 All right. Good morning and welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. I'm your host, Krista Porter, here at the Nebraska Library of Commission. Encompass Live is the commission's weekly online event. We are a webinar. We are an online show broadcast on the internet. We broadcast live every Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. Central Time. But if you're unable to join us, you can always go to our website and watch our recordings, and I'll show you where that is at the end of today's show. We get to all of our archives. All of our shows are recorded, posted to the Library Commission's YouTube account. If there are any presentations or documents or handouts or anything included, that's also posted as well. We also have links to any websites of interest that may be mentioned or the show link out to those two into our archives. We have our archives going back all the way to the beginning of Encompass Live. Encompass Live started in January 2009. So there's a lot out there. And yes, there's a lot of things that may be outdated, but we are librarians, so we save everything. And we keep it for archival purposes. So do keep that in mind when you are watching any of our archives, that some of the resources or information may be old, links may be broken, whatever. But everything has a date on it. So you know exactly when it was originally broadcast, so you can tell what's new, what's old, what you might want to look for something more recent. We do a mixture of things here on Encompass Live. Book reviews, interviews, many training sessions, demos of any services or products or resources that might be interesting. Our only criteria is that it is related to libraries, something that libraries are doing, something that we think they could be doing, something new or different that they might want to get involved in or interested in, and all types of libraries. 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We do sometimes bring guest speakers to encompass live, but we also have Nebraska Library Commission staff that do sessions on things that we are doing at its mission, and that's what we have this morning. To my left here is Alex Niter, who is our coordinator of children and young adult library services. Why is that? Well, it's written down right here. I cheat. Because it's a long title. Basically our kids in the YA version here at the Library Commission, and over on her side is Amy Owen, who is one of our information services librarians from here in our reference department. And today they're going to be talking about, you can actually see it just on the bottom of the page or blog post about it. That's just their motion for this week's show. One book for Nebraska kids, and one book for Nebraska teens, 2017. There are, you've heard of these one book programs out there. We have a little different twist on that. So I'm going to just hand over to you, Sally, to tell us about it. What's going on this year? Thank you so much. Well, I know we did this program a year ago. It is an annual program. So first thing I want to do is show you how to find one book for Nebraska kids. I'm going to put this under here. Look, if you look at your children in YA carefully, because I always lose it over here on the top. It's at the top. There we go. There it is right there. So you can click on that. Or if you can't remember just exactly where to look, you can do what I always do on the search box. That's just type one book. Lots of things come up that you can just come down here and click on one book for Nebraska kids. One book for Nebraska kids and one book for Nebraska teens. We'll take you to the same page. One book for Nebraska kids and teens. There we go. Now, I know that we have the adult program, which is called One Book, One Nebraska. And lots of cities have like One Book, One Lincoln, One Book, One Omaha. But I came up with this title because I thought this made perfect sense. One book for Nebraska kids. One book for Nebraska teens. And I'm the only one that can just let it flow from my tongue. So apparently it's my brain that thinks this is great and everybody else stumbles with it. But I don't know what to change it to. I think that's good. So this is the main page about the One Book for Nebraska kids and teens. And we have some connections here. The Library Commission has one set of books for each of the books selected since we began. This program. And the library systems have some of them because our funding was cut a while back and we don't buy as many copies. These are our book club kits that you can check out from the library commission. We're going to explore that a little bit too. But I wanted to start with the fact that last year we talked about income on a campus life about One Book for Nebraska kids. And I jotted down what was the date of that presentation so I could take it right to it. But look here. We are so familiar. That Janet is terrific. She put it right here. And my favorite thing about this is I do a lot of talking about how this all started, which I'll do a shorter version of today because if you want every detail I could ever think of you can look at that one. Sure, the entire history of it. But Tom Watson came in at almost an hour in because he was excited that his book stick dog was the One Book for Nebraska kids. So if you just click here where it says record on the link session, there you are. And do recording. I'm just going to click on this for a little bit so you don't... And then if you are wanting to see Tom Watson you can just drag this. Don't get sick. Look away if you need to. But just about... There he is. So just about here. And there he is. He takes about half an hour. He lied. He's showing us how to draw the dog takes five minutes but he was wonderful. And you can show... I should stop. You can show this to kids in your library and they will learn how to draw stick dog and his friends. And it's just so fun. Whether you're using the book for your book club kid or not. He shows you the square or rectangle. Step by step. And we were drawing him here. It was great. It was so fun. And I just want to encourage everyone to take a look at this and show it to the kids in your community. This is Tom Watson, the author, showing you how to draw the dogs. I just think that's true. And you were talking about this with your son. Yes. He took my drawings home. And he thought they were great. He thought I did it myself. And then later when we read the book, he recognized that drawing. And oh, that he knew that dog. So he was very excited. That was great. So if I click here, I'll put you a little bit of that. And back again. So just remember that the quick way to get to that session is just to go to the one book for Nebraska kids and teens page. So that was last year's, one of last year's books. That was last year's, yes. One of them, yeah. A little bit of a brief history. This all started because Sharon O'Sangda, who is one of the co- She's co-director. Director of the Center. Over the network. Yeah. And that's true. They did change. Co-director. I know she's preparing to retire, but when I first took over this position from Mary Jackson, Pam Scott and I went out to talk with Sharon about a lot of ideas. And this was one of Sharon's ideas. You don't have the one book going to Nebraska. Let's do something for kids. And so she had the suggestion for the first title and you said, yeah, let's do this. And we kind of figured out at that meeting how it might work. And then it's kind of evolved from there. And if you hold onto your, your hats, we're going to scroll way down. So don't get sick. Way down. And the first one was 2007. At that time, we said it was a two-year stint for one book for Nebraska kids. And it was Rescue Josh McGuire by Ben Michelson. And our thing, our focus has been the kids' book is for like upper elementary to early middle school age. Roughly in there. We know that kids read at many different levels in a particular age group or grade. So it depends on your group that's coming who you want to do the one book for Nebraska kids or the one book for Nebraska teens. And this is still up there because once a book has been selected, it does not expire. This is still one book for Nebraska kids 2007, 2008. And you can even talk with the kids if you decided to use this book and say, why do you think they chose this one for Nebraska kids 2007 and talk about what is it about the book that makes it something that would be good to read and discuss if you want to. So all of those games and things are still kept up to date, too. They're interactive. They were created for in that year and they're still there for you to use. Even if the kids don't read the book altogether but you want to have a puzzle for kids to do, have you ever read this book? Here's a puzzle. If you want to. At this point in time, we just chose one book a year. So that's why it's 2007-2008 because in 2008 we chose the one book for Nebraska teens. And that was The Book Feet by Marcus Zuzak. And at that point we were choosing the teen book for a high school level. And we do kind of still try to do that but we don't always get it that too high school because something can be really terrific and it will be from middle school and early high school. But still high school kids can read it. Even though the character in this book is age 10 at the beginning, it is about German people living in Germany and what is happening during the to the average German who is not a soldier or rounding up people. It's just an average person. That's why it was for older kids. Again, we have puzzles and there's also discussion questions. At this point, we didn't have activities. I think I added activities because that's something that the Golden Solar does. And activities are kind of a little different but we'll look at those in a little bit. I didn't mean to say anybody can jump in at any time with comments or suggestions or people can type in questions. At this point in time, I had a use advisory board which was made up of public and school librarians who worked with kids and teens and they read the books that were suggested and voted on the ones that they thought should be chosen. That group has fallen away because I don't have enough stuff for them to read that. And so right now, I have a group of library commission staff people who read children's books and teen books. And also a librarian out there in the field who might even be logged in today. It's Deb Covey from Mayfield. Thank you Deb. She's on the committee also and if you are interested in helping with this, just let me know. I don't want to have too many people because then it gets bogged down again. I don't want to discourage anyone who might be interested. Now we'll move up a little bit and see here it says activities. The Green Blast Sea by Ellen Claygers. We were lucky enough to have her come to the state. She offered. I mean, when you're sitting in your office and you get an email from someone that says, hey, you want me to come visit your state? And do you say no? Of course. That's just crazy. She was terrific. And so we do have, we try to have, like, offer information. So that takes us to what we know about her. Often it takes us to the author's webpage. There's something like within that too. So that would probably be a great idea to check. Thank you. That's what happens when you read pages. Oh, page on that. We'll see. Her website's there, but our sub-page that we linked to. She's moved things around. It's just probably updated since 2009. It's quite, yes. So that's another thing that when you add these, you have to go back and check these sometimes. But under, you know, we have discussion questions and recommended web pages that relate to this. The things that were happening in this book and also some puzzles again. But under activities are things that are a little bit longer things that kids might want to do that relate to the book. We pulled out some of the phrases that were in that used in that over the time. Kids don't know those anymore. Why did they say loose leaves? Loose lips, sink ships. They never had heard that. Or they may have heard it and don't know where it comes from because it's originated so long ago during the time that they weren't, you know, looking at things or, yeah, weren't alive. Like, I know some of those. I don't know any of her. Yeah. I don't know that one. Is it all? I don't know. It wasn't the fat lady. Yeah. So we just never know what you're going to encounter. And there you see all the towns that she visited and she's in Nebraska as well. And again, teens, what, sorry. Again, we're doing the two year thing. So this is our alternating between a book for kids and a book for teens. So this year it would be the alternate. And we were also fortunate that, you know, she was somebody who visited Nebraska and talked to a lot of kids in schools and public libraries. He also was wonderful. And he was working on some things while I was, I got to drive a part of the time and system administrators drove a part of the time and he was on the laptop just typing away. And he didn't tell until the end that he works better if there's lots of noise in this direction. I was trying to be really quiet. I didn't really play the radio so I wouldn't disturb him and I had done the wrong thing. Anyway, we had several of his books in the book club collection. Other titles. I've read this one online. Let's see. Okay, the last newspaper boy in America is the one book for Nebraska kids. And this is the last two year book because in 2003 13, I mean, I just went way back too far. Then we decided, oh, late confession was the 12th. See how it just has one page now. And then in 13, people have been asking me, we really need to have both of these every year. And so I said, okay, that's a good thing to do. And Aliens on Vacation was the one for kids. This happens to be one of my favorites. I love all the books, but we haven't picked one yet that I thought was terrible. But I just want, this one was just funny and I loved the situation that the boy is in. His grandmother is considered a crazy lady in their town, small town, because actually, she's a vacation location for aliens and she has to help them get disguised so they look like humans. And so with her grandson there, he has to keep the sheriff out of the way so he doesn't find out what's really going on. And the Wyethin is one of those Steampunk that you are all trying to straight, yeah. So that's a lot of fun. And that's a trilogy. That's the first book in a trilogy and I finally got all three of them. Here's where we have Mom, Boy, and Ms. Peregrine. Here's where I fell down. You can see that there are placeholders for some puzzles and things, author information that just never happened yet. I still have high hopes that I'm going to get these done because I live in a fantasy world when we say this. And so don't give up. Let's still do these books and we do have the discussion questions and the activities and we have the crossword puzzles for the kids books. So we'll try to get some other puzzles up there. We did go on hiatus for one year because obviously I was falling behind it right there. And then this last batch got right back on the course area. Stick dog and the girl was supposed to die. I believe this is where some people stepped in to help me. Is that correct? I'm not sure. Well, I might have been this year that you did some fun. And I want to get the book covers on the rest of the page too because I think that what you said, book covers probably do draw people to it. Stick dog and the girl who was supposed to die were our choices for last year. And this year now we come up here to Alpha Trans versus the Evil Librarians for the kids and Legend of Bass Reaves for the teens. I read Alpha Trans versus the Evil Librarians when it first came out because any book that says the Evil Librarians, I wanted to know more about. Yeah. And it's our local brand and center in Nebraska. And that's one reason it was chosen this year because of the Nebraska 150 we thought we should get the local author. And Bass Reaves is a well-known children and teen author about a not well known at all black man who was a marshal for many years and rounded up lots of dastardly people. It's called the Legend of Bass Reaves and I just wanted to mention a couple of things. This is a fictional account because there just isn't that much information on Mr. Reaves. So he was a real person. He was very well respected for everything he did. He arrested his own son because his son broke the law. We said that was the hardest thing he ever had to do but he did it. And he was born a slave and he ran away and ended up living with the Greeks I believe it is for oh we do have descriptions of a moment of information. But one of the things I just want to mention the author does say that he had to fictionalize this book because we don't know what he said to people we don't know how he went from this place to that place but probably it was through there, those kinds of things. So this is fictional and at the back of the book under his epilogue he says and I'm quoting here from the book each year thousands of tourists and curiosity seekers go to the grave of Billy the Kid in Fort Sumter, New Mexico the same thing happens in Deadwood, South Dakota where Wildfield Pickup is buried Warners and tourists flock to Lookout Mountain above Boulder, Colorado to the grave of William F. Coney and thousands visit the grave of Kit Carson House, New Mexico and other places. There is nothing for basteries, he lies in an unknown place in an unmarked grave ignored by Dynelop novelists in his lifetime and by Hollywood after his death. There are no monuments to him, no fox and weeping tourists, no epic films or drums of music, no last words he was there and then he was gone. But perhaps there is a suitable epitaph for him someone who didn't know him and that will be open and said about him he never shirked his duty and I thought wow that's pretty amazing that he wrote a book a fictional book about this guy who really lived and really did the things that and he based it mostly on newspaper articles and things like that to find out who he went after and who he brought in and stuff like that but it's very readable and of course Jared Paulson has to be reading I think I've wondered a while away from my list of things I didn't talk about so I'm going to go back up to you You want to talk about the evil adherents? Oh good This is also beginning of a series too. Yes and I've only read the first one I think I'm going to have to finish this series someday. The boy's name is Alcatraz Smedery and it's his 13th birthday and like it says he brings out his awesome mother's kitchen and then he gets a small bag of sand as his birthday present who wants that and a strange old man who claims to be his grandfather and all of a sudden bizarre strange things are happening and I love how I can't remember who wrote this before how he did me I love how it says his tendency to be clumsy and break things or set them on fire is actually a superpower I'm clumsy I didn't know I didn't know So my mom was late and that was a superpower in this book There you are Oh I see And the librarians are evil in this book and I think there's dinosaurs too Is this the one that was the dinosaur? Yeah So Well I'm going to go back up and then we'll come back to this and to the puzzles but I just wanted to remember to tell you about guidelines How does a book get to be a one book for domestic kids? You're going to laugh when you see the guidelines because they're not very specific Pretty broad You don't want it to be a bonus or a nominee because lots of kids are reading those anyway to vote for the golden sword Except for the team choices and parentheses because so far so good on that we're trying to get more teams to read the golden sword so this ends up being a one book for Nebraska teams We want it to be available in paperback so it's more affordable for us and for other people to buy some So you won't find any just published books that are still in hard cover? No Though there are some wonderful ones They'll be in the future Because they'll be possibilities for a future year Yeah This is a suggested age group though like we said earlier, age groups are broad, fairly broad and it has to have some good discussion points because I remember a book club for adults that I attended where all of us loved the book and nobody had a thing to say about it We sat there for 15 minutes and said Yeah, I really liked it I really liked the part where somebody said Oh yeah, that was great It was just a really entertaining read I loved it It was perfectly fine books work for a book club if you're trying to discuss things and delve deeper and say well, that was a good one let's pick something different So and then now when you get here you can return So if anyone does have any ideas for future titles suggestions and that's all the criteria you have to meet Contact Sally Snyder You can just contact me right here and say Hey, the kids in my community love doing the title and if it's not in paperback yet I'll put it on my list and hang on to it every year I'll check So that's fun I also just want to mention here we have the book sets you can just click here to get to our book club kit form so you can search for things what do we have in our book club kits and let's just do Paulson make sure it's Ian you all know it's Ian last name last name only then then a little bit to search Okay, so yes, we have other books by Gary Paulson but when we follow 3D Existence here Oh, there's one book for the last few tweets of the year So I was told that both sets are out right now, Gary Paulson's book and Brandon Sanderson's which is exciting but remember that these are here, they're available Lawn Boy was one book for the rest of the year and we have audio copies of both books too that's not just exciting So that's a way to find out more of what we have trying to be convenient here so it's all located on this page to a little diamond explain that we chose one book each year Now we'll get down to some of the puzzles just to give you a sense of what kinds of puzzles we have I'm going to turn it over to Amy for a little bit because she really did a lot of work on the puzzles for me this year because I was so far behind and I'm guilty and I'm sorry No, it was a lot of fun and I was glad to do it I just basically recreated the same types of puzzles that you had done in previous years and I used freely available puzzle generators that were for educational use I think these puzzles would be a lot of fun to do with a tile puzzle either after you've read the book or even before to kind of give you a clue of what the book was going to be about this is a scrambled quotation and you just rearrange the tiles to get the quotes and you can do either four letters or three letters to get a little more difficult We also have the answers here but I won't show you those I think that if you wanted to do these before you read the book that might build some anticipation about what the story would be about if I saw the word dinosaur in this book about magic I would want to know what's going on here Why is there a dinosaur? All those words have something to do with that title Yeah I'm in a dinosaur and you would never have thought of picking up a book about librarians and that it would have dinosaurs and other things Some of these you might want to have read them a little more to be able to answer the questions Pretty simple It was a lot of fun but I think before I think that's a good idea Yeah I added some websites for Alcatraz There really wasn't a lot out there about vasseries so I haven't added those yet I was looking for some titles, related titles but there's just not a lot of There are a few but I haven't had a chance to look at them yet so I didn't feel comfortable recommending them just yet so I can see them but there are a few and they're a student based on actual history with different finds rather than official life stories I'm not being careful of the same age group I'm not being careful of the same age group but sometimes some of these books I know, sometimes when Saul you've been on campus life and done your best books for kids and teens sessions the ones that are nonfiction or even fictionalized sometimes the books themselves have more resources in the back or something saying this was my fictionalist story but if you do want to read more about the real person go here so that could be something that we can do but like you said, unfortunately this one's done it's really hard to find anything about but I need to dig up some things that won't be useful and also I mentioned the audio copy each book we used the CV version for our book space Friday earlier this summer for Alcatraz so that's in our talking book and yeah, Braille Serves part of the library commission and the books are available for your talking books for Alcatraz for sure one of the other things I wanted just to point out here is at the top, under author information we go to Brandon Sanderson's general webpage which is great we need more of these other things, yeah but what I also like is down here Alcatraz versus the Evil Librarians home this is still his webpage but it's this particular part of it about Alcatraz and the Evil Librarians so you can just go right here and you don't want to have to hunt through this page so you can see what the series of the other titles are how many does it say here, how many more how many does it say? he tends to write five books although only four are commissioned by some of them yeah so why do you get beyond the best you know read from the Bible and now Brandon Sanderson has quite an online presence he's all over social media but he didn't find it as much about very false and no, he doesn't even have his own websites no, his is linked just to the random houses page about him as an author he has a nice picture of him he does because wouldn't you have your favorite picture? he doesn't he's got a nice one he's pretty happy there whoops well I could if you wanted to know I don't know from that so let's do it now I jumped in at the wrong time and said something about one of my favorite books that I've been chosen for one book for Nebraska kids and teens was aliens on vacation but let's ask Amy what her favorite is is there is a favorite? well I think my favorite was unwind I read it during my preschool class just horrified of the idea of a world where parents could have their children unwound bodies harvested for parts but now that I have children I kind of understand that it's probably a good idea I saw it because here at the library commission Sally just mentioned she gets a lot of books that are sent to her to review and then to use books for kids and teens which are then distributed out to our library systems to then give to libraries for free and it was on the table back there sometimes as I was walking by there's this area in the library commission which is awesome it's between where my office is and the bathroom which is good or bad depending on your point of view because I end up browsing the shelves it's all these children's and teen books and I saw it there and I've actually read it from there and I just picked it up because it was so interesting and then I bought it for myself actually library and so that is one that's on my choose read list is all of that because like you said, library is everything that's about us which would be a happier one but how many of them in the series we read just the first one because I wonder and some people out there may know it and I don't want to get away I wonder because in many situations like that there's always the rebels like the non-neighbour librarians that fight against the people eventually I don't know I can't think about that so as I think Krista said if there's a title that you think would be good for us to consider from one book for Nebraska kids or teens please just send it to me if you've used if you have looked at these levels you don't have to abuse them and you think gosh this title puzzle is fun the letter drop puzzle is fun but why don't you guys do something I haven't heard of before puzzle because I ran across the letter drop puzzle somewhere and thought this is fun just suggest it and you can even make up a puzzle for that book if you want to and we'll put it up here we'll test it first to make sure it actually works we will test it yeah we'll put it up can we read some of the discussion questions I just want to see what kind of these and now where did you get these the discussion questions from do we come up with these or sometimes with some books publishers do put together already things ahead of time for if you want to use this in a book club or for something so I'm just jumping down to stick down because of that it says with websites and this website does have discussion questions where we found it and we just put it over here and so there are always things that refer to the book and then sometimes there's some general questions like what did you think of the cover did it already win so that's why I went there and we'll go back up to these discussion questions and sometimes there more about why do you think someone will write this book series about public trust and smedery why can't I say smedery that's who you're saying it is so what makes a librarian so evil really I just don't know anything like that I'm not a hero when I was younger I might have thought that you were evil ones but at this point and so some of these are more of a question answer and some of them are more of a discussion what is an object well I'm glad they put page numbers there so we can go find them I think that's what he has on in the picture oh on the cover there are different covers of the paper back book three different covers so that's kind of fun and you're welcome anybody's welcome to use these for school or library programs I don't think we did activities for this so I'm going to just scroll down a little bit I think I said I was going to make the activities and then I just did it this is one of my favorite activities because I have a character chart that you can go to and then you put in the characters of the different dogs in the book and then maybe you can create a different dog that you think might be fun to add to the so things like this that are kind of an extension of the story and it's not anything that's right or wrong but something that kids can do if they want to that we were looking for in the activity so I think I dropped it off so it's going to vary from book to book and we'll kind of look at it just in there again so does anybody have any questions about I need to title or about running a book group how to get with teens with kids how do you do this any questions or any tips or tricks we do have one question that's come in open that's kind of two questions in one but I feel it's important how do you get fourth to sixth graders interested in a book club because that must be a hard age potentially and sometimes we have girls but seldom any boys those are that's a good question and that is an ongoing problem that's a common thing boys are harder to get involved in reading and what not as interested as about fourth to sixth graders because teens are the ones you hear about more also falling away from using the library because they have so many activities they really do so what about boys well I was going to answer the first question getting them interested in a book discussion group I would say something to do generally you know the kids who are to read because they're in your life so you got to know them and I would say talk with a few of them and say I'm thinking about this would you be interested how do you think about a word find a core group of four or five kids who love to read all kinds of things hopefully and that would be interested in having a discussion and if you want to you could start it with them just talking about books that they've enjoyed and then you can move it into okay here are some titles of books that we could get several copies and we could all read the same book which would you want if you let them choose the book that helps so but you can control it by saying here are five books which would we want to read I know a lot of libraries had great success with having their own teen advisory board which is actually made up of the teens themselves not the adults telling them what they should be reading or what they'd like to read but asking them getting them involved in the decision process yeah and that's also a good suggestion for getting teens involved because then who else at school likes to do this and they can invite them to join the other part about the boys is you have to figure out talk if you have some boys coming to your library talk with them about what is it that they're enjoying reading often boys read more nonfiction than girls this is all very general so please I read nonfiction all the time when I was a kid and I'm a girl still but find out what it is they like to read I'm thinking graphic novels are very popular with boys and girls so you might want to choose a few graphic novels some of the newer ones are really terrific I just finished one called Brave by Spetlana John Colwell about a kid in middle school who just really isn't sure if he's being bullied or not and if his friends are his friends or not and he's overweight and he has great ideas he wants to save the world but he hasn't mastered math first and it was terrific and it hits on things that would be good discussion points so if you find some things like that that can bring in both boys and girls potentially but there's not no oh food that can be messy that can you also have to think about allergies that kind of thing popcorn is a favorite because it's inexpensive messy as all get out but we'll get to that tomorrow so also refreshments whenever you're having an event or something popcorn or chips or something that's not too pricey but there's something to mention if it's after school in particular it's left to lunch after school well I felt like both books that were chosen this year would appeal to both boys and girls especially so much action involving both of them and of course the dinosaurs so essentially the dinosaurs and there's been a lot of comparisons to Harry Potter with the opera child's book a young magician and even last year with the girl who was supposed to die it's a kind of female lead but there's a lot of action there and there's her male co-star if you will so yeah I just think that the books that were chosen are appealing across both genders well that is something it isn't all part of our guidelines but it is something we try to choose something is that it's not too much for one gender something that anybody could enjoy yeah I like to that you have the descriptions and I know I think you said Amy that you wrote one of the ones for this year yeah to help people figure out do you like abduction escape in paranoia is this speedy suspenseful mystery awesome and that first line people know is this for me or is it not or is it something I mean that really helps a lot trying to get some of the kids who you might not know what they're into put together this little right up here that can help you and a lot of the time we end up with well actually every book's a potential first book for a new series anymore but we also like stick dog is the first book and I think there's eight maybe right about now we've got stick cat as it says there there's two stick cat books and also on the drop yes so that's three years as a standalone one of the two stand alone actually but then kids can go on and read more about the characters either in a group or on their own if they're interested and another thing to do is to ask the kids for suggestions now then you can go back and double check read the book yourself and make sure that what they're asking for is within the realm of what you want to present as a group read is anybody out there had any good tips or tricks or ways that you've gotten the kids routines involved in your activities in your library type into the question section here share your what you maybe you have done or are you having a difficult situation with someone we had this particular question that came in if you got something else that you're wondering about well another tricky thing about having a book discussion group is that there is no one day or time that's going to work for all the people who are interested so even people who are very interested aren't going to be able to come on Thursday afternoons or whatever time that's a tough thing and the kids are disappointed because they were excited about it whatever time and date worked for most of them the same with every program that you're planning if it's a common issue program there's probably something you want to what about someone asked here there's I've heard about online book clubs and then mostly with adults has anybody done that kind of thing with the kids or teens that's a good question so they can't necessarily be there to get the same time discussions can go online somewhere that's a good suggestion that people are trying if you have some kids who are into computers the thing about being in person is that you get that camaraderie but you can also get that financial classes from my MLS we have like art programs oh the basic skills yeah when you discuss online you can get that it's not the same but it's still there's a lot of discussion that happens and you can try that see if the kids ask them would you read the book and would you log into wherever you would house it and you can do a mixture I would assume to have the in person sessions but for those that can't they don't have to be left out say also go over here and there's a little discussion group online and we'll have email conversation back and forth about or something yes do that or you can come on and come online and tell everybody tell us about it I love that idea we're almost up to here wow that's my fast if anybody has a last minute questions you want to ask or any ideas to suggest you want to type it in any of the last things you need to just mention I think we did everything I just wanted to say again that so far we're planning on keeping all of these this page up from the first one in 2007 up through as we add to it the newest ones will be at the top of the page like this is but we're planning on keeping the pages there at this point and what I understand we still have all of the book club kids sense there might be a time in the future when because something's not being borrowed anymore we decide to discard one and we'll make note of that on this page and you'll have to round up books yourself because I don't want to promise that these will be in the book club kids forever if interest has waned and other titles are more popular it doesn't make sense just like books on your shelf after a while you just have to say goodbye and it'll be hard especially if it's anklings on vacations how everybody borrower liens on it that's your good idea I have a question when because we're now in the September so for 2017 we're getting when is the choice made for next year or did you already select it though well we kind of did a rush selection for 2018 because of our budget we want to be sure we could purchase all the book club kids for both so they have been chosen and purchased and they will be announced early January now you've made me say it sorry I was just curious about when there's all of you the one book for one Lincoln was just announced for next year this month and there's the one book for Nebraska different times of year so I was just wondering what the schedule was for how this one was chosen and then announced I've been intentionally unclear about that that's okay it could be the start of the school year but I really originally had planned it to be like the year January or the calendar year January to December though like I've said you can use any book any time and just say this is the one book for Nebraska teens for 2014 isn't that great and then each year these are the ones that we're highlighting as the ones for this year and sometimes like we did last year we can get the author on to join us if they're still alive we always try scheduling issues and whatnot you never know but we'll still be able to Brandon Sanderson's on a tour he is right now yeah we reached out but I know that he is out and about traveling so he's already looked for things at this time and see this way when we announced it in January and we get the pages and the ideas and the puzzles out and we contact the authors to let them know your book was chosen for this and they have a whole year they could we're planning on that we'll be saying so we're hoping that that will be an element for people so they'll be able to what do you say what happens next year alright well remember the one book for Nebraska teens should we will you say anything about it yet do you want to say it so to you sorry don't know if that's okay I don't remember what you wrote but we can't remember it we better not say it we don't want to get it on after everyone it's not out there early January that I'll be in big trouble but do you know that we did already as I said though if you're thinking about planning for it we did already do the purchasing for our book club kits so we will definitely have stuff available to be lent out to you when it does come out and very soon I'm going to pull together a list of books to be considered for 2019 sure just because we have 2018 decided doesn't mean we're going to stop and put our feet up but just we may want we're going to keep reading titles and so people on the committee will be getting a list from me here's some suggestions and so there'll be lots of reading happening between now and I don't know what maybe summer 2018 so again we have time to get things together get all those games and whatever I like that I have a lot of that done it goes live in January well again I'd love to hear from people for suggestions of other titles or puzzles or if you have questions that you didn't get a chance to ask now but came to you later email looks like we're about ready to hit 11 o'clock so perfect timing alright well thank you very much Amy and Sally for being with us today to talk about this this is a real fun program I've always liked this every year like I said I read them too I'm pretty open that's good so thank you everyone for attending I'll see you back in an hour see you soon see you so that will thank you for the great webinar that will wrap it up for this week's Encompass Live it is being recorded and you'll find that on our website also if you go back to the Law Requestions webpage same as anything we have here under education and training is where we have a link to Encompass Live all webcasts you can also type in here Sally Encompass and it will come up Encompass Live but also if you just google so far in the world Encompass Live is the only thing called that so you can google us use your search engine of choice and we come up with this is where you end up with it whenever you look up our show and I was going to show you right underneath them is the link to our archives Archived Encompass Live Sessions and this has our most recent ones come up first and then it goes as I said all the way back to 2009 we started I could scroll it down for one or two but I won't but it just goes all the way back we are also, this is a long list now I understand we are working on a search feature for this for my sorry Guru here he is working on that so he will be able to search for particular titles topics on here so hopefully that will be coming so we will have that in the stuff it's specific search and we have this search the entire commission, the rest of our commission website will be a search that is specific to Encompass Live's archives so hopefully that will happen so if this is last week's we will have 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