 Good morning and welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. I am your host, Krista Porter here at the Nebraska Library Commission. Encompass Live is the Commission's weekly webinar series where we cover a variety of topics and activities that may be of interest to libraries. The show is broadcast live on Wednesday mornings at 10 a.m. central time. But if you're unable to join us on Wednesdays, that's fine. We do record the show and it is posted to our website afterwards. And I will show you at the end of today's show where you can access all those archived recordings. Both of the live show and the archives are free and open to anyone to watch. So please do share with your friends, family, neighbors, colleagues, anyone you think may be interested in any of the shows that we have on. We do do a mixture of things here on Encompass Live, book reviews, interviews, mini-training sessions, demos of services and products. Basically anything that we think libraries may be interested in. We are the Nebraska Library Commission and we are the state agency for all libraries in the state. So we have things for all libraries. We're not a public library commission. So public, academic, K-12, museums, correctional facilities, historical sites. We've had anything and everything on the show over its history. So there should be something for everyone somewhere either in our upcoming shows or in our archives. We do have some sessions that we have Nebraska Library Commission staff present on. Things and services and programs that we're doing here through the commission. But we also do bring on guest speakers. And as we have this morning as you can see on the screen, Katie Murtha is from Lincoln City Libraries. Now are you specifically based at Ben and Martin Public Library? I'm a librarian there. I mainly do adult services. So that's one right down downtown Lincoln. And she is the also doing that the coordinator organizer. Program coordinator for the one vocal Lincoln. And we're going to talk about that this morning. Before we do jump to that, I just want to make one comment. As anyone who is maybe a regular to our show will notice we do not have a camera showing this morning. And this is just for one who attending and anyone who watches the archive. We are having technical difficulties with our webcam since we had an update to our computers done over the weekend. It's not recognizing it. So sorry, no camera view to today's show. But hopefully next week we will be back and get it all fixed and ready for that. So I will just hand over you Katie to take it away and tell us all about what's going on this year was one book one Lincoln. There you go. Now you should be able to there you go. Okay, so this is our 17th year of having a one book one Lincoln program. And what we're doing is encouraging all adults in Lincoln and Lancaster County to read the same book and talk or read it and think about the themes and have discussions. So we want to want people reading. We want them engaging with each other. We want them communicating. And so what we strive to do is create discussion experiences that people can participate not only through reading but through our programming as well. So in 1998 Seattle had a very successful program called what if all Seattle read the same book. And one of the longer title originally I'm glad that it's been a little short condense. So that's kind of where the origins of these community-wide reading programs really began and in Lincoln ours started in 2002. And so we had a lot of co-sponsors at the time one of our largest co-sponsors was the Lincoln Journal Star our local newspaper. Over the years it's kind of our sponsors have kind of drifted away and it's really just put on now by the library. But it's kind of the same features where we're nominating. We have a nominating process for titles. Selecting the community gets to read and vote and then we're offering programs and discussion opportunities. So for us it's a really a year long program. We start with cutting off nominations in January for that current year. Our steering committee usually meets sometime late December beginning of January. Our selection committee meets in February and March. The programming committee starts meeting in April. Our finalists are announced to the public on Memorial Day. And then we have community reading and voting through the end of July. We announce a winner on Labor Day. And then we offer special programs in the fall usually September, October time frame. And we also have book club discussions where staff will come out to local book clubs. And that goes on throughout the year. It's interesting that this is a program that so that the program for 2018 it's not in January. You know a book you're reading there's others like lead up to it of having multiple books for the community to really kind of read to figure out what they might want to be discussing. Or well and we'll kind of talk about each of these different committees and how they all work and how the program works. But just you know an overall view here is this is you know we have something going almost throughout the entire year regarding this program. So in terms of nominations we encourage people to nominate as soon as they read a good book. As soon as they've read something that they really enjoyed and want to recommend to another person. So we have nominations you can do on our website year round. And then in the beginning of January we do a final push for that year. And we have paper ballots in all the libraries. And just really recommend to people you know if you've read something please nominate it because it can't be considered if it's not nominated. And at the end of January we cut off the nominations for the current year's program. That was kind of interesting this year. We had a book that was nominated and when I went to pull it for our selection committee we hadn't even received it in the library. It was that new so I just I just moved it to next year's. I put it in the next year's category. We'll get it next year but if you can't get the book you can't actually add it. Have it be added to the list. Somebody had read it and really liked it. So yeah and and it's all kinds of you know we have older books, classics and there's not you know there's nothing that those are any requirements for what the book needs to be. We do have some format requirements and we'll kind of talk a little bit about that in a minute. But once once the nominations are cut off then then it goes to the next process. So sometime in late December or early January we have our steering committee meet. And so our steering committee is made up of our library director, our head of technical services. The usually the chairman of the selection committee is there. My boss who's a library coordinator and is in charge of two different library branches. She's she's there. I'm there. Sometimes we have other other members that have been on the the selection committee for a while. But what we really do is we look at what was successful last year. What do we want to change? So this program format has pretty much stayed the same the entire 17 years. But we have changed things here and there. Several years ago it started out with like five possible titles. I remember these be more and you know as kind of our funding kind of dried up a little bit. We kind of shrunk it down so now it's only the top three is what people get to vote on. For a while there we were only the selection committee was actually selecting a winner and public the public wasn't voting on it. They kind of did that because it's really hard to get programming done in a timely manner. Like to get the program set up related to the titles. I took over the program in 2016 and that was one of the things I heard the most from the community is that they really were upset about not being able to vote. So that was something I brought to the steering committee and said I think we really need to reestablish voting. And so last year it was reestablished and it was so it was so it kind of has sometimes it has been and sometimes then it wasn't I think it went through about a three three or four year period where the selection committee was actually selecting the winner. And last year our selection committee's top choice was not the top choice of the community. So I'm really glad that we're back to voting again because it really does. I think it gives people an incentive to read all three books. And it gives people a choice when we'll talk a little bit about the selection committee but I've always been told people you could it's roughly about 18 to 20 people you could come up with 18 or 20 people different people and get maybe three different choices. So so that's something that our steering committee looks at. We look at recommended changes. One of the things I did last year we had book talks in the fall because our book talk season runs from September to May and so they were doing book talks in the fall because they didn't want the titles anything related to the titles released to the public before the announcement and the end of May and I thought well that's kind of silly because book talks are all about promoting books and so we did a sneak peek at the top 10. Didn't tell which ones were going to be the top three but that was really popular. We had two book talk groups one at Gear Branch Library and one at Bethany Branch Library and I did a sneak peek for those and we had really good turnouts and people were very interested and they had a chance to take home a book. They didn't know if it was going to be one of the top three but they had a chance to take home a book before it was announced to the public and then the final thing our steering committee does is we finalize our selection committee members so we have people rotate on and off the selection committee there's different openings every year and so we we need to get usually we shoot for about 18 people but I'll talk a little bit more about the selection committee and their job. So in terms of what what actually makes the cut we we get this large number of nominations if an item doesn't matter how many times an item is nominated so it could be nominated you know 12 times it can be nominated once we'll still give it the same look but when we take that initial list we send it to our technical services department and they go through and they look and see can we get these books and you know they're looking for things that are out of print or things that are difficult to purchase but we do require certain formats so we absolutely have to have just regular print and large print sure and we need to have an audiobook version of it. Usually we purchase for our adult collection audiobooks on compact disc. More recently we're looking for downloadable ebooks in e-audio books and we have two vendors Overdrive and Hoopla so if we can find it through either one of those it's not I would say it's not as essential that we get the downloadable versions but more and more people read that way or listen that way so it's it's not necessarily required yet but it's something that is looked at and if we can't get it that way it might become a reason that it gets bumped off the list that actually goes to the selection committee because we'll probably just based on formats alone we'll probably knock off about 50 to 60 books off of the nomination list. How many titles do you usually get nominated to start with? Well it really depends you know we found if we do once we opened up to year-round nominations we've got a lot more um so this this year we actually had quite a few so it was close to somewhere close to 200 I think with the initial list right that's what we're gonna start with and then and that got pared down so what the selection committee actually got was about 150 a little over 150 books to look at that you could actually even get yeah and so as far as our committee members like I said that the ideal amount is about 18 people if you get less you tend to have really strong voices that kind of dominate if you get more people then it gets to be too cumbersome with too many people and too many opinions but we usually ask people to be on the committee for about three years you can certainly get off of it if you want to get off of it but most people who get on it it's really a fun committee to be on and most people are really sad when they're three years old and they have to and they ask how long do I have to wait before I can get on it yeah I can't um so just in terms of what they have to do um we're we're reading basically is is and just kind of giving judgments um giving your opinions uh should this book be moved forward should should be kind of eliminated um and then I also kind of asked some of the members to come to our book discussions because I think it's important that the members actually meet our our community and have an idea of um who you know who were who were choosing books for so in terms of getting involved um I usually ask you know it's anybody who lives in Lincoln or Lancaster County um we do try to get um a lot of minority voices which is a little bit of a challenge for us in Lincoln um and we're also trying to get an age range so when we're when we're kind of selecting the final committee members we're looking at you know do we have some younger people do we you know have some men do we have people that are from um minority groups that can you know voice kind of their opinions too so it's kind of we're just kind of looking to see in general I this past year I had a lot more people who wanted to be on the committee than I had open positions um sometimes it goes the other way sometimes you're kind of desperate for people you know please please be you know recruiting people to be on it um but I I go out to a lot of book discussions um I meet with community groups and do presentations so every time I talk about one book one link and I always ask if there's anybody who wants to get involved please email me or you can email a library staff we had a a guy in the committee this year who I think had kind of I would pestered I don't know if that's the right word but he was definitely very vocal and and and wanting to be on the committee and he was a great addition we were really happy to have a lot of really interesting ideas so now you said you got about 150 titles to look through to start with and the committee members read the books to see you don't have to read 150 books do you know I'll talk a little bit more about about that process um everybody can't well and you know that's uh one of the things that we've found with the selection committee members is most of them are like either English majors or English teachers they've had a lot of professors or people from um we have several universities in Lincoln um so those are all people who absolutely love to read and they have um a really kind of a a criteria of what they really want and one of the things that we always kind of have to remember um is that we're not picking for like an academic level we you know we have people that um you know have ninth grade reading levels and we have to try to find something that will engage somebody with that reading level as well I did I also know too that some of these books are ones that potentially you've already read too like I know some of the titles that have been on here I before it was even on one book one Lincoln I'd already read it anyways I'm like oh cool I already know about that one I don't need to well it was it was kind of interesting a couple years ago we had a discussion there was um a book that I think was published in like the 80s and I'm blanking on the title right now but um it was kind of a takeoff on kind of King Lear set in the Iowa farm um and it was very popular at the time and so there were a lot of people on the committee who had read it when it was brand new and you know a generation had gone by and there were a lot of people who didn't had never read it didn't really know about it because it was you know popular book at the time but maybe not necessarily a classic and so we had this really interesting discussion do we you know do we put it out there because people who read it you know 30 years ago their lives had changed it'd be interesting to see what you think of it now and so you go back and reread it and and um and you know and see so it didn't actually make it to the I don't think it made it to the top 10 I think it was like the 11th or 12th that you know it almost got there but um there's no too much competition there's no necessarily cut off in terms of you know um publication date and uh you know we have a lot of people in fact last year we had a lot of I would say classic dystopian classic that started making it back on the brave new world hands me tail um very high you know just um and we kind of had a really interesting discussion about in do we want to go back and and look at some of you know these books um I think a lot of people on the committee at that time felt that you know they'd already been kind of looked at really hard and in high school and we have a lot of interest do we want to you know it's here it's a constant balancing act between what what we think the public really wants um and then you know everybody has their own preferences and sometimes that comes into it as well so in terms of the the selection criteria these are the things that we're looking for we're looking for something that's has readability and um like I was talking about having a lot of English majors on the on the selection committee sometimes they're looking at formats or writing styles that are really unique and different and sometimes that doesn't translate really well to just your average casual reader um a couple years ago we had a book um and I think I'm I'm a master's degree I think I'm fairly well read but I was looking up quite a few words which I enjoy doing I always think that's interesting when I find a new word that I have but you know if you get a book if you give not everyone's gonna find that enjoyable and you know you're reading one paragraph and you're looking up six or seven words or you're skipping over them trying to get you know an idea of the definition from a context clue you know people are going to put that book down we had a a discussion one time about you know people will really give a book about 40 to 50 pages and if they're not engaged in it they'll put it down and sometimes people will go back to it especially if they have friends that recommend it or say you keep going you know that type of thing but stick with it you'll get there yeah you know it has to be something that is accessible to to a large number of people I mean it has to be something that's discussable yeah um and and this was kind of interesting because we had a book on our on our top it made the top we have a top of loving list this year but it was called Stranger in the Woods and it was a nonfiction book and we had a discussion about a 40 minute discussion whether that book had any discussion points you know so um it you know it didn't make it to the top but it was um I just thought that was really interesting it was all about a guy who chose to live um like a hermit but he couldn't um one thing he couldn't do was he couldn't uh get enough food so he started robbing it was a remote area in um mainly start robbing these camp cabins and uh campsites and everything for food and he had a really interesting kind of moral view of well I didn't take the newest Game Boy I took the old one so that was okay and so we had this you know really interesting discussion about what a lot of rationalization going on um it has to be something that has community wide interest we don't want anything that's really nearly focused that only a few people are going to find interesting or appreciate um we've had I would say this we get some I would say academic level type books nominated you know where you kind of sit there and wonder well you know if you're interested in this topic this is a really good book but is it really broad enough for um the entire community yeah and then we want something that's multi-layered so I would say last year we had a really good example in the gentleman in Moscow so this was a book that was set in a Moscow hotel um it spans a range of like the beginning of the Soviet era through like the 1930s so you have like Soviet history in there you've got there was a lot on Russian literature Russian art Russian music um it was set in a hotel so it was a lot about food and fine dining and good manners and it's really a lot of really interesting characters so you had all those relationships and friendship and how um how that you know added to the storyline so that's something that we kind of really look for is that it's if it's got a lot to it in terms of um and finally we just say is this a book you'd want to recommend to a friend you know this is something that you know you really think this um interesting and um you learn something from it and it was thought provoking and you'd want to recommend it so that's kind of what our basic title um selection criteria is and then just a few other considerations we really do try to avoid books from a series um not so much if it's the first book um but if it's a third or fourth book in a series the characters have already been established um you want to jump it in the middle it and we try to avoid books from that are kind of written just for a strict genre either like mysteries or science fiction because you have people who truly love those genres but um if it doesn't appeal to a lot of other people you know then we're going to lose a lot of readers along the way so we have had books that have a mystery element in it or a science fiction element but it just can't be you know so neatly and tight tightly um pegged as a certain genre um we want to try to avoid books that have um strong political or religious focus um we had uh except that they can't have elements of it in there so a couple years ago we had a book where um the main character well it centered on this this character who was a woman who had a really strong christian faith and that led her to working in a homeless shelter and so she met this gentleman who was homeless and then it um she ends up getting cancer and these the her husband and this other gentleman become really good friends and that was really where the storyline was going so there were elements of of religious you know religious belief in it because it was about her um her convictions and it was a nonfiction book um but it wasn't so overwhelming that if you didn't share that religion you wouldn't appreciate the book um the same year we had a book that started out with um every chapter started out with a bible verse and so that you know that we weren't going to go there um it's usually kind of interesting because we usually always get the bible nominated and that's you know we're just you know we're a public library so we're for the entire community and we have to kind of avoid those types of books um we do look at um winners uh of or um in the past in terms of um you know if an author has been um selected either for um the actual one book one linkin selection or a top three selection um you know that might be a discriminating factor if we've got two books that we're kind of weighing and one author we've kind of already kind of supported we might choose um another author another one a chance yeah so for this year we have three finalists and there are little fires everywhere by Celeste Inge uh Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grand and Bear Town by Frederick Backman and so these were announced to the public on Memorial Day we have this event at the mill the coffee shop the mill and the hay market and it's a kind of a fundraiser for our friends for the uh the friends of the Lincoln City Library Foundation so it's a lot of fun to go there we we actually bring books there um we have computers there so we check out to once they're announced we have you know the scrambles yet and we ask that people only check out one one of the one of the books and they're usually all gone by the time we're we're done so we have so you can just check out on the fly they're like remote check out kind of thing with the left up yeah we we we bring up um mobile circuit like our computers that have mobile circulation software on it and um yeah it's usually it's really a fun event we get about 125-ish people about a year um it's kind of really kind of become something that people do on Memorial Day in the morning so so for Little Fires Everywhere um this book is set in uh Shaker Heights uh Ohio so that was a planned community and we've got two families here one is I would say your quintessential upper middle class family with a mother father four children um and then we have this other family with just a single mother and a and a daughter and um the the single mother kind of she's an artist so she has kind of a different sensibility and kind of lives her life kind of on her own um the the children are all teens and they meet each other and it's kind of one of these situations where the you know the the children of one family want to end up with the opposite uh you know here they're interested in and and the choices and the grass is always greener exactly so you've got got this um kind of conflict of values and the the story starts out with the one of these houses on fire in this planned community and um the firemen said there were Little Fires Everywhere and there was definitely an accelerant to use so you're kind of working backwards to what happened to to lead up to this huge fire um so it's it's a character driven story um it really kind of focuses on motherhood and um you know do you play by the rules do you you know do you do everything correctly or do you kind of follow your own path and do things the way you want to do it and is there some sense you're talking earlier about because of this fires and what's happening that it working backwards mystery element to figuring out what happened well you pretty much know they kind of tell you who set the fire it's kind of what led up to that you know what what what were the family dynamics that led up to somebody being so angry that they they would they would burn down their their home uh then we have Killers of the Flower Moon by David Gran and um so this uh is a nonfiction and it's um talks about the Osage Arena Terror which was the uh early part of the 20th century 1920 ish to 30 ish and the Osage nation kept getting pushed off their land um and they end up in this area of Oklahoma that um nobody thought was valuable at all and one of the the things that when the final contract with the government was was signed was that the Osage um tribe owned the any um mineral rights um so about 10 or so years after they signed this contract um oil was discovered all of a sudden it's um kind of the Osage people become one of the most wealthiest per capital people in you know in the world um because of all these um all the the mineral rights from oil and um there's a bit of racism in there and that the U.S. government passes the law that said if you are more than 50 percent um Native American that you need a guardian to take care of your um affairs and so it it allows for a lot of grifters to kind of come in here and take advantage of um the the Osage people and what you find is all of a sudden there's a lot of people that are dying on natural premature deaths and so there's people that are being shot people that are being poisoned there's an explosion um there's all these things going on and the local authorities can't solve it because in many cases they're a part of it um and so they bring in um the FBI and this is the very beginning of J. R. Hoover's tenure as director of the FBI so it talks a little bit about that too um if you like mysteries this reads to me like a mystery I love this book I'm a non-fiction reader so I just thought this book was really fascinating it was a part of American history that I really didn't know anything about yeah it's very close to us you know geographically um and uh it's also very troubling when you realize how close the murderers are to the people who are being murdered and then our final one is Bear Town by Frederick Backman so he's a pretty popular author he wrote um a man called Uve and um that was a bestseller a couple years ago so this is a book um that's about a town it's a the small town where the whole identity of the town and the economic um welfare of the town is kind of caught up in this junior league hockey team this is a small town in sweden and so um this this team has had an unexpectedly good year and they're getting closer and closer to a championship um and and the semifinal game after they they win this really thrilling semifinal game there is an incident between one of the star players and the daughter of the general manager and it it basically kind of splits the whole town and you kind of either end up believing one person or the other um and this is right before the championship so now all of a sudden the championship is is kind of um in the balance and and what the town is going to be like afterwards you know certain people decide you know they're going to pull their money out it's it's a book that involves a little bit of racism a little bit of classism um but you know it also kind of talks about what we allow our our heroes to get away with and um so um that's a really interesting book and he's written a follow-up to it i think it's something along the lines of us versus them i think it just i saw um a cd of it in our um in our library a couple days ago so i know it's come out but so it's actually a sequel uh the this one is the the first one right no i mean the new one is but the new one is kind of a sequel because because the the the book kind of ends with this town just in turmoil um and all these people that it's a very small town so everybody knows each other sure um and so i think we could be lots of people here in Nebraska could definitely relate to well and i think people on the committee thought you know you could because really hockey here is a metaphor for sports in general and then you could kind of even put it you know sports is is a metaphor for basically anything that brings celebrity to people you know what what do we allow people that that are um capture our imagination and and we hope for what do we allow them to get away with um in life so those are our three selections um you can vote for the winner um and there's multiple ways of voting for the winners but um we take votes all the way through july 31st and then we will actually announce the winner on labor day so you can vote online we have forms on our website um you can vote in person so all of our libraries have ballots that you can vote for um you can like things on facebook um and that's another way to vote as well um yeah i saw that that you've got that now that there's um certain ones that you can like and then also the twitter hashtag right each title has been given its own hashtag on twitter so and we count that as a vote too so there's there's lots of lots of ways to vote you can vote early and vote often um lastly you can vote more than once for your title right it's not like one to one vote for a person and um yeah go to all these different places and and i you know last year it was to me when i looked at the top three i i kind of thought okay one one it was definitely a winner um this year i really think each book has its own set of readers uh they're very all each very different yeah and so i'm really interested to see which one is is going to pull away and be the winner because i i honestly don't don't know i don't even have a feel at this point like i said i'm a non-fiction reader so i really liked the the non-fiction title but i majority of our readers are fiction readers so um you know we'll just have to see so one of the things we offer are book discussions um so we have book discussions set up at three of our branch libraries for each of the titles so anybody who's not a part of a book club if you want to come and well if you're part of a book club you can come to but a lot of times the book clubs will read them and discuss them themselves but these are public events where people can come and discuss them so they're all in July they're right before our voting ends and then our programming committee we have pretty much it's all pretty much staff members um who kind of look at the program or look at the books that have been selected look at their themes and try to come up with ideas for programs that would be thematically related to the books so um we have the book discussion opportunities and then in the early fall we start um doing our programs now last year we did a program for each book and then a program for the winner um this year what i'm trying to set up is programs for each book and then we probably won't do a final one just because we're kind of tied into the um Great American Read which is kind of right at that same same time so um so anybody who doesn't know the Great American Read is being sponsored by the American Library Association and um NPR and uh or PBS I'm sorry PBS and they're um going to start I think September 11th is when the first um they did a pre-broadcast at the end of May and kind of introduced 100 books that are loved by Americans and then um they're going to start doing the actual they think there's six episodes that start in September and so that's kind of is also a voting thing yeah kind of read and vote and it kind of kind of conflicts with our timeline so we might just do the three programs and not do a program for the winner this year something because of that but so we do offer private um discussion uh group opportunities where a staff member will come out and and speak to uh or lead a discussion with a book group and I do a lot of those and those are a lot of fun I will say you get um you get into people's homes usually um and uh you know people are just you know a lot of these book groups have been together for a really long time so it's really it's really interesting and um with gentlemen of Moscow last year I talked about that book for a year and um I had actually three three book discussion groups in May right you know so it really was a year-round program and in the last one I went to one of the women said to me did you notice that everything happened on the 21st of June uh you know all these major events and I was like no I read this book and I've been talking about it for you know and so that's how you go to so many that people come up with different things that you've never thought of it you know it's really interesting that's one of the things I enjoy so much because even if I kind of feel like I you know I know you've been living this book for a year um still things you don't yeah everybody comes up with their own their own things so so the you have the final book that's just that's um chosen and then after that you still do sessions for all three anyways or after that chosen you just narrowed you just start doing the one particular well in the past when we had chosen a winner we did the programming for the winner and that was what was causing so many problems with with getting the program set up and it was flowing into the following year and they really didn't want to do that so that's why they went to just having the selection committee pick the winner so when I kind of sit to the steering committee people are really upset about not being able to vote one of the things we decided was that we would do a program for each book and then a final program for the winner um so that's that's kind of where we are I think this year is going to be just a little bit different because of the Great American Read um yeah I mean some people have said to me well you know it's not really a one book if we're doing three you know three books but um for us right now the way the program is run and given the time constraints I have to have all the programs done by November early November um it it really becomes kind of a summer reading program um and so that's that's kind of what I mean you do programs for all of them but individuals and book groups and whatnot can focus on just who is the winner themselves right and like I said with the gentleman in Moscow you know we announced it on Labor Day last year well I was still doing book club discussions all the way through May um so um it it's it's kind of what works with our time frame right now and that's kind I know we've had I've had people ask me what can we have authored discussions and it's really hard to get an author in in that time frame usually you have to book an author about a year out it's not a short notice yeah we just don't have that kind of timeline making a choice yeah and we don't really have the budget I mean when it was first started that we had several different sponsors that you know contributed to a budget um so we just don't have the budget for big programs as well so we're usually looking to try to get somebody you know somebody local um and usually that's that too hard of a problem so you can visit us online um so we have a a one book one Lincoln website and once we select the winner we offer a lot of additional information about topics that topic usually there's a lot of information about the author themselves about maybe the book anything that's thematically related to the book um we have a lot of author um interviews there's links to author interviews so that's kind of um something that we add once we choose a winner um there's also a facebook group um and that will push out more information um and then we have our twitter account as well and so if you have any questions about how we how we do a program um you can either call me or email me emails usually best um but um that's that's basically the program in general all right great um anybody have any questions um go ahead and type into the question section of your go-to webinar interface and we can answer any questions you might have about the program the books the history of it anything you want to know i'll type that in um this was great we had had um i had done here and on campus live years ago we were talking about this a session about one Lincoln one book one Lincoln we hadn't done it in one time so i'm glad because he said 17 years that's pretty amazing that still but people want to still do it still going strong of course yeah and you know there's been some discussion back and forth in the library you know is this a program that you know it's still valuable and i think it is as you're getting 200 150 200 suggestions yeah that seems to be something that people are interested definitely yeah and it's fun to get the comments back um a couple years ago i i you know as soon as they were published i got a a comment from from one lady in the community who told me i you know we had picked terrible books and so i turned around and asked her well do you want to be on our selection committee and it was like oh no no i don't know i just want to complain about it but then i've heard a lot i've heard several good things one year we had two non-fictions and one fiction and i heard heard that too it was too much non-fiction um you know it's it's never gonna phase everybody but it's it's just one program one event feel free to not join in this year we'll be better you will maybe you'll have something you like next time um yeah i have heard put a few people tell me that they liked um the books this year and uh one of the things i look we have a display and i look and always see you know do we have books on the shelf and right now we don't have any on our shelves right now was that's a usually they're allowed good indication that um and and then after after the top three you know if our if our display is empty then we start looking at the top usually it's a top 10 list this year we had a a top 11 um and and those were out too so that's good that's a good problem for us to head is that's the that's the whole point people are reading people are reading all these books and they're going to be talking about them uh we just have a comment says thanks kitty my book group started with the very first one it's nice to see the timeline of titles we've read yeah that you had those little on the bottom we didn't mention it but on the screen as you saw was each one had you know here's the different uh winners for each year throughout the program which are all on the website i did notice too yes so if you did want to you can always go back and see all the beginning what was read um and i assume you still have copies of those in the library yeah not as many as the year when you needed to have well usually yeah that's i tell people too if it was a popular book uh or a book that we selected you know in um october is our friends book sale so a year after um the title has been one of our top three we usually have a lot of books available in the book sale from the front because everybody's done you know we have that huge initial push of uh demand um and then usually by fall beginning of winter the demand is really kind of tapered off and so that's when we start um pulling the extra copies yeah awesome all right well it doesn't look like there's any questions from people this morning and that's fine um as Kay said give her an email let her know if you want um no more about the program how to get involved or if you as you said want to have her come to or anyone from the staff i don't always you come and talk to your book group or do a discussion at your library if you need someone to help lead something um i know sometimes when that is one of the struggles i think some book groups have sometimes is we have this great book we want to read but no one here really knows how to lead the discussion on edge where you know some you know every now and then there's one that they're all a little yeah i don't know but you guys have you have been i don't studying up on these particular ones or at least so and if you you know if you have some good discussion questions and usually what i do is i there's usually lots of discussion questions available i i i pull a lot of them and i go through and i look and see which ones i like so i usually use discussion questions from a lot of different resources um sometimes i come up with them on my own but you don't need to reinvent the wheel there's a lot of no there's so many resources out there for you um and you know it's it's funny you just have to let discussions get you know go a certain way and some some you'll throw the same question out and it'll go a completely different way based upon people's experience yeah different group of people in the room you're going to have different responses to the same question yeah that must be very interesting for you guys as if you are going to different book groups seeing as you said you know that one person discovers something seeing you know if me as a person i'm in a book group i know i have my discussion with my people but it's i think it maybe is more interesting can be very interesting to jump from one group to another one and hear what different people have to say well and we have i've had uh some people that are in like multiple book groups so um and that's that's interesting too because a lot of times like i said it just really depends upon who's in the group who's willing to to speak because sometimes people are um you know maybe not feel as comfortable um or sometimes you get people that are just kind of um you know dominate discussions but um who's willing to say you know their feelings and um everybody has different backgrounds and different experiences and they bring their their backgrounds to the story and and how they interact and connect with the characters and and the events and the in the novels all right all right i think that will wrap up yeah contact katie for more info and start reading those books like all right thank you very much all right thanks for having me thank you everyone for being here this morning i'm going to pop let's move over to our website hit escape on the keyboard there for me i can bring up there we go all right um so that will wrap it up for today's show and um it's going to be on our website this is the library commission's website where you can search for encompass live or you can use the search engine of your choice and encompass live so far it's the only thing called that on the internet as far as we can tell you can find our website that way as well uh today's show is being recorded and it 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