 morning and welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. I am your host, Krista Porter. Krista Porter here at the Nebraska Library Commission. Encompass Live is the Commission's weekly online event. We are a webinar and proud of it. Encompass Live is broadcast live every Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. central time, but if you're unable to join us on Wednesdays, that's fine. We do record the show every week and you can always go back and watch any of our archive recordings and I'll show you where that is on our website at the end of today's show. We have all the recordings going back to the very beginning. We started Encompass Live in 2009 and if there are any handouts, this presentation will be included there, documents, links to interesting websites related to the session, all that will be available in the archive as well afterwards. 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The Nebraska Library Commission is the state agency for libraries in Nebraska. All types, public, school, academics, special, museum, correctional, across the board, we're here for everybody. We do have Nebraska Library Commission staff that come on and do sessions for things of course that are more commission focused, but we also bring in guest speakers both from outside of the state and from Nebraska. And that's what we have this morning. Next to me here is Rebecca McCorkendale, who is Assistant Library Director and Creative Director. As a Gretna Public Library, which is here in Nebraska, she is one of our local state presenters for phones. And she's also our President-Elect for the Nebraska Library Association, so incoming, getting started to do that as well. And Rebecca does a lot of youth stuff. I don't know was this. You're not the youth services librarian, but you do a lot of things there. Yeah, our library has a very unique situation in that the city decided to grant us a second location and basically broke our library in half. So the children's collection up to junior level is in one location, young adult on up is in another. So a lot of people are like, well you have two libraries, why do we need to build a third? And we're like, well, we're one library broken into. We'd like to be one life. Yeah, so yeah, we work with what we have. I mainly oversee the children's library. And my boss, my library director, she mainly oversees the main library, but we both bounce back and forth. And it's a challenge, but hey, I think we've done it before. Yeah, no, it's never born. Oh my gosh. Yeah, so Rebecca has a presentation on the little story type. Yes. I'm just going to hand it over to you and let you explain. Oh, that's all about. Yes, I am so thrilled that the Nebraska Library Commission asked me or challenged me to do this. In Girl Storytimes, you have challenge questions. And I just looked at this as a really fun challenge to try to do this in a virtual format. I've done this quite a few times in person, which is a lot more dynamic because I'm basically just moderating everybody talking and sharing ideas. So this is a really neat way to record and try to get Girl Storytimes out there more because anyone can do this. You know, I'm doing it, you can do this. So let me get here. What is a Girl Storytime? It has quite the name. Basically, Girl Storytime was created by a wonderful librarian named Corey Eckert. She's one of the original joint chiefs of Storytime Underground. I have their blog site there. If you haven't visited Storytime Underground yet, please do. They have wonderful resources. They are some of the most wonderful librarians out there, and they have a real heart. You might not, you know, agree with everything they say, but that's part of being a librarian. It's wonderful that we can disagree and still, you know, work together in this profession. So she came up with this idea after probably attending one too many presentations that, you know, were just kind of regurgitated information from a decade ago by, you know, you sit in presentations sometimes they go, you know, that's stuff I learned, you know, like, you know, years ago, nothing's doing so she kind of looked at it went well, you know, the best resources for up to date current information. Are you service librarians? And so this ends up being kind of a crowdsourcing fun question answer, brainstorming, just it's a wonderful experience. It's best when you can do it at a large conference, where you just get everyone from across the state or beyond sharing ideas and just loving what they do. I reached out to Corey, just to make sure she was cool with me trying this and she gave two thumbs up. She was going to provide a video. Didn't happen. That's fine. It's a busy time of year for everyone. But I'm just thrilled. She said, yeah, go for it. If you'd like to learn more about the story, the real story time method, you can go to storytimeunderground.org. And they have an option at the top that's real storytime and they will give you everything you need to set up one of your own including challenge questions, just print them off, put them up, throw them in a jar, pick them out. So that said, I bet you're wondering what I did, how on earth do you translate a real storytime into something where it's just me and Christa sitting in a room, looking at a webcam, while people across North America look on. I was like, I do not want this to be a full hour of me just talking at you. Though that's going to be the majority of it. Sorry. That's fine. Yeah. Yeah, no. I think I'm funny. So yeah, that's, yeah, I'll make it work. But please feel free when when I pose a question to send an answer, hopefully Christa will catch it, we can share some of those answers. If not, if all of you respond at once, it'll be safe for plus area you go back and read everybody's answers. So what I ended up doing Oh, the other challenge is a lot of these challenges that are in the drill story times are things that have you acted out. Obviously, you know, you can give a beautiful description of what you do with your shapers or parachutes, but we can't look forward to live. So what I ended up doing was reaching out to a lot of my use services blogger friends, and had them submit a video short video to me sharing a tip, an idea, something that would be a good jumping off point for discussion. So first up, we have the wonderful Miss Meg. She is the blogger at Miss Meg Storytime.com. She is an absolute delight. I believe she's up in Connecticut. Please forgive me if I'm wrong. And here's her tip. I'm interested in my number one story. Think about why our story is healthy to me. So I just want to see if we can get a better volume. Yeah, we can turn off the volume on this. All right, here's this way. Just briefly. You can escape on your slide. You know, there we go. Alrighty. Alright, so we should be able to hear things a little better. Okay, excellent. And if you adjusted for her talking, you might want to adjust back down just so the next video doesn't blow you out of the water. So based on her tip, what's a tip that you'd give to a new children's librarian to help them feel more comfortable just get their feet under them. It's really easy to forget if you've been doing this job for a while. How incredibly scary it is to go before a room of children and their caregivers. It really I did theater for years. And doing story times in a very like, you know, it could be like three kids, but they were in your face. And you know, it's a lot more personal than anything I did in theater, you know, where everybody's out in this darkness that that would be a really interesting story time. Let's go back. Can we get her to play yet? Yes. Yeah, let's see if we can trigger that again. Here we go. And my number one story time tip is to do everything intentionally. Think about why that story is helping to reinforce early literacy practices in your story time as well as your songs, how you greet the children and how you begin and add to story time. Hey Ms. May, thank you for the video. You are a sweetheart. Was it, did we get any, any? So do everything intentionally was her tip. Think about how that story is good and everything you do around it. Yeah, I love it. Let's see. Okay. I asked a couple of my staff members to share a couple tips just to give you an idea. This is the fabulous Adina. She is one of our technical services librarians. She helps out with Ibleo Bop, which is our preschool and toddler dance story time. It's amazing. And she also works at one of the branches of the Omaha Public Library, the Abraham. And she is a youth specialist there. So here's her tip for beginning youth service librarians. Stamps, a great behavior modification tool. How would you do that? Stamps, yeah, we stamp the hands. We tried to get a bunch of kids to line up and put their hands down, which, you know, we just didn't get much of a rush yesterday. But stamps really have been it was the most crazy thing when I began. I shouldn't say crazy, I apologize. It was the most interesting thing. When I began kind of learning the youth service ropes, I had planned to become a children's librarian and then ended up on the managerial side of things, which didn't surprise me. But I'm thrilled. I get to stay kind of involved with the children's programming. And I never thought of getting a different frame of Adina. That is a hot dog. That's a hot dog. We're celebrating Bo Willems for our themed December week, where we celebrate an illustrator. And so the kids get a hot dog and a cookie stamped on their hands when it's time to go. And that's a key thing. We have saved more meltdowns for for kids and parents by saying, Hey, do you want to stamp on your hand? It's, you know, you do that when you get to leave and kids that have been like, you hear the, I don't want to go. And we will trip up and say, Hey, would you like to stamp on your hand? We do that when it's time to go. And the kid is so excited to leave at that point. And we've gotten a lot of parents like do the as they're walking out the door. Distraction. Oh, yeah, direct. Yeah, I'm trying to redirect. Yes, it might be reinforcing bad behavior. But it keeps at least a temporary meltdown down. And it really kind of makes, you know, leaving the library less of a sad thing, because they get that little bonus they get to take with them. I got to say half the time they need to put hand sanitizer on after it, which removes the or as my boss said, half the time, the youngest ones, and it's gone. So just be aware, you know, that's going to happen. You have to stamp both hands. I will stamp anywhere with the parents approval, you know, I've done cheeks and foreheads. So that has been a wonderful thing. And kids really it's, it's better than a lollipop at the bank. And then speaking of my boss, this is my director, Chrissy Reed. I asked her for a user's tip. And this is what she gave me. Bubbles. Bubbles. We've joked that we should get shirts to sell that say, I'm just here for the bubbles. And that's for a bibliobop. Miss Edina always has a little bubble gum she uses at the end. And oh, you know, it's a little top of the rave. It is wonderful. But yeah, that was the one she was shared like go for it. And please know, you know, you might feel like you're sharing something that everybody knows, but there could be that one person out there that you've just rocked the world. And yeah, you never know where with the background of what people are getting. And a lot of times, these lessons and information you learn in real life. So don't ever, you know, second guess yourself that you're giving something that everyone knows. Yeah, yeah. Some of them here says, a toddler rave, I'm using that. Please, photos and videos. Send them my way. I'd love to see that. A successful storytime ends in a toddler rave. Yes. Well, that would be a whole separate webinar. This ladder goes. Okay, our next guest is a Bryce Coslow. She works out in the Washington County. Okay, I'm WCCLS, the Washington Cooperative County Library System. Oh, yeah. And she helps all the youth service librarians out there. She is a wonderful advocate for people with disabilities and has taught classes on libraries and dealing with disabilities, whether it's staff or patrons, and just she just follow her blog. If you'd like some wonderful tips and other information. But I'll go ahead and play her video. Hi everyone, I'm Bryce. I'm a youth services librarian in Oregon, and I'm also the author of the blog. I still pray. I was a disabled child who grew up to be a disabled member. And so I'm happy to give her a couple of my favorite tips about kids with disabilities and storytime. One, families experiencing disabilities can be hesitant to attend events designed for general population, because they're used to their needs not being considered. When promoting a program, a phrase like all abilities invited will signal to families that you're expecting to see kids with disabilities in storytime to make sure to let your families know that beginning of storytime, if anyone needs a break, they can leave and come back or come back next time. Two, you may see kids with fine boner or large motor impairments in your storytime. When playing movement songs, think deliberately about what each action is asking the child to make sure to switch up some kinds of movements so no one goes too long without being able to participate successfully. For instance, for every Etsy Fancy Spider, add a real warrior boat. And three, don't signal out anyone who looks like they're having trouble with a rhyme or a movement. Next time you see that kid in storytime, it might be kind to change up that song or rhyme or movement. OK, that's it. Hope you have a good day. Yay! Thank you, Bryce. Wonderful, wonderful tips. Again, can't recommend her enough as a blocker or as a teacher. If you find out she's doing a online course sign up, it's worth every penny. Free advertisement for Bryce. Yay! Can I have a comment or someone has a suggestion from the audience? So if anyone does have, that's what this is, the session here about is about sharing. Yes. As Rebecca said, normally done in person, so people in the audience and just shouting out things or whatever. Oh, it's fun. So that's what we need you to do, but online. So type into your questions section. If you have a microphone and it's hooked up and you know it's working, you can do that as well. Just type in, I have microphone. Please unmute me. And you can share your ideas that way as well. Sweet. But Caitlyn says, have an outline for storytime, but be flexible. Go with the flow of your crowd. Yes, that's wonderful. It kind of relates to also what she was just saying here. You need to know your audience and realize you don't know your audience necessarily until they walk in the door. Exactly. And I think that's a skill. You know, if you're blessed with that naturally, it's taking me a long time to kind of figure out how to deal with those unexpected moments in stories mind or even with patron services. It's a skill you can work on and improve on. And I'm a type A personality, so to be more flexible was a lesson that took a while. You know, it's one thing to know it and another thing to feel comfortable doing it. So yeah, anyone else? I just don't want to go shooting past. Okay. Someone does say, some of our staff here at the commission, because you had on the first slide there about scarf songs. She says, we don't have any scarf songs and we desperately need one. Oh boy. So they want to know what is it. You know, they want to see an example of a scarf song. Oh my gosh. I don't have one. I will give you a resource a little bit later for online where you can learn some beautiful scarf songs or fun scarf songs. So just put a pin in that and come back to it. And again, you know, if any of you want to hop in and share one, we can happily unmute and you can describe what you're doing with a scarf. I could try to mimic it with nothing and you guys can use your imaginations. But yeah, I'll give you a really good resource near the end that if you're not aware of, I will have made your month, not just a I will have made your month. So, I'm going to ask this question. Oh yes, how do you make families of all abilities feel welcomed either in your story time or your library space? Does anybody out there have any thoughts on this question? Anything that you use to sit, particularly in your library? Yeah. Or maybe you just work with universal design and really, you know, try your best to make everyone feel welcomed. But sometimes it's really a good thing to keep that in the back of the mind and not make assumptions. There was I took that course with Bryce and one thing I learned that I think could be an issue with you services librarians because we are so friendly and outgoing is infantizing someone with a disability where you talk to them like they're a child. Assume competence, talk to them as you'd want to be taught to at whatever age they seem to be. And you can adjust from there. But don't, you know, be aware that don't do your sing songy voice that you reserve for toppers. And that's something I never really thought of before. So if there's nothing, oh, no, there's a long thing that takes a while to make sure we have an area with no screens, which is separate from our more tech heavy area. They haven't by accident because all they had a broken was all machines. Yes. But families have really appreciated having both options screened an area with all the computers and one that's a little more sensory kind of neutral. That's a really good idea. We have such loaded space in our children's library that it's unfortunate your story time is right next to the computers. So we're keeping universal design very much the forefront as we start, hopefully knocking wood. Fundraising for new library space. Okay, exactly. Yeah. Yay. I'm going to hop on. If your question pops up a little late, we will pause and get to it. Type in whenever you think of something. Yeah. This next one is tests. She's a librarian out in that Maryland. And she actually changed my life and we'll get to that. Unfortunately, this video got cut off and I didn't realize it until last night as I was editing things. But I think you know where she's headed by the end of it. And it's the cell phone quality. It's a little bit jumbled video. But here we go. Here's tests. It's very good. It was great. I'm from teammate Maryland. And my great thing is in New York. New York is a really easy to play. You can teach yourself how to music. They are in some cells. You can get pretty good ones. And then you can take all your outings to that. You can have music available, which is great. And you can make almost any breakings from a lot more interactive. You can ask the kids. And that is where it stops. So yeah, you can ask the kids to come up and like play the you play it, you know, strum or hit a note. It really I stumbled across. I put down the, oh no, let me go back. She did an article and asked back in 2012 that I stumbled across. And it was about music and story times focusing on the ukulele. And I had a flashback to my childhood where there was a music teacher, probably in first grade, that had an auto car. And I thought that was the most magical thing in the world. And so when I wanted to add music to a program, typically we had to deal with the pianist and all that. I feel like booking pianist. I went online, found her article and immediately bought a ukulele. And it really is. You can play well over 30 songs if you've learned three chords. Yeah. And even we do a song at the beginning of our some story times where it's, you know, we wave and saying hello, we wave and saying hello. That it's just one chord. C chord, one little and you're good to go. One unexpected thing I've done with that. Sorry, rice and test. That I've taken the ukulele to offsite events, like a business fair. And yeah, and we actually circulate ukulele. So it's something we do at our library. But also, yeah, when we sign up parents for library friends at those events, I'm showing the kids the ukulele and even teaching them, you know, one chord. And that keeps them fascinated and the 812 parents do all the boring stuff. And then the family has a fun memory of, you know, wow, that that was a really interesting booth. You know, and what an experience and wow, that library, they check out ukulele is what? And check out anything. Yeah. And now here's an answer to you guys. How do you incorporate music in your storytime? Shelly says, I found the ukulele really helpful in outreach story times, with kids who are not accustomed to being read to, they are more familiar with listening to music. Not all children, I guess, have been read to, we just finished it all. Also, she says, I am supremely average at it, and they don't seem to care. No, they think you're magical. It's a tiny guitar to them. Yeah. And it really, if you're enthusiastic about it, even the parents don't care, they're amazed you're afraid enough to do that. Play something in front of you and act in ganglion as this, I'm not sure you know, but this a web, a URL she put up storytime ukulele.wordpress.com. So a specific website just for doing using ukuleles in storytime. And there are a lot of storytime ukulele players. There's, I'm going to blank on her, but there's a wonderful research librarian that does teaches storytime songs on YouTube. I think if you look at storytime ukulele, you can find her quite easily. And we're going to check that out real quick. I'm going to see if I just want to make sure you see what it is. Yeah. Simple chords for children's songs. Perfect. Song index about storytelling. Yeah. Yes, that was a resource I wasn't aware of. So awesome. Thank you. That was Caitlin. Yes. Awesome. Thank you. So find out their storytime ukulele.wordpress.com. If you want to get into doing this in your own library, you should give it a go. It is a lot of fun. Let's see. We have the wonderful Mary from Mountain Colorado and her blog is MissMerryLibrary.com. She also is one of the founding joint chiefs of Gorilla Storytime. And here's her tip. Hi, storytimers. My name is Mary, and I just wanted to share with you something that has helped me a lot when giving early literacy reminders during storytime. I kind of like to call them reminders rather than tips or whether girls who might choose to call them because then it sort of implies that the parents and caregivers already know things are telling them. You're just reminding them of something they already know, which for me makes it sound a little less like we're telling parents what to do. And as a childless librarian, you know, it might seem strange that I'm telling parents something to do to help their children learn. So that's one reason I like to call them reminders. But what's helped me when sharing with parents is thinking about the things that really get me excited about early literacy learning, especially the brain development pieces. I think that's so fascinating. So it's really easy for me to transfer that enthusiasm into what I'm sharing with parents because rather than me telling them, like, I know that with you, you really should know this stuff, I'm saying, isn't this cool that this is what's going on in reader and finger play? Isn't it great that just by singing this song, you are helping your child get ready to read? So I hope that I'm passing that enthusiasm on and that it encourages parents and caregivers and lets them to continue what we do in stories from an impact point. So thanks and enjoy your session with Mr. Becker. Thanks, Mary. That was wonderful. Wonderful tips. The that was probably a big thing that I struggled with when I was I cover for story time or between children's librarians. I was doing the majority of the children's programming. And it really dealing with parents because I'm also a childless youth service worker and I've had that thrown in my face when when having to deal with issues in the library. The before you get to the question, I'll give a quick other shout out to Brooke, who is a blogger at Reading with Red. She kind of changed my world and I haven't had an issue with this since learning this tip from her. When parents will sometimes use the librarians escape go it's like, oh, you better not do that or Mr. Rebecca will kick you out. Rebecca will be angry at you. And that's just a punch in the gut. And I mean, I understand why they're doing it, but you know, I don't want fear of any of our workers, you know, a reason why a kid should behave a certain way. So her suggestion and one I've used, which is wonderful, is I will go up to that family and say, hi, friends. I bet you didn't know that you can't run around on the furniture or whatever it is. Yeah, that they're doing. I've used that with mom. I said, you know, I don't think I call her friend, but it's like, hey, I didn't know that we have a policy. You can't use your cell phone in this library. That particular one, she's like, oh, I knew it. But yeah, I was like, OK, well, obviously it was an emergency. So I'm glad you're aware of it. And then I backed away. So OK, for early literacy, how do you teach parents these skills? What ways do you empower them, make them feel like they are giving their children the best? That's something I think as I went into youth services, I started Storytime just as a fun Storytime event. And as the years went on, I learned how much early literacy is in there. How is modeling things without even realizing it? And now to go back to what Miss May said, anything I do is very intentional. And that includes even if I'm just being goofy, it shows parents that it's OK to be silly and still be professional. You know, kids, they learn from play and they learn from things. And it's I don't know if this is the best way to describe it, but it is what is you're being sneaky and underhanded by doing something fun that they learn from. Right. And that's how it works. That's I mean, it's OK to realize that. Yeah. And it's all this. You don't sit down and say to a three year old, now we're going to learn how to do this and make it all serious. You just do something and and proof they've learned something. We have a comment. There's a new one that came in, but I just wanted to read the one that was from the music one. That's what we're doing. The staff said librarians need to remember that kids do not care about voice quality. They just want to have fun. So sing away with that. Yes, just yes. Sing out of the top of your lungs. You like the song, do it. Let it go. And shelly has this which is responsible. You were just asking about. I have a take home that follows the five areas of every child ready to read one. So there's things you can hand out. It addresses each section as we read. We play and we sing so that parents can continue our activities at home. So that's kind of like do your story time, do your things and then give the parents something. So kids get a stamp and the parents can take away one more. Yeah, here if you want to do this yourself, they don't have to remember what it was. Yeah, they have a little cheat sheet. That's a good idea. Yeah, you know, or you could even offer, you know, handouts to your tab group. If they babysit at all. You know, empower the next generations. Yeah, and then involved with doing it outside the library. And this is I learned this from my librarian friend. Yeah, nice. Another resource I want to mention, ALSC has a ALSC. They have a group of posters and handouts called Babies Need Words Every Day. And it touches on all those early literacy points. We have them hung up in our bathrooms. I've had some preschool caregivers ask where I got those and they're beautiful. Check them out. You can download them, print them out. It's a wonderful resource to use. And that's Babies Need Words Every Day. And I believe Brooke from Reading with Red was part of the committee that put that together. So shout out again to Brooke. Okay, I just don't know. This is, yeah, the Tales for the Tiny. Blink on her name. Oh, she's another founder of the Storytime Underground. Julie, this is Julie. And she did hers more in the format of, you know, talking to parents how she does early literacy skills for during story time. But I'll just play it and we can hear her wonderful tips. Hello, this is Julie Crabb and here's a tip I like to share in Storytime. Tatlors love to mimic what's going on in the world around them. Right now at home, my kid likes to put on protective coverants because she sees her mom do it at my point. Make sure that your kid sees you reading. Check out a book just for you at the library today. We're always happy to help you find one. Or let your kid know when you're reading on your mobile device, even if it is just tweets and status samples. The more they see that reading is a part of your daily routine, the more likely it's going to be a part of theirs. Thanks. Yay, and guest spot by Elvin Gerald. So yeah, that I have seen wonderful interactions with parents and kids as a parent. I think there's a TV commercial where the parents are walking around and describing things and what they seem like they are having some kind of breakdown. But it turns out they're actually talking to their babies and toddlers. And I've seen some parents do that and I usually applaud them when in the library. And I will tell a quick story where a patron was doing that. And as she checked out, she was talking to her child about the books they were checking out. One had a turkey on it. And the mom was like, oh, what kind of animal is that? The kid was like turkey. And the mom was like, yeah, what does the turkey sound like? And the kid was like, ah, and the mom lets out the most beautiful and perfect dead on turkey call. I almost fell out of my chair and it wasn't quiet at all. It was the whole I can't even do it. And I was laughing so hard. I think the woman had like 30 cents of fines. I was like, wave that. There was fines for that performance because it was I'm still talking about it. It's been at least a year. So yeah, she lives on in my heart for being willing to be willing to be that silly to help her get broke. You know, that's awesome. Yeah. And I like Julie's comment about even on your phone that reading is there's all different formats of how you can read the end reading from books is one reading on your tablets or in a device or something. Reading is reading. Yeah. And anyway, you can show your children that this is this is cool that what I'm doing here is what I'm doing on my phone, what I'm doing on my tablet, when I'm sitting here, I'm reading a reading a book on my tablet. It's the same thing as you reading that book over there. And hey, I'm going to train you to read your book. You're like, there's there's more things than just games. Yeah. So yeah, you know, show them that that's another. What is it? It's not it's the content not the container. Yes, the phrase that I was trying to look for. Yes, like it. Yeah. And that's, you know, during our summer reading time, our program, you know, we just encourage kids to record how much time they read for week. And if they read a little bit each week, they get to keep a book, pick out and keep a price book. And there are times where parents are like, oh, you didn't read this past week. And I'm just like, well, did you, you know, go on any trips where there were billboards? Did that, you know, I look for anyway, the child's been reading, you know, did you read some information on TV? We don't want to be that that stickler of, you know, has to be a book, you know, just reading any time is a wonderful thing. OK, I think the next one. Ah, this is Melissa Mel. She is the blogger at Mel's desk, but it says Mel's desk, but it has the actual web address there. So she shared with me presentation, part of a presentation she gave for I believe it's an online course just showing how she presents a book to children and parents during a short time. So I'll say that. I mean, yes, well, if I want my husband to turn class in, who do you think wants his husband? Maybe he was scared. He doesn't know how I know. You think we'll get one way to end the book? We'll have to see. We'll have to wait and see. Bruno, when you ask your child a question about the book before you begin, you try to learn how many questions about what she thinks. This helps them become a good reader because we can make conditions of crisis comprehension. The topic of the trial will help them to read. Yeah, there you go. Yeah, she just gives a little tip. I think in the real world, she finished that whole book and then maybe, you know, mentioned that tip to the parents afterwards. I don't think she would stop the goal of asking the kids question. Now I'm going to put it down and get some information. So it's just a good tip at the beginning. Yeah, yeah, to give out or that would be a great thing to put in the handout like that was suggested earlier. So so you would even in front. So this is you do this in front of the kids and parents together and kind of like just it's not just straight time for the kids. It's get some info to the parents. And and kids, they know they'll ignore that part. Yeah, what they're thinking about. Yeah, the story just read. Wait, where's the hat? Yeah, yeah. And they find out they're accidentally learning by playing they can use that against their parents in the future. So you never know what those kids will absorb. It's pretty much everything. So oh, this was an email I received because they did not want to share a video. I could figure out what library she was from. I'm guessing in Nebraska. So Lisa wrote I just love occasionally including a wordless book. I pick it up and look at it and then slam it shut with horror on my face. Oh my goodness. Oh no. Look again in the book. Lean in conspiratorial and say no words in this book. Pause and look around. Do you see any on the floor under your knees? Oh my goodness. What would we do? Then I know you will have to come and help me one at a time. You can tell me what the word should say about the pictures. Raise your hand and I will pick someone one at a time. The answers are so concerned that there are no words in that they have fallen out of the book. It is so fun. I only do this a time or two in a year. Surprises the key to getting the reactions. And yeah, I love that. Yeah. I know, you know, we've done wordless books in story time. We have a section for wordless picture books as well. And I never thought in a million years of doing that that I can just see little Rebecca being like, whoa. And having my mind blown that these words fell out and then, you know, being encouraged to use those narrative skills and, you know, by helping the story, your storyteller make the story up. It would be really fun to have somebody like record that, at least the audio and then put the story together and then get that out like that. Have just a fun little book with the stories that the kids make up about books. I'm just throwing that out there because it just occurred to me. That'd be so amazing. So you can do a story time without any story? Well, that's a free written story. Yeah, yeah. You know how kids are. I just, when she wrote this, they make up their own stories anyway. They do. And I'm just like, I went to her, my children's library and I Jennifer to maybe do this sometime because I think it would be so much fun. And then maybe by the end of the month, we could put a little book together with all the the different story time stories that the parents could pick up and you have fun with. I love that. So I think you have any special storytelling theatrics that you use to draw in your attendees? Yeah, kind of creative. Acts do you put on? Yeah. Show. Yeah, the the oh, that book. I mean, this will age me up when I was doing some story times that the bear snores on bear sleeps on. I can't think of karma. Is a karma wasn't. But anyway, as you're reading, I just started to fall asleep, you know, and then start snoring and wait until the kids wake you up. Oh, man, that it really sometimes the parents don't know what to do when they finally realize, oh, we need to wake her up. Bear snores on the bear snores on it was. So I always love doing, you know, gags like that, where, you know, either books making you sleepy or acting out the the words of the story. There's one time. Yeah, OK, I'll tell it. I took pigeon from the Moellums book and inserted them into run Turkey run that like the turkey asked for a little vacation. So pigeon agreed to step in and did a very brief stint in this book. It was just a few pages where I kind of attached pigeon dressed up as a Turkey. And the kids I had one story time where the kids were blown away. They're like, whoa, you know, what's pigeon doing there? And the next. Right. Yeah, no. And then. And then the second group, like the next day, didn't care. They could have cared less. I mean, I still told the story, but I, you know, I'm pretty surprised you should check this book out sometimes to see how it actually is. You know, I know it's modifying the author's original work, but it's the one time I did it. And I personally have a blast, especially with one that really got into it. And that goes back to the beginning. You never know what your audience is going to be like from day to day. You know, the same the same topic, the same story, the same theatrics that you do when one group is all up for it. And then the ones that whole be flexible. That's the lesson of yeah, don't take it personally. Yes. That is a very important tip for a new children's library. And don't take it personally. You know, you'll you'll get a good feel for the room. But even then, you know, you have the one kid that stands up and, you know, says something wildly inappropriate, declaring it to the whole library. Use your imagination. Yeah. And you just got a role with it. I'm not that fast on my feet. I'd be like, oh, that's nice. You need to can you sit on your pockets and we can share more at the end of the story. And I learned kids are fickle. They will hate you one day and think you're the best thing in the world the next day and you don't know what happened. Yeah. And it's OK. Just go with it. Yeah. Yeah. And that. I have a tough time with names, remembering names, parents, kids, doesn't matter that going back to Brooke, saying, hi, friend. It's the most, you know, amazing thing to kids that like she thinks I'm her friend. You know, there was a little girl that was so shy that every Saturday morning I'd read her. Oh, hi, friend. Happy to see you again. And she could just kind of didn't speak to me. And I asked her that, you know, what was her name, Tana. And now I know it's Hannah, but I still most of the time will say, friend, how are you doing today? And she just. It's wonderful. And it takes the pressure off of me for remembering things. So that's a little little tip in my toolkit that has really changed the dynamic I have with anyone in our library. I think. Oh, yeah. What are some of your favorite online resources? We've got the one you have a little one that was listed. Yeah. Again, StorytimeUnderground.org go to their favorite like their blog role. You'll find wonderful, wonderful, wonderful resources there. Different blogs, sharing different topics. Any time you go to a blog and you like it, look at their blog role. It's a great resource. And then I just immediately copy paste the URL to my RSS feed. And then I just have tons of information. Finger tips. So going back to the scarves. If you haven't heard of Jbrary, you need to be aware of Jbrary. They have a YouTube channel where you can subscribe and get notified when they have a new video. They are two lovely Canadian youth service librarians. And they do all the hard work for you and have different story times, storytime songs to present. And they have scarf songs. You can look it up. They have. Yeah. They do sign. I believe this one. They teach you the sign language and I'll just show you what to expect with them. Hi, everyone. This is a weather team song perfect for the fall when the winter. It's called Come under my umbrella. We're going to be using some American Sign Language to sing this song. Here we go. Come under my umbrella umbrella, love, umbrella, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, It's a wonderful resource, they're just so open and sharing and just they're wonderful, wonderful people and it could hopefully give you a little more confidence when you know practicing if you're not that comfortable with singing and making it so you're not just sitting there singing, they give you ideas of what to do so you're even including you know sign language or scarves or shapers. Does anybody have any other sites that you guys use for resources any online websites that use to get more ideas type in the question section and we can share them we'll have all these collected any that are not in the presentation yeah for you afterwards and we can make sure everybody has access knows what they are yeah I think I have one more site maybe oh this is I'm yeah you would think Bryce pays me she does but every summer for the past two three summers she has done something I called the summer reading height videos where she asks the different bloggers use service librarians anywhere in the world to create a video to directly to use service librarians or just the librarians and public librarians in general for summer reading programs just either tips for stress management mine usually have very little to do with actual learning anything it's just me being silly and I'm hoping I'm making people after in the summer because it can get intense this is the show me librarian Amy and she had a wonderful tip so this is from I 2016 yeah summer height videos I they're all reported on Bryce's blog to go there type in summer height and you can look at the backlog of these so here's Amy's I'm Amy Cooster and I hear that in the summer where you are and that means summer reading now summer reading is buckles the fight but it can't be kind of exhausting so I'm here today to give you a little bit of a pet talk and I brought with my trusty binder so I want to go over with you five things Leslie don't try us that can help to power through an amazing summer reading club or if you happen to want to miss when it's not fine it's also good for any other big project initiative presentation evening concerts or by your project designer to do list so let's get started it's summer reading what you need to remember to be awesome number one no competition is too small for celebration I'm sure you just did something awesome today so you should a have yourself on the back and be like tell co-worker or PC co-worker did something awesome to celebrate it say great job you don't have toast with a can pop water or salt to water we really like salt to water in the library I don't know think about how you can celebrate and maybe something that it's just part of your routine so that you're constantly in that really good mood about the things that you're accomplishing dance breaks and prompting karaoke can totally change your mood so if you find yourself being a little bit cranky maybe find that cool box check out the kids TV and putting something that you love sing dance jump around and have yourself getting particularly upset with your co-worker I hear it's really useful to put on you fire what was help so what was in general are amazing and delicious and you really need any other food but this is also a metaphor basically eat breakfast it's something your mom is going to do you don't always do it when you do do it you feel better so do that and yourself ridiculous and true compliments I so a lot of things that look you up with saying how that's right and we're crazy but really just make everybody feel better and feel better so think about how you can give those compliments to yourself and to your co-workers and remember you are a brilliant creative starfish no one accomplishes anything alone so remember this summer that you're not going alone you may feel isolated you need to have a lot of questions and kids and sticky fingers but you're not yourself so look to your team rely on your team ask for help we need it and celebrate together because together you are going to offer an amazing program for kids in the library those are the five tips to Leslie know they're gonna be usable for an amazing summer reading club I hope you enjoyed it and I hope you have a wonderful summer thank you Amy and Bryce so that gives you a feel for what those high videos are about so if you want to try to do anything Bryce but to call up for submissions sometime in the early spring and it's just a real fun thing to be a part of she shares it with her library system first and then makes them available to the public and large and it really is a good stress reducer to get a fresh video every week to be like oh there's a new video and even if they're a little silly you can at least find a grain of something to make your summer a little easier so you can zoom in we do have a suggestion you'd ask for other websites Gail says thrive after three yes yes has a lot of good ideas for story time that one yeah right I follow thrive after three yeah thrive after three engaging programs to keep kids coming back to the library yeah and they sometimes host the flannel Fridays that's can't remember who started with a Kate storytime Kate started flannel Fridays if they do any kind of flannel boards look for flannel Fridays it'll rock your world you can get ideas for new ones yep oh yeah with diagrams and all that stuff and they have links on theirs too flannel Fridays storytime underground yes thrive Thursday school age programming and after school clubs for kids yeah yeah I really I love living in this day and age where we can get so much information and share information I'll do a little final plug you know my my whole library career changed when I started a blog and it became more use services oriented when I kind of made a really fun poster I'm like you know maybe a couple hundred people will see this in my community I spent a lot of time on this why don't I share with the world of large it's one less thing another library would have to do you know for prepping for whatever event and a couple years later I have all these wonderful use service blogging friends that I've matched or have yet to meet but that they've changed my life life and many many ways they become friends and mentors so if you want to maybe you know think about starting your own blog please don't hesitate to reach out to me I can give you all the tips and tricks I've learned by 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