 Hey, I'm Bryce. I'm the supervisor at the arcade library, which is home to our library of things So we have a lot of different types of items for check out guitars go pro cameras Just kind of all sorts of different types of items. It's also home to the design spot So that's where we house all of our 3d printers And our machines that have different kinds of CAD software on them and then of course it's home to alt library And with alt library we use tumblr for our blog So it's alt library comm and then we use Meetup clearly for posting Events and one of the things that I really like about meetup is that from from idea to promotion It's it can just take a couple minutes if you want it to so you can really you know put things through quickly So it's good for experimenting with different programs and kind of seeing what the the feedback is so this is a an example Of one of the programs that we're experimenting with what we've discovered is that when people RSVP a lot of times You know, it's not a good indicator of how many people are actually going to show up and attend But it's a good indicator of interest so with on-ground workshops because we're moving more in a virtual kind of programming direction We if we get ten or more RSVPs then we'll go ahead and we'll go through with the with the program So you can see from this example that we we brand things a little differently all libraries meant Or the niche that we're looking to fill is kind of that 20s and 30s Programming so as far as age group so you'll see that you know, it could be something like Beginning guitar, but instead we'll do something like you know guitar learn the bare minimum needed to impress people and animals So you might have like pick slides and power chords and different types of things and this is tied into our Library of things where we have guitars for checkout so it goes back to kind of our more Less expected types of offerings And we still weave ourselves into different community programs, so we partnered with a local maker space that they were doing a robo sumo, so we were part of that and We went ahead and we built a sumo robots and so a lot of us learn how to solder and things like that And it was really great content to put on the tumbler and then with our design spot where we have our 3d printers We went ahead and made different kind of Kind of covers for some of the the robots So again, it's tying it in to just you know different things that we're offering and it's You know excellent platform to tell our story and market things in a certain way We still Kind of jump on the wagon with certain things certain trends When they're hot and then we jump off of that wagon fairly quickly, so we recently did You know Pokemon go events we did adult coloring for a while last year so The nice thing about meet-up is that we can cycle through and kind of gauge interest a lot of times based on RSVPs and then it's You know, it doesn't take much staff time So it's just a couple minutes you can throw something out there if it gets a decent amount of feedback. That's Or or generates a certain amount of interest. That's great. If not, we just throw something else out there and see what happens And this is an example of that so sometimes it's just an idea. So we went ahead and wove this into Our our booked in offerings from it's part of our friends of the library So we have this warehouse where we have items for sale And so is the idea of building a or creating a book with a secret compartment So we just went ahead and did a tutorial on our tumbler and then posted the event on meet-up to just kind of generate You know a little more Buzz and and let people know that hey, we've we have items for sale as well We still have the traditional book clubs and we're going out to You know different kind of places to hold them so a lot of times it's coffee shops We'll go to different parts of town and hold the the book Book club at different restaurants and stuff like that something that we're trying this month is I like weaving programs into You know other events like if it's Halloween or something like that So a couple of days before Halloween will be discussing Stephen King's it but we're going to just do it virtually And we're going to kind of go old school with it because we're going to do it on IRC. So just one of those things where we're continually Experimenting with things And we've been experimenting with Seeing if users want to submit content and be part of different kind of collaborative creative projects So one of the things that kind of flopped but it was fun to do was we had this coloring book disaster Program and the idea was to weave the submissions Or print print those submissions with our espresso book machine that we have at the central library And then add that to the reference collection and that would be tied into some of the adult coloring programs But they would be original works But there was a fair amount of buzz, but I only had a few people submit Drawings, but there's a really great one of a dolphin riding a bicycle. So Another kind of experimental program we did We had a fair amount of donated cassettes that went through our friends groups And so I started saving them and then we opened up we were like, okay Let's try to do like a tape compilation or something like that So we opened up submissions for local artists to send us a track or two and then we partnered with a entity in the community that had a tape duplicator and then with the The actual cassette cases we printed those we designed them and printed them in our Design spot at the arcade library. So a bunch of different colors and everything and people that are part of that We're still actually working on it people that are part of that that submitted Their musical works and they'll get a cassette and a custom case sometimes to just looking at You know the the different tools you have available to you at your library So we kind of just fell into the circuit bending thing a colleague and I we noticed that there was we had a Like a program box that had soldering irons and then we used some Recycled wire from an old keyboard and we borrowed a drill from facilities and so we decided to take one of The thrift store keyboards that we had kind of experiment and try to circuit bend that item Which we were successful turned out kind of neat So we decided to go ahead and we have a SoundCloud page to so looking at meet-up and looking how you can kind of pull in You know different kind of users from different online communities. That's something that we look at too but so that was more of kind of you know just experimenting and and you know just kind of Using staff interests which turn into different programs. We found some makey-makey kits to in another box. So we set up book-ins and we were able to hook those up to a laptop and play the book-ins like bongo drums and other things and You know so make drawings and then when you touch the the drawing then it'll go ahead and trigger a sound things like that Which patrons really enjoyed it's that interactive element that you can't have unless it's an on-ground workshop and we also just do some You know kind of off off beat things now and again to see you know what happened So we've been experimenting with the virtual programs that encourage exercising and or maybe Investigating certain diets and things like that. So all of these programs tie into Promoting our digital collection For the most part except get fit with Rick and Morty, which is kind of an experiment And we also like tying things into like I said with like the Halloween event and and you know different virtual programs like that The new year burpee challenge a lot of people were interested in that And so just kind of these ongoing programs versus That might extend for like two weeks versus just a one-shot event So that's kind of an overview of the things that we've been trying lately So really for us alt library and meetup and tumblr We're just constantly experimenting and putting different programs out there and seeing how you know We can be creative and create more of a buzz for our library and then also doing things out there in the community and partnering with certain Entities to to bring more people in and then hopefully they they join us online But that's kind of the Overview of what we've been up to lately And now we can open it up to some questions. 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