 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 10am central time, but if you're unable to join us on Wednesdays, that's fine. We do record the show every week as we are doing right now. And I will show you at the end of today's show where you can access all of our 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 any of our shows. For those of you not from Nebraska, the Nebraska Library Commission is the state agency for libraries similar to your state library. So we provide services 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, colleges, universities, historical societies, corrections, archives, anything and everything. Really our only criteria is that it's something to do with libraries, something cool that libraries are doing, book reviews, mini training sessions, demos of services and products, all sorts of things. We do have guest speakers come on the show sometimes. Excuse me, talk about what they're doing in their libraries, but we also have the Library Commission, Nebraska Library Commission staff come on and do presentations. And that's what we have today, as you can see here. Amanda Sweet. It is the last Wednesday of the month. So that means it's pretty sweet tech day. The last Wednesday of every month, Amanda comes on and does something about sessions about technology related things, techy stuff, generally. And so if you're the techy person or interested in that kind of thing, definitely that's what you want to look forward to see what she's doing for us monthly. We do tech sessions other times of the month too, but you can always depend on pretty sweet tech from Amanda Sweet, our technology innovation librarian here for that kind of thing. And today she's going to talk to us about meaningful work 101 for librarians. I like the title. Hopefully we'll get a lot of inspiration today. I don't know. Fingers crossed. No pressure. So I will hand it over to you Amanda to take it away. Well, and in hindsight, this cover slide just was so chill. It makes me want to take a nap. It is very great. And then like, yeah, just go out take a walk in nature. Right. No worries. It's like, so the meaningful work thing has come up a lot in like, tech skill training and like, um, people trying to figure out what they want to do. Like that's basically all meaningful work is, is figure out what you want to do. And so what we're going to talk about is some of the different frameworks of how there's about eight the million frameworks for meaningful work and I'm not going to lie, most of them are very similar to one another. So I chose like, I grouped them out into four different categories and each one of those categories includes a whole bunch of resources that I pulled that you can use in like this book discussion groups, they pulled a load of books. And then I grabbed a bunch of activities and resources that you can try out either in the library on your own with a K through 12 group with adult career changers or anyone who's trying to figure out what they want to be, or what they want to be next. And then I'll talk about a workforce development ecosystem, which is a collection of organizations that's devoted to helping connect job seekers with people who need employees job seeker plus employer workforce development ecosystem. And then I'll talk a little bit about how that ecosystem works now and how it can be shifted over to be framed through the lens of meaningful work, because in some cases it is already. And in some cases, it needs work. And then I'll talk a little bit about how stories kind of play a big role and how people actually find meaningful work and how you connect people to organizations through story. I figured that that's kind of a good lens just because libraries. And then I'll go over some examples of how you can use this in your own library programming, because there's mess in different ways. And I'll mention before we jump right into the actual content that these slides will be available for everyone afterwards with the recording as well. We already have the link I did share it out to the question section. But I know some people have come in since I did share it so I'm going to do it again for those of you who might have missed it. They're available there Google slides but we'll also have a link to them with the archive page to. So I know this is a big bold grand slide. You know if you've seen my shows you know that I like I like to put the world like everywhere. So in a nutshell, meaningful work makes the world better it makes your community better it makes life better for the employees within an organization. It makes life better for the community at large, because people want to know that what they do every day has purpose in the wider world. They want to know that I just went to work I wrote about 20 different reports and summary findings, but they're not going to matter in a year. They're not going to matter in like two years. They want to know that you can actually tie what you're doing to a major problem grouping out in the world and I'll give a visual for that so it'll make more sense later. This was a surprising stat that I found on the Harvard business review but in hindsight it makes sense. It says nine and in 10 people are willing to earn less money in the pursuit of more meaningful work. And which is, I mean it makes sense people want to care about what they do. So for an actual physical framework of what this looks like more in practice I pulled this somewhat busy infographic about a guy. This has been a framework that's been around for centuries and I want you to pay attention to these two little spheres right here. What you're good at what the world needs. You're making a connection between who you are and what you care about, and the wider world work for purpose. So much of this presentation is going to be about how you actually brainstorm different ideas to figure out what that means for you. Because for the most part this is what people care about. The United Nations has already gone through and they've categorized the biggest issues that are facing the world. So this is a known entity. If you think about your own personal life, all of these issues have touched you in some way shape or form. When I was traveling out around like rural Nebraska, a lot of the, the biggest issues were like the opioid crisis. Kids were getting bored didn't know what else to do they were frustrated started the opioid crisis that was one avenue of it. And the other one was that opioids are being overprescribed. They didn't have a good enough understanding about the addictive nature of opioids and then once they started building up that understanding it's spun out into different jobs organizations and resources. So you'd have one cluster of like an education and outreach cluster saying, Hey, we just learned that this isn't such a great idea. So now we have some jobs that are available so that you can go out to these communities or develop information packets to say, This is what we know now about opioids. This is how this is what you can do to tackle substance abuse and this is how you can take control of this. And then there's another facet of it that's like substance abuse research and there's just like a whole bunch of there's a mess of stuff. So to make this make sense in your own community, you can break it out through an organization level, a community level, and a statewide level, because there are different organizations that work at each one of those different levels. So if you're trying to figure out, Well, what does this mean and how can I actually connect these different things to pathways that people can take. I have some tips for that as we go along. But before I want to before I dig really deep into that. Just in case some of you don't have a solid path of what the career exploration process looks like, and what the support organizations look like that can help you actually pull out these ideas and flush this out. Let's dig into what it actually looks like for someone to find a job. We've all done it, but most people don't really think minutely about what it looks like. For the most part, you start with self exploration. What do I actually care about. And before you can say I care about poverty I care about manufacturing I care about insert thing here. You kind of have to know that exists first. Like you're it's not going to be it's not even going to be on your radar unless there's an avenue where you can see that it exists. So that's kind of where libraries can come in and where news articles come in to just pull those that information out there and say, Hey, we're a thing. And then there are additional paths to start to explore how that thing turns into a job. And then how you can get like you can gain the education get the certification get the whatever you need to get trained to actually do the thing. And then most people are actually going to rotate around through multiple different careers through a lifetime, whether it's just trying to figure out what you actually want to do or because your previous job disappeared or no longer had funding or no longer had insert catastrophic thing here. Then you need to shift over. So now there are more people that are rotating back through the cycle. Repeatedly starting over again every time. Yeah. And this is the sphere that libraries seem to be most familiar with, which is how do we help people with with resume assistance. How do we connect them over to like a guide to fill out fill out a cover letter. Can we work together and put together a career fair. Can we do. These are the technical skills to learn how to use a computer, learn how to use the internet, learn how to use a browser to be able to fill in the application to get a job. And then once you're in the job, how do you keep it. So that is in a nutshell, what this looks like. And these, this hot mess of organizations is the are the support organizations. So if you Google like a workforce development ecosystem, you'll get like a variety of different graphics and spheres. The reason that I chose this one is because of how it groups things out, because it's centered on the job seeker itself, the individual. And then it's fears out into the individual organizations and a community level. And then it branches out into a state level. So, these are also reflective of the different levels through which you can start helping people gain exposure to those problems that lead to meaning that lead to jobs you actually care about. I'll pause just for a second to see if anyone has any questions, or if that makes sense. Yeah, if you have any questions or comments or anything, go ahead and type into your questions, the questions section of your go to webinar interface. I don't like this graphic this one as well too it definitely visually makes a lot of sense to me. Yeah, and then of course putting the person center. Yeah, is important as who the this is all about. Yeah, and it is really hard. It's super hard to go through this and like play and like tie the perfect dot to say this organization works specifically and career exploration this organization works specifically on job search. Because it's all kind of, yeah, yeah. It all melds together. Yeah. To kind of put this into an actual step by step pathway that libraries and any workforce development professional can take. I'm going to go back to this infographic and we'll tie things back to here so that you can kind of root things into the path that people take. So we'll start with self exploration. So these are some of the resources that I scraped together that you can use to help people better understand themselves and better understand the concept of tying the world to work to the wider world. So, don't worry, I put like four videos in here we are not going to play them all. Actually, we're not going to play any of them. I put them in here so that you can have a reference point and you can use these as a tool to build a better understanding. And so that you can watch these later just in case you're curious about them. So, the ekey guy is the first framework where it's the giant infographic that we looked at before. That says that there what you're good at world needs blend them together. I ignore the what you love and what you can get paid for because that is going to change over time. And even the what you're good at is going to change over time, because you can't build a skill till you know that it exists and it just takes time to learn the skill and get good at it. And I know you love something until you tried it and you found out that you hated it or you loved it. So, this video will show you the process of it's a detailed understanding of how that process works. Stop trying to play it. And these are a collection of worksheets, questionnaires, activities, and I'll open this one. So it is actually just simple worksheet exercises and thought exercises that you can give to people either through an existing library programming service, or at the end of a career exploration activity. Like if you were to pull open a, if you had a K through 12 group, you did this city lesson plan. So if you did a sustainable city teaching resource, you ran the students through the lesson plan and you started exploring the different careers that were available in a sustainable city like an urban designer or a healthy living designer or a sustainable materials designer. So you started asking people, do any of these fit with you? Is this something that you actually want to do? You can jump back and use these Ikigai questions and start asking people to map this out and say, you just learned about these careers, does this actually fit into your sphere? Is this something that resonates with you? You might actually get a student that wants to do it and you might just, it might just be a process of exploration. And it's starting, the big, the main important part of this is getting people to think in this way. Because I'll be honest, when I was in like elementary school, high school, college, I didn't think in this way. I just, all they asked me for my career exploration was what interests you and what do you like to do. And I wound up in English major focusing in like journalism before finding out that I absolutely hated journalism because no one would let me try journalism until I already declared a major in journalism. And I was like, I hate you all. You know, right. Yeah. And so this is kind of the tool of how you can start using a lot of this stuff. And so the next one is the fulfilling work framework, where you can start, this is actually probably the most common framework that people just intuitively think of. It's how do you apply your talents, interests and values to the world of work and also pay the bills on time. Because a lot of the smaller communities and the communities that don't have as many as wide of a variety of work opportunities. This is like what they zero in on and say, we're not going to focus on giving all the different options and saying if you don't see a career in journalism, you need to go leave the state. Like instead you say, go look at what's available here and connect it over to what you care about. And so these are another collection of resources that will help you kind of dig through here. And this book down here is the one that I want to point out this how will you measure your life. By Clayton M. Christensen. This is the one that actually got me started thinking about, don't just choose a job based upon what you would actually be doing. Choose a job based upon what you're producing. Because if you look at, if you had ever looked at being like a PhD or going into academia before saying, do I need a PhD instead asking yourself. Do I want to measure my life based upon the number of publications that I produce out in the world that's only read by about 70 people. And instead of asking. So in terms of like library world it would be do you want to measure life based upon circulation count. Do you want to measure your life based upon the number of education resources or library programming events that you put out there. Do you want to measure your life based upon the number of lives you impacted by connecting them with the perfect story that they need. So at the end of your life, how do you want to be able to be described to say I accomplished this. And I know that the daily tasks that I did and the things that I produced meant something. And he actually wrote this book shortly before he died. And so it was kind of like, it kind of sucked I liked him. And I didn't know him personally but he's good guy. And the other one is the what colors your parachute is probably one of the most popular widely used career exploration books like in existence, like if you've ever done career exploration you probably already have this book or have used it. And it's just a good one just to grab they have a new 2022 edition. So, give it a try. And this compassionate careers is a book that will directly translate jobs into problems. They connect social entrepreneurship and making a social impact to jobs. The process they lay out isn't easy, but it does work. And this design your life framework actually came out of Stanford. This is one of my favorite process like one of my favorite frameworks, because they use elements of design to be able to. So it goes through the process of This one is actually easier to pull open this. So this is actually working in conjunction with a book that they put out. So this is like a book that has traveled the world it's like catching the world by fire. But it is, I'm going to open up this worksheet. So this actually provides you with a collection of like self reflection worksheets that will help you start with the end in mind. It'll ask you to run through the process of saying it uses some elements of the how do you measure life and some elements of the Don't get stuck in thinking that you can only do 1 career. Instead shift over to start thinking of 3 different potential life pathways that you could take in a lifetime. And start and instead of saying, I went to school for journalism. I am now going to go get a job in journalism, no matter what I do. And instead you say, well, I could also be a bartender. Or I could also do like some outlandish thing and go be like a parasailing instructor in Thailand. Or I could be like, sure, right. Or you just look around you and say, or I could start doing advanced manufacturing. And I could say that. When I start going into this, I know that everything that I do is producing the goods and services that my community uses every day. I'm going to go and be in a work in advance manufacturing for Kawasaki here in Nebraska, because I know that if I don't do that, then I'm not going to be able to go and make like the ATVs and the jet skis that my family loves to go and use every day. It's connecting over what you're doing to what you care about. And you might also jump into advanced manufacturing because you really like robotics, or you really like the process of automation and the act of solving problems within a production line, knowing that when you cut costs for the manufacturer, you're also cutting costs for the people buying the stuff. So people care about different stuff in it. And these reflection exercises help you pull out what you actually care about. Explore unexpected careers that you may not have looked at before and start saying, I'm not going to lock myself down to one thing and be deeply disappointed if I don't get into it. I'm going to open up and broaden my possibilities and say, stop focusing on the things that I can't control and start focusing on the things that I can. And so let me close that one. And this designing your life, it's spun out into several different books. But again, I'll be honest that the designing your life, how to build a well-lived, joyful life, their first book that came out is still my favorite. I made one specifically for the new work for like the work life and then they made another one called the new work life after the pandemic. And they're good, but they're still there. I mean, the original is a classic. And I also pulled a whole bunch of different activities, cards, groupings and things like that that you can grab. And you might also want to check out more activities from the school of life, because the school of life actually made like little decks of cards and different like self exploration materials that you can buy for like 20 bucks. And I put them in a like library programming session about career exploration. And it's just like a quick and easy way that you can do like a hands on game activity. And story of life actually came out of the UK. And it's apparently a song by One Direction. Who knew. Sure. I'll take it related possibly not. Right. School of life school of life. That's why I couldn't find it. So they actually have a full tool set for finding fulfilling work. And I just wanted to pull up in the page just so you had a visual because they are delightful. So I'm going to jump ahead. So now you have an understanding of some of the self exploration resources. So now the next phase in this is you have those organizations that are within that workforce development ecosystem. And you want them to be able to shift their thinking over to reframe the problem of recruiting and connecting those job seekers with the employers. So a really common phrase that I hear in like economic development groups and with businesses is just saying, we need more people to work in manufacturing. And then when like when I'm sitting in those groups, I just ask why. And they say, we don't have enough people. We need more people to do this. So instead you shift over the thinking to say, well, if you want people to work for you, how does manufacturing make the world better. How are you going to say that this job gives you a sense of purpose and it's something that you should care about doing. And the answer again is in stories. So more businesses and more economic development groups and community colleges, they started pulling out these different stories that say, we interviewed some employees and we talked about how this job actually changed their life. So a really good story that I came across was from a cold processing plant that develops food products. And it's like, so part of what they do is they put like the labels into packaging, but then they also process food for refrigeration and store food for refrigeration so it doesn't spoil before it gets to a retailer or to your house. And they pulled out one story from a guy who he was a refugee, but after he moved to America, he went blind. And he couldn't he came to America to get a job so that he could make life better for himself and his family. But then he went blind and never thought that he could actually get a job. But then they figured out a process that he could get a job in that food processing plant by like putting the labels into the packaging. And it seems simple, but it completely changed the way that he like it made him stand up taller and he can feed his family he was able to reconnect with his wife back in his home country they both live here now. And so it's just, it's not always what you do. It's how it impacts your life. And it also they started shifting over to start saying things like this, you want to branch this out to say you'll be part of an organization that does good things for creatures great and small the world over. And they are a manufacturing plant that develops vaccines for pets and animals. And they also do, I mean, they do other things like out in like the world of like science and healthier animals. So they do like the whole ecosystem of stuff they have different clusters of jobs and but it's tying that over to say, no matter what you do within our organization. You're doing something good. But then the other flip side of this is that story that I told about the refugee who went blind after moving here. I went to the main page of that cold processing plant. And I looked at the order in which they put the information about their resources. And they start off by just talking about how we help business run better. It's all about the beverage producers and the businesses. And most people won't get past this part. Because it's the first thing that you look at if you don't like what you see there, you're not going to keep scrolling down. They're talking to the businesses, not to their employees or potential employees. It's obvious who's their priority is. And they talk about beverage producer, like helping beverage producers every day to help them thrive in a changing marketplace. They care about the industry. They care about the process. But then later they say, oh, by the way, what we do affects families. And we make life better for the families. And when I was actually, it depends on who you talk to within the organization and how like that department is structured that they'll either focus. We need to cut costs. It doesn't matter what we do and how we do it. We need to cut costs, put out more product put out blah, blah, blah. So, and I don't know, I've never worked at Universal Peer. They might be the most amazing place to work in on the world. I don't know. But it's just looking at their website and like just listening to some of the people talk and like different events. One thing is to make sure that what you say is what you actually mean. Because if you go back to that design thinking process, they're designing the new world of work. What they talk, they, they, they got blasted for some of what they said, just because they're the major criticism was the design, the life people wanted people to reframe their own thinking so that they're more flexible about the different jobs that they can do. And to say, no job is going to be perfect. And you might just want to start rethinking about the way you view your current job instead of saying we need to do something different. But then the criticism was, so you just want me to put lipstick on a pig and just say, and say, well, it's okay. And so there's kind of like that fine line between putting it on paper just to say it because you know that you're supposed to. And the employees actually believing what you say, and the employees are staying there because it's the only thing available not because they actually like it. So it's sort of we in Nebraska we have a little over 2% unemployment rate and economic health is determined by partially by that unemployment rate, but no one ever asks, do you like your job are you happy. And so it's reframing that to add this into a metric on like a state level that says, don't just determine economic health by the number of people who are placed into a job, because that's going to make it so that your economic development groups and your career centers and your American job centers, all they're focused on is butts and seats, because that's how their success is measured. And instead ask, well, did you want your button that seat, do you care about it, do you like it, are you miserable. That leads me over to we already went over the example of what a better statement looks like. Don't ask me if they actually do it. How am I supposed to know. Right. So, before I said that those workforce development organizations have to work on a community and an individual community and state level. We talked about the individual level where people start actively exploring different interests or areas of interest, but this is the local level where people can't explore your area of interest if you don't tell them that it's a thing. And if you don't format it in such a way that people can actually process it and understand it. So, when I was trying to identify different problem spaces in the state of Nebraska that relate over to that massive infographic that's over here. I was trying to make like the real physical ties. I wound up sifting through organizations like the Chamber of Commerce, like the economic development groups state agencies, and they all put together summary reports and they put together podcasts and webinars and just summary findings of what they think are the key issues in their state in the organization and anywhere they happen to be. But most people aren't going to go read through a 27 page of report summary finding to go pluck out the problems that you care about. They want like a little three to five minute video or they want like a hands on activity that they can go do to learn about recycling, or a hands on activity that they can do to go learn about how the routers work and manufacturing, or they want to be able to get their hands dirty to actually go plant a tree and start learning about how an ecosystem works and how the environment works. But without those little interactive activities where people can actually get interested in it instead of reading a really dry report, or like watching like a three hour long workshop recording that says you are trying to pull out what people what other people care about so you can figure out what you can do and how you can help. Most people don't do that. Who has the time. So instead, it is framing it as clusters like this to say, it's not just the problem space itself. These are the different areas that you can break this problem down into to say, these are the subgroupings that actually matter. And then you can break it out and this is another example from good health and well being, and start pulling it out from different perspectives, because for the example of good health and well being the most common ones we think of our physical health and mental health, like those are the first two that usually come to mind, but not everyone always thinks about like social inclusion so that people actually aren't don't feel lonely, and building out healthy connections and being able to express yourself. You have all these refugees that are coming over from other countries and they're trying to get used to a new land. But when they move over. They are not everyone always is always understanding and welcome of the like cultures and the, the clothing that you wear the way you do your hair, and the different foods that you buy, you might not even be able to buy the same foods that you did and eat and the same diet that you did in your home country. So there's that disconnect. And in the state of Nebraska, our biggest population growth is international is from like the international source. It's those refugees and it's the people that are coming in from abroad. So that cultural expression not only is it going to help the refugees actually feel better about themselves, but you're going to develop an environment where they actually want to stay. Otherwise they're going to relocate to a different location. And so that's why like that population level starts to shift and slide, because that is that element is missing. And even just like being able to go get your hair done or go get your nails done. I've never actually done it. You don't want to see him. But it's like, it's all part of that. And, but hairdressers and nail salons aren't actually always acknowledged as being a necessary part to health and wellness, but they are. Every person has their own priorities and their own things that they need for their own mental emotional health and well be here. And like a grocery store that focuses on Ethiopian food. It's, you never really think about that as saying, well, maybe this is actually part of the reason people stay. And maybe your economic growth is actually dependent on stores like these, and it's pulling out those little stories and putting them side by side together. And that is part of workforce development and recruitment. And then you can start finding out how these different problems relate together, because you had that social inclusion and now you have culture cultural expression. But then you flip over to poverty and you see social inclusion pops open again. And then you say, well, I have policy and poverty, but policy kind of helps here too. So it starts to flush them out when you start putting them side by side. And so this is actually the basis of meaning and purpose. Pulling out these problems seems tedious, but it's the only way that you can actually get to what people care about and start plucking out those stories and broaden out the exploration opportunities that people can take to actually find what they care about and what they want to do. So if you want people to start building out designing their life and figuring out the different options that they have. That's how you give them an option. And so this is also how you can put these side by side together to say, if you went to school and you got a business degree. It doesn't mean that you can just do business or nonprofits sometimes flip over to businesses, businesses flipped to nonprofits. A hobby can turn into a job and policy of volunteer opportunity can turn into the creation of a professional development group. And it's starting to see how these different pathways interconnect how they relate to one each one another and how people can start to shift through this and stack these side by side to say that you have more options to both build the skills that you need to get where you need to go through the hobbies grassroot efforts connecting with interest groups and different things like that and stacking them all together. So one thing that I did was to pull a whole bunch of data together and start labeling it so that it will be specific organization connects over to the actual problem itself. These are the organizations that I was able to pull through open source resources and connect over to decent work and economic growth. And you can see that there's a definite shift like it becomes a lot more spread out when you get out west. And then it, you know, and there's like a massive clustering over on the right, and you find out that most of the organizations follow a highway line. And then you can start flocking out the gaps and figure out where people are actually going to work locally to be able to connect to a problem that care about. So it's like a visual demonstration of what this looks like in practice. So you can use this, these map styles as a launching pad to find the path that you actually want to take, and then sink it over to the stories to find out to kind of like resonate to find what resonates and start connecting in that way. And so these are some of the formats that organizations and communities can start putting their information resources into or gathering the information resources so that people can find you. And you'd be surprised at how much of this already exists. There's already like you probably already have like a, like NPR and podcasts audio recordings webinars that all talk about the story of an organization or the story of a prominent person within the community. And the only step that's missing is classifying it into one of these larger problem categories and problem subcategories so people can connect those specific opportunities with what they care about and what they want to do. And so these are just some examples of what you can either pull together or generate. And then there's also the option of most organizations right now will say that we have a specific collection of volunteer opportunities, and a specific collection of pathways that you can take to be able to join an organization. But you can start flipping that script to say, what would you do if you could create your own volunteer opportunity. I'm going to open source the problems that our organization is facing. Like for a homeless shelter it might be marketing resources, or it might be helping people feel better about themselves physically and mentally so that they can take the next step to get out of homelessness or out of the situation that they're in. So if you open source that problem and say, we haven't been able to solve this, we accept this, we admit this, but now you look at it, you bring your perspective to it, and shape your own opportunity, and start leaving it open like that instead of just saying, we're looking for people to come in and read about story hour, we're looking for people to come in and do specific tasks, those tasks are important, they're necessary. But the flexibility leaves room for innovation. And so one example would be, I looked at a local civic Nebraska organization and was able to give them tips for instructional design. They don't have an instructional designer on staff, but there are a bunch of instructional designers that are looking for different ways that they can do some good, build a skill do some good. And so you can connect that organization with that problem of being able to raise awareness about specific issues and voter rights and connect them over to local artists and local videographers and local instructional designers to be able to improve that service and help people build skills and make things better. It's a thing. And then so one thing that, so this would be sort of like a problem ecosystem. So, in the library, when you're starting to put together resources to help people gain exposure to these different problem areas that you care about personally and that you've seen impact the community as a whole. You can start clustering these different like problem solving ecosystems, and you can start gathering together what these organizations already know and use this as a launching pad to start open sourcing those problems to say, we have aging parents who recently lost their partner, and they are trying to find community engagement, overcome depression, find new hobbies and just need human connection in general. What can we do about this? This is what we already do. What can we do differently? And I'll be honest, I just forgot to delete this slide. So, these are the examples of how libraries can actually help within this ecosystem. The biggest most common one that most libraries already do is collection development. It's pulling together those books about meaningful work pulling together the like book discussion groups and career exploration resources information about problem spaces and helping people create it, and then bringing in the guest speakers, but the newer one is the, not just makerspace activities, not just we have a laser cutter we're going to make some garden stakes, but shifting over to this is how a, we can build out a 3D design prototype of what a sustainable city looks like. And you can help people learn about how buildings can use a heating and cooling system that pulls from geothermal energy instead of using like the chemical based coolant. And you can start going through like the lead certification process to show how businesses or how buildings and entire communities can use green energy. And you can start getting more specific about using your activities to introduce those different topics of how these jobs make the world better. You do a, or you do a lesson plan on those green buildings, then pull open a link about. Let me open it. Green building careers, which isn't loading right now, but it's a good website. There we go. And helping people just make that connection over and start like. Building out what that would actually look like in your own community, no matter what size that community happens to be. Who knew that you could be a green marketer. Someone has to spread the word, sure. Right now. And it's starting to help people understand the jobs that don't yet exist that they could do. Because most of the jobs that I'm seeing now didn't exist when I was in like high school and college, like 10 or 15 years ago. So it just kind of cool. And then some other options are pulling those different hosting community conversations to pull open different clusters of clusters of organizations. And that these organizations that may and may not have actually talked to each other before start talking to each other. And they might find out that they actually did. They were working on problems that. Like they're working on the same problems and they might be redoing work and they might be able to work together instead of recreating the same thing or right over again. I also included a link over to a collection of ideas and some planning resources. So if you aren't familiar with putting together any of these resources. These are some planning guides that'll show you how to put a community conversation together that when came out of the ALA. It'll talk about how you can get involved with Ted talks to raise awareness about different problems. And then talk about, there's just a whole mess of stuff on here. It's like a guidebook of how to actually do the thing. And so we're pretty close to 11 o'clock here. And there's other stuff that I could go into more detail here, but anyone have any questions. Yeah, it is almost 11. No problem. Does anybody have any questions, any comments on this thanks for the links and resources so we have some thanks coming through actually. So that's good someone's definitely looking at these digging more into what they can do with all of this. Yeah, information at their library. Does anybody have any questions comments anything you want to know more about or anything you want Amanda to go deeper into right now. This is definitely something that it's there's a lot of a lot of things to look into here and to decide what, you know, like the ultimate, you know, reason for this presentation. What can you do at your library to help your citizens your community members get through this process. There's a lot of options too. I mean, I hope it's not too intimidating. You just pick which won't which things work for you, I think, or what will be something you can actually do in your community in your library. Oh, and if anyone wants is interested and I can help you with putting together like a map like this that focuses on some of the problem areas that you want to zero in on. If anyone wants to help with that. It's a lot to wade through that data and to pull out these different problem groupings. So I am putting together like a mini pilot to see if anyone's and if any communities are interested in doing that, and I would guide them through the process. So then just focusing is because that map is like all of these things but you could say well I just want just I know that homelessness is an issue in our community so can you just get me the information about that. We know that's a thing. And what can we do with it. Yeah. And this map has you can't see the legend down here but it also has filters so you can filter down by problem topic to. So it's easier than just doing all the things. I think it's good. Well, I'm just dawns on me that I'm looking at those the two slides with, you know, the few sides for this one about the different topics and getting this mapping here for each community. Right now I'm very much involved in our public library accreditation process which is starting up again on Friday and doing training on that. And we have our libraries do community needs response plans. And I'm seeing the connection here that a lot some of this information would be something you could use as part of that possibly that this could help you get some good data, or good partners to collaborate with potentially. And you may be finding out already what are the main issues in your community, and then you can get this. Okay, now what groups are there out there that we can partner with to address that issue. Yeah. Exactly. You said, I mean, sometimes there's things that you as a library can't do anything about, and that's okay. But what you mentioned something that I mentioned a lot to is host just hosting the meeting to discuss it. That's a great conversation, bringing the organization into the library just to say here, you know, we as a library can't do this but we've found this group who can help you, we will give them the space to use libraries are usually are considered, you know, very they're trusted spaces and and people will go to them and say oh yeah we'll we'll come and listen to this presenter that you've brought in. Most people don't even know who's working in these spaces. Yeah, like it's like it's just hard to even connect those dots, and it was like, I'm a data nerd. So that just kind of worked out. So that's good that we have people on staff here who can be that for those of us who maybe are not as as data nerdy. Yeah, no. And I'll put in my contact info at the last slide just in case you think anything later. Absolutely yeah. It doesn't look like any other any desperate questions came in right now while we were chatting so I think we can wrap it up today. Cool. Yeah, no problem. We had a good group here definitely listening and paying attention. Like I said a few comments about thank you so much I'm definitely going to look into this more. So maybe you will get some people reaching out to you. Fingers crossed. Yeah. And as you all know you can always reach out to Amanda with any questions at any presentation she does and she will help guide you through all of this data and all this information so that you have something you can use yourself. All right, so thank you everybody for being here today thank you Amanda I am going to pull presenter control back to my screen. Go for it. There we go. All right, and I can mention the beginning if anyone came in late I do have the link to Amanda slides here that will be available to you afterwards. Well I put it in the chat for everyone. 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