 Good morning and welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. I am your host, Christa Burns Porter. Soon it'll just be Porter doing a transition thing here. Transition time. Here's the rest of the library commission. Encompass Live is Commission's weekly online event, webinar, webcast, online show. We're here live every Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. central time, but if you are unable to join us on Wednesdays that's fine. We do record the show every week and we post it to our website and I'll show you where that is at the end of today's show. We post the recording of the show to our YouTube account. If there's any slides as there is with today's show, those will be included as well so you can look at them afterwards and any links that are mentioned, any websites that are mentioned, will have collected into our delicious accounts. You have that all available in one place afterwards. 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And you get suggestions from librarians in the field too, about programs. So that's always fun to do something because somebody brings it up. Absolutely, and we have obviously we do things from the New Mexico Library Commission staff as we have today, but we also bring in guest speakers from around Nebraska and outside the state too. I'm always scoping out and seeing what's going on in other areas of the country, what conferences people are presenting on what kind of topics. So yeah, and I do get people to contact me and say I have an idea for a show or I'd like you to explain more about this thing that I don't know about. Sometimes I say well you know you're doing that so you should be on the show. You never know what happened if you contacted me. It could end up any way. Having to be one of our presenters. But today like I said we actually have a mixture I should have said. We have library commission staff and we have some librarians out in the field here in Nebraska that are on remotely with us this morning. Today we're talking about the our Nebraska's library internship grant program which has been doing for quite a few years and whenever we have money we like to have interns. That's the key yeah. And Mary Jo Ryan and Joanne McManus are here from library commission with me and they're going to talk all about the program and then on the line as I said we've got four librarians from across Nebraska that have been involved in it both from the library bringing in the intern and people who are actual interns and now I've actually been success stories and have jobs and we'll introduce them as we get to them throughout the show. So I'll just hand over to you guys. Great. Great. And Joanne to take it away. Thank you Krista. Joanne you want to start by talking about some of the goals of the project or? I mean and I also want to talk about our funding source. We are using funds from our library services and Technology Act funds through IMLS and so we always want to thank them as well. Yes, absolutely. But we do have goals and these pretty much are the same goals that we've had throughout our internship grants. We do want to involve our students in real library work and introduce them to the very exciting work of libraries and even though they can be doing some mundane tasks too we do we want to make it exciting so certainly if we're going to be using this as a recruitment tool we would like libraries to give them some projects that they can really sink their teeth into. I mentioned recruitment tool I think this is a very good way to introduce students to the work of libraries and give them a flavor of how this really can be a viable career opportunity for them. And so while they're in your libraries make sure they have an understanding of the library operations, the role of technology, you know budgets, even though they might not be working in all of those areas or even many of those areas you do want to give them an overview and that's one of our goals. And then of course to provide students with financial assistance obviously it's hard to get them to work for free and so obviously the grants will go far to give them a salary when they're there at the library. So the basics for the grant program a library or a branch of the library can get up to $1,000 and we are committing $25,000 statewide and what's nice about this particular grant is that no matching funds are required so you can get an intern pay them the thousand dollars for their work there. If you want to have them work longer and throw in some extra money you can but that certainly isn't required and we don't even if you do want to pay them more than the thousand dollars we don't even ask that in the in the grant application so we do not look at that at all in our criteria. It does need to be a credited public library so if you're a public library in Nebraska and are not accredited you do not qualify however that's a good reason to get accredited and there's a lot of other good reasons to be accredited as well. And also we really want to encourage libraries that are not accredited either that are public and not accredited or that are college libraries or school libraries you can partner with a public library that is accredited. You would both have to work together on the plan and both have to work together with the intern but the intern could work in more than one facility. The applicant has to be an accredited public library. That's correct and the funding goes towards either stipends that you give directly to the intern or wages and and of course the benefits or taxes that go along with that if you actually hire the intern most more than half of our libraries do it through a stipend so you don't have to worry about those taxes but that funding is not to be spent on any other things other than money that is going directly to the intern. We do have eligible interns outlined in our our website and really it does have to be either high school or college students and that could be grads or undergrads but it does have to be students high school or higher. They and then there's some stipulations you cannot interns that are paid through this grant can ever be have been employed by a library before or never interned at a library. However if they are your current or past volunteers or other libraries they in they or a volunteer at other libraries there's no restrictions against that. And this is probably a good time to say that to remind you all that if you have questions as we're talking or as our other presenters our remote presenters are talking please just feel free to type right in the chat box because we Krista is monitoring that so we can interrupt and and deal with questions right at the time when you're interested in finding out some information. Yeah anything you want to know more about any of these rules, restrictions, guidelines. And it was funny I was talking to one of our libraries this year after her experience and she said that their intern was so good that they are going to hire their intern again next summer and so they won't be getting a grant because obviously our grant won't be able to pay for their interns since they were already an intern and I says well that's fine that you hire that intern back but why not still get a grant and bring on another intern. And get somebody else trained yeah beautiful that's a huge success story isn't it? Right. Our deadline is December 21st so you have close to two months left to apply so definitely get that on your calendar if you're interested. We will make our grant an award announcement on February 2nd so you'll find out right in you'll find out fairly soon and then on March 8th put that on your calendar if you're applying we will have another webinar and this is really going to be talking more about successful internships what to do to actually get ready for that internship so tune into that as well and then as far as the internship window if you get a grant those interns could be in your library working any time as early as March 15th of the coming year and as late as November 30th so you have quite a window to have your intern come in. A lot of people get them over the summer but really if you're working on a special project maybe summer might not be the best time because that is a busy time for you. Do you want to mention briefly the expectations of the library? It's the library staff that actually recruits and selects the interns we don't say here's a intern for you obviously if we're here of someone who's interested we'll pass that name along but really that is the library's duty. You need to provide an orientation to library work that's very broad so even though that intern may be only working in one or two areas you still want to give them an orientation that tells them a little bit about everything that goes on the library. Obviously the intern supervisor is going to be assigning and overseeing those tasks and duties again it can be a wide range of duties or very specific tasks need to track the interns hours and activities make sure you complete the assessments in a timely manner and then at the very end the library director needs to attest to how the grant funds were expanded because eventually our auditor will come in and say well what they do with that $1,000 and we'll say well library director said they spent an odd dollar. So that covers our needs. We do not only does the library the library staff fill out some surveys at the end of the internship but the interns also do follow-up surveys and so and I love these quotes you have here because these are fabulous Joanne because these are actual things that these actual students did and I just I think they're fantastic. Right right and so when we asked our library supervisors what are some of the things that your interns did they of course sent in some great things and we only have a few to share but the one I like about that first one is that Anthony not only worked to understand their website but then they taught the library. I love that. So keep that in mind not everything that you give to the intern has to be something that you're good at. Maybe you're not good at something and you need some help and you can find an intern that can help you out in that way. So but a lot of people worked on websites Haley research the feasibility of switching to a non-duy call system so that was something the library didn't have time and the intern was able to do that. A lot of them do activities shaped planned up and hosted a murder mystery night for the library. Lila was given a task to plan to start a reading club and so she really went beyond the call of duty and came up with all kinds of facets that would go along with that. A lot of the library staff the interns are doing flyers and other marketing materials. Caden actually planned classes for the 3D printer in the library and I think that was not only the classes were successful but it really helped the staff to learn more about that 3D printer and then a lot of the interns are also doing classes on computer classes and other things. Oh there's more. Oh there is more. Yes. Read it before it becomes a movie display. Yeah displays and exhibits that's something that students can sometimes really dig their teeth into. Right. Right. And then Ali had done a genealogy introduction workshop to students to students who are in grades two through five. Riley worked on some STEM activities every Saturday morning for the youth in a special reading program. Haley also organized two fun programs who games and nursery rhyme Olympics and sometimes these the students since they're younger than your typical librarian out there really get into those fun activities with kids. Cold research maker spaces and actually recommended some purchases and they actually made those purchases. So and he also came up with a Pokemon Go safari walk and of course that was new and interesting and maybe something that the librarian would have thought of because obviously the kids are following those type of things. Right. And and maybe not necessarily adults. That's great. And and then use them for things that just come up for instance. I just love this one. I mean here it is the summer reading program presenter didn't show up here the student steps in and fix fix the summit and put something together and figures out what to do. Right. And great. And probably the library staff wouldn't have had time. It would be too busy to switch gears and think of something because you weren't you know you're working with all kinds of customers and so it's nice having that extra person that can maybe come up with a great idea at the last minute. I really liked what they did in one community where she came up with a couple programs for summer reading and one was an actual they used historical material that was found in the library but they actually did field trips around town and they interviewed people in the community and and I just it was just something that I thought was very interesting and a lot of them are using the interns on youth programming and that's a very good fit for most of those interns. And and I think it's important what that this person says here is that they're good role models for youth volunteers. Right. We've seen a lot in the marketing area. We had a bi-weekly flyer, a new bi-monthly newsletter, again another activity in neighborhoods. Gavin Gerhunt and this was for the homeschool book club. Yeah so that's interesting to kind of think about when you're thinking about your student that you want to have a student intern think about what target audiences you might want that student intern to work with. Like I noticed in one of the previous slides they worked with the teen advisory group. Here they're talking about working with the homeschoolers so you might have you might want to be thinking in terms of target audiences as well as what you want them to do. Right. So these are the kinds of things they do, huh? Right. Just a bunch of you know a list of things that they've that we've seen done. This one is just a little bit of everything and then the next page really focuses on the technology and kids are so good with technology anymore that certainly if you're not on Facebook or Twitter or Instagram that's a good place to get interns working and even if you are they kind of know what the kids are interested in. They can really help you take a more planned approach to your social media because if you talk through with them about what kinds of things you maybe want to do each week of their internship they can have a planned approach how they'll use social media each week to promote and share information about different things instead of I see a lot of social media where there's a lot of the same thing every week because that's what we're thinking about we're thinking about the new books in the library so on the social media new books in the library new books in the library that's great but these young people can help us think about what else to plan each week and what other activities we might want you to highlight. Now the application is very similar is actually exactly like last time other than the dates have been changed so we're asking in that grant application we're asking for the reason of participation your underlying meeting or opportunity in your library why you need an intern the anticipated benefits to the students the library and the community so we're looking for all of that we ask you to actually list your projects and activities that you're going to ask your intern to do and while it is we know that there is a lot of work that needs to be done that isn't so fun like cleaning and organizing and whatnot we are looking for projects and activities that really give them a good experience because since we're using this as a recruiting tool if they spent the whole summer cleaning the library that's probably not going to score very well not that it doesn't have to be done just a variety of tasks and some of them we'd like them to be pretty substantive right we do ask you to describe your preliminary orientation plan because we would like to see that you are going to orient them to the work of the library and we do ask that you put in a tentative timeline when you think you're going to do recruiting key milestones you know are you hiring them for the summer now we do stress that that's a tentative timeline certainly after you get your grants you don't have to say oh gee I said we're going to hire somebody in May and have them start working on June 1st and now because of this we want to do it at different time that is really not a problem we just want to get have you give that some thought in advance and I'm going to show you real quick where you can find that information if you want to go back and go through everything again that we're talking about here's the library commission website which I know you're familiar with nlc.nebraska.gov we go over here to now hiring at your library jobs careers now hiring and then right across here on the fly up menu you can see internships let's go there and that's where you'll find all the information that we're talking about all the dates all the deadlines how to hook up with the application forms all that kind of and that and the grant application is on there as well right and if you have any trouble using that grant application just give me an email and and we will get something else out to you that will work for you it is a competitive process so we do read the applications and we score them so certainly keep that in mind as you're filling out that application we do get more applications and then we have funds so it is a competitive process and on our website it it has all these things that we are looking for and that we use as criteria we do encourage partnership projects so if you have a partnership project with schools academic or others other public libraries or special libraries we encourage that and there's even an opportunity if you're planning any field trips to list those in your application as well and it's kind of nice to expose the interns to other types of libraries or if you're a real small library that may be visit a larger library where they can see maybe some other things that are happening at some libraries that might not be happening. We've gotten good feedback from the interns on their review reviews of the travels and field trips they really have enjoyed that. I want to point out that when we talk about the needs of the library when we talk about anticipated benefits and outcomes of the internship we're talking about not just the benefit to the library not just the need of the library but benefit to the intern benefit to the community needs of the library needs of the community as well so how does this fit with your for example the needs that you identified with your strategic planning process that would be very important information for us or what kind of benefits do you think will the community will have based on the work that your interns going to do. Right and on all the questions in the grant application sometimes you answer questions one and two and then when you get to three you go well I really already answered that and two if if it's asking you something in that on that third page you might want to even though you said it before you might want to say it again because if all the reviewers are looking to score that thing by looking at that question they might have forgotten that you just said a little bit about that on the page. Now we do try to find that in your applications but make it easy for the reviewers to give you points since they are looking at lots of applications at the same time. Right here is the website the Mary Jo just showed you and and that web page has all of this information overviews the goals the eligible applicants the grant amounts past recipients so certainly if you have any questions you probably can get it answered by looking at that web page but certainly if you have questions and you can't find the answer give us a call. We do have before we go on to a question that came in and I think you did mention someone wants to know if you can someone had trouble with the audio at the very beginning they were kind of popping in and out. I don't know if you could review how the money can be used if that was something that was sure that's in the beginning yeah very beginning. Right the funds can only be used to actually pay the intern so either providing the intern with a stipend or a salary and associated taxes that go along with that so if you are doing a field trip it can unfortunately it cannot be used for you know the travel expenses. So if you had to buy equipment or things like the ones that did the makerspaces and the actual robots and whatnot the money can't go for that material and equipment just for the person. Yeah it's only a thousand dollars so that's not a lot of money and so if you really want to have time with that intern it's really goes directly to that intern or if you're doing a salary and need to withhold taxes then you can spend it on that as well. So it's very clear here in this part of the website about the fact that you get a certain amount of money no matching funds are required and it can only be used for direct funds to the intern although you can do it whatever way works best in your community either as a stipend or you can actually put them on salary if that works better for you whatever works best in your community. And we do have our speakers coming up but after our speakers if we have time we do have slides on great survey results and stats from our 2016 program quotes from other librarians and quotes from interns as well. But now we're going to turn it over to our guest speakers because we want to make sure we don't run out of time and they because we do want to hear from them. The first one is Karen Drivo. She's the Youth Services Librarian at the Norfolk Public Library. Karen are you there? I am good morning. Karen we're having a little bit of audio problem. Okay can you hear me? I can you got a little echo. It's just are you I can't remember do you have a headset microphone or no desk is it built into the computer? Well we can hear you. It's plugged into the computer. Okay it is noisy out here I know I'm out of my glass I'm sorry but we had laughed at this morning. You okay go ahead. Okay last year we targeted I'll talk first about our internet application and interview process that we used. What I did was I contacted the guidance counselors at our three local high schools and told them that we were looking for young adults ages 16 to 18 who were considering a library career and asked them to steer any students that they knew fit that criteria our direction and we had about 10 students who filled out applications here at the library that they could pick up and of the applicants we selected for to interview and it was for I think every one of the students that we interviewed or that I interviewed it was the first time they had ever interviewed for anything and so it was good experience for them and we selected a young woman who was 16 at the time from one of our local high schools she had indicated strongly in her application that she is interested in a library career and that she also had a strong desire to return to Northeast Nebraska when she completes her education so that that excited us and she turned out to be for us and she did such amazing work for us and was just such a great that I believe this summer we are going to have an opening for a long time this is not likely to be during this next summer and we would hire our past intern and a heartbeat to come summer if that's the way things pan out well that's great isn't it it is it is very excited and and hopefully get another intern for next summer it might be have a past intern for us the intern to see and share experiences with as well now a couple it we learned that our intern was very interested in sports and very athletic so we on Friday morning summer here at the library of our Friday morning activity and we have so she indicated she had a strong interest in helping with that so I had a few things on Pinterest organizing games and her Olympics so she was in charge of two of our Friday morning programs and we had over 300 show up for the games and we had them we had it organized to be completely outside and she organized all the games and had assigned to work games and the flow going and and it worked out great did you have to buy 300 hoops there were all kinds of things that they do with them different activities where they try to get them inside the different each station I think they're about a dozen stations that she had set up where it could do something different at each one and then we had a day a Friday morning of nursery rhyme Olympics where we had diddle-diddle dumpling socks and Jack and Joe water relay and several other and just to show the place under fire this young lady had the morning this was scheduled to it was raining outside so we had to go away and restage everything to be inside the library we could and also we had several and we were gone that day so she handled it all just great and everybody had a good time so that was very successful and I think it really gave a boost to her confidence to see that she could pull these things and that all these people would come out and participate and enjoy them so that was wonderful to see also just a little bit about how we had our time scheduled what I did was I worked with our circulation department our reference department our technical services our admin department and outreach to schedule specific times where she would have time in each one of those departments to learn about the library and she even got to go out with our outreach library to and help us select and take items out to people with sister living in nursing homes or in their own homes who can't get out and I could she really was amazed by that experience and it's very and she also obviously spent a lot of time in our youth services department with those programs and help reading and also our literature festival that sounds great thank you and and you know Karen um I I'm not sure if it was you who mentioned it but I know as I was reading these comments from the librarians uh it was a lot of them who did have had a work with other staff um really thought that was very good and that it even kind of addressed to those other staff to take another look at what they're doing because if they're showing it off to an intern then they are looking at what they're doing and maybe you had mentioned that Karen and some of the others who only really worked with one staff did say that in the future they think they're going to have them work with more than one staff so um I know that Karen had no idea really what the role goes on behind the scenes at the library and uh I think it made her all the more interested in a library career I hope yeah well very good yeah I just want to give a couple of key takeaways that I got from what Karen was saying before we move on to Sharon but um I thought it was really important that she talked to guidance counselors at local schools I mean you can have a lot of good people out there that we would never hear about but the guidance counselors know about so and then I love that the student was going to return to northeast Nebraska that's a real plus and I think it's important that we let our communities know that we are doing things to keep our young people in our communities and I loved that Karen said they're planning to apply again so thank you Karen yeah thank you okay so our next speaker is Sherry Hestani from the Board Check Memorial Library in Wilbur and Sharon are you there I'm here yes thank you um just wanted to say good morning to everybody and I guess what I wanted to kind of visit with you about was the pre-planning that we did when we did had already picked our intern but just the pre-planning setting up our goals and projects and kind of gave me a timeline and some idea of what to do and what to get ready before the intern started and then our intern happened to start the first week of summer reading which is always an exciting time and we spent mostly that first week just orientating and getting into the library activities but as we got to know the intern we started working with her a little bit thought out she was very creative very artsy craftsy and very organized and got to sit down with her and the two of us kind of redid the outline redid the timeline and put it together so that it worked for both of us and found out that at home she did a little newsletter for her family that she posted in the bathroom every week so she started the same kind of a newsletter here at the library and posted it around with little quotes little ideas book reviews and people really responded well to it just something she jumped in and brought in one morning and it's been great she's still doing that for us now we also were in the process of doing our kids section and taking all of our books and putting them in topic bins for the children to find the books little easier again she jumped in with her art skills and created some labels for our bins and org to help organize that section a little better helped us go through and pick what books went where that type of thing and then she also helped us develop a newsletter which we did not have before and she's to this at this point is starting to expand it and improve the newsletter and it started out as a bi-monthly newsletter and it's now going to monthly newsletter which has been really exciting and that was one of my goals and one of my objectives when we looked into getting an internship Bridget is this year is a high school junior and is continuing to work part-time she comes in after school and on weekends and still working on some of the projects that we were working on this summer that didn't get completed we were updating a lot of barcodes and our accelerator reader information in our books so she's been still working on a lot of those kind of things I think one of the the neatest things I found with the internship besides getting a lot of things done that I could not have done by myself this summer was we were working on a project and visiting about high school and what she wanted to do and she went to college and and she said you know I wanted to go into marketing and graphic arts but she said I'm kind of thinking about this library thing and that was really exciting to me that she had put that on her her possible occupations in the future and even now when she's in here she'll say where do you go or what do you do to be a librarian and so we'll talk about some of those options which has been kind of a neat neat byproduct of the whole internship and it's a lot easier to talk about that now isn't it with all these online programs so that students can start getting their library credentials by doing an online program through the community colleges or they can work on online classes on a master's degree it's just really nice to know we have that option now well and she's as she's looking at colleges you know she'll come in and she'll say do you know they have a library program here and she said what other colleges could I go to and work you know through those four years and so we've been kind of doing a little research as to what colleges offer those programs and I have a daughter who is a vice president South Dakota State University and I was visiting with her about it and she said you know I'm going to talk to our curriculum department it can't be that hard to add that kind of a program to our you know for our students so I think it's not only working with the colleges that provide it but maybe visiting with some that don't because I don't think it's a hard program to get started and maybe something we can look at in the future well and how cool if this young person were to do a dual marketing and library degree because wouldn't that be a terrific set of skills to have both those skills as you go out into library work exactly when that would be fabulous wow yeah there's a lot of skills needed the technology part so I mean there's just a lot of combinations that people could go with and it's kind of fun to watch that internship develop over the summer and get some confidence in what she's doing and take hold of some of the activities and programs that's well that was real fun and it was nice that you you know now have a part-time employee out of the deal too boy no kidding that was one of my takeaways was that she was able to transition to be a part-time employee that's fantastic I also like that you mentioned that you did good planning in advance you pre-planned the timeline but you were able to adjust when the person came on you were able to adjust your timeline based on their skills and what needed to be done when and the first week of summer reading program and you know what all those things affect all the good pre-planning we do so thanks for reminding us that that's an important part of planning yes and we do get a lot of comments from the supervisors saying that it was really important to find out what the student really enjoyed doing and what their skills were because then you could adjust around those skills and and interests and get a lot better product if they're working on something that they're good at and just to remind the attendees that Sharon and Karen are still on the line so if you have questions for them please do just type them right in the chat box and we'll get them back up here to answer questions thank you Sharon okay thank you okay well we're going to switch over to Maggie Peterson she's an outreach specialist at who works for the Omaha Public Library she's actually housed at UNO's community engagement center we're working for the OPL and she interned and she had an internship through this grant program at the Millard branch back in 2012 so let's get your perspective Maggie and welcome to the world of libraries um yeah so I start oh Maggie we're gonna have to have you turn up we can't hear you can you get a little closer to your microphone can you hear me now you're still very quiet I am on a Mac so it's impossible to tell where the microphone actually is oh there oh there that's better now you're there you are okay okay I found it it's not where you'd expect it to be okay um so yeah I had my uh I had my internship in 2012 um and actually the round that I did uh there wasn't the requirement to still be a student I had actually graduated college and was looking to get my masters but I was kind of dragging my feet a little bit I didn't really know exactly what I wanted to do I had uh I bachelor's degrees in political science and English and I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do I was kind of wallowing in the world of freelance writing and bartending um yeah so um but uh my grandma uh was actually a librarian for Dana college for decades she retired from there um so librarianship was always something I had kind of in the back of my mind but I hadn't really given it serious thought um and one day when I was on my lunch break at one of those jobs a uh I was on Facebook and uh the little thing popped up that said OPL was going to be hiring interns I just really quickly just filled it out just thought well why not and then I actually got a call back and um I ended up getting the internship which was uh in all seriousness probably one of the best thing that's ever happened I'm interning at Millard was wonderful I was with Melanie Webb one of the teen librarians um and I was able to spend a lot of time helping plan teen programs which was uh terrifying from the outset because teenagers if you aren't used to them can feel terrifying but um once I was actually in there it was so fun and and so rewarding um with my English degree I was able to help plan a writers group um and then uh just kind of doing general teen programs doing some talent shows some crafts um helping do presenters and getting kind of used to that uh aspect of library but then also a lot of um desk work and just the the inner working so there were all things I had never been exposed to before because I had never done any kind of library work but I was really surprised how much I enjoyed it and how much I really liked it and when my internship was up at the end of July I also worked over the um summer reading program um right about the time it was wrapping up the OPL had a uh 10 hour a week position for somebody to come help do their after school club that would meet at five different OPS schools and I thought well why not and I kind of joked that I just slowly broke down their will over time until they made me a full-time employee but so it's like I started at 10 hours and we did this here and then I did this year and so I kind of just kind of worked my my way up doing other little jobs but um I'm hoping to actually start I'm not actually a librarian yet I'm hoping to start masters in the fall um but it's it's definitely open up a world I I don't think I would have gotten into if I hadn't had that internship I I don't know if I would have found librarianship on my own if I hadn't had this experience oh that's great Maggie well we do encourage you to go ahead and get your master's degree I will I'm definitely doing it it will open up lots of doors for you yeah okay well thank you so much uh our next speaker is Laura Trinen with she works at W. Dale Clark which is the main branch at Omaha Public Library and she interned at that same library so Laura hi uh good morning um yeah so like you were saying I interned at the W. Dale Clark branch um I was actually in the same class as Maggie uh and I wasn't sure what I wanted to do I I had also uh graduated college already uh with a British literature degree um I was just kind of working some full-time jobs wasn't sure where to go and then I thought I would take um there's a program through the Missouri uh Mizzou program where you can take like one or two classes of library school before you're actually in the program and so when one of those classes I was taking um two of the Omaha Public Library staff came into our class and actually talked about this internship program so um I thought it was a good way to see if I actually really wanted to work in a library um so I applied and I got in um and then so interning at the W. Dale Clark branch I actually was upstairs um on the fourth floor with the administration department um so my experience was a little different but um so I worked with Sarah English and Amy Mather who are the children's uh outreach coordinator and the adult outreach coordinator um which was nice so I got to see you know if I liked working with the children department better or the adult department um and turns out I'm more of a an adult librarian type um so with Amy uh we got to go around town working on SRP stuff because I started in June uh so we got to go to different um restaurants and you know different establishments uh to get SRP prizes for people who were uh going to win the reading program at the end of the summer um I also worked on poll quotes they were working on a thing for Twitter so I sat down with Edith Wharton's age of innocence and I worked on some poll quotes so we could put on our Twitter feed which was pretty cool um let's see I uh we got to go to different programs at different branches which was really neat for me to see because I hadn't really been to a lot of the different branches um so it's really great to see the different programs that each branch does for their own community um it was really good experience to kind of get to see and meet people and see what they do in their jobs um and other than that I did do some cleaning like you talked about earlier right I also worked on um some of the data entry for the zip codes for SRP just to kind of help get all their stuff in order um and I'm happy to say uh I'll find out on Friday but as long as I passed comps I should be graduating with my library masters this December oh congratulations Laura how wonderful what a great success story yeah so um are you working full-time now I'm sorry I didn't remember what Joanne said full-time at Omaha Public Library oh sorry um no I'm a part-time library specialist just while I finish up school then I'll be applying for a full-time very good well good luck to you thank you well thank you all and um if you have any questions out there those of you who are listening please do type your questions right in the chat box or else raise your hand and Krista will put your mic on instead of having it be muted you want to talk about some of the supervisor feedback I do and we're a little bit of time and we're going to go through this relatively fast so if you want to get online and look at the at all of these a little bit more closely in the future that'd be great yeah the slides will be online and you can take a look at these in detail right but um on this supervisor feedback I think one thing that always comes out is that planning is really important and then always going over those plans with your interns throughout is important as well and helpful um I think we'll just go on to the next one because we got quite a few well they mentioned technology everybody always mentions that the interns are great with technology usually right we did talk about that non-duicul system I think it's just really good you know there's so many students out there with really good technology skills read and you know they love being on the internet looking things up and so any research projects are always good for students yeah and they also I just clicked on to the next one but they mentioned that one of the supervisors mentioned that they were able to use the student to help get feedback back into the community into the business community about what goes on in the library and what the library has as a resource I thought that was good and what some of these quotes show is that really I think sometimes the librarian is kind of surprised at what quality of students they can really get this one says I was surprised at how well our intern fit in um you know she wishes that all public libraries had the benefit of having a young person come on board to help out uh fresh eyes we hear that all the time we hear that all the time to have people uh someone else looking at your processes this is an interns feedback oh yes these are interns um and so many of them say it's the most enjoyable the most the best experience the best job they've ever had um and then you know it it makes them think about what they're going to do when they go to college if they're in high school at the time um and so I think that's exciting a lot of them say this about how they really didn't know what was going on in the library and what they do for the community you're building an advocate and that advocate will go out and tell your story in the community right again this person was already very committed to librarianship but now they feel they're going to be more prepared and then we have some stats that we want to wrap we are ending with the stats right because we think we started with the story now here's some facts right in the 2016 internship program we did fund 26 libraries in total and that equated to 36 interns uh both Omaha and Lincoln four branches in each of those libraries were involved uh almost most of the libraries hired just a single intern for the thousand dollars but four of them did split that thousand dollars between two uh interns and um you know that has some challenges because you don't have as much money for each intern but yet you have two two eyes to look at things so I mean you know keep that in mind whether that is something that you might want to do or not um of the 36 interns five of them were male 31 were female uh when they answered their each of them took uh both a uh an initial baseline survey and then a survey at the end the interns and only two had indicated that they uh that their current major or their expected major for college was going to be in library science so it doesn't have you know you don't have to find that student that says yes I'm going into library science um but still we are we're recruiting them even if they don't have that in mind right now just like the student who is going maybe into marketing graphic design but maybe library science too that'd be a great combination they will end up being um advocates for your library libraries in general even if they don't decide to go into that as their own career sure they'll like um Megan and we're saying I didn't in one of those comments I didn't know what libraries did exactly now they do and they'll keep talking to it to all different did you have any idea and then we asked the supervisors at the end if their intern is staying on in any capacity fifth at their particular library 52 percent said no but 48 percent said yes they are going to be continuing at the library uh seven of those interns are continuing as volunteers another seven are either continuing as seasonal project specific or on-call employees and two are continuing as year-round part-time employees I think that's pretty good I think that's almost 50 percent that's pretty good right and then we asked the interns at the end of their uh internships and questions and one was how likely will you pursue further education in the library field and actually 79 percent somewhat likely or very likely so even though only two were thinking about having a major as a library science 79 percent still see that they are going to be picking up some at least some classes in that in that field and then we asked how likely is it that you will apply for a library job within the next five years and 82 percent said it was somewhat or very likely so that's pretty good that is pretty good you know a lot of times they say okay Ben they're done that but this group is not saying it's not saying that so we're happy about that that's right um we also asked them if you plan to recommend the library as a resource or a desirable place to visit more now that you have had your internship and actually 100 percent agreed with that statement that they are now since they've had their internship they will be recommending the library as a resource so you really that's what christin was talking about so you really have built that advocacy here 100 percent are saying that we did ask to uh we said a librarian needs to have a broad range of skills and i realized before the internship and again 91 percent were surprised they agreed that yes um they learned that they do need that broader range of skill than you originally imagined i guess when you walk into a library you see somebody checking in and out of books and you don't know and you might not all realize that there's um budgeting and social media and you name it a librarian has to do it so we have we are at the end of our time but we are more than willing to stay a little longer if we have questions so it's not a problem um just because we've had a little we started a little after 10 anyways um but no we don't need to cut off at all if anyone has any questions comments thoughts um type it into your go-to webinar um question section um if any of our presenters there want to say something let me know you can either raise your hand and in the interface there's a little hand raising icon there or just say yes i want to say something and you might want to switch to the next slide just so they can uh write down that information of contact if they have that good point joanne is at your service are any questions coming in prista nothing was coming out of that one about you know what we hope you're all going to apply for an internship grant if you're not an accredited public library keep in mind that you can partner with an accredited public library you know we didn't have i believe people from school and now someone i saw also from uh university on listening as well so yeah and yeah yes and they're on that web page not only is there good information about the grant there is also good information about internships so for instance it has um an outline of things that you would review with an intern to give them a full feel for the library so you can use that there's uh connections to questions on what you would ask an intern in a and this is not necessarily only for a library library science but we link to other things of what type of things to ask interns so there's a lot of good information uh even if you are from a library outside in Nebraska that you might be able to peel off some good information on that website and we have funded in the past some partnership internships we do give priority to partnerships because we think it's a great way for for example a school and a public library to build the kind of collaborative work that libraries do so well and also another one i know was a community college and a public library had a partnership i think they were very both very successful so well well i've been chatting doesn't look like any urgent questions have come in so i think well thank you everyone thanks so much to our remote presenters yes our former interns and our intern supervisors thank you very much thank you Karen Sharon Maggie and Laura all right so and thank you everyone for attending um i'm gonna pop over to our again um if you have any other questions of course contact Joanne you've got our contact info and all this information will be available to you after the show as well as um very just at the slides and the recording available probably later this afternoon very good everything processes quickly enough um i'll send you guys all the email letting you know when they're ready for you to rewatch it or um have access to the slides again and in the spring we'll hear a lot more about um you know what to do to find those good interns yeah you guys have scheduled to do another internship related we are march 18th isn't march 18th 2017 or march 8th 2017 we're gonna look this up march 8th sorry march 8th 2017 march 8th yeah so we'll be back so now we'll be getting in the nitty gritty of finding that great intern and and uh getting them hired and working yep very good yeah all right so um yes that we'll wrap it up for today's show um and i'm gonna pop over to our encompass live website as you can see they're luckily so far in the world we seem to be the only thing calling themselves this so still when you just do our google us or whatever we come up first so it's pretty easy to find our encompass live site here um as you said they will be coming back in march it's not in the schedule yet out here we're just getting november and december dates on but when it was but it will be in march 8th that's already they're already confirmed for that so put that in your calendar if you're interested so next week it's do space it is yes yes um next week on our show um oh and i'll show you first our recordings will be right here um underneath our upcoming shows is linked to our archive sessions and this is where our um recordings will be uh this is uh last week's we did a thing about comic and maker cons at your library recording slides and a link to the website about the internships um we'll be here available for you to access and like i said go to any of these other sessions we have we have all the recordings you're going back to the very beginning of the show which was january 2009 so there's a lot you've been doing it that long yes oh man it's how long is it nine nine ten eleven oh my gosh yeah it's a long time uh so next week our topic is yeah do space this is a new um and actually it says right here they are as of um next week a year old they opened up a year ago i believe exactly november 4th this is the date but close enough um and so i'm having um rebecca stavik who is their executive director on the show next week to talk about um what they've been doing what do space is um how they got started how that how it all came where the idea came from and what they've been doing over the past year great so um if you're interested in that sign up for that show and any of our other sessions that you see on our schedule here you see we've got november dates in december um the empty ones there i'm still filling in i 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