 Good morning and welcome to Encompass Live. I'm Emily Nimsacant filling in for Krista Burns here at the Nebraska Library Commission. Encompass Live is the Library Commission's weekly online event. It covers a variety of Library Commission activities and other library-related topics. The free one-hour sessions are offered every Wednesday at 10 a.m. central time and they include things like presentations, interviews, web tours, mini-training sessions, and question-and-answer sessions. And they are always available as recordings afterwards. If you can't join us for the live session you can listen to the recordings online. Today we have Deborah, Julie, and Susan presenting a session called What to Read. Good morning everyone and let us know if you can't hear us since there'll be three of us talking. We've tried to arrange the mic but if we need to adjust it at all let us know. Our topic today does relate to what to read next. And you might have had a patron walk into the library and say, that is if I can get it to move forward, there we go, do you know of a good book? What should I read next? Do you have another book just like this one? Okay and even if you don't hear it from your patrons, if you're not in that kind of a library, if you're a librarian you've probably heard it from a family member. But do these questions just scare you to death because you're not quite sure how to answer them? Well today we're going to be talking about resources that you can use for readers advisory. Some professional sources, some social networking sources, and also talking about what you already know and what you can share in you doing readers advisory. But first I'm going to start by talking a bit about what a readers advisory is. Okay readers advisory can be one-on-one doing book talking in the stacks or you could actually market books to readers and try to target one group of readers that like a particular kind of book. But what readers advisory also really depends on is knowing what you have in your own library's collection, what you can get a hold of, and knowing books. There is quite a bit of literature out there now about readers advisory, but Joyce Sarex was one of the very first to start writing books about readers advisory and really talking it up. Her first book readers advisory service in the public library is now in its third edition. She's also written the readers advisory guide to genre fiction. She writes a regular book list column about readers advisory and she does presentations all over the country and a few years ago she did actually come to Nebraska and do one here too. The first book is the readers advisory service in the public library. It's a good introductory resource for how to do readers advisory. It talks about reading and thinking about books, how to talk to patrons, how to interview them to find out what kind of books they're really interested in, how to do book talking and things of like that. Now a lot of the things that are covered are pretty much common sense, but sometimes they're things that we need to be reminded of. So now we're going to look just briefly at what suggesting books to patrons entails. You should really make suggestions to patrons, allow them to decide whether what book you're suggesting is something that they're really interested in. Don't want to push books on anybody. But to find out what to suggest you do basically need to do an interview. You need to find out what do they like to read? What did you like best about the book that you want to find another one like? What don't you like about books, about particular kinds of books? Most people when they're talking about readers advisory have a list of characteristics or items of appeal that they tell you to listen for when you're talking to these patrons. Sometimes some people list four characteristics, some people listed dozen. I've just picked out a few of them right here. Not everybody who likes the same book likes it for the same reason. So you need to ask the questions, figure out what it is that they're looking for. Just as an example, a book that both I and Julie actually have read recently is the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. I'm trying saying that 10 times fast. I have a hard time saying it once. Somebody who has read this book and enjoyed it might come back with responses like, well, it was a historical fiction book or it was a gentle read. It didn't have foul language or sex scenes, but there was a bit of mystery, a bit of romance, a bit of humor. It was just a nice sweet read. For the plot, they might say, oh well, it was about an author looking for a storyline for a new book who gets a letter from a man who found her name in a book that she had once owned. In the correspondence between the two of them, she discovers that he was a part of a group of people who started a literary group to escape punishment for breaking curfew in Nazi-occupied Guernsey. And she learns how they survived the war and how they continue to help each other in the aftermath of the war. For setting, they might say, oh well, oops, I did two of them. That's okay. It's post-war England, and actually Guernsey is an island off of the coast of England in the English Channel. Format, it was mostly letters. There were some journal entries with some telegrams thrown in, but it was mostly correspondence between a number of different people. But that correspondence did tell a complete story. Characters, most of them were pretty eccentric. But there was a plucky, quirky heroine, and because the letters were from various people, you got a real feel for one character that was described from a number of different viewpoints. The pace, it was a quick read. It wasn't really a fast-paced thriller or anything of that nature, but I read almost the whole thing in one sitting, because I wanted to find out what happened. The tone, it was pretty upbeat overall. Yes, bad things happened, but the characters were survivors. And you knew that things were going to pretty much come out right in the end. And for some people, happy endings is everything. Don't give them a book that has unhappy ending. And part of that relates to why are they reading? Are they reading to learn something? Or are they reading to escape? Oops, let me back up half. If you were actually going to make suggestions to someone who wanted a book like this, and you picked out certain things that they were really focused on, for example, if they were really interested in the letters, the English connection, the author, you might try suggesting 84th Charing Cross Road, which is a collection of letters between an author that was actually located in New York to a book store in London. If they were interested in letters, don't care really where it happened, slower paced book, you might suggest Fair and Tender Ladies by Lee Smith. If they were really interested in the World War II aspect, things that happened during the war and how people survived them and how they went on after the war, you might suggest a town like Alice by Neville Shoot. So depending on what they emphasized in describing the book to you, you might suggest different kinds of books. What if you have a lot of demand for reader's advisory? One of my professors always said, work smarter, not harder. So if you have a lot of people coming in asking for recommendations on, say, romance books, put together a list and have it on hand so that any of the library staff can use it. On the right hand side, I put up an example. It's a page from Joyce Eric's book of different kinds of little lists that you can create for your patrons and your library. In this particular one, it's popular topics in fiction. And they not only created a topic, but they actually defined it so that everybody is considering the same thing when they're adding to these lists. And in this case, they're just listing authors who write in that style. You can also create annotated book lists with just a little bit of a blurb about a book so that people can look at that and say, oh, yes, that's of interest to me or no, that's not quite what I was looking for. Some libraries still create bookmarks on particular topics or authors. You can also create book displays for your marketing to a large group of people. And these can be for, if you have a popular book, a book that's in or an author that's really in high demand, you might create a display that says, if you like this author or this book, try one of these or if you have a long waiting list for a really popular book, you might call it while you're waiting for X, try one of these. So you can market to people and do readers advisory work ahead of time. How do you create these lists? How do you come up with ideas for suggestions? Well, personal knowledge is a big one. Thinking about books that you've read, but also tapping into other staff members, what they've read, and don't forget the patrons. If you suggest a book to them and they really liked it, when they come back, say, what did you like about that? Would you suggest it to someone else? What else do you like that's written in this style? Beyond personal knowledge, there are also print sources. So if you're not familiar with a particular genre or you don't have time to read a lot of books, we have a number of different titles here at the commission. In addition to Joyce Sarak's books, we have an ALA Readers Advisory series, which includes the horror readers advisory and the mystery readers advisory. If you have teenagers who are in that are asking for books, we have serving teams through readers advisory. There are also other print sources out there like Gen Reflecting, that one's hard to say too. And what do I read next? Book reviews in journals such as Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, and Booklist usually have summaries of books and they'll usually mention the appealing characteristics of books. That's another way to find books to suggest. But in addition to print resources, there are a lot of non-print resources and they, the number grows yearly, daily, exponentially. But there are certain databases that are out there that are more professional that you usually have to pay for. However, with these two examples, the books in print and fiction connection, which is related to that, and WorldCat, the Library Commission pays the subscription for all Nebraska residents so anyone can get in and use those. Some libraries also subscribe to a service called Novelist, which is another professionally done database. There are all kinds of other websites that are put out there by book groups, by individuals, and there are a lot of lists and blogs that also talk about books and reading. So now I'm going to turn this over to Susan, who's going to start off with, which one, Susan, with one of the databases. And she's going to highlight some of the features that will help you in doing readers advisory. And I'll see you referenced. I'm going to go ahead and go to Nebraska Access and take a look at one of the databases that I think is pretty helpful as far as readers advisory goes. And that is fiction connection. The one limitation to fiction connection, of course, is that it is limited to fiction. There's probably a little bit of that gets bent a little bit because they do have sort of personal narrative. They do have some sort of memoirs included. And so those would also be, I would think, I think of those as nonfiction, but they read like fiction. So they do include them in fiction connection. And fiction connection does go back probably to it's not just adult titles, but it goes back to maybe midway through elementary school, some picture books, chapter books that kids like. So it's not just limited to adults. There are a couple ways to use fiction connection. And so I'm going to go ahead and start out just by doing a search for a book. This is really helpful because you could have the patron tell you the book that they like and the book that they want to find similar to. So if they come in and they tell you they liked, let's just, I haven't, I didn't practice this one, but let's just go ahead and try since Debra mentioned the, what's the title? Just the Guarantee Literary and Potato Peel Society. So here's the book. And so if a patron, if you've never read this book and the patron wants similar books, you're kind of in a jam. So if you go ahead and take a look at the record for this title and you scroll through the book, you'll see that there's a lot of books that you can read. So if you go ahead and take a look at the record for this title and you scroll through, you do get the summary reviews and then they assign different characteristics to each title in the database. And you can scroll through and you can see what the details are, what genres have they assigned to it, what topic areas, timeframes, locations, setting, character traits, et cetera. So many of those characteristics that Debra mentioned. What's nice is you can go up to the top and there's a button that says Find Similar. And when you click on that, basically what the database does or what the search engine does is it goes out and it retrieves all the other titles in the database that share at least one of those characteristics with this particular title. And they will sort the results by relevance. And by that, it means books that share the most characteristics with the target title are going to appear at the top of your list. The easiest way to see what characteristics are shown is to look right here. And if you click on Show All, it'll show you what all characteristics it has in common with the Guardsy Literary and Potato Kale Society book. So self-discovery, friendship, journeys, adventure, adult, Europe, et cetera. So one thing you can do is you can just scroll through this list and see if you find titles that might be of interest to your patron. You'll notice up here it does say there are 65,000 results. The other thing you can do is you can look over here on the left. And one of the things that Debra mentioned is that the characteristics that made a book appeal into one person might not make it appeal into another. And this lets you actually focus and craft your search so you're focusing on the characteristics that your patron liked. So you can go through and you can look at the topic areas and see what did you really like. There's location, setting, time frame, character traits. Up here you have the topic area and genre. And you'll notice that there's a number behind each characteristic. And that shows you how many of the 65,000 titles also have that particular characteristic. So you can get a sense of if you're going to really reduce your reading list or if you're still going to have a large selection after selecting a particular characteristic. So we could go in and we could say, OK, only show me books that are about writers. And so that's going to reduce our list to, well, I said about 2,000. So now we've got books about writers. And then we can go back and look at those characteristics again and say, OK, now I also only want those books about writers that are set in World War II and click on that. And now we're down to 31 titles. Which is a manageable list to go through and look at. The nice thing about this database is if you don't like how you reduced your result list, you can always uncheck a particular characteristic and you'll increase your list size again. So fiction connection is really going to be helpful if your patron is asking about a book that you maybe haven't read. You don't have a good sense yourself. This actually walks you through the process of asking them what characteristics did you like about the book. One other way to use fiction connection, if your patron isn't coming to you with a specific title they want to find and read, you'll notice this display here. You've got topics, genre, setting, character, location, time frame. And this display is a little bit deceiving. It sort of rotates through the different categories or the different tabs here. So what's easiest if you want to actually use this is go down here and click on View All Topics. And it's going to start off with a topic tab. It's going to list more topics than you could ever think of. But if you have your patron browse this list, they might be able to pick out a topic area they'd be interested in. You do see that the words are different sizes and the idea is that the larger the font, the more titles are going to have been assigned that particular category. So you could scroll through and maybe somebody likes to read about academic life. They could click on that. And now you're going to get a whole list of books that have that as the main topic area. Again, something like this is just a good prompt for patrons and they can't tell you what they're interested off the top of their head. But if they see it, they can point out what they're interested in. So it just helps jog people's memories. OK, we're frozen up here. When you do click to view all topic areas, you will after you click, you will have to cycle through the tabs manually if you want to, for instance, take a look at genres instead of topics or characters or settings. So you can just click on the tab and you can tell when the display has changed because the fonts are going to be color coordinated with the tab color. So here are a whole bunch of genres listed that you might be interested in. This is, again, a very useful database for readers advisory. I want to show you one other resource that I recently discovered that is useful for readers advisory. And this actually helps me do readers advisory for my eight-year-old, trying to find books that are an appropriate reading level for him and might be something that he would like. This is a site called Find a Book with Lexile. And we do have this URL in our delicious account under today's Encompass session. So you should be able to find this site there. What I really like about this site is, first, that it does let you search by Lexile as a measure of reading levels. So if your school actually does use Lexiles, then a child will have been tested and they will have a Lexile range that they should be comfortable reading in. So you can enter a Lexile number. Or over here, you can select a grade. So we often have people ask us, can I search this database by reading level or by grade? And most of our databases, for instance, WorldCat, is not really a good, easy way to do that. So this lets you search by grade level. So I can say third grade. And then it asks you, does this person that you're searching for find books that they read for school difficult? Do they find them challenging but not difficult? Or are they too easy? And so you can target where they are as far as third grade reading level goes. So I'll just choose the middle option and continue. And once we get to the next screen, there are actually two ways to search. You can, again, do a keyword search. You're also going to be given a display of topic areas that you can drill down through in order to pinpoint what the reading interest is. What I really, really like about this site is that once you've identified titles, it does link you to worldcat.org. And so you can find out then easily whether a book is available in the library. So it provides you with a way to search. You can't search in WorldCat. And yet then it links you to WorldCat. So it really enhances that, both services, I think. So a couple of years ago, my son was really interested in the Titanic. And so if I was still looking for books in the Titanic form, I could type in a Titanic and click on Search. And it gives me 11 books. They are in a particular lexile range that was identified as sort of the average third grade reading level. And you'll see over to the right, you can add to a reading list. You can find it in a library through WorldCat.org, or you could purchase it through Barnes & Noble. The other thing that's nice over here, right, there's some limit, abilities to limit. You can limit by fiction or nonfiction. Or then down here, I like this. You can limit by page count. So you can say, OK, I want my child to be reading. I don't want them reading books that are only 20, 25 pages long. So let's make them read books that are at least 48 pages or longer. And so you can limit your searches that way, too. I want to jump back and show you the drill down option here. So again, I'm going to go third grade and sort of the middle reading level here. And my son also likes to read books that are funny. So there's an option, humor and gains. You can click on that plus sign, and then you have some subgenres or subcategories. So he just likes funny stories. So I can select that and do the search, and then it'll just look for books that have that characteristic that are probably at an appropriate reading level. Once I find something that I think might interest him, I can just click on the WorldCat link, and it jumps me out to worldcat.org. And I should be able to find out whether it's in a local library. So as far as trying to identify books for a younger reader where a reading level is going to be a component of the process, this find a book I think is really useful. So here are Nebraska libraries that are not too far away that have this book. Just a couple other ways that I've been sort of doing reader's advisory for myself. Any more, there are lots of social networking possibilities as far as reader's advisory goes. There is a site called Visual Bookshelf that I've been exploring. Let me go ahead and go there. And I actually found this site through Facebook. It's an application that sort of interacts with Facebook. And so you can use it through that social networking service, or you can go to it directly and create an account. Let me go ahead and sign in, and then I can show you what it does for you. You can see a parenting book since I've entered some parenting books in here, some health books. You can kind of get a good idea of why it's making the recommendations it makes. If I go to my profile, you should be able to see where friends are reading. And I think that that's just a valuable way to figure out or get ideas for reading. We all are around other people all day. Lots of those people are probably reading books, but they don't necessarily talk to you about it. Not because they're trying to keep it a secret, but just because you're busy in talking about other things. But if people are willing to sort of keep an online list of what they're reading and share that with you, it's a great way to get ideas. And then often it's a good conversation starter too. So getting your patrons introduced to some of these services, if they are real voracious readers and really like talking about books with other people, that might be a nice sort of program to have some time. You can get some of your real voracious readers hooked up with some of these services that may help them as well. And finally, I just want to point out Facebook itself. I was talking to one of my coworkers the other day, and we both experimented with some of these sites like Visual Bookshelf. And they're a nice way, a nice place to go to just see longer lists of what your friends are reading. But just posting, just a brief post on a social networking site that you participate in about what you're reading actually seems to sometimes get the most comment. It's not really intrusive, I don't think, but people are interested in knowing what you thought of a book or interested in saying that they've read it too. I've had people ask if they can borrow a book after I've said I'm reading it. I've had librarians say, oh, I'm going to order this book after seeing that I was reading it. So it's just one more place to share reading interests. Here's a book that I'm just reading now. And I happen to post that I was reading it. And I've had several people comment. It's about parenting. This is someone that I'm friends with. Based on going to library school with them. But we haven't really ever commented back and forth. But she happens to have an eight-year-old boy too. And she immediately commented, does this book tell you how to wean your child off in a hint of DS? I need all the help I can get. So this isn't somebody I correspond with regularly, but she saw that book and she immediately piped in. It does seem to draw people out of the woodwork as far as commenting on what you're reading. I had another friend go through in all of the different posts about books I've read or reading that she went through and said, oh, I'm reading this one, or I bought this one. I have to read it. So it is a good conversation starter. I also want to show you something that O'Neill Public Library is doing. They have a page for their library. And what Becky, the director, is doing is it looks like, I don't know for sure, but I think there are new books that she's getting, but she's just posting on her wall new books that the library is getting. And you'll see that people are starting to comment and respond and say, oh, this looks good, or I read this one. I think one time she said, if you respond to this message, then I'll post more books that are new this month. And five people responded and said post them. People are enjoying this as a way to just see what's new in the library without being overwhelmed by a huge list. And it's just another way to market what you have right now. That's about all I have. So I'm going to turn it over to Julie. Well, that's a good segue because I have a little bit. You didn't log me out of Facebook, did you? Well, it's OK. OK. I want to show something that is very like that, and that would be. Would you mind pulling up the, or are there going to be any questions coming in? Just put that. Those are on the very top. The very top. Just want to make sure we're not missing any questions or anything. No, folks, I feel OK. OK. Arrow back. Close up. Left, left, left, left, left, left, left. I'm sorry. I'm unfamiliar. I'm not used to these people. OK. Goodreads is another very similar to what Susan just showed. And just to show that there are multiple recommendations and or websites now that this is actually a social network of within itself. But it also interfaces with Facebook. And I was invited by my nine-year-old neighbor who wanted more friends. I think. OK. How can I say yes? And so that's, and I actually haven't played with it that much, but that's how I got started with it. And so I should probably sign in. Like I said, I don't think. That was the social network that your nine-year-old wanted to participate in. And actually, my nine-year-old also is using it. And they're the only friends I have on here at this point. And you'll see they're very goofy little updates and that sort of thing. But it has an interface with Facebook the same way. And it has all kinds of other things that are really fun about it. Here are my friends. I'll show you my friends. My daughter and Catherine. But you can use it to find books. You can record. My book says you can read what you want to read, what you have read, and that sort of thing. But finding books, I really think this is kind of fun. They have all sorts of popular lists. You can do a search, find something that you have read that you really liked. Got one too many. Oh, there you go. And you can, obviously I haven't added this to my list of things that I've read, but it does. So you can rate it. You can discuss it. And none of my friends have read it. Surprise, my two friends are nine-year-olds. But it does give other reviews. If you're looking, you can gush, gush, gush, gush, gush. And different ratings. Some people really didn't like it. Other people did. So, and you can do. People who viewed this book also viewed others. So it's a way of leading you. And groups, you can find reading books. Groups this way. All of these people have read it. So it's really fun. I mean, there's all different ways. You can expect. There was something that said traveling vicariously. Was that on the previous page? Yeah, on the previous page. Up, higher. I wonder who that was. Oops, now I'm gonna go too far. Okay, oops, fine. Sorry, I'm probably asking you about something you haven't. Scroll up. There. That's traveling vicariously. Down a little bit. Here, he did it. No, not here. Oh, right here, the list. Yes. What is that? It's a list. Lists with this book. Oh, so since it's in Guernsey, it's in England. Here are other books that are in other places that you might like. And you can vote. And they do create lists that are very, that's one of the things that, there's lists. Sorry, this is what I wanted to show you. You can see the popular lists. Best books, best, you can click on more book lists. And there are lots of them, the best and the worst. And this is so much fun because these are the same. And of course, Twilight shows up on every list. And then there's lists with weeks in activity. But you can just go on and on. And there's also popular tags. So if you want to find romance, if you want to find nonfiction, mystery, historical, all of these things. So there are so many ways to find books using this. And I'm really having a lot of fun just exploring with it. But I like the visual aspect of it too. I think it is pretty attractive with the book covers. And you can, like I said earlier, you can find book groups. You can join book groups and discuss books online. And it is, there are so many recent popular groups, groups in Lincoln, recognize anybody, more members. And there's their bookshelf is the e-pray. So this is something like I said, I'm just starting to explore, but it is similar to yours. And I don't know how you think it compares, but. I think what is sort of frustrating is all of your friends will never be using the same service. So. Right. And like I said, I have not, I haven't, you know, tried to hook up with Facebook with this yet or so. Okay. And I want to go back to the list. Yeah, just type in the E-L. My typing is bad today. There you go. And you can just click on. All about romance. My sister is always asking me to serve as her reader's advisor for romance, which is really ironic since I don't read romance at all, but because I'm a librarian, she's always asking me to advise her. So I actually sent her this. Deborah is the one who pointed this out to me. I had looked at it before, but not made the connection. So thank you, Deborah. And so I'm waiting for her review about this, but I've looked at this and I think it's really wonderful. One of the things that is great is you can actually do, there's a sensuality rating system. And I work right across from the talking book and braille service desk. And so I hear them whenever they set someone up for service, one of the questions they ask is, do you want any sex with strong language? And I think they should have a rating more like this, actually, because it's a yes or a no at that point. And no grades within that. So everywhere from burning to kisses. And it also gives you the, if you're unsure, this actually tells you various authors. So if you've read someone and you can figure out what level you're comfortable with. So there is a review hub, there's Power Search, which allows you to limit then using your sensuality rating over here. So if you like just warm, you can do just warm and search for books that have that. And then they give grades, the reviewers give grades. So the very, it looks like an A is Alenor. And you get a nice review. Wow. So I think this is quite wonderful. But there are things from the authors here. And readers speak out, raves, rants. Oh, I want to read rants. Rants about sexuality. That's a lot of words. Yes. Quite of you. But there is just so many wonderful, I think, aspects about this. And probably the Power Search. I mean, if you're really looking for something, if you have a particular author, and of course this was one of the things that my sister is, she loves the, oops. Okay, yep, and then you- There, click. Sorry. Okay, well, we'll go with the title. I'm sorry, I'm doing such a best. It's hard to type at the same time you're trying to talk. This is her favorite, this is her favorite author. And so it is really fun to go in and do a lot of exploration on this. In fact, I found something I think I might actually try to say this. And I'm going to show you another one that I think is very good for readers. And it's fantastic fiction. One of my favorite authors is Louise Erdrich. Except I misspelled it again. And so it tells you if she has anything new. And in 2010, she has Shadow Tag coming out. It gives you her series. And actually, I think that there is another series that they're missing. These three were series that I didn't- Yeah, I found that their bibliographies aren't always perfect, but at least it gives you a story. Yeah, it does give a nice bibliography. Her collections, fiction awards that she's won. And her recommendations, which I think is kind of fascinating. I mean, this is one that I've now marked that I would really like to read. So, and you can, it offers new authors. Lists, new books, awesome though. And forthcoming, most popular. I think there's a lot of ways that if you have a customer that you're not sure, you can sit them down and they can easily use these. And actually, if you go into a title, it'll do similar books too. Oh, okay. If you do some of these titles, actually. If you have a summary, and then if you slow down to the bottom, it says similar book. It's the only one. But it says the last symbol is similar to this particular Patterson title. Which is interesting, since this just came out and the one I chose is a forthcoming book. So, you're already... Yeah, somebody's already categorized. So, and you can, one way that I try to just make myself more aware is to look at awards. And even though I may not read all of them, but if I look to see what has won an award, at least I'm aware. And sometimes I can, I'll read a little bit about it if it's an author that I'm unfamiliar with. So that if someone does ask me for a suggestion, then at least I have an awareness. So, I do think this is good for that reason too. One thing that I do wanna show you that I use, I'm sorry guys. Yeah, there you go. Is to look at people's blogs. This is Pat Leach's blog. And she is actually blogging about the ALA award winners, this for the, or see, the ALA notable books. And she's reading all of them. She does a presentation at NLA each year about the NLA Notables. And so she's going through and making her notes basically of all the books that she's reading. And I've actually checked out a couple of the books that she had also talked up on books here. And I listened to NPR and their book recommendations. That's how I found the Guernsey Literary and Potato People Pie Society book. I heard the niece was interviewed, the one that finished the book after the author died. And so that just for awareness, this is one of the places that I come because I can't hear everything that's on NPR. I miss a lot of the news. I have plans for just so that I can also make connections. That was what I was going to cover. And I was running out of time. Well, do you want to check and see if anybody has questions? Sure. Now that I know how to do it. Are they? They're not coming through there. Is this the area? If you click on the plus next to attendee list, up kind of in the top, you can see if everybody's raising their hand or anything. Attendee list. Yeah, right there. Okay. No more questions? Yes? Okay. We have a couple more minutes. Let's see, what was I going to say? If you want to go back to delicious, see if I can ever get this right. There are a few other blogs that can help with readers advisory. We scroll down to how readers advisor online. Gonna take a minute here. This is just another resource where they talk about different books that are coming out and they talk about readers advisory in general. So it's just someplace that you might want to keep an eye on to find out what people are saying about books and different to get ideas on how you can talk to patrons about books. Another reader who's, reader reviewer who's very popular for her lists and has a blog now is Nancy Pearl. And if you remember, she actually came for an NLA conference here a couple, a couple three years ago now too. Maybe three years ago it was in Omaha. She was in Omaha, so. Anyway, she does a good job of giving a summary and talking about why she enjoyed particular books. So that's just another blog. And what else do I have? Oh, for teens, there is a blog that has been put up where teens can talk about books. And you'll notice what I like to look at too is how often entries are made and there's been an entry in this blog as recently as the, what was it, Saturday? It's been fairly recent. But here teens actually make comments or write blog posts and make comments about what each, what everybody's reading. So that's just another option for reader's advisory. And a lot of these places as Julie and Susan have indicated patrons can use on their own. So if you find a good site that does reader's advisory for a particular topic and you know that that patron is interested in that, refer them there so that they can participate too. You don't want to totally discourage them from asking you for book suggestions. But you can always just recommend other places that they can search for ideas. I mean, I would think that that could be a really popular program for patrons and we really like to read, you know, compile some of these sites and then have a one hour session, you know, come to the library and see a demonstration of sites on the internet that can help you figure out what to read next. I bet that could be a big draw. Right. And if you go to our Nebraska Access page and go to the Books, Humanities and Reading link and then scroll down a little bit, you'll see that there are several different pages that have information about books. But I'm going to go into Books and Reading just to show you that you can also go here to get to several of the websites that we talked about today. For example, All About Romance is here and Fantastic Fiction is here. And there are others that we didn't get around to talking about like our own Books and Series, which is something that is compiled by our reference librarians from their knowledge along with suggestions from other people. And you'll see, let's see, who's an author here that I can, a series author I can tell you. Gabel Don. Yeah, if I can spell it. Gabel Don. Okay. You'll see that there's a series title with each of the books in order underneath them and there's also a number at the end. You'll notice this service was basically started for our Talking Book and Braille patrons and that department, excuse me, so that they could better help patrons to locate series and then they have the number for that particular item available right there. So there are a number of different sites out there that will help you with Reader's Advisory. Search for more on your own. Take a look at what we've talked about and don't be afraid to talk about books. It takes practice to be a really good book talker, but people like to share what they're reading and because you're a librarian, they like to ask you for suggestions. We thank you for participating in the program today. It looks like we're right at the top of the hour, so we will say goodbye and hope to see you at our next Encompass Live. Thank you.