 Good morning and welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. I am your host, Krista Burns, here at the Nebraska Library Commission. Encompass Live is a commission's weekly online event for a webinar, a webcast, an online show. Call us whatever you want. Just nice things, hopefully, though. That is not saying that, I think. But whatever we are, we are here live online every Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. central time. If you're unable to join us on Wednesdays, that's fine. We also record all of our shows, and they are posted to our website, so you can watch them at your convenience. And I'll show you where that is at the end of today's show. We do a mixture of things here, book reviews, interviews, mini-training sessions, basically anything library-related, we put it on the show. So, if you've got something going on at your library, we have guest speakers that come in sometimes, and we sometimes have Nebraska Library Commission staff that do presentations. And that's what we have today, Library Commission staff. We have next to me is Alana Navani and Susan Nisley, and they are in our technology and access services department, who are in charge of our wonderful Nebraska Access program databases. What do we call it? Yes. That's what's going to be answered. What is it? That's the title of today's show. What is Nebraska Access? So, they're going to show us all the things that are, everything about it, and the new stuff that we have now, because a lot has changed, and it's really, I think it's really awesome. A lot of the new things that are in there are very, big improvement, lots more than what we used to have. We're all happy, yeah. Huge change and a good one, for the definitely improved. Yes. I'll just hand over to you guys to take it away, and you can make that full screen if you want to, as you get to your... Okay, well, I'm going to go ahead and start off, and then I'll switch over to Alana partway through. In our session description, we asked the question, what is Nebraska Access? And we gave you some multi-choice answers. There was A, a website, B, subject directory of a website selected by librarians. C, home of the NLC statewide database program, and D, all of the above. The answer, of course, was all of the above, and we are going to talk about all of that today. I thought we'd start out talking about a little bit of the funding history of the Nebraska Access statewide database program. The Library Commission has been purchasing statewide access to databases since 1998. We were able to start doing that at that time because the Nebraska Legislature and then Governor Ben Nelson made a special $400,000 appropriation to the Library Commission, specifically earmarked for that purpose, purchasing access to online databases on behalf of Nebraska residents. The goal of the statewide database program was to establish equitable access to a core set of resources that would be available to all Nebraskans, regardless of where they lived in the state, whether or not they were served by a Nebraska Public Library, and if they were served by a Nebraska Public Library regardless of how well it was funded. We wanted everyone to have at least access to a core set of resources. One advantage of a program like this is economy of scale. $400,000 seems like a lot of money, but it would cost a lot more if each individual library covered by the program were to go out and pay for access to these databases individually on their own. The vendors, of course, know that in reality that would never happen, and so they don't charge that total amount to us as the state to provide that access. So we are able to get access at a reduced cost compared to what libraries would have to pay if they all went individually. Present day for the fiscal year that started July 1, 2015, and that runs through June 30, 2016. The cost, the amount that we spend on the databases in the program is $421,422, and this amount is made up of state funds that were part of that appropriation that has continued over the years, and then that's supplemented with some federal IMLS dollars. So that then brings us to the question of how is access provided. And Alana is going to talk in more depth about this, but at this point I just want to point out that access is provided through academic public and K-12 school libraries in the state. They're our partners in this program, and they are the ones that are out there in the field working with their patrons, promoting the databases to their patrons, introducing them to their patrons. In addition to access through libraries, Nebraska residents can also access the databases from home using a Nebraska access password that's assigned to their library. They can also access the databases with the Nebraska driver's license number, and one of the reasons we established this access method is that not every person in Nebraska is served by a public library. There are geographic areas in the state that don't have coverage, and so we wanted those people to have a way to get access also. And finally, then some larger libraries do have their own authentication methods set up other than Nebraska access passwords or Nebraska driver's license members. So there may be other ways for their patrons to access databases remotely from home. What I want to talk about a little bit now is the Nebraska access website as it exists today and talk a little bit about why it exists in this format today. Initially, when we first started purchasing statewide databases, we had a page on the main Nebraska Library Commission state agency website that linked to all the databases. And I'm just going to click on this link right here that jumps back to the Nebraska Library Commission website. Now, back in 1998, the Nebraska Library Commission website looked a lot different than this, but I just want to go here to point out one of the problems that we felt plagued us when we had all of the databases linked to from the Nebraska Library Commission website. Many libraries pointed their patrons to the page on our website that linked to the statewide databases, and that was how their patrons got to the databases. But as you know from website design, you usually have the main information on the page and then you have sort of related information along the top of the page or the bottom of the page or the side of the page. So you have lots of links to other information on the website. The Nebraska Library Commission website, most of the information on it is aimed specifically at librarians and it talks about programs that librarians may be involved with. It's not that there's anything on our website that we don't want end user patrons to see, it's just that it's not relevant to them and not of interest to them. But it wasn't at all uncommon for patrons who are accessing the databases to, for some reason, click off on one of the links and then get lost on the Nebraska Library Commission website. So we really, we wanted something that was more patron friendly, something that was designed specifically for patrons that would hopefully prevent them from getting shot off to some page that talked about the CE program or library accreditation or library laws or something like that. So it was a dream of ours for a long time to have a completely separate website to house the Nebraska statewide database program. So we were actually able to make that happen in, I believe it was, 2009, we finally got that done. So instead of going to the nlc.nebraska.gov website to access the databases, we now have the nebraskaaccess.nebraska.gov site that is designed to present the databases and a couple other services to Nebraska residents. This page gives you links to information about the Nebraska Access program. So lots of the background information and funding information that I provided to you. You can find under this about link. We did want to provide that back on information to patrons in case they did have questions. And so it's also there for you as librarians if you are wanting to refresh your memory about the history of the program in case you're ever talking about it with people in your community. We do have a link back to the Nebraska Library Commission website here, but hopefully we don't have as many extraneous links that would cause a person to get lost. Also, when you click on home on the site, you get back to the Nebraska Access homepage as opposed to the main Nebraska Library Commission state agency homepage. So you can see this is a lot more curtailed than just a page on the Nebraska Library Commission website. One of the first things you see when you come to the Nebraska Access website is not a list of databases. It's actually a subject directory of websites that's compiled by our reference staff. This was another service that the Library Commission developed and presented that was really designed for, obviously librarians can use it, but also end users might be interested in using it. And so I do want to take a few minutes to talk about this directory because I think it's often an overlooked service. There are many subject directories of web resources out there on the web that you might be familiar with. The one that I used to use in the past was Internet Public Library. What's nice about this resource is that it is Nebraska-centric. Our reference staff have developed all the categories with Nebraska interests in mind, and often they will create categories specifically in response to questions that they get repeatedly at the reference desk. So if Nebraska citizens are constantly having trouble finding a certain type of information and they wind up calling the Library Commission reference desk, or they ask their local librarians and their local librarians call the reference desk, we start getting a handle on what those frequently asked questions are, and so then our reference staff build those answers into their directory of resources. So just to give you a little bit of a flavor for how Nebraska-centric this source is, I'm just going to go into Art, Music, Theater, and you'll see websites selected by librarians, and you've got some subcategories, and I'm just going to go into Theater and Drama. And you'll see from these links, most of these links are for theater programs that are in Nebraska. There are a couple sites here, for example, the Internet. Broadway Database, that's of national interest, but for the most part, this is a Nebraska-centric resource, so this is going to be linking to Nebraska theaters that you might not find in a more nationally-oriented subject directory. They might not get that specific and fine-grained as far as Nebraska resources goes. The other categories that I really want to point out to you are Nebraska Information and Nebraska FAQs. Nebraska Information, again, is going to contain links to lots of information that maybe our reference staff get asked about frequently. The first link here is a good example. Many people have heard about people being awarded the honor of an admiral ship in the Nebraska Navy, so we all know that that's something that can happen, but how do you go about getting that set up for someone? Obviously, our reference staff have been asked that question enough times that they actually put a link to it on the website, so a couple weeks ago we actually had one of our staff members send an email question out to the reference staff saying, how would we go about getting an admiral ship for somebody? Because I always use this example in my classes. Even though I'm not on the reference staff anymore, I was like, I can answer it! They know what questions are going to get asked again and again and again, so they've done a really good job of collecting those answers here. It's good as a librarian in Nebraska to familiarize yourself with some of the kinds of information you can get here. You'll see right here there's also a category called writing a report on Nebraska. Our reference staff regularly get phone calls and emails from parents from around the United States, whose children have been assigned to write a report about a state and they've been assigned Nebraska, and so the parents then contact our reference desk and ask the staff to send them information about Nebraska instead of compiling information and sending it through the mail or recreating the list every time they're asked that question. They've put together this website that has links to all kinds of information that would be relevant. They also have this Nebraska FAQ, and if you look at some of these categories, you'll really see how they can be helpful under this first category, starting a business in Nebraska. Where do I get a commercial driver's license? Where do I make consumer complaints? I'm a contractor. How do I get a license to do business in Nebraska? So all of these types of questions. In addition to just drilling down through the categories, they actually have a search feature that you can use to search through this directory of websites. So I do want to point out the search box here when you click on it and you do a search. You are searching through the text associated with all of the links in the directory. You're not going out and searching all of the sites that they link to, but you're at least searching the heading words, the words used to annotate the links, etc. So the example I always like to use for this is I was working at the reference desk and someone called and they said, I need to know how to change my child's legal name. And of course, that's the sort of question where you think I have absolutely no idea how to answer this question. But knowing how this directory worked, I thought, well, maybe the reference staff have been asked this question before, so maybe they have put something together in here that will give me that information. So I just typed in name change. And the first hit I got was an FAQ category called What's Involved in Changing My Name. And I've got links to several websites on the Nebraska State Government website that talk about the process for that. You can see it's different for whether you're an adult or a minor. So I went from having absolutely no clue how to answer the question to having some concrete resources that I could point the patron to in about 15 seconds because of their background work, it made my job really easy. So I do really want to highlight that and encourage you to take advantage of it. So that is one of the resources that is promoted on the Nebraska Access home page. Again, it's something that's aimed at patrons. Susan, do we have any questions about that before you move on? We don't have. Chris to check. Anybody have any questions about what Susan has told you about so far about using these resources on Nebraska Access? Go ahead and type into your question section of your GoToWebinar interface. Doesn't look any thought urges coming in. If they do, I will let you know. Okay. So that is what you get access to immediately on the Nebraska Access home page. And off here to the right, you'll see the link that says Databases available to Nebraskans. So I'm going to go ahead and click on that link to go to the page that lists all of the Nebraska Access databases. As Krista mentioned, on July 1 of this year, the offerings to this program changed significantly for the first time since the program's inception. We did retain the first search database service, which includes Access to WorldCat because those are unique. And it's not something that we could get access to from a different vendor. But we did end up getting rid of most of the other databases that were part of the program and replacing them with a package of databases provided by EBSCO. EBSCO offered us a package and they priced it so that it would be equivalent to what we were paying for the databases that we'd have to get rid of in order to accept this EBSCO package. And we feel like we really got access to a lot more information, a lot more resources that we're going to need our needs this way than we had before. Just to give you a little bit of a highlight, the databases that we had to get rid of, because we obviously couldn't pay for new databases and still pay for the old databases, we did get rid of three ProQuest products, eLibrary, which was always sort of a problematic subscription for us when we first got that subscription. We got it at a really good price, but Access was only available to public and academic libraries. The product is aimed at K-12, but they were not included in the initial subscription. And when we went back to the vendor and asked for a price quote to include K-12, the cost increased so much that we would have had to drop several other databases in order to do that. So we always had this service, which this product, which was a fine product, but we only were able to offer it to a couple of the audiences that we served. And so that was always uncomfortable and not what we wanted. It was just a matter of not being able to replace it with something else at the same cost. It caused some confusion for some people too. They didn't notice the little disclaimer that was on there that said not for. Right. And you don't want to offer a service where you have to say, oh, you guys can have access, but you can. So it was always a thorn in our side. We also got rid of Books in Print and the Genealogy Database Heritage Quest online. So in place of those, we got all of the databases listed on this page. And you'll notice that we have divided the databases into two categories, databases that are available for everyone. And then we've also highlighted databases that are especially for K-12 students. And these are not mutually exclusive categories. Anybody can use the K-12 databases. Anybody can use the databases that are aimed at everyone. It just gave us an opportunity to highlight some of the databases that really are wonderful resources for students in school. These are some of the types of resources that we didn't have available to schools in the past. So for schools, we have a primary search database. It's a magazine article database that is aimed at really elementary school students. We actually have an encyclopedia now that is available for students. And this encyclopedia actually helps schools meet the Rule 10 requirement that they have a current encyclopedia available for their students. So that is going to save schools some money. We have a K-8 version of Novelist Plus. And then we have Points of View Reference Center, which is aimed at students who are writing papers on controversial topics. For everyone, we have the master file, a periodical database. And this actually replaces the other full text periodical database that we had in the past, Omnifile Full Text Select. This would be the comparable database. Both of them are full text databases that cover a wide variety of general subjects. They contain full text articles from magazines and journals. Everything from people to academic journals. One nice thing about master file is that it does include content from time ink. So that means products like Time, Sports Illustrated, Rolling Stone, I think. Some of those other products that were removed from the Omnifile back in 2010. So we basically swapped out one full text magazine and journal index for another. Susan, can I just add Consumer Reports is also in that database now, which I know is very popular in public libraries for sure. Right, that's another magazine that wasn't available in the old Omnifile that's now available in master files. So it's a good replacement database. Because we got rid of one genealogy database, we got access to another product, MyHeritage. It's obviously somewhat different, so patrons have to get used to a different interface, but it's much more international in coverage. And so initially people were upset using access to what they were familiar with, but I think people who've started using it have been pleased with what they've been able to find. They've found new resources that they didn't have access to before. There's a ton of new resources we didn't have access to in the past, so it's definitely worth checking out. Another database that we had to get rid of was Books in Print, but we replaced that with Novelist Plus. They're not exact equivalents of each other, but they serve many of the same purposes. Novelist Plus is a reader's advisory database. It helps both patrons and librarians identify material that would be of interest to their users for reading purposes or for collection development purposes. So like I said, we had to get rid of some databases, but I think we not only replaced those databases with something comparable, but got an additional databases that we didn't have access to in the past. So that is kind of an overview of that changes that we've had. We do have information up here at the top. We've got links designed to, for example, provide users and librarians with help information on how to use the databases. We also have several links that provide ways to get a hold of us. We've got an Ask a Librarian link that allows end users to connect directly with our reference desk staff if they've got quick questions. So that would be for eight to five Monday through Friday. We also have a contact page, and you can see we kind of have a hierarchy of who to contact. So we do talk about that Ask a Librarian link that I just talked about, how to get in touch with our reference staff. We talk about assistance for Nebraska residents. We do try to refer them back to their home library to ask questions. Since there's only a couple of us, so answering questions from patrons all across the state would be a challenge. So not like we won't answer questions if they come to us, but we do want to keep people's home libraries and home librarians in the loop. We do then say assistance for librarians. And in that case, we do give my contact information and Alana's contact information. So you've got information on how to, you've got our email address by clicking on these links. You've got phone number to get a hold of us. You've got the generic email address, Nebraska access, which Alana and I take turns monitoring. And then you also have a link to something called the librarians toolbox. You'll remember when I talked initially about the Nebraska access website and us wanting to make it to be something that's really patron friendly, that has information that will be of interest to patrons. So that meant we didn't want to put a lot of information on this website that would be primarily or exclusively of interest to librarians, but we do have information about Nebraska access that we want to share with librarians. And so this link actually does take you back to the Nebraska Library Commission website, and it gives you information that's probably just going to be of interest to librarians about the program. And this is why I'm going to actually turn it over to Alana. Before we jump there, Krista, any questions about stuff Susan had talked about? Nothing's come in yet. Any questions? Type it into your questions section. We can elaborate on anything you didn't understand or want to know more about or see more. We're not a very talkative group. Not today. Well, I'm going to go ahead and jump to the librarians toolbox then. So Susan obviously gave you an overview of Nebraska access. I want to talk a bit now about how libraries can access it. First of all, I want to point out this list of participating libraries on our screen here. Depending on how long you've been working in the state, you may not realize that at one point in time, every library that is using Nebraska access actually did have to register to be a member. That's so we have the proper contact information and just the basic information that we need. So we do provide a list of all the libraries that have currently registered with us, and you can easily take a look at that and see if your library is on the list. We have the majority of them, but I don't think we quite have everybody in the state yet signed up. So if your library or school or public library hasn't registered yet, we do have a registration form. I know sometimes we have a school district where they have to build new schools, and so a lot of times we don't have those new schools in our records. So if that's the case, you would have to go here and fill out this registration form. It's very simple to do, just the basic information. After we have this information, then we can easily get you set up and get you a password for Nebraska access, which I'll be talking about in just a moment here. As I mentioned, I just said there's a password, so let me jump right into authentication options. Susan touched upon these briefly before. There's two main ways we usually promote for accessing Nebraska access. First of all is something called IP authentication. If you're not familiar with that, basically the way it works is if your library or school has what's called a static IP address, that's an IP address that's just assigned to your particular school or library, we can use that to authenticate you into the databases. So if you would go to our Nebraska Access website and click on any one of the links to the databases, the computer is going to look and see what IP address you've come from. If that IP address is in our files, we'll say, okay, you are one of the people in Nebraska that can use these resources and get you right into the database without prompting you for a password. I think Susan said this while we stated just to make sure that we do have to have some sort of authentication method put in place just to make sure we do limit that access only to Nebraskans. Okay, so Susan and I do these things enough. It's hard to keep track some days of what we said today and what we said the other day. That IP authentication is one way we do that. Another way we do is the passwords. Now, the passwords can be used from within a library. We know there are some of our smaller public libraries in the state that don't have static IP addresses, so they will need to use a password for the authentication. Also, now the passwords can be handed out to your patrons, your students, for them to take home. So they can access these resources when they're away from the library. The Nebraska Access passwords, when we originally set this up, we have designed it so the passwords changed twice a year on April 1st and October 1st. We have right now just around 1,000 libraries or institutions we work with in the state, so every time we change the passwords, that's 1,000 new passwords to send out. To help with this process, we send the passwords to whoever we have listed as the library director. So just to kind of help clarify what that is, we do have on our website up here a library directory, and you can search for your library or school name here, and it will list and show who we have listed as the director. Also, it will show what email address we have on file for the director. So just that way, if you have a question about who we're sending the password to at your institution, you can simply look there and see. I also want to use it as a good reminder at this point here. We do have a link on the bottom of this page to submit corrections updates. So if you know your email address is going to be changing, please just send us a quick email and let us know what your new email address is. That will ensure that we get your password sent out to you in a timely manner. With sending out 1,000 emails, we obviously have a lot of bounces and stuff when that happens. So it's better for us if we have those emails updated constantly as they're changed as opposed to trying to go back after we send the passwords out and have to deal with the bounces individually. When it comes to the passwords, I also mentioned the April password will be sent out right around the 1st of March. We try to send that password out a month ahead of time. That way, the librarians will have time to pass out that new password, choose their patrons and students. As students, you receive that new password in your email. You can start using it immediately. At that point in time, both your current or old password, however you'd like to look at that, and your new password will both work. That way, it's easier for you to start handing those out. The October 1st password change, I actually try to send those out around the 1st of August before school starts. We want the librarians in the schools to have that new password in hand right away before the students come back. That way, they don't have to hassle with changing the password in just a couple of months in October 1st. That one was always sent out a bit earlier. Susan, did I forget anything about passwords? Don't put them on your website. Oh, yes. That was even in my notes. Susan said, don't put your passwords on the website. Some of you probably think that's pretty common sense, but I could think of at least four emails I've already sent this past year reminding people that you cannot put your password on the website because that means anybody in the world can then use it to access our resources. Sometimes people just put it right up on the website. Other times, Zod appears in newsletters that you may not realize when you wrote the article that would actually appear online. So you have to think about when you put the password in an article, is it really just a paper piece of item that's going to be circulated around your school? Or is it something that you may see appearing up on the website? Unfortunately, if we do find a password up on the website, you will get an email from us and we will have to reissue you a new password. The other option, Susan also mentioned, we just haven't noted down here, is that you can use your Nebraska driver's license. Or if you don't have a Nebraska driver's license but you have one of the official state identification cards that sort of look like a driver's license, those numbers can also be used. And we realize, of course, a lot of the younger students will not have driver's license. For us, though, it's no problem if they use a parent's driver's license to get in, that's not a big deal at all. I'm going to go ahead and jump back here. And I want to go here to the promotional materials. So related to the conversation about passwords, I want to point out the business cards. I always can include a link when I send out the passwords to our business cards. This is just a customizable template you can use for an easy way to hand out the passwords to your patrons or students. And you can see here there's multiple cards per sheet. You can even use a lot of the business source, store or sell stock paper that has the perforations where you can just pull them apart or you can just put them on regular paper and use the paper cutter to cut them apart. And as soon as you type in a password in one length up here, it will actually fill out throughout the rest of the sheet. I will make a note here, though, that there are a lot of different web browsers that are being used now, and a lot of them are starting to use their own PDF viewers. So we're in Firefox today, and you can see here I can't type into it. I do have the option up here to open it with a different viewer. So now this is opened up here in Adobe. You can see I'm not putting much effort into typing in here, but as I do, it'll fill out the card. I can just turn off that highlighting and you'll see the most red boxes won't print. We have included information up here above the length that does tell you how to get the Adobe reader if you need to. Also now we have a couple new flyers under the handouts link. We have one for the K-12 and one for the public libraries. You can see this is a full page here and it gives you a brief description of what all the resources are. Again, you'll have a place down here where you can add your password information. Again, if I would take the time to open this up in Adobe, I could actually just type in here. The last thing I wanted to make sure I pointed out on this page is the help information. At the top of the page you'll see we just have a link to the basic information. We're letting you know that we do have help information on the Nebraska Access website, so you may want to go back there and look for information. Next we have online training and you'll see we have today's session listed. After the recording is done and available, we'll be adding a link here so people can easily watch the recording of the session. Next you will see another webinar being offered. Susan is going to do an introduction to Novelist Plus and that is scheduled for the 18th of December. We do have a link there if you'd like to go ahead and register for the live webinar. Again, after the webinar has been completed and we get everything done on our end that we needed to, we will put the recording up here and link it from this site. If you haven't used Novelist or only just started playing with it a little bit, I definitely recommend Susan's course. She does a great job explaining how to use Novelist. If you're like me, you'll probably end up with a long list of books you want to read because you were playing with it and found stuff of interest for yourself. Frozen cons to the database. Exactly. In the log session here, we just labeled these training handouts. This past fall Susan and I went out and did what we would call the database roadshows. These are full day in-person training sessions. As part of those training sessions, we did try to put together handouts to go with the databases. What these are, are the handouts that we had used in that training session. Susan and I both try to write these handouts in such a way that you can still use them even though you're not hearing our in-person conversation about them. Because we know a lot of times people like to take the handouts back home with them and look at them after class, so we keep that in mind as we're doing it. Susan, are you using this handout for your Novelist training? I don't know yet. I would say it's certainly not, certainly okay for you to share these handouts are really written for librarians. They might be a little bit more detailed than patrons themselves who would be interested in unless you've got a motivated patron, but you're certainly willing. Use your own judgment and whether you want to share them with patrons, some patrons might eat them up, others might be overwhelmed by them. They really are aimed at for you as the library. You give you the overview that you need to use the service. The last thing I didn't realize I didn't talk about yet is the mailing list. We do have a mailing list specifically for folks that use Nebraska Access. If you're attending live, I looked and I think about only half of the people who are attending live have signed up for it. If you want to be added to the list, just send Krista a question and I can always add you right after the session here. But we use the Nebraska Access mailing list for a way to send out information that's specifically about obviously Nebraska Access. The traffic is very low, so don't think you're going to be signed up and get overwhelmed with a lot of traffic. For sure you'll get probably about three emails guaranteed a year because I will send out an email after I send out the passwords to the library directors because we've heard from some libraries that there are occasions when the library director forgets to pass the new password out to all the staff members. Sometimes library staff members like to be on this mailing list, so that way they'll see the note that says, okay, the new passwords were sent out to the directors on a certain date and so that way they can either go to the director and say, hey, I need the new password or they'll just give us here at the library commissioner call and we'll give the password to them. That's no problem. And so usually two emails and then I think you get two in October, so since I sent them out early there's a second reminder that goes out. But other times things that we use this mailing list for is if we know there is a particular problem with the database and for example they're going to have to take a database down for some technical improvements or changes. We will send that information out over the mailing list. Also we will announce the training sessions like Susan is doing over the mailing list. This past fall when we did the road shows we announced those over the mailing list. So like I said it's a great mailing list to be on. Really pretty low traffic compared to a lot of the mailing lists I'm on. You can either subscribe yourself or as I said if you're attending live today just send a question to Krista and we can get you added. Just type in your question section of your go-to webinar interface and we can get that taken care of for you. Susan did I anything else? Or if you do have any actual questions. Yes we'll take those too. If there's no questions I'm just going to go ahead and jump back to Nebraska Access then and take a look at the databases here. What we have for less than 10 minutes. We obviously don't have time to talk about all of the databases today. I did want to highlight the Explorer resources here just because they're a little different and if you haven't used them before I think an explanation can be helpful. You will notice behind every database we have these question marks. How do you use these question marks all the time? They will take you to help or about page that gives you additional information about that particular resource. So this is really useful in the case of the Explorer products. We are looking at Explorer public right now. There's also an Explorer primary version and that was linked off of down where the K-12 databases are. But what's unique about the Explorer databases is they are actually searching it's an interface that searches across multiple databases. So as you can see here we are searching the Biography Reference Center excuse me the Consumer Health Complete, Green File, Legal Reference Information, Master File, Primary Search and Topic Overviews. So you're going to get results from all of those databases. The other thing that's unique about the database is that it has a graphical interface and it gives you options to browse. So you can see here it highlights some topics at the top and you can see they are relevant to what is going on in the world. Or you have larger categories that you can browse below. You can either click on a particular topic or you can just do the more option and then find a secondary list of topics. And again, clicking on any one of these will go out and do a search for that particular topic. And so here's your search results and I will also point out that by default when you search either the Explorer databases your results are going to be limited to full text automatically. As mentioned we have the Explorer primary also and again if I click on the question mark you can see here it's searching the Biography Reference Bank, the Funk and Waggles, Primary Search and Topic Overviews. Since this one is designed for the elementary age students you can see the graphics are a little different looking. Again they have a different set of images up here in topics they are highlighting. You can click on any one of these topics just like before. But since this is designed for the little kids you can see now we have images on the secondary page too. And again clicking on any one of these will take you to your search results. Susan did you want to mention Novelist? I'll just go ahead and just do one quick search and Novelist is kind of a teaser for the training session next week. Novelist is a wonderful resource for readers advisory. It's designed to answer the question what should I read next. When you go in to the database there are all kinds of resources available to you. At the most basic level it lets you type in the name of a book that you or a patron liked and then it will give you recommendations for similar books that you or your patron might also like to read. So for example if your patron liked reading The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and they want to know they've read all three or four books in that series and then they want to read similar books and they want you to recommend them. All you have to do is type in the title of the book they like. Do a search. Go to the detail page for that particular book and I'm going to be talking about this in a lot more depth next Friday. For example we'll talk about all the different types of information you will get about the book but I just want to point out for today over on the side you have up to nine read-alikes listed to the right of each book and if you hover over one of these read-alikes you'll get a little bit of information about the book and you'll also get the reason why it is considered a read-alike. So in this case this book is both books that both The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and the recommended read-alike are gritty, violently sexual thrillers set in Sweden. So it's just a wonderful way to find additional books for you to read yourself or for you to help your patrons with that sort of readers advisory task. I like the explanation because sometimes you wonder why did they, you know, in other databases like Amazon or something you might like this and sometimes you look at it and go, no, that's not at all related. And then the reason this is obvious is that it's a person who made this. Which aspect of the book is similar so you'll know, you know, is that the aspect that you really liked or not. And Susan will show you how you can control which aspects of the books that help match the read-alikes. There's hundreds of recommended reading lists for all different areas of interest that I'll show you also next week so. I think that's probably about all we have time for today. Does anybody have any last-minute questions? Do you want to know more about any of the new databases? What's in them? What they're about? We'll give you a couple of minutes if you want to throw out any of your questions or concerns. We just have a comment from someone. Claudette says, this has been very helpful as I was not able to go to the road show. Oh, great. That's kind of was the point. We know that not everybody, you know, you do do, I don't know how many you did this year. Ten or I don't know. A lot. A lot. Must count. So yeah, just in case for people that can't get into the in-person ones, we wanted to have this on so people can at least see, you know, what's going on. I do want to encourage anybody who's either watching us live or watching the recording of this. If you have questions, please contact Susan or myself. We really do want to help you get your access set up, answer your questions, whatever we need to do. You can easily do that by going to the Nebraska Access site, clicking on Contact. And then if you scroll down here for assistance to librarians, our names are hot links here. I'd love just you to send us an email. It also has our direct phone numbers there. If you don't want to choose Susan or myself, you can just use the Nebraska Access email here. And like I said, both of us are one of us. We'll definitely see it. So please don't hesitate to contact us. Definitely. All right. Well, it looks like no urgent questions have come in while you're trying. All right. So I think we'll wrap it up then. Great. Thank you very much everyone for attending. Thank you, Alana and Susan, for giving us this intro to the new databases. Like I said, I think it's really cool, all the new ones that are in there. So many more resources. And pretty much everything that was taken out has got a replacement. So you're pretty good to go. Yeah, exactly. All right. So we'll wrap it up for this week's show. Just type in Encompass Live in there. The show has been recorded, is being recorded as we speak. And we'll be, whoa. That's not... Let's try this again. Hit engine. That's better. We're not for sale on eBay. No, I have no idea. I'm controlling the keyboard. I'm just controlling the mouse. It's kind of interesting. All right. That's what I wanted. There's our page. So our show is being recorded and it will be available on our website over here just beneath our upcoming sessions. We have a link to our archives where we'll have a link to the recording when it's done processing. Probably just later this afternoon is about all it'll take to get that all done. I'll email all of you guys to let you know when the recording's available. It'll be on there. So that'll wrap it up for today. I hope you join us next week when our topic is Tech Tuesdays. That's going to be on Wednesday. It's time to teach technology to technophobes. This is a session being done by Jennifer Cook and Peter Rudd Rudd who are from a library in Wisconsin. They have a program they do at their library on Tuesdays where they open it up for people who have tech issues to come in and help them. They're going to tell you how they do this, how you can set it up at your library. If you're having trouble having enough time to really get these technology questions answered, here's a way that you maybe can help your patrons out with that. So definitely sign up for that one if you're interested. And any of our other topics that are here, we've got all of our December and January sessions are there on the website available for you to register for. Also, if you are a Facebook user, Encompass Live is also on Facebook. If you go over there and like us on Facebook, you'll get notifications. You can see here just this morning, I do a reminder of when our show has been ready to start so people can log in on the fly if they want to. And I also post when the recordings are available, which there should be one somewhere down here, so reminders of upcoming shows. And there we go, recordings of when sessions are done around there as well. So if you are big on Facebook, big user, please do go ahead and like our page over there and keep up with what we're doing. Other than that, that wraps it up for today. Thank you very much for attending and we'll see you next week. And Encompass Live, bye-bye.