 Good morning and welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. I'm your host, Krista Burns. I'm here at the Nebraska Library Commission. Encompass Live is a commission's weekly online event or webinar or webcast. An online show, whatever you want to call us. We're here live every Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. Central Time. But if you're unable to join us, that's fine. On Wednesdays, we do record all of our shows and put them onto the Encompass Live website. And I'll show you where that is at the end of today's show. So you can always watch everything there. We post a recording of the show. If anyone has presentations or handouts or documentation, that will be included in the recording page. And any websites or things that they go to, any links, we collect those as well. Both the live show and the recordings are free and open to anyone to watch. So if you have any friends, colleagues who might be interested in any of our topics we're doing, let them know. Tell them to come and join us or send them to our recording page and watch those. We do a mixture of things here, interviews, book reviews, mini-training sessions, demos. Basically anything library related, we have it on the show. We don't really have much more criteria than that. If it's something happening with libraries or something that could be happening with libraries, we will put it on. We do bring in guest speakers from time to time on the show, but we also have our own sessions here that our Nebraska Library Commission staff do. And that's what we have for today. My laptop has been a little slower. Today our topic is the University of Nebraska Press Collection and what we have here at the Nebraska Library Commission. So to tell us all about that is Mary Sowers, just to my left here, the Government Information Services Librarian here at the commission, and Allison Badger, who is the newest employee at the commission. I was trying to think, has anyone else come on board since? Holly. Holly was after you. Yes. That's right. Okay, I'm sorry, second to most reason. Very recent employee at the library. Our new cataloging librarian here. So I will just hand over to you guys to go ahead and tell us all about what we've got here at the commission. All right. Thank you so much, Christo. We appreciate you having us on their show today. About a month ago, I did a book talk to the Bethany Branch Book Club, and Bethany Branch is part of the Lincoln City Libraries group. And I apologize, got a little tongue-tied there. But it went so well that we were asked to talk about our Nebraska Press Collection here at the Library Commission on the show, and we are more than happy to do so. And in doing our research, I think we've had a lot of fun, you know. Yeah. Yeah, we have. And when I interviewed for this job back in October, they said, Deborah Drago, when she gave me a tour, she's like, oh, and here's our University of Nebraska Press Collection. We have a lot of copies of their books here. And I just thought, oh, that is really cool. That's really exciting. And as a cataloger, I was like, oh, these would be fun to catalog. And I don't get to create the catalog records, but I'll talk a little bit more about that later on. But it's a really neat collection. That it is. And I'm always amazed at what I find when I'm shelving the press books and what I go back for to browse through on a personal level. So we're going to get started. And I thought I would. Good to be able to do that. OK. Thank you. Here's what we're planning to cover today. Feel free to ask questions as we go along if something pops up. And it really helps us to go ahead and answer the question as we go along. So it's still fresh. And our answers are immediate. But here's what we're going to cover today. We're going to go through a brief history of the Nebraska State Documents Clearing House here at the commission, a history of the University of Nebraska Press, examples of press books in the commission collection, how to find the press books in the commission collection, and University of Nebraska Press and the Nebraska 150 Celebration Book List. That's kind of an exciting project. And we'll talk about that for a couple of minutes at the end. Well, to begin with, I'd like to talk about the Nebraska State Documents Clearing House. Prior to 1972, there was no comprehensive program in the state for collecting and preserving Nebraska government publications. As it turns out, a committee in the legislature was tasked and the Library Commission was tasked in looking at other states and what they were doing for preserving their state publications. That's what my first thing I thought was, is that normal? That is so recent that we got organized? Yes and no. There were some states out there that already had done it, but a lot who hadn't either. All 50 states now have state library collections in some form, some better than others. Ours happens to be one of the really good ones. And so in January of 1972, a bill was introduced into the Nebraska legislature, passed and signed by the governor in March of that year, establishing the Nebraska Publications Clearing House. And the Nebraska Clearing House program was launched in July of 1972. The Clearing House and its purpose is to house all public documents from Nebraska state agencies, including documents from the University of Nebraska and selected titles from the University of Nebraska Press. The Nebraska Library Commission has been adding Nebraska Press books to its collection since its inception of the Nebraska State Documents Clearing House in 1972, with the first books actually being added in 1973. Have we gone back and pulled older copies, like books published before 1972? No, we have not. Our collection actually does start with 1973 published books. I was just wondering, sure. A good question actually. And of the 170 new Press books released every year, the Clearing House collects between 60 and 70 of those titles. So you can imagine that our collection grows very quickly every year. But it's always fun to see what comes across the desk. Oh yeah, those titles come to me. I probably get a couple every week or so. And because I bring those records into our catalog. I'm always really excited when those titles pop up on my desk. It's like, when am I going to see this week? And we'll touch on this a little bit more, but we see a variety of books. It's just amazing, you know, books on European history and American culture and sports. Yes, absolutely. Like you just said, I am always amazed at the variety of books that come from the Press. And that we also receive here at the Commission. So as a result, the University of Nebraska Press collection is one of the largest parts of the Clearing House documents collection here at the Library Commission. And growing. So as a short history of the Press itself, University of Nebraska Press was founded in 1941 and is a nonprofit academic publisher of scholarly and general interest books. The Press is under the auspices of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the main campus of the University of Nebraska system. And the Press publishes approximately 170 new and reprint titles annually and has more than currently 3,000 titles in active print. It publishes primarily non-fiction books and scholarly journals in both print and electronic editions and is considered one of the most prestigious academic presses in the country. There are currently 130 academic presses just in the United States. And University of Nebraska Press is considered as prestigious to be in the top 10 of those. So they are very well looked upon. The Press has very strong publishing programs in Native American studies and Western American history. And since 2010, two of the Press books have received the Bancroft Prize, which is a very prestigious Columbia University Prize for literature. The Press also has a highly regarded publishing program in sports. Well, with the Huskers. Yes, go figure. Yeah, as an newcomer to Nebraska. I've learned very quickly. Yes, sports in Nebraska is definitely a good thing. Nebraska Press publishes under several imprints, including Nebraska Press, Bison Books, which tends to be mostly paperback, but not always. And Potomac Books. In 2011, the Press entered into a publishing arrangement with the Jewish Publication Society. So they are partners with the JPS and one of the oldest scholarly Jewish publishers in the United States. Potomac Books, which the Press acquired in 2013, specializes in military and diplomatic topics. So as you can already see, Nebraska Press does have a very wide variety of topics that they publish with, published about. I've wondered about the Jewish Books when those started coming across my desk. Yes, it wasn't until you'd expect. Yeah, I'm like, Nebraska Jewish Books. Oh, okay. Yeah, and it's not something you would think about, but they do seem to be looking for partnerships that they can do that will help the other Press, which is sometimes smaller and maybe struggling a bit, but, you know, and then, you know, doing the partnership can enhance both publishers. Yeah, yeah. The Press is also, actually the Press is best known for its work in Native Studies, Western History, Sports, Anthropology, Geography, American History, and Studies, and American Cultural Studies. They also have many, many works that they've published that are considered creative works, especially with Nebraska authors and Nebraska fiction. Willa Cather, Best Streeter Aldrich, Mari Sandos, Wright Morris, those are just a few of the well-known names here in Nebraska, but the Press does publish a lot of Nebraska authors. Topics that the Clearing House collects, because we do collect Nebraska Press books through the Clearing House program, we collect American Studies, Natural History in Nebraska, Nebraska Authors, Western History, and Native American Studies. Because of the sheer numbers of books that the Press publishes every year, we have to be somewhat selective. Otherwise we would run out of, completely run out of room in very short order. So we do have to be kind of selective. But even as selective as we are, we still try to cover a really wide range of topics. It is. It's like, we keep saying it's amazing. It's just the subjects that we get. Absolutely. Scholarly journals that come to the Clearing House from the Press include Prairie Schooner, which I know a lot of you are familiar with, Great Plains Quarterly, Great Plains Research, and Middle West Review. And following are some examples of the wide range of titles that the Press publishes and the Clearing House collects. First example, and this is one of the earlier books that I wanted to give you a little bit of, just an idea from a Nebraska natural history aspect. The Biology of Ground Dwelling Squirrels, Annual Cycles, Behavioral Ecology, and Sociology. And it literally is what it says. It is a complete study of ground dwelling squirrels. Sorry. Ground dwelling squirrels. Yeah, it's a little tongue twister there. Chipmunks, marmots, you name it. It covers it. And I just thought that was a little bit of a whimsical type that you might enjoy. One of the best-known Native American books that the Nebraska Press has ever published is Black Elk Speaks, being the life story of the Holy Man of the Okalala Sioux, published and originally published in 1989. And this is the most famous Native American book ever written. It is the story of Lakota Visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk and his people during the momentous twilight years of the 19th century. But following that is Black Elk lives conversations with the Black Elk family. And I've listed the first author from his family, but there were actually five authors who were members of descendants of his that got together to talk about him and how their famous ancestor shaped their worldviews, shaped their lives, even after the fact, and reminding us that their famous forebearer still lives in the legacy of his book, Black Elk Speaks, and through his descendants. And those two books are just a little bit more familiar, well-known topics in the Native American studies books that the press releases. So I just wanted to give you a little bit of an example so that you can get an idea there. The next one that I chose to highlight is Bright Epic, Women in Co-Education in the American West. The Nebraska Press does many series of books, and this happens to be their Women in the West series, of which there are quite a few titles. This one was published in 2008, and it tells the story of female students, early mixed-gender encounters at four institutions. Iowa Agricultural College, the University of Nebraska, Oregon Agricultural College, and Utah State Agricultural College. Although land-grant institutions have been most commonly associated with domestic science courses for women, Bright Epic actually talks about all the other courses of study that are available to women students, female students, including sciences, literature, journalism, business, commerce, and law. I may have to go get this book. This sounds really interesting. Before I became a librarian, I actually was a historian. I was a master's in history from the University of Montana, and my thesis focused on women in the American West. Oh, very cool. It's like, oh, that's really relevant to my own interests. This would happen to still be on my desk in my office, so go free to stop by. Also, too, I would like to mention that if you are a librarian in Nebraska or even through interlibrary loan, anyone can check these books out from us. If it's something you don't have in your library, you can request it from us. We'll be glad to check it out and send it to you, or if you're outside the state, feel free to enter a library loan. Oops. A little too far. My apologies for that. This is one of my favorites of some of the more recent books that we've received from Nebraska Press, and it's titled Prairie Forge, The Extraordinary Story of Nebraska's Scrap Metal Drive of World War II by James Kimball, published by the press in 2014. And part of the reason I like this book so much is I was on the committee, the nonfiction committee for one book, for the Nebraska Book Awards, and we awarded this title, the 2015 Nebraska Book Award in Nonfiction for Nebraska Spirit, and that is from the Nebraska Center for the Book. Fascinating story about how during World War II, the United States needed scrap metal for munitions and equipment, and unfortunately, we were running low. To the point where at one point, munitions and equipment was kind of at a standstill, because it was such a shortage. But Henry Doerle of the Doerle Zoo in Omaha, and also at the time was publisher of the Omaha World Herald, came up with the idea of doing a scrap drive. So Prairie Forge tells the story of the great Nebraska Scrap Drive of 1942, a campaign that swept the nation and yielded 5 million tons of scrap metal literally salvaging the war effort itself. Fascinating story, and I read most of this. It's well written, and just a fascinating account of what, first of all, true Nebraska spirit is all about, but at the same time, true American spirit. This is on the Nebraska 150 list, isn't it? Yes, it is. That makes sense, yeah. Well, next, we are going to move to more press titles and how to find them in the Nebraska Library Commission collection, and I'm going to turn it over to Allison to walk us through that. Okay. So I picked a couple of more titles to talk about. As Mary said, it's not just books set in Nebraska or about Nebraska. It's books that are in the West, and I chose Winter Wheat, which was originally published in 1944, but the press republished it in 1992. And it's set in kind of early World War II Montana, 1940s, and it's by Milberg Walker, and it's about a young woman who's growing up on a farm who manages to find a way to go to college and have these experiences and kind of her struggle between this new life and her old life on the farm. And this was actually a 2003 young book, Montana, and so it kind of swept the state in 2003. It was something everybody read, and it's kind of funny because although the author kind of fictionalized Montana a little bit, when you read it, you can still tell where it is in Montana. Those of us who know Montana really well, I was like, oh yeah, I know exactly where this book is set. And another title is The American West, 20th Century History, which is by Michael P. Malone and Richard Echuane. And it was first published in 1989. It's been updated, and they've issued a second edition since then. And as I mentioned, I do have a master's in history, and one of the things they teach you is kind of how to judge your sources, how to evaluate sources, and one way is if you're working like monographs with books, is to look at the publisher. And so that was how I first kind of came across the University of Nebraska Press. That was one that professors were like, oh yeah, if a book is published by the University of Nebraska, that's a good book. That's a book that you know has been well written. It's been... They don't just let just anybody. Yeah, the sources are cited. It's really good quality scholarship. And so this was one we actually used in one of my classes. And it's a good overview kind of of the 20th century West and how it's changed and grown as the description says, kind of from 1900 up to about, I think the 1940s, 1950s, that post-World War II and the impact of the New Deal and World War II on the West, that the West saw a lot of growth as a result of that. Very true. And then I chose a third title, and I actually have not read this book. I didn't read the course of Empire by Bernard Devoto. It's always been on kind of my two-read list. And this is another book that's really highly regarded among American Western historians. Bernard Devoto kind of, with his books kind of changed the way we viewed the American West, how scholars did prior to that, prior to like the 1950s, we kind of saw the West as kind of, through the lens of white men. And we didn't really take into account the environment or Indians. And Bernard Devoto started moving that forward to, well, here's what really, not what really happened, but here's another way of looking at it. And so he did a series of books here across the wide Mississippi, which won a Pulitzer, the year of Decision 1846 and the course of Empire, where I'll talk about different aspects of the American West. So, and that brings me to how you can find these books. And a really easy place to search is our catalog. And you just go to the Library Commission website and then up on the top it says Library Catalog. And you click there and you come here and we use Mandarin as our catalog. And Mandarin, like every other catalog out there, has its quirks. So I've got some tips and tricks, which is you need to be very precise when you're searching Mandarin. And that's kind of true of any catalog, but I have found it more so with Mandarin that you can't have spelling mistakes. You can't do just kind of general word, like key words, otherwise you get a lot of hits. And so I have found with Mandarin the easiest way to find items there is to pull some words from the title. And I generally have really good luck with that. And you can search by author, last name, first name, title, keyword. And if you're looking, you just want to know all of the University of Nebraska Press books we have. You can search for University of Nebraska Press and you will get a complete list of all the books we have. We do have a comment of our previous catalog that was actually on the line. And she did. Oh, yes, Mandarin quirks. I'm thinking that's a diplomatic way of explaining that. Like I said, all catalogs have their quirks. That is very true. And everyone who not just catalogs there, but works there, has to figure out how do I use, make my system do what I want. And these are just a few things I've picked up really quickly, especially the whole no spelling mistakes. It doesn't do a suggested. No, Mandarin is not very forgiving. It doesn't even try and get you to what is close. It just says, we don't have your title. Correct. You're like, okay, thanks. You're helpful. Anyway, so I did do a search for Winter Wheat in the catalog and you can see kind of the top left of the screen. That's kind of the result list and what you're going to see. And then I do have the dark view of the record. And so if you are, you know, cataloging or copy cataloging this title, you know, this is a place where you can come and look for a record and, you know, get some of the basic information to include in the record. And you can also get records. You can also search for a lot of these books at the Library of Congress. And I found the easiest way was to just go click on the library catalog link on the right there because if I tried searching any other way, I got a lot of results and not necessarily because I searched for Winter Wheat again. I got a lot of reports on Winter Wheat and growing Winter Wheat. I can imagine. But you know, and like like Mandarin, you can search by title, author. Again, you can search by the University of Nebraska Press and pull up, you know, all the University of Nebraska Press books they have catalogued over the years. Again, you need to be precise and that's what I've discovered with almost any catalog is you have to be precise. Otherwise, you get a ton of results and they also have some advanced search features where you can go in and search by year or type of publication and and again, I've got some examples of kind of what the search results look like and then what the record, the mark record looks like. So again, you know, if you're looking for a record, so you can copy catalog the Library of Congress has a great place to go for that and you can actually download those records using their Z, what is it? Z39 Yeah, Z39 protocol and I don't know much about that, but I know a lot of libraries get their records that way or through your vendor you should be able to find them through your vendor too. So you decide to add any of these titles to your collection and do we do much tweaking to the records once we get them? I know a lot of libraries do do local, I just don't know what. We have a couple of local fields we add just for doing when we import the records into our system, it's just for doing holdings and then I do add things to the records I have my own little things I like to add, you know, I like to add like a content note if it's not there where I transcribe the table of content, if a summary is really easy to do or actually for the summary I usually go to the University of Nebraska Press Well, there you go. Take it from the source. And I love it with the summaries It saves a lot of time for readers. It does. As a historian, one reason they became a cataloger was I could never find anything in the catalog or when I did, like half the time it wasn't what I really wanted so that really influences a lot of my cataloging decisions and what I do add to records and I'll go in and check subject headings and I might add more if I feel like more necessary and yeah that's pretty much what I do to the records and then I bring them in and that's it. Very cool. Awesome. Well kind of back to University of Nebraska Press here at the commission one aspect that we are starting to ramp up on is the Nebraska 150 celebration and as many of you know, next year 2017, March 1 to be precise 2017 Nebraska will be 150 years old as a state and so as part of the 150th anniversary of Nebraska statehood, the Nebraska sesquicentennial commission actually said that right has chosen 150 notable Nebraska books to highlight for the Nebraska 150 celebration in March of next year. These books represent the best literature produced from Nebraska during the last past 150 years and the books highlight the very cultures, diverse experiences and shared history in Nebraska and after looking through the list I thought that the commission did a really good job in compiling this list. Many of the books on the Nebraska 150 list are from the University of Nebraska Press hence why I'm talking about it today and are also in the Nebraska Clearinghouse collection. Approximately 35 titles on the list are also in the Nebraska Library commission book club you know I can say sesquicentennial but I can't say book club kit but anyway approximately 35 titles from the 150 list are in the book club kit collection here at the commission and to see all of those titles you can go to nlc.nebraska.gov ref book club page and under browse options you can click on Browse Nebraska 150 books we just recently added that little search button so that if you are interested not only in looking at the Nebraska 150 book list as a whole by itself then you can take that list and go over to our book club kit page and browse just for those books so also you can visit the Nebraska 150 books .org for an overview of the whole program they are doing featured books by month that they started just this past April and so far they have well actually I apologize I think it's March March April and May currently where they spotlight about four or five books just for the month and then they also have the full list of the 150 titles so any chance I can get to the internet? I thought what I would do is since we are ahead of schedule here by quite a bit and welcome any questions that you all have I thought maybe I would kind of demonstrate where from our website you can go to get to things first of all I'm going to show you our catalog which is right up here in the top kind of the top right hand corner where it says NLC Catalog if you click on that you come up with the search page that Allison showed you earlier and no you're fine the orange arrow at the top there we go thank you sorry about that now you can see what the whole search page looks like and then I'll go back and you can see what the whole commission page looks like NLC Catalog is up here in the top right hand corner and the easiest way to get to our commission book club kits is to go to collections at NLC from the main page and you have to hover and let the menu come out and then go over to NLC book club kits and this is the main search part so if you know just an author or just a title or if you just want to browse by any of that then you can but if you scroll down a little bit we have browse options so you can browse the entire collection Nebraska related books and then for our purposes today we now have the Nebraska 150 books are we doing every single one of them or no I don't want to scare Lisa we run out of room very quickly very quickly now the whole purpose of this was for our schools and libraries who do borrow book club kits from us if they're interested in a title that's on the 150 list they can go directly to this button and come up with the whole list of everything that's on that list that we have in our book club collection we'll be adding titles to that list as we come across that 150 in in fact my boss Lisa Kelly has already started working on trying to fill in some gaps and with some of the titles I don't remember specifically what those are but yes that is in process so we will be adding books to this and as you can see Black Elk Speaks 14 copies that I talked about earlier the book club kits Mari Sandos, Cheyenne Autumn which is a very well known popular book by her we have 25 copies of that a lot of titles you're already going to be very familiar with like The Children's Blizzard and some funny and a lot of history and of course Death Zones and Darling Spy which was the 2014 2015 one book one Nebraska winner we still have many copies of that and so you can just scroll through the list and find out so if you're interested in doing something in conjunction with the 150th anniversary celebration at your library then this is a good place to start if you want to do a book club that's a great resource for people trying to do readings and that libraries they can't get their own like 10, 20 copies of something that's exactly right so I did want to point that out and then as just to familiarize you with the Nebraska 150 celebration it real easy any 150.org gets you to the Nebraska State Hood 150 website there's information about how it got started who the sesquicentennial commission is Friends Foundation who their staff is they have a whole page for events and programs and initiatives they have the statehood day celebration so you can find out what the latest is for the actual celebration they're doing a one book one state which is a program to provide free books about Willa Kafter and Chief Standing Bear to high school and elementary schools with corresponding curriculum I thought that was kind of a neat thing that is then to get to let's see are you trying to find the list on here? I was trying to get to the I think it's books or something like that so I apologize yeah it's books instead of books and it's not shown up there either so anyway let me get back to my power point because I know it's there books.org it's all one word I apologize for this folks you have to be precise Mary I thought the internet was supposed to be more forgiving yeah it depends on which which one you're using well it's like the catalog you can be really broad and really general but you're going to get a lot of results that is correct that is correct okay here we go I did find it wasn't quite as easy to get from the main Nebraska 150 page to this page but now that you know what the URL just use this just go directly and the main page so that you you know about who they are what their overview is who the selection committee was partners how to get in touch with them and then the next one over is the Nebraska books that were chosen an overview again their mission and selection criteria the featured books and I apologize I had it wrong I think I had it right the first time their featured books are April May and June of this year so they've already released the June selections and just to give you an idea of what that looks like the first one that they featured which is definitely a classic here in Nebraska is a lantern in her hand by Best Street or Aldridge and complete with the picture and a really nice synopsis and they have done a variety of books this one happens to be the Solomon Butcher as a photographer photographing the American dream again a very classic book here in Nebraska by a well-known photographer Pioneer Girl, Cycle of the West by John Nyhart so yes that's how they go about featuring now I wanted to go back to the main books page so that you can and by covering over Nebraska books you can see they have a list for all 150 Nebraska books and if you click here again Nebraska 150 books and I'm just going to open it this way it's just a simple PDF it's really easy to print off yes it is and and it is organized by genre first and gives you title author, publisher and this is where we figured out that a lot of the books on this list are from the University of Nebraska Press which obviously makes a lot of sense Place of Publication Copyright I think there's one other one but anyway yes lots of information so feel free to browse and then visit the Nebraska Library Commission page to try to if you're interested in just reading a book feel free to find it in the catalog or if you need a book club kit feel free to go to the book club page and browse what we have of both Nebraska Press books and the Nebraska 150 books a couple of other things I wanted to mention starting probably this fall here at the commission we're going to be doing a display we have a new books area as you come in the front door at the commission we have a new books display we've designated from here on out until the celebration that we're going to do a Nebraska Press and Nebraska 150 display it's mainly Nebraska 150 but because so many of the press books are included in that that'll be a main focus as well so if you're ever downtown and want to stop by at the commission and kind of browse through what we have then our library is open to the public yes it is yes our library is open from 8 to 5 Monday through Friday so if you're downtown and come into the commission feel free to stop in and browse and ask us questions we can take you back to the Nebraska Press collection so that you can browse back there as well the press collection we'll collection there than a lot of our other state agency documents government documents and it's certainly a lot more fun yeah I mean the titles as you're walking through we keep saying it's so amazing but it really is amazing did you want to talk about your blog that you're going to start doing yes actually I'm going to do that but one other thing I wanted to tell you again so you just know what a wide range of variety the press publishes as well as what we have here at the commission I have found books and you know like you saw that I mentioned before I found the book on ground squirrels but we also have burn books you know birds related to Nebraska or buy a Nebraska author sports especially football and baseball we have American and American West studies including the frontier world of Doc Holiday which actually is you know a very interesting book I kind of sped read through that one it was really interesting and one of the most fascinating series of books that we have here at the commission in the press collection is called first wings into space which is a series and we have almost all the series and it's it talks about the whole space program and there's probably I want to say there's about eight or ten books in the series now and every time we add a new one I'm just fascinated I've come across a couple of those as they've come to me and so librarians were always asked well you must read a lot when you're on the job and you guys all probably have been asked that so you must read a lot of times I probably shouldn't admit this but where a book comes across my desk and I will start flipping through it and I'll start reading sections and I did with one of these because it talked about astronauts who died before they had a chance to go into space who've been a part of the original Mercury and Gemini programs and in one of the other books this is not related was but I want to put a plug in because I loved it was smoke the donkey which was just recently published and that's such a fun book that's a really great book that was one where I did spend a lot more time reading than I should have and I'm not even the cataloger they only come to me after they've been catalogued and put into the clearing house collection but I get to shelve them so I'm kind of like Allison I do spend more time reading some of those than I should I think even more we get too many that are put on our to be read lists oh I'll want to read this one yeah exactly and then you just don't get to them all you have to sneak it in when you have a chance at work and that's what I say it's work related because this is part of our collection and you know the collection that's right I should know the collection because of moments like this where we have a chance to plug the collection and talk with patrons or you know whoever comes through the door other things that I wanted to mention you know I already did mention you know some of our well-known Nebraska authors but other Nebraska literature other fiction poetry you know we have Ted Couser and other authors that I wanted to mention were Minyon Everhart she considered the Agatha Christie of Nebraska you know for her mystery writers early 1930s you know it was her time period Rose Wilder Lane obviously well known not as much about Nebraska but some you know so definitely some relation there and then another well-known poet is William Clefcorn yeah so I wanted to be sure and mention those and as Allison mentioned earlier as a result of both the book talk that I did at Bethany Branch Library and the research that we've done for this presentation today I'm going to be starting a blog that will appear on the Nebraska Library Commission blog every or I guess I should say a regular blog post that is going to be on the Nebraska Library Commission blog and Allison and I are going to do this together so we're going to be switching off back and forth and we'll each pick titles that stand out to us and we will showcase one title probably once a week at the very least a couple of times a month depends on how much time we have but do be sure to check in when we post those so that you can see what the newest and latest and greatest is from the Nebraska press I think Mary's going to try and do some of the more recent titles and then I'm going to do some of the older titles that maybe you're not as familiar with those classics but I'm going to do the winter weeks which I'm fond of because it's set in Montana I like that they do the reissues of things because if you were saying they only started from when they first initiated this in 1973 and there's plenty of good literature from before that so it's nice when they reissue something and it can end up in the collection absolutely so be sure to check in and see what the latest is that we've decided and showcase and I think that's all we have for today does anybody have any questions? nobody asked anything during just Emily commenting her her experiences with it she's over at the UNL University of Nebraska law library moved on to academic if you have any questions go ahead and type them in if you want to anything you want to comment on if you've read any of these books know any of them let us know if you don't you guys know where to find us you know where we are at the commission and I'm sure yes Mary and Allison would be happy to answer any questions you have about any of the books or getting hold of them it doesn't look like anybody has anything urgent they're typing so I will mention one other thing about if you decide to request one of the books oh yeah how there are a couple of ways you can do this if you want to request something from a book club kit I'm just going to go to the Nebraska 150 list since we're talking about it and for example if you want to request this black out speaks it did link to the picture on Amazon and the summary so that you can read what the summary is about but if you want to actually request this kit you can click on the button and then fill out all of your information and just as a reminder this particular form is not for interlibrary loan this is strictly for book club kit request directly from the library commission so just fill out the form and then down at the bottom send and if you think you've made a mistake before you send you will start over click clear but once you're done feel free to send that to us that comes to us by email and we will book that you know depending on what the booking schedule is and certainly someone will be in contact with you very quickly about that now there's no cost for these there is no cost yes that's correct there is no cost for requesting a book club kit or anything from our collection the only cost to you would be once you receive it and are ready to send it back then it's up to you to pay the shipping costs but if you want to request a book from the main collection I'm going to use black elk speaks as another as you know just example just because it's we have our favorites and yes absolutely and now as you can see just from the basic list that popped up one of our copies is already checked out because of the red square that part so it's one of the older copies and you know I just realized I have the wrong year for the original publication of black elk speaks it goes back a lot further than I thought it did but we do have other copies we have a very much older edition and newer editions and I'm going to click on the 2004 but the easiest way to get to the full record is to click on details the full record comes up and then if you would like to request this book from us this is the button you choose to request loan this again comes to us by email but it has the title that you're requesting and fill out your information and then at the bottom send request and this helps us a lot because it makes all the information streamlined we know exactly what you want and we know exactly where to send it automatically pulls into the book and full is great yes it does yes we are very grateful for that what do they mean exactly and also too depending on which one you click on it is that specific edition right and that's important to you yeah exactly so anyway that's the easiest way to get either University of Nebraska press books or any of the books from or items from our collection you know just do a search click on the details and then do a request alone we just have some comments there's someone on the line Katherine Kelly is here from Lincoln City Library oh hi Katherine just saying thanks for sharing information on this wonderful Nebraska publishing research hurrah for UNP and happy 75th anniversary to University of Nebraska Press and they're featuring books on their website they're doing like they're picking out like their favorite 75 that they're doing in honor of separate of the whole separate of the whole 150 well and you know it's kind of like two people having birthdays you know really close to Christmas you know have their own celebration and you know I think that's a good idea so it happens to fall at the same time absolutely yes so feel free also to go to the University of Nebraska Press website to browse to you know get an even better idea of what they are all about and all of the hundreds and thousands of books you know that they publish and you know they have a new this month you know and you can see just from that you know what a wide range of books they have they have featured journals and bison books and just a great resource here in Nebraska that's available to us and there's ordering information here and they also have links to their blog yes which I found was that was where I found out about the whole they have they're doing like their 75 favorite titles or whatever exactly and here's the link for read our blog and and there you go 75 significant books yes exactly yes yes so that's a whole series this is the book that Allison was talking about earlier in the space flight series of fallen astronauts and I'll be honest I can't wait to read that one it was really interesting well and you know the space flight series you would think is would be kind of technical and you know hard to get through but it's they are all very well written and I've enjoyed you know browsing through them a lot you know since I discovered them but anyway that's our presentation for today and we appreciate you having us on the show Chris great yeah thank you very much guys yeah obviously we didn't any other urgent questions come in while you were explaining how you did it you just did the perfect job of getting everything out there for everyone so thank you everyone for attending someone did say thanks today and I'll see you for today's program yeah we're happy to do it of course you're always trying to share what we do all different things you do here at the library commission absolutely and of course we're going to be talking more here about the whole 150 absolutely this is the first time it's been mentioned on the show so far this year oh really okay okay that's commission related hadn't come up but I'm assuming we'll have more information as it's coming up to that what we're doing I'll have some people on the show about that so look ahead to those so that we'll wrap it up for today's show it is being recorded and we've posted to our website later this afternoon if YouTube cooperates with me you go ahead and type in ncompass live I'll bring you to the ncompass live website there we are luckily ncompass live nobody's called anything that so you can just google us and you find our sites and a whole bunch of other links related to us so you see our recordings and up here on the website you can also go to just ncompass live searching our site and right beneath our upcoming sessions are our archives this is our archives going all the way back when we first started the show which was in january 2009 so yes some of the information may be old and maybe you consider outdated but it's historical it is something that's going to go away it's there for whenever it took place it's important to know where you've come from in order to know where you're going and also too it's a great resource I remember something about being said on ncompass live and I need to go find more about that again it's a great resource so let's see I think last week we had last week's show recordings this is how this week will come up too the recording will link you out to the youtube video the presentation will be on our slideshare the ngress library commission uses slideshare for posting that and links will all be collected the couple three or four will be written as a press 150 pages and whatnot in our delicious account so that will all be there for you guys and when it's ready I'll let everyone know send you an email that is posted and ready for you to view so that will wrap that will be for today's show the next topic is creating a blended learning space in your library this is specifically about in school libraries K-12 Beth Caves who's at our ESU educational service unit 7 will be on to talk about Nebraska has a new just started last year 2015 blended learning initiative that they're doing in the schools and she's going to tell you how that's going on what's going on in the schools to create this type of classroom for the students out there so join us for that at any of our other upcoming shows you can see we've got our June dates up there there are five Wednesdays in June and I'm still waiting to confirm one so you will see there's just four listed but it'll be there when I get things figured out also Encompass Live is on facebook so if you are a big facebook user head over to our page there we'll link to it and give us a like I post, I announce when the shows are coming up, when the recording is ready as you can see here I did a reminder this morning to log in you can log in on the fly if you forget to pre-register for the show, doesn't matter we post the login link and you can just do that and we add someone to do that today actually so it happens almost every week look there we are, we're famous now so you'll see, you'll get updates to this just a couple of times a week it's that great just keeping people apprised of what's coming when the recordings are ready so if you are big on facebook do pop over there and give us a like other than that let me double check our questions we're good to go thank you very much everyone for tuning in thank you very much Alison and Mary this is great, thank you Chris check out everything in our collection alright that wraps up for today thank you very much thank you