 Good morning and welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. I'm your host Krista Porter here at the Nebraska Library Commission. Encompass Live is the Commission's weekly online event for a webinar, webcast, online show. The terminology is up for debate for some people, but whatever you want to call us we are here live, 10 a.m. every Wednesday morning. If you are unable to join us on Wednesday mornings that's fine. We do record the show every week though and then post it on our website and I'll show you where that is at the end of today's show. So if you can't join us on Wednesdays just go and check out our website. You can see all our recordings. Both the show, excuse me, the live show and the recordings are free and open to anyone to watch. So do share them with your colleagues, friends, neighbors, family, anybody you think might be interested in any of our topics that we have on the show. Our only real criteria for Encompass Live is that it is something library related, something libraries are doing, something they could be interested in, news services or more software or products we think you might be interested in, special programs we're doing here at the Library Commission. Well it's all over the place and for all sorts of libraries, public academic school, all museums, special correctional, anything. We're not really picking except for libraries. So if people have ideas they're to email and do you? Absolutely, yes. If you want to be on the show or you want to find someone to talk about something on the show, yes. Send me an email and we'll find something somebody can do it. We do have guest speakers that come on the show today, on the show sometimes. We also have Nebraska Library Commission staff that do sessions and today we have a mixture of us here. And actually I'll just hand it over to you guys to explain today's topic is our show is the Library Innovation Studios, a new grant option for Nebraska libraries, grant opportunity for Nebraska libraries. And I'm just going to hand it over to you guys to introduce yourself and present what we're going to hear about today. Joanne? Yeah I think I'll just get started. Today we have four of us from the Nebraska Library Commission who are presenting. Myself Joanne McManus and I'm the project manager for the Library Innovation Studios Transforming Rural Communities Project. We also have Rod Wagner, our director, Mary Jo Ryan, Ryan our communications coordinator, Holly Walts in our IT department and we'll be very involved in this particular project. And joining us from another location is Connie Hancock and she is with, she's an extension educator out of Kimball in Sydney and of course she's representing one of our partners in this particular project so we are very glad to have Connie on board today. But this is a grant funded project and but the opportunity is not necessarily grants. The libraries that we will be working with are participating in our grant funded project. And here's a little bit about who is involved. The Nebraska Library Commission applied for a grant through the Institute of Museum and Library Services and of course that's the Federal Library Agency and so that we would certainly like to thank them. That is where the funding for the project will be coming from. Nebraska Extension, the University of Nebraska and the Nebraska Innovation Studio are actually a sub-recipient and so they will also be having a lot of staff involved in the project and we are happy to have them on board. And another key partner in this project is the Nebraska Regional Library Systems and I believe we have at least one library system director online with us today and we certainly want to thank them. They are going to be helping us work directly with the libraries in their region and that is going to be a really big asset to our project as we go throughout the three-year project. A little bit about today's agenda. We're going to be talking about project goals. Rod will be handling that. Project summary, application process, community engagement process and then we'll be talking about the equipment and then we're going to be allowing time for questions and answers and we have a feeling there will probably be quite a few. So hopefully we won't go over too long but it's quite possible we will go over our hours so hopefully that works for people but we'll try to move along. And if you do if we do go over past 11 o'clock we will be recording the whole show so if you do have to leave from our session because you only allotted an hour you'll always be able to go back and watch the rest of the recording after later. And along the way you can also type in questions to the chat box and Crystal bring those to our attention and we can try to handle those as we go as well. Yeah or even if you if you have a microphone and you'd rather just speak up you can just raise your hand and Crystal will catch that too. Right and we can turn on your microphone if you have one that you want to use. You want to ask your question that way. So Rod, my turn. Yeah I've been assigned the easy part but first of all I want to add my appreciation to and recognize the Institute of Museum and Library Services for funding this grant. They have given us a great opportunity for this project and we are very appreciative of that. And also as Joanne mentioned our partners we're very excited about the opportunities that they will be involved in in the course of this project. And also we're very excited about the opportunity to work with up to well actually 30 libraries over the course of this project. And we're glad so many are joining us for the program this morning. Libraries are a natural fit for this project as places for learning for individual activity but certainly and importantly for this project collaborative activity. And that is a very important facet of the project. There are for our project three goals that were addressed in our project proposal. And the two first ones are the ones most appropriate and important to Nebraska libraries and that's the opportunity for rural community residents to be engaged in activities with the makerspace technologies that will be employed in the libraries. The second being the transformational aspect of the project with participatory learning spaces, the community catalyst activity for change. And also importantly for the and a basis for funding of the project is that we expect this will be an important model for other libraries beyond Nebraska to engage in this type of an activity. Okay so let's get to a little bit about the project itself. It is a three-year project. It starts already July 1st so that's right around the corner and it will go through the end of June 2020. It would be funded with a $530,000 IMLS National Leadership Grant. So obviously we have some things that we will need to do with them in mind. For instance a continuous improvement in assessments and whatnot. So you'll see that in our project. Both in the Nebraska Library Commission and the University of Nebraska is putting in an in-kind match primarily of staff time because this needed to be a one-to-one match. So actually it's over a one million dollar project when you look at the staff time provided by the Nebraska Library Commission and University staff. And basically the project uses a library innovation studios or makerspaces hosted by 30 libraries to support community engagement and participatory learning experiences to provide access to learning tools that are not readily accessible to people in the community. So this will be really good for the community. It's going to be really exciting. It's a multi-faceted project. There's a lot of pieces to it. In each of the 30 rural and small communities they will be establishing community action teams and working with that team. Nobody, it's hard to do a makerspace by yourself especially when it's kind of new to your community and Connie will be talking more about community action teams and that community process. We'll be purchasing equipment and components for each of the four rotating studios and Holly will tell us a little bit more about that later in the hour. We'll be with the help of the university, they'll be hiring a new instructional design person and we'll have staff too that can help with this but we'll be developing instructional materials and an equipment certification process for several of the components because some of these machines won't be real intuitive as far as how to use it. So on certain particular machines people who would like to make use of the machine will have to go through the video vignettes, answer some questions and actually be certified on those particular machines before they can use it. And we'll be working with the libraries for them to have access to that database so when someone is certified you can enter their name and then when they're in your library using that machine if you don't recognize them as being certified on that particular machine you can quickly check to see if they are otherwise they would need to go through that certification process. Certainly we want to employ some sustainability strategies throughout the way because hopefully libraries will be interested in this project so they can try this type of equipment in their library and if it looks like hey this is something that is really an interest of the community we're going to employ those sustainability strategies so it's easier for the community to see how they can do this on their own afterwards. We'll be providing equipment training both in Lincoln and locally focusing on train the trainer strategies so basically our staff and partners will be training local people that will actually serve as trainers then locally in the community and they might not all be library staff they might be partners and volunteers right and that's one of the reasons for the community action we know that the libraries cannot do this by themselves and how many machines can one person learn and so you'll want to have a cadre of people and maybe some they'll say okay that's the machine that I want to get to know and love and train on and someone else might want to pick a different machine. We'll be assisting you with local marketing and programming and event planning and we'll be talking more about those open houses and maker spaces later on when Mary Joe is talking about our expectations of the library and then of course we'll also be hosting annual inventors showcases in Lincoln once a year as well bringing in people from across the state to showcase what they have done. Oh there's a logic model there's the logic model and I know that it's hard to see but when Holly takes you to our website you will see that you have access to this this is really a nice one-page summary that shows who the partners are on the statewide level and then the local partners and then we do have a advisory panel and what the activities are and what the outcomes are and this is a nice one-page sheet that you can print off of our website and it's a really good conversation when you're trying to get a whole picture of the project. Oh nice one-page summary of that. Okay so which libraries are eligible to participate and host a library innovation studio and I haven't mentioned it before but those studios when they rotate into public library they will be there up to five months normally around 20 weeks. The libraries that are eligible here in Nebraska are public libraries rural or small accredited public libraries. In Nebraska because small is legal service area less than 25,000 really in Nebraska all but six communities are eligible because of their size so that's good news. Almost everybody is eligible that way. We also are asking that the libraries that we work with are accredited however the few libraries that are not accredited we are going to have two different application cycles and I'll talk about that more later but if you're not accredited right now and you would like to be one of the 30 go ahead and work on accreditation in the next cycle and so you'll be ready to apply when the next cycle opens up. So that means that you need to be in the application cycle that starts in the summer? It would if is the next application for you guys going to be next year 2018. News will be coming soon from me. Yes we're working on getting all that information together to reach out to everybody who's potentially eligible to be accredited so you need to work on it and get that done. Our deadline for having it all finished up is October of this year for your accreditation and then you'll be all set to next year applying the second round of the grant on this grant. So that's for if you are not accredited you're working to maintain your accreditation too. You got to keep that up I assume. Okay so what are the benefits of participation? As far as that community engagement process we're going to have you'll have access to training tools templates and support from the partners whether it's the Nebraska Library Commission, extension educators and of course our regional system directors and staff out there. You'll have access to studio components for a 20 week period. I think that's the big you can try before you buy it and I guess that's our next line isn't it? And of course what's nice is that your community can also see firsthand benefits of the makerspace. Sometimes it's hard and I know sometimes when I talk to people about makerspaces they look at me and say what's a makerspace and you might find that in your own community when you start to talk to people but certainly if they have already seen it and later on you're talking about adding some makerspace equipment they've already seen it they know what you're talking about they probably saw the benefits which is really nice. We're going to try to do some travel support when your staff and volunteers come to Lincoln for training or that or other events in Lincoln. Honestly we're going to be letting you know closer to those dates how we can support you there. You'll have access to project staff and project partners which hopefully will be an asset to you. You'll have a connection to the Nebraska Innovation Studio and makerspace network and I think if you really carry on this makerspace idea that will be important for you and at the end of our grant the 30 participating libraries will be eligible to receive one or more pieces of equipment that we had used in the project so that will be a plus too. Now what are the benefits for libraries not working in not participating there'll be some benefits for those as well because as we go along and we develop training and certification processes and instructional videos on how to use particular machines those will be accessible to all. So if there's a library that already has a pretty robust makerspace they'll be able to get access to all of our training materials and templates and be able to be certified and badged as a certified user of the embroidery sewing machine or whatever it is. Right. So in terms of expectations I think that's probably what a lot of people sitting in the audience are wondering right now. I guess one of the big things is that we do expect that you organize a community action team and engage local organizations and yesterday we were talking about this with extension and we're very aware that every community is different and that we will be meeting each community where you're at. I mean obviously some of you have already organized community action teams you're already deep into the community action and community change efforts in your communities. It all just depends on where you're at but we want this to be a growth experience in the area of libraries serving as community catalysts or community anchor organizations. So we want you to identify staff and recruit volunteers to attend the train the trainer sessions both in Lincoln and locally. We want you to prepare space and gather up some tables chairs and consumables and we'll talk more about that as Holly gets into it but a lot of times the space you have might be more flexible than you think. Let me just say that and Holly will go into more detail. We expect libraries to make studio components available to the public on a regular basis so this isn't just something you put in your meeting room and only have open on Friday nights. It's going to be a more active 20 weeks of really programming and bringing groups together and it will be fun I think. A lot of fun things will be able to happen in your library during those weeks. Assist with user certification that's what Joanne was talking about where individuals who are going to be using the equipment will need to be certified in some of the equipment not all of it but some of it and we will be using the library innovation studios profile system which basically Joanne described you get to certify somebody based on their being trained either through videos or online training and they or I guess there'll be some individual options you know one-on-one too but then they then they're certified and it's on it's it's on the day in the database and you can see if someone comes in if they're certified or not. We'll encourage users in your library to showcase their creations and inventions and I think this is a wonderful opportunity for people to just let their imaginations run wild because there's probably people in your community who have business entrepreneurs or business ideas you know just a lot of different things that can come out of people being able to get together and and learn and bounce ideas off each other. We expect libraries to assist us with survey distribution and collection of data and that includes helping us gather stories from people if somebody does do something in the studio that leads to a business we're going to want to interview them and get them front and center and show that this is how these things happen in our communities and then of course we want you to continue to work with your action team either sustain not either sustaining your maker space but also other initiatives that grow and spin off from this. I just want to say too if you have any questions please do raise your hand we are you know we can interrupt our flow here at any time to visit with you about anything that interests you or also if you can type it into the chat box. Yeah if you have any one more more details about any of this would you have one just a little comment. A comment thank you very much. From Gail Irwin from Ainsworth she just says at the very beginning she just wanted to thank you for applying to this grant and being awarded it with an exciting time for Nebraska libraries. Oh thank you Gail we do agree it's it I think it's going to be fun and exciting and Joanne's got this kind of well organized as to how this is all going to lay out over the next three years so you want to talk about the hosting periods. I sure will. We have set up seven hosting cycles we do have four innovation studio kits and so well as we schedule libraries in the different hosting cycles then before a hosting cycle kicks off we'll bring the people from those particular four libraries in to do training in Lincoln and then after that soon after that then we will go out and set up the equipment in those four libraries probably a couple weeks apart so we can make sure that each library gets a good start before we take the equipment to the next ones. Each of those hosting periods will be generally 20 weeks in duration so that's how long you'll have the equipment in your community. Obviously our staff will install those five studios and then do train the trainer training again locally in that first week that it's in your community again with training trainers not all your citizens in your community but certainly you might have people in your community that are willing to be trained and then come in and help with the training along the way so and I bet people who are out in the audience are thinking of those folks right now who would be just a terrific assistant and it would give a 20 week window of volunteer time to help somebody learn how to use the embroidery sewing machine or to use that router. Right. You'll think of people as you are working in your communities and I guess we got all that done. So let's talk about that application process I'm sure you've all had a chance to look at that I emailed that two different times to Nebraska libraries it is also now up on our website and Holly will show you where that is in a little bit but that you do need to apply by the deadline the first opportunity the deadline is the end of the day on Monday July 10th during that cycle we will probably select somewhere between 12 and 20 libraries to participate and you can submit that application either via email or mail if that's your preference and then there will be a second application period and that will be sometime in 2018 we have not selected a date it'll probably depend on whether we're closer to having picked 12 libraries or 20 libraries and the reason why we have split this up into two application cycles is because we thought at any given time there are libraries that their director has just retired or knows that they will be retiring before this comes to their library or one of their transitional things you might have going on a new building and so not everybody is willing to commit at any one time and so hopefully we'll catch all those libraries that are really excited and ready to go and then hopefully sometime in 2018 when we come back to collect to get our last few libraries then there will be library directors that will have been up and running for a year or so and we'll feel confident that they are ready also to get into the process and then that midnight just for people like me who do things at the last minute that's midnight central time oh yes midnight central time yeah so 11 so if you're if you're still working on it you get an extra hour no you know if it if it if it's 11 59 their time that'll be fine too I'm not gonna be here at midnight dish pull the plug on my computer it's midnight somewhere if you're in Hawaii when you're doing the application you get lots of extra time and for and for those of you who have looked at the application itself you'll find that there's just a basic contact contact information that you fill in on the bottom of the first page is an assurance checklist and what that is is a list of things that are basically requirements that we want you to read and check if you're willing to do that and we'll see that in just a bit there are 10 questions to answer those questions are just you know type in whatever your answer is there's only one that asks you to actually submit something other than your written answer and that is on where in your library you think you'll be putting these components we do ask for you to send in some sketches or diagrams we don't want to put you through a lot of trouble if you need to just sketch it out by hand that is perfectly fine you don't need to you don't have to have an architect yeah but another thing you can do too is take photographs or just walk around with a video and video sections of your library all that would be helpful to for us to just get an idea how it would work for you right and then we also ask that you attach letters of support and commitment from potential local partners we don't expect that you have your community action team all put together or anything like that but we do would like you to reach out and talk to your Chamber of Commerce and Extension Educator and maybe your economic developer or some educators people that you think might be able to help you in this process and ask them to provide you with a letter of support and that's what the assurances checklist looks like right so it's just really straightforward you just read that and if you agree with those go ahead and check yes and that's all you need to do there also attached to that application form at the end you will see an optional hosting period priority form and this is not required it's an optional form that you can fill out if you want to fill out this form but can't make it by the deadline this form can be filled out and filled in at a later date if you would like if you never volunteer to fill out that form and are selected to be one of the 30 participating libraries you'll get the form at some point or will visit with me one-on-one about talking about when you when it would be easy best for you to host that makerspace in your community what the advantage of doing it in the beginning is allow you to be one among the first to request what hosting cycle fits with you so that's a benefit to you but certainly you know I would spend more time on the application if you only have so much time and less on this and this is a good time to to think about what's going to be different in your library for example if you know that you're in the middle of a remodel or you will be in the middle of a remodel you might want to schedule out and say once the library is remodeled we'll have this kind of space so again it just gives you a chance to think ahead right if we do have a question I'm not sure if you're gonna be addressing so they're more about the technical issues what kind of networking electrical load that kind of thing you're gonna get into the details of what the different components might need we won't get into the weeds but Holly will probably mention that and we do have a website that's got some of that information on it to the technical specifications related to the equipment yeah yeah all right we'll get into that and this is what that priority for form looks like right and you will see all seven cycles on there we're hoping in this first bunch that we can fill at least the first two cycles but even if you want to be toward the end of the project because you know you have that building remodel or something coming up and you want to do it after that it's okay to apply this first cycle but still say yeah you want to be toward the end and so but I do want to point out that even though we have like the weeks of those trainings and the weeks of the installations and when we pick up the equipment this is really very tentative because it'll depend on when we're really ready to do that first training I think now if we could ask Connie to give us a little bit of information about that community engagement piece sure I'd be glad to and thank you for asking me to be part of the webinar today because I do think as the librarian from Ainsworth mentioned this is really an exciting time to be in Nebraska we've got a lot of partners not only thinking about makerspace but the whole concept of rural and how we can make rural a better place for people to live and work and play and so I think the makerspace fits into that larger community prosperity conversation around how do we attract young people back to our communities how do we attract young families to our communities how do we look at economic opportunities in a different way maybe from more of an entrepreneurial perspective and then that whole quality of life component and I think a makerspace fits into that because as we look at what a makerspace has to offer not only the kind of equipment that we have available to us in a different kind of a way but the whole network piece that brings people together in one place to have conversation and to learn from each other so the engagement piece I think from a librarian perspective is really for you guys to think about your role as a catalyst and getting people involved getting people to work together and getting people to use their talents in a different kind of a way and I think that's people in today's world really want to be part of something but oftentimes we have to ask that they're for their involvement and so that really takes a different role from a library director perspective the engagement piece really builds a sense of community and as I mentioned this is a place where people can meet to do something different than that what you normally would do and to learn from each other and then to really understand the benefits of a makerspace to the whole community it's not just about the library because it brings in that whole community piece so as you think about the piece of economic opportunities as you think about attracting young families or young folks to the community how can we get their involvement into that makerspace component and then the idea of creating a strong community action team and I think there's different models in that whole arena of creating a different action team and what that looks like and so the next slide I think kind of really focuses in on what that action team could be and I've got a couple of examples of two communities that I've been working in and I'll talk about them but really think about five to six community people community leaders that would have somewhat of a passion around this concept of a makerspace and representatives from a diverse part of your community so chamber of commerce economic development education extension business the art guild is a great place where people like to create things the quilt guild might be one where there would be somebody in there that would have a strong leadership component and would be willing to take some time over this period where you'll be having hosting the rotating maker rotating studio for that timeframe so the two two communities that I've been working in is one is Sydney and the other one is revanna and I see sherm is on on the webinar today and I really applaud his leadership role from the Sydney create makerspace we've we've gone through about a year and a half conversation of what does this look like who do we all involve and it we did include early on our ESU our public school principle because he understands the need for a makerspace from a high school education perspective we included the community college because they've got avenues and venues that can can help be part of that economic development was part of the conversation as well and lately then we've added the art guild but during this timeframe we've been through several conversations and we wanted to really help market that so we do have a mission and a vision statement we've titled our makerspace Sydney create now I don't know that you all have to go to that length of where you want to be but we have a big dream in Sydney about what that makerspace should be and so we're I think having the rotating space and showing people what this tangible concept looks like is really going to be beneficial to the community to show that it's more than a bunch of equipment and I can go and create things so that's one aspect in revanna there the economic development and the chamber director in conjunction with the librarian are working together now to say what does this makerspace mean and the economic developer there is really a driver from this perspective and it's kind of exciting to see their passion that they that they understand that rural communities need a place where people can come and create and network together so those are two different aspects and two different models and so however it works for your community to bring people together to have this conversation I think is fine if there's no one one set way to be able to do it but as you look at people that you want to include in your maker in your action team you need to have people who are willing to make a commitment spend some time some energy some of their talent to focus on the strategic conversation that you need to take and create that implementation plan of what using these kinds of tools and hosting these kinds of tools what does that look like and how do we get people involved in that we also need to be able to engage and collaborate with the community and key stakeholders and so in the in our Sydney situation German I have gone to some of the banks in town to do a presentation we've gone to the Chamber of Commerce to do presentations so that they begin to are become aware of what opportunities exist if we have makerspace in the community one of the things that your action team is going to have to do is as as Joanne mentioned we I don't think that the library alone can do this and so how do you go out and recruit others and their organizations to service trainers and or participants I don't know that even from the library and or extension we have the capacity to be able to do that alone so there's other people in our communities that have expertise and talent and so let's lean on them because they will then have greater buy-in into this whole concept that if you in fact have a physical space at some point in time that would be the ideal situation in moving this forward we also want to work with the community find additional resources and that may not be right off the bat as you put in this application that may be a thought process of down the road when you're hosting some of this to think about what additional financial pieces are out there what other human talent is out there what other ideas from a makerspace Dr. Shane Faradar was in Rabana on Monday night speaking to a community group of about 50 people about the innovation studio and about makerspace in Rabana and one of the questions was asked have you thought about culinary our community is a has great cooks and so what does that look like as we think about a local foods initiative and or some culinary pieces along with that so you may not have a kitchen in the library but it may be something that as as you think about it are part of that I do want to mention that Dr. Shane Faradar has this hub and spoke concept that the innovation studio on campus is the hub and that we have multiple communities across the state be part of that spoke and so as Joanne mentioned the partnership we will have access to expertise from campus that can go back and forth because of the technology that we have available in meetings like this where we can actually be sort of face-to-face in a zoom room or a video conferencing room we did one other little thing about the Sydney piece we did a small kickoff so something between now and when you actually host your the rotating makerspace we did a two-hour kind of a kickoff thinking about what could we showcase and we had the art guild come in we did a little bit of videoography stuff Sherm had the 3d printer going and just showcasing some of the things that we had currently available in a small kind of a way to get it kicked off so that when we do bring it hopefully bring it to the library then people have a at least a semi idea of what's going on one of the things revanna is doing at their festival this summer is having a maker maker fair and so it'll be a kind of another two-hour kind of an event in the park and they're inviting people who are inventing things who are making things currently to come showcase that during that time frame during annabar so those are some things that as you think about this summer the rest of the summer and into your application they might be some things that you could quickly turn around to get some additional community involvement and engagement into that so I that's my piece I think on the community engagement concept I think everybody everybody has a different take on it but these are some of the key pieces that I think really need to need to think about as you create your action team thank you Connie and all of you have questions or comments for Connie please do raise your hand there type it in the chat box and we'll move on to equipment but we can still talk more about community action and community engagement as we move on and Holly you're going to take us right through that I'm going to do my best okay from me Holly and I'm excited to be a part of this grant and continue to be involved in aspects of grants at the library commission working with Joanne we've done some fine things together over the years and our remaining core be talking yeah so so but recently I've been working with Craig who is also on our staff here and on behalf of this grant and trying to look for recommendations and coming up with selections of equipment or components to be included in the innovation studio kits for the for the libraries as part of this grant and we've also been working with Jerry Reath who is the shop manager at the Nebraska Innovation Studios on UNL campus and I think that can't emphasize enough that he will be bringing a lot of knowledge about use of equipment as he's been working in the trenches with equipment similar we're probably a little smaller size but that same type of equipment at the innovation Nebraska Innovation Studios hoping to our plan would be to purchase the equipment sometime around the beginning of July when the money starts flowing from the grant and for the purpose of the budget application for the grant we did identify components already that we believe we will be purchasing but you'll see throughout on our web pages that it's a possibility that we may change maybe the vendor who's supplying that particular type of equipment along the way depending on what's available and what's best in pricing so that's just something I wanted to mention one of the big things is of course we're talking about small rural libraries and and talking about the space considerations and you can see here we've got quite a list of different items that we're going to be focusing on with equipment and if you're if you're looking at that you can see some of those pieces like the digital fabrication pieces there they're going to be some pretty big pieces of equipment in your library and so what we've done is looking through the items here we've made a decision to break down our go ahead and move forward break down our equipment list into two different areas we have what we call stations and in that case you have items that are groupings together and require a certain amount of space and we're thinking that those will be pretty permanent in your library for reasons that will address shortly or we have what we call mobile stations and they may more likely be smaller kits types of things where you're building circuitry or perhaps you're doing a project that's like using electronics for small clothing pieces or anything like that that we would you'd have a table that you'd lay out to be able to to work on that project so when we're talking about this the actual stations they're permanently located like I said for about a 20 week period and these stations for the reason being that they're permanently located is the weight and perhaps the sensitivity of moving the equipment and they may need to be what's you know recalibrated by measurement every time they get moved and that may require some expertise to come in to help you with that so when you're thinking about where you're putting your equipment these this is what we're calling our stations and we'll get to those shortly and then with the mobile pieces that would be something that you could even have somebody come in who wants to just check it out for themselves to work with or if you have a program you may need just a table small or larger table to work with for that and let's see if we'll go to the website okay we've got just kind of a list here and then I escape you can get out and then do websites open so this is yeah this is basically yeah so to get to the website you can go under grants right here where it says library innovation studios project if you forget that you can just type in if you can type maker spaces and that it'll take you right to it to a link to it so anyway through the grants we go to library innovation studios project and here we are at the page and what we're looking at is in the gray box we're looking at the equipment components and just to have a conversation what Craig and I decided to go ahead and click on it there's a lot of information related to this and we also as I stated before we're not sure if this is exactly the vendor or the product that we will be using but at this point in time this is what we're thinking we will be purchasing and we wanted to give you an opportunity and we're thinking that for some of you you may not even know what some of these things are when that's okay I guess I was what I'd like to say so we put together little little pages which include a template if you'll just click on any one of them and in here we're looking at a station we have the five different stations in this particular station if you'll scan down you you can see that there's an explanation a little bit about the station and then we talk about what are the components or the pieces of equipment and so you have your 3d printer you see a 3d scanner over on the right and then you have your actual desktop computer you have the the measurements in particular of each one of those devices and then you would have a recommended amount of space that you would want to have available and again stress permanently and then of course that the critical considerations that you also have if you'll scroll back down again things that you might want to know in your library that the 3d printer does admit some odor and you may want to place it somewhere where you have a good circulation or maybe you want to isolate it I don't know you know what what your decision-making is there but but at least you have that criteria and that should be important to you as you're making a decision when you're working with the grant and if for some reason any of that critical considerations is something you're not really sure what to do about please contact Janet or Janet and Joanne or myself and we can visit with you about that and don't let that be a showstopper for you as far as applying for the grant be sure that you have a visit with us and then the next part of the template tells shows you what you can what you can make with it and then the best part is the video where you can either in some cases it's just more of a descriptive piece on each one of these identifying pieces is the components is just a description of what what the item is and in some cases they're actually doing maker things on the video and so if we go back one oh it's over here no we can just slide up I'm sorry this is brand new by the way the web the web page is just about three days old yeah so so and so again it may even change again but but again if you if you look here there are the five stations let's just open up another one I don't think it's an early station we've got the Burnett embroidery machine I can think of some businesses that might get started bit based on how this works for them so so if you go down then you can get a little bit of information what I love about this is and we need to get Craig full credit for this putting this piece together with the template but if you're not able to use words or to share or if you don't understand it first you see it but this is so great because you can go out into your community and you can share this with anybody and and you know have an enthusiasm begin in the community even before the get-go because they'll have some ideas the kinds of things they'll be able to do in the maker space so again we have five stations these would be these items as you look through the the pages will show what components need to be set together how much space they're going to take the critical considerations if you scroll down a little that you may need to be concerned about and in this case you have to worry about that you need to have some kind of air duct or something to remove the particles from the product out of the window and you may go I don't know how to do that one thing I was thinking is if you have a maintenance person in your library or somebody who deals with that they may have some ideas that you you don't think about so don't be afraid to ask questions or share this with other folks to see if there's a way to get things done so then the other part of that is we talked a little bit about those mobile stations and that would be more of an item that you have say you have in a secure area in the library you know whether it's behind the circulation desk or in a closet that's in a toad or a box and these are things that are more of the design of just you know circuitry or some type of activity that you would be doing together in a group or individually and you would be able to just have a table and the space would be dependent about how many people are engaged in it so in general that's kind of what you know I could spend time but we're really running out of time on each individually but I encourage you to go out take a look at the site and see see more about the different components that are making up the actual studios one thing again is to emphasize is the the fact that you don't have to have a contiguous space to put yeah that's a good point that you don't need a contiguous space to put these items in your library you may have one area for a station that works well you know your considerations are going to be outlets and ethernet ports because you're going to need to be able to be connected wired to do some of these things but you may have two different areas at work but not one big area don't worry about it make those choices about using those two different areas or this is a good example of one that may not be set up all the time because you know right you might have certain time to do video work and it might be in your meeting room you might set it up in your meeting room for a certain time so this would yeah this would be more of the station activity that could be mobile or something to we do have some questions now about the different stations sure and the first one about is networking needed at computer access or electrical load requirements it's all that included in the hearing that's why I think you can see on the other station I can't see a station one or something okay so here it will say how many electrical electricity because sure you're plugging in both the router so in those words it says that you will need a hard-wired internet access part and that there's two devices in this particular station that need to be plugged in now we're not we have an issue with wattage we did we looked into equipment like any kind of a fear that doesn't seem to be a problem with any of it so if you had a concern about that but all the details are here on the site for each particular station so that like this one would require as Joanne said the internet access and ideally that would be a hard-wired port and the plugs where the thing I just showed you for doesn't require that it requires electricity to the light so I would encourage you to to go out and read this because this will this will have your fine details one thing that we did put together if you'll go back to the great area kind of a quick spreadsheet as far as space allocation for it back oh I know where we're going yeah we're going to the beginning now let's do it this way and there we go so at the very bottom down there you have charity this chart here will be helpful for you as you try to maybe sit down and actually have a working section session in your library trying to figure out where everything can fit in and be very useful for you the content of the other pages is as much more involved but this is the quick and dirty and and the other thing I would encourage people to think about is repurposing space within the library you may have had certain areas in your library forever certain reading areas and that kind of thing but it might be that for 20 weeks your that space could be repurposed and we would be happy to consult with you and work with you on how to repurpose those spaces if you're interested I just think we're really asking everyone to put on your creative thinking apps and take a real hard look at your library I think the important thing that we realize is that libraries don't have a lot of extra space and we do want to even though it'd be nice to have a lot of nice space we know that the smaller libraries are going to and it's not necessarily in smaller towns I mean some libraries are just smaller than others and we really do want to work with you if you are interested in this project so we will really you know hopefully you'll say okay well we got a corner over there that's a 5 by 5 foot space we can stick something there we got another corner over there you can stick something there and it's not that you need a 20 by 20 foot room right okay questions yes we have a bunch of questions more about this too a couple people are asking well the about the consumable consumable materials that are needed for all these the filament for 3d printer embroidery thread the sewing machine the actual totes or things that are on is the library to be responsible of that or is that all provided as part of the grant we will be providing okay we will be providing filament and thread and some things like some wood some fabric because certainly when we come in and do our training we're going to need stuff like that to work with as far as and then we're hoping that will and we'll have a list of things that people have around their house and hopefully you can have kind of a consumable drive so we'll have a list of stuff that might be good to gather so we might have a list that says certain kind of fabrics or certain kind of pieces of wood that people might have laying around would be fine for them to gather however you can also ask the people that are working on projects that if they want to build furniture that they really are responsible for bringing in their own things now some libraries won't necessarily have a lumber store or a fabric store and so in those communities it might be nice to at least have a few things laying around we will be supplying some will ask be asking the libraries to try to collect others not necessarily purchase but try to collect others and then of course the users I mean part of the engagement to I know a lot of libraries do for their summer reading programs or any sort of their craft related programming asked for donations of materials from the community so it could be long the same lines as that right thing for some of this depending on what you're doing we are running over a little bit I hope everybody's okay with that we're just gonna keep answering questions yeah we'll stick with this for right now and go back to another one have a couple questions are concerned about the ventilation in the air quality and whatnot sure I'm actually asked says that ventilation is going to be an issue for a lot of locations could the equipment requiring it be purchased with a filtering system is there anything like that available and then some notes also mentioned that Donna Cruz at a conference she saw air scrubbers that were used with some of these kind of equipment is that something that could be added or is yeah we have we haven't exhausted our search on the types of equipment that might help us with that that does add expense and and what we're going to try to do is try to identify those that even though they're more expensive would work better and then maybe see if we can also get some partners that might kick in or maybe manufacturers that just would give us some of those things and Joe is pretty lucky with that she's already gotten those sewing machines free right yeah so we are going to be donated we donate we are going to be looking into that and hopefully we will be able to come up with something that isn't an issue in libraries but we do think that it's quite possible that we might need on that one machine might need to try to bend it to an outside window we would certainly be providing the hose we would ask you in advance what size of winter do you have so we can you know bring in a you know have a piece of yeah so one of those something that already one of them said we'll provide you need and we're not going to say that you guys have to figure out how to get it out that we are going to be working with you to do that but yes we are looking at scrubbers and other things and hopefully we can afford what we need okay so we'll work with you on that how to make that happen we'll find a solution yeah because someone says no what if our windows and open up to us and we'll see what can be done equipment damage what who is responsible for equipment damage do we need any additional insurance right you are sure and you'll be buying that equipment out of your cell right now you know we haven't really talked about that much yet hope you know we would hope that if let's say something was stolen that you know you would first check with the insurance that you have and see if that covers it but we are we're going to be looking into that in more detail and we'll be providing some such a man has no sort of warranties or something and we are buying extended warranty so if something really does break we can get that fixed and repaired and replaced and we know things are going to break and we'll just have to deal with it so don't worry about it wait we're working out we're not going to be sending the library and here's something that may be very what levels of supervision will be required it's going to vary from thing item to item I said and depending what you're doing for programming because as you look at this equipment you know and you've got for example an embroidery machine here and you've got a person who's certified on it and they've they're in the profile you can see they know how to use it how much supervision do you really need to give that I think I should get more into that the train the trainer sessions that we come and teach about these different things you'll figure out right well and also if you're just going to be like yeah here's that here's someone who's been trained and knows how to use it you're good on your own great as opposed to we're doing a program for couple hours and teaching how to do the Mickey Mickey running that so it's gonna yeah another consideration is if we were talking about donating and to let you know at the Nebraska Innovation Studios they actually run all of their wood through a metal detector before they use it because they're worried about having any kind of nails or anything metal in it and so you know I've had a couple nights I've been wondering about that myself how we're going to manage that piece of it you know we'd have to almost the donation would have to be brand-new and certified because what happens is if you have a machine that's as sophisticated as that and it is broken and has a piece that's broken and it's in a rural area it can take a little bit of time to get that fixed and our our goal would be to have already some of those most likely parts and pieces that could be broken and maybe have a supply of them and generally what's going to be broken if you would come across a nail and a board is if the bit that breaks in that bit could be an 80 or a hundred dollar bit right and it could be hard to find it or have somebody to actually do the the installation and in fact just as an aside we at the Innovation Studios when we were there a little bit a month or so ago they had their CNC router was working and they're talking about they're actually gonna have a vending machine there on site that you can purchase bits etc for their patrons that come in or the users that makers that come in to purchase right there because if they don't have it and they're there with a project then you know they gotta run to the store so i mean there's there's i don't believe we'll have a vending machine traveling but no but anyway it's possible that we may have a complement of bits that are available for some of this right and if and if bits break we will be replacing them right but we realize that if you have a piece of equipment in that corner and a piece of equipment in that corner and a piece of equipment over in that back room that that's still available to the public that you can't have your eyes on all those pieces of equipment at anyone and you don't need to so we're not requiring that you do we realize something could happen to a machine and you know we'll take it in strike other questions these are all good questions actually we have a question for khani um going back to um when you were working with sydney and revenna um someone wants to know is did sydney or revenna do any kind of survey to see what kind of equipment the community was looking for or wanted uh we have not done that um at this point in time but i think that's something that very well could be the action team uh responsibility to kind of scan the community see what um of interest there is and um but no we have not done the true survey of what that looks like we tried to do that within the school system um but it didn't it you know it just didn't materialize we've talked about it but haven't gotten that far to get it actually done one way to gather that kind of information at this point um without doing a quote unquote survey if you're going out to meet as part of your community action team and stakeholder building if you're going out to meet with groups you can have like a two question focus group while you're there and that asks the question uh what what do people want to do here uh what or what i mean i'm not coming up with the right question but you know a question about what would be useful to our community what would help our community grow what would help our entrepreneurs so that can be done as part of your community action team you're not getting a survey but at least you are getting that kind of information and i bet you're getting it anyway aren't you connie people are telling you what they think right right well you know the 3d printer was it was easy the video um component was easy we had purchased we had some extra money so we purchased a green screen and we had a video camera within our office so we partnered up and um were able to to do that share share equipment back and forth from the extension office to the library when we did our kickoff so i think some of that can go on as well um that when you start to get started but we didn't have this list of equipment and the stations at the time when we were initially talking about all this so i know uh sherm has thought about the ventilation piece and what pieces of equipment we could get grants for originally but having this list and being part of the rotating makerspace i think is is going to be able to show people some tangible results and what i would like to do not only just for this project but for you know other libraries thinking about makerspaces is it would be really nice because when you look at a list like this you and or even if you don't have a list and you have the community what kind of machines do we want to have in our makerspace they don't they don't they don't know what's out there and what they can do it would be really nice for instance when we get a vinyl cutter or when we go over to the Nebraska Innovation Studio we go okay what can you make on this vinyl cutter and they said well you can make this that and the other and say well let's make it let's put it in a box okay let's let's do something on your laser cutter make it put it in the box and then you have this box of stuff and you lay it out at a meeting on the table and say would we want to make anything like this and you go yeah hey that's cool well that was done by a vinyl cutter that was done by a laser cutter that was done by finished projects people can see right and then and then you can start thinking oh I could do some stuff and I think that's one of the things those inventors showcases are going to do for us because we're going to have your local community people who do these kinds of projects and who start thinking about well what good is this well I can use I'm going to be making these for Christmas presents well if I'm making it for Christmas presents maybe somebody wants to buy some for Christmas you know that I could engrave my logo on these fruit jars you know yeah someone wants to know um how do we get Connie's help with our community action team oh Connie where will you go how oh Connie where will you go well that that was the thing I was going to offer um we've got I have visited with uh many of our extension educators community vitality educators as well as our youth educators so we can locally you've got access to a lot of resources both from an adult perspective in terms of programming facilitating these kinds of conversations and from a youth perspective I was going to offer that if you if you would like to have some sort of a intro to maker spaces Shane Faradar's presentation I think he would be willing to share that with me it's already put together and we could begin to then uh vision what a maker space could be in your community and so we could do a zoom we could do this kind of a meeting um if I can't travel face to face or if there's not somebody locally that can do that um we could virtually do a presentation with your action team or interested people within your community so would be glad to do that um and would offer that to the folks on the the webinar today so that because it is it's a hard thing to really conceptualize and once you start to see oh these were things that really were invented and um these are things that our people in our rural communities probably invent now but they're not giving themselves the credit for and so I would be glad to do an intro to maker space kind of a presentation if that would be helpful absolutely we can help facilitate but also make sure you call your local extension folks and if if they like are kind of not sure about all of this have them call me and will um will be in touch um the question about the application process in the stations um in the application process should we choose or prioritize which stations or mobile stations we would like is that's part of the application and do we get only one I think that's that um each of the four kits are identical kits and they have it will have all of this in there so everything you list see in those stations and the mobile stations you'll be getting now obviously like Holly says uh we might decide rather than having that vinyl cutter we're going to have a different vinyl cutter and maybe we find out that the makey makies aren't quite as good as something else or whatever so this list could change but each of those kits are going to have one of you know have all of all of this is what you get all the including the other equipment which is uh tools like saws hammers pieces extent uh extinct I hear extinguishers hopefully that's not gonna be a problem but you need to have one first aid kit hopefully you don't need that these are the extra leftover things that will also be including for you right yeah well we're not providing might be critical thank you yeah iron board and of course you see those five laptops there and that's because a lot of those mobile stations need laptops or iPads or something like that to actually program those items so you don't need to provide you get it all now now it's possible that a library will say hey our windows don't open if you can't bring us a um a CNC router that doesn't or a laser cutter that doesn't need to be vented obviously we can't use that piece and and if that's if if that's the case that is fine uh we're hoping to bring all the ideas and everybody will have all these but if there's some piece you for some reason you can't get it at all that will not disqualify you from participating will just either figure out something or you might just have one less if that's what the ultimate answer right solution right or if you have a 3d printer and say you don't want to take your you know you don't have the space for having to that's fine we'll just keep ours at home thank you just the one yeah but maybe you don't have the 3d scanner that would be because what a scanner does is if i wanted to you know if i have a little trinket and i want to copy that you scan it and then you can make it from the scanner we couldn't afford a body image scanner for the printer or the scanner we're not sure we want one next time around so we have a question about the mobile stations i think um can a partner organization check out a mobile lab and do courses assuming they cannot i assuming you mean Cecilia like take it out of the library somewhere like check it out and go somewhere else besides the library building she's yes and she assumes they wouldn't be able to charge for those courses yeah you know i'm i'm i'm feeling like and we would probably want to work this out on a case-by-case basis but i'm feeling like we really want these to happen in the library we want this identified as the library program not the community college program we love having the community college partner we love having to work with this on this but we don't really want this to end up looking like the community college is operating but she's her specific idea actually that she just added is um specifically their prairie arts museum well and it and that could be a good outreach program you take out the the robotic kit you show your computers you invite people come back to library because you have all this i think if you're i think we're going to be tried to be flexible promoting it and saying the library is bringing this to our museum the library the library the library and make sure that they know as opposed to checking it out to the museum and having them then have it there right at the museum yeah we'll try and work with whatever you whatever great ideas you you guys come up with because we know you're going to have the great ideas for how to get this out there and she has one other question which i'm not interesting can people make things on this equipment to sell like to create to have their own local yeah absolutely yeah so just like what they make afterwards is yeah if you're making salsa and you want the salsa jars engraved with your logo and your website address come on in you just said you're library what are like how much time does each person get to use the machine and how long they can you know monopolize it for their project right i i like at Nebraska innovation studio when they know that they have a lot of people that use their cnc router or their engraver they do have um because they know about how many people need to use that in a given week they do have amounts of time just like you would check out a book or a video where they say that you can only schedule a machine for so many hours during any given week if if you come in beyond those and nobody's using the machine it's fine you know say okay now i want to use it because nobody's using it but uh so we're going to leave that up to libraries because it might be that no one else is using that machine so let them have at it she says time limits good idea yeah just write your computers and things if you check them out for some amount of time or people can reserve them for a certain amount of time and that's it same concept you'd use on these right same process right she says actually about letting people sell it she says that is awesome you want it used yeah absolutely so Celia's on board other co-westions or comments we have kept you over and we appreciate we we really appreciate your time because we know that you might not have scheduled to be with us for an hour and a half well i will say everyone who loved it is still here oh very great very i'm glad i work for and there might be times for instance if you're selling the items well whether you're selling them or just overusing something let's say even though we're supplying the filament because we need a certain quality of filament if somebody's coming in and making um you know little pokemon replicas and and they're using up an extreme amount of quality of filament that there might be uh you might want to we might have a price that if they're using up five dollars of filament then they're reimbursing the library that was five dollars so then we can send the library more filament yeah if you know somebody that yeah so does anybody i think we'll certainly learn a lot through this process i guess that's a wonderful thing that holly just brought up we certainly don't know at all this is a learning process for us to find out what works for all of you and and how this can work we may work out some of these issues with the first background of applicants and then this and then the second one will know how everything's supposed to go or if you have any other questions um we're not going to you know um shut down here until we're done with vensing any i think desperate you want to ask right now tape it in you can use your microphone whichever and this is also uh this slide has joanne's email and phone number which is good and then also the ad web address to go straight to that website if you want to just go straight right and that website not only do we have the application on there by the way the answers to your questions there is no limit if you need to answer you know use a whole page to answer a particular question oh that's good there's actually no limit to how long that application is and then also that other document that i emailed you is also not accessible from that web page it's the one with the expectations the q and a and certainly that is a very important document to read because we tried to anticipate some questions that you might have and so there is some good information and then the logic model was also on there yeah so you could get a better picture of it and be able to share it off and that uh that website will continue to evolve because we really did put it up very quickly so we might have i mean we're going to keep editing it and adding to it as far as the paying and charging went up shirm does say out in the city that they charge a five dollar flat fee for each 3d print job so no matter what you want five bucks so you can have a whatever your library policy is yeah be fine with us so a lot of thank yous thank you for the great presentation with gail erwin and bethol says thanks great info i love tons of questions as we work through this over here tons of questions are just fine there you go and we invite you to if you have any questions about the questions on the application go ahead and you know just give me a call and we'll help you work through those okay thanks well thanks everybody is excited about this good i'm glad everybody is a new potential adventure we it is an adventure isn't it it really is we're very excited we were very excited doing the library broadband project and this one to me is real similar in nature and it was so exciting working with libraries across the state and it'll be exciting all over again yeah and unfortunately we have our assistant directors out all across the state and they'll be working right along with us and they'll be a great resource so and just an appreciation from nebraska extension as well that we're a partner in this project because i think that the two pieces of local libraries and extension together really have a powerful component at our local level so thank you for including us in the uh grant and thank you yes we're glad to have you on board so i guess we'll close and yeah it doesn't look like there's any other desperate questions feel free to ask and through this email yes contact joanne look at the website keep an eye on it for updates and changes and whatnot okay we're good all right all right thank you everybody thank you guys thank you canny um thank you for having to this back to the website um so that will wrap it up for today's show oops that's not right there we go so this is the Encompass Live website as you can see just google us and find us online there um today's show is recorded and it will be that's actually the archive sessions page there is the main page so usually this is where people go to and they go to first your Encompass Live page and the archive of today's show will be right here on um this list will be right at the top of the list so they get everything processed and done probably by tomorrow um gotta go through getting to pick up youtube and um uh so presentation up and that'll be all available to you and everyone who attended today or was registered will be seen receive an email to let you know when the recording is ready so that will wrap it up for today's show. I hope you join us next week when our topic is tiny cat library things opac for small libraries you'll see that on description yet on here because i'm just got this set up last week um library thing if anyone has used it it's a place where you can um catalog your own book collection so to speak kind of like Goodreads track what you've got here um at your own house um and i have my own account there um they also do things for libraries though now they're great count to that um area and um tiny cat they've come up with an actual full blown opac specifically built for small libraries and um Tim Spaulding the um founder of library thing along with one of his co-workers Christy Kennedy will be with us next week to talk about that and let you know how you can get um possibly get tiny cat for your library so do register for that and they have our other sessions coming up here and Compass Live is also on facebook if you have facebook if you're a big user on facebook give us a like over there you'll get notifications of when things are coming up we don't want to sign up right now thank you um reminders of when our shows are starting and announcements of when our um recordings are available other than that that wraps it up for today thanks everyone thanks so much Connie thanks a lot and we'll see you next time when i come to slides bye bye