 My name is Kathy Zepatello and I am the Executive Director of the Kaniyap Public Library in Kaniyap, Ohio. I am also President of the Board for the Association for Rural and Small Libraries, ARSL. The Rome study helped us make decisions that make sense and it helped us begin how to understand as an organization how to how to assess risk. And so with that information we were able to break into pods and I had two separate pods. We had a AM pod and an afternoon pod where we never crossed paths. It really helped a lot to be able to put that into perspective of what we really needed to do to stay safe. It was ready reference for us to be able to get that into people's hands and to be able to explain why you're seeing some of the changes that you're seeing. And it did help people in our community make and assess their own risk. One of the things that my library is known for is programming and it's kind of our claim to fame and that's where a lot of our statistics drive from. And since we're unable to bring folks into the library with those kinds of numbers having to traverse in a hybrid model of online programming as well as in-house programming that is safe, that is spaced out and kind of realizing that even though we have a decent-sized library that under these new parameters we really have to assess our space and are we facilitating things in a safe way and actually the way people expect. My staff has been impacted greatly through this but I really feel that they have adapted and that's one thing we know about libraries. We like change. We're the change agents in our communities and we try to build staff that also embraces change but as a leader and as director of the library the number one thing that we've tried to do here is really kind of we put our staff first. I mean you know they're the most important. We're not churning out widgets here at the library. It's people helping people and when my staff feel like they're supported and that they're heard and that they have health insurance and benefits and they feel that they can leave their house and come to a safe work environment that was our number one priority and it certainly helped as all of the changes continue to happen. I feel the next steps moving forward will be to continue to create an environment where folks feel safe to leave their house and you know that goes by the appearance when they walk in, how do things feel, also do they have access to their materials and are they able to access these in the way that they feel comfortable. So you know the next steps moving forward we're incorporating a lot of technology within the library that it was always on our radar and they were things that we always wanted to do but with the pandemic you know it force these things to come along a little quicker. So moving forward we are grant writing. We understand that we do not have the infrastructure in this library to have the physical meeting space that my community is clamoring for. There is not enough space and we have to address that issue. The other thing is of course technology. I don't have enough technology in my library nor do we have someone on staff that can really be dedicated to take the lead on that and a small library we all know we wear many hats so we've written grants we will continue to do that to make sure those needs are met. One of the grants that we just recently received was for a tech coordinator. We'll be adding a full-time tech coordinator here at the library to help the public with whatever they are trying to do whether it's library related or not. Now something that might be helpful to other libraries and museums that I've learned going through this is to slow down. I think in libraries we're very used to multitasking because it is a fast-paced environment no matter what side library that you are in. So learning how to slow down and to be more mindful about what we do and what we touch and who we're talking to and how we're exposed that's not a bad thing to work on one project at a time to see one thing through. My staff thing need to be able to take their time off and we need to encourage that and I don't need to even hear why so we just have to make sure that those benefits that that staff have they're being utilized and and that the team is picking up when they're not there because everyone's going to have a turn at that. Yeah and you know I think it can't be said enough that people are experiencing trauma and that's us that's me that's my staff those are the the folks that we're trying to reach you know on the other side of of that service desk and for that shared experience and we've been told that we know that but now we're living it and so even though we've always had empathy we understand it a little bit better now and I think that we're able to make better decisions because we are thinking about our own physical and mental well-being first and that's not a bad outcome of this pandemic.