choice. And I think that it will prompt a lot of discussion. Hopefully it already came back. Yeah, or in August already. But you can take that next year. Like you said, other titles there are. We don't have everything still in the collection. I think I don't know if we still have a rescue Josh McGuire in their collection. I know. I wouldn't say to deal by. I'm not sure. I'm not sure if you can feel it's everything or not. It's been a while. Oh, that reminds me. When one of the times we talked about, I think it says at the top. Yeah. The author of stick dog. There's this great presentation. And he shows kids how to draw stick dog. And he talks about big dog. And it's a great thing you can just show that anytime you want to if you have kids coming after school to your library or if you're in school and you want to talk about. And you just stick to all the books and have him talk and show you how to draw them. It was great fun. And he, he contacted me and said, I see you're doing a program. Do you want me to come in beyond? I said, sure. They know. And that was fun. And that reminds me that I need to notify our officers that their book has been told children for next year because sometimes I get all excited and I forget to do that. I had one officer who contacted me and said, it's this real. I was going out looking under my name and I see my books been chosen and I just kind of embarrassed and I said, yeah. I want to come to Nebraska and give presentations. Sure. Well, we were able to find that and she was very reasonable that was Ellen Pages. Oh, one that she did. That was a reminder. I need to cut. And I don't know, not every author, maybe even get my email. I tried to find their webpage and then I just messaged him to say, hey, we've chosen this book for us. One book for Nebraska kids just thought she'd like to know. You know, I'm telling everybody. Okay. Nobody's. So, I don't know if we have any questions yet because I'm pretty much pretty sure we jump in with something people were asking. Yeah, no, I don't see anything else. Anyway, does have any questions about the program. Or about how it works. About either any of the books. Maybe thought or suggestions as I said for future books definitely let us know. And there isn't anything coming yet, but I will keep an eye on it. You did say solid that there's a group of people, the people that picked the titles this year, or that picked the titles now is commission staff correct. Yes, that's correct. Can you talk a little bit about about why the particular titles were selected for either 2021 or next year. Like what would discuss what what you were thinking about each of these ones specifically. Well, for the 2021 specifically thinking about representing people of color. For people of another from another country. Things like that. We had several title titles. I try to pull several titles together for each group to see what we might think will make the best choice. And I always check to be sure that they're available and paperback. So sometimes we'll save one for the next because it's out and it's kind of new and we have to wait for the paperback. But that's okay we have to have it on our list. So, I have read teaching me together for my team list, and really thought it was a good choice for. I liked how she was approaching her life. She was organized. She was going to school there. It wasn't in her neighborhood but she kind of had to be two people one at home with the friends and then a different person at school, and she was working towards her goals. Program came up. And she was a little first I like this part about it because she was a little first about this mentor program because she was doing fine. Mentors are for people who need some guidance and help and I'm do that and she was doing fine. Her mentor was kind of taken aback I think a little bit. Yeah, who she was and what she was working on and where she was going. It made her mentor think again. As someone who mentors a younger girl, you learn a lot from each other if not just you and fortune you with general, whatever. But yeah, so I felt like there was definitely a two sided relationship. And then as we said earlier, the Harbour Me book really lent itself to discussion because of the kids in the room and how they begin to trust each other and share their stories and how that helps them deal with their stories because they're able to share this with a small group who is absolutely literally the term and not to say anything outside of that room on Friday, which would be a necessity for anyone to open up. We thought that was I can't remember the other book you were considering. It'll be on the list again. Yeah. But this one really looks like this. And the ones for next year, the adventures of Dean Boyd. I just love the fact that this kid is determined to win a contest by coming up with the sidekick character for Dean Boyd who is a superhero type character. Dean Boyd is the sidekick that he comes up with. His favorite superhero. There's Thomas Book Company is looking for a sidekick for the contest because you can come up with the ultimate sidekick for his superhero, which I believe was H2O, like a water baby hero. You can win a college scholarship. He's going to his mother is in college, his parents are divorced, and his mother is in college and working all the time and he thinks that he can win this contest and give her the money then all the problems that he got. So you can tell it's been a little while since I was with Dean Boyd last week. But he's such an interesting character because he sees how hard his mom is working to make enough money so she can take care of her family and go to school and do all her work for school and to support the family. And this is his idea to help her make her life a little easier. So, some of the things that I liked about Dean Boyd was that his younger brother has some developmental disabilities, but it's not portrayed in any kind of negative way. It's just, you know, his deal, he's just kind of a family and Dean Boyd really talks about what the specific, you know, what his condition is. He's just such a good brother. And also some of the other kids at school, there are the popular kids and the most popular grown school is really nice, but you don't see that a lot. A lot of times the popular is like, they're kind of mean and she is not. So I really appreciated how she really tried to help us out. So that's a good point too. You don't see that very often, you know, as much as you go against the stereotype. Yeah, I was going to say I'm glad that someone's doing that, not the stereotype because that's, that's not how it is always. I mean, just because they're most popular does not mean they're always going to be the mean people. In real life, there's plenty of kids like myself have been in high school and then the popular people were not horrible. So when you read those books where they're always that stereotype. It gets kind of. It's unrelatable boring. I don't want to read any of that it doesn't relate to me at all. That's not where's the ones about what happened to my high school. And I read again super fast with the book I read for our book list. I think it was published in 2011. Yeah, and then it was on the golden solar list in 2015. But I read it from my team book list back when it came out. And this character. His first name is Benton. He has always avoided the job because they picked on him who was always a skinny kind of. I don't know me now. And all of a sudden, he has more than blocks and he's just like, boom, he is. He's fast, he's fast, he's big, he's strong, he's developing into quite the man. And they are, they want him on the team. Come on, be on our football team. We need you. We need you. You're great. And he can't believe it. He's like waiting for the other shoe to drop. They're going to do something in a minute here and it's going to be bad and I'm going to really feel stupid, but they don't they like him. It's just, it's on no longer picking on him and he's the hero, the one the girls are interested in not only and it's quite a change. But the other side of that changes, as he's suddenly become much more manly, so to say, his mother is really distancing herself from him a lot. And she's curt with him and shorts him. And he doesn't understand why she's always been loving. She loves his younger brother, still loves him. Why, what's wrong with me all of a sudden. And not so further in the book that you find out that issue. There are again, and I can't remember at what point he actually begins to trust the guys on the team because I still think for a while he was kind of like, okay, this is going on a long time, but they're still going to get me. I'm pretty sure. Other shoes going to drop at some point. He does start to erase the popularity and the team mentality, but then a couple of things go wrong and kind of falls back into that pit of despair and feel rejected. So he kind of goes back and forth and so he's got a lot of self doubt that he has to overcome. And there's a couple more books after this one. I haven't read either of them yet. There's two or three more books. So that's another thing that's nice that you pick one that a person, readers get interested in the character, they can go on and find out more about it. So it's part of the series now. Yeah. The bingoi does have a follow up as well. You can get a good start and then you can go on if you want to. Yeah. So, I think we'll have another, I don't see, I'm out of the loop. And blanking on the side of something. So someone does want to know and they're newish to this. Can you explain a bit about the book club kits, how that works. Yeah, good idea. So we'll look for a keep it fast here. So if you go to, let me go back to our book club kit page where you can see the whole thing. You go to collections and you can go to book club kit and use our main page. The rules for users here, if you are, it can be checked out by a librarian in the best library and media center. If you're a teacher, you do need to go through your school librarian or media specialist who will mail them directly to a school library or just a public library. There's no standard check out times that you want them for six weeks. You can do that if you only need them for a couple of weeks. We are pretty flexible. We mail them to you and you mail them back unless you were in the area and you pick them up and drop them off. I don't know if you have any questions, but we pay for it to get to you and you pay for it to come back to us. So any questions, just give us a call or if we can email the information services team. And if we have, if we are out some other libraries in the state. You can just go to the book and you can two other libraries and you can contact them and it's separate from ILL. So you would just go directly to that library and not in your library long. But anyway, our main book club page, you can search by author, title, genre, keywords, grade level. Or you can just browse. So we do anything we've added recently will go in here. So we've been adding a lot lately. But for something like you just find the book. Request it. What library is, is requesting it, your name and email. If you have a second or third choice, this might be where the real life pages come in or how many copies you need. So in this case, we have 10 copies that should say how many are available for that particular case. Are there many kids that we have holding 10? There's just the 10. Just the 10. Our book club kids, a lot of times we don't buy new. We haven't been doing that more lately for semester funds. But a lot of them come from book sales or donations or used stores. So it really just depends on the demand for it. And how many get a hold up. So there's not always enough for 10 or one might find a single copy here or there. But then you have the day you want to hand them out and try to mail them a week before this date. The day that they redo and we'll be finished and try to give you an extra week to mail them back and any additional information. We just fill that out and it comes in email to the reference team and we will respond to you. The only thing about. The book club kids is it will not tell you if it's available or not, which is why that second or third choice comes in handy because it doesn't integrate as well as our regulation system. So there's no way to tell us that figure out how to check out the time. But we'll go back and forth. This is small enough collection that we can just deal with our place with those issues that they come up. So, but yeah, they're, they're available to all schools and libraries and books. Well, I'm just looking up there. I see it says number one in the felt and rhinestine trilogy. So there are three books. And when we know it's Friday series, we add it to our. The series database. So you can see those three books there. Or you can search by any other book title or series and we try to. About diary. And this is not a book. Now this is a different. What is that the book. So, if you want to know what are all the. At this point, we add to this constantly as well. So anytime you want to read a series in order, we try to keep track of. When we get out of order. I think it came about talking about talking about. The series may not only female human order, just because of the way the computer generates the mailing list, it might, you might get both that order in this way you can. And that's what the DB members. Yeah, that's a good that I'm glad that you showed that to I know that our books and series database is something that a lot of libraries and people have mentioned commented to us that they depend on it a lot to just to look up and figure is there more than one did I miss one. What's the next one that I need to make sure I get my hands on. Yeah, we are available by email. And it is one of our most popular programs are services I think so many in there and I don't know how many titles we're at now, but it's huge. I'm not sure. Remember when we broke 1000 it was a big deal and then it just just kept going and going on like that isn't it now. And these are for all types you know this is you know we're talking about the books for kids and teens today specifically but it's at the book club kids cover all types of all genres and all levels of reading and yeah. I would say addiction, non-fiction adults and children, I would say adults are definitely the majority of the question but we do try to add golden solo nominees and classic for schools and kids. Right, yeah, whenever there's anything the golden solar books that obviously we're talking to the one book kids and teens. I mean when that becomes you know whatever those titles are picked. Not sure if we do the one I know Lincoln and Omaha do one book programs to I'm not sure if we also try to get those, or not. I think it depends on the year I know that this year. The Omaha read book we do have that. Just already by coincidence yeah. I know that's something that is that it's being increased again right now the book club kits due to here at the Nebraska Library Commission. We were awarded funding for the American Rescue Plan Act ARPA through Museum of Library Institute of Museum Library Services and part of that funding was going to lots of different things here at the commission but one of them is the book club kits so titles are either more titles being added or more copies of certain really popular ones so we have more sets to go out and more copies to go out. That's great. Yeah. That's a common library problem. But anyway, I know what you say is well do some weeding. Yeah, this is something you can't really weed that's kind of it's a different type of set of things but it's all right. Is anybody have any other any other questions about the, I guess, you know, back to what we're talking about here the one book for Nebraska kids and teens. Type into the question section we can answer any questions you may have or send me a suggestion if you have one in your mind right now. Yeah, anybody has any thoughts for some books you might think would be good for this program and as you know as you've seen here if you go back to the main page we do have 2021 and 2021 obviously was already selected because that's your in 2022 is already selected but 23 would be the next year when we'd be looking for a title. But that wouldn't probably get decided when do these get decided for the next year actually that's a good question somebody just asked. I think that because for a while it was supposed to be announced in January and then I get organized and start having people we think in January and that's too late. We need a whole year. So we're trying to be better about having ideas out here before so we'll probably start thinking about it. Well, summer works great for me because nobody wants to hear from me in summer they're already in their summer reading program. Yeah, I catch up on everything, but that's a good time for me to ask people to help read the title and discuss it so like we have just come up with this. It's for August so yeah good yeah we'd like to have it by conference because for a while we were kind of announcing it at conference we have our new title for 2020. Right, right right our Nebraska Library Association annual conference usually is in October, it is this year too yeah. So that that was a good marker for me to remember. If I have what we have all of our reading and our decision making done by them. Why not put them up on the page so people will know, hey, you know what to be going next year because that'll be a good one for whatever time of year you think that will work for you, then you can get your name on the list. Oh, or ahead to be asked for a book. We think renovations up to a year in advance, some libraries that will plan out their entire year and send us their list of titles and we can kind of rearrange them shuffle and if needed to make the reservation fit what we have in stock but yeah we can take some time to get in advance. So probably like next summer start working on what would be for 2023. Yeah. I'm talking to you. Because obviously we talked about this being ready for conferences until October but we've got it now it's just whenever the decision is made it's done and then start putting the information up and getting all the doing all the creative stuff in the puzzles and all those things. Another place that you can find the same information is out in the breakfast center for the book page. I know the one book one Nebraska site has added a kids kids in section which has our title. Nice. Okay, just prettier. Good to have that there because I know in some states they've they've had this whenever there's a one book one Nebraska, or one book one state there's a companion book announced the same time for the kids or the teens other states, they do differently. Each state is different there's not a national program for this so it's just you know, do it how you do it. So I'm glad they've added our the teen and kids went on to there too so if you're wondering you know, I want to read the one book for adults. What about my kids. And as you can see they're totally different programs one book one Nebraska is it's it's through Nebraska Center for the book and Nebraska kids and teens is to rest the library commission but we work with them so obviously we Yeah, she just went back to our stuff, but also to WorldCat where you can see your life local library has the book. You can see from the titles to our kids and teens books that they're not necessarily related to the one book for Nebraska adult title they're all each their own thing there's not like an annual theme or something like that that we do here. And they don't necessarily have to do anything with Nebraska. That's more than Nebraska Center for Children and Teen Book Awards. Those are another real good thing. And those need to be related to Nebraska, either an author who's lived in Nebraska or said in Nebraska. Publishers. The Golden Power Awards. Yeah, you know, different different awards, different criteria. Cool. Yep, and we answered some questions people has. Anybody hit we are getting close almost up to the top of the hour again 11am central time we did start a little late today so we don't have to wrap up people stuff questions or anything. So, but if you do want to get your last minute questions in to for Sally and Amy and get them typed in, and we can answer any of those. We have a few so we did answer some people's questions is great. Any last words while waiting to see if anything comes in less less comments from you Sally and Amy. And I just hope that people think of the one book for Nebraska kids and teens and they're thinking about a book club that for their program that they might be doing at their library at their school. And also, I will say again, please send me your idea of possibilities for the future title genre. Like I said, we don't have a graphic haven't had a graphic novel yet. We should have chosen new kid or something. It's not too late. Did it rain something now. Newberry. Yeah. Look, if this is anything about your cans in the newberry. No, and I think. So those are okay. Yes. Newberry honor. And it's the code of staff team. Yeah. Awesome. Yeah. I think we're up for editing or revisiting that you think that we need to be just about something or more open about something. You can let me know that too. These are what we set up many years ago. When we first started the program. Yeah. Okay. So this is just a comment. Aaron from Lexington schools says thank you I'm looking forward to participating this year. Awesome. Wonderful. And that's great this is for it's not just a specific public library thing it's you know schools libraries anything that if you got teens or kids reading books. I think this is a program you can do. You want to do with mentioning books and say, here's the, here's the word search for this book and do it if you want to. That's why they're up there for however you want to use some of what we have on the page. Yeah, I think that's one thing that's cool about this too I know that basically what we do what you get you do I don't just pick the title and put together some activities and things in the book discussion so make it available to you make it something you can do, and then you can take that and go with it and do whatever you want. However you want to use it use some of it hold whatever events you want related to it if you do whatever discussions you want. It's, you know, we just provide you with resources then you just go with it yeah do whatever you want. It's an activity or an event that's particularly successful and you want to share it and definitely take those ideas as well. Yeah, absolutely like if you come listen it's so so successful that you just know libraries are always sharing with each other tips and ideas and are asking what is a program I can do for this. Yeah, let us know and we'll share it. Great. I don't see any other desperate questions coming in so I think we will wrap up for this morning. Thank you so much Sally and Amy I'm going to pull presenter of control back to my screen here. There we go. I said you're stealing the control away from us but that's okay. I'm going to do some of my wrap up here yeah so that will wrap up for today's show about our one book for Nebraska kids and teens. The show it has been is being recorded, and we'll be on our website. This is our main page for and compass live if you just Google and compass live you'll find us are upcoming shows listed here. I mentioned here because we were just talking about it. We do have a show coming up in September on manga and graphic novels in your library. Brooks Arco from our Blair Public Library and Technology Center here in Nebraska is going to do a presentation about that so if you are looking for graphic novels for your kids and teens or adults as well. This is not specific but that might be a good session to watch. The recordings will be available here here's our archive links here underneath the list of our upcoming shows is linked to our archives. Most recent shows at the top of the page always. And so today's will be there should be up by the end of the day tomorrow, as long as everything cooperates on the technology cooperates, there will be a link to our recording on our YouTube channel. 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And you can set for any other shows, the dates you see I've got some of our dates filled in here I've got a few more that I'm finalizing some information on. So keep an eye on the website for when things are filled in. This year to we mentioned the library Association annual conference in October, that is the one week of the year we do not hold and compass live. So no encompass live the week of October 13. Go to the, if you are in Nebraska, attend the Nebraska library Association conference and stand that week. So that wraps up today show thank everybody for being here thank you Sally and Amy for telling us all about the current and upcoming book books for our kids and teens. He's gonna be a fun year. All right, and we'll see you on on future episode of encompass live. Bye bye.