 Good morning and welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. I am Krista Porter here at the Nebraska Library Commission. Encompass Live is the Commission's weekly online event, webinar, webcast, online show, where we cover anything of interest to libraries. We're very broad in what we cover here. All types of libraries, all types of activities are doing at libraries. That's really our only focus is anything library related. The show and our recordings are free and open to anyone to watch. We do the show live on Wednesday mornings at 10 a.m. central time. But if you're unable to join us on Wednesdays, we do record every week. And those recordings are posted to our website afterwards. And I'll show you at the end of today's show where, although you can find all of our recordings, we have all of our recordings archives go back to the first show, which was in January 2009. We have the show themselves. Our video is on our YouTube account. If there's any presentations or handouts or documents included, those are up there as well. And any websites or links that people have mentioned during shows, we gather them all together in our delicious account to save bookmarks together and provide that for you as well. I said we do a mixture of things here, book reviews, training sessions, presentations, demos of services or products. Basically anything libraries are doing, are involved in, something we think might be of use to libraries is on the show. We do bring in guest speakers sometimes, but we also do presentations from our Nebraska Library Commission staff. And we have sort of a recombination of that today. With me today is Mary Jo Ryan, communications coordinator here at the Nebraska Library Commission. And on the other side there, Joanne McManus, who's our grant coordinator for various grants, we're going to talk about the internship one. And also on the line with us is Lori Yocum. I'm just getting over to her to unmute her. From Wilson Public Library here in Cozette, Nebraska, who's going to talk about their experiences with internships. Hi, Lori. How are you? Good. Good to have you with us. Good morning. Thank you. All right. I think you guys are going to start, right? Yeah, all right. So I would just hand it over to you to tell us all about how to do some great internships. Terrific. Very good. Good to be here with you all today. Planning for successful internships. Now let's see. That didn't work. There we go. All right. We do have two audiences this morning. We have just announced the 2017 internship grant awardees, and many of them are on the line, as well as some 40s from past years. However, this particular session is going to be of interest to anyone who is interested in having an internship, intern in their library. And we have some of those also viewing today across Nebraska and of course across the country as well. And so I think that everyone will find something of value today. So what's secret, Joanne? Let's see what's out. And we have heard this as a matter of fact. At the end of last year's internship program, we had a survey to the supervisor saying, what might you do differently if you didn't begin that you learned this year? And we heard a lot of people saying more planning, and we actually have a quote here. Planning makes all the difference. The detail, the calendar was extremely useful. It kept us on track. So we encouraged them to do that, and obviously it worked. And of course, planning is important. And as all of you may think back to job experiences your first day on the job, I think all of us have had those jobs where you might even inquire about a job opportunity and the supervisor had a little bit of trouble describing the job duties. Or you start the job and the supervisor isn't quite prepared to get you started that day. And you might even sit around half the day on that first day not really doing anything because they're not quite prepared. That won't be happening here. We hope not. And I think in short-term internships that is really important to be prepared because you don't have the luxury of having all that many hours for that intern anyhow. So it is important to plan ahead of time and to be ready. And of course, not only are you wasting their time, but your time as well. I think that even though we do have, we are providing $1,000 to 21 different libraries, 27 if you count Lincoln and Omaha as their separate branches. Anyone really can find some funds to get an internship. Yeah, we do want to encourage everyone, whether you received a grant or not, to move forward on trying to get that funding. It's not that hard to get. People are really supportive of this idea. And one thing that came to mind this year as I was reading the intern applications is that one of our libraries said that if they get a grant, then they did, and we were going to use that opportunity to really showcase what that intern did to their city. And they wanted to show we really need another staff, we need more hours, and look at what this one person was able to do for us. So take advantage of it. If you're one of those that have a grant, take advantage of it. There's two ways to provide payment interns, this is both whether you're getting a grant or not. You can either hire that intern as a part-time temporary employee and give them an hourly wage, or because they're students, you can use a stipend-based internship. And of course, if it's through the grant, we suggest that since it's 1,000, that you give those stipend payments and probably a couple different payments so they don't get all their money all at once, or they don't have to wait for all of their money Here at the Library Commission, we've had a variety of interns, and we've done it different ways depending on how the college or the institution suggested, but I always felt bad for the interns when we didn't pay them until the end of the semester because they work all those hours before they get anything. And in Nebraska, for those of you who are joining us in Nebraska, whether you're paying an hourly rate or stipend-based, it really does have to be equivalent to at least minimum wage. And in Nebraska, that is $9 per hour. And then there is an exception, and again, I'm talking Nebraska law, that if it's a student worker, you can pay them a training wage, which would at least be 75% of minimum wage. So it is possible, since these are students, that you pay them less. I think almost everybody that has done interns with us in the past have paid at least the minimum wage. But remember to check whether you're getting a grant or not. You're probably associated with the city or county, and so do check with them on any stipulations that they might have when you're hiring. What's next? Oh, well, you've got to have some goals. The internship is going to be more successful if you pay attention to what goals you have. And of course, you need to start with, if you are getting a grant, you need to start with the goals of the Nebraska Internship Grant Program, which include, but I think these are important to anybody, involve the student in real library work. Obviously, you don't want them sweeping floors all day long. You need to provide a view of the role of libraries, library operations, and the role of technology. You might have them focused on a specific project. Maybe they're only working on the website, or they're only working on whatever the case may be. But do still tell them about a lot of other things that go on in libraries today. And ensure that the internship serves as a recruitment tool to help the student view library work as a viable career path. So obviously, you're also talking about where they can get education, what other types of jobs are available in libraries. You might be from a library that's very small and might not have all of the tools that others have, but still mention that with you. Well, and sometimes I know that some of the libraries have taken the interns on field trips to other libraries so they can see what a college library is like, what a bigger library is like, what a smaller library is like. So that's always good too. That's right. And then, of course, after you look at our goals, obviously you'll have goals of your own. And it might be to expand a program, to work on things like the website or social media, reorganize an area, assist customers using the computing area. And obviously you all have goals as well. And feel free throughout the conversation today to type in your comments or type in your questions. Yeah, or raise your hand if you'd like to speak. Kristen will notice if you raised your hand on that little place on the side, on the right side. Does it still look like a hand since they changed it? It should. See, I have it. They changed the interface, so we're not sure if it still looks like a hand. This is as an organization. I don't have that same view. But yeah, somebody with their hand raised earlier testing it out, I saw before we started. So that'll work. So yeah, let us know if you have questions by raising your hand or by typing them in the comment section. But having your goals, even not just to list a task, but your goals will help you to always remind yourself, oh yeah, we need to refocus on what we wanted to accomplish here. Yeah. And I noticed that some of the libraries have goals that relate to the community. Having the intern understand more about the library's role in the community and community engagement. I thought that was really good too. So once you have your goals, you need to actually put together your work plan. What will the duties of the intern be? And if you're a successful internship grant applicant, you already described those in your grant application, and sometimes you get a question, well, now we have some other ideas. And so do you really need to stick to that described list of activities, or can you go a different direction? And it's possible that you did have a successful grant application because of those activities that you described. But of course we want you and that student to have great experience, and we do want you to make use of the interns' talents and skills. Maybe you didn't think of them helping on your website, but all of a sudden you're interviewing an intern and you see all these talents and skills that they have, and you might want to go a different direction. So, yep, we can be flexible. And our request, when you want to make adjustments, see my puppy dog eyes there. You're begging them to help me out here. Joanne has read the research on how people love the dogs and cats and their images. She's all over it. So if you are deviating significantly from your grant funded work plan, email me and let me know what you're adding, what you're eliminating, and that way if we see any issues we can visit about that. But we want to be flexible and help you out. Okay, so the timing of your internship. Those that got the grant, that internship can be anytime between you have a signed agreement and you don't have that yet, and we'll talk about that later. But they do have to be wrapped up by the end of November. And you might want to consider the student schedule when they're available. The best time, obviously, for your library, you want to think about that. And a lot of times we see in our grant applications that people want that internship during their various busy times, during summer reading programs and things of that nature. And you might want to think about that. And really, when you want that, maybe the busiest time isn't the best, at least not getting them started. Because if it's too crazy, how much time can you work with that internship? So maybe get them started ahead of time. Right, right. But of course, typically, students are more flexible during the summer hours. Okay, so recruitment. Recruitment is very important to get you an intern that will work good. You need to think ahead of time before you even know who might be interested in your internship. What kind of skills and attributes are you looking for for that intern to be successful in performing tasks? What's the best age range for the student? Are you going to be recruiting a college student because of what you're going to be asking of that student? Or are you going to put feelers out in both areas because you know either might work for you? I did want to, even though it can be either a high school or college age student, I do want to give you a little bit of tip on hiring someone under 16. And this is in Nebraska. Other states might have different laws. But in Nebraska, if you're hiring someone under the limits on the number of hours that you can have them working, and when they can be working, and you also have are required to get a properly executed employment certificate from your school. And so that is an extra step. And here are just some things to think about if you get someone under 16. During the school year, they can only work up to Monday through Friday. And if it's during the school year, they also cannot work past 7 p.m. And a lot of times you might want them to come in to help with the program. Is your program really going to be over by 7 p.m.? And if it's not, if you have a 14 or 15 year old, they won't be able to work on that. In the summer, it is 9 p.m., so it's a little bit more flexible. But again, sometimes you have a program that's wrapping up at 9 and then you want them to stay after cleanup. So this is just some extra thoughts. And if you do hire a 14 or 15 year old or are considering that, I do have a three-page document that tells all the ins and outs about that. So definitely request that of me. And if you have any questions about that, just go ahead and type them in there in your chat box right now and we'll try to address them. But probably the best thing is to read the document if you really are planning on hiring a 14 or 15 year old. Okay, so once you know whether you're hiring as a part-time employee or a stipend-based intern and you know what the job duties are and you know what skills would be ideal, now you're ready to search for your intern. It's better to do that ahead of time before you start to see your possible interns and then you go, wow, now I'm going in a whole different direction. So how do you get the word out? There's plenty of ways to advertise your job opening. Local newspaper of course whether that's articles and classified ads. Your high school, career counseling office and school librarians are also good places. If you're going to be recruiting a college student, obviously the community colleges and other colleges and universities. On the Nebraska Public Nebraska Department of Economic Development's website, they have the internne.com and that is kind of a one-stop shop for paid internships in Nebraska. And so that might be a good place to drop that ad. And then of course on our website now hiring at your library we can post jobs. As a matter of fact I went to there yesterday and saw Lincoln has their internships already posted on there. So let me show you where those are. Here is... I had it up here, maybe it's gone. Nebraska Library Commission if you go down here to jobs careers now hiring you'll get here to internships directly and that's where the information is about internships. But you were talking about over here under posted job this is where you would post your job. This is where you would view the jobs that are available. And there's Lincoln's grant library grant funded intern. So they are able to just put a little information in here it's pretty easy to do. So we kind of recommend it especially if you're looking for a college student they would use the web to look for a job or internship. And you can post it in your library and you guys probably have great ideas as well how you can get the word out. Does anybody want to share any ideas at this point? Yeah, go ahead and type in your question section and let us know if you had any successful or unsuccessful places. I'm particularly interested in how if there are any of you that are using social media to recruit or to share information about internships. If any of you tried on social media I know a lot of students are using Snapchat. Trying to think how that would work. That's a way to really promote things. Yeah. But Facebook would be a way in that it reaches an older demographic but those people are parents and grandparents and might know of somebody who's looking for an internship or a summer job or Instagram because you can put a link to something on Instagram. Instagram might be a good possibility. That could be a good one. And if you are getting one of the internship grants and you hire someone and they're not working out or they're taking a different job. Put that on Instagram. You can certainly just let us know that you're going to get a different intern. If you're not who you're going to hire and they might have even started we can back up, get you another intern and away we go. We are flexible in that. A selection and interviewing. A lot of people ask if you need to follow the same process if you are hiring a permanent employee. That is really up to you. You might want to visit with your city and county if you're associated with them with specific ideas on how you get an intern or what that process will be. It is good to have a process. And to follow the local process if you speak to the city and county and find out what their municipal process is go by that. And even though you can be a little bit more flexible with an intern that's only going to be with you in a short time I think you're going to find that if you do have a more structured interview process they're going to take the job a lot more seriously. They realize right up front that it's a real work experience and I think they will prove to be a more valuable intern or worker for you. So before you start your interviewing, develop questions to help you determine if they have the right skill. Will they be dependable? Are they open to learn new things? Do they have the social skills needed to work in a library? I think a lot of library work we all know that there's so many social skills that you use every day you have to deal with people you have to be pleasant so certainly you're going to find that out in an interview. Are they interested in the plan task areas that you have for them? And do they have that talent? And then of course ask some questions that also gets at their other talent so even though you might be planning a very couple specific tasks, if you ask them more open-ended questions about their interests and talents then you might find out that oh we also have them helping with that and so keep that in mind as well when we're developing those questions. We actually have Laurie hang on Laurie sorry Laurie I saw you type a few things in the chat there Laurie I've unmuted you though you could share what you guys did? As far as marketing I did post it on Facebook and actually got a lot of shares it was kind of a crazy thing parents saw that and shared it to their kids or other people that they thought had kids that might be interested in it and we also partnered with our school who tweeted it out and they had a lot of the kids are on Twitter as far as communicating with the schools so we got a great promotion by the school and we ended up having a lot of people apply. Wow that's a real success story isn't it well okay take note if you can get the school to tweet it on their network you've got some ready years and that's a good tip find out from your school where these teens are how they are communicating with the kids because they'll know the best way because they know how they're getting the information out to them that you can like you guys did tag along with that and with the parents with school closures and stuff like that whatever network they use that's great Lori thanks more on your interviewing Determine the criteria that you're going to be looking at before you get the interview process started that will help you refocus on what you're interested in and not and maybe the interviewing process won't change your focus it might because you might find somebody who's very talented in that area but kind of if you think about that criteria in advance I think it will help you and then so after all your interviews you go ahead and select your intern oh there's an intern I think you might want to get someone who's there for the right reason oh yeah there we go there's a better intern I don't think they were students they might not actually but you never know okay so after you find your perfect intern you agree on a start date and before that first day please talk to other staff members that you have so they know what's going on and I think what I've heard in follow-up surveys is that those libraries that do have multiple staffs they have come back and said I'm going to make sure that they spend the intern spends time with each staff person so because not only does the intern have a very thorough view of the library if they get to do that but I think when other staff are asked to share what they do it kind of makes them take a different look at how they are doing their work and so I think that we've had some success in just playing better groundwork at the library take another look at the work plan should it be tweaked to capitalize on the intern's talents, get organized, have a plan know what you're going to be doing know what the intern what you want the intern to be doing and then put together a flexible timeline so kind of pencil out what things you want to accomplish when they're there and of course be flexible because obviously some things might take longer other things will take less than you think and in that timeline obviously you're going to want to introduce them to the projects that they might be working on but also orient them to the work of the library so show them some other things even though they might not be working in those areas and then of course share information about education opportunities and library sciences and other career paths you love your job make sure that you show them that those are great jobs so when your intern is making progress go ahead and track that that way at the end you can report on their progress and what's happened you can also that also allows you to make adjustments along the way and provide guidance if you keep following up with your intern it confirms that they understood the assignment so time isn't being wasted if they're progressing faster than you thought on a particular project you'll be able to introduce them to the next assignment if you keep checking back with them it allows you to also give them timely feedback and that's important and checking back with them also makes it easier for them to ask you questions and what other benefits have you found to you know kind of keeping track of your intern's progress these are just a few that I've gleaned from surveys we've been asked reading the evaluations if anybody has any thoughts type it in let us know if you need a microphone or Lori if you have anything I've left you un-uded so you can chime in whenever you want so what leads to good experiences and this is a good place for you to type in as well obviously the thousand dollars at the beginning is through this grant is a plus but what else is valuable to them it'll help gain valuable experience they can use their internship on future job and college applications they're making a difference in lives and I think that makes them feel good about themselves and making new friends what else happens as far as a good experience for the intern does anybody have any feedback from their interns about what they thought about it afterwards can I say something oh yeah go ahead what I found with my intern last year was that we did a field trip we went to the Carney Public Library because it's so much bigger than ours and we also went to UNK library so he could see a more academic setting which was great for him because he is now at UNK this fall and so I think one of the things on your slide you should add is networking because he was able to meet people there he actually the first week of school that's when your jobs on campus become available and he went back into the library interviewed there was offered a job there and actually he ended up taking a job at the Frank Museum so he had two offers because of what he had done for us through his internship that really did pay off for him I love these success stories that's great that networking is so important and just even learning how to network if they start learning at the library are on their way and of course we also had a lot of the interns in the past have either stayed on the library either part-time or on on-call basis and we've also had past interns that have ended up working at that library or going to library school which is another great outcome which is one of the goals of this too that's one of the goals so what what leads to good experience for the library and the library staff and that's important too obviously you want this experience to make a difference at the library as well the intern might have skills that your staff do not possess so you can certainly take advantage of those and learn yourself from those skills the intern can help make a stale project fresh, bring in a new perspective it's you know when things are working it's kind of nice not to change them but you know sometimes you do need a change so they can help you do that you notice where there is room for improvement because the intern is asking well why do you do that I don't understand this particular policy so it kind of brings it to the forefront that there might be a little bit of an issue there you are a lot of times the library will say that they're getting new customers because they like to see that young face there or they know that young person and so they're coming into the library again like I said earlier you'll discover that that intern might just make a great part-time or on-call employee and so hey they know what's happening at the library and if you call them to come in they would be able to help you out and of course they've been working on something whether it's your website or a new program or whatnot and so you might be able to get more done because you do have one other person who's working on something for you okay so there are some resources for you these resources are whether you have an internship grant or not anyone can use these you can go to our and Mary Jo showed you are now hiring at your library you do have that internship page and we have a lot of things that you can click on there's an example of timeline let's see anyway it's in this it's definitely further down but there's an example schedule of intern activities example public library orientation plan what to talk to your student about whether they're working in that area or not there is an employer guidebook developing successful internship programs and that's for not just library interns but all interns and of course there's that internnebraska.com which is that one stop for paid internships where you can list your internship college students will see it so we are going to be talking a little bit more about the actual grant requirements and then of course we're going to give Lori an opportunity to speak with us too but are there any questions that you have right now before we move on to those sections if you have any questions about submitting a grant anything about how to run a grant or an internship type in the questions section raise your hand you can use your microphone we'll talk about grant requirements even though some of you are not grantees it'll just give you an idea of how this works and of course some of you Nebraska might be applying next year so maybe I'll give you a heads up or as you said I think look for other places that might be offering these similar kind of funds it's not just us it's a place giving money for this kind of thing typically by now the libraries that are receiving a grant would have already gotten their agreement but this year is a little bit different we haven't sent that out yet because since we're in a new administration it's taking a little longer for the LSTA funds to find out what we're going to be getting as of the end of April so you do have to wait to hire until we get that grant agreement out there and we have our signature on it but when that arrives go ahead and sign both copies and return those to us they'll also be a request for payment form you need to sign and return that that'll trigger that thousand dollar check to your library the internship window as far as when you can have that intern you can't actually hire that person until you have signed that agreement and of course you haven't gotten it yet and you need to wrap it up by the end of November however do go ahead we really think the money will be coming through so go ahead and advertise and you may also go ahead and interview students just let them know that they won't be ready to come on board you can't commit until those grant funds are secured for you and then we do have some requirements as far as who can be selected it does have to be a high school student or a college student that can be a home school high school student is also permissible and that college student can be also a non-traditionally for they can already have their four year degree and they can be a graduate graduate student well they can also be a non-traditionally aged the student however cannot be someone who has been employed by a library in the past or currently or have interned at a library in the past or currently however there are no restrictions about past or current volunteers and of course that's because we want more people to learn about the work of libraries we do have a little comment about the non-traditional age description Monica Tiedemann is on the line with us from here in Nebraska, she said I was a non-traditional age intern and it worked out great yes it did Monica she said libraries better now very good and as far as how the grant dollars can be spent those dollars go directly we'll be going directly to the intern either through stipends or intern wages and of course if you're paying wages and need to withhold you know tax etc part of that thousand can also go to that but we really want to get those dollars into the intern hands and then after the grant is over we will be asking the library director to sign a testing of how the grant funds were expended and then there are supervisor responsibilities obviously we want the supervisor to orient the students to the overview of library work track their hours and activities inform the intern about those library career and educational opportunities complete the supervisor assessment at the end instruct the intern to complete the baseline and follow up surveys that we have that will be on the first and last day of the internship or as close to those days as possible and of course every once in a while I might send out a request and hopefully you'll be responding to those on a timely basis as well one of those requests those of you that have already done this will already know this but one of those requests will be for photographs of your interns at work we just love those and some of them have been fantastic we do need for you to get permission if there are other people in the photograph which we hope there will be get permission from them for us to use those photographs in social media and on the website and in print and if they are children we do need to have parental permission so that just lets you know give you a head up we want photographs right and there is everyone who I was selected to receive a grant I did send an email I believe it was last week that had a document attached about a five page document and in that document was a lot of different links and information which also include the information about the pictures the photo release the releases to get them to sign before they fill out the survey and so that document has a lot of great information for you and so if you lose track of that let me know and I will send you another copy of that publicity obviously it's a good opportunity to put out press when you have an intern and I think it also will draw in new people if they know they have a new intern at the library so and we send out a press release here of the libraries that will be receiving the grants is pending notice of those LSTA funds we haven't released that yet but when you do publicity definitely credit the Nebraska Library Commission in all your internship communication and there is a little summary of what that should say and that also it will be in your agreement and it will it is in that document that I mentioned that I emailed and with that we are going to have definitely a few minutes to visit with Lori at the Wilson Public Library they are a grant recipient this year and they were last year and I believe in the past as well and hopefully Lori will have some very specific tips on really what works in libraries hi Lori hi that's a lot of pressure well what worked in your library and then people can adapt to their life sure last year was our second year of having an intern and I guess my first suggestion would be just to remember that every intern is different last year our intern had the benefit of being a Boy Scout camp counselor and he was an Eagle Scout and so he really had a high level of ability to talk to people at lots of different levels he wanted to go and is in computer technology in college now but he was just trying to find his way and I remember him just about every day he came in he had some specific things for us he was doing like researching ideas for portable maker spaces and he would come in and just say oh my gosh Lori did you know I could do this and so every day we had conversations about did you know that you could use computer technology in a library and so he had never before really thought of a library as a possibility for a career but definitely left not only thinking about library science for a career but also as far as creating programs on the technology front for libraries to use so it was a win-win for us and that was fantastic but I'm going to take a step back as far as when I went to market and hire an intern one suggestion I would have is be very clear on the marketing I said earlier that we used Facebook but I was not clear on the marketing I knew in my head what I wanted to say and I think it came across as we had a thousand dollars stipend and the person we were looking to hire would work up to 20 hours a week over a total of 8 weeks until the stipend was complete for us in the library world we know exactly what that means but I had people coming back saying you have to pay the minimum wage and if you work 20 hours a week for 8 weeks and only pay them a thousand dollars they're not even making whatever so I had to step back and rephrase that to essentially say you're going to work 111 hours over 8 weeks total but that will be decided at the time you're hired yes because who knows what their schedule is they might be going on vacation for 2 weeks you know right well and also with Colton our intern he ended up because I was on our local tourism board and I was saying that we got this grant the local museums thought that hey they could maybe do something and find somebody to pay for him as well so he ended up I don't want to say sharing because we paid him and he worked for us but he got another job over at the museum on the days that he didn't work here at the library and did similar things so they got the idea from your internship hearing about yours to do on themselves the museum right so I feel really good about that and the other thing is because this was our second intern we got word out to the schools like I said we collaborated with the schools and they got the information for marketing out but they now see us as a viable place to put work study students during the school year they have seniors that are interested in certain things they're non-paying positions but I have tried for probably 5 years to even make that connection with the schools and I've always kind of run into the well anybody can do that so for me to hire Colton and our first intern who was a straight A student and have them go back to the schools and say what a fantastic experience this was made the library come up in the eyes of the schools that we were a viable place to put high achieving students that's a great story it is and it's interesting how you can tell that to the school and then it has a certain effect and the students go back and tell them after they've had the experience and it has a very different effect oh absolutely that's what we need is spokesperson yeah I always talk to our patrons about being an ambassador for the library because people are going to listen more to them than they do me because I'm always saying the same things so they need to hear from somebody else anyway like I said Colton came and he did lots of technology stuff for us he set up lots of technology we're actually just kind of writing the coattails on that but the other point I wanted to put as far as hiring an intern because we had so many people apply and we had high schoolers and college students apply because Carney is so close to us I had five fantastic interviews that I felt confident I could have hired any of those for interns and they would have done amazing jobs they all had different strengths different weaknesses so I felt very fortunate in getting Colton but that said this winter I lost a part-time employee and I could not find anyone to take that person's place and I already had a high school student hired and I was just kind of beside myself because I needed that position filled and I finally went to my library board and the city council and I said is there any way that I could hire a second high school student I have a couple of people who did great in their interviews I know they don't have jobs I know they would be fantastic at the library and they could spend their six month training training period so when my high school senior leaves this summer then I will look for another adult to hire and they said absolutely you can hire another high school student and I think that's because of the success that we've had the last two years with our intern I did contact one of the students who had a tremendous interview and ended up hiring him so he is working now and it's just a great thing Colton was male my new high school student is male and that is just a different a different field to our staff to have a male on board in a small town Colton appealed to a lot of the little boys who were just at that age about libraries aren't cool that's a girl thing and we probably have more boys come in than we do girls right now Arturo who I hired from the interviews for a part time job he was not an intern for us he speaks fluent Spanish so we now have a whole other base coming in that one see him as a male but two he has the ability to speak Spanish so it's really this grant has opened up a lot of doors for our library wow we love hearing this yeah so it's like I said it's not necessarily just the benefits we get from the intern and what the interns get from us but the ability to look at a wider picture and say wow what if I go this route what if I go this route this year we're looking at building upon the maker technology that Colton started and I am really hoping that some of those some of those high school students who applied last year who didn't get the job will reapply this year like I said I know that one of my seniors is leaving she's going to a school out of state so I'm going to have to hire somebody but it's so it'll be so great for me if I don't have an adult work pool to choose from this fall that I can go back to the library board and say hey look this was an intern for us and he or she did this and we would really love to have him for another year or two so I think it's a win-win for everybody and I think one of the things we don't emphasize a great deal but that's always on our mind is how this internship experience affects the community and obviously when you talk about one of the interns or one of the students that gets hired being a Spanish speaking person that really affects the community because like you said it opens the door to people who feel more comfortable speaking Spanish in the library when they know one of the people who works there does you know? Yeah that's Joanne had one of the slides don't just focus on what you think you want the internship for that's the skills of who you're getting interviewed and things to fit them, yeah that's what I like about our internship grants and program we've done this presentation here on Ink of Us Live for a few years it's so flexible nothing is in stone, it's not like you have to come with an idea and then totally stick with that if things totally change just let Joanne know we're switching things up because we discovered they can do this yeah well and for us it's really fun to hear people like Lori tell their story and to know what goes on after we send out the grants well and the other thing that I think we do well as a staff and as a library is we bring those interns right on board as equals so they're not only they don't only have their specialized goals for what they need to accomplish for the internship program but they're opening or they're closing, they're helping our community members just like any other staff member and I think by treating them as equals they rise to the occasion and they suddenly see that oh when I go out in the real world these are things I need to think about we have a lot of political conversations at our library I think for the especially the last two interns that we've had have been high school students I think it's just kind of expanded their mind that oh the library has a budget to worry about how do you get your money you know they don't really talk about those things in schools and for the most part even our patrons don't really understand how a public library is run so when I talked earlier about I encourage my patrons to be ambassadors for the library I really rely on those interns to be ambassadors for the library too to go back to the high school and say hey this is really a cool place and did you know this Arturo like I said he wasn't an intern but he's now one of my part time people he came in the other day talking about how all the kids' ipads up at the high school crashed and they were working on a huge report and I looked up at him I said please tell me you used the Nebraska Access databases because that of course is one of my talking points that the teachers hear me say all the time and they never use and he looks at me and goes Lori that is a great resource and I said please tell me you're telling all the students up there what a great resource it is and he goes I am I am alright like I said I just think getting them to be that ambassador and tell their friends or tell the other kids Arturo was looking through our DVDs maybe a month ago and he said we have all the games of thrones DVDs and I said yeah and he goes you need to do a better job of marketing this to the high school Lori like oh okay why don't you tell your friends that and then the word of mouth can go and he goes oh kind of like I can do that absolutely you can do that well that sounds great Lori thank you so much we do have just a as this time goes by so fast what time is it says 10.58 sorry folks okay questions and answers yep certainly type in your questions and while you're typing in I just want to kind of page through a few more slides that we have here that just shows what our 27 funded library applications said was their intern we're going to be doing this year just to give you some ideas of what you can get them to do we had you want to back up on that one we had obviously a lot do summer reading, story time book discussion groups somebody's going to be having them help with the Nebraska's 150th observation which is this year some mystery nights and some escape room activities and of course they take them for outreach outside the library there's a lot of special type projects learning materials tutorials lesson plans for maker clubs organizing a teen advisory board critique the library's new website that's going to be coming online this summer review the procedure manuals to identify understandability issues and a lot of technology type stuff obviously students are good at that updating the website explaining planning and teaching computer classes adding management software applications and content to mobile devices and just general support of digital learning and this year we actually had a few libraries talk about maker space related things and of course we knew Cozad did that last year and I think they'll be working on that again this year but just look at all those things related to maker spaces producing videos we always see things about social media and public relations and that's important and a lot I get those students doing creative using their creativity like bulletin boards and leading crafts and taking photos videos book displays and then of course your general library type book related work working at the circulation desk and things that you do on a daily basis there and of course assisting customers and I think it is really good to have your students working directly with customers as well and then and like Lori mentioned and I know Skyler always tries to get someone who is also a Spanish speaker which helps bring in new customers as well and here are your successful grants applicants from this year so you know who will be having interns assuming that funding comes through and we sure are hoping that it will I think it's just a matter of time so if you have any questions and you're typing them in now we'll hold off we don't get cut off here at 11 obviously if you have any desperate questions you urgently want to ask Lauren or Mary Jo or Lori get it typed in there and we will get answered otherwise of course contact Jo Ann she's got all the answers and of course we have other past intern supervisors on the line too so if any of you want to share anything that would be fine as well Lori is there any last words you want to toss out before we wrap up for today or while people are typing no but I need to get started on my marketing as I sat here thank you so 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