 Good afternoon. Yes we've hit past noon. I am Krista Porter here at the Nebraska Library Commission and today's webinar we are talking about the upcoming NLA and SLA annual conference and orientation to what to expect next week. We have a group of people here to my left right here at Michael Stratman is the current executive director of the Nebraska, things are in stuffs it's okay at the Nebraska Library Association and Andrew Cano over there in the incoming president of the Nebraska Library Association and online remotely with us we also have Angela Brugger who is the current president of NLA, Angie, I don't know if that's right, Richard is an SLA president and and the Olson is, I don't know what it is, is our tech person, what is that, what do you call it, AV chair, okay, for the conference going to talk about our new app that we have and also online this is Andika Ramirez who is part of the diversity committee and NLA is going to potentially talk about what they're doing. Also here with us in the room over off camera right now if necessary, Joanne McManus who is of the grant program manager here at the Library Commission who if there are any questions about the something cool that's going to be available at the conference for you to look at, some legal space stuff, but we'll get along to that. So I will hand it over to you guys to take it away and talk about it. Well I wanted to thank everybody that was able to join us this afternoon. We're doing a lot of different things this year at conferences or at this conference that we've done some of our previous conferences. So we wanted to kind of give people some orientation and some heads up and a lot of different interesting things coming on about this year that we may not necessarily have done previous year. We'll be using the NLA conference website on the RustLog Association site so we'll be we'll be presenting that but any information that we have here will also be on that website so make sure you check that out. In the next seven days as we come up as of noon we're exactly seven days away from registration opening at our desk. We'll be continuing to add information as we come across it so make sure you check that page and as always if you can't find anything on that page or have any questions feel free to drop us in drop me an email based on the NLA website that comes directly to me and we'll get that responded as quickly as possible. So when we'll start with first of all I want to make sure everybody has their hotel rooms and the registration information and the reservation is on the website. Make sure and check it out. Let's see here. Some people had questions about what sites were available to us and where we have. Now as you come in off I-80 you'll see here just to the north of the interstate is the Jonas Conference Center. This is where our event is. Holiday Inn right here those of you that have been in Nebraska while remember this used to be the Romata but it is now a Holiday Inn so it is one of the the hotels at conference. The three that we're primarily using are the Wingate, the Fairfield and the Hampton. Your preference is probably based upon your frequent fire miles or reservations other than that all three are fantastic sites they're all giving us the same conference rate so feel free to book with any of those. And that does show Hampton and Fairfield are actually physically connected. There is a ramp across there. If you never want to go although you know that I will say the Wingate to the Jonas is probably a good 15 or 20 yards so you don't ever have to worry about being stuck out on those free thunderstorms or or hopefully no storms by next week so they are all very very close so there is really no significant benefit to the others. There are a few there's a Holiday Inn expressed across the interstate but actually our conference rate is cheaper at these three than the other hotel on these campus so make sure and get your reservation in right away. There we are so once you get into the Jonas site if you've never been there before it is very intuitive and easy to find your way around. What you'll see here is a breakout of what these rooms look like. Many of these rooms will be changing configuration as you see through here so there may not necessarily be all eight diamonds at some point one and two may exist as one room etc. The dotted lines are just where we could have rooms. An example of that is in the crystal ballroom two three and four will be the X I believe one two and three are the exhibitors space so we will be having all of our exhibitors in those areas in addition to a really cool thing as alluded to we'll be having the maker space in that area. The Commission has a fantastic display set up the entire width of the exhibitor hall so there's lots of space to come and see. They'll also be one of our featured presentations on Thursday morning so make sure you come and check that out. All of our entertainment and food will be in the vendor exhibitor space with the exception of early morning coffee. Those of you who are coffee drinkers will know that we will have coffee in the hallway across from registration immediately upon opening of the building. So right I only made that mistake once as a conference director not having coffee. But the majority of the rooms you'll see being used are the diamond ballrooms. We do have a few events up here in the Ruby conference rooms. These are on the second floor. There is an accessible elevator in this space right here. There are also multiples of stairs clearly marked that are coming up to that space. When you first walk into the main conference center registration will be in this area. There are two desks you'll be able to see which ones are there. These are access to the conference hotels as Krista pointed out there. The only tricky part about this site is occasionally to get to some of these diamond ballrooms. You do need to go all the way down to this end and up this hallway. The area is very well signed, very intuitive to navigate so I don't think anyone has to worry much about it. The only thing you remember Ruby is on the second floor and diamond is in the center. So those are your big things in terms of conference layout. We will also be having a the new members round table by having a first year conference attendee table near the registration booth. So if it is your first year at a conference make sure you let us know and we'll get that. We're doing registration a little bit different, a little bit simpler. When you come in you'll pick up your name tag. Many of you who already registered have opted out of a printed program in favor of the app which I'm going to be talking about in a few moments. You'll pick up your program if you still wanted one. You'll pick up your name tag. Receipts will be available. If you need one for reimbursement I know many places employees have to pay for the registration and see pre-inversement. You can ask for those at registration. What this does is introduce cost instead of giving everybody out a packet The conference committee opted not to spend multiple hundreds of dollars on envelopes and labels this year. So if you do need a registration receipt please ask at the registration desk for that. So registration opens 12 o'clock on Wednesday afternoon for pre-conferences. You're welcome to come by any time even if you're not doing a pre-conference pick up your registration packet and the other sort of goodies. Beginning at five o'clock on Wednesday night we will be having a wine tasting and open bar. So those of you that have registered for the wine trolley and tour will be receiving a ticket for a complimentary drink at that. Even if you haven't registered for that we are sold out unfortunately for the trolley but you're still welcome to come and partake at the wine bar immediately following pre-conferences from five to six so it will be here right in the reception area across in the registration desk. So feel free to come down and get a drink kickoff conference right. Those of you on the trolley tour to the other libraries in the city and there's some fantastic spaces we have set up for this trolley to visit and see some renovations and some new spaces that party public we see them at UNK we're going to CCC there's a local genealogy family history center there's lots of different places you'll be going around to and if you're not on that trolley feel free to stay and drink with us at the UNIS on Wednesday night we'll begin opening Thursday morning it's 7 a.m. for registration booths and sessions open at 8 a.m. we're starting off with our keynote the mayor of Carney is as well of our own dignitaries will be there to start things off one of the interesting things we're sort of mixing things up with this year is we'll be having some future presentations so I immediately after keynote yeah so as you come through here you'll see on the schedule and Andrew is gonna go more through the schedule but one of the things I want to highlight a little bit on this is that we will have four featured presentations to break out immediately after keynote this is something we've done a little different or this year than we have in past years so though instead of just breakout sessions where we only have eight or nine tracks right after keynote we're gonna try something different or after exemplary and and of course and there will be refreshments and donuts and muffins and all sorts of things they're in a different break so we'll get a chance to do that so what I'm gonna do now is as we're getting into the meat of the schedule we'll go ahead and turn it over to Andrew and we'll talk about those thank you Mike yeah you Mike went to a lot of good things another special event I want to highlight that is sold out is the a sleuth room on Thursday night many of you signed up for that that is sold out you should have received an email with some logistics if you have not just let us know I am personally in the 6 p.m. one and I'm looking forward to that event I think it'll be fun to be kind of locked up with our colleagues for an hour and a half trying to escape out the room so should be fine we did try and get everybody their preference if it was indicated on pre-registration but that wasn't always the case so bear with us and have fun yeah it's gonna be fun so again here's the conference page you should all know where that is and if you scroll down it's a new link under the full program you now go to the proof of the printed program Andy will kind of show you what it looks like in the app so stay tuned for that in a few minutes but okay okay there it is so this is what our printed app looks like you'll see the resolution is a little bit off but the printed version will look nice by the way kudos to Aaron Kelowna at UNL for designing this logo we're very very happy with it and for those of you that haven't picked up on it it ties into the state brand of the good life and great opportunity and what better doorway to that than libraries yep and I would note that Beth Rosenthal and Sarah Hack both the Pernie public put a lot of work into the printed program and they did an amazing job with it so we'll see here and you can see at the beginning of the program you'll have kind of a summary of everything and then as you scroll down you'll start to see the actual descriptions after some of these welcomes just want to point out that I as Mike said we do have our keynote kicking it off it's she's a superstar speaker I think you're all gonna like her a lot we have a tentatively scheduled for 815 it really just depends on when the introductions get done we don't know the mayor is gonna take too long Angela and Angie are gonna have a welcome but approximately 815 so if you're on your way there I would definitely encourage you to try to be at the center by 8 a.m. if possible and at 815 just to go back to the pre-conferences real quick these were very very popular I think the ethics of accurate email to the participants were very excited about these and again these shoot will start at one and they all will end by five of your signed up for that so we're looking forward to those of you who are there you keep scrolling down and we will get to the meat of this here we go so again Michael's already gone over the rooms immediately after the key notice Michael saying we actually do have the exhibit or break to be some refreshments in there and there'll be some poster sessions we have seven posters this year I really encourage everybody to kind of walk around they have a variety of topics I think they put a lot of work into this and this is a great opportunity to get just kind of a quick three to five minute update on a project or topic that you know may benefit your work mentioned here the Kimball library they're coming you know as far as possible from the corner of Nebraska a lot of exciting things there I think if you're from a small library you might want to look to them because they've done a lot there's also some college and education oriented once this one I think is going to be very very popular there's a lot of new libraries being built for all kinds of libraries so if you want to renovate or build a new library not with the collection Heather but what Walter is the expert on that so you don't want to be you know carrying books around or moving things that should be excited I want to know how she did that to be honest that's going to be exciting and then as you'll see the diversity committee is very active so they'll have theirs as well and again another small library here so I encourage you to read the program so you have an idea of what they are so now we get to professional workshops this actually was a happy accident we ended up having about a 90 minute block available it was too too long for one concurrent session and too short for two concurrent sessions so Mike and I brainstormed and we came up with this the idea of a 75 to 80 minute workshop most of them are accessible to just about everybody so really go through them pick the one that you think will help you for example you get to real law it's rich lighter from the Schmid's law library that is aimed at just everybody that is you know just because you're in a public library doesn't matter he's going to give this presentation to anybody who works with any kind of legal research I used to be in the public library and I would get legal research all the time and many of you know we are here to help you find the answer we're not here to help you find the answer you know we're not here to give you the answer so that's not a good one book repair I would say if you're in TSRT that's probably a good one for you that was a very exciting presentation of the if you're in seeing you and working in any kind of instruction Stephen McGahan from UNK will be here and you'll be developing lessons so my the point I want to really everybody take away is when you attend these workshops you will have something to take back with you to work that was the goal as I worked with these presenters is you will each take something so the one that was the top was intellectual freedom and I know that they've given several presentations it's going to be presumed that you've read the manual if you have not read the manual please let us know we can send you a copy of it or contact Mike Ellsner and this one will actually help you develop ideas of how to implement that manual at your library so very very exciting and again I encourage everybody to go through it just to be able to have time for Andy I'm just going to go through the rest of this real quick everybody can kind of again look at this at the website a lot of the current sessions we've done our very best to add a quick thing about the lunches all lunches are complimentary with your registration so don't feel like you have to go sign get somebody to eat everybody's already paid there are no meal tickets and we are doing the face-style this year and there's a they're setting up multiple tables so the lines won't be very long but go ahead and pick a luncheon and get there for your free meal. Good point yeah we just skip over the lunches but you're right that is very good and if I can speak for the NLA one and Angie Richardson may have some comments about NSLA but NLA will definitely kick off a new strategic revisioning we'll talk about some of the work being done we have some bylaws changes that we're gonna talk about it'll be your first chance to meet our new executive director Jill Pittman so again I know sometimes people kind of go out to lunch you want to get some air but I would encourage everybody to do this and Angie since you're on the line do you want to speak about NSLA luncheon. Thank you Andrew really just kind of reiterating what what you're mentioning we're gonna introduce our new board members that came on board in July and then we will have our business meeting and talk about some exciting things that we're we're going to hopefully kind of as you mentioned re-envision where we want NSLA to go and so we have some great ideas to discuss with membership as well. Great great so again as we go through it we have done our very very best to try to space these out so that you don't you're not in a position that you have to choose between three sessions and you can only be at one I know that can be very very frustrating you know you go to a conference and man I've been there where there was one conference where all four concurrent sessions I wanted to be at so we've done our best to space them out we've also done our very best to put them in the correct rooms so that we don't have you know people standing outside and the live and as Michael mentioned earlier most of them I'll highlight your most of them are in diamond rooms so this will be very easy as compared to last year's layout you'll all pretty much be there in the middle so you know for whatever reason you can't find the room all you do is just kind of keep walking around the center area you'll kind of come across it right you'll see a business meeting scattered throughout these one of the things we've had in past for feedback is having all of the roundtable meetings at the same time it's a difficult for those of us that bounce between different lines right so we've tried to scatter those throughout so that if you want to attend roundtables you can certainly do that throughout the conference exactly and in addition to spacing them out I also made an effort it was not perfect but I made an effort to schedule the roundtable meetings during times that not have sessions where those members would want it to be at so for example like I tarred the intellectual you know I'm sorry information technology I tried my best to put them in a block where there was no technology related presentations not perfect but again we're trying to respond to people's feedback and comments so again you can just see this you know this is on the website it's also on the app I would just encourage everybody to identify which sessions really interest them the most if you have any questions about the content that you may not be aware of what they are reach out to me reach out to my reach out to the presenters one of them in particular I'm going to highlight before moving over to the afternoon sessions here on Friday is in the morning Michael go over that map here sorry here you go in the morning I did talk to the presenters here from UNL which are my colleagues which are your partners in service and they wanted me to stress this is kind of a special request that you know this is an actually intended for public libraries so seeing you members are welcome to come but this really is for anyone that doesn't know UNL as the Vangrant flagship institution here in the state we do offer a lot of resources that are available to anybody so again I don't want anybody seeing the credentials and saying oh that's not seeing you presentation it's not for me it absolutely is on that as well and then finally the last thing I mentioned it might have some things to fill in I just scroll past the exhibitor map it oh first of all there's also golden soar so well we do have an offer this year skyping in in there so that's going to be very exciting and golden wards golden soar is very very popular so Kathy Schultz will answer that so at the end I know a lot of you have to get back in the road you have several hours to drive back I'm going to get back to your kids families etc I can really get that but I am hoping people stick around at Angie Richardson and I at the end we'll have some very brief closing remarks and we're going to give a sneak preview of next year's conference you know we've got the leader and not our new vice presidents presidents elect haven't really been working hard and they're going to have some updates and we'll share that with you so you know as you leave you can get excited about next year's conference as well and then the final thing I mentioned because Joanne is here to my left is we have those makerspaces it's going to be available throughout the entire conference so if there's a particular block that hey you know what none of the seven presentations really speak to you you're welcome to go into that space interact with that space there's going to be commission staff there at all times and there are two workshops associated with it one is the morning block on Thursday they will have a hands-on workshop where you actually get to produce some cool things and if you have questions about that Joanne I'll be happy to answer and then later on on Thursday at three o'clock in a separate room there's going to be a presentation of you know how you can bring one of those innovation studios to your library so if you like what you see in that makerspace guess what you might be able to bring that with you don't take any of the equipment home with you I think Joanne will probably tackle you on the way out but we will find you similar equipment that we can bring to you so that's all I have to say Angie do you want to speak to NSLA anything you have going on and Mike as well if you want to fill in any of the gaps that I have no you did a great job Andrew thank you I would just point out that on Thursday we have tried to put many of the NSLA related presentations in the Ruby 6 just to keep you know it easy to get up and down you know change rooms they don't have to change rooms now that doesn't mean that there aren't one location attract similar to having a track one location a little bit yes now that being said you know you may find that there are other presentations but we just tried to make it as easy as possible and then on Friday then kind of the same thing down in the diamond rooms there's there's a couple different rooms where we kind of start out exciting for excited to have many of the speakers that we have many of the proposals that were submitted and forward to a great conference and then I might piggyback on that and you and say Friday the we have a great speak a great keynote speaker Todd Berluson who was the librarian of the year in the the school librarian of the year I believe here last year 2015 yeah so some great stuff there Thursday night after the conclusion of the breakout sessions we do have our annual exhibitors bash so the drink tickets you'll get at registration you'll be able to come in and get a drink we have some entertainment we have a lot of neat stuff going on it does not it is a secret so it's coming but we're not it's not Garth Brooks so I mean that'll be contained within this exhibitor section here you'll see the map this of course as in every year subject of change we we always have changes up to the last minute cancellations additions moves so this particular space sort of challenges is a little bit with power electric access or wired access for the internet so we often do a little bit of moving in this particular venue so you may see some changes from this but make sure you get a chance every chance you can to go through talk to your favorite vendors see it they do us a tremendous service in in participating in this conference and and bringing their wares to us in and they help fund it and keep our prices reasonable you'll see a number of sessions keynotes and what have you that are sponsored by these same vendors so make sure you give them a chance and and check them out we have some new ones as well as some of our traditional so a lot of neat stuff going on this year after our exhibitor bash on Thursday night we'll also be having dine around if you'd like to sign up for those please do that before noon on Thursday at the registration desk if you want to go out with the group and then following that we'll come back and we have a cash bar for the pub quiz so we'll be having a party late into the night on Thursday night just to make Friday morning that's much more challenging and what happens at conference days at conference so speaking of schedules Andy are you ready to take us over and talk a little bit about the app absolutely all right hold on a sec and I can right and you should see where you can share your screen get it there you go all right you should see you go right now yes all righty well I'm gonna keep it short and sweet because I think it is a fairly self-guiding so attendees view this there may be a little hesitant to get started I would basically either follow the link in the email that you should have gotten as an attendee from sketch or you can just go to the website on your own now from here you can log in up here at the top I'm gonna use a demo profile that I set up just to show you the start to finish okay so I logged in I can't see anything pertaining to the conference yet so I'm gonna click on events you're attending here in the middle and lo and behold here we are and here is the sked app so from here I would suggest that everybody who's attending go in and edit your profile right off the get-go I think it's good practice to give yourself a picture a face for presenters the other attendees to recognize who's where during the conference you can also sign in using Facebook Twitter just so it's easier to post about the sessions that you're attending scroll down here you can update your company name and your position you have a website that you want to share out all this fun stuff basic profile settings once you get that done you can go to schedule here this is basically what Andrew showcased earlier I showed the simple schedule from the little drop-down and it just gives you the titles of each session now you can hover over each of these sessions and it gives the description and the speakers and any of the tags that it has with it so if I wanted to add this successful programming in small libraries to my schedule I just click on the box right next to it it adds it no big no big deal if you need a more in-depth view go ahead and hit the extended from the drop-down and that gives you all the descriptions which is even more similar to what Andrew showcased just a little bit ago now from here this is a web-based version obviously I'm on my computer here for this meeting but the app on your phones is exactly the same it's a web-based app so what that means is you don't have to go to the iTunes store or the Google Play Store to download this app this is based off the web so it's everything's live that's happening and it you treat it like a bookmark as you would on your Chrome browser or Internet Explorer Firefox or Safari if you do want to save an app to your phone per se you can save the site to your phone just from the browser settings within whatever browser you you're using now I've talked to somebody about some permission settings that kind of gave them a runaround on setting up on your phone but for the few times that I've tried it with my phone and I tried on my wife's phone everything seems to to work pretty straightforward I will be obviously at the concert or the conference so you can track me down I'll help you get it set up if you really need to apart from that there are a few other features here on the right side of the screen are the different tracks that we have set up so you can filter by those color-coded bubbles you can go directly to speakers and if there's somebody that you just really want to follow around all day that's one way to do it another reason to update your profile picture so people know who you are and apart from that I think that I've got everything out there that I need to explain do you guys have anything for me I just want to add real quick Andy mentioned he's gonna be on site he's gonna be very helpful but it really would help a lot if people started loading the app now we don't want you to be late to a presentation and he's currently helped one person at a time you know etc so we encourage everybody and you know not everybody attending conferences in this webinar so if you know colleagues or friends going and they're interested in the app mention it to them and you know we can take care of all technical issues or hiccups between now and conference it'll just be a lot easier than than on site it really is easy to use I just know sometimes people have security settings on their phones or on their browsers that may cause an unexpected issue and again we can address those as they come in over the next week. I just want to say I've actually used this app for other events other conferences have gone to and it is really helpful there it's like especially when you Andy was showing how you can add to your schedule sessions you want to attend and I'm not sure I have to check out for what when I was attending a conference last year it was email me each day in the morning here's what you said you're going to attend to have a cookies thing on your phone or your email saying here's what you said you wanted to attend so you can have that all set up also this is everyone is like into the same place other people can see what you're attending which is kind of cool if you're trying to hook up with some friends or colleagues and say hey are you going to this session you know that session if everyone checks in here I can look it and see oh so I was going to this one too maybe I'll join them that I see they were interested in it let's ask them you know or if you see someone who attended something that you couldn't attend you can add you can find out from them just by looking here and say hey I saw you just said you're going to that session first of all did you because check saying you're gonna go you know can be different but it gives you some really good you know connections and networking options and also say on that note it does give you the option to make your appearance there private I do want this to be social and I want people to know I like going to the room and you know getting like Chris said I like knowing hey this person went over here and he'll talk to them but we respect people's privacy if you just simply don't feel comfortable that the app is still for you when you set your profile you can actually put the little box that will kind of keep you hidden a little bit if you so choose and this is only available to people who are going to artists is not public to the world this is correct as you saw Andy had to log in and everyone has to log into it and only people who are attending our conference get that information to be able to log in to this the event so only Nebraska library yes association conference attendees or the people would see anything that's in here that's correct anything else in it gives us about 20 minutes for questions we really you know we've tried to hit everything yeah we do a few questions anybody has any questions well we're looking those up I would note that you won't see anywhere in this an evaluation form this year we're trying something different and we will directly mail evaluation forms out to everyone following conference for you to chance to have a direct way to respond and give us feedback please do so your feedback is the only way that we can continue to improve or change this conference yearly right so if you do have any questions type them in the question section and I do have some that were from before and some that are coming in I had a question I noticed and I had even about this before made it but traditionally for the sessions they have been sponsored by a particular section around and we're doing it a little differently that's correct maybe looking for something like that and saying where are all the TSRT sponsored sessions and you'll see it doesn't actually work yeah that's correct and this is something that's going to be conversation at the board meeting in December because we just had a few little issues with the sponsorship don't really want to go into detail in a lot of them but you know essentially right now with the current form anybody can just use any section as a sponsor and I know some of the section leadership had a few questions so just for just this year only it is not a permanent decision we we just decided to just not list sponsors in that no way should perform that we do not you obviously don't want to not appreciate the work that many section leaders have done in recruiting presentations and inviting speakers we you know we do want to recognize that but for this year we decided to just omit that just to avoid a few hiccups we will discuss a permanent solution in December and all of you will have a chance to be involved in that conversation and all know that there is no permanent decision because most of you with long-term memories know some years we do this some years we don't remember I remember you had to go through a section that was like a lot harder to do than just to be able to say I want to present let me just do it so so it varies but we'll be working and trying to figure out what we're doing next year and telegraphing that morning what I did though was when Andy was showing the sketch how in these categories yes and that's Andy and he did a great job with the tracks exactly so we want to you know definitely mention it and get that is a way to see exactly what you're interested in a type of like bird ship go to the sketch thing and see exactly in the presentation descriptions are clear enough in my opinion that if you have a particular type of job but again if you have a question about where you think you should best attend I would start with the presenter you know they know their presentation best and if not just shoot us an email we're happy to answer any questions so thank you for bringing that up Christa I just want anybody else is wondering so I did have a question to hear which I was wondering about to on the website actually there was previously here along with the full program there was a program at a glance we just have a one like a simple thing and it looks like when you made this the PDF that that's gone down to website was that on accident it was on purpose but we can restore it it'll take one click so in fact based on Chris's input there's all I will restore it yeah yeah so if you want to just take a quick peek at the program and say oh that one sounds interesting to me you click it and it'll take full description I will restore that and it'll just be above program and a so yeah well the page is the page was not deleted the only thing it was the video is the link so we will restore that so much to know for the sleuth escape room who would we have gotten the email from for that I'm guessing maybe they don't know if they got you Mary Rossler ROE SSL ER I sent her a spreadsheet with everybody who was signed up to whatever email address you entered into the spreadsheet is in there if you were signed up for either the 6 o'clock or the 745 and you did not get an email yesterday or may have been this morning and I forget when I got it just reach out to me you know or my emails up there if you'll get it to me but I'm at it's a really long of not see no it's NLA president-elect that gmail so NLA president-elect and we will make sure that you get that information but all you really need to know is be there 15 minutes early so if you're in the 6 o'clock 545 if you're 745 8 be there on 730 and then we will get you to the rooms there by game get more specific questions we're happy to answer them and she says actually now that she looks for she says thank you I got it fantastic right so they did go out yes that's good to have someone else know let us know that it's there let's see oh so question about the first year attendee well actually round table oh is that though this is our first year could register for that registration or do we have to let someone know beforehand it's about the show up and there'll be a thing there and you could you want to talk a little bit about that she's here yeah and you can unmute yourself and let us talk talk a little bit on the first year tending round table that you guys are gonna have set up yeah is it loud when I'm unmuted the first time attendee table will be in the registration area and you come to the table you get a button that you get to wear while during conference to me so everyone knows that it's your first time and then you also get a sheet to go around and collect names and contact information so it's kind of a networking tool to help people feel a little more comfortable getting to know folks and then you come back with your 20 contacts and you get to throw out a ticket and put your name in a drawing for an Amazon gift card and we'll be I know that was a little muffled I didn't catch everything but the answer is you don't have to register you go to the table you'll get a button that identifies you as a first-year attendee and then if I heard correctly there's some kind of raffle I did not catch the prize I can tell you it's probably not a gift card Amazon gift card it wasn't a new card it wasn't a cruise it's an Amazon gift card so yeah we really welcome all first-year attendee so definitely swim by that table it'll be very very visible the NMRT you remember on table it's a fantastic job yeah she's great thanks yeah I think you did say she's coming in from a coffee shop somewhere so that's with a background yeah it's not usually like that where she works okay let's see someone says looking at this year's schedule I noticed that unlike previous years there doesn't seem to be a session focused on the upcoming summer reading session some reading program except why is that should someone is usually a summer reading program and I would say a lot of those are based on the submissions that we get based on what we can present so a lot of times if people don't offer to present we we can't have a presentation on that topic yeah I'm that for that particular presentation I'm working with Sally Snyder we are gonna offer that in the spring we just really wanted to get a lot of first timers in there and we will have a presentation on the summer reading club which is library rock in in the spring you through webinar or possibly the skip spring meeting stay tuned for that because that is a very critical program we definitely agree with that but as I was mentioned Rebecca MacOrkendale is doing a fantastic program wrapping up for 2017 summer reading program so if you're interested in getting ideas for summer reading programs there is that one presentation and for anyone who is yes it's actually just by spring is too late for planning these things Sally's workshops that we do here at the vehicle library commission will be starting in December as usual so the normal time from when she goes around the state and does her in-person summer reading program workshops I do the first one is December 1st so she will still be doing those so that's coming up and you're right your usual time for starting up your summer reading plans for for next year yeah and speaking for in LA we will based on that feedback definitely try to get that program out probably through a webinar probably in January I'll work with Chris then we'll send out more information on that questions about passwords and logging into sketch people are trying to do it they took your advice Andrew right there to do it what password do we use to access the app someone wants to know and then someone says they went there chose the option login after I found my event and they don't see where to set up a username and password I'm not sure but Andy I'm guessing that they're going to have to resort on the email that they get from the sked app so all the attendees that are registered right now should have gotten an email last night or yesterday yeah so follow that instructions or that email yeah yes I'm presuming so a big one and he said Andy if somebody used an email let's just say they use the work email to register but they prefer to change that email address could they do so in their profile absolutely okay so if those of you who didn't hear you should have gotten an email to the email that you registered with that was most likely your work email when you log in with that you'll be able to change that if you so choose if you still have issues though please send that out and Andy can and I can look at it on a case-by-case basis see if there's any issues with a particular individual okay someone does have a tip they weren't able to do updates like that on the app on their phone but on their website on the PC they were able to do all those things there so it may be something that you need to even know that we're pushing and it's really convenient having your hand on your phone go to the website first which what Andy showed and do all that kind of updating and changing there and then when you log in on your phone you'll have all that ready to you can also switch to desktop view instead of your mobile view from your phone in the menu bar on the left upper left-hand corner I believe from the app it has a regular website yeah thank you Andy good tip thank you and I have questions oh wait yep she said that work you have desktop is the possible solution she went back her phone and it showed that she did her updates fed through so there's a workaround there don't try and update things on your phone do it on your on your big computer yeah so any other questions those are all the questions we had so far go ahead get them typed in we still have plenty of time we're still set for an hour so that 10 minutes left would you just have a thank you to Mike we're stepping in and helping out this year jump back in you know save yourself from it all again but no he's been doing great when we've had an absolutely great conference team to work with the group out in Carney Andrew and Angie are all been fantastic so when you see some of those people wandering the conference after you look their names up in the full program make sure and say thanks and I'm sure none of them would turn down a drink to beat zippers back so feel free to do that but it's been a great team to work with this year yeah I know echo that the committee really came together and it was they've really stuff like Andy you are experiencing Andy here working in the app there are a lot of others behind the scenes I don't want to say names because I'm gonna forget somebody unintentionally so we will have them listed in the program but please if you see someone listen to program as I'm being on the conference committee really thank them because they did this should be towards the top or is it okay so Chris does bring it up because they really went out of their way to do this again they're donating their time coming out to Carney once a month to me and yeah and doing things so yeah so she will bring up the list and there they are right there yep and we've had just an absolutely fantastic cruise so we couldn't have done it without all of these folks so make sure you give all of them a big thanks and any other questions if you have any last-minute urgent things you need to know right now type it now or forever vote your piece or until you want to send me an email I'm happy with that too yeah there's also on Twitter the hashtag nevlibnevlib2017 it should be at the top yeah yeah I was a lonely voice for a while but the Commission has jumped up and several other people I just as we've seen me scrolling with my phone I'm actually seeing several people at Christian Minner and others have been tweeting out information about their presentations so I really encourage you to go that and use it during the conference to share news and the communications committee will be working on incorporating more social media and hashtags over the next year as well so hopefully this will kind of jumpstart our our social media presence and as your when you're at conference anything you see that's interesting use that Facebook Twitter Instagram wherever you want to share things and then if you have any questions or concerns when you're at conference go ahead and track any of the conference stopped down and we'll make sure and get that registration desk where somebody somebody's always at the registration desk we promised to remove the shackle so they go have lunch every now well it doesn't look like anybody's typed in any questions yet while we've been chatting here so I'm gonna assume anything anybody wanted to know right now has been answered any last-minute words of wisdom from anybody from Michael Andrew Angie see y'all there yeah see you next week in Pernie sorry thank you very much everyone