 Hello and welcome to Encompass Live on this Wednesday morning. This is Sally Snyder and I had a little bit of a tricky setup again today, but things are looking good and we're ready to go. So I'm very excited to introduce our presenter this morning, Rebecca Stavik, who is the Executive Director of the Do Space in Omaha, and she's going to be telling us about that space and all the kinds of things that you may be able to enjoy while you're there. So go ahead, Rebecca. Yeah, thank you so much for having me. I'm assuming you guys can see my screen. Yes, no, maybe? You can see it? I can see it, yes. All right, awesome. Well, thank you so much everyone for coming and listening to a little bit more about Do Space. Thank you so much, you know, especially to Krista Burns for asking me to speak a little bit today. Before I get started in telling you a little bit more about Do Space, I'll just tell you a little bit more about myself. I'm originally from South Dakota, but I grew up in Georgia and I've been in Nebraska now for about six years. I did my master's degree in library and information science from San Jose State. I think I finished that in 2012. I can't believe it's been that long. When I first moved to Omaha about six years ago, I started working at Omaha Public Library as a library aide and I was shelving books and then I became a clerk and then a specialist and did some reference work. My final position there was in administration, working on staff development initiatives and also during that time in my life, I was working on a lot of open data initiatives in the community, which I affectionately can be called as Civic Hockey. This is about volunteers coming together and using local data to take that data and create apps so that community members have more access to their local information. As part of my job then at OPL, being really active in the tech community here in Omaha, I thought about a lot of different ways that OPL could kind of engage with the tech and startup communities. I was named Executive Director of Doospice in February 2015. We've been kind of chug along ever since then. When I first started, I was the only employee. I was then tasked with building the organization and then once I had everyone hired running it. It's just been an incredible moment for Omaha to have a project like this. I'm excited to tell you guys a little bit more about it. By the way, feel free to throw out questions there in the chat. I have found that a lot of times when I present on Doospice, I tend to have just an incredible number of questions. I love that. Definitely write your questions down. I'm going to leave some space here at the end so we have time for us to chat a little bit. I love to hear your thoughts, your questions, ideas, everything towards the end of the presentation. That's me. Let's talk about Doospice a little bit. I will apologize right now. I've got a little bit of a cough, but hopefully I don't bother you too much. Before I tell you a little bit about what Doospice is specifically, let me tell you a little bit about why it exists. As librarians, you guys know there is still a distinct digital divide in our country, right? Across the country, and especially in our towns and cities, you can see still a distinct digital divide. That is still absolutely the case here in Omaha, based on the American Community Survey results that have been coming out now for about two years. We now have some insight into what the digital divide actually looks like here in Omaha. You can take that data, put it across the city, and if you look at it into quadrants, and even look at it here in Omaha, 72nd and Dodge is the very center of town. That's where Doospice is located. 72nd Street that runs north and south. If you're looking at the American Community Survey data, you'll see that only about 77% of people living on the eastern side of the city have access to the internet. And on the western side of the city, so west of 72nd Street, it's more like 90 to 95% of folks have internet service at home. So here in Omaha, then, we do have a distinct digital divide here that we've still got quite a few people in the community who do not have internet access at home, and they do not have computers at home. Now, the digital divide and what that looks like has changed dramatically in the past decade, right? I mean, it's more and more people have access through mobile devices, but perhaps do not have stationary machines. I think this is just the changing nature of technology. Things are much more mobile than they were even just a few years ago. But what's interesting about that, though, is that if you think a little bit about your experience on an iPhone or your Android phone compared to your computing experience on a work, like a workstation computer, phones are specifically designed to be simple, easy to use, user-friendly. And you really cannot have, you can't get that exposure to a more advanced kind of computing environment just through a phone, at least at this point in time. So for those people who only rely on their phones to access the internet and maybe that's their number one piece of technology in their lives, they are not getting that opportunity to access more advanced software, different kinds of computing devices, et cetera. So that is a problem. It's not just a problem known as a problem in society. There's another problem, though, that I would argue that is bigger and more challenging and more pressing than the digital divide. And that would be creating more opportunities for our citizens to engage in digital learning, boosting technology literacy. More and more we have access to technology and to the internet. But what are we doing with it? Are we really exploring what is coming down the road? And I think a little bit about things like internet of things, for instance, smart devices that are connected to the internet. We as citizens really need to have at least a very basic understanding of technology, computers, software, using the internet, those sorts of things. That all has to be taken care of. That's got to be a given before you can really even understand what's coming next, this whole wave of smart devices. And not only understand the basics of the cloud and IoT and all of that, but to really fully understand the pros and cons and the impacts of these kinds of rapid technological developments on society, on culture, on privacy, on the economy. So in that vein, do space really exists to help increase access to technology and offer the Omaha community opportunities to learn new kinds of tech, hardware, software, whatever, in a free and inclusive community space. So if you really boil down do space to two things, that's what it's going to be. It's going to be access to technology and access to free tech learning. So I'm going to show you some pictures here of the building, and then I'm going to get into some more specifics then on the technology and programs that we offer here at do space. Let me just show you these pictures here real quick. Several of these pictures are available on our website or on our Flickr page. So let me just chat really quick about the building. If you guys are in Omaha, from Omaha, if you've been here, you'll know that this building was once a borders. I did not live in Omaha when this was a border store, but I swear it had to have been the largest bookstore in the world. This is a 20,000 square foot building, and it's a big building for what must have been a very large bookstore. So this was once a border store, and borders of course went out of business, building Lake Bacon for almost five years. And we got into the building, got at it on the inside, and obviously did quite a lot on the outside by adding some digital LED signage and this front part that kind of glows. If you're familiar with this area of town, this is 72nd and Dodge. I mentioned this is the very center of Omaha when we were planning this project in the very early stages. If our goal is to provide access to technology and learning experiences for everyone, we really had to pick a strategic space to launch this project. And 72nd and Dodge is easy to get to from all spaces in the city. And I'd also say it's a bit of a transit hub. It is very easy, or it's easier to get to this intersection via the bus system than probably any other space in town. And that was very important to us to make sure that if we had to only pick one space, we had to make sure that we were in a really great space for everyone throughout the city to come to. So it's also really great. This is the Crossroads neighborhood. And I think it's really kind of refreshing to see new development and fresh things going on in this part of town. Excuse me. This is just a quick shot of the front of the building when you walk in. So the left there, you'll see part of our 3D lab. And I'll tell you a little bit more about that. I'm going to get you on our website and talk a little bit more about our specific pieces of technology. Here you can see this is our computer lab area. You'll see here, if you can see those computers, you'll notice that we actually, we've got a lot of different kinds of computers. And typically when you think of a computer lab, you're going to think 30 computers, they're all PCs. They all have the exact same software and they all basically do the same thing. That's not what our approach is here. Our approach here is let's offer a little bit of everything and see what the community responds to. So in our computer lab area, we have both Macs and PCs. We have high seating, low seating. We have accessibility stations for people who have low vision. We've got dual monitor stations that have AutoCAD and some more robust design tools. So our goal here was really to just kind of mix it up. As far as I understand, DoSpace is the only space in town in Omaha where you can get access to a Mac computer for free. Excuse me. This is our, we call this our team room. All these photos that I'm showing you, of course, are professional photography. So this is actually before we open, but this was a room that we called our teen hangout space. But we're changing the name of it to Active Learning Lab because on the other side of this room, we've got a large video wall where kids can do video games. And we've seen such a wide range of ages in this space. We just didn't think it made a lot of sense to make it specific to one age group. This is a quick shot of part of our Little's Lab area where little kids come in. And this space, if you're, you know, I'm sure you're familiar with story times. If you think about the story time, just engaging a little bit more with technology, that's what we call our Little's Lab program. Kids come in on Tuesdays and Saturdays and have some kind of a learning activity with tech. And they're always a lot of fun. This here is the second floor of the building. This is Metropolitan Community College, just on our second floor. And so they offer continuing education, like non-credit classes. So you can actually then come into do space. You know, our goal is to bring people into the first floor, get them excited about technology, expose them to new things, hopefully inspire them to use technology for, you know, to pursue their dreams, get things done, be abuse. And then if you're looking to really take things to the next level, you're looking to, you know, really take a series possibly on Microsoft Office programs, or you want to do something on that more advanced level, then you can quite literally go to the next level on the second floor of the building and take a non-credit class with Metro. And this is such an amazing opportunity for partnership because Metro offers more advanced tech-related stuff, but you don't have to be a student and you don't have to pay, you know, hefty tuition and all of that to get access to that. And that was a really important piece of our partnership with Metro Community College upstairs. They've got a really big, you can see here, excuse me, a really nice big space. These are just a few other pictures I added in here. This is a Little's Lab program. These devices are called Bebots. They also have a version of this called, I think it's called BlueBot that runs off of Bluetooth, but this is a really great example of one of the activities we use in Little's Lab because Bebots are a little toy for kids that teaches them the logic behind learning how to code because code is really just a string of commands that you're issuing to a computer. And these little bots then teach children kind of the fundamentals of how to create those lines of code. Excuse me. And here's just some pictures of some folks using the building. We've always got creative folks here hanging out, playing with robots. This is another awesome device. This is part of a kit called the dash and dot robot. Kids love this. It connects to various apps and it teaches you how to learn how to code over time. This was just one of my favorite pictures from a program. This is a light painting workshop that we did. So this is the slow exposure of photography and so kids would kind of paint in the air using light. It's a lot of fun. And here's just some pictures of folks using the space. To the left here, we've got a nice lady using what's called an egg bot. This is a little robot that uses Sharpie markers to write on spherical objects. So last year we had a lot of fun doing really cool Christmas ornaments stuff. And to the right here, we've got two kids interacting with a telepresence robot. This is called a double robot. If you want to do a meeting with someone across the world, you can send them a link and that link will grant them access to this robot and they can completely control it. They can roll it around the whole building. They can be in meetings. Their face will be right there on the iPad. It's a lot of fun. And this is that active learning lab that I had mentioned earlier. This is just a particularly busy day. Excuse me. What you're seeing here is a bunch of kids working with tech kids. And I will talk a little bit more about that here in just a second. I'm going to pull up the website and tell you a little bit more specifics about the tech we've got here. But this is another group playing with one of our tech kids as well. And this is some of my very favorite things that have been created here at Do Space. The 3D printed a fully functioning violin. Obviously we didn't 3D print the strings or the wood piece there. I'm not a musician so I don't know a whole lot about this but we have had some musicians come in and actually play this. Last year we had a concert, a little holiday concert and we had some really cool songs played on the machine, on the violin. So the right here you'll see we had one person 3D print a full sized human brain and then also laser cut a chess board. So let me take you guys to our website so I can tell you a little bit more specifically what you can find at Do Space. Excuse me. Our website here is just dospace.org. You know in terms of technology we have, as I mentioned, we've got our public computer lab with a lot of different kinds of hardware and software. The computers that are out there we have a computer reservation system not unlike probably what you guys have in your library systems. There's quite a few pieces of software that we use here to run operations it's library software. There's not quite a lot, it's not a huge, huge market of having to kind of manage a public computer lab. So we have quite a few different pieces of software. I'll go ahead and just show you this list here instead of going through all of it because you'll see there's quite a lot of different stuff here available for people. But what I'll say is that when we designed this space it was just vitally important to us that we offered advanced software for people to use. Adobe Photoshop Illustrator InDesign, these first three here are some of the most commonly used pieces of software here. This is very expensive stuff. Adobe Creative Suite is expensive software. We have AutoCAD that is very expensive and the reason why we really made this investment is because there are just so many people who cannot afford this and if we can really step up and invest in this kind of software what is the potential? What opportunities could people potentially have just through accessing it? I've had a lot of small business owners in using Photoshop and InDesign being very thankful that they didn't have to purchase these items on their own. I believe this is one of the things that makes DoSpace particularly unique. We offer hardware and software for a very basic user somebody who just wants to come in and use a computer. But we also offer hardware and software for people who might be learning their fifth coding language or they've been 3D printing for years and they want to use one of our really advanced machines. I think that this is very important that we begin to offer more and more advanced technologies to our communities because only then will they have that opportunity to take their skills to the next level. Excuse me. Another thing that I wanted to just tell you a little bit more about from one of those pictures we have some tech activity kits and this is one of our most popular things here at DoSpace We have identified a variety of technology learning toys experimental pieces of technology I'm sure several of these you guys have heard of you might just have it at your libraries as well. What we have done is we've taken some of these items and we've created activity kits so people will come in and they can check out the kit to use in the building and then just hack away on it. Several of these are robotics some are very simple. Google Cardboard is not necessarily a technological device but it is when you connect it to certain apps on your smartphone. Goldy blocks for instance this is a construction kit for girls to really inspire them to get it to engineering. So we have a lot of different tech kits and this changes all the time. We're always scheming on different activity kits to have here. One of the real feature key pieces of DoSpace is our 3D lab which I can see we do not have any good pictures of on this page but our 3D lab has laser cutter, vinyl cutter 3D printers and we're always looking to add more stuff to our 3D lab. It was kind of important to me that we didn't call it a maker space. I personally am completely sick of that word and we also don't have big saws and sawdust flying through the air. Our lab is a clean lab space and it's a space for 3D technologies. Not only do we have 3D printers we've got a wide variety of 3D modeling software that people can use. Excuse me, let me see if I can get you guys. There we go, that's a better picture. So this is part of our 3D lab here and you'll see we've got pretty large printers. One of the things that makes our printers unique is that our large printer there are Dimension 1200 ES and then the smaller version there the U print SE plus these printers actually they print in a support material so that you can create increasingly advanced designs and larger 3D prints. This is important to, again I've mentioned this 3D printing is not new. This is not new technology. This has been around for a while. How can we empower the people who are interested in this who are using 3D printing to do prototyping to learn new things? How can we empower them to take it to the next level? That is kind of, you'll see that's kind of an overarching theme to do space of this isn't just about access to tech. We've got to take it a step further now to become intermediate. Intermediate books to become advanced. Excuse me. We also have some meeting rooms here in this space. This is one of our conference rooms. We have two conference rooms in a large meeting room. We use them a lot for our programs but you can also use these if you're a non-profit, you can use them for free. If you're a for-profit, we charge a fee to use the rooms. Yeah. Great. Let me tell you a little bit more about programs. Excuse me. We run anywhere between 60 and 80 programs every month. If you see here our website at events and scroll down, you can take a look at the types of things that we offer here. We're not a public library. We're a 5.1c3. We're a non-profit but similar to a public library we really aim to serve everybody in society. No pressure. So the idea is can we craft program offerings that are all technologically related that serve both a very young audience all the way to senior citizens, everyone in between and people of all levels of expertise. So we're talking all ages, all levels of expertise. So we've got some stuff here that are fairly basic and we've also got some more advanced things. Our programs for children, for kids, little kids as well as like middle school age kids have been very successful and we do our Junior Makers Club. You'll see that on Tuesdays. Junior Makers has been really successful and we do a lot with learning how to code. Learning how to code, you hear a lot about this in the media how everybody needs to learn how to code. I don't totally agree with that. I think that people need to understand the logic behind coding and they think that they need to understand how code has driven and defined our digital experience. But if we really want to be futuristic you know, at some point machine learning is going to take over and code itself over time we'll see, right? Even to get into machine learning if you guys have read anything about some of the developments there people still need to learn how to code to be able to engage in that but I think we're embarking on a very exciting time for computing technology for sure. But anyway, it is still very important especially for girls to learn how to code and we've launched the largest girls who code club in Omaha it just started in September this is a pretty intense program kids would apply to be part of it we've got 21 girls who are part of this club and they meet every single week for an entire school year so this is not something to be taken lightly these girls really put in a lot of effort every week excuse me, and they're working on some big, some really big stuff I'm very proud of our girls who code program I'll also tell you a little bit about something called Hello Code Hello Code is a program that we've designed here that we launched over the summer Hello Code, if you think a little bit about how an adult would learn how to code right now let's say I'm an adult, I want to maybe pick up a new skill or I want to get into a new job how do I do that? Well, I can get online and I can learn on my own by myself as much as I can or I can drop everything quit my job and go to a code school full time and spend $10,000 doing that you could potentially also go back to school and try to learn how to code as well so there doesn't seem to really be anything in the middle I want to learn how to code on my own but as part of a community so when we designed Hello Code our goal was really to set people up for success in getting a taste of what it would be like to actually become a software engineer or a web developer so Hello Code then is an application only program, we take applications for this it is free, but we want to make sure that the people who come in are very serious about learning computer programming participants will come in for a week and they will go through existing H2ML and CSS modules that are online and then they meet with a professional web developer every week so it's a little bit of a flipped classroom model so the expectation is on our Hello Code students that they're learning on their own, but they're not really alone because they're part of a class of Hello Code students and then they also have the web developer that they meet with every week to help them along the goal really by the end of the month is that they can hand code their own website and it's really great, we've actually had some people go through this program and then apply to go to real code school it's like a six to, I think it's an eight week program there's two code schools here in Omaha so a lot of people who applied to this are looking for new jobs and others, we had trained the workforce excuse me so we're going to definitely continue this program, it's been really great we'll see here we've got anything else to add about here with programs you know our programs have been very experimental there's definitely been programs we've run and nobody cares and we're like well crossing that one off, we won't do that again this do-space as a whole really is an experimental space so we have quite a lot of freedom when it comes to designing these programs overall if you were to look back on the full year of programs that we've run you'll see trends for sure we have a program framework that we work within but it's flexible enough to allow some experimentation and to allow some failure because without that how are you going to learn so one other quick program I just want to let you know about is Cyber Seniors this is a club that is for seniors by seniors it is completely run by senior citizen volunteers and every Wednesday morning they're here right now and our joke on this is really just it's so successful that we could take this off the calendar and they would just keep coming and what's really so perfect about Cyber Seniors is that this is a community-owned program we started it we have staff to support it but the community owns it and they lead it and to me that is really a sign of a successful program is that the community has just grabbed it and they're just running with it I love it, it's great let's see what my time is looking like I want to tell you just a little bit about our performance in the past year you know since we opened last November there's been over 170,000 visits to our building and in terms of membership in the past year we're almost at about 40,000 members membership at Do Space is totally free it's very similar to a library card the key difference though is that we are entirely privately funded so we are not funded by taxpayers and therefore we do not have any residency requirements so I don't care where you live, you can live on the other side of the country and grab yourself a free Do Space membership to utilize that this has been really great for folks in Sarpy County council bluffs for some of the big events here in Omaha college world series, swim trials all these big events where we have a lot of people coming to visit Omaha, they can come in and grab a membership and just use the space and it's no big deal, so that's a lot of fun so those are just some of our big annual totals excuse me so we're almost at 40,000 members we have had in terms of hours of computer use, that's almost at about 60,000 but one of the ways that I kind of like to visualize the use of Do Space is an average day at Do Space which you'll see here on your screen this is an average then a lot of the stats that we look at over time new memberships per day daily visits, computer sessions average number of tech kit checkouts and I get asked quite a lot how do you know if this is successful and I'd say well we don't, we don't have anything in the country to compare this to there is no benchmark out there that we're attempting to reach we kind of quite literally are setting that benchmark so what I'd say is have we been successful, absolutely I look at these numbers and I say you know what, I think Omaha is probably using Do Space pretty well you can't derive success just from numbers you really have to take a look at how people are using the space what are you actually doing at Do Space what have you been able to achieve so I real quick wanted to just show you this website that we launched called iHeartDoSpace.org this is how we can kind of measure impact on our members and see a little bit more into what people are accomplishing here so people can come to this website I'm at Do Space and then you pick a verb and then type in what you're doing and then if you hit next it goes to a form that will give you a little bit more information you can select a photo and submit it to the website and we can click on one here so this person is just working on some school work this person is working through a code school working on HTML and CSS homemade pickle label design somebody's designing a pickle label that's awesome so we really created this website we created this website oh, sadness we created this so that people could really just talk a little bit about themselves and what they have been able to accomplish here so if there's any other question of like what are people doing at Do Space you can always just pull up iHeartDoSpace.org and you can take a look at the community submissions so that's a lot of fun we do some contests with this over the summer and things like that yeah, well I think this gives you at least some fair overview of Do Space I think it's probably a good time though for us to answer any questions you guys might have about the project that we have missed do we have any questions so far? we have one question that asks how is this funded? one question so in the very early days of the project so we're going back several years this was really the brainchild of several community leaders coming together to answer that question of how we can get more technology into the community and to be more specific to how we can get more profit in town and they do fundraising for huge community projects so we were fortunate enough to work with them to get up and running on the project work with them on construction architecture and fundraising there at the beginning of the project so we are 100% privately funded that's incredible another person asks is there a charge for printing? yeah so for printing if you're printing like a piece of paper it's 10 cents a page I think that's kind of almost standard in a lot of libraries it's 10 cents a page black and white, 25 cents for color if you are 3D printing something and you want to take that object home with you we do have to charge a fee on the material because we have to buy more material and so that costs it's a little bit harder to just throw out a number because it really depends on the amount of filament that you use the amount of support material that you use the density and the size of what you're trying to print but when people 3D print you have just a really quick consultation with our staff to make sure your print will go through just fine and at that time we estimate the cost for you so that you know about how much it's going to be thank you now this is a more personal question because you were talking about memberships and how many new memberships a day there are and those were interesting numbers and I sometimes get to Omaha if I just stop in some time does everybody allow the membership? yeah absolutely so when you can actually do a membership right here we do not mail out cards so if you do this online you will still need to come in and get your card so you can get up your account so you can do it online or you can come in we don't even ask for an ID when you come in to get your membership this is I kind of liken it almost to like a fuel saver card where you go to the grocery store and they're just like they just give it to you these are the required things so we have this contact information and then we've got some optional demographics that help us better understand our membership base and then tell you you've got a set of password and that's it you know this is since we're a nonprofit and you know like I said we don't serve any particular group of taxpayers in Nebraska to do this but I'll say too that this has this process really knocks down a lot of barriers for people who don't have an ID who don't necessarily live in one particular place for an extended period of time I'll also say too that we do not check anything outside of the building so the liability part of it is that public libraries have a lot of liability you've got books and DVDs and equipment that's going out of the building you might want to check IT on those but for us nothing really leaves our building we did consider that as an option at the beginning of the project but I just have literally not heard any demand from anyone who wants us to check out technology into the community what the feedback we've been getting from members is that they want just an incredible in building experience and so that's our goal to give it to them so yeah great question a take on to that is I understand that sometimes when people hear the word membership they're thinking oh I have to pay membership for this and I understand there is no fee for this it's just a way for you to keep track of who's around is that right yeah well and this sets you up to log into the computers and when you come to our programs which are all free when you come to our programs we scan you in with your card oh so that's how that works so anyone can come get a membership there's no fee you need your card to attend the classes and that makes sense but you could just walk around the building and enjoy what's there oh for sure so when are you open right now we are open 9am to 9pm every day but we're changing that in December we've realized that weekends on the weekend nights people don't really care about after about 7 o'clock on Saturdays and Sundays so in December we're changing our hours on the weekends to be open 9am to 7pm Saturday and Sunday and then in December as well we're going to launch a little bit of an experiment in this particular part of town in Omaha there's a lot of business people in the dodge in the dodge area very early in the morning and since we've been opening at 9am we haven't really been able to serve those folks who are in this part of town very early so in December we're going to launch an experiment and open at 7am but 7am to 9am will be called early bird hours so not everything will be available it's kind of a limited service type model in those first two hours but that would mean then that we're open 7am to 9pm Monday through Friday that's great we have another question asking who is teaching patrons how to use Photoshop or other software if they just come in or do you have just classes for that we've got a lot of resources so as we know people tend to learn in a variety of ways some people are going to just come in here jump on a computer and teach themselves Photoshop some people just do that other people will want to come in and maybe they'll do that but they'll ask a few questions in which case we have a staff tech help desk where my staff as well as volunteers are staffed any hour of the day that we're open so we always have staff and volunteers here and available to help answer questions but let's say you want to really kind of delve into it a little bit more you've got a few other options so you're learning Photoshop but you really just kind of need the basics and you need a little bit more help we definitely have Photoshop workshops that you can sign up for for free so you can learn as part of a class kind of almost a little bit more classroom environment but if you are really struggling with something specific in Photoshop and you really just need to sit down with somebody we do take appointments to meet with mentors so we have a pretty large volunteer base the exact number of volunteers that we have changes month to month but it's about 200 volunteers a big group of that are community mentors these are people who work and live in Omaha and they have some tech specialty and they have signed up to volunteer to meet with people one-on-one on specific tech questions so if you said look I know the basics of Photoshop but there's this one technique and one part of it that I'm really looking to spend some more time on if you could set up a free one-on-one mentor appointment for you you could come in to do space and meet with this volunteer who's a specialist in Photoshop and they will work through that with you and excuse me you can find this on resources mentor request if you're looking to brush up on a specific skill you can just go down here and put in your information and tell us what you need help with and then we'll match you up with somebody that's great I have just a couple more questions I think we've had a couple of thank you's already but also you were talking about times of day and morning but I'm assuming as libraries we know when a busy time of day for a library is after school but do you have that same thing a busier time of day than others oh for sure after school after work 5 o'clock 5 to 6 6 30 ish is absolutely our busiest time Monday through Friday and then midday on the weekends having been a former librarian or I guess once a librarian always a librarian having used to being work at OPL I think that that's pretty standard it's something that librarians see kind of across the board people getting out of school and work coming into the space and then midday on the weekends is really popular too yeah great thank you one more question the Omaha area is so lucky we can all use you if we get to town so that's nice the other question I have is you talked about the different kits and things and how you're always adding to or changing them around are there other possible future services that you're thinking of as well because you have a lot of services right now yes well we're really proud to be able to say that there's just nothing like do space in the country and that we are a high tech space well in order for us to maintain that and to continue to say that we really have to stay on top of technology so that means that we'll be experimenting with all kinds of stuff into really even just the next few months it's my hope that into 2017 we can get some virtual reality maybe augmented reality equipment here to help expose people to that new really exciting part of technology now but yeah you know and especially with 3D printing one thing that you probably is probably not on our website yet but we've recently purchased a resin 3D printer and this is interesting just because first off I don't know of any community space in the country that has a resin printer and I don't know of any place in Omaha at all even UNO that has a resin printer like the one that we have recently purchased resin 3D printing is very it's very terminator so imagine imagine a pool of liquid resin and then the 3D printer pulls the print out of that liquid and it's it's just incredible I would say it's definitely Google resin 3D printing it's very fascinating to watch there's quite a lot on YouTube about this new kind of 3D printing so yeah for sure there's quite a bit of new stuff that will keep our offerings fresh over time yeah well that's great I'm looking and I'm not seeing any more questions so I think anyone can also contact you at the do space as well if they have other questions is that true for sure you know up here we've got our website at the bottom here you can get in touch or email us at hello at dospace.org I do want to mention something really quick before we finish but it's really my hope that do space brings value to the library profession to the library world and I want do space to be a resource for libraries and for librarians so kind of just an open question of like what can what can we do to help libraries I know that's a really big question we probably don't have an immediate answer to that but I want to continue to engage in a conversation especially with Nebraska librarians about community technology and I'm very interested in how do space can help support Nebraska libraries however that is you know so just know that I am a librarian I have a library background and I want do space to be of use so if there's anything if you have any ideas any thoughts anything like that at all you can feel free you can email us at that hello at do space if you even make that out to me they just forward it straight to my inbox so if you ever want to reach out have any further questions at all I would be happy to chat with you great thank you so much and remember that the presentation will be saved to our archive of encompassed lives and along with that we'll have your email and the do space web page things like that that people can access to find out how to get in touch with you or get in touch with the do space so I thought it down with you said I heart do space dot org to be sure we get that on there too so thank you again thank you so much this has been fascinating and I haven't been to the do space yet but I'm a going I'm telling you that'll be great come and visit thank you and this ends our encompassed life for today and I hope you'll join us next week for our next I'm just going to call this up and see if I can get to that well I'll just go to the calendar next week we have networking let's see what that's about Chris Brown is an assistant library director at the Pella public library and he's worked more than eight years in public libraries as an IT professional including managing IT for a seven branch library system he's going to present on your network your computer network and things that you may want to know about it so we hope you can join us next week at ten o'clock Central time for encompassed life and also we always of course record our presentations thank you