 Good morning and welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. I'm your host, Christa Porter here at the Nebraska Library Commission. I'll get used to that someday. For those of you know where I got married and I'm working on a name change and so it's got to get used to it. Anyway, Encompass Live is the Commission's weekly online event. We are a webinar, webcast, online show, whatever you want to call us. We're here live every Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. Central Time. However, if you're unable to join us on Wednesdays, that's fine. We do record the show every week and post it up to our website afterwards. I'll show you exactly where that is at the end of today's show so you can see where you'll go to see that. We have all of our recordings from all of our previous shows going back to the very beginning. Encompass Live started in January 2009. So we've been around for quite a while so you'll be able to watch recordings there. 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We have Nebraska Library Commission staff that will sometimes do sessions for things that are specific to what we're doing here through the Library Commission, but we also bring in guest speakers, which is what we have today. To my left with me today is Jake Rundle, who's from Hastings Public Library here in Nebraska, just west of Lincoln, and he drove in this morning. People were very surprised, actually, I said, you're coming in. They said, the day before Thanksgiving and holiday traffic? No, it's not bad yet. Yeah, people are really crazy. No one's driving from west to east. It's all flying in to Omaha and Lincoln and going to parts away. Yeah, not bad. It was easy. And Jake's been on the show before with other things, but he's got this, I think, fun that I see him post about a lot on Facebook, bringing librarians into the bar in some way. So I'm just going to hand over Jake and have him go through his presentation and tell you what they've been doing out in Hastings to reach out to their locals. Well, good morning, everyone. Like Chris has said, my name is Jake. I am the Technology Librarian at the Hastings Public Library. And we do a thing called PubQuiz. So it's bar trivia. It's pretty low key, I mean, in terms of staff time sometimes. But it is an event that we do that has a really good turnout. So I'm going to tell you kind of our history and what we do. I just came off of one last night. We had a very special pre usually we do with the last Thursday of every month because then we're not the fourth Thursday or, you know, a date. It's always the last Thursday of the month at a bar. And we usually alternate between two. So since Thursday is Thanksgiving and we didn't want to do Wednesday of next week, so we just said we'll do it Tuesday. But we had 102 people play. So in terms of library programming numbers, it's one of our best. I mean, the only thing that beats us is every story time almost long. Yes, which doesn't count because they do them like six times a day. You can't read story time. No, you really can't. Click. There we go. So started HPL in 2010. It was my grad school practicum assignment. I mean, I got to pick my own assignment, but I was at the Hastings Public Library. I didn't have any experience with adult programming. All of my previous jobs had been in circulation or in youth services. And so I wanted to do something in adult programming so I could kind of get that in my wheelhouse. And over the summer, I'd been living in Omaha, working for the Nebraska Shakespeare Company. And so we were we and the other event staff who lived on campus and just stayed up really late and slept in really late would go to various establishments where drink was provided. And at one called the slowdown one day, there was trivia being played when I went in. And it was really, really hard, right? But like because they did their trivia in five and five question increments. So each topic had five questions and they move on. So there was audio and visual. So I walked in on the identified this Star Wars character from their picture. So it was like a really it was an unmade up wicket and a really, really young Alec Guinness and the guy who plays Tarkin. But you have to know his name and you're like, it's the actor and not the character, right? Yeah. So it was they're getting pretty serious. It was really seriously hard. I I walked in halfway through and I thought I just almost tried to answer some out. No, it was terrible. But I thought that could be something cool that I don't think Hastings does. I'm moving to my hometown as a 25 year old. So I'm trying to find fun things for people my age to do so I can find the people my age so I don't go crazy. So I I suggested that the library tried this thing for four months while I'm doing my practicum and the director said, sure, go with it. Write up some stuff, get some help and go. So I call the local establishment and said, hey, I want to do trivia once a month. Is that all right if we invade one because it's a bar that has three levels not like stories, but just there's the bar and then there's the seating area and then there's pool and shuffleboard. So I was like, can we take pool and shuffleboard because that's the smallest seating area. So he's like, yeah, sure, whatever. My grad school loans paid for the prizes the first four months. Since then, they've been donated, which has been really nice. But yeah, so we started playing once a month. The first month was people from my church, my parents, my brother and his wife. A couple of friends of the library. It was, you know, it was a good 26 people who came. Yeah, and it is it grew. After that, when I got hired at the library to twice a month, we played at two bars the first the second Wednesday and the last Thursday. That got really confusing. So then we cut the Wednesday and we just travel now. And then I guess I got off tap on my little backstory. So there are two of us that work PubQuiz. I who present and then Erica, who used to play. And then she started working at the library and then she offered to help. And now she's our teen library assistant. So she does full time teen work. But this is still her. Her one thing she does for me is she helps me write the quiz by helps me. I mean, she does it all and says, here, check this to make sure the questions make sense. And you can ask them, you know, and sound like a normal person on a microphone. But she is content to do all the behind the scenes work and let me stand in front of the people and talk, which is just fine. Let's see. So from our first program to our last, we had a 1000 percent increase in people who attended. And that's, I mean, give or take. But I looked at our I did this presentation for the Mountain Plains Library Association in Colorado last month. So I looked at our programming numbers because, of course, we sit on those for a thousand years in our adult programming numbers. From July, 2010 to December, 2010, increased a thousand percent because we did PubQuiz. The December PubQuiz, we placed it between Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve on a weird day, but it was, I mean, no, everyone's home. We had 120 people playing. Every table in that bar had an answer sheet and was playing PubQuiz. So. So now the bars are loving this now. Yes, yes. And that was where we started our second bars because the owner called and said, hey, I was at the. I was at PubQuiz the other night, and I want you to do it at my bar because you bring people and that's. That's something you can say when you're looking for a partner in this in your community is that we can guarantee, you know, I mean, even 20 people who come, each of them will buy maybe two drinks in the hour. Food, maybe. Yeah. Thursday is Wings Wing Night at Murphy's. Tuesday is Berger night, so I didn't eat burgers last night. Should have. But usually it's Wing Night. So I just, you know, fill myself with 16 or so wings. And then once the PubQuiz is done, then I buy myself a very short gin and tonic. So you enjoy my success? You don't want to drink before you try to. No, no, don't drink before you try to host because you're on the clock and that's not good. But no, so the programming numbers jumped hugely, bigly, as they say in presidential politics. And it's it's it's the kind of thing that kept being that awesome. A bad PubQuiz for us is 60 people, which is a really great library program for adult programming. I mean, sometimes you do stuff, we bring in an author and you'll have 10. You're like, that's a good that's good. So a bad day for us is 60. So you can't go wrong with those numbers from a library's perspective, unless you're some sort of gigantic system that has all numbers. 60 for a community of Hastings is good, very spectacular. So I have pictures of me doing PubQuiz. They're floating in the clouds somewhere for my presentation in Colorado. I actually did the the Daily Tribune came in 2012 to do a story on this. So there are pictures there, but I can't find the can't find the article online anymore. So I was going to steal that picture and attribute it. But couldn't even find that. So just imagine me standing with a microphone looking like I know what I'm doing. There will be some pictures and some video that I will get tracked down and I'll get them to Krista so she can put those links onto the Encompass Life thing with all the other good stuff. So the good news about PubQuiz is once you find your partner or partners, the rest is pretty easy. I mean, finding the the institution or the bar or the establishment that wants to host you. So that's probably the hardest part, because because it's not just on the part of the bar being interested. You also have to take into consideration that perhaps you need to run this by your library director and your library board and the city council, because libraries and bars don't usually, you know, hold hands and dance together. And sometimes people see that as a conflict of interest, that your city-funded pillar of institutional learning is hanging out with a bunch of drunks on Thursdays. But I argued and continued to tell other people to argue that this is about outreach to a community that doesn't see a need to go to the library. Our main goal is to land millennials, my fickle generation that doesn't have kids yet, has a spouse or a boyfriend or a girlfriend and just decides that they don't need the library. Because why would I? I've got dual income, no kids. I can afford all my entertainment needs. I can afford to read anything I want. I don't have the attention span to read anything longer than a BuzzFeed article. Anyway, why the library? And so PubQuiz is our way to get to places where they already are going. And then to talk about our services and products to them. Because it's easy. We've done bonus prizes, bonus points for if you have a digital library app on your phone. So we subscribe to Hoopla on one click digital and Zinio. And so we'll just say if you have the Zinio app on your phone right now, raise your hand and you get a point. So it has to be then instantaneous, free points. And then we explain that Zinio is the app where you can read 150 magazine titles for free forever on your phone, tablet or other device. And all of a sudden people start downloading it. Exactly. And then you get to increase your numbers because someone's like, oh, I didn't know the library had Field and Stream as a digital copy. I've been reading that for a thousand years and now I don't have to. We say, exactly, you don't have to. Um, the one thing that always surprises me is that good trivia is hard because it's one thing to just grab the triple pursuit questions and crib them, which we did for a while because that was easy and they were hard questions. But good trivia, you have to find a balance between this is a really easy question on the theme. Um, and then those really, really hard questions that maybe one person or one team will know because that's how you're going to avoid tiebreakers, which are the worst because no one ever plans for them because we just assume that somebody's going to come out of someone's going to come out of head. Exactly. So last night, for instance, our pub quiz was seasons eating. So everyone loves puns and it was all questions about holiday foods. So we do the first half of the pub quiz, first 15 or 20 questions as always. I ask a question and then the teams write on their answer sheets. And then the second part, either 15 to 20 questions is usually identify. We usually make picture packets. Sometimes we do it at one of the bars we go to, they've got a huge karaoke set up with a lot of TVs all connected through HDMI, Daisy chains. So we just plug in what usually goes to the karaoke TV into our laptop. And then we put movies and music clips and everything like that. So it's identify from the TV clip. In January, we're doing the history of the internet. So that's really going to be super, super, super fun because we get to play with all the YouTube stuff. But yeah, the the fine line you walk between making a quiz too easy and making a quiz too hard is tricky. And you can't make them too hard because if every team only gets 10 questions out of 30, then nobody wants to come back and play. But if everyone gets 28 questions out of 30, then you've got a bunch of time breakers. I was like, this was too easy. That's done. So you got to you got to you got to walk that fine line. Again, our aim is to make the Pump Quiz questions informative, fun and challenging. It's really great when you get those questions that people think they know. And then when you're going through the answers, you say it and half of your tables are like, yes, and the other half are just so disappointed because they just knew that that was the right answer. Last night's question was besides cinnamon, what's another ingredient in pumpkin pie spice? And so it could either be clove or nutmeg or all spice or there's a fourth one. I don't even remember what it is. But I make one that has ginger, ginger. That was the other one. There we go. So some people knew that and some people were really excited. And some people will kick in themselves because they just put in an answer. Our trivia strategy is always to base it on the theme. We try to be diversified. We try not to repeat too often. For a while, we got into the habit of being like, oh, it's October. We'll do Halloween or Halloween something. Oh, it's November. We'll do Thanksgiving, Christmas, something. The only one that really tried and true we stick to every year is every December. We do the year in review because we're the last Thursday of the month. That's awfully close to New Year's Eve. So we always try to do either questions from previous quizzes or questions from the year pop culture, politics, sports, art, the whole shebang. That's nice having the questions from the previous ones because people can, you know, we could say, you know, if you remember something when you were here back in July, you might automatically, if you can remember that question, what the answer was that you didn't get now. Exactly. The other great thing about themes is you can cherry pick the people you want to show up. So if you're in a town with a college and you do a Disney theme trivia night, you're going to have every college kid who's like, I know everything about Disney because that is my jam. Superheroes are really big. We did this summer, I'm not sure. Every summer we do what we call our summer of love. Well, we call that summer of love pub quiz once. It's where we leave our two regular bars and go to other establishments. And all four of... We're going to take it on the road. Yeah, pub quiz on the road. May, June, July, and August are all four on the same or similar theme. So this year it was Trivial Pursuit. So each of the four months was questions from different categories. So like the yellow one, yellow and pink were together, sand of the colors and not what they call them. Well, they change it from game to game too. Yeah, but if you came to all four, you could collect the pie pieces on the bottom of the pub quiz answer sheet. And that got you into win the newest edition of Trivial Pursuit in August. We only had two teams that made it to all four. So one lucky team won. In previous years we've done music. So we've done like our first quiz was Beal's music. Our next was Country and Rock. And we had music videos as one because we were at the bar with the AV set up. So themes are great. Themes over a long period of time can be fun. Next year we'll probably do something for the quasi sesquicentennial. Do a whole bunch of Nebraska trivia. We've done Hastings trivia. We've done trivia about specific institutions. We pair with Hastings College every now and again to do like a Hastings College trivia night for incoming freshmen and their parents. Oh, that's nice. Yeah. I do a pub quiz with a peer HIV education organization on Hastings College campus. So they're tailored towards the stuff that they're going to be learning. But it's kind of fun and it's usually over coffee and they feed me. So pick a theme because if you're just doing random trivia, that's great. But people get bored with that or they think, oh, I'll just come next time. And if they write you off the one time, then they might never come back. And you get the themes you get. People will come to specific ones, but that's that it attracts them even more because they're, like you said, it's their jam. Exactly. They're, they know, I know this one and I'll win. Yeah. And the nice thing about themes is that if you, the way you play is teams of up to four. So someone, I say, oh, the theme this month is Disney and someone say, I suck at Disney. I say, yes, but you can find three people on your team who don't. Yes. So, yeah, there's no registration. I should put that out there. We just play. We show up at the bar about 15 minutes before. Make sure the mic is turned on at the bar that has a microphone. Usually it's just me yelling, which works fine. I'm loud. It works out. And then we pass out library branded pens that we encourage people to take with them or leave for the bar. And then we have answer sheets made in Adobe Illustrator 15 on the front, 15 on the back. When we started, I handed you your library approved stubby pencil and a blank piece of paper. And I told you to fill it out one through 20, one through 30. So, so we've come a long way, but you can, you can go as high tech or as low tech as you want. But the other winning trivia strategy we have is switch up the venue. Everyone likes the burger joint, but sometimes we go to the wine bar. Sometimes we go to the hole in the wall karaoke bar. Sometimes we go to the sports bar north of town. We go to the Kino every other month or so. So we try to just go places we haven't been before to see if we can't catch a different group of people. Because some people are really excited to come to PubQ is because you're going to their bar. So because the library is going to the rail, not a bar that's in Hastings, but I couldn't think of one. I couldn't think of the one I'm thinking of. But I know that there's a brass rail here, right? Yeah, there's a rail in Lincoln. Sorry, coffee's important. But because you're going to their bar, they'll come to you and they'll play, not because they're really interested in trivia or even the library necessarily, but because you're there. And then that's your opportunity to grab someone that either doesn't use the library or hasn't used the library. We're lucky. We are a hosted Cersei Dynex library. So we pay for mobile search so I can sign someone up for a library card on my phone. That's awesome. So I take dead library cards and I can go through all the sign up questions in about two minutes and I can hand them a library card and say, here you go. You're now a card care member of the library, which is great because it's helpful. It's good for library card numbers. But even taking books, putting a book display, if you're going to do questions on a theme and you're going to take all your questions out of books in your cookbook section, let's say, or your World War II questions, grab a bunch of World War II books and set them up on the bar and say, here's a book display, have applications for library cards ready to go. Check them out right there. Exactly. Take the book home. It's a great way for you to market not just what you're doing for the trivia, but what you do in your day to day. All of our pub quiz answer sheets usually have on the back on the bottom our next pub quiz dates and any other important dates coming up for the library. Currently, we're in a temporary space so there are no important dates really because we don't do anything. Having a new place is done. Built still. Yes. Very much being in the middle of built. There's no windows on half of the building. Yeah, you don't want to be in there. So it's a little unsettling. Yeah, one of our library staff here was actually watching now the show. Last night, you were talking about a place like Barrymore. She went there last night because they had their quiz night because she saw about the session. It's like, I'm going to check it out and see what they do. It was, yeah, there's a lot. You're going to be surprised at places in your town that you could, that are already doing it, you might be able to connect with them too if they already got something going. Yeah. Our other trivia strategy is don't do simple question and answer. That's fine to start because some people are really good at question and answer, but we try to do identify from a picture. So we've done in the past identify a movie, but we've taken the time to Photoshop out any of the, any of the movie title. So, you know, you just kind of fuzz it out. So you're like, which Jack Reacher movie is this? And you just put Tom Cruise look and all like. We've done it. Last night's was identified presidents pardoning turkeys. So there was, yeah. So that was the first half. And the second one was identify cookies. So there were rosettes and black and whites and ginger snaps. So it runs the game. But we've done identify the Disney prince based by the princess that's shown. So, so it's, it can be, it can be, it can be, it can be. Kind of nothing at all. It can just be, I mean, we haven't done this yet, but it'd be fun to be like, you give them the, like a picture from highlights and just say how many, how many turtles are in this picture? And then try to find all the hidden turtles. And then you have to write down the number. See if you got it right or not. See if you got it right or not. So you can, if you circle all you want, but you have to be, you have to be, you have to be, you have to be, you have to be, you have to be, you have to be, you have to be, but you have to be sure that the number is correct. So do something that gets people involved, not just in thinking and talking to the small group, but also looking at something or watching a video or listening to a clip of music. We did, I don't know about the songs, but the ones that like, I can identify this song and so many. So for the Beatles quiz we did last summer, we took orchestral arrangements of the Beatles music and played 20 seconds snippets of that and said, what is this song? Here's the orchestral arrangement. Because that was the only way we could freely access it because it was on free gold, I think. It was on one of the library products we could only get orchestral arrangements of the Beatles. We're like, perfect, that's close enough. Sometimes the lyrics will give it away totally. Exactly, exactly. So we've done, identified the, I keep going back to the Disney ones, but that's the ones that I've most recently done. So we did identify the Disney movie based on its love song. And there's so many more. When we did our music trivia, there were lots of, our summer of music, there were lots of identify based on audio clips. And then for that, it's just mostly being prepared to either have a speaker system to play it or walk around to your individual teams. We have, we put the sound snippets on Google Drive so I can play it on my phone. I have a Bluetooth speaker that I personally own that I take with us when we do those. And then I just stick it on the, stick it on the table so they can listen to it and then move from table to table. That's cool. And just trade it. Yeah. If you don't have a sound system. Exactly. And that's the thing. If you don't have a sound system, your voice will fry. If you try to sing the lyrics yourself. Don't make the questions too hard. Everyone hates hard questions, especially when they don't know them. Even if it's like you're teaching them because they don't know another, they'll know forever kind of thing. You know, maybe only have three or four of those questions total in a quiz. Because people hate to feel dumb. That's really, you know, all that we can say. Because people take trivia very seriously. People do, yeah. And it's not even people like, oh yeah, I like sports. I, you know, get into competitions. And you're like, oh guys, we're going to play trivia against these other people in the barn. And they're like, let's go. Like seriously cutthroat. Elementary school teachers, in my observation, are usually the worst. Because they're like, oh, where about your kindergarten ladies? And then they get real hardcore about it. If you make the questions too hard in the beginning, people check out early, leave. Not that you haven't already counted them, which is fine. But then they might not come back for your next one. So you got to make sure that the hard ones are interspersed. You mix it up then, yeah. Don't make it too easy. Like we said, if it's all too easy, people don't like to feel super smart. I mean, because they know that everyone else, they feel if it's this easy, it must be this easy for everyone else. It's like when I take the ACT math questions, I'm like, oh man, this is so easy. I'm the king of the world. You're not. Yes. What's the thing about trivia? It's not supposed to be easy. That's why it's trivial. Exactly. Some of the simple things, you're like, well, everybody knows this one, but then it's the ones that weigh only one person on my team even watch that Disney movie or watch that other TV show or something. Exactly. I'm going to pull up that other quiz because I don't think I have many questions left. Strategy, always have a tiebreaker. For instance, last night, our tiebreaker was we had a tie for second place. So our first place team wins a $25 gift card to the establishment. Second place team wins $15. We had a tie for first. And so the tiebreaker question was, according to the USDA, what must the internal temperature of your turkey be in order to be safe for human consumption? And the answer is 165 degrees. Yes. One team said 165. One team hammed in Hobbiton 165 and won 60 and settled on 160. And I was like, oh, I'm sorry. You were right six times. You were wrong seven times because you kept going back and forth. But that's good because that was a tiebreaker and then we didn't have to worry about it. Season's eating. Because it's, I'm worried people are going to ask questions about last night's pup quiz and I'm not going to know. Like what were the questions that you did? Oh, I'll find out in a second. So I guess now we come to the questions portion. Sure. I can ask, I can, I mean, if it's questions about how pup quiz works or how you can get buy-in from your community. I'm kind of the expert on sweet talking people to just believe that it's a good thing. Oh yeah. That I think is the key. And having someone at your library, either you or someone else is good at that. There's always somebody who's, or multiple people, who's good at choosing with the local community and letting them know here's what we want to do and then why it would be good a benefit to you. Exactly. Exactly. So this sounds like that it's also something, once you get started you put up some money that doesn't cost very much to do this. Correct. Unlike many events that library does, you have to provide food or supplies or drinks and everything because usually when you're having some sort of beneficial with kids and what else do you provide? Some sort of refreshments. The bar provides all of that. And once you get the community involved, the prices aren't even supplied. But the sheets that you have to print out for the... Some staff time to make the questions is a staff time to make the answer sheet. But I mean that's, your staff time would be eaten up in any other program you're doing for a kid's craft or something like that. Plus supplies. You have to do the planning, yeah. Exactly. So it's very cheap. Yeah. Yeah. Very low investment in terms of monetary and it can even be pretty easy in time if you've got someone who's interested in doing the quiz. And we've even partnered, one month I was going to be out of town, Erica was still new to the pub quizzing stuff and she wasn't comfortable doing it herself. So I went to a radio DJ who interviews me once a month to talk about pub quizzing. I said, hey Ty, next month do you want to write the questions and give the quiz because I'll be out of town. And I'll send a staff member to wrangle all the answer sheets and the pens and the points and stuff. All you have to do is make the quiz and do it. You said absolutely. Yeah. Be the host. So we've had guest hosts before. That's cool. On a couple of occasions I had someone wanted to do one on comic book trivia. And I said, absolutely. Because I want to play that one. And I lost and I was super sad. That's the thing too. If you know someone who's got, is an expert in some field. Have them make up the questions. Exactly. A question that I had in MPLA when I did this a month ago. Someone said, oh I'm not very outgoing. What if I can't host the quiz? And one, yes you can. I mean, practice in the mirror for a day. The bar is very low. At a place that serves alcohol for level of entertainment. So if you don't think you can do it, you can. But additionally, I mean, if you really know you can't, is there someone else who works in the library? Is your children's librarian an outgoing, shiny, bubbling person? Rope that person in. Is there someone in town? Is there someone who uses your library? Is there a parent? Or the guy who sits on the computer all day? Someone you have a connection with. Is that someone that would be interested in volunteering their time to help you out? I was at the Iowa Library Association annual conference last month. It was just October. And one of their evening events was trivia night. And first you had your dinner and then you had that afterwards. And they brought in local celebrities, I guess you would say, to host. This was someone, and I did not being from Iowa, somebody who's on the radio and does a lot of stuff with the libraries actually for kids' events and things too. I was interested. And he was the one they brought in to host. They apparently had done this before. So that was kind of cool. Get someone from who's a local celebrity, local celebrity, and have them like the local newscaster or with the mayor be someone who would want to participate. I thought that was interesting that it wasn't just a librarian or someone from the library association doing it. They brought in someone that people in Iowa do. Real famous Iowa people. So that was very creative. And they did a lot of things that you did. I had never done these pub nights, but the ones with the movie posters but with all the title taken out, that was a really, I thought that was a very creative, cool one. That was a fun one to figure out, because you'd think you know these movies. You've seen them a million times. But once you take away the words, it's this blank picture and you're like, I don't know. Exactly. They left. It was funny. They did leave on this one at the bottom of it. They had unprojectors up on the wall. All the small, the tiny text that says starring so-and-so and so-and-so by 20th Century Fox or whatever. And a few times it was apparently allowed running up to the screen and trying to be able to read that. But it was still so small and blurry that you couldn't read all of it. So it was still not a total giveaway. It's not even helping. I don't even know why it's so what if it stars, you know, Tom Cruise. He's in a million movies that look like this. Exactly. Which one is it? Yeah. Exactly. They asked me questions. Go ahead and type them into the question section of your GoToWebinar interface. Yes. And while we're doing that, I will show off the Google Drive. So I've shared with Krista the link to our wrong keyboard. Yeah. Here we go. Too many computers. Exactly. Our ZPUB quiz folder. So you'll have access to view. So it's kind of helter-skelter. Because we have answer sheets, but not all the answer sheets necessarily made in there. Murphy's is one of our bars. Kino is one of our bars. And our summer tour is another one. So I apologize for the hodgepodge. Some of the quizzes live in here separated by year. Some of them by location. Some of them are just things that we pulled off of Evernote where we used to put all of our quizzes and just dump them into there. We got a really sweet Star Trek quiz. Questions one through five are fill in the blank. Oh, I see. Fill in the space, the final blank. We did one for the local hospital. We've done Olympics trivia, Valentine's Day. We've done questions submitted by other players. So we get your question on the quiz for next time. Exactly. So you're guaranteed to know one. Some of the, this was our first public quiz ever. And it was creatively titled Stuff You Learned in School. Women on Stuff. But it was questions from P.E. Science, Math, English, History and Music. So P.E. is the hardest because it was all the Presidential Physical Fitness Award, which no one can ever get. I know we had to do it. I didn't know what the act, what you're supposed to be getting here. Yeah. Exactly. So P.E. was the hardest. But then like in Science, since this was the first one, I made an answer sheet. In question number one, or Science Part A was named the planets furthest inward, but I put nine blanks. But this was after Pluto wasn't a planet. So it was a ha ha, gotcha. So you had to know better. Pluto's a planet. Yes, Pluto. So that was our first quiz ever. You know, word problems, equations, math. We never really did anything like that again. Only because people told us, like that was really great. I hate those. You're like, well thank you. Let's see. So we have quizzes and we have pub quiz and PQ and flyers and answer sheets, Star Wars. We did a 90s. So here are our, for the 90s pub quiz, we had five identified questions. No, six it looks like. So we had identify questions based on the band. Oh, the album cover. Oh, album covers, yeah. And then we had questions based on the music snippet. Songs, yep. And those are all less than 30 seconds. So they should be good for copyright. So we do have a couple of questions that have come in now too. When you write your own questions, how much time does it take usually when you're trying to come up with your own? How many questions do you do? We do 30 questions. We like to say, hi, welcome to pub quiz. 30 questions in 60 minutes or your money back. And there's no money. So it's really fine. But we try to play in an hour for the time and we try to give the first half hour to asking the questions or making sure everyone has the questions answered. And then there's a short little break where people can get a drink or have something asked to them, like right next to them, like can you give me number 15 again? And so read them question 15 and they'll look at me and I'll look at them and they'll try to be like, so you're gonna give it away if I say the answer? So they start like free form, free form responding to just my stare. I'm like, that's very good. You gotta have a good poker face. You gotta have a great poker face. Sneaky people. It takes, depending on, once you find your theme, then it's relatively easy to find your sources, internet or book for your questions. So it can take as little as two hours if you, what I recommend doing is make your questions, like write your question and then write your answer. Let me see if I can find one that is our questions. Here we go, boy bands. Where's our quiz for boy bands? Of course not. Hold please. I'm sorry team. Son of a biscuit. The quizzes are somewhere, but they're not here. There we go, June. We'll just do this one. So question, answer, question, answer. And then have someone who you know isn't playing or someone who works at the library or your boss or your colleague or your cubicle mate, read over them to make sure that one, you haven't made too hard of a quiz. We used to sit in the horizon room and we would ask the people who were working on a Tuesday night, the regular Tuesday crew who would check the pub quiz for Thursday. So we would just ask them, they would do the pub quiz because none of them were going. But then they would try to, we would give it to them and they would write down the answers to see if they were any good at it, to see what was too hard. But then it also gives you a chance for someone to go over your wording. Sometimes you write a question and it makes perfectly good sense when you type it. But then when you try to stand up and read it in front of people, you're like... So you want a proof reader as far as grammar and that kind of thing. Exactly. This must have been sports and stuff. Sports and stuff and things. So where can you find all you'll need in the city of Hastings for entertainment this summer including music programs, movies, children's programs, prizes and all your current DVDs, CDs, magazines and newspapers for free. A leading question now. So, yeah, that wasn't leading in the slightest. So this is going to take some prep work. Yeah, it will take some prep work. And I'm sure there are places like you said, you know, using trivia pursuit or websites or something that put together these kind of... Yes, I found out there are places you can pay to get trivia. I mean some bars do it that way. When they do trivia, they just subscribe to a quiz service and they get like an email once a month with here are 30 trivia questions curated by Company X. We've never had to go to that, but that would might be... I mean depending on the cost that might be a really cheap way to get some good trivia for a few months under your belt so then you can... Get started. Yeah, get started. Get a following going that you can start making your own. And then you have kind of an example of what questions are good to ask. What's really hard. You can get a feel for what your audience likes to do. Exactly. There's another question. Have you had any disputes about your answers? Absolutely. Where they don't agree with what you think the... As a thing too, when I did in Iowa there was rules too that you were not allowed to have any phones out for looking up things on the internet or trying to find the answer and had to all be done. And they kept an eye on that too. They saw you, you could get disqualified. No cell phones, no phone or friends, no friendly helping. You're welcome to listen to other teams as they play because that's perfectly allowed. Disputes over what you said the answer was. Disputes go one of two ways. Someone says, the answer is this. So yesterday we had how do you thicken gravy? And so we said corn starch or flour and so on. So what about roux? And I said, well, yeah, technically since roux is flour or corn starch and water. I guess. But another question we had was in what makes Campbell Soup Company very happy because everyone makes green bean casserole? And the answer is cream of mushroom. Yeah. But someone said, well, what about cream of celery or cream of chicken? And I said, yes. I guess you could. I mean, those are perfect. Like cream of, you know, cream of soup. Sometimes we're like, okay, sure, because you asked, we had one of the presidents forgiving the turkey was George H. W. Bush. And so someone said, well, if you just put President Bush, I said, no, there are two. See, sometimes there is a right answer that they can't argue. And I, and I don't, I don't say this at the beginning, but we are the final arbiter. So even if we're wrong and it's, and it's, you know, and they can prove me wrong for the purposes of PubQuiz, I am always right. I am God King of Dune. Do not. Yeah. And really, it's just a PubQuiz. Yeah, exactly. But people take it very seriously. And there's the prizes, I guess that, Yes. Yes. We're going for, yeah. I'm trying to find one of the quizzes that Erica sent. I don't know. Google Drive is so confusing for me because it's really messy. It can get very messy very quickly. Yes. I've had that problem. Also because we went from a server stored at our place to dump everything to Google Drive and take that server offline because we're moving to a temporary space and we're not taking that server with us. So everything got loaded twice because someone's like, just drag and drop. And then someone else was like, oh, I'm going to go through and take my folders with me. So it's a little piece of me. So I apologize. At some point it might be cleaned up. Yes. Well, and that's something that we will probably be doing because we're in storage in temporary locations. It's cleanup things. So you might, if you visit this thing over and over and over again, because we do throw all of our new quizzes in here. I just don't know how to find them. Erica makes them say something here, then shares them with me so I never have to go into that. Excuse me, but every month there'll be a new pub quiz in here. So you're welcome to steal them from us. Sometimes they might be a little too specific to Nebraska. We do love our football and our volleyball and our sports ball. Yes. So we will ask questions about that. But you're welcome to, you know, cut those out and replace them with whatever you're doing. Use your own state. Oregon. We have Oregon people here, right? Washington. Washington. Yeah. Ask somebody to ask, can we get access to these questions? Yes. Jake has emailed me the URL, the link to this folder in his Google Drive here. So when I put up the recording after this, I will have a link to this and to his actual presentation. So we'll have a link. You'll have access to all of these. Yep, they're out there publicly. So have that. Pick a part. Borrow, steal. Make your own. Borrow. I'd like to, you know, someday, somehow, it would be nice if there were a library repository for all these things where you could just throw in drive links to various Pubquisories. A group, a place. Yeah, like a group dump where you just share the URL to your shared Pubquis folder, your Dropbox or whatever, and then we can all just beg, borrow, and steal. Yeah, because you can do searches as I did look up, like, all over the country. People are doing them in various different ways. These are some in England even. Yes, England is real big, but they call a Pubquis, like, because a public house is a bar. So their bars take it really seriously. It was probably called November. No, not that one. Because that's Bolton Boys. That would be why. Oh, one of these days, we'll find it. Oh, 2014. Dang it. Well, we named it something else. Oh, yeah. So, what was neat about Pubquis this month is that we did two Pubquisies in four days. Because on Thursday of last week was the annual downtown Hastings Lighting of the Lights celebration. So they called Celebration of Lights. And we had kids and her front carriages and Santa and various groups and dancers and Taekwondo demonstrations and what not. You can buy a bunch of cheesy stuff and, you know, eat hot chocolate from a cart. And then they turn on the Christmas lights in downtown Hastings. It's a big to do. Big event. But we, so that ends at seven. And so at eight o'clock we had a Pubquis at a new tap room for a new brewery that just opened up. So we called it a Celebration of Pubquis. And it was, so it was mostly booze questions and a couple holiday questions because we're the holidays without booze. So sometimes we do very special Pubquisies that kind of come out of the regular schedule. I mean, last night was out of the regular schedule because it wasn't a Thursday. But if someone invites you to do a Pubquis, you know, be sure to get them like you're going to help with the questions, right? But if they're going to help write the quiz and they just want you to come and present it because you have a great product, that's just more relevance because it's just people recognize that the library is cool. Like they came to us, this brewery, and said, hey, we want Pubquis to come on Celebration of Lights Thursday because it's cool and people like it. So now we are a force for good in small business. Did you bring in the people? Yeah. So have you had any, you said this the most thing the library is doing? Have you had any obvious connection where somebody has actually come into the library and said, because I was at Pubquis last night, I now have come here to do whatever or use the service or see what the library is doing. Have you, has it been any kind of obvious? I have never experienced that in my five years. That's interesting. But I know that our use It might just not say. Our use of statistics usually go up after we mention things like Friegel, Hubla, so I can track it kind of anecdotally that way. Right. You can see jumps in that. Right. Sometimes we give away free free points. If you sign up for something we've done a bonus point or a tie break question was you get a point for every person that you're in your team that has their library card on them. Yeah. So and then the team that lost because someone didn't have a library card and signed them up for a library card. Get that taken care of. Next time you can win. Exactly. So nothing concrete. Like hi, I was a pub quiz last night and now I need this book. There was a time we did a a very boozy trivia quiz theme. And I just purchased a bunch of new like I bought the Jell-O-Shot Test Kitchen book, which is wonderful. It's beautifully illustrated and there's, I mean, this is this is Jell-O-Shots on a whole new level in terms of like two colors and two flavors and shapes and special silicon molds and the like. Not that creative. But we I hyped that book because it was like we have all these brand new booze books that we just bought because there's something in the world that was like craft beer and you know, all that fun stuff was back and those were those had higher circulations. So I can be related. I can presume that someone heard about it at PubQuiz and checked it out. But it could just be someone who wanted to know how to make some really good some Kuba Libre Jell-O-Shots. Interesting. Yeah. I'll have to look up that book for our next party. It's wonderful. It's actually the Jell-O-Shot Test Kitchen because Jell-O is a trademark. Oh no, it's a brand name. Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah, you gotta do that but other than that, any other questions or any other touring of the PubQuiz folder that needs to be? Yeah. Is there anything? Yeah. We're almost sitting 11 o'clock here which I know we started a few minutes late so we have time. Anybody want to see anything any of these quizzes that he's been doing? No. Made poorly by me. That's pretty cool. I like to get this the scrabble tile in there. Yeah. Anything else you want to know about it or anything you want to see? Type in the questions section before we do officially wrap up. Hey, the Jell-O-Shot Test Kitchen has a website. Yes. It's a really interesting book. I mean, if you just want to like learn how to make a two-layer Jell-O, I mean, you can keep the booze out of it if you like and just make some really delicious things. Irish Carbon Jelly Shots. Uh-huh. I'm into this, yeah. The things you learn because of PubQuiz. And that's kind of and that's the it's really kind of what we strive for is that it's not necessarily like here is a new piece of learning. It's kind of like oh, I learned something. It's sneaky. Yeah. Sneaky and sometimes yeah, it's just trivial and it happens. And then we have files and the one that's boo. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. All right. Well, it doesn't look like anybody's typed into any urgent questions right now, so. Oh, I should probably go to my last slide. Oh, there. If you have any questions, um, you know, feel free to blow me up. There's us. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Uh-huh. Yeah. Jake at HastingsLibrary.us. Mm-hmm. Ask your new emails. That's our new emails. We got a new website, new building, new everything. Yeah. So I'm happy to help you walk through questions. Like Krista said, the recording will have links to this presentation and the PubQuiz folder. So, no need to worry about those because they're just ridiculously long Google links. Yeah. So I don't want to click. You just have a quick that you can click on. So that's why, yeah, there's nothing in this presentation. Yeah. But you'll have quick links to that, yeah. Um, the recording and those links, I should have them ready and sent out to you this afternoon sometime. Thanks for it. It goes through quickly. It's just a matter of, I'm going to upload it and convert everything. But so, when the recording is ready, I'll send you guys all an email and I'll also announce it in our usual places, our mailing list and web's Facebook page and whatnot so that you'll be able to come back and watch this again or at least just get the links to all the poses. Exactly. Exactly. So, while we've been chatting, nobody's really typed in anything desperately and they need to have answered right now. So I think we will officially wrap it up. All right. I'm going to steal everyone for chatting. Thank you, Jake, for coming and talking about this. Thanks for coming out. As you said, you started this in 2010, right? And on Facebook, I always see posts about when pub quizzes coming up and pasting this is a bit of a ways from here to go. But I always thought it was a fun thing to see that you guys are doing that. And then when I did see that Jake had done this presentation about it, I was like, yes, come on and find out how everybody else can do this and that'd be awesome. I'm going to just pop open a new thing here and look up. So that will wrap it up for today's show. And luckily, Encampus Live, nobody else has called themselves this yet and all the since we can do this since 2009. So you just Google Encampus Live. You can find our website. The recording, as I said, will be done this afternoon. These are upcoming shows here underneath those. And let's see, last week, we had computer networking for librarians. And I think I had, yeah. Recording and a presentation have the same thing. I have a link to the recording on YouTube and a link to his presentation and the folder that you can just click on to get to it. So you'll have to try and find it in yourself there. And as I said, these are our recordings back to the beginning. So feel free to also, when you're here, browse through and see if there's any other topics. It goes all the way back to our first show and we did use some different software in the past, but everything's been converted and it's just up there nice and easy on YouTube now. So that'll be it for today. I hope you join us next week when our topic is the Reader of the Week. This is a presentation that I actually saw at our state library conference, NLA, Nebraska Library Association School Librarians Conference. Martin James Public Library in Nebraska City has came up with a Reader of the Week initiative where they actually had people in the, not just, you have your staff puts out their favorite books or something or whatever. This was getting just people from the community doing their what they thought and putting it in the newspaper. The actual newspaper that they do, yes. And it was a huge success. So Denise Davis from Martin James Public Library is gonna be in line being here to talk to us about that. So I hope you sign up for that. Any of our other sessions, you see I've got December and all booked up and starting in January as new things get confirmed, we'll have them on here as well. Encompass Live is also on Facebook. So if you are a big Facebook user, please do pop over there and like our page. There we go. It's coming up slowly. And we, I post notices about, there's our photos. Here's a reminder to log in for today's show when the recording's available. I post a notice on here when your reminder is about promoting the upcoming shows. So if you are being on Facebook, give us a like there and you'll be notified of what we're doing. Other than that, that wraps up for today's show. Thank you very much everyone for attending. Thank you for driving in. You're welcome. Terrible Thanksgiving weather. Oh, it's not snowing yet. So it's fine. Yes, we have not had snow here in, oh really here in eastern Nebraska. So lucky for us. So thank you very much and everyone have a happy and safe Thanksgiving. Yes. Eat a lot. I'm going to eat my heart out. All right. And we'll see you next time on Encompass Live. Bye bye.