 Okay, 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 online event or webinar, webcast, online show. Whatever you want to call us, we're here live online 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 our shows and post them on our YouTube account later, so you can always go back at your convenience and watch them. We include our recording of the show, any presentations or documents like this. We've got some slides here that people have shared and any websites that maybe have been mentioned that access all of that afterwards after the show. Both the live show and the recordings are free and open to anyone to watch. So please do share with your colleagues, friends, neighbors, family. Anybody who you think might be interested in any of the topics we have on the show, any of our upcoming shows or archives, they're welcome to come and check them out. At the end of today's show, I will show you where to get to all of those archives on our website. We do a mixture of things here on Encompass Live's interviews, book reviews, mini-training sessions, demos of software or products or resources that we think libraries might be interested in. The only real criteria is that it's something library-related, something libraries are doing, something they could be doing, some services or grants or opportunities we want to make them aware of. That's really the only focus. Some of our topics, you may see a title and say, what, libraries? But trust me, that's what I always make sure everything has to do with libraries in the end. We have Encompass Library and the rest of the library commission staff that come on the show, sometimes, and we sometimes get invited guest speakers, and we'll make sure of that today. To my left is Mary Sowers, who is our government information services librarian here at the library commission who's been collecting a lot of information and resources and fielding all of our calls and requests about eclipse-related things. Next to her is Shelly Ruder-Gordes from Lincoln City Libraries just up the street. She came to walk down here through a break in the rain. And then remotely on with us is Megan Bobbs from Seward, Nebraska, Seward Memorial Library. And I'm just going to hand over to Mary to get things started. They're going to tell us all about things that are going on in Nebraska related to the eclipse and libraries. Good morning everyone. I think we have a fun show today as we talk about the total eclipse coming up next month, August 21st, 2017, to be exact, 20 to six days, roughly two hours, and about 10 minutes. So really narrow it down there. Not only is this an extraordinary solar event, but it's also an amazing opportunity for libraries and other community organizations to get together, to talk about the event, to educate about the event. And we just thought it was a great topic to do on Encompass Live. So again, thank you, Kristen, for having us. So today we're going to talk about the eclipse itself. We're going to hear from two Nebraska libraries in person this morning, as we mentioned earlier, Megan and Shelly have joined us here to talk about what they're doing at their libraries. And then we'll also talk about what some other libraries and communities around the state are doing. And then talk about some fun resources that your library can access to plan activities and events for not only this one, but maybe for future events. So here goes. What exactly is a total eclipse? A total solar eclipse is when the moon passes directly in front of the sun, in other words, between the earth and the sun, and completely covers the sun for about two to three minutes, depending on where you are in the path. In general, at least here in Nebraska, it's going to be about two and a half minutes that we'll be able to see. Day briefly turns into night. Twilight, actually. And so it will seem very dark, but not completely dark. Before the moon's motion around the earth begins to move again away from covering the sun. Now, here in the United States, the eclipse path is approximately 70 miles wide. And it crosses the country from the very northwest part of Oregon, all the way down to the Atlantic Ocean in central South Carolina. And this is the first time that the moon's shadow has completely traversed the United States coast-to-coast since 1918. So it's been almost 100 years. Now, there have been other solar eclipse events, but most of them are not visible to most of the United States. Only for like part of it. Yes. Yeah, like the last one was 1979, I believe. Just the very northwest corner of the United States got part of it, you know. But, yeah, so not very much that the rest of the United States has been able to see for almost 100 years. There are millions of Americans that are located either inside the path or within a day's drive. So that encompasses a lot of the United States where people are going to be. That line is just where it's the total eclipse. Yes. Outside of that, it's partial. Yes. And even beyond that, you can get close to seeing it. So it's pretty much the whole country gets over there. Yes. They will get so peace. Yes, that's exactly right there. So hundreds of thousands of visitors are going to be coming from outside the path of the eclipse to whatever is closest to them in most cases. But we've already gotten calls here starting about six months ago from people, you know, in other way outside, you know, outside Nebraska. I don't ask at all. Yeah, I'm sorry. Not from the Midwest at all. Yeah, no. You know, places like Maine, you know, people are calling in, where's the best place in Nebraska to see this? You know, I'm coming into Nebraska to see this. You know, where can I stay? You know, things like that. So yes, a lot of interest in visitors coming to not only our state, but a lot of states, the United States for this event. And also because of this, because it's been almost 100 years, this will probably be the most total solar eclipse in history. Things have changed a lot from since 1918. Our technology has changed. The science has changed so that, you know, the prediction and being able to tell where exactly it's going to go and our communications has changed. So it doesn't take nearly as long. We have the internet now. So as soon as this was announced, you know, a couple of years ago, it's been growing in interest because, you know, we can get the word out more easily. Now here in Nebraska, this is the path that it's going to take. So it is going diagonally across the entire state from the far northwest corner all the way down to the far southeast corner. Some of the towns in Nebraska that are in the direct center of the path of the eclipse include Alliance, Stapleton, Arnold, Rand Island, Beatrice, and Falls City, with many other towns still well within the total path. And you can see the center path is the red line and the total path is the grayer area. But Scott's Fluff, North Platte, Gothenburg, Cozad, Carney, Hastings, York, and Lincoln, just to name a few. There are lots of other little towns that fall within this. Now as we turn from the eclipse itself to how libraries can use this event, I'm going to transition with a couple of fun facts for your next trivia night. And if you're watching from outside Nebraska this morning, you might want to look at these facts for your own sake. The last total solar eclipse seen in Nebraska was June 30th, 1954, so 60 years ago-ish. And then the next total solar eclipse Nebraska will be able to see after this one is May 3rd, 2106. So 89 years from now. Probably probably not. Yeah, probably not. And that's why this is such a unique opportunity because it's not only a unique opportunity, you know, just the event itself, but it's a once in a lifetime opportunity for a lot of us, you know, because we won't be around for the next one. And then one other trivia question. How many states does the path of the eclipse touch across the United States? How many states? The answer is 14, although several of those states only have tiny pieces like little corners of their state where it touches, but it is total of 14. Okay. So this morning now that we can, so that we can learn what different sizes of Nebraska libraries are planning for the eclipse, and it is all sizes. We are happy to have with us Megan Boggs from talking to us remotely from the Seward Public Library. And Shelly Ruboris here in the studio with us from the Lincoln City Libraries. So I'm going to begin with Megan. Good morning, Megan. Good morning. Thanks for having me. Thanks for being with us this morning. First, if you would tell us a little bit about your role at the Seward Public Library and then talk to us about what the planning was that was involved in this event and as well as actual programs and activities that you're hosting. Okay. That sounds great. So I'm Megan Boggs and I'm a library assistant here at the Seward Memorial Library. And being from a small library, we cover a lot of roles. And so I do a little bit of everything, everything from technology to maker programs, cataloging. So a lot of different things. And the eclipse planning fell into my lap as well, although we all kind of work together as a staff to plan our events as well. We started planning for our eclipse event several months ago when we realized that we were going to be in the path of totality. We said we definitely have to do something. And so we started doing some planning on our own here. After we started hearing a few rumblings from other places in the community that were planning events, we decided that it would be a really good idea if we called a meeting and started to partner with these other places throughout our community. That way we could find out what all was happening. Maybe we could do some cross promotion. And we could also try to target different audiences. So a few months ago... Do you want to share websites? I know you're sure that's where I can give you the... Sure. Yeah, let me get that up here. You should see the pop up where you can share your screen. Yeah. Can you guys see it? Yeah, it's working. Got it. You can see my screen now. Okay. So we called a meeting. We reached out to a few civic groups, some local businesses, and organizations that we knew were planning some eclipse events that we also... Whoops. Hang on a minute, Megan. I just... Can you hear me now? Yeah, I need to be by accident here. Just double check in my... There we go. All right. All right. Are we good? Yes. Okay. So we also advertised in our local paper that we were having a meeting for any and all parties who were interested in the total solar eclipse and planning events in the community of Seward. And so we got a wide variety of people to come, local business owners, civic group leaders. We got people from our local Chamber of Commerce and our visitors committee. And we ended up having about seven or eight official Seward eclipse viewing locations that we narrowed it down to. And everybody kind of has their own unique audience that they're targeting. It's kind of a unique day because it is a day that school is happening. And so at the library, we weren't really going to be able to do a program during the eclipse for school-age children. And so we knew that for ourselves, we wanted to target the audience of mostly storytime-age, preschool-age children and their families, as well as anyone else, adults, older people, retired people who might be able to come into the library to view the eclipse. And so this is the website that we worked on with our partners. You can see we have some information about the eclipse. And on the side here, we have listed the official locations where people can go to view the eclipse in Seward. And as part of this group, the library kind of organized, we also developed some promotional materials. So we did a rack card that was paid for by our Seward County Visitors Committee that was distributed not only throughout Seward, but throughout Nebraska and the general area to promote what was happening in our location. We were also able to get some large banners printed for each location. So here's a picture of it hanging in front of our library. And really, you know, make it stand out. And then we also had some postcards printed. So this is the front side of the postcard and then the back side of the postcard. We are not on the red line on that map that Mary showed earlier. We're in the gray area. We get about one minute and 35 seconds of totality. But hey, we're going to melt that one minute and 35 seconds for all it's worth. And then we also, our library is directly next to our post office. And they reached out to us as part of this group as well, and they are doing a special cancellation. And so they'll be stamping this on the postcard. So that's pretty exciting as well. And then let's see here. Can I get back on just showing webcam? I'll show you a few things also. Well, so here's the rack card in person and the postcard. And as far as the event that we are specifically doing at our library. Like I said, we're kind of gearing it towards preschool age, mostly. And their families, of course. And we are starting at 1130 right about the time when the partial eclipse will start to happen. And we're going to start with some storytime activities. We're going to do some just books about the sun and the moon and that kind of thing. And then we're going to do some simple crafts. One of them is something like this where we've got one that's representing the moon and one that's representing the sun. And they're joined together by a little Brad here so they can make the moon go in front of the sun. I think the preschool kids will like that a lot. Another thing that we're doing is a little activity with chalk. And this one, you just take a dark color, blue, black of construction paper and then you make a contact paper circle. And then they'll use chalk around the outside and then just kind of smear it and then peel that contact paper off. So it looks like the sun shining from behind the moon when it's totally eclipsed. So those are a couple of simple craft activities that we'll be doing. And then our friends of the library group is going to be providing a free lunch for everyone in attendance. And it's going to be sun themed. So we're having hottest the sun dogs. Sunny delight and then especially Eclipse Sunday. We're going to have the little Sunday cups with the ice cream and then we'll put a little Oreo cookie over the top of that. Yes, a themed lunch. And then after lunch we will have our parking lot right outside of our library blocked off to traffic. So everybody can move outdoors and it's bring your own chairs, bring your own blankets, and people can set out there and set up camp and we'll have some outdoor activities as well. Some sidewalk, chalk, some bubble. The main event of course is going to be watching the total solar eclipse. We did receive a grant with some free eclipse glasses. So everyone who attends the event will be able to protect their eyes with those special solar eclipse glasses. So that's pretty important. And we did make sure as well to let everyone know that children cannot come unattended. They do have to have their parents with them and parents are responsible for making sure that their children's eyes are covered because safety is of utmost importance. And we also reached out to our local daycare centers and invited them to come to the library for this event. And we did have at least one who's going to bring a few children and teachers to the library to watch the solar eclipse. And then we also have one program that we are pretty excited about leading up to the eclipse on the Thursday evening before on August 17th. We are having a professor from our local university which is Concordia University and he's going to come and do a presentation about the eclipse, why eclipses are important, why this one is so special and also do some safety information as well for that. We're excited about that. The other little things that we're doing, we're doing some outreach to some local civic groups and going there to their meetings and talking about the eclipse and talking about eye safety and protection, giving them some glasses. So we're doing some outreach programs as well. Wow, very cool. Thank you so much Megan. We really appreciate all of that. And great examples of how a community can come together with their library to promote not only the library and the community but the event itself. And I love your ideas. All very creative. Yeah, thank you. Thank you so much for sharing all of that with us. You're welcome. Well, next, I think we'll hear from Shelly Rodriguez here who is in the studio with us from Lincoln City Libraries and good morning Shelly. And thank you again so much for being with us this morning. So I'm going to have you do the same thing that I asked of Megan. We're going to talk about planning of the event and activities going into this and then talk about the activities and the events themselves. Okay, you want to go to your slides? Yes. I can get a skateboard around and keep it there. There we go. So hi guys, my name is Shelly. I work at Lincoln City Libraries at the Bennett Martin Public Library, our downtown branch. So we heard about a grant probably four or five months ago. And it was administered by Starnet Libraries and the funding came through NASA at my library. I think there was maybe one library in Nebraska. They got the full three. Actually two. They got the full NASA at my library grant. And we got the smaller one, which we are so happy with because we got eclipse glasses to give out to people. So that was our starting point in our incentive to plan some programming. We also did not, we can't really do on the day programming as much because school is in session. And I was doing the planning for eight different branches. So it needed to be something that could move around between the different branches. It would be easy to replicate. So what we're doing is prepare for the solar eclipse at Lincoln City Libraries. People who attend our prepare for the eclipse events, which are aimed mostly at families will be able to pick up the eclipse glasses. And the way we're doing it is through a passport system. So we will start everybody out together and then we'll sleep off stations on their passport. What we'll do with this is that everyone will get the safety information that they need through videos, through printed materials to make sure that on the day of the actual eclipse they are safe and everybody's eyes make it all the way through. So here are some of the resources that I used in preparation for the event. Starnet Libraries obviously is where we got the grant for our eclipse glasses. So they've got an Eclipse Resource Center and a list of webinars that are really very useful both for people planning events and just so that your frontline staff will have an idea of how to answer questions that they get about the eclipse. We also have on there eclipse.aas.org resources, images, videos, which is free images that you can use it any promotional materials and also videos that have safety information as well as information just about what's happening during the eclipse. So we've got a lot of organizations in Lincoln that are doing a lot of things on the day of the eclipse. We decided to go so that it would be easy to replicate our experts comes from the videos on this website so that we can get people expert information and easily bring it to all of our branches. We also had the next three resources are actually ones that were recommended to us by Zach Thompson over at the Newland Planetarium. He's been absolutely awesome as a person resource to get us in the right places. So the first one is the Night Sky Network and we do have a couple places nearby here in Lincoln that are members of the Night Sky Network. And of course they're not coming to mind immediately right now. And then after that, the Visions of the Future link actually gives some really awesome art pieces that are based on not just the eclipse but also solar phenomena in general if you wanted to do some decoration for your events that kind of thing. And then spaceplace.nasa.gov. Zach Thompson recommended that one as a resource which is ongoing. They send out things for display throughout the year once a month. And also through our grant we were recommended to send people places and I have had to send several people to this already. If you need discount eclipse glasses in bulk for educational purposes, you can go to eclipsediscount.com or thousandoakoptical.com. I will warn you as we're ramping up for this, places are selling out eclipse glasses. Sooner or the better you can get to eclipse glasses. And you have to be careful. I saw a library or some group post it in mind. You have to be careful where you get them from. There are some that if you don't get them from these known places, they're not necessarily safe. Companies, organizations getting them from China or something is mentioned is not yet they're trying to cash in on this. So go to a place that is recommended by NASA. Just to get them from not just from anywhere on Amazon where you might be able to find them. Do we want to talk about what we're doing with the glasses? We have that at the end. Alright, let's go on to the next one here. This is just a rundown of my general program plan. I'm sorry, I don't have very many pretty pictures of mine. This is all probably a process. So the beginning of the program is all of us gathering to watch a video and talk about what an eclipse is and explain about our stations that are coming up. This is really our opportunity to make sure that people are getting the safety information that they need before we hand them their eclipse glasses and drop them out on the street. Then everybody will have the chance to go to different stations. I am definitely more of the A in scheme person. So there are some more art type things in this. Our eclipse theatrical, the kids are going to get a chance to act out what actually happens during an eclipse. There's a nice script going that we will talk about specific points of what happens during the eclipse during each step of this. They'll get to act it out. Some kids will be planetary bodies and other kids will get to stand as if they are on the earth and watch what happens. We will also have a pinhole viewer station. So basically I've been collecting boxes for months and months and I still can't work properly because the response has been crazy. Everybody is going to get a chance to build a pinhole viewer. I have a backup resource that I will show in just a minute that also has to do with pinhole viewer. Then we're going to have a coloring station. The eclipse dragon is a resource that I found from NASA. It's basically an explanation of historically in China how people view the eclipse. If that's a natural hotline, be sure to put on it to open it up and show it out. Let's do the coloring if you want to. We'll do the second view. We trust it. It's from NASA. The kid escaped from the seat but just came up separately. That's probably there, yeah. Okay, yeah. You can make it full screen if you want to on the top there. Okay, so this is the eclipse dragon. It's kind of a fun looking little guy. There are some facts on the handout and then kids will get a chance to color the eclipse dragon and take it home with them. This is pretty basic. We're trying to make sure that you have activities which are accessible to kids of all ages. And I love the cultural connection. Yes, that's very unique and totally wonderful. And let me see here. People in China thought that solar eclipse happened when a giant dragon swallowed the sun. That's the origins of this. Are you going to swallow this up? Finish out. I should be able to go to the right side. The last thing I'm going to do is some self led activities. So the yardstick eclipse is an activity that we got through our star net grants. You have a yardstick on one end is a tiny, tiny bead that represents the moon. And then on the other end is a slightly larger bead which represents the earth. You get to see exactly how the eclipse would happen by moving the yardstick. The sun and moon size experiment is a little bit of the same thing but it's in a much larger format. So I've got big yellow plates and then tiny little coins. And the kids are going to get a chance to walk off the distance so that they can get more of an idea of sort of how an impressive distance is going to be in exactly the right position. And when it's actually a concrete thing like that they're likely to understand. That's the hope. Yeah, they have to be involved in it and they'll be a little bit more understanding that. And then I've got a matching activity which is through NASA and it is accessible through a resource list called how big, how far, how old, how hot. I sort of adjusted it to make it more accessible outside of a classroom setting. There's 10 in each section in how big, how far, how hot, how old. And kids will get a chance to see if they can organize either planetary bodies or it's like meteors, the sun, the top of the lightning bolt, that kind of thing into the correct order. And then open up an envelope and say, oh, you're right, or here's how things are different that you might not have expected. And also we'll have the video education area with some of those videos that were available through our free resources link and some that are available through Starnet. Playing on a loop so that people can sit and hang out and learn a little bit more that way too. Our passport will work by people marking off three of the five stations and once they've done 305 then they can stop by the front desk and get their eclipse glasses. But the safety information at the beginning is not optional. Everybody has to do the safety intro. Very cool. And one last thing that I will show you before we go here. Okay, so this was one of the free resources also from NASA. It's an eclipse viewing card and all I did was adjust it so that the card is on a full sheet instead of a half sheet. You punch a hole in the center and then the bottom of the sheet is your white parts and you can hold one part in front of the other. And that way if we run out of stuff for pinhole viewers and or if we run out of like a sense of life in a hole viewer. It is. So you just face away from the eclipse and hold it and wait until that safe time to look at the eclipse which is only then about a minute and a half. It is a lesson that you might get at 14. Yeah. Want to say? Yes. What a great idea for an alternate with the eclipse glasses. And helps create a single sheet. We always have paper at the library. Great idea. Well, thank you so much. We really appreciate hearing what the cities is doing. Awesome. Thank you again for being with us this morning. Well, as we kind of wind down towards the second half and last quarter of our program here today. I did want to present some more ideas to escape. Some more ideas about what people in Nebraska are and what libraries in Nebraska are doing for the eclipse. And we've heard from Megan from a smaller library setting and a smaller community. And what they're doing, you know, to work together and from Shelley and from a larger library setting and what they're doing, you know, as well as some of the things that Lincoln is doing as community. And so I wanted to touch on some other activities that are happening around the state. For example, in Beatrice, the public library there is hosting a special Saturday family story time a week before the eclipse. You know, to kind of educate families and children as to, you know, what all, what all an eclipse is about, as well as, you know, pass on other activities that are going on. And they worked as a community with Homestead National Monument, which is very close to Beatrice. Homestead National Monument has activities going all day, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday of the eclipse. With special guests, Dr. Amy and friends from the PBS kids show Ready Jet Go, which I thought was pretty impressive by itself. They also have the Planetary Society's Bill Nye. Bill Nye and the Science Guy is going to be at the Homestead. And when I looked up, entrance to Homestead is free and all of the activities for that weekend are going to be free and open to the public. So just a little FYI there. And another part of the stay at Grand Island, which is almost exactly in the direct center of the path of the eclipse. They are also, the public library there is also working with the community rather than being the center of the focus. The public library recently hosted a presentation about the eclipse by a speaker from the Hastings Museum. So they tapped into their local resources to bring someone in, you know, to talk about the eclipse. Stern Museum of the Prairie Pioneer, also out towards Grand Island, that day is going, the day of the eclipse, August 21st, is going to be free and open to the public the entire day with many activities planned for the whole day before, during, which is the viewing, obviously. And then after the event. So gates open at 8 o'clock and activities start at 9 o'clock, end at 4 o'clock. But they have lots of things going on out there for the eclipse that day. And then, well, sort of Lincoln libraries have demonstrated what they're doing individually as well as part of the community. Beatrice and Grand Island are just two examples of how libraries and communities are coming together even more. So just lots of different ways that libraries and communities and organizations, whether it's your astronomy club or the local museums, the local colleges, the local high school, say your science teacher, you know, do a presentation, all can come together to do events and programs and activities around this type of event. Using local talent and resources to educate the public, as well as promote the libraries, the local culture, the communities. And, you know, let people know that these are places that you can go to find out more about it. So which I think is really cool. And then last, but certainly not least, and Shelley has actually touched on some of these, I wanted to touch on internet resources that everyone can access, you know, for not only the eclipse, but for these types of events. And she didn't mention StarNet, but I'm going to start with StarNet here. This is the StarNet website. And when you go there right now, there for a while, this wasn't the main thing, but practically the first thing that comes up when you go to StarNet is about the eclipse. And that if you go to eclipse. Oh, sorry. Well, what I was trying to get to is there is a whole section in StarNet for resources. And once you find the resources page, it will talk about the eclipse resources. And as Shelley mentioned earlier, there are videos that you can use. There are paper resources that you can print out for your library. Pictures, publications that you can get information for from upcoming events there. Yeah, there it is. Okay. Yeah, 2017 solar eclipse and it should come up with all the resources, you know, that you can access with this. That's all free. And there are lists of hands-on activities, educational resources, and this is what I was trying to say, not very well. Books and articles, videos, webinars, eclipse websites that they link to, and ways that you can partnership with other organizations in your community. All kinds of awesome material. So that's why I was saying earlier that this is one of the best resources for the eclipse. There's motion materials created by fellow librarians. Yes, absolutely. Yeah, so you know, you can see what your fellow librarians have considered, you know, the important things or what they've accessed the most. Yeah, so, and there are Spanish resources there as well if you need them. And so great resource for accessing information about the eclipse, you know, for your activities and programs. NASA is the other one. And Shelley also mentioned NASA at my library, and they got a small piece of the grant for eclipse grant classes. Wilson Public Library in Cozad, Nebraska, got a full scholarship or a full grant, and then I believe Chevron Public Library was the second one that got a full grant, you know, for NASA at my library for materials for this. So, let's see if I can bring up their resources. NASA's eclipse site, that's it. Yeah, and again, this is information about the different types of eclipse. Lunar, in this particular case solar for our event in 2017, and then if you click on the information here on the right, it will take you to their entire Eclipse Across America page with the information about the science, information about safety, how you can include the public in your programming, education, and various events. So, again, another great internet resource. So, and they also have videos and images, interviews with scientists, which I thought was really kind of cool. Downloadables, again, things that you can download and print, apps that you can use for the eclipse, a press kit for promoting your events, and all kinds of great resources. And then, more Nebraska specific, I kind of stumbled on this one. I don't know why I didn't come across this one originally, but essentially what it's doing is a countdown, 26 days, two hours, 10 minutes, and three seconds from now, but at different places across the state. And I actually found this by accident. I was normally going to things like NASA and official sites here. And I was trying to find where's the official eclipse in the United States site, and I'm not really, I think there is some American eclipse or something, but then this came up and I was looking for things in Nebraska. Yes. And it's a few of the cities that are having a really good group together. Yes. To share their resources across the state. I think it's really cool. Yes, that is very true. And so if you click on a particular city, then it lets you know where you can go for information, and it says, let us be your tour guide, and takes you where you can get information as to what's going on in your area of the state. So I thought that was great. Now, Kristi, you just mentioned what I think is probably the great American eclipse. Yes. And I think that's where it is. Yeah. Yeah. Now, this is the one of the first ones that I came across after StarNet. And again, it has some great resources, best places to see the eclipse, the maps, eclipse visitors and traffic. Also, like Shelley mentioned, quality eclipse merchandise. Yeah. Get the things that are safe to use, you know. I love the t-shirt. Glow in the dark t-shirt. Yes. Yes, absolutely. Yeah. So it's a really fun website with a lot of information, and like under totality, best places to view, basics, facts of the day, the maps were great. I ended up using a couple of maps for various blog posts that I did here at the commission about the eclipse, talking about various resources, and so just a wealth of information here. So anyway, that's pretty much all I have this morning. And I wanted to thank Shelley again, and to thank everyone. One last thing to mention. Thank you very much. Yes. The Nebraska Library Commission did receive a grant, actually, just like somewhere to get them. Yes, yes. Mary Jo Ryan here at this commission applied and received 3,000 eclipse glasses to be distributed to libraries across the state, but mainly to the Nebraska Library systems. So if you are a library in Nebraska, who already has programs planned for the eclipse, contact Mary Jo Ryan here at the commission or your library system director, whether it's the western mid planes, central, western central planes, southeast and three burgers. So those are our four library systems. They either already have glasses or will receive them soon from us. And these are specifically for libraries that have programs planned related to the eclipse. Yes, already. So you already have some sort of planning, programming in place. I believe that's some sort of a requirement from where we got them from. Yes, that is correct. So if you are Nebraska contact your systems. Yes. And see if they have them three rivers. I'm delivering their systems next week. Their systems lessons next week after annual meeting on August 4th. It's correct. So if you're attending the meeting, you may be able to come some there or after that, a Negro marriage will happen. Yes. I think all the other systems have somehow gotten there already. Yes. The other three have gotten theirs. Yes, because they are distributing. Yeah. But just remember, supplies are limited. Yes, we only have 3,000. Yes. And if you think of 3,000 as being a lot, but when it comes to all the libraries across the state, it's not a lot. So we have to distribute them. So bigger populations. Exactly. So one thing that I just one thing that I had thought of too, to mention is that, you know, we're all planning these wonderful events. And we're hoping for good weather. But it's not a clap. And we can, you know, fully take advantage of this, but NASA on their website, they are going to have a live stream that shows the eclipse. And so if for some reason we do have bad weather and we can't go outside and watch it ourselves, we can show that on the big screen in our library. Yes. That is a great reminder. Megan, thank you very much. Now, I do understand just from basic reading that we have about a 75% chance of good weather, clear weather that we can see. I kept looking to like checking the farmers almanac to see what they predict for what should be on that day. And I don't know. Yeah. And that was just yesterday that I saw that number. So hopefully, you know, Yes. As we get closer to that number will increase, but, you know, predictions at the moment, it looks like that 75%, which is actually pretty good. But thank you everyone for joining us this morning for this. And thank you for having us. Does anybody have any questions or anything you want to know more about? I think we covered a lot. Yes. So that people had as great ideas. We still have about five minutes. Does anybody have anything cool or interesting or different you're doing at your libraries that you want to share with us? Type into your webinar interface and we can let you look at some more ideas of where places to go to do cool things. Got about 20 libraries online today with us today, so that's pretty cool from all across the city. And if you don't let us know here on income is live right now, what it is you're doing at your libraries, send me an email and let me know what you're doing. And I will be glad to pass that on. You still have some more questions. I want to do one more blog post. I did a series of blog posts about the eclipse starting about a month ago, maybe six weeks ago. And each one was divided up into different types of things, you know, related to the eclipse, but I'm going to do one more. And I do want to promote, you know, continually what libraries are doing. So my email is mary.sours at Nebraska.gov and feel free to drop me a line and I would love to hear from you. She mentioned before you go. One thing is libraries have access to a 3D printer in their building or anywhere else. NASA has three printables for pinhole viewers in the shape of Nebraska with half of the total. Oh, that's awesome. That's awesome. I wanted to have you so far for crisis. Oh, very cool. Three weeks into here. Well, it doesn't look like anybody's typing anything in now. That's cool. Anything else? Any last words? Be safe. Yes. Definitely. Definitely go out and take part in the activities and and the viewing. Awesome. All right. Thank you. Thank you very much, Mary and jelly and thank you. That will wrap it up for today's show. The show has been recorded as usual and will be posted on our website. Which so far in the world and compass live. We're the only thing called income slide. So if you Google that, you come up with us. Very, very convenient. Yes. It will be available here on our website. There are upcoming shows, but here's where our archives all go. We have the top list of most recent ones always are close to the top of the recording. I'll link to the presentations that both Mary and Shelly had here. See that all those links that they mentioned there. And then the links that. The couple that Mary is posting on here will include those as well. So you can get to them quickly. Should have the recording up and ready to this afternoon. As long as YouTube cooperates with the uploading and processing of it. And I will email everyone who attended. I'll be attended today and anybody who registered today. It's for days. You'll get an email letting me know. Letting you know that it's available as we post it. Probably also to our website. So that will wrap it up for today's show. Hope you join us next week. Our topic is connecting students to courses, experts in a virtual field trips. This is a session that's actually done up in the southeast library system area. They did a teacher's training day. Library media specialist training day, so that's our schools. And this is a session that was very popular and was requested to have. People who couldn't attend. So we'll put it on the show. So we'll learn about doing virtual online courses. So we'll learn about doing virtual online courses. So we'll learn about doing virtual field trips, the online resources to bring students, bring more information to the students. Nebraska has a great distance learning association. 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