 Good morning and welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. I am Krista Burns, your host here at the Nebraska Library Commission. Encompass Live is the Commission's weekly online event where we cover commission activities or anything that may be of interest to librarians across the state of Nebraska. We do these every Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. central time and they are recorded so if you can't attend one of our live sessions, you can always watch one of our recordings. And we do various things, presentations, interviews, book tours, little mini tours of different databases and things and sometimes we have commission staff and sometimes we have guest speakers like we do today, which is great. So this morning, and I'll actually pass the mouse over to you if you need to use it or not, this morning we do have, as I said, guests here from our Lincoln City libraries that you can see from the screen, Captain Kelly and Carol Swanson. Hello. And they're going to tell us all about the One Book One Lincoln program that's going on now and just a little bit of history about how it all goes. So I am going to hand over to them to go ahead and take it away. Okay. I'm going to introduce myself. I'm Katherine Kelly and I'm a public services librarian with Bennett Martin Public Library. And starting this year, I am the coordinator for the One Book One Lincoln program. And I'm Carol Swanson. I am supervisor at Gear Branch Library. And I have been involved in our One Book One Lincoln program at one level or another since its inception in 2002. So it's been a very interesting trip and one that we're only looking forward to going on with. Well, we're going to start out today, I think, talking a little bit about both the history of One Book One Lincoln and how it's evolved over the past nine years. And also the things that we have planned in store for 2010 and what's been happening so far. I think at this point, let me see if I can move on here. There we go. Just a quick little recap about One Book One Lincoln and its goals. It is now in its ninth year and it's a community reading program sponsored by Lincoln City Libraries. When it started in 2002, the goal of the program is to encourage all adults in Lincoln and Lancaster County to read and discuss the same book at the same time. So it's sort of a community book group. And our goal all along has been to encourage reading and dialogue by creating a community-wide reading and discussion experience. And since Carol's had a long history with it, she can speak to some of the past history of One Book One Lincoln. And I will be happy to do that. One Book One Lincoln got its start here in the year 2002, but it got started even before that out in Seattle. And many of you who are listening today are familiar with the, not only the action figure of Nancy Pearl, but Nancy Pearl herself and some of the books that she's written. Well, Nancy Pearl and her staff were trying to figure out a way to get people in Seattle more involved with reading. And they came up with an idea. They got Readers Digest funding and some local sponsors. And they launched the If All Seattle Read the Same Book. And that was really a tremendous success. And so they continued. And it was sort of a grassroots movement. People heard of the idea. They thought it sounded good. A lot of people read in book groups. A lot of people shared reading ideas among each other. So a lot of people did end up reading the same book just not necessarily at the same time. Just to give you an idea, when Lincoln started doing One Book, that was year 2002, there were 63 of these projects in 30 states. So we jumped on pretty quickly. We thought as being a really great idea, a way to build our readership, build our community, and build on the idea that we wanted the library to be part of the community, not only when the community was in the building, but when the community left the building with items they wanted to read and got together amongst themselves. And it has just taken off. There's also the National Endowment for the Arts who's got a similar program called the Big Read. And so more and more communities and groups are finding that reading together and sharing both common and diverse thoughts about what they're reading is a great way to build a community by recognizing where people are alike and bridging where people are different and coming to a consensus in a way that expands their horizon in reading and in thinking. Just to go over some of the books that we have done in the past and refresh your memory, a little trip down memory lane. In 2002, we read Kent Harris' plain song. He was a former Lincolnite and he came back and did give an author presentation. For 2003, kind of a surprising resonance with our community was the book Belcanto by Anne Patchett. It combined themes of terrorism and operatic music and we had great community participation for that. Peace like a river explored crime and miracles in Minnesota and South Dakota and that was a debut novel for an author life anger that has gone on to be a noted writer. Kite Renner really did strike a chord with our community when it was chosen in 2005. It was a very timely book. A lot of families were very aware of what was going on in Afghanistan and Iran, Iraq. They had friends there. They had family there. Also, there was just a heightened awareness of the cultures of that country and an interest in learning more. The year after that, we had our first nonfiction book, Devil in the White City. That was about the 1898 exposition, World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. That one we had a little bit of difference of opinion. It was a book that had parallel stories about the great progress and time of invention that was centered on that exposition along with the story of serial murderer. Some people thought that that was a great juxtaposition of tempo and character development and moving through the story. Other people would say, I could have read just this part about the fare or I could have read just this part about the serial murders. The year after that, we followed with another nonfiction book, The Worst Hard Time which, again, had a great resonance with our readers. This amazingly, though some people did still have living relatives who had gone to the World's Exposition in Chicago in 1898, The Worst Hard Time about the Depression, of course, had many, many, many more readers who had family or friends who have lived through that time and had their own tales that they could tell about living in some of the areas and through some of the disastrous events that were described. I think this one, more than anything, made us realize that a lot of people who came to our discussion hadn't necessarily read the book, but they had heard what it was about and they came with a relative or a friend who had decided to read the book and they added to the content of that book. They really enhanced the story that Tim Egan had started to tell and each group that got together actually was their own unique program or discussion depending on who had information to contribute and it was really a very, it resounded very well with the community. In the 13th Tale, which we are getting to the year 2008, which is not that long ago, we sort of veered off of our more serious note and decided to read basically what was a Gothic novel. It was a tale that included old crumbling down buildings, the possibility of ghosts, resolution of twin identities, and it took place in England. Again, this was a little bit more of a light-hearted look at reading and we had a lot of fun with the programs that we did. Groups have a lot of fun, again veered off into ghost tales or tales about twins in the family, things like that. And then last year, the book that we voted on and read as one book, one Lincoln, was People of the Book, which was about the Sarajevo Haggadah and that was an ancient, valuable Jewish prayer book and it traced the history from its beginning, from its inception, its artistic creation to the time it was stolen and then recovered. The twist to this is that it took us from a more contemporary time to a time further back and then to a contemporary time and then a time further back. You were doing time traveling as you were learning about the book and the people who helped create it, who helped save it, who tried to steal it. So there was a lot of intrigue in there as well as world history. And so those are the books that we have had the opportunity to read. And I must say that for each of these, the library has reached out to so many different partners in the community and found such generosity and such depth of expertise in our citizenry who are willing to offer their time and their expertise to present a program, to lead a book discussion. And it's always amazing each new book that we choose as our one book, one Lincoln, brings forward more and more interest from the people in the community to be involved and to want to help make it a success. Carol, can I ask too, this has probably been one of the really great results and the goals of the program too, is not only to have the community as a group reading this book and looking for common themes and learning, but also that we're able to partner with a lot of different organizations and, as you said, tap into local resources and people with expertise to share more about the themes and the subjects of the books. And it's also not just an opportunity for us to tap into an organization. It's an opportunity for an organization to tap into us. It goes both ways. We can express an interest in having you support us, but you may say, wow, this is a great opportunity for me. I think this is the year that my expertise, that my organization, can take that step forward and be involved. And just a short list, Lincoln Arts Council, the Osher Lifeline Learning Institute, the Nebraska Humanities Council has partnered with us. We have had the television radio networks partner with us. We have had independent businesses partner with us, university departments. It just goes on and on and on, which is so gratifying. And so we're sort of expecting the same this year. Oops, moving too fast here. Well, that might be maybe a point where we can sort of segue into some of what we've been doing and some of the changes. One of the things, again, trying to get more community input to this program, something that's really worth noting for 2010 is that this is the first year that we are now soliciting from the community to vote for their favorite of the five finalists that we've currently been promoting. So this is really the opportunity for the community out of the five finals to say, okay, whether you've liked or enjoyed, maybe they weren't your favorites and passers, this is your opportunity to tell us which one would you like to see our community voting. And so we are in that process right now where beginning in June 1st until the end of July you can cast your vote for one of the five finalists. We'll be talking about those. And you can do that either online through the Lincoln City Library's webpage. There's a spot where you can go to our site. If I can find it here. Well, let's see. If you go to our main webpage right now, we've got right up in the upper right-hand corner a vote for your choice. And you can go online right there and cast your vote. It's a really simple survey. Click on the option, the title that you like the best. And we'll be telling those votes at the end of July. So this is something that we're doing in response to input and what we're hearing from the community. And so we think that's one of the ways that we're changing the program and people seem to be really excited about being able to do that. You can also vote for your favorite either by stopping into any of the Lincoln City Library branches. We've got ballot boxes there. And we have preview events going on where you'll be able to do that as well cast your vote. Just a little bit talking about what the selection process, how that works. And some of this has not changed much in past years. Generally at the beginning of the year in January, we start soliciting from the community their nominations for the upcoming year one book, one Lincoln title. And this year that was done up through February 2nd. Once we have all your nominations and generally what there's maybe over 100 nominations for titles or they pare it down to the top 100. There's usually somewhere between close to 200. Okay. That's what it is. And some books get nominated year after year, even though they don't meet criteria, some books get nominated year after year because they do. But that is our community's prerogative. It's completely open. If you want to nominate that title every single year, then you nominate. Well, I have one acquaintance who says every year she nominates the Nebraska driver's license manual because she says it's a book that every Nebraska should read, but it hasn't yet made it to you. I don't know about that. Plot. Plot theme. Okay. Well, once we get all of those nominations, there is a committee usually about a dozen people and it's made up of one or two library staff. It's certainly not all library staff, but also community members. So people from the media, from local businesses, educators, this board. We also have, yes, the library board and library foundation members are represented. And so they're charged with going through this list of nominees and they read these titles. They discuss them in depth and begin evaluating them for this program, keeping in mind the goals of the program. I mean, it's one thing to have a really great book that people would enjoy, but we're looking for something that really is going to be a community building process, being able to talk about and learn from the titles. I think we found out a couple of years ago with the success of our preview discussions, just how deep the interest is in the process that our committee members go through to choose the five finalists and then until this year, the finalist book. And so now we have regularly scheduled preview discussions so that those questions can get answered and people can understand the kinds of things in particular that people are struck by when they read a certain book, what touched them, what brought a strength out, why they chose that over maybe something else. And I was privy this year to attend the final meeting of the selection committee as they were narrowing down a list of 12 to the five finalists. We really do see how seriously and thoughtfully this process is in their considerations of books that are going to be pitched to the community. Well, they do get that list down to five finalists and this year that was announced at a live event to the public on Memorial Day at the Mill in the Haymarket. It was a fundraiser for the Foundation for Lincoln Libraries. So that morning we released the five finalist titles and it was publicized in the Lincoln Journal Star. We got a nice front page article the following day. And at this point, the five finalists are now available to be voted upon. We've extended it to a two-month period realizing that a lot of people will want to read these five finalists before casting their vote. It's certainly not a requirement. If you know one of the titles on that list, what you know about that book or if you've read one and you really think it's worthy, feel free to cast your vote. We're taking those votes until the end of July. And then once we tally that up, the choice for One Book One Lincoln 2010 will be announced to the public in early to mid-September. After that process, of course, once we know what the book is, we're going to be planning a lot of programming, discussion groups, and we'll be talking about some of those other opportunities. And again, this year the real change is allowing the public to vote. One thing that I wanted people to realize is that sort of behind the scenes to allow you to get more knowledge about what each book is about, we have Lincoln City Library staff members who are working ever so hard on finding related topics, related book lists, finding information to put up on our Facebook page. So that you can see maybe what other communities are reading this, interviews with authors, reviews of the book, all different kinds of information that really help you put more context around your reading and help you decide, wow, what would I rather sit down and talk to my neighbor with, this one or this one, and help you make a vote that you think is the right one? I have a question myself about the community members. How do you choose who the community members are? And if someone's out there in the community and wants to be part of the selection committee, can they just say, hey, I want to be involved? It is kind of an honor. It's a very high-profile program in Lincoln. And the fact that it's an honor to be on it and yet anyone in Lincoln can nominate themselves to be on it, their friend can nominate them to be on it. If they have an interest in reading and they think they would like to be a participant, they simply have to get in touch with the administrative offices and let them know, and that would be 441-8500, which is the main number, or they can email into, probably into Katherine or myself, and we will pass their name and contact information on. A lot of people who think that they are very interested in being on the committee don't realize the commitment to the reading or the fact that they might have to read books that they're really not interested in. Maybe they're a great reader, but they only read what they want. So before, in fairness to the person and to the committee, they are given a good idea of what the commitment is, and then they can decide if they want to pursue that further. And to note too that the commitment does extend beyond even the selection and the five finalists, because many of these folks are really generous with their time in assisting us, for example, with preview events that we have coming up, where they'll be talking to the public about the selection process and helping to publicize it. So again, it is a big commitment and we're really grateful to the people that do. Again, it's a two-year term. So if they are on it, then they would show us the two years before they would go off of it. And we just have been so lucky to have such great people on and such generous people on these committees. So, and now I've forgotten where we are. Well, part of what I thought we could talk about is what are the five finalists. Oh, right. If we're ready for that at this point, should we talk about some books? Let's do. Well, let's move on. And the five finalists for 2010 are The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbary. Now, again, this seems to me like it would be a good intergenerational book. Well, there's a couple that actually would be that. We'll talk about each of them in depth here in just a second. I'll give you a little smidgen of an idea of what the books are about. Another one. And actually, the second book, too, is one that's targeted both for young adults as well as adults is Finding Newt by Zoe Ferraris, a local author, Joe Sterida, teaching at the University of Nebraska Lincoln Journalism Department. I am a man. Chief standing there is Journalist. Fourth selection is Loving Frank, a novel by Nancy Horan. The fifth finalist by T.C. Boyle is The Tortilla Curtain. And I do have to say, before we start talking about specifics, I think the Selection Committee did a really excellent job this year with a selection of books that have real variety. I think many of them have very topical and current event issues. I think it's a nice selection. We've got one nonfiction title, The Rester Fiction. One comment that I heard from a person who was on the committee was that it was actually a little bit harder this year because in past years, on the community themselves, they have wrangled it out and chosen, which would be the four finalists and the one Book 1 Lincoln. And they thought that that stood out above the other four. This year, they felt they had to present five, one Book 1 Lincoln selections. Any single one of these books had to be as strong as any other. And so that was even a little bit more challenging for them. But it allows then us to have the public have more feedback and more say in what they're going to be reading. And I would say, you know, the feedback that I've heard so far from readers, it is a very mixed bag. I don't know that I see that one is really standing out as a front runner. I mean, there are definite fans of a variety of these titles. So I mean, I think there's something here to interest everyone and the challenge is going to be what the community ends up selecting as the single choice for 2010. The first book, as you were saying, Carol, The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Meryl Barbary. She's a French author. And this is interesting because the two protagonists, both females living in a sort of exclusive Paris apartment house, one is a 54-year-old woman, the concierge of the building, who very much understands her role and stays in the background. And you know, it's kind of like the doorman in New York City. She accepts packages, doesn't speak too directly to the people living in the house. She knows her place. But you know, she also has some secrets. There's a bit of a secret life here that she's very sure about not showing anyone else in the house. Chapters by Renee Michelle and her view are also catapointed with that of Paloma Joss, who's a 12-year-old girl who's very intelligent, very precocious, but also pretty jaded about life and adults is pretty bent on committing suicide before she turns 13. I wouldn't say it's a dark book, but she's very self-assured and decides to sort of jot in her journal her impressions until she decides to commit suicide in the summer. But you really get to see a picture of these two females. They're experienced with other people living in the house. They're approached towards life. This is a philosophy in here. It's very charming. And ultimately what happens when a Japanese wealthy businessman takes up residence in the building and how his introduction really affects both of these characters. And I thought it was, you know, very charming. Really enjoyed the book. And I've heard, this is one that I feel people are really polarized. I've heard people say they really enjoyed it. It was New York Times bestseller. It's certainly gotten a lot of critical review. Well, I think it's a book that even though it takes place in another country, it's very easy to transpose some of the elements that make it so important and so interesting into many of our own life situations. There's a lot of issues of class here and appearances and, you know, one station in life. And also, you know, what you're destined to be. Well, it also brings it into the point with the new tenant. Our idea of what is a tipping point? Things go along in equilibrium. Will something happen? Will something not happen? This happens, but then that balances to happen it. And then you have that one unexpected element. And which way will it tip the outcome? And so, but it's yet, it's a very, it's focused on the character very much, very much. The second choice, Finding New by Zoe Ferraris. This is a first novel and it's going to appeal to people who like mysteries because there is indeed a mystery in this novel. It's a first novel by the author who was previously married to a Palestinian Bedouin man. So she has some experience in that culture and that's I think one of the really fascinating things about this book. The storyline is that there is a 16-year-old girl from a wealthy family who is found drowned in the desert in Saudi Arabia and a family friend who's very devout, a Muslim, he's a desert guide, is asked by the brother of this girl to try to figure out what happened. He teams up, unusually enough with a woman, which, you know, talking about the Muslim culture in Saudi Arabia, how they managed to team up both he and this woman who's the fiance of his friend who also has experience as a medical examiner. I mean, it's fascinating, a really interesting look at Muslim culture of how gender affects things and how people find ways in that culture to interact, you know, in a society that's not very receptive of that. It's also a very interesting mystery. The characters in this I think are really wonderful and, you know, you find them very human. I think it also sort of shows where the tween shall meet between ancient culture and new technology. Absolutely. Where you have some knowledge applied to a situation if that knowledge had not been available, then there would have been a totally different understanding of an event. And, again, this was, as you said, written to appeal to both young adult readers and adult readers, and I think it focuses on the fact that people are more and more wanting to know why, how. You see that with the interest in genealogy and going back, missing persons, cold cases, you know, applying new technology to something that has not been able to be explained before. And that's fascinating in a very ancient culture like this with real long-standing traditions, how you see things like GPSs and young girls who wear burkas during the day, but can do jet skiing around their family's island. I mean, so there's a lot of juxtaposition in it. And I mean, I found it really fascinating and learned a lot about this culture. And, again, it really puts a human spin on it, too. You're not seeing stereotypes and, you know, you feel like you're really seeing inside life in that country. The third one, and again, this is the nonfiction title represented in the five finalists and also one with a really strong Nebraska connection by Joe Sterita. I am a man, Chief Standing Bear's Journey for Justice. This is a fascinating chronicle about a period in Nebraska history. Looking at this Ponca chief, his tribe and his people, very peaceful living in the Niagara River Valley, were forced to relocate to Indian territory in Oklahoma in 1877. Tragically, I mean, the whole incident was tragic. Later, his only son passed away, and this was the son that he had understood, Chief Standing Bear, that they really needed to bridge these two different peoples, the white people as well as the native people. And so he had really positioned his son to become educated. He saw him as being the bridge between these cultures. And, unfortunately, when his son passed away, he made the promise to return his bones to the ancestral lands. And so he and a group of his people attempted to return back to the Niagara River. Well, they were arrested, there was a court case, and it's a really fascinating period. It's also very inspiring when you see how some of the people in Nebraska, in Omaha, again, different cultures really stood up to support Standing Bear and his people in sort of a landmark case where it was quite surprising. Well, I mean, I think it reflects, too, what's going on in several different instances where relics of ancient civilizations, which were once considered sort of trophies or even important scientific discoveries and housed in museums, are being recognized as the sacred belongings of a people and need to, they retain the ownership and they retain the right to determine what happens to them. I mean, I think that it, in this era, when we look so much at human rights all over the world, this is our little chapter, you know, how it developed, how it was handled, what we can learn from it, and how we can go on and build a better way to live with each other. Yeah, I mean, it's an excellent study of human rights and it's in our own backyard, which is really exciting. And a lot of people, I'm just going to think that, oh, it's nonfiction, it's going to be hard to read, I don't read nonfiction. Oh, it's very readable. It is very readable. You get caught up right away. Absolutely. Another popular book, Loving Frank, a novel by Nancy Horan, this is a very well researched historical novel that's based on the relationship between the architect Frank Lloyd Wright, who most of us are familiar with, at least to some extent, and the long-term affair that he had with a woman, Mamaw Borwick, sorry, Borthwick Cheney, they were both married when they met. In many ways, I think they felt that they were soulmates. Intellectually, they shared many things. And this relationship that they had was really scandalized. I mean, I see a lot of correlations between the fascination with celebrity now and everyone's personal lives and being in the tabloids. I mean, this was going on at the turn of the century as well. So where she has not had a lot of attention in the history books, it is sort of a footnote in Frank Lloyd Wright's life, this novel really serves to illuminate her and the feminist that she was, the intellectual that she was, and the real struggles that she had with motherhood and having this love affair. And I mean, it culminates in a very intense ending, very readable, very interesting, I think of interest for people, you know, certainly in the Midwest and those familiar with Frank Lloyd Wright as well. And even thinking about in the time that they were having this relationship, what would have happened to the social standing of, you know, Frank Lloyd Wright's wife, his children, the family itself, the architectural firm, what would have happened to the family of Neymar Borthwick? You know, it was much more ruinous. It was much more long lasting because people were not being hit constantly with new things happening that left their mouths hanging open. We didn't have the paparazzi. We didn't have as many exciting, outrageous things going on. And then you think, what if this had happened today when we do have the paparazzi and the internet? Well, it sure would have been out there. And there may have been positive things that came out. You know, for instance, the fact that you can have relationships that bring positive as well as negative. If someone has a very strong stand or very well educated on a topic, they may not ever have been known except for their liaison with a more popular person. And yet because of that, they themselves have a launch and a voice. So interesting. And then the fifth title for consideration as a finalist is The Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle. This is one of the books that actually has been selected for at least half a dozen one book programs throughout the country and other communities. And I mean, it certainly is very topical. I mean, what's going on in Arizona right now, in Fremont right now. They're looking at making changes. The whole issue of immigration, legal immigration. And in this book, there are two couples whose lives sort of collide. They come from totally different, literally collide, come from totally different, different statuses. A very wealthy liberal couple who, you know, eat plenty of fiber in the morning and run and recycle Delaney and Kyra Mossbacher who live in Topanga Canyon in what becomes a gated community. Well, they have a run in with one of the pair of a couple, Candido in America, a pair of illegal aliens from Mexico who are actually living in the canyon, having a hard time even finding food much less work. So it really shows these two different dynamics. And I mean, it's not a very one-sided book. I mean, I would say looking at it, it does explore a lot about the whole issue of illegal immigration, border patrols, creating gates around your community, walking people out. And I think throughout it's sort of told with T.C. Boyle's kind of, he has a very rye eye. He definitely puts a face on what a lot of people see as a problem in a box. And then as you look at the faces, it comes out of the box and you begin to see that there are many facets to the problem. There are, you know, any number of solutions that people might find. It's just, it's really a very moving, it really strikes you. And again, very ripe for discussion I would think. So those are the five finalists that we're asking the community to vote upon. One thing to know is, you know, we try to make sure that these titles are available in many different formats. So they're accessible to readers. Of course they're all available in print format and we have lots of copies at Lincoln City Libraries, although you may have to put your name on a reserve list. It's free though to reserve a copy. Nearly all the titles are available as unabridged audio books on compactists. So for those of you who like to listen to your books, they are available at the libraries. And also Lincoln City Libraries offers downloadable digital audio books through our website. And nearly all of these titles are also available in that format so you can download them to your MP3 player or your computer and listen to them. And again, for those people who are possibly needing to have a larger type and can't find it, this would be just the excellent opportunity to grab a grandson or a grandchild and say, you know, hey, show me how to download this for Overdrive. Because I can tell you it is so wonderful to use downloadables. And we're happy the libraries, too, to show you the stuff. Right. I mean, no skips, no missing pieces. You don't have to worry about leaving that disc when your CD player at home and you return it to the library. I mean, yeah, and you can listen to it on the computer or take it with you. It's just a really great option. One other option that we have for the community is something we call Book Club in a Bag. And the five finalist titles are available in this format as well as other popular books. And just getting some feedback recently, I've heard from a lot of people that there are book clubs that take advantage of this. What it is is you get 10 copies of a single title in a book bag plus some starter discussion questions and information about the author. These can be checked out for an eight-week period. There are no renewals. And you can find them in the Lincoln City Libraries catalog by searching with the subject equal to Book Club in a Bag. And it's a really great opportunity for your book club to check out multiple copies, and that way you'll all have one to read and discuss at your book club. Now, you can also, even if you choose to check out Book Club in a Bag, that doesn't mean that you can't take advantage of asking a Lincoln City Library staff member to come and facilitate your book discussion. It just means that it's all put together and you all have that book at the same time. Absolutely. Well, and some of the things that we're doing during this preview period, while we're allowing voting for the five finalists, traditionally we've done this in the past. We have preview events so that readers can learn more about the five finalists and also learn more, as you said, about the selection process and the selection committee. So right now we've got four events scheduled at some of our local booksellers. The first one's coming up tomorrow evening on Thursday, June 17th at the Barnes & Noble Bookstore on O Street. Also, the University Bookstore on the UNL campus in the Student Union will have a lunch hour event on Tuesday, June 22nd at 12.30. The Barnes & Noble at South Point has an event coming on Sunday, June 27th at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. And then downtown in the novel idea bookstore, that'll be on Wednesday, June 30th at 7 p.m. And all of those events will have representatives of the selection committee, as well as a Lincoln City Libraries representative. So you'll get to learn more about the whole process and learn some more about the five finalists and hopefully that'll help you make your decision. And again, if you happen to have a conflict with that time, all of these will be podcast and edited and available on our website. And so you can, you know, go to a couple, listen to a couple of podcasts and, you know. And I should mention that at all of those events, as well as some of our outreach events where you can visit our Lincoln City Libraries booth, we have actually a ballot box and ballots there. So if you prefer not to vote online and something inspires you and you're ready to vote, at that point, you'll be able to cast your ballot there. We do have a booth at Jazz in June. We just had a really great night last night after being rained out on the first of June, but we returned and it really is great to get feedback from the community and see how many people know about this program and are interested to learn about the voting. It's great to get out and say hi and see people that you usually see just in the library out in their other lifelines. So you should be able to catch us at the final Jazz in June on Tuesday, June 29th. Look for our booth in the market area outside by the Leeds Center. We also will be at the Hay Market Farmers Market in Lincoln on two Saturdays, one in June 24th. So you'll still be able to cast your July 24th. You'll be able to cast your vote then. And then once the final selection has been announced, we'll be at that location on September 18th. So we'll have more information for readers there. You can also listen to radio. We'll be on Friday Live on NET Radio talking about the program with William Steber on Friday, June 25th. And we should have an upcoming KFO, our book chat with our own Lisa Voss from Lincoln City Libraries. And then I think you're also planning to do the Five Live with Diane Gonzalez with a preview discussion. Yes, we're also scheduling right a taping that'll be on City TV. What is amazing is how many people you hear from that watch those. You know, you look in the listings and you see when is that going to show? And it's like, oh, and people watch. They love those. They really like to get that back and forth between Diane and the panel. Well, and that's something that Carol has mentioned, too, is that private discussion groups have really become an important part for us about getting out information about one book, one Lincoln, and serving the community. And so we do have a link on our website if you want information about the events. You can request online. Leave us your phone number and email. There's a space on the form. If you want a facilitator to attend an upcoming private book group or if your organization has a meeting, we'd be happy to try and schedule a staff member to come and help facilitate discussion for your group. So that's another program that we have that's been successful. One thing I'll just mention there is a lot of book groups fear that because they're working in a different timeline than we are, that they're too late or too early to schedule a one book, one Lincoln discussion. And we just finished in the end of May the last one book, one Lincoln 2009 discussion. So if you're not meeting until after the holidays, that's okay. We'll be happy to come talk to you about it and share information. And then also some folks have already read the one book, one Lincoln selection. By the time it's been announced and they feel they don't want to discuss that again, but they would like to discuss one of the others. And we can generally provide someone who can lead that discussion as well. And then the other big component, once the book has been selected and announced that to the public in September, of course, we will have community-wide programming. Either community discussion events, also programs talking about the themes, bringing in experts. All of this is dictated by what the selection is. But you can be looking for that and we'll be announcing that on our website through our one book, one Lincoln Facebook group on Twitter and throughout press. So you'll want to keep watching. In mid-September we'll start announcing those events that will be happening into October and early November. And that is an important thing. We hope that you will visit us online. Our one book, one Lincoln website address is up there. And there's all sorts of information as we were talking about earlier. We have everything from a spot where you can vote for your choice. You can visit the one book page. And here's the page we have right now for our five finalists with a link to our Facebook page where you can continue discussion and talk to other people that are fans of the program. Share your thoughts as you're reading the books. What do you like or not like? You'll see upcoming events being posted there. We've also got a list here and this will be continually updated so it's a good place to bookmark and keep visiting as we're adding events and other opportunities to learn more about the books. So do visit us on site or on Facebook where we've got a nice active group here and lots of discussion going on. In addition to that, Twitter is a great place. We're always announcing what's happening with the libraries including one book, one Lincoln, so make sure that you're online with us at all thoughts. We'd be happy to take questions for right now. If you do need more information please don't hesitate to contact myself for Carol Swanson. We're happy to share our experience and information and if you have ideas and Carol, do you have something else before if there's questions to open up? I think that this is one of the most opening up experiences that we have actually created at Lincoln City Libraries and the more we open up the more our community understands that the library is about them. We are not serving ourselves. We are here to serve the library. We're here to evolve our programming to reflect what their needs are, what their likes are. Over the past eight years, our programs have evolved and changed. We've included excluded because we've seen what the public wants or doesn't want. So this is very much where we want your input, your participation because without you, without you the reader, there is no one book, one Lincoln. Well, that's right. It's not a library program, it's a community program and that's why we're really looking for input from the community. We want you to share your information with us. From the first book, from the first step we have just continued to grow and learn from each year's reading activities. That's what we hope for this year is that more and more people get with the program and pick up a book, talk to a neighbor, find out what's going on and join in. We're happy for new opportunities if your organization or group or whatever social circle you're in has an idea about how to discuss one book, what sort of presentation you'd like or information. Carol's been saying great ideas like if you have a block party maybe we can build a one book, one Lincoln theme around it. Anything that the community wants to use. You could create a trivia game about the one book, one Lincoln. There's all kinds of ideas that can come out of this that don't have to be a formal program or everyone has to do it. Everyone can have their own idea. It is your one book, one Lincoln. As we were talking earlier don't feel that there's a lot of restrictions on this. We want you to come to the events and learn. If you haven't read the book, if you don't like the book you're free to share your opinion. That's one thing we were talking about was I said make sure and tell people what if I've read the book and I don't like the book. Should I come to a discussion? Absolutely, it's a discussion. That's what makes the discussion. We learn from each other. It is people who like the book, sort of like the book, sort of don't like the book, really like the book, like the characters, don't like the characters, like the plotmen of the characters. It does not matter what you think of it. What matters is that you're willing to come and share what you think of it. It's a pretty boring book group if you want to read. Absolutely. Bring out the orchards. If you have not read it at all come and sit down and listen and you may find that you have a comment to make whether you have read it or not because you know something about the subject. Your perspective and you may be encouraged to read it. We do have a question. In Twitter, for example, they have hashtags that things are tagged with. Do we have one for the book? I think we could develop one. We always use O-B-O-L internally. I think we'll input hashtag O-B-O-L is an excellent idea. O-B-O-L. One book, one Lincoln. If you are doing anything on Twitter, use that. The hashtag and then O-B-O-L will work for that. There was the one book out of you heard about the one book, one Twitter. We did, yeah. Have you participated? I'm reading it, yes. I'm a little behind, it's American Gods That's right. I'm a little behind. That's fine. That's right for something. That's great. O-B-O-L for this. Any discussion you have online, you can just tag that on and we'll find it. Great. Anybody have any other questions? Questions, comments, suggestions, ideas? Looks like it. You guys are so good. Well, check us out online and share your input, send us an email if you have ideas, suggestions. All of the, when the recording is put up on our website, all of the links that were on that previous slide will be included as well. Great. You'll just click on them and get to them. You don't have to worry about scribbling them down off of the screen there. The whole PowerPoint presentation will be up there. The links will be up there. Everything will be out there. Anything else? Thanks, Krista, and the library commission for letting us talk about One Book One Lincoln. We love promoting anything that's going on in the state or even our local down here about libraries. It's a great time to get out there. Start looking for the One Book One Lincoln because some are reading at the library. You're taking your kids there. Your kids are volunteering there. Maybe you're volunteering there. We have an adult reading program going on that you could read all of the One Book One Lincoln nominees and the reading program. I'd also encourage other Nebraska communities to think about doing their own One Book program. Yes, this is obviously all about the program in Lincoln, but the idea is hopefully being the library commission. Other communities out there will see what you're doing, see how it can be done, and then follow suit as well. You can look and see what other One Book communities have done with their programs and book selections. I'd encourage other Nebraska communities to think about it. It is a very flexible program depending on how large or small or who's going to be in the group. You can formulate it to be what you want it to be. Okay. Well, thank you very much. Thank you. We'll just wrap it up then, and I hope you'll join us next week when our topic will be the cataloging librarian from here at the library commission, Emily Nimsacan. We'll talk about how to catalog a kit. Apparently this request she's had from some cataloger says it's a special thing to do, and so she's going to do a session for us next week on that next Wednesday, June 23rd. Yes, 10 a.m. Okay, well thank you very much. See you at the library. Bye-bye.