 Good morning and welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. I am your host, Christa Burns, here at the Nebraska Library Commission. Encompass Live is the Commission's weekly online event. We're a webinar. We're a webcast. We're an online show, whatever you want to call us. We are here live every Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. Central Time. But if you're unable to join us on Wednesdays, that's fine. We also record all our sessions every week and post them to our website so you can watch them afterwards at a time when it's convenient for you. The show is free. The show and the recordings are free and open to anyone to watch. So you don't have to already have attended a live show to watch its recording. You can go in whenever you want to and just see our entire list there on our website and I'll show you at that website at the end of our session today. We do a mixture of things here. Presentations, interviews, mini training sessions, demos, basically anything library related. We put it on the show. We're pretty open that way. We also have, we sometimes have Nebraska Library Commission staff do presentations and sometimes we have guest speakers and today we have a mixture of that. Right next to me here is Sally Snyder who's our children's and youth services coordinator. Did I get it right? It's hard to remember. Anyway, and I'm just going to hand over to you Sally to introduce you guys here with us. We're going to talk about the Golden Sower Award which some of you may know of, some might be not. And I'll let you guys take it away. Next to me is Kathy Schultz who is the Golden Sower chair, committee chair and has been for a little while. I'm not going to say less or more. No, we don't count those years. Next to Kathy is Marsha Bradbury who is the historian for the Golden Sower Award. And I'm just going to let Kathy get started and we'll be talking back and forth and jumping in with comments and get some information because what we want to do is tell you about how the Golden Sower got started, how it works, how you can be involved. So go ahead Kathy. Right and I hope you, if you have questions I hope you'll let us know. Sure. We thought we'd start with the history of the award. It was initiated by Carl Hawkins Wendell and a D story at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln but it is currently sponsored by SKIP, the school children's and young people section of NLA. And it was named for the statue on top of the Capitol Building. So were. Right. The goal of the award, stimulate children's thinking, introduce different types of literature, encourage independent reading, increase library skills and also foster an appreciation for excellence in writing and illustrating. I had a variety of books. Right. I know I had somebody one time say, well, your goal is to recognize and promote Nebraska authors, right? And I said, well, no, not exactly. That's not really one of our goals. If we have Nebraska authors, we'd love to have them represented on our list. But that really is not the main goal of our list. There are three awards presented each year. The primary award for basically picture books can run through third grade. The intermediate category is approximately fourth through sixth grade. And the young adult is really more middle school than high school. We encourage you to have your students read whatever level they are is appropriate for them. And they're comfortable for them. Right. So if you have a third grader who's reading the intermediate books, that's great. If you've got somebody that's in middle school and wants to read intermediate because that's their reading level, that's great. Also, okay, we don't really care. See, the first award was presented in 1981. And there was only one category that year when they started. The intermediate. Right. It was the only category at that time. And two years later, they added the primary award. And you can see the number of votes doubled that year. Right. And in 1993, they added the young adult. Yeah. And currently, look at the votes have grown. This last year, we had over $70,000. Wow. That's great. Yeah. And about 71,000 voters. Right. And all schools and libraries in Nebraska may submit votes. There's no registration required to participate. We don't charge any fees. All the information. We'll talk about our website at the end. But all the information you need is right there. Basically, to participate, you just need to provide copies of the books. Of the nominated books in each level. Now, if a public library wants to collect votes from kids, shouldn't they contact their school? Because the kids can only vote once. That's right. Either in a school program or... I was in a public library setting and I operated on the honor system. We had ballots available and said, if you do not vote in your school, you are welcome to vote here. And I never had anybody abuse it, I don't think. But that way, you also open it up for children who are homeschooled. That's a good point. Oh, yeah. So I think that is great. And the ballots are all submitted. I mean, your vote totals are all submitted online. So it's very easy to do. And when students or libraries submit their votes, they should submit the total number of votes for every book. Not just the book that is one in their particular setting. It's important that we have vote totals for each nominee. Because my school might vote a lot for one book and another school might be voting for a different book. So even if I have one kid in my school that voted for that other book, it can make a right every every vote counts. And I know as a school librarian, I always encourage students to vote to read, read the nominees and vote. And then I always stress how important their vote is, you know, in the whole scheme of all nominees, not just their favorite book, it's important that we know how many votes we get for each each book. And it's important. I think kids embrace that. Right. There's there are 10 nominees on each list each year. But students don't have to read all 10. They only have to read at least four of the nominees from one list. So and these you can read them to the students too. Right. They can be read or heard. Right. So if a student takes home one of the primary nominees and say cuddles up with mom or dad or whoever they're with, at the end of the day or before they go to bed and they're reading this wonderful story, that counts. They can count that as one as one book. I know a lot of times teachers or the librarians in school will go to the whole class and that counts. And all the votes need to be submitted online by April 15, which should be an easy date for everyone to remember. Already stuck in our brains for some reason. I've done my taxes. What else was I supposed to say? Right. And then all the votes from across the state are tabulated and the winners are announced May 1. And I know everyone's always eager to find out if the vote if the book I voted for one. And then the winning authors and illustrators are invited to attend the NLA and SLA all conference to receive their awards. We were so fortunate to have two of our winners attend a couple of weeks ago. And that was wonderful. Yeah, it's it's really it's really neat. And they always express that this type of an award is especially meaningful to them because it's the children they were writing for that selected their book to win. And our author and illustrator who are unable to come. They were very willing to send us pictures and videos of them accepting the award. That was that was very nice picture them holding their plaque with a big smile on their face or showing their face. Those go up on. I know we're going to go to the webpage later. Those are posted on the web as well. Right. Sometimes people wonder how titles actually get on the nominee list, right? And teachers, librarians, students, parents from all over the state are welcome to submit titles that they feel should be considered for the nominee list. We'll go over the criteria in just a minute. But one thing I have had publishers contact me and say, Can I submit my book? And I said, Well, you can submit it to the committee. And then we will read it and decide or somebody in the state of Nebraska has to actually nominate it. The publisher can't put it directly onto that list. And then all these all these titles, which it could be 50 to 100 books per category are said, the list is given to volunteer readers across the state. And they try to read as many of the books as they can. And it's in it's a very group of people we've got parents and teachers librarians. Yeah, reading these nominated books, and the list is accumulating as we speak. So right, we are accepting nominees now for to read for future list, future list. These are some of the criteria for nominating the book are for the information that elementary students can nominate titles for the list that they will be reading for obviously. But I think one of the most important ones that fourth one down there the person is nominating the title must read the book. That doesn't mean you read a review of the book. Or Sally said it was good. So I'm going to nominate it. I did read the book. If she read the book, right. Because sometimes it kind of amazes me we'll get people that submit titles. And the book hasn't even been published yet. And I think, Okay, did you get a review copy maybe that nobody else has seen. But I thought that's interesting. And I know people are enthusiastic about adding either a favorite author or type of work that they love a genre and they get a special John get ahead of themselves. But yes, when you really have practically a year, right, and nominated, right, then hopefully you have some time in that. Yeah. And we asked that, you know, if students want to submit titles that they go through their teacher or our parent, so they can double check to make sure the book actually fits the criteria. Here's the criteria that nominated titles should exhibit literary and or artistic merit. Eligible titles have to been published within the last two years. That means right now we are accepting suggestions of books that have a copyright of 2015 or 2016. And the list will go out to our readers about March. And then they have till the end of July to get as many as possible read. Yeah. With a but yeah, we want the list to have as current, you know, and new books as possible, because we're looking for books now for the 2017-18 school year. So by the time these lists are actually out and the kids are reading them, the books are going to be several years old. So we don't want them to be going out of print either. So and something make I don't know if I should tell them this or not. But if you volunteer to be on one of the committees for reading the books, they ask that you join Goodreads. Yes, you can see right now what's been nominated so far. So you can start reading now. You can see even though the full complete Now We're Done list won't be sent out. I'm glad you mentioned that. I'm reading right now. Yes. Goodreads has also made it possible for all of our readers to make comments after they read the book. Interact with each other and have a virtual discussion of the book online before the cutoff in the summertime. Yeah. And that's nice too. Because people bring up things that I hadn't thought of and go, Well, you know, that is a problem with that book that hasn't occurred to me. Right. Or I'm going to read that book. Does that sound great? Yes. Great. Put that one on my list. Right. Nominated titles should reflect an equitable consideration for culturally diverse society. We look for books across the board. We want to represent everyone in the state. We want to represent you know, books for boys, books for girls. Right. Hit the genres that, you know, you don't want a list of 10 dog stories, even though those are really wonderful. We want something that, you know, we want cats in there too. Yeah. We want, we want things we know we don't all like the same kind of books. Our kids are that way too. We want something, you know, they don't all want to read science fiction necessarily. But even though you and I enjoy those too. And something that the committee or I don't know what to call our group of readers who get together for a meeting did this last meeting for not this year's list, but the next year's list which I'm really excited about is that there's a graphic novel on one of the lists. Sure. And this is a first for the spread. And I think it's great. I do too. Oh, it's really important to talk about how we need to keep up with what kids are reading with what they're interested in. And then it's very important that the content must be age appropriate for the readers of the category that is nominated for. There are wonderful young adult books that when I'm reading that list, I try to keep in mind this is aimed at sixth through ninth graders. Would I want to hand this to a sixth grader? Or, you know, maybe it's more appropriate for 10th and 11th graders. So we try to keep that in mind as we're reading these books. If it's a nonfiction title, you know, years ago, well, we had a rule, a criteria that said nonfiction wasn't eligible. But, you know, then you get so, you know, sometimes the line between fiction and nonfiction is kind of blurred. And somebody said, Well, this has poetry in it. That's nonfiction. We can't nominate it. So we change that. I'm so glad. Yeah, we wanted to, frankly, exhibit it. We've got, we've had some good biographies that have been nominated. One of our winners, Nubs, was a nonfiction book about a dog. About a dog and his owner. Yeah, so I mean, but it needs to be something that you would want to sit down and read aloud to a child, not just a more of a textbook type nonfiction. Sure. So that's kind of that narrative, that narrative style of writing. Right. So you need to think about that as you're reading the books, too. We try to, you know, there are so many series books. And we try not to nominate like the second or the third one, the series where if the child has never seen the others and picks it up and they're going, I don't understand what's going on here. So we try to take the first one. And it should be self-contained. You don't want a cliffhanger ending. You know, we do want the kids, if they're like it, to go on and read the others. But they should be able to read that book and have a satisfying conclusion and say, if, you know, I like that book, I don't have to read the others if I don't want to. Sure. And very important that they're in print, the time of nomination, we talked about that. Sure. And Caldecott and Newbury Award winners are not eligible, but the honor books. I'm a song. Yeah. Winners are not. They're lots of recognition. And hopefully the kids are reading. The kids are reading, hopefully reading those too. Right. The authors and illustrators should be living in the United States at the time of nomination. Somebody asked me why that rule was put in there. And I said probably because it would be very hard to get them to come and accept their award if they lived in Australia or someplace. England or France. And only one title that you can't have. Some of these authors are very prolific. Yes. And you can't have like two picture books by the same author on the list at the same time. In consecutive years. So they could be nominated for the readers list where they're reading 50 or more books. Oh, exactly. Sharon mentioned that. That often happens. But then when the decision-making comes to put it on the table. Right. Which one do we like better if they've got two on the reading list. Right. And we can roll titles over on that readers list to the next year. As long as they're not too old. Yeah. As long as it's not too old. And as long as the committee or the group feels it has enough merit on its own. Right. You know. And the authors and illustrators can be nominated multiple times but that same book cannot end up on the list more than once. More than once. Some of our prolific authors are. Oh, Peg Carrot. And Mary Downing-Hon. Mary Downing-Hon. And Carl Duker. I think Mary Downing-Hon I think holds the record. Yes. She's won it five times at last. Well, I was thinking maybe Joan Burnie. Was it Joan Burnie? I wrote Humphrey. Oh, Humphrey. No. And it's pretty amazing because she's won that over, I mean her first award is back in the early 90s. Right. So this is not the same students reading. Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. Students. And that makes it still so. She's such a delightful individual. Right. Anyone. Right. And then if they do win the award and they have a book on next year, students can read it and count it as one of their four but they can't vote before. Because we don't want this to be a popularity contest. You know, I really like the other books. I'm going to vote for that author again. It's, you know, which is kind of, kind of hard but the kids can read it and still enjoy that wonderful book. It's just talented. It's one of the four. Right. I think that's great. Because by then the list has been finalized and sure we're not going to eliminate them and put something different on them. If you are interested in being a volunteer reader, yeah, this is the people to contact. Primary and intermediate would be Shauna Lindner and Cardi and young adult is Jill Ann. So just send these ladies an email and say I would like to be a reader and they will give you all the information on Goodreads and get all the information to you. They would have to be invited to be on Goodreads. The groups on Goodreads are the three different levels for each a different group and you have to be invited to join the group. That way nobody from the outside can sway a little bit. Which is good. But everybody's encouraged to express their opinion. Sure. In a polite and positive way. Of course, Sally. We're all polite and positive. Absolutely. And if you have any questions you can contact. We can always send questions to Sally and she will see that it gets to the right to the right person. So Sally's a good central contact. Yeah, if you have any questions. Our contact information is always up on the web page. And there is our golden sore web address. Very easy to remember. And you'll be able to find lots of information for adults working with the program. The list and the link for voting. The winners, the nominees. All the information. All the information. Sure. And then we have a golden sore awards store where you can purchase merchandise to help promote the program in your school. If you're interested. We do have a manual every year that's prepared. And I don't know how to get that on them. No, probably not. You're probably not. Okay. All right. Here you go. Tell me if this works. Okay. Oh, it's kind of dark. You can see it but it's a little dark. Yeah. And it has three little punches so you can put it in your notebook. In your notebook. And it is primary. It's all three levels. It has primary through young adult in here. And it's a wealth of ideas. Information about the author's activities that you can do with each of the books. Internet links, websites that you can go to that will include information that kind of ties in with the theme of the book. And that's put together by volunteers as well. This is put together by a wonderful group of volunteers. Anybody can volunteer to submit ideas. Teachers, librarians are very good hopeful submitting ideas for this. It's a wealth of ideas. And you don't have to reinvent the wheel because we've done it for you. And then our virtual museum is where we have put up pictures and letters and all sorts of stuff from our winners in the past. Right. Right. Pictures then with their awards. Sometimes we've been able to include a transcript of their acceptance speech or the letter that they sent thanking the students for voting. Lots of fun information there. Yeah. And that's something you could show the students that you wanted to share. Oh, yes. At your school or at your public library. Do we still do the artwork? We have in past years. I don't think there's any up right now. We don't have any. In some years we have had students submit artwork for the winners. Right. Right. Okay. So now we want to go to the webpage. How do we do that here? Down. Oh, I see it. There it is. That one. There you go. The Golden Soil webpage. I have a little caveat here. We have had some problems with updating. And so some of the current information is not available. And I'm sorry for that. I'm sorry if it's confused people. We are in the process. I think the rest of the library association is moving to a new server platform. I don't know what the terminal is. A new geostand, a new platform at the same time for the website, for the entire website, all the sections, all the round tables. Right. And this is part of that. And it's having some hiccups. Right. Yeah. We will hopefully get it up and ready to go. Let me show you. Let's see. The other one. Oh, yeah. There. We have a temporary site that's here where you can find the list of 2016-17 nominees which a lot of people have been looking for. We try to have this available by the 1st of September, the year before these books will be read by the students so that you have a chance to get the books purchased and in your library and be all ready to go. So we have that linked on here and also the order form for the store. Oh, great. With the prices, there's the gold store manual and we have stickers that you can use to label the books in your library to help the students find them. There's a rubber stamp. We can stamp the information inside the cover of the book. And then other things. The post-it notes are very popular with the Peter Reynolds. Oh, the little sewer. Yeah. The little sewer. And then we have bookmarks. Yes, that. With these are created using artwork that has been donated by the winning illustrator. For the for the primary. Right. So this new one, Creepy Carrots, is really a cute one. It's basically it's the cover of the book but it's printed on it's like a postcard size and it's printed on orange color stock. It's like carrots. The even monsters need haircuts. We had a picture donated for that one that was last year's winner. Right. And Titanic Cat from 2011 and the Secret Science Project one from 2010 that are still available. And some years we don't always get artwork submitted so that could be why there's a gap. Right. Most illustrators are very willing. But there's there are other things I know that people use as little incentives for their students. You know, I've heard people say well if they read so many they they earn something. The bookmarks are very inexpensive as you can see so you could probably get enough for all your students. You know, give them one when they vote or whatever. You know. That's a great idea. And I love the mug. I mean it's a nice big sturdy mug. Probably don't buy loads for your students but I'm sure you'll have one. I don't know. You should. You like it. And this little pin is really nice. It's very inexpensive. It's a neat little pal pin. It's a little Peter Sower. So I'm glad that if you go to the Nebraska Library site this should be available for these two most current things that we want people to be able to access. And for those of you out there whenever we do shows here in EncompassLive I collect any websites and those are provided to you afterwards as well. So the archive page goes up for this recording that relates to both the main Golden Sower page and this one that has the up-to-date information so people can jump in. Okay, let's go back here. I want to show you some of the things on the website. Let's go to the virtual museum. That's fun. So we have not been able to update it and get 15 winners on. But for example Matthew McGelegate, that was so much fun last year. He was not able to attend the conference in person but he did a Skype virtual visit with us. And we've done that a couple of times. And he was... Isn't that neat? That was the picture he sent us. But we had so much fun with him because we could actually interact with him sort of like he was there, you know. And he was sitting in his office slash studio at home talking to us and the door behind him opened and someone, I don't know if it was his wife or what, came in and a monster cost him behind. And just as that he appeared, we lost our connection. I don't think he did that on purpose. We connected again and I said we were really worried about you. The monster got you. But yeah, we had a wonderful visit with him. He did a fantastic Skype visit. And you know some of these authors and illustrators might be interested in doing something like that with you and your students and your students. It's really a lot of fun for the kids to actually see the author. And talk about who made that book? Where did it come from? And Marie Lu was our young adult winner last year and was not able to attend. But she sent this picture and there is also a video clip of her accepting award thanking the students. So this is something I hope you'll show your students. Let's see, it goes all the way back. It goes clear back, I think. Oh, yeah. I think we have to, there's the 20th anniversary celebration. And it keeps going. There's the 10th. Yep, it goes back to the very early ones. Now some of these, the Virtual Museum did not begin in 1981, obviously. So we had to go back and kind of put some of this together. Yeah. And it was not necessarily easy to find the information we needed. But we found a picture of him from a newspaper article that was printed. And some people did have pictures that they could share with us. So it's really, it's really kind of fun. And then here you can go to the Lincoln Journal Star article that was about him accepting his award. So I think this is a lot of fun to show your students. Okay, you've got information about the award. Here's the current, well it will be. Yeah, yeah. See these were the ones from this last year. And we have not been able to put up this year yet. But this was, this is where you will find it eventually. If you go to the winners you can get a list. Complete list. All the links for each of the levels. There's the young adult list. And if you go here there is a PDF document that lists not only the winners but also the nominees. The runners up and all the books that were nominated. Now you can see obviously when they started there were more than 10 books. They started out with 15 I think. And then it, they, that's a lot of books to read. And they decided to cut it back. And I'm thinking it was maybe in about 93 or so when the young adult was added they cut it back to 10. But if you're curious about if a book was ever nominated or if it was. As the historian that is so valuable to me. Because as I go through the archives I can go back and say oh this one, that one. Now here's a link to the store where you will actually have pictures of some of the merchandise that we have for sale. Here's the rubber stamp and the little pin. The unfortunately is that we have not been able to update it. So the new bookmark will not be on here. The new manual is not pictured. And the new price list is not on here either. I'm thinking because of the cost of postage some of the prices did go up. But not. It's yeah, not a lot. But and then Nugget Online is where you can go to find all the information, find a link to voting. Here's the all the information we've talked about today basically. The history. The history. And tips on establishing your program. How to submit your reader's votes. The voting procedures. You just hopefully you can find all the answers you need here. Right here. This is by the internet is so wonderful. We used to have to try to mail out paper. Yes. Oh my goodness. We stopped that in year 2000. Thank goodness. Oh yeah. We decided this was the better way to go. Well in trying to maintain a list of who to mail it to. Oh yeah. Because people's jobs change. And you have no way to contact new people. So hopefully everything you need to know is available on this site. Let me see. Where's the okay. Here's the information about the sculpture on the building. Right. And we also have contact information for members of the committee. If you have a question you're not finding the answer. Here's the email addresses to use. For me. Exactly. They can always find you right Sally. Informational Sally. She doesn't know the answer. She knows who to ask. Exactly. That's a good reference librarian right. I'll just email Kathy about this. Yeah. She'll reply right away. Unless she's on vacation. Well yeah sometimes it I do want vacation. Yeah sometimes. I think you should. It's one of the perks of being in time. Can you think of something else Sally. That we should talk about. Does anybody have any questions while we're here. If you have any questions or comments or anything you want to thoughts about the award. Type me to the questions section of your go-to webinar interface and monitoring that here on laptop. We can grab those questions for you. So far nobody has anything while you're chatting. They've been listening hard. They're contemplating what can we do. I like how you say. The page we were done. Sorry. About GSA. Right there. How it was decided. Or why. How. Sorry. The golden soar from the soar on the capital and I don't know what. Carl Wendell and the other lady came up with that. I think they must have. They must have because that is the symbol of our state. Right. Being an agricultural state. It's everything I have seen in the case that that was probably the direction they were thinking anyway. Right. Now let's see. I think. Do they know where was I read. Maybe it's probably in the manual. Ha ha. Oh my. Yes. He says the soar was chosen as the symbol of Nebraska's children's choice literary ward. Because the soar was seen as a symbol of the state as a major agricultural state. He's not merely see sowing seeds of grain but something greater. He's the symbol of the intrinsic principles of living. A sower of the seeds of life that will bring into being a finer life for the future. And that's why they chose this because they want the golden soar ward sow the seeds which will help develop this appreciation for excellence in writing and beauty and literature literature and kids and children's lives. So you know if you start start young hopefully they'll keep reading in your adults. Sure. And to do better in school one of the best things you can do is read. And pick something you enjoy and read it. And go over and slowly get better. For Yeah we had you can see here how the number of votes. We put this together a number years ago because I think it came about because of an email I had from somebody in another state who was doing a graduate class and was doing research on state book awards and she was wondering about the voting and all this information. So we went back and yes found all these numbers. Okay now we've done this once we don't want to have to do this again. Let's put it on our website. That's a good story and who has all that information. But you know somebody else may want this information and we don't want to have to do this again. But you can see here's where the first award the intermediate award in 81 and then 83 was when the picture before was added and then 93 when the young adult. And it's fun to go back and and just see the progression. Yeah and we're so excited. We always we love to have those kids voting, reading and voting, having their schools and libraries get involved. And I love the idea that kids can also nominate books and I'm hoping that teachers and librarians and parents are talking to their kids about these books and then when you read something that you think would be wonderful if this you know it's a criteria. Right. There's a link on the web page where it tells them where to send the nominees these books or they can use those email address that we had listed for Shauna Lendner and Jill Anas to send their nominees to. So it's hopefully an easy process. I know any web page can get confusing. If you're not seeing what you need I hope you'll email me or somebody else in the committee and ask questions. Sure. It's got a lot it's got a lot of information in there though. Right. Especially with the criteria and how they do how you do the voting and how the books are chosen. I think it's important to have it up. There's people know where all this game. Not all states or awards are operated the same way. No all states though I believe have awards. Yeah I think all 50 states have a children's choice. Yeah they all have an award or something like that. They don't necessarily all operate the same way. No I mean some states you might be able to nominate Charlotte's Web. You know yeah you know you know it's an older title and all this but we try to keep it current. This is going to get new new new books into and well it helps the public libraries you know they're able to get the current titles everything's in print should be in print anyway. I don't know how quickly things go out of print. Same way with schools you know they like to know ahead of time so in their ordering process you know they can make sure those books are available for kids. So as far as you know all along the line has it been recent books that's been put on the awards list from the beginning or do we know that? Oh from way back in 81. Yes. I believe so I think I believe they used to say three years and we cut it down because otherwise it seemed like the list we're getting very long to select from. Plus some of these books were getting older and then we say yeah that's a really good book but we contact the publisher and they said well you know that was going out of print and we thought well there's not enough copies for everybody to to buy for their library and we don't want that to happen. And the manual contains lots of good black line masters that they can use schools and libraries can use to print bookmarks. Kids can keep track of the books they read. Oh like this one somebody prepared a word search puzzle to go with it. The answers in there. That's good. Always good. Yeah I think that's always good. Here's a crossword puzzle. So there's a lot of different activities depending on the age of the student book is aimed at too. So you can make that a really sizeable size part of a curriculum or something not just go and do this voting thing but let's actually do something related to it while we're in class. As a school librarian I use this a lot with kids and just developing lessons. Right they'll have they're grading them into other books by the same author and then companion books books that if you like this one you might find some other dog stories you know. Yes right it might have vocabulary words it might have information about the author and what I really like is that we've also included right each year before we when we the books are nominated and make the list we send the authors and illustrators a little questionnaire and if they return the questionnaire we include that in the manual also with their answers on which what's the favorite book that you've illustrated or what was your favorite book when you were kid have you ever visited Nebraska which you know all these questions tell us about a time you got in trouble as a kid I love that one. These are really fun to read and if they if they send up something that's handwritten we'll have to scan that and include that also so a lot of you know any more we get a lot of this by email so it is typed up but I really enjoy reading those and they we always ask them if the students want to contact you how would they do that and sometimes they'll put an email address in there and the students can email them directly. A lot of times they do have to go through the publisher right but it's nice when they can directly contact that author that's a lot. Many times a lot of these children's authors are very welcoming to that. They'll have their home address they'll have their email address whatever and most of us I've talked to I think you try to respond. I just follow them as best I can. Well no questions came in while we were chatting. I guess you've covered everything. Or everybody wants to read the manual and figure out what they do. I hope they have the manuals. I do too if not give one to the school. Right because it's a very easy way to integrate this. Integrated into the curriculum or programming. Well that's that was another thing we added in here. Let's see which page. There's a list of the activities. Oh yeah general activities on voting and participation certificates you can print off and use and also there's Battle of the Books questions to go with the books and then we also included pages that show how the Gonzo program aligns with the Nebraska academic standards. Oh nice. So if you know if your principal say why are you doing this you can say well it fits. You know yeah help you figure out how it fits. Exactly. Thank you so much for coming in. We always enjoy promoting the Golden Sower Award. It's a great thing for kids. And if my mailbox gets full of questions I'm just going to forward them. Sure. I hope you will. But maybe we've answered all their questions. Well hopefully yeah. Of course the website's a great resource. Hopefully we can get it. Yeah it shouldn't be too much longer. I've got my fingers crossed. They're working on it. I'm glad we have that link now so they can access the new list for next school year and the order blank. A little bit of pricing has changed and so they right. And the new bookmark and the new manual in there. People are saying well don't you have a manual this year. All right. Thank you. I'm going to give you the mouse. So yes thank you very much Kathy and Marcia and Sally of course. That will wrap it up for this week's show. We did record as usual. We are recording recording. So the recordings will be available on our web page which I can show you right here. As you can see if you just Google and Compass Live. We're like the only thing that comes up so far. Nobody's ever named anything else this. But this is our main website here where you can our recordings will be available right here under our archived and Compass Live sessions link. We post. This is previous session. This just has a recording and a link to website but if there yes we will also have the PowerPoint presentation. I'll post as well. I'll grab that from Sally. So well is that available up there. We'll have a link to this recording and any of the websites the Golden Soar main page and the one that's that kind of intermediate most up-to-date stuff that you might need. We'll all be available there. Probably later this afternoon takes turns and how long it takes to get a process and everything done. It's all manually done by me. So yeah thank you everyone for coming this morning. Thank you everyone for attending and hope you'll join us for our next show. Next week our topic is the upcoming Nebraska Library internship grant program. We've done grants here for internships for quite a few years and there was a sort short break but now we're back again with that. So if you're interested we're going to have our staff here Joanne and Mary Jo who run that program along with a couple of people from different libraries who have done this in the past. They can tell you about how they use the internship grant program. So you're thinking about getting someone high school college, get someone who wants to get into libraries and interested in it. This would be a good way to get some funding to help have them come and work at your library for a while. So please do sign up for that or any of our other upcoming shows are listed here on the website. I'm always adding new ones as they're scheduled. Also we are on Facebook so if you're a big Facebook user you can go right up here and click on our Encompass Live Facebook page. I post notifications of when a new show is coming up, when the recordings are available, reminders of the upcoming show. So if you like us there you'll have all of that information as well. There it is. I think I saw that it was on, I think there was a link on the web page. Yeah your web page had one to that. Not this one but the other one. It's on the same, it's just a different tab on the same one. No I don't think it's gone now. Oh I might have taken it over. There you go. You got it. There it is. Go to Facebook, like everything. And there you got information about the new winners, the winners talking about what they're doing, how they're going to be at the NLA conference that we just had last month. We're still the same month. It's been a hectic month, hasn't it? It's been a month. So let's wrap it up for today then. Thank you everyone and we'll see you next time on Income is Live. Thank you.