 Okay, good morning and welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. I am Krista Porter from here on the end. Here at the Library Commission, I am the host of Encompass Live. I haven't been a couple weeks since I've done the show since I've been out traveling, so I'm trying to get back in the swing of things. Encompass Live is a commissioned weekly online event. We are a webinar. We broadcast live every Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. Central Time, but our shows are all recorded, so if you're unable to join us on Wednesday mornings, that's fine. You can just head over to our website, which I will show you later at the end of the day show, possibly during this show, depends on your questions, and share where all of our archives are. Both the live show and the recordings are free and open to anyone to watch. So please do share with your friends, neighbors, family, colleagues, anyone who thinks might be interested in any of our topics. Send them to our website. They can sign up for the live shows, and they can watch all of our archives that are on there. We do a mixture of things here on Encompass Live. Book reviews, interviews, any training sessions, demos of services and products. Basically, anything library related is good for the show. That's my only criteria. It's something that libraries are doing, something that they could be doing, services that we provide to commission and think of these libraries, interesting things that libraries out there around Nebraska and outside of Nebraska are doing. We do bring on guest speakers sometimes to show from outside the commission and outside of state, but sometimes we have commission staff do presentations, and that's what we have today, a whole lot of commission people. Mom, I love. And I think we'll just have the joke where everyone uses themselves, short name and title, and we have one other person joining us in a little bit, and then we'll be able to do it. So I'm first quarter, you know, close to the show, and Library Development Director here at the Library Commission. I'm Mary Jo Ryan. I'm the Communications Coordinator here at the Library Commission. Hi, I'm Rod Wagner, Director of the Library Commission. Joanne McManus, Project Manager for the Library Innovation Studio Project. Susan Wisely, I went through, this is Library and Technology Access Services Directorate. Sam Shaw, Planning and Data Services Coordinator. So we have quite a crowd. Yeah. Good. That's good because we have a lot of questions to answer, and so we need a lot of people to help make those questions happen. If I could, Krista, I'll just kind of describe what's up at the commission, this particular show that we're doing today. We actually did a show like this when we was in a session at the NLA and SLI conference. We thought it would be fun to just have asked people what their questions were about the Library Commission, and so we do have quite a stack of questions that people were asking about the Library Commission. But also, we want to ask you, those of you that are on the show right now, to please put your questions into the chat box. Krista will be watching the chat box, and she'll interrupt us with your questions, so your questions get top priority. So if you have questions that we can answer about the Library Commission or about services of the Library Commission, we would really appreciate it if you would just go ahead and type them in the chat box now or anytime during the show. So, is everybody ready? We decided to do this sort of like Backyard Farmer TV show, and so if somebody lapses into suggesting that we try some 2-4D on your lawn, you'll know that it's just an accident. We'll go right back to Library. It might be a good answer though. It might be a good answer. So I don't know who wants this question, but here it is. Should I use Interlibrary Loan or Book Club Kits for multiple copy requests? Who wants that question? Susan wants it. Oh, girl. I'll answer. Lisa can send a message if I answer one. I think the Library Commission usually tries to fill those first with Book Club Kits if they can. People can certainly browse through and look. They've got international Book Club Kits on the website. So that seems a good way to pick books for your Book Club. So that, I think, is the preferred method of Book Request matches content of our kit. Otherwise, they do go and look for copies of others in the country. That's a little bit more tedious in terms of coordinating. I can imagine. You have to go through Interlibrary Loan to do it in multiple times, probably. Yeah. If you need 10, you need 10 in July with a lot of requests. Book Club Kits are way more convenient. So as long as we talk about Book Clubs, we do have a lot of titles for Book Club Kits. I know they just added a bunch of new titles. Can we go ahead and go to the website here and say, What is this? Book Club Kits from the Nebraska Library Commission. And so you can see that you can ask for, if you know exactly what you want, or you can browse the entire collection, or you can browse Nebraska-related books, or browse Nebraska 150 books, so all fiction books. So it's fairly easy, too. Let's just look at what looks like the Nebraska books. And there they are. They've got the cover. And they've got links to discussion questions. So this is pretty handy. I think there's 1,263 titles that have three or more copies. And there's Young Adult, Graphic Novels, all kinds of Book Club Kits. And I think Lisa might be on the show remotely. Yes, she's in the laptop room. Lisa, if you have anything you want to add, you can go to the chat box and we'll get that information in. Okay, here we go. Can I just ask one thing about Book Club Kits? Oh, sure, Sam. Is the service free? It is free. And that is a good thing to say. And just to remind you, it goes always through a librarian as school librarian or an academic or public librarian. Lisa says, Yes, it's free, but of course, you would have to pay postage to return them to us. There's no cost for us to get them to you or for using the books, of course, but whatever it costs you to get it back to us in postage. You would pay that. There's no prepaid boxes or things that we have. And again, if you talk to somebody who has a Book Club, have them order it through the library, not contact us directly. And there are also Book Club Kits available, and I only know this because you were just asking about it, through our regional library systems. Yeah. So our regional library systems are the first systems that we have. If they are more like convenient for you to get to them to pick them up or to just drop them off for return them, if you, you know, you might be able to go through them. They have different ones in theory that we have, but they are also no research. Right. I guess we might come down a little bit more that way to make it more centered for everybody. Yeah. And he said, type in the chat box if you have any trouble hearing this. We have quite a large group, larger than we usually have. Okay. I have a question here from somebody who says, I'm new to the Nebraska library community. I just started at a library. Do you have any good suggestions for getting to know the library community or the library commission's resources? Any suggestions? And this could be for anybody on the panel. Well, when we were at conference, that was kind of a no brainer was attend the conferences and meetings and events that are going on. And I think that's good no matter what. Yeah. I think, you know, think about what kinds of trainings coming up in your area. What kind of the conference has caused, of course, but a lot of the workshops and trainings are free. So it's only your time and letter to get there. There are also some groups like the castle, the groups of libraries of different types, and some of the different systems get together in your regular meetings. So actually look at your, it's less of the regional library systems, web pages. It's actually there. They have a website of their own. So if each of our systems has their, I don't look at a website of their own, that you can go to and see what's on their calendar of trainings they're doing, workshops, just meetings. So you can click right here. Oh, and there we go. And you'll go to their website. This is Western Library System. And find out what's going on, for example, an overdrive workshop, a workshop, you know, a variety of things like that. And they do that. I'm not sure. It's just the very top of the menu in the bright. It does have a calendar. Let's see if they have down other pages. Yeah, let's all cross the top too. So there's a calendar. So here's a suggestion from Beth Fala, Fala from Lena Perri Public Library. She says, invite people to come to your library or offer to host a workshop. That's a good idea. Reach out to your system or to us and say, I'd like to have something here. We've got space. We've got a meeting room. And then they'll come to you. And of course, we want you to watch Encompass Live on Wednesday morning. So you'll catch up and stay up. Anybody else have anything else they'd like to add? It would be good for someone who's new. There are a couple of new resources available on the Library Conditions website for new library directors and library trustees that this is a good source for people new to public libraries. Do you have a director's handbook? I'm just going to see what happens if I do a new library director. Oh, we don't call it that. Because I just thought maybe it would come up. Okay. I'm not used to this keyboard, so I'm having a little trouble. I think that's it. Library directors guide good. And so if you're a director, and even if you're not a director, there's a lot of good stuff there that you can learn about. Funding, accreditation, events. And then Rod also mentioned something Yeah, I'm having a little trouble with this keyboard, aren't I? Let me try again. Let me see what's going on. Oh, my, my, my, my. Wireless. Okay, so over here under our accreditation and certification sections, we have links about boards being certified, librarians being certified, and libraries. And this is where you have a link And the library board manual. Okay, there we are, library board manual. And here you see. But if you had a keyboard that wasn't wireless, you could do it. You could do what I was trying to do. Much better. And we did one other comment that came in about the BookLipKits. I wanted to mention, I didn't know this. And I know I've done sessions about it. In addition to the search for the BookLipKits, it actually includes other libraries that also have BookLipKits. And we'll just share, like, library to West Point. So we've actually gathered into that database, not just as ones that we have. So you may have ended up with some local to you that is who you end up on. Now that's a great idea. Okay, well, I've got one for you, Kristen. I am having trouble with my basic skills class. I can't make Moodle do what I wanted to do. Yeah, I know. Yeah. I don't feel the messenger. I'm just saying, what do you suggest people do if they are taking a basic skills class and have trouble with Moodle? Basic skills, that is run by Holly Duggan, who is the C Continuous Education Coordinator here. And she is in charge of that. We have a lot of resources on the website. There she is in the middle of our classes. Yeah, she would be your first line of defense for that. Well, it depends what your problem is, actually. If you're in the middle of a current class, you have an instructor. Whoever your instructor is, reach out to them first. It may be just something that is going wonky in their particular class. They forgot to update a link. Something has broken since they set up the class. You never know what things can happen with technology. So your instructor, whoever class you're currently taking, will be the first one to talk to you. If they can't figure it out, they may go to Holly for you. Or you could also contact yourself. If it's more of, I don't know what my password is, or I've lost my password, that kind of contact, basically getting into it. But navigating your course, if that's something that you're unsure about, we, everyone who teaches it, well, we have to know as well. So we can probably give you tips about where you should be clicking. If something is changed, because it does get updated, the interface and the backend part of it. So reach out to your current instructor, and if that's not helping, Holly is our lead person. Yeah, I had a question here. And actually, I got this one at the library commission booth. So I had, they wrote it down on the card at the booth. They had cards at the booth, and cards all over the conference. And this one says, can I customize the handouts for Nebraska Access or Overdrive? That would be useful. You sure can. We usually oftentimes put them up in PDF format. But if they're handouts that we created, oftentimes, the ones that I've created, I create in Microsoft Word, so I can find the original Word version before I converted it to PDF. And I've sent those handouts, versions to people before, too. So they can... Can you show me where those are? Or do you have a mouse you can do it? Well, the Nebraska Access handouts, there's that question mark after each database logo. And so they'll usually find those, they'll often find those there. So like for a going on list. So just so now you can go to, go down to the third heading. There's a novelist, hand out under for more help, the top created by us. Those are created by us. And then the ones down below, the social media. So that's an example of something where I've got a Word format on your computer, so I can probably send that to you. And there's also, I know one thing people ask for was videos. And there are videos, but I'm going to use a lot of these databases right on the website now. I don't know if this is one of them where there is one. They actually have a whole YouTube channel devoted to novelists. I'm pretty sure it's listed there. They've got multiple short videos on different types of searching. Two minute tours, it says. That's great. That's perfect. It's going to vary from database to date. Correct. Some of you'll have an overabundance and others will be less than you'd like probably. It does vary. Is there also somewhere for promoting this and add your libraries address here in a blank space? We have... Type in here. It's in the toolkit, right? Type in a library in this toolkit. See the problem is it isn't letting me type. I try to... It fails to get everything I'm putting in here. The toolkit should be enough. Just click on the search. There it is. Toolbox. Toolbox. Got it. So here we've got your toolbox. We've got a variety of promotional materials, some of which we can just fill in the blank. Right. So we can cover our handouts. You can just fill in the blanks. And print your own. It's got your own information with your own password and your own library. Name, school, whatever. Business cards, the same thing. Password, business cards, your own password. So this is pretty useful for folks. So here's a question. This is a pretty general question, but you can maybe expand upon it, Joanne. How can we get the maker space to our library? That's a pretty general question, isn't it? Yeah, that is general, but it's... There's an answer. We have selected the first 17 libraries to give the maker space. And we will still be selecting 13. We'll have an application process. It will have a deadline sometime in May. We don't have any exact date, but we're looking at May. On our website, if you look under Grants, and then it will go across the Library Innovation Studio project, we still have all of the information and application information for the first round. So for instance, if you want to know what that application looks like, just click on either the PDF or the word file, that application of interest and commitment. So obviously the deadlines will be different in there, but that will be the application that we'll be using. And there's also the right above that, library participation benefits and expectations and answers to questions. That's a good document to read, to get more information about what would be expected in a library, what the benefits are. And I don't think there's too many... I haven't updated that, but I don't think too many changes to that as well. The last course, those that were at conference, you probably saw the studio equipment. There's certainly a lot of it. We delivered the first equipment last week to the Plasma Public Library, and this week we're in Ainsworth, Nebraska, installing and training on their equipment. And so when these studios are in your area, you can check them out and see what's all involved. Or take a look at this, because this website has pretty detailed information about each piece of equipment. This is the Carby Inventable CNC router, and it's got some information about it. It shows you what it looks like. It's got its dimensions, and the fact that it has a computer attached to it shows what it can do and a video. So there's quite a lot of information about each piece of equipment, and if people want to take a look and see just what we're talking about with this maker space. Right. And it's pretty exciting. Those libraries don't think that they have room for all of this equipment, because it is a lot of equipment. We can also do mini studios. Creed and Loop City are an example of mini studios that we'll be installing in a few weeks. And what they're doing is rather than having all of the equipment for a total of 20 weeks, they each will split up that kit. Each will get half the equipment for 10 weeks, and then we'll swap it, and then put the other half for the other 10 weeks. So if you don't have quite enough space, that's what we do. And of course, you don't have to have all the space in one area. For instance, we're a big meeting room or something. We can put the CNC router in that corner and the laser cutter in another corner. And so it can be scattered across your library if that's the only way it will work for you. Let me just show you just real quickly the community engagement page. One piece of this project, which makes this more than just a maker space, is the expectation of community engagement activities. And basically, it's a simple way for the community to get very involved in the library, to get very involved in the community. And part of it is forming the community action team. Another section is forming a training team, planning events, and planning a longer term activity schedule of trying to get support for the community, or from the community, for the maker space in the library. So we've got resources here about community engagement as well. Because that's another expectation of the maker space grant. And kind of a, I think this is helpful. It's kind of a timeline of what goes on. This is the week, if this were the weeks that your maker space is installed, and then you have for 22 weeks here, and these are the kinds of things you're doing during that 22 weeks. And then these are the kinds of things you're doing before that 22 weeks. She did. It is. Dagan Valentine, who's one of our partners at the university, put together a milestones chart, and then she did that timeline for us from that. So we're very fortunate to have Tessa. I like the kind of visuals. It doesn't help. I know. To me, it really helps just to see that visual. Okay, so I've got a good one here. I can't remember the Nebraska Access password. How can I make this easier? So I don't have to keep re-entering it. What do you think, Susan? Well, if you're, if you're entering it all the time, it probably means you don't have IP access. So tell me that you can set up IP access is probably not helpful. Sometimes you can have, depending on your web browser, you can have your web browser, remember a password. There's certainly nothing wrong with putting a little sticker with the password on computers in the library. That's certainly acceptable. But you will have to change that. You'll have to change it. Twice a year, then you can get re-issued. Yeah, so I want to enter it too strongly to your computer desktop. But yeah, you can certainly put a little card up or something. And those password cards, those business cards, business cards are good because you can give them to people, as well as have them around. And you can put those up and take it to your computer until the next one comes out. And then the other workaround is, you've got your driver's license. You can always pull out your driver's license, and type in your driver's license. Oh yeah, that's perfect. Yeah, and any citizen in the state can just use their driver's license number to get in. They don't need to even go to the library and get a password that's specific. Right. Nebraska Access is purchased for use of all Nebraska citizens. Pretty much. We do a little type, I assume this is Lisa, type this. She actually was responding to the first part of the question. Just like, I need my Nebraska Access password. And she says, caller 800 number. Call 800 number. Remember, you don't know what it is. Call 800 number, 800-307-2665. And then we can look that up and give it out to you, as well, too. Yeah, right here. About us, you can find our 800 number. Okay, Rob, there's two questions here that I have from two different people. Uh-oh. I know. And they are basically around, if I tell you the first one, it's about the same as the second one. How are the budgets going to play out in the commission? This one says, I can't control reading it. It's a, what is, what are the budget cuts in the commission? Okay, well, this goes back to the legislative session from earlier this year. The state tax revenues has been the case for a number of, actually for a long while, state tax revenues have fallen below projections. And so the legislature and governor enacted a state budget for the current biennium that began July 1, 2017, that reduced many budgets for state agencies, state programs, and services. The library commission state funds budget for its operations program is reduced by 8% about. The library commission's state aid to libraries program, which includes our grants and contracts, database licensing, regional library system funding, state aid to libraries, and other things, actually was not reduced. It was left at last fiscal year's funding level. So that's the current biennium budget and so two-year budget going through June of 2019. The update, though, is that state tax revenues have continued to fall below projections. And the state's economic forecasting board last month when they lowered their projections again. And so the governor and legislature when the legislature reconvenes in January, they will again be looking at resolving this reduced revenue situation and that likely will lead to further state budget cuts of some amount. On the federal side, there's been lots of concern about what will happen to federal library program funding. There's been some good news in that the House, the U.S. Congress, the House of Representatives passed appropriations bills that included federal library program funding that is the funds for the Institute of Museum of Library Services and Library Services and Technology Act. Those funds were left at the last fiscal year funding level. The Senate has yet to act on the federal budget, but their earlier funding levels that came out of their appropriations committee actually had a slight increase for LST funding. So they're expected to pass legislation before then December and then they're going to have to be resolution with the House of Appropriations. So the federal funds, the prospects are good at this point. Remember though that we're already a couple of months into the new federal fiscal year and appropriations have not been made for the full year. So that is yet to be resolved. That's where we are right now. It's a bit of a wait-and-see. Always wait-and-see on the federal standards. So I have kind of a timely one for you, Sam. This is the person who says they're having trouble submitting a Billy Estat profile. The public library survey. Yeah, I guess so. So the public, every year between mid-November to mid-February we collect data as part of the public library survey. So maybe if you could go on our website over to the Billy Estat page. Okay, where is it? If you type it in, well, it researches. I know it's real, I know. And so there it is. The survey is actually the IMLS public library survey. We use a tool called Billy Estat to collect the data. So it's Billy Estat to collect. So on this page here, you'll see a link to the login screen. And your username and password is the same as your accreditation application. So if you do need that, either contact me or the reference desk as well. They would be able to get that username and password to you. You'll see a lot of other tools on this page. A blank copy of the survey. Sometimes it's helpful to print that out and then fill it out before you actually enter the data online. But some of the data is already pre-filled. Correct. We try to pre-fill as much of the data as we can. Some of it doesn't vary from year to year. Address, phone numbers, things like that. We also pre-fill the overdrive data if you're a member of the consortium. We'll pre-fill the holdings and your circulations for overdrive. If you do have an advantage account, you'll need to enter that information in the holding section. The circulation data includes all of your overdrive. So that would include your advantage titles as well as what's in the consortium. If you do want to know what changes we've made, there's also a link. It's the third one from the top there, Mary Jo, that has the changes highlighted from year to year. The good news is this year there weren't very many changes. So if you're familiar with it from last year, there weren't very many changes this year. Also, I want to point out one more thing, filing. The second one from the bottom there, there's a guide for new directors. So if you're new, this kind of takes you through the process of why we do this and how we do it. It also has a guide that looks as well. If you're not familiar with that. If you do have any questions, feel free to contact me. I'm available to help you with the survey. Like I said, it just started. So it's now available and it runs until February. Very convenient timing because it just opened up two days ago. And the other question I had to do with the survey was how are the peers selected? Peer libraries and accreditation. So generally on the accreditation application, if you're up for accreditation, there's a link on the right-hand side of that page where you should log in. That says view peer libraries. Yeah, there's going to log into your particular accreditation account or form. There's a blue button that says peer. So you can look at those peer libraries that are used in those calculations on your accreditation application. Generally, that's libraries that are within 15% of your legal service area. That's how those are populated. And if it's during the time when the applications are not available, should you get that info? I don't think that you can log in to your accreditation application. Just check after that time period. But you can always email me how I would pull that data or the data set that's used on the accreditation application or if you want the full data from the Public Library Survey for your peers. You can also pull it yourself from our website. We publish the data on our website. I always do the data services. That's kind of the main page. And that data is available from download either in Excel or CSV format. See, now it's letting me type, isn't it? Library data services. So if you scroll down a little bit. What? Under library statistical data and maps. And then the first link there. There's your files right there. Great. And then there's some maps down here. There's some maps and some summaries and some handouts that we use to retrieve and then we collect them. Okay. Two for one, man. We have a good question for Scott. She'll also join us for any student director of the talking book and morale service in the library commission. So I'll sneak in while we're talking. We didn't stop talking. The question is, how have digital talking books changed talking book service? And I'm going to let you move up here and I'll tell us too. I'll try to do a little show and tell which unfortunately is a past report. Yeah, I'm just going to move right out of your way. We have all these boards. Yeah. Normally digital talking books have batteries, which is excellent. So this is a demo of a prototype chain. Yeah, how have they changed the service? I think from a page perspective, they're much easier to use. They sound much better and you don't have to switch between a bunch of different sets for this one. Which is huge. Say if you were reading something like The Bible or the joy of cooking, something that's a fairly large piece of literature, they were really difficult to use on a set. The joy of cooking is bringing something to sets and it's very difficult to remember where you were. Whereas with a digital machine you just get right to what section you want, what recipe you want, and sort of bookmark digitally so you can return to that area. They're just much more convenient. And actually I brought this machine up with me to kind of expand on how digital will continue to influence the talking with the rail service area. We've got two programs coming up probably over the next year. We'll start to see how these things will impact the service. One of them is called duplication of demand and with that we'll entail we're hoping to be part of a pilot project working with duplication of demand hopefully in the spring of next year. And basically what that will be is instead of pulling mail cards for different patrons in the learning and going to shelves and pulling books that have already been made to go take two patrons, we'll be able to actually copy the books that the patron has requested or will be interested in and actually make a copy of each book potentially even bring more than one book by cartridge if they would like that and mail those out to the wrapping and pulling things off the shelf. That should save us space and organization and also give things into a lot of washable order for patrons. There can be situations when you say like a new book is very popular we not only have eight or nine copies and they might all be out. This way if a new book becomes available if there's a hundred people that want it but per se it's available. So that will really expand people's appreciation of new books in particular and make things quite a big use for to use. We're starting to kind of experiment with doing duplication of demand with some books that have been created digitally that we don't have copies of in-house that you would have for about four months now and it's been going pretty well. We're moving maybe more to a day at this point of just making sure you have whichever book you're interested in that way. And the other thing that's coming up they don't have an official name for this yet but this demo prototype machine here is called the MOGA project which will center for mobile cartridge and the idea of this is kind of like digital copy books meets the kind of work or something. It will be a wireless machine and it's using cellular connectivity in order to grab books from a wish list that's on the BAR site and the natural library services down on the site for audio books and great materials. And let's see if this thing is working here. The push button here it should say that it belongs to Moog and Roman. This device is registered to SCOT shows there are three books available no cartridge connected network ready internet ready, art is ready press the button to list the books on the bookshelf. The idea of this machine will be that it can download books that are already on a wish list for you and when you put a cartridge in, let's say what's on here is something that I just finished reading and I don't like it anymore, but I'll pop this cartridge in and copy it and give it to it. Cartridge connected. Cartridge has one book with very ordinary counterfeiter press the button to return this book or remove the cartridge to keep it. So I'll return this book. Book returned. The animals. Press the button to skip this book or wait five seconds to copy it to the cartridge. So there's a few books waiting let's say I don't learn that one let's give it back to you. Press the button to skip this book or wait five seconds to copy it to the cartridge. So I'll let you go ahead and copy this one it will copy it very very quickly after that five seconds. Moving new book to cartridge. The books chicken stew. Please remove cartridge. Alright, so this will be ready then for a patient to put in a player and listen to you right away. So the idea of this prototype is the next generation of the digital partner player will incorporate technology along these lines directly into the figure itself so there will be two devices to do it but they're kind of getting some information now on how this works and seeing troubleshooting in the field to see if it works around the country. So this is still kind of in beta. But it does work. The functionality is there and I can see how this would be a very powerful addition to the machine where sometimes in the future with digital books we'll be able to, a lot of people will be able to download a book directly to their machine without having to do the mail system and for those who for whatever reason are in a place where the wireless connectivity is working we'll be able to send our books through that to the management system that way too. And we still have books on the shelf so people will be able to send those to you. So yeah, there's a lot of different ways that it's helpful so I think that this year actually was the official end of the cassette era. It was around May and June of this year that the National Library Service pulled us to go ahead and return the cassette player machines to be been holding on to which we did over the summer and I think we sent it in a total of 573 machines that were officially made up so but for the most part we're all digital reality so can we still have the sets here at the library machine? Not very many there's less than right there's less than I think there's only 6 or 7 there's about 3,500 users so there's a lot So I have a question here that says Big Talk and Small Libraries Webinar schedule yet for this year Well, for next year Yeah, for next year Yeah, and actually it should be on our calendar Let's check out our calendar We have a calendar here at the top of the page and it is Always a good thing to remember too that we do have things on this calendar that go beyond just with the library Yeah, Big Talk Big Talk is traditionally then the last, whatever is the last Friday in February so wherever that happens of all figure in the middle of winter people don't want to drive to places so there's nothing online and yes so it will be Friday February 23rd there's nothing more here besides the basic information linked to the main website at the moment because and actually it just popped up in my to-do things that this would be about the time when I open up the call for proposals for the conference so I'll be conservative and say in the next week I was going to say by the end of this week but I don't want to get myself in a hole with that within the next week there's not there'll be an announcement asking for the call for proposals so for libraries out there if you've got something you want to present about Big Talk from Small Libraries this is our Little Libraries FT Orders population served of 10,000 or less of any type of library school, academic, public but we want to hear from you what you're doing and just what you want to hear from too so there will be an announcement and messages out and then there will be on the website for a link to submit your proposal that'll be added in the next week or so and I'd like to have some small libraries in Nebraska but this is also if you look at the previous conferences on here we have libraries from all over the country that participate in both presenting and attending this is a map of last year people logged in from all across the United States and Canada this is attendees but if you look at our previous conferences here that all the previous ones listed going back to the beginning which the first year was 2012 those are archived right we have all of our presentation under presentations you will have links to the recording of that particular session and if they did have slides or PowerPoints you have those as well so you can watch all of the previous series if I'm here and here was our first first one let's do the rest of the library just so yes it's coming it says they're joining us for 23rd 2018 so look for more info coming very briefly excellent so how many libraries are part of the overdrive group and what's required if I want to join we just added three libraries this fall so we are at 173 that's fantastic yeah to join we established library we talked to me to let me know you're interested and there's a couple of forms to fill out and then we go about talking about getting you set up for authentication how much do they have to pay? for small libraries and I think all of the libraries are eligible at this point I think everyone would pay that minimum for the 500 and is there okay here we are we've got the overdrive site so this is the main website overdrive site that's where we wanted to go and that is the actual digital collection site so I think the first page you are on is how to participate and so you scroll down instructions and that's more information but once you join that means the pricing details pretty much you know we don't have as many new libraries joining now because we really gotten a lot of 173 that it's feasible more to participate do participate so now you know it's more a matter of library context so we work directly with that send them the people and this is any type of library just for the the eyes of overdrive alright I wanted to mention that if anybody in the audience has a question now would be a good time to get that typed into the chat box we did start a little late as you guys notice we're getting things set up here so we'll go as long as it takes if you guys have questions type it into the questions section we'll get them asked if you do have to leave before your question gets asked that's okay we'll answer it anyways and then you can come back and hear it on the recording we'll go to at least since we started late I'd say at least 1115 for getting some questions we have here and longer depending on what comes in we asked as a heads up if you guys are wondering if we're going to be rapping us so I need help finding books and other languages for my students so what's the best way to do that what does the library commission do for a teacher that comes to a school librarian says I need some books in probably the best best to go to the best databases let's do that and then go down on the left side there you can see world cat there it is and that will let you search for a title of a book that you're looking for and limit by a language and so as long as a library that catalogs their books you'll see assuming the book is available in that language and that it's owned by some libraries that are representing in the world cat you should be more tracked down in the questions and it is going to vary depending on the language and the popularity of the book that's certainly that's the first thing I'm going to do it's great actually a teacher could do that in southside I'm at it and they could do it in the library on request so I'm trying to get through these how can we get a website for our library that's something that Craig in our department has been taking care of for the last couple of years and he's leaving us shortly but we are still going on and offering the WordPress website and we also we don't have to move that WordPress site we don't have to else and then the library is giving some last-minute tips and instructions from Craig so she's going to kind of tie this over and we're looking for other places so there it is so the Nebraska libraries on the web so there's a page that talks about how you can participate what's the cost there's no cost but there is time that people have to set up and maintain and post regularly so that's that would be the first stop I guess and then the next stop might be the contact of the library and Debra, who's the head of our department would be a good choice to talk to initially when you're away is sort of trying to learn some technical details if you see anyone gets stuck or has any problems we are between libraries responsible for that so I have another question about statistical reports this one says how do you use the statistics and how can the libraries use them well we talked earlier about peer comparisons that's one thing that we use on our end for the accreditation process but also something that can be helpful to libraries when they look at their data and compare it to their peers that can be very helpful for librarians and decision makers on a local level but also if a library has so then there's statistics over a certain period of time they can compare themselves to themselves and say how have our programs changed over the years and how has our attendance changed over the years maybe it's time to try something new or maybe that's evidence of some successes that they have so that's I think a couple of ways that they can be used on a statewide level we use them a lot talk about some of the budget process and we use those statistics and for those purposes we are required to report them to IMLS too every year so that's one of the reasons we do collect them very good one more question here have you got any on the chat box no one again okay the last question we have is does Nebraska Access help school libraries meet rule 10 requirements yes so we probably want Nebraska Access back up again to help show that it will meet the requirements for a number of magazines and journals that you have access to and then it meets the requirement if you see there's a lower left corner that's spunk and gag balls it does provide it up to the so those two those are the ones that everyone asks about it there's two requirements by Nebraska Access and so those are two things that if a school library is struggling with budget issues they don't have to do because we're offering that for excellent well those are the questions that I got in advance like I said I got them at the conference the NLA and SLA conference we got them at booth we had them at sit now people put them in the box so we answered them at the conference session we're answering them again today here because we feel like this really extends the conference session on into the fall so if there are no other questions is there anything anybody on the panel would like to share for the good of the group let's go to the commission that we need to talk about I guess if you're curious about the commission at any time please take a look at our website that's always a good place to get up-to-date information as well as information about other libraries across the state well thank you very much everyone thank you Chris for running the show for us I'll give you back to the right scene to get my questions up there nobody has anything else everyone's still here so that's good thank you for staying with us next alright so thank you we have recorded today so this will be available on our website potentially this afternoon possibly tomorrow and I'll bring up that right now our encompass live website here so this is our main page and our recordings are upcoming shows and our archives are linked right underneath all the upcoming shows that you can get to the archives from and this is where we posted most recent ones this is last week's show we will have the recording which will be on our YouTube account there isn't a presentation for this one as you saw it's just our website so just a little bit of the recording will be here what is done and available I will email everyone who attended and post it out on all of our various communications so that wrap up for today's show I hope you enjoyed this next week we just said this this morning and hopefully you can explain non-visual desktop access to The Good Love this is a session that one of our staff this week did at our MLI conference and she had offered and I wanted to definitely have it on so I don't know what I did but some of you may have participated in the VTOP program a few years back which I believe include JAWS has a non-visual way to use computers over time JAWS can become sort of complicated and expensive to maintain and this is an alternative it's very close to free for keeping track of keeping a screen reading non-visual desktop building a new library so they had this gone through and it works she's going to demonstrate a little bit with our website and I just want to talk a little bit also about how to make sure your website is set up to function properly in the screen reader this description is what I pulled this morning off of this conference website but she's created a little bit but we can talk about that because a lot of people she discovered at conference were asking this is great but what could I have done already to have my website better prepared for the next three years but we did have both this and other kinds sounds like a great show as well so definitely sign up for that next week because I just added it before I came down here this morning to do the show so that will be next week and you can see all of our other sessions here through November and December that are added and more will be added as we go this is an ongoing thing and we'll start getting our 2018 time to hear and I've got to note to myself too 2018 and I don't know if I'm just it's actually the 10th year of Encompass Live we're about to have a birthday cake a little so yes and we'll talk about how long I've been here or whatever that all means about anything beyond that so definitely do 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