 Good morning and welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. I am your host, Krista Porter, here at the Nebraska Library Commission. Encompass Live is the commission's weekly webinar series where we cover a variety of topics that may be of interest to libraries. We broadcast the show live every Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. central time. But if you are unable to join us on Wednesdays, that's fine. We do record the show every week as we are doing right now today. And the recording will be available in our show archives for you to watch later at your convenience. And I'll show you at the end of today's show where you can access all of our show recordings. Both the live show and the recordings are free and open to anyone to watch. So please do share with your friends, family, neighbors, colleagues, anyone you think might be interested in the topics we have on Encompass Live. So those of you not from Nebraska, the Nebraska Library Commission is the state agency for libraries. So they're similar to your state library. So we provide services and training and resources and grants to all types of libraries in the state. So you will find shows on Encompass Live for all types of libraries. Public, academic, K-12, corrections, museums, archives, historical societies, everything and anything. Really, our only criteria is that it's something to do with libraries and any sort of definition version of a library. So we do book reviews, interviews, mini training sessions, demos of services and products, all sorts of things. We bring in guest speakers to Encompass Live sometimes from libraries all across the country. But we also have commission, Nebraska Library Commission staff that do presentations sometimes. And that's what we have this morning. I joined us today is two commission staff, Sally Snyder, good morning Sally. And she is our coordinator of children and young adult library services here at the Nebraska Library Commission. And Amy Owen, one of our information services librarian, good morning Amy here as well. And they're going to talk about a program we've been doing here at the commission for, oh gosh, I don't know how many years, a long time. Our One Book for Nebraska Kids and Teens program, many states or cities have one book for whatever. And we have a Kids and Teens version of that. So I'm going to hand it over to you, Sally and Amy, to tell us all about our program. Okay, thank you. We'll kind of go with a little history first that people may not be aware of how this all started is because we had a One Book, One Nebraska program. I'm not sure exactly when that started, but it had been going through a couple, three years. And then we decided, I'll tell you a little bit more about that. But to get to the webpage, you can go to children and YA right here. And if I can keep it online and go right over here to One Book for Kids slash Teens. And that gets you to the webpage about our program. The One Book for Nebraska, I believe is run by the Nebraska Center for the Book. Yes. But this is run by the Nebraska Library Commission because in 2000, well, that started on it in 2007. I met with Sharon Osega, who was then the director of the Meridian Library system, which now we have. That was when we had six systems. Now we have four systems that would have had the Meridian anymore. But those libraries are still covered by the Central Plains Library system. And she and I talked about a number of ideas that you could get some things going. And this was one of them. And so in 2007, it was our first ever One Book for Nebraska kids. And she made the suggestion for the title we used that in here. And you can look through here and see some, lots of information things, but down here. So that you don't have to scroll all the way through miles and miles of pictures of books. If you want to see what happened in 2007 age, it was rescued Josh McGuire by Ben Michelson. And so as a book for Nebraska kids, it's usually aimed to that fourth to sixth grade readers in general. We all know that kids read at their own level. And so if the kids in fourth grade, they might be reading higher or lower than this particular book. But we're aiming in general for that age group. And back then we did one book for Nebraska kids in 2007. Then we did one book for Nebraska teens in 2008 to 2009. So each book lasted two years. We've alternated naming new books. Well, eventually we were asked to both books new every year. And so we ended up doing that in 2013. Ooh, do I dare scroll all the way through 12 and 13? There we go. This was the first year that we had both books new. Kids, Aliens on Vacation for Kids and the Liath and for Teens. And as we've scrolled around, we've seen all these active links. We have tried for each book to put together some discussion questions, author information. The number of puzzles varies from year to year because back then we were creating lots of puzzles. And I know the answers are right here on the page. And all the kids know where the answers are. Like they're not going to find it. And then some websites that can be of interest as well are all on here. So now I'm going to go, what happens if I hit the background? When I go back to the top. Yay! I did want to point out guidelines can be found here. So how do we decide what is going to be the one book for Nebraska kids? Well, these guidelines are pretty general. The first one is we agreed that it should not be a golden sewer nominee because there are so many books out there. And to hook onto something that is already being promoted in another realm, so to speak, is what it's done. They did say because the team choices are less used, we could, as far as the golden sewer community was concerned, it would be okay for that. But we really try not to piggyback on that. And for years the book must be out in paperback. That's just due to purchasing copies for our book club kits, which you'll hear about later. The book fits the suggested age group. Again, a general range. It's either for what I call upper elementary to early middle school, four to six, four. Often the team book is geared towards high school, but not always. Because teachers in high school really asked me to do that. But at that time there wasn't a golden sewer book for high school. They're working towards that. I understand. So that's great. And then also the book has to have some good discussion books. It doesn't have to be controversial. It just is, you know, things about, well, why, why did you do that for? Hard to have a book discussion if there's nothing to talk about. Exactly. Have different ideas and thoughts and to actually, you know, yeah. Not your arguments, but just things that you can have possibly have a different view about. Yeah. And you could also ask him that can sometimes that's in the discussion questions. But he hadn't found the letter from his cousin. What do you think he would have done next if he didn't know what his cousin told him? And then they can go up on a whole nother tangent and that's also fun for that. All right, so we'll go back to the main page. But so if you have any suggestions for adding something or altering these guidelines. As we know, I certainly would consider other possibilities. It's just kind of what's worked for us so far. And that's where we all look at it. There's no limit to genre or character type or anything like that. Very open. That's a good point. We tried, and while we had rescue Josh, what was the first one? And we tried to bring in different, a lot of diversity in the characters that are represented in the books. We've had The Boy in the Black Suit by Jason Reynolds was one of the early teen books. We've had the board. We had a couple of the April Henry books. So the strong female character, I believe, and the Joseph Blue Shock. Well, we'll find that later, but I can't think the title of the book was trying to be crazy. So for the current year, we have The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich, which is about, can you say what their tribe is? Oh, the Native American. I shouldn't know. Thank you. Louise Erdrich is right there on the top line. And again, we have some information about the author and some activities, some discussion plans. And our teen book was, is, I should say, Notify Safety First by Holly Carter. And this is a survival in the winter in Alaska book, which are always popular. And this has a strong female character, yes, in Maddie. That's up here. I'm going to click on 22. It'll be Adventures of Bane Boy and Stupid Fast. All of this information is available to anybody. So if you're not enamored of this year's one book for Nebraska kids or teens, but you've seen one from a couple of years ago, all the information is still up there. Well, early on we have the books in our book club kit. But after a while, some of them have been winnowed away, I believe, because of lack of use and bad conditioning books. I think that we have most of them, though, I think. And I think it's ideal for placing copies. But yeah, we should have kits for most of them. I would have to check at least the last five years or so. We should have all of them. Yeah, we've tried to make sure that whenever there's a new one that we do get. At least the kids here for the commission. Yeah. And it's usually a set of 10. Yeah, generally. Yeah. So sometimes I'm going to donate some that they had. And we'll have those two as that in case you need more. And for this year and the upcoming year. The commission has a set and each of the regional library systems will have their own kit. So there should be plenty to go around. That's great. Yes. So our kids already booked for the timeframe you want. Check with your library system and see if theirs is available. That'll help across the state. Yeah. Oh, yes. These aren't so terrific. They're such good books. They seem to be together with the team book and Barbara. The kids thought with good discussions of kids in particular circumstances that end up the last hour of Friday. And we, we, they are in a room by themselves. No teacher, nobody else around for them to interact. And it's just about how they first don't have anything to say to anybody. And over time, this is hard for me over time. They begin to talk about themselves and talk about. They're happening in their lives and being supportive of each other. It's a really strong. But I don't want to go through here and talk. It's dangerous that I would go through and just talk about every book and tell you what's great about it. And there's information right there for each title to give you a general idea of what the book is about. And what might be some good discussion. Well, it's because we have a discussion guide for each of those, some from the publisher, some from somewhere else, curious city. That's great. And you'll notice for the activities and puzzles throughout the years, a lot of them have been just some print out that you could hand out crossword puzzles, words, or just things like that. And the last couple of years, we've been trying to make it a little more active. So if you go back to this year's choice and hit what it goes. Whoops. Good. So instead of a crossword puzzle, for example, we have Alpham, should I click on Alpham? Yeah. So this is the game that I found on one of our book sites that we use a lot for discussion questions and information. And it's just a, your group can sit around and you would try to name something from the book for every letter of the alphabet. And that could start a fun discussion. So I went through and did it myself and I was able to find something for every letter. So I think. Okay. You know what I'm going to ask you about that. Oh, I can't remember what I had, but I did have something for that. Good job. Well, and I want to just go back quickly and do the snowball fight. Because that's fun too. Yeah. This book like it would be a lot of fun. You can do it two ways. You can use it with the discussion questions. You can print a writing discussion question on a piece of paper, follow it up. And you have a snowball fight. You can do it with just blank paper too. I suggested taking it out of the recycling bin and just using it to kind of, you know, get your wiggles out. Get everyone kind of work out their excess energy and just run around with a snow paper snowball fight. But you can also do it where each paper has a question on it and that whoever ends up with that piece of paper. They use that question to start talking about the book. So either way, but since this book did have some winter scenes. I thought a snowball fight might be fun. We use this one also for the team book. Not if I save you first because that's also set in a snowy area. So is he fitting? And who doesn't like a snowball fight? Well, generally when you don't get all wet in the fight. Right. Right. So, or the headbands game. This one you would have to. But if you've ever played the board game headbands where you have a, an image or a word on a card and you strap it to your forehead where you can't see it. And then you ask, yes or no questions to determine what you are. So we have, I think if you scroll down, there are some, some cards to pronounce with difference objects, character settings in the book. And you could ask, yes or no questions to determine who or what you are. That's so cool. They're taking games that people may have already played. Like, like board games or things they know and just kind of translating it into something that can be just used for anything. Yeah. It's already so I suppose that's easier for some of the kids, especially younger kids to, you know, want to do some of these activities. It doesn't come out very often, but I do have to click on how to make an axe throwing game, because Rady is, is able to do that. I didn't check that link this week. I hope it's still a work. There we go. So yeah, the main character in not if I say he first is an expert axe thrower. So I thought that would be fun. This is a non dangerous version. There's no sharp edges. And I read through this when you first put it out there. I thought this is great because what you throw it at is a something that you've made out of. I can't remember that. Cool noodles. Personally like that. Something soft. Something soft. So it just kind of fits there and stays. Don't you throw it right. I didn't try it myself. I did. I did go axe throwing a couple of weeks ago. So yeah, it's harder than it was. I believe it. Ex throwing is a big as a bit is very popular now. I find it terrifying, but that's just me. Yes. I'm another activity you can do with the birthmark house. There is a printable for the indigenous tribes of Nebraska. This book is that it is sort of. Not really superior. But we had, you know, we are on native land ourselves and it might be interesting to see just, you know, who lived previously or who still lives in your area. And that would be an interesting discussion and maybe even learn more about that history. Maybe have a representative come and talk about their traditional ways of life. And they're going to do some of that. So early on, I created lots of the print out and fill in these puzzles. But as it got going, I ran out of time. And so thank you, Amy came through and started helping with all of this, which has been terrific. And she's, but she's the one who found all of these ideas. So I'm out to your expertise and you're searching skills and talents. This is great. Now, we didn't have down here coming soon. We're going to do that about 1030 and just yeah, yeah. We have made a selection for the one book for Nebraska kids and teens for 2024 next year. We're trying to do that about the middle of the year like about now. So that there's time for getting the page up and getting the activities and things and pull together, which I know this, we just decided this couple weeks. Yeah. And again, if you're doing it in a school setting or in a library, public library where you're working with school-age children. This gives you time to plan for the upcoming year because it is, it's not on a school calendar schedule. It's on a calendar year schedule. So it would be January and December. So you have to be there with this book and then you have to be there the next year. And then by now would be right after that book is going to be. And the book have been chosen by different committees throughout the years. It's never been decided by just one person. Right now it's decided by two people that I agree with that. Because I used to have a youth advisory board made up of children and teen librarians throughout the state who helped give advice on different things. But as time went by, this was really before Zoom became the big deal. We had a whole new way of meeting. We tried to meet once a year and it was hard and kind of like email out questions and ideas and get the information back, but that all was kind of faded away. So then I had a committee here at the commission who considered the books and made recommendations. And people's time is tricky. Here are five books. I need an answer by next week. I try not to do that. So if anyone out there who's listening has a suggestion for a book that you think would make a good one book for Nebraska kids or teens, please email to me what your idea is. Because they don't have to be brand new books. There's no time frame except that they need to be available to purchase to put in a collection. But otherwise it could be something from 10 years ago that really resonates today for some reason or other. You know, yeah, the one book for one Nebraska, some of these ones, they do have more requirements. And like the building store or having to be like Nebraska centric and publish with a certain time. These are not as strict with the, this one. No, this is just what do you think would be interesting for this age group to read and discuss. And that's really the only criteria. We just want people to read. And we want to promote books. So a variety of. Yeah, to find older books doesn't, yeah, there's, there's plenty of, there's so many, so many books being published. There's definitely going to be ones that we've missed over the years. Exactly. And I try hard to hear about every single book and that's not possible. That's just crazy. I do like to sleep at night too. There you go. I know you say the same things I when you do your, your children and teen books, books for the most recent year sessions and even the, the summer reading program book lists. There's going to be ones that you've missed. And I know when we've done the shows, there's a lot of people that have there's a few titles that get suggested and mentioned that, you know, it's impossible for one person to have heard about every single or, you know, book that's been published in a year. We've talked about how we tried to include diversity of characters and abilities. And just their history or background. I just was sad. The last time we did this, that we hadn't done the graphic novel yet. So there's some things on my, on my mind. I just, I've been reading a nonfiction book and I realized I haven't had a nonfiction book on there. Nonfiction is a little trickier to have a discussion about because you can't say, well, I don't think they did have a war. Well, pretty sure they did. History. So, you know, it may be gone fiction isn't the right, um, historical fiction. We had the master's book a couple years ago, but yeah, we're taking some liberties with some of the, yeah. Yeah. So, yeah, nonfiction titles in general in our book club kits, right? Yeah. Yeah. That's true. So maybe that's the best place for them. And if someone wants to take them and have a discussion, more power to you and let me know how it goes, because I'm, I'm not, I guess, ready for that to figure out how to do that. Yeah. And that's something to realize. We have these book, you know, we're talking about this particular program that we pick a particular title. Um, each year that each kids and teens can focus on and all, like if they're talking to their friends, they know, Oh, did you read this one? It's the one that's been picked. But, um, you're not restricted to these that we have got so many, our book club kids, that's just, it's just growing like crazy. Um, both adults and teens and kids of all sorts of titles in there. So if you're not, you've already done these books or wants to try something different. Um, take a look at our website and search for it and find a title you might, um, a different title you might, your teens or your kids might want to do. Yes. And we're going to go there to visit that part of our website here in a minute, but it's 10 30. Should we make an announcement? Yeah, I think so. I think so somewhere we can click. I think we go to the blog. It should be up there. Hopefully. I don't know why it's so resistant to me. There we go. There it is. Man, let's check out what they are. Thinking about it. Look, there's a graphic novel on there. How did that happen? Parachute kids is a graphic novel. Um, based on the author's experiences when, um, this, in this, I'll tell you about this book first in this book, the girl in the middle is the youngest and this from her point of view. That's why it's the kids, but she, her older brother next to her and the oldest her sister, the sister, 16, I can't remember how old her brother is 14, 15, they're in high school together. So, but they come to vacation in the United States with their parents and they're having a great, she wants to go to Disney, Disney World, Disney and anyway. And they're from, oh gosh, Taiwan, Taiwan, well done. But after they get there and after they have a couple vacation, dad has to go back to Taiwan because his, his passport, his visitation is only as on vacation and he has to go back home, go back to work and make more money. And mom stays with them a little longer, but eventually they have an apartment and it's up to the oldest girl who's 16, like I said, to make sure everything runs smoothly so nobody can tell that their parents aren't there anymore. Both parents had to go back to Taiwan and are working to get another visitor's permit or something. Meanwhile, the kids are in the United States going to school and having issues and they weren't expecting to stay. So it is a surprise to everyone that they're in school and they have a certain amount of money they can spend, but they are trying to keep themselves and not make waves. And that can be very difficult when you don't know the language very well or have any kind of support network. So many challenges come up. Interestingly, to me, is that this just came out this year, 2023, April, March, April. It's really new, but it also came out in hardback and paperback at the same time. Thank you. That's perfect. The one book for Nebraska teens is Between the Lines by Nikki Grimes. And this is actually a companion book to her Bronx masquerade. It came out a number of years ago. Wow. Which I did read a number of years ago. This came out 2018. So it's a few couple of years old, but I think it's still very relevant. And it's about, it includes verse and pros and it's about working towards an event. It's a poetry class. And they are working towards a slam poetry competition at the end of the semester. And it's a group of kids who don't really know each other and are rather suspicious of each other. Yes. And they're poetry and through their writing they really come to get to know each other quite well and become their support network. So there's a lot of things that can happen with this book too. As far as poetry and working together and supporting each other. And kids are way into poetry for a group of teens. In particular. Because a lot of people are still having poetry slams themselves and having good success with participants. So I think that's a timely book as well. Cool. Now we will see that it is not yet on the One Book Photographic Kids and Teens page because we have some work to do to pull together information about it. Wait until it was announced. Everything modern. It's only July after all. And right now it's still 2023 so focusing on making sure they read the 23 books this year. But now you know you can plan for the 2024 titles. To think about those and how you might use them. Have a discussion or turn the what over to Amy because she is knowledgeable about her book club. Yeah. As we mentioned before especially for these four titles this year and next year we will have book club kids available at both here at the commission and at each of the regional library systems. If you go to our book club page you can all of these kids are available to libraries. If you have a book club that is not as a human library you would go through the library because we want to mail it to a librarian. Someone that we know just to keep track of it. You can see the rules here. I won't go into that right now. But we have a fairly flexible checkout period. It's not just so many weeks. You tell us when you want them. When you want to hand them out. When you will discuss them and we give you a week on either side of those dates to mail them to and from. We will mail them to you if you happen to be in the Lincoln area. You can drop them off here in our office or pick them up here. Whatever works for you. But you can see you can search by other title if you know those. You can search by genre or keyword grade level. You can search by number of kids if you need a certain number of copies. We have kids that vary from a single copy to more than 20 copies depending on the book. You can browse our entire collection all at once. Fiction, nonfiction. You can just look at Nebraska related books. We have a special section for the Nebraska 150 books from years ago. Or yeah. Fiction, nonfiction, holiday, and new editions. Anytime we add something, those will be here. I think right now we only have one book for this current month. But sometimes that list is quite bold. For these particular books, I think if you search by grade level you might have the easiest time. And usually books have several grade levels associated with them. So I kind of go with someone in the middle. But if you click on there you'll see all of these. There's the grade level next to them. So there's Theme Boy. There's the 2022 book. That was 2020. I remember that one. Yeah. And you'll see some of these out here. That one was the one book for Nebraska 2013. And some of these were golden sewer books. We try to get as many of those as we can. Nominees and winners. Some classics. It's always good to have some classic books. And anytime someone on our staff does a review we try to post a link to that. The Kinsey Milo is our book club librarian and they have been doing a book club spotlight reviews on our website. You can see a nice summary and opinion piece on that. It's good to have other people's opinions. Yes. If we don't have books like that. But Kinsey, they're doing that every week in spotlight. I think so. I've worked for two weeks, I think. I've worked here for two weeks. I knew it was not a regular schedule. I wasn't just sure how I was doing it. Yeah. But yeah, more than we do about the same as our Friday reads. I invited them to join our weekly Friday in mind so now we have them still. That's great. If we don't, if your pick is not available we do also offer read-alikes. Right now I noticed this morning when I was looking at the books I don't have our current books on here, the read-alikes. But these are books that if you liked this book or this genre these characteristics of this book here are some other ones that you might try and these are all books that we own so you would be able to use that to make a informed selection of an alternative book. And we will happily help you find another book if your book is not available. So our 2023 selections are both they are those kids are historical and we said one but so when we were looking for a genre could be looking for historical fiction or you could be looking for realistic fiction it's kind of a way to say water who knows what kind of venture I'm just throwing out books not necessarily about that so sorry let me get back to it I think that first Dark House would fall under historical but we also have books that are more focused on certain Native American readers so this would have fallen under our Native American voices category we have some other other titles this is her first children's book and she made it into an entire series but she has a very prolific author and has many other books that we have also so the one I was trying to do though oh yes that is there is killer and killer than Joseph Poochott that would be yeah that wasn't a song but what I thought it was other our teen book I believe fell under the adventure survival category they're always fun so if you like Gary Paulson or similar Tales of Survival there's Resty Jocelyn Guire and that if I say these are but yes these are available to all librarians across the state for their book groups and so if we needed it for a class it would be we could make that work and also sometimes adult book discussion groups a kids or teen definitely so no so what are we forgetting to oh we talked about the books in series oh yes we haven't talked about that we probably haven't talked about that so First Dark House was part of a series and if you are looking for the next book in a series and you're not sure what it is we put together a books in series database and I think if we see if I have that in here I just want to remind everyone if anyone else does have any other questions you want to ask about the one book from Ask a Kids teens books the program getting titles in there or anything about our book club kids or anything on here go ahead and get it into the questions section and they can answer any of your questions while they're here today I have used our books in series database a number of times when I come across the series I found book 3 and I like to read book 1 first if I have the time so boom I can just go here switch and it's on there and I can find out what is book 1 and you'll see these some of these books have these dv numbers after them those are part of the talking book and braille service to show you because they request by numbers and I believe that this database came around to help talking books because when patrons request books in a series they might not necessarily be automatically coming to them in order and this way they can tell which books they need to get first first to try to keep them in series order and you notice that we're missing any series please let us know we're always happy to update that if your favorite series isn't on our list we need to know absolutely or your second favorite series I'm always very impressed with this database and I know you all Amy get a lot of comments and testimonials from people all across the country using it not just here in Nebraska the series database that we have which I thought that was interesting surprising that it's not really apparently not being done anywhere else very well or as well as what we're doing because we get so many people saying oh yeah I use yours hey I've seen a couple others but and sometimes I see conflicting information sometimes the authors page don't match the other databases so yeah it's interesting to see how they list their series too so what else have you talked about the one book oh yeah we have to do that easiest for you generally I'm on the Nebraska Center for the book each state has their own center for the book our center posts the one book one Nebraska website also with the current mystery of Huntington is the series selection up here in the corner they have the kids and teens page it's a courtesy to us yeah they don't run this program but they do offer information so they can find us that's awesome yeah so if you can't find it one way you can find it in exactly a lot of the same information so but they include other pictures we wouldn't do that but we have two at the bottom which is good so this is the current one and then like you said we can go they have the jump right there to all the previous years too yeah yeah so that's hand and these are on our page too but we also had I also put together a a book review sheet for the kids to fill out it could be you could print for a page there would be just a little mini print out but we can decide if they would recommend it or not it doesn't be back that way I like the words you put in there that's funny, boring or confusing these are good words yeah stupid we're thinking about it a little more critically rather than just saying oh it was good I like why we're the dreaded evil educational so things can be exciting and educational life not if I save you first some good information about saving yourself in a bad situation you can copy that page and use it for anything you want to it doesn't have to be done it doesn't have to be done I'm just taking this and running with it because they made it for me great we love to share all of the things and the mini book all of the scripts that appear as well I found this also they created this site specifically to go with the Birch Ferts House series and it's different phrases and words used in the book and you can hear how they're pronounced that is true I thought this was really cool so I would have to look them up to figure out how to say most words and other languages that I don't speak so I'm trying to sound it out myself which is always a mistake because I'm never right this is a really cool resource if you're reading this book with a group and you can talk about this source and how you can say the word and how often it's not available to you which reminds me of the website where you can find out how authors' names are pronounced and John Cheska who never know how to say that Cheska like Britska of course I have that aside right now I think we have it somewhere so this is a handy use of our little flags over to the left the center for the the rest of the book the rest of the memories and the rest of the access are all quick ways to get to each of those collection of items and then you'll have to type it in up above or figure out where in the list belongs going down just up right there we do have a question here someone's curious about we have these book club kits we've been doing this program since as people can see there since 2007 have you heard from any libraries who have done programming with any of our one book for Nebraska kids or teens titles over the years about anything interesting they've done or how it's gone yes we have heard some libraries for a while a number of years ago we had an evaluation form we were asking people to fill out just saying how many how many participants did you have and what was your discussion like, things like that we had some good general information and now it's just an occasional comment that comes via email or along with the books that come back and oh this was terrific the kids really love the book we had great discussion more or I couldn't get anybody to say anything I don't think anyone's ever told us that part but if that's the case they don't want to tell us that because they want to keep having the books but we haven't done a real evaluation for quite a while now because it's just been moving right along and the books get borrowed sometimes sometimes they are more popular one year and another year just because it happens it's something that catches everybody's attention sure sure you never know what people are going to be interested in it's so interesting when we do these the one books for anything but I'm glad we have the book club kits now for these at the systems too that was a specific request from them actually apparently years ago kids for these and then just they just kind of fell off doing that and they specifically requested they said yeah we need to have these ourselves as well specifically for the one book for Nebraska kids and teens so we ordered the titles for this year and for 2024 the new ones that if they're not here yet they will be soon because the order was placed like within the last couple of weeks literally like they've actually physically come in yet or when that will happen but I haven't seen the parachute kids added yet to our college and so I'm not sure if they have arrived but they're on orders so coming soon and then also the ones for each of the systems when the books come in we'll send them off to their the four systems to each of them to have both of the 2023 titles and both of the 2024 so I'm looking forward to hearing from librarians and hearing how things went with their discussions of whichever of the titles they're using I'm always willing to give an email saying here's what our event was or how long it took or whatever if you're having a book discussion group or you meet once a week for a month or something however you say to that whatever works for your community we'd love to hear about it so please let us know definitely yeah um see one uh I know we just we just announced the 2024 titles so um definitely keep an eye out on the website here I assume like more later in the year or I don't when do you usually get the 2024 info up on here the activities not until like like January or is that it'll be probably in the later in the fall so yeah but before before 2024 yeah but you know as of today what the titles are yeah first announced for the first time today a parachute kids Betty Tang in between the lines and the key crimes so start planning for next year if you want to do the right this fall and you find other information that because we haven't gotten or finished so we can share with everybody because your research is just as helpful as our research and we'll add another line to the links to the activities that you have something that we're willing to share so thank you absolutely if you come up with an activity that works for any of the past books or current books we will have and you think it would be good for everyone we probably share that as well so like the book review sheet that you can use any of the tiles but yes oh yeah you just change the title on that and have used for any of them I think it's great though that you do find activities that are very specific to each book each year too not just the same thing repeated it's great that some can be reused that way because they are perfect for that but you know each book is different and needs its own alright is there anything else you all have Sally and Amy on your agenda on your script there I think we hit everything we listened so if we haven't told you something you're dying to know it's not because it's a secret it's because we didn't think of it so ask away and we'll happily tell you what we know about it yes if anybody has any last minute desperate questions you want to ask of Amy and Sally get it into your questions section there we can ask them now but you can always reach out to the commission you all know where we are and how to reach out of contact us here on the website so you can always ask later if you think of a question at a later time or if anyone has used any of these kids or used any of these books you can let us know what your experiences have been as well yes and if you have suggestions for making things better we're happy to hear those yes if something didn't work for you let us know that and see what we can figure out about making things work better yeah absolutely I can't see if people are typing so I always wait to see if anyone's got some long thing they're writing in but I don't see anything right now so I think we are getting close to the top of the hour I can work on my little wrap up and we'll see if any other questions do come in do I need to give you anything back or can you take it away no no no I will do that from my side yeah so I'm going to center control back to my screen here so here's the session page for today's show and I did while you were talking I added a link because it wasn't here before because we had announced it but I did add a link to the session now to the announcement just about half an hour ago about the 2024 titles so you have access to that and it's just right there on our main as as the only name we showed is right there announced on our blog and that will be pushed out to our other social media and our mailing list too so everyone knows about that as well so for today's show I'm going to go back to our main encompass live page and if you type encompass live into your search engine of choice whatever you like to use so far it's the only thing on the internet called that so you'll find either our main page or our archive page here's our upcoming shows for the rest of this month 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information but some things will become old outdated information change drastically resources or services might not exist anymore links might be broken people probably don't might not work at the same place they worked at when they presented for us like 10 years ago possibly so just pay attention to that date whenever you are watching anything on here but this is something we do as long as we have a place to keep all of our archive shows which right now they're all on our YouTube channel for the library commission we will do that it's something librarians to keep things for historical purposes and as long as we have a place to keep them they'll all always be there for you alright thank you great presentation great programming ideas people saying to you Sally and Amy so thank you so much for all the great information about the one book for Nebraska kids and teens program so I think any other questions that came in so I think we will wrap it up and thank you everybody for being here thanks Amy thanks Sally this is great getting updated on what's the this year's books and hearing what the next year's books will be hopefully we'll get lots of people lots of kids reading and discussing these books together alright so as I said this is our upcoming shows I hope you would join us next week when our topic is a library centennial celebration in photos and memories our Bay right public library here in Ralston, Nebraska had their Centennial Centennial celebration for their library in the last year or two don't remember the exact year we'll find out and Amy Jolson from the library is going to talk about how they put together this historical presentation for the Centennial celebration for the library so if you're interested in that definitely sign up for that show and any of our upcoming ones we have on the schedule here as I said August shows will be filled in so keep an eye on the schedule to find out what's going to be coming in August too other than that thank you everybody for being here thanks Sally and Amy good to see you good to see you and hopefully we'll see some of you at a future episode of Compass Live bye bye bye