 Next up in our lightning round is Celebrity Readers of the Week, presented by Heather Kamen, a librarian and teacher at the East Butler Public Schools here in Nebraska. Take it away. Oh, thank you. Well, good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to Celebrity Readers of the Week. My name is actually Mrs. Heather Kevon, but that's okay. I started out in the Pregg Public School Library for three years, and we merged with the East Butler Public Schools. I got a chance to teach for 5th and 6th grade for two years, and now since the former librarian retired, I have been here at East Butler for two years officially, which has been fabulous. We are the home of the Tigers. Here's our lovely website. You can come join us. Brainerd is in a little town northwest of Lincoln, excuse me, and we are starting this year. We started the Celebrity Readers of the Week. I used Cortley Pentland's idea from the Heartland School Library Conference up in Omaha. She mentioned that she uses a t-shirt in their coffee break room with celebrity faces near their coffee machine as a conversation starter, but we started putting it here in our library with just a regular staff shirt, but you might see this little note card or wherever. I taped it over the sign that said staff, because I started having students saying, hey, can we get our name up there? We started out by going to this website. It's thescholastic.com Readers Everyday Celebrity Bookprints. It has some fascinating different celebrities available for your use, so let me see if I can get out of here for just a second and take you to the Celebrity Bookprints website. It's got tons of different book prints available already ready for anyone that is curious to try this as an idea. We did like Tony Hawk or Taylor Swift at some point. I don't know if it'll let me connect or not, but it goes through and they do a little biography of each of these celebrity people, and then you can see right here they pick at least five books that have left an indelible mark on their lives of shaping who they became. Tony Hawk is a skateboarder, as you can see, he's sitting on a skateboard there. These are some of the books that has changed his life. Well, what I started doing was having teachers, administrators, different people, the students and everything decide to give me their favorite books. They would put their face up, I print off their face and put it right above the shirt. I blocked the student's name right there, but to build community in our small area, we only have about 360 total students between two buildings in small town of Nebraska, which is fun and fabulous, but to build community and start to get to know both teachers, administrators and students, every week we try to change and have a new person featured and they pick some of their favorite books. I told them three to five, so I list the names of the books and then I put a picture of the cover, just Google it, use amazon.com or whatever and print the front of the book and then we've had different conversation starters as kids walk through the library because I have two doors on the opposite sides that some of the kids have to go through for the high school to get to their classes or their lockers. So they start random conversations that way. Some of the teachers, a couple of our administrators have played our game, have played along and let us use their photo and their names with some of the books that they recommend and then we've started having both elementary or middle school to high school and other teachers start asking about those kinds of books so I make sure that they are on the shelves that are available, which is kind of fun so it helps me know what I'm planning to buy for the collection and helps up that way. It has potential to start, like the book talks for certain students if they would advertise some of their favorite books and be like, hey, yeah, this is an awesome book. For the book clubs, we have not started that yet, but there's possibilities if people would like to start some of those. I heard one of the gals not too long ago mentioned that they do podcasts, well that would be one way to do a book talk of the week and be like, this one is featured, come check it out in the library and then have that display available would have students be like, oh yeah, I heard about that on Monday morning during announcements or something like that would be available options, whatever you want to say. It also, this display has helped support our school improvement goal of helping with sparks for reading and getting our state standardized testing reading scores up because people are starting to say, okay, what's a good book. Here are some of the ones that people have recommended. Here's what we need to maybe try, try reading and we'll see how it goes. This is our first year of doing that and I don't know, thanks to Michael Christen, the Rascal Library Commission and Dr. Pascoe and Courtney Penland for the idea and that's my short mini spiel. All right, thank you. Looks like we got a question or two that have come in. Sure. One of our questions, do you do this for community members as well as students? Oh, well, I did have one lady in the kitchen say, sure, I'll have it, but we don't have too many people walking through regularly, but we sure could. That's a good idea. Thank you. Okay, cool. I have a question. When you have, the kids would obviously pick kids books. When you have staff saying, here are the books I recommend, do they recommend adult books? Do they recommend kids books concerning who the audience for this is? Oh, that's a good question. Well, I've had a couple of teachers, so far we've had five teachers, two administrators and eight students that we've already displayed. We have a couple already printed off already to go in the next couple of weeks. Several of the teachers have included both older reading and some of the ones for the younger students. Our population is a pre-kindergarten through 12th grade. So we've had them recommend books of all ages. The ones that like books a lot sometimes have had like five to seven books displayed and some of them have just said, okay, you said three, I'll do three, but yeah, the adults that have recommended have had a couple of both for high school and for any younger books selected. So they'd be like, here, these are good books. Does that answer your question? Yeah, that does. Thank you. You can see that it's, you know, you have to keep it in the school environment public library. You can kind of broaden that out. We have another question. Someone is commenting that you could try movies based on books as well. Oh, absolutely, absolutely. And I know there have been other libraries that do displays with like Golden Sores or Calde Cotta the Week or New Berries or different award-winning books. You could do different people that like displays for a specific type of award-winning book. You could, you could alternate, you know, alternate those kinds of things. Yeah, cool. All right. Well, thank you, Heather, very much. It was something a very interesting program. We've gotten some good feedback on Twitter about how this is such a great idea. So hopefully a few other folks will pick this up. So that is session two in our lightning round.