 Welcome back everybody to the 3 o'clock Central Time Hour of Big Talk from Small Libraries 2015. This is a reminder, and for those of you who just joined us, we will happily take questions for the speaker via the questions and answers section of your GoToWebinar interface, or via Twitter with the hashtag BTSL. We are monitoring that, so if you have any questions or comments, feel free to submit them either way. There's no active chat room to watch, that is just the limitation of the software that we are using. Everything is being recorded and will be posted sometime starting next week as we get everything edited and recorded. And oh yes, the slides and the video will be up next week. Thank you, Christa. So with that, I'd like to welcome our next speaker, Janet McAllister. She is the director of the Rochester Public Library in Illinois. She is doing a talk here on kickstart community caring, excuse me, wow, kickstart community caring. Welcome, Janet, and thanks for presenting this afternoon. Thank you. Hi, welcome. Thank you for joining me today. My name is Janet McAllister, and I'm the director at the Rochester Public Library. I've been at this library for two and a half years. Prior to that, I was the assistant director for 15 years at the Glen Carbon Centennial Library also in Illinois. I have presented to many library conferences, but this is my first online presentation. I'm very excited to be here, but I'm also a little terrified. So we will see how this type of presentation goes for me today. Just so that you can kind of compare maybe the library that you're at to my library. I'm the director and there are three full-time employees. I have nine part-time employees. The size of my district, the population is 7,993. My annual budget is around 400,000. We're kind of considered a medium-sized library here in Illinois, but that helps you to see how my project could be used at your library with the number of employees or the population that you might have. So I'm hoping today to share with you the project that we've created, how we implemented the project and how it's grown. I hope you leave the session feeling inspired and to try some of our deals at your library. I'm also hoping to steal some of your ideas. So if you have any programs or projects you'd like to share, please do so because there's no reason to keep reinventing the wheel. We should all be sharing each other's ideas. So kind of the background as to why we started this whole project. We thought everyone has food in their pantry with a box-tops for education and everyone would want to help their local schools, but not everyone has children in the school. Myself, my children are grown in college, but I still have box-tops that I would like to give to the school. And yeah, pretty much can't just walk into the school nowadays and say, here's my box-tops. So we thought we would be the perfect place for collecting the box-tops for those people who don't have children in the school district. So that's kind of where we started this program with and we just thought, you know, we are supposed to be the community hub. And so this is an easy way for our patrons to be able to participate in giving back to the school. So it just made perfect sense for us to start this project. So in the beginning, we did what probably a lot of you libraries have tried. We did like food for fines. We collected really more money than we waved. So it was a great program for the library to provide. We also, from that program, decided to do school supplies for fines and then donate those supplies to the local school. The other thing we tried was the Coat Drive. And this is our third year now, a picture of myself and the staff. The very first year really was a young man who said, hey, can we collect coats? And we thought that was a great idea, so we started. The last two times we've had over 100 coats donated to the library, which we thought was a great success. Also by putting it out on social media, the local news channel Good Day Illinois contacted us and they actually did a morning little five minute session with us here at the library. So it was great PR for our library. We've also, with those coats, we've given the adult size coats to a local shelter in our community. And we've also given the kids coats to a Boys and Girls Club, which is in Sangamon County. And that, giving those coats to the Boys and Girls Club really began our partnership with the Boys and Girls Club, which has really morphed into a great partnership. So when this all started, myself and my managers, we all sat together and we started thinking about who all could we use to help in the community. So trying to decide on local organizations. We are a small community, but we're right outside of Springfield, Illinois. So we decided to kind of spread our wings and see how far we could go. So we include all of Sangamon County, really. And with that, then we also, I wanted this to really kind of grow and take on its own, needed to just kind of form as it went. We didn't put restrictions and we just tried to see how it would grow with the rest of the staff's input, our volunteers, people in the community, our patrons we asked and we listened. Very important that we made sure that everyone felt vested in the program. So everyone's ideals were important to us. We decided after we made our list of things that we would like to focus on, then we also decided how much time would this take, what materials would be needed. We also thought of like if we involve patrons, what times would be convenient for them and then what the frequency of the programs would be. So we really sat down and brainstormed and just really thought of all the programs that were near and dear to each of our hearts kind of thing. And then we also really wanted to make sure that everyone felt included. So we put it out on our Facebook, we put it out in the newspaper, we're starting this program, what would you like to see us do. We made sure we just kept asking patrons, our library board members, we also asked them what would they like to have us volunteer and partner with. I think that it was a big success because everybody was on board. Everyone felt vested in the project. And I think that makes a big difference as how well a program does in your community. So some of the things that we came up, like I talked to you before about was the local schools, so the box tops for education. A lot of these numbers were from last year. We had collected over 500 box tops and turned those in. We also asked patrons to bring in games they were no longer using. Those went to a big brother, big sister. We were with the Lions Club and we collected over 140 pairs of glasses. The Boys and Girls Club, we've taken them several boxes of books and games. The Girl Scouts, we collect plastic bags for them and then they take those to the local food bank. Sangingman County Juvenile Detention Center, we've taken over six boxes of books to them. So we just keep reaching out to see who else can we help and how can we get the community to also be on board with bringing in their stuff. I think the plastic bags, we almost got to the point where I felt like we were like the Walmart where all the bags were coming back to. So you also have to realize that it can grow faster than you would think it's going to grow and to be prepared, but it's a great thing. Being that successful, I think, is what we all try to attain. So it's been really wonderful for us so far. Then I wanted to show you. This is actually our very first donation center, what it looked like. We don't have a lot of money for furniture and the budgets are tight everywhere. So we just got a very cheap plastic type shelving unit from one of your local big box stores. It was probably 20 bucks. I made sure that I used baskets that we had and any baskets I could go find for like 50% off coupons. Then we just created the flyers. And if we wouldn't have had any money, we could have just set boxes out there. So really funding your money shouldn't keep you from doing this project because you can do it on very little funds. But we decided that some of our programs that we wanted to continue them every month, the box tops for education, the eyeglasses for the Lions Club, those kind of things we wanted to always be taking that we didn't want to just offer, like we'll take those in on a certain month. Those were things that we wanted to continue. So we needed a spot for them to go and this is what we created. So just so that you can get an idea of what we are doing, so you can kind of think about your community and maybe some of these are ideas that you could use in your library. We have the American Cancer Society. They have head scarves that you can make and donate to them. And we have a local Girl Scouts group who was very interested in participating in this. And the Girl Scouts alone made 14 of the head scarves. And we have many patrons who liked to sew who also donated towards this. So sometimes it's the organizations, the Girl Scouts who derive what we're collecting for. If they come in and say, can we do this, we're absolutely happy to participate with them. Another one that we did, and that one took very little time for our staff. We just had the basket out there with the information along with the pattern. And we just sat it out there and really it was the Girl Scouts that they collected them. They're the ones who sent them off and very little time and effort really on our part. Breast Cancer Awareness was a fun thing in our area. And I don't know if any of you have a local slum that's participating in something like this. But they supplied a plain white bra to, I think there were about 150 organizations in Singham and County that participated. And every organization or business would decorate that white bra. And you'd put like a little quote with it or a saying. And then you would tell everyone of your friends to go to their site and vote for your design. And it was $5 per vote. And then that money that they collected went to local salons that supplied scarfs and wigs for cancer patients. So again, they gave us the bra. We decorated it. We put it out on Facebook to promote it. It was just another way that we could reach out, be part of the community. And it was a little fun thing that we did. And for most of us, a lot of us have had somebody close to us who Breast Cancer has affected someone. So it's something that we all felt really that we wanted to participate with. I was a little bit on the fence about because it was a bra. I wasn't sure how my board would feel. But you know what? We were just like, it's Breast Cancer. We're going to do it. So it turned out really well. And we're going to do it again next year. So another one that the Forever Home Feline Ranch was I'm sure you have some kind of a rescue site near you. And this one we kind of accidentally kind of fell upon it. We collect fleas for Project Linus. And we had someone donate fleas that had cat and dog hair on it. And we knew we couldn't use that for Project Linus. So we thought who could use us. And local cat rescue of course could use it for their bedding. So someone donated something and we thought we can't use it for what we intended. But how else can we use it? So continuing to think outside the box is really important also. One of our pages that works at the library is in 4-H. And they asked if we could collect Prairie Farms milk caps. And so we thought that would be a great one to help for 4-H. So it was very easy. Patrons just brought in their little blue caps and we collected them. You put them on, there was an online where we just put the code in. Very, very little work on the library side for that. Autism Society is another one that's very close to our hearts. We have several young people in our community who volunteer, who are on the autism spectrum. So we like to do whatever we can for them to help them out. And so this one was just for a month. We asked everyone to donate a dollar. Then we put ribbons up at the CERC desk with people's names on them. And then the money went to the Autism Society of Illinois. So another easy, we just printed out some of the ribbons and we just collected the money. So not a lot of library time, very easy for us to do. Even if you have a smaller staff, the Alzheimer Association was a project that was patron driven. We had a patron come in and ask if we could walk with her for this project. And so the money was raised through their website so there was no real work for the staff. Well, unless you don't call walking 3 miles work, but we did. And I have to say that most of my staff participated in that. We were all very happy if a patron asked for something. We really embrace it and we just really want to help them. So we were all very happy to participate and we will be doing that again this year. On to the next one. So we do have other projects that we do like for a monthly donation. So some of them would be, we did the outlet, which was bicycle recycling. And in the picture was my youth director and the director of the Boys and Girls Club and the outlet. And that's one of our, we took the codes that were donated and we met this gentleman and found out that on top of being the Boys and Girls Club director, he also has created a nonprofit called the outlet and he mentors young men teaching them bike repair. So we held a bike bicycle recycling on a Saturday. They had their vehicle out there. We had the big signs. All we did was promote it and people were able to bring their bikes to our parking lot on a Saturday. The cycle outlet took those bikes and then young men fixed them and they're able to learn skills of bicycle repair and just as a great mentoring project. From that project, Michael donated a brand new bike to the library for our summer reading program. So something that came out of that project that we never even thought about or had planned for, that we had a really nice prize for our summer reading group. And Michael brought a van full of kids from the Boys and Girls Club to participate in our summer reading program. So we just have a really great partnership with them now and it all started with our code drive. So you just never know when you start these projects like how they're going to grow, where they're going to go. And I kind of like them just to let it lead us and not put to me restrictions so that it can go where it needs to go and grow the way it should. And you may also be partnered with Toys for Tots. This year we included with our local fire department as a great way for us to partner together and have a holiday program along with collecting the Toys for Tots. It was another easy way where they will bring out the box for you, they will come pick the box up. It's just you're promoting and you put it on your web page and Facebook and Twitter and newsletters and bookmarks and to be able to get the information out to the community. We just started this year, we did the dub trees. There's a local domestic violence shelter in Sangamon County. And we have these trees that we put in the hallway leading into the library. And I thought instead of decorating them with ornaments, we're going to put the dove birds on there and the shelter actually provides those doves already made and cut out. And on the one side it will tell you what the item is that they are looking for. So it can be children's items or it can be adult items. So we collected over 200 items and we were just so thrilled because it was our very first year. We weren't really sure. They sent us like 50 of those doves and I was just like, oh wouldn't it be great if most of those doves got taken off and the gifts were given to the shelter. And I was just completely overwhelmed with the generosity of our community to give over 200 items. So that was just a, you know, it just shows you that people do you want to give and a lot of times there's not really sure where to give or what to do. So having it out there so easy, you know, at least every couple weeks they're in, you know, checking out their books and getting their stuff. So it's right there. They're walking right past it. It just makes so much sense that we're doing this. From the dove tree we always try to think of what next, what can we do next. So this year we have one of our autistic volunteers. He lives in a facility and has no family. My staff is wonderful and we all donated our funds to make sure that he had a nice Christmas this year. But with that I was thinking there has to be, you know, other young people living at that institute that don't have family. And so my plan is to hopefully be able to partner with the Hope Institute next year so that we can include a tree that would be specifically for that group of young people that are living at the Hope Institute. So I think that's important too is that we're always thinking ahead of, okay, we did this. This was great. What can we do next year? How can we do it better? People really do want to do good, I think, and feel like they're making a difference and helping. So I really feel like we're the perfect place for this to be happening. The next one was another project that we tried the first time this year. It's the Festival Trees that happens in Springfield and it's a huge event. That was my very first time to even go there. It's amazing. I'm sure if you look around you will find some of these kind of programs that maybe you don't think are really library, but you can find a way to make it work for you. So I said to my staff, let's decorate a tree and put our tree out there. And it went way beyond what I thought could have happened with it. I had volunteers help create the ornaments that we placed on the tree. We kind of went with the library thing, so we did, you know, book pages. It was so great because then everybody kept saying, hey, how about do this? Why don't we do this? Because everyone was so excited to make this tree wonderful and to reflect on the library. So we went out there and I had no idea how huge of an event this really was, but there were over 108-foot trees decorated by organizations. There were four-foot trees or reeds or centerpieces. So really whatever your budget would allow you, you could participate in. All these trees, reeds and centerpieces are there for people to come in and view and enjoy and Santa's there and they have cookies and just everything. But when it comes down to what the fundraiser really is, is the trees are purchased and by different levels of sponsors. We were very excited to find out that a platinum sponsor, who was someone who was given $4,000, picked our tree. On top of that, they were a radio station. So then we got even more PR out of this. It was just, we did it just to be out there so when the kids were walking by, they're like, there's the library. I didn't really even think further that we would have, you know, a radio station could pick us and that we'd be on the radio. And then the radio station decided that they were going to do a contest and they were going to give the tree away to a deserving family. And then we found out that a five-year-old young boy who had brain cancer and his family was too busy to really, with taking him back and forth to St. Louis for his treatments that they really were not even going to be celebrating Christmas. And so the radio station took our tree and put it in that young boy's house. So it was just like one of those really good, feel-good moments that you're just like, wow, our tree, you know, is hopefully making his holiday a little bit brighter. So with that, we also, I wanted people to go out there and see our tree. So I thought, what could we do? And so I, while I was out there, I picked up a Memorial Festival tree's tote bag and so I had it on display here and it was, we created flyers and said, go out, see our tree, you know, I tried to give them kind of location where's that. Share it on Facebook, your picture of you and your family standing in the tree and we're going to pull out a winner, one name will be a winner and you'll get the tote bag. So, and it was so much fun to watch the Facebook page and to see the people who are out there standing in front of our tree taking their pictures. And that is myself and my husband when we went out there and took our picture. It's just a really, it's something you wouldn't have thought the library to be involved in, but really it's just about us being out there in the community and people seeing us. So I think it was a great PR and then the whole outcome of the young boy getting our tree just couldn't have made me any prouder to be part of this library. So some more of our community donations that we're working on and we had to do little dresses for Africa. We asked patrons to donate pillowcases and we actually have a craft section in our library where we have people can bring in their crafts, their leftovers, their leftover yarn, their leftover material and then they can choose things that are on the shelves and take them. So we have a kit out there where we leave the directions, the pattern and pillowcases and we actually have a very quiet sewing machine and patrons can actually come in and create those little dresses. So they have an opportunity to donate the pillowcases, they have an opportunity to work on the dresses. And then once we collect them, we will send them to the organization that actually takes those dresses to Africa. I posted this information and I would say within a couple weeks we had a dozen dresses made and I was so excited and the pillowcases we just kept getting more and more so it was really fantastic and I thought that was wonderful. What I have just found out is that at one of the local church group of ladies are meeting to create dresses and they are also collecting the pillowcases. They were hoping by the summer to give us 200 completed dresses. They are already past that goal so I was just told that by the summer they are hoping to give us 500 completed dresses. I mean I just can't even, I'm just like that is so amazing and I was so excited with 12. I don't know what is inspiring and it's wonderful and I'm very pleased with that beyond pleased I think. But what really drew me to the pillowcase stresses was that you don't have to be a seamstress. It's a very easy pattern of cutting out on the pillowcase and adding the strings for the ties. So it's something that you don't have to be very skilled at sewing to do so I think it appeals to a large part of our population. So I think it's something that people can go oh I can do this which I think also helps a project grow. Alison's Angel Gowns is another one. Actually my daughter is someone who pointed this one out to me. She was married a year ago and she said she wants to donate her wedding gown to this. She saw it on a Facebook group page and it was started by a lady who actually lost her child and decided that she was very grateful that her church had provided her with a dress for her child. But a lot of people don't go into the hospital thinking they're not coming home with a baby so they haven't planned that they need to have a dress or if they would like to have a dress. So I just thought it was a really great organization. So we actually take in wedding dresses. Anyone who would like to donate their wedding gown. I know it can take up a little bit of space but it's something that we've really worked on to have a nice little area where we can place them. And I have a little system that when I get to three to five gowns and I take them and meet them to pick them up. And then the other thing is they are always looking for seamstress. Now they would have to be someone who is very talented of course to make these little gowns. So I'm just really a lot of people have dresses and they put them in a box and then they never do anything with it. And I thought well this is a great way to get that gown out of your closet and do something really wonderful with it. So we just started this one. I've got my first donation sending them to her and not really very much work for us at all. Just space. A lot of times they come in boxes. Some of them haven't come in boxes and then you have to try to box them up or put them in a bag. But it's really a wonderful project and we've just tried to make a little space for it. And I think it's a wonderful program for us to continue to participate with. Project Linus is fleece donations. We put it out in the newspaper and the next thing I know I had five boxes of fleece being delivered to us. And it's really great. We've had individuals and groups create the blankets. We also our assisted living group works on them. So it's another way that we're partnering with the nursing home. And it's great because it's a very easy no sew project. Tying knots at the edges of the material. If you don't know about Project Linus, you probably do have an organization, something like that or even Project Linus, sorry, in your area. It's where they collect the blankets and then they are donated to children that are sick in the hospital. We're very lucky that we have a local quilt shop and she's actually our designated location to give to and then she gets them to the hospital. So it's real easy for us to get those to her. She's right down the road. But we, like I said, we have Girl Scout groups come in and work on them. We have people who just come in on their own and just want to sit back there and work on them. We also have these in the craft section so that they can be worked on at a certain day. And then we thought, why don't we just leave it out and they can work on it at any time? So that's where we've gotten with that. And like I said, we've had so many wonderful donations of the fleece that, like I said, we had one person who doesn't even live in our community who has sent us over five boxes full of fleece. And local shops in Springfield let us know when fleece is going on sale if we need to purchase any. So it's been a wonderful, wonderful project. So I like to go back to just talking about brainstorming and considering what your community needs. So we just sat down and thought, we are in a very, a community that is pretty well off and a lot of new subdivisions, the schools are new. It's a pretty nice little area to live in. So what could we do? What organizations do we have? We have Lions Club, we have a women's clubs groups, we have 4-H. Thinking of all the organizations we have, thinking of all the potential partners, thinking of unique projects, not just doing the food for fines and the coat drives, thinking of thinking outside the box really. The other thing is leave the building. I know that sounds very just simple, but it is, you have to know your community and you're not going to know it by sitting in your office. So you really do. Everyone is going to come to you. You need to go out to them. So go out to all your businesses. Now this community is not very, not very many businesses. So that's why we kind of go into Springfield and the Sangamon County. Just because there's only probably five or six real businesses here in this community. And we only have one gas station. We don't have a Walmart. We don't have any big stores. But the ones that we do have, it's really important that we go out and we talk with them. So they want to participate and want to help with us. Some of the other things that we do to leave the building, there's two parades in the community. One's at the 4th of July and one is the school has a homecoming parade. So we participate in both parades. At 4th of July, there's a big 4th of July carnival. We have a booth out there. There's an Old Town Fall Festival and we have a booth at that also. So we are participating in the events that are out in our community. And I think that has a big impact on your patrons. They see you. They're seeing you out everywhere. I think that we just can't sit behind our computer and think, oh, well, they'll come knocking at our door. Marketing and outreach, you have to be using everything that you can. Social media is so useful. One thing that another thing that we've started using with our social media is that I personally belong to a bunch of different Facebook groups. So I use those Facebook groups to get the information out. We use our local paper. We have newsletter. We are lucky enough that we have a newsletter that we send out quarterly. And then it's to every patron that's mailed. We have online newsletter also. We use constant contact to get our emails out to our patrons. We are Twitter. We try every way that we can to get out to the patrons to get that information to them. They're not going to participate if they don't know about the program. Word of mouth is amazing, but we also, realistically, we have to get it out in every area that we can to reach the most people. We have a great partnership with our school. They're wonderful at letting us, letting parents know what's going on here at the library. And I know that that's not every community. The previous community I was in, it was really hard to get your stuff into the school. But luckily here we are and we're the librarian at the school. We have a great relationship with her. So building those relationships, the out in the community, really important for your programs to really be their best. So I know as I've been telling you all these things, all these different ideas, can your library do it? And I just want to tell you, yes, you can. Most organizations will pick up the items that are donated. So if you're saying, oh, I don't have the time. Yes, most of them will come out and they will pick up the stuff that you have collected for them. So there's no driving. There's no your time. Little space really is needed for most of everything that I've been talking about. You can start with just one basket or a box to collect items. I know that we always seem like a lot of new projects. Everyone wants to say, no, you can't do that. No, that's not going to work. It's, oh, we've tried that before. And those things drive me crazy. It's, no, it's blast. Let's try it. Very little staff time is required. People want to give. Sometimes they just don't know where to go and you can make it easy for them. So I really do hope that you all think about some of these ideas and think about different organizations in your community and different partnerships and, you know, try to give it a try and think about, you know, think outside the box, I guess is my biggest thing is, what else can you do? Like I said, it really takes very little time. You're already, you know, putting things out in the paper. So I mean, it really is, you're already creating flyers. You're already doing some of these things that you're just, you know, adding this onto. So I would just hope that you all would, if you could take one idea that I've given you today, that would be amazing. And if you can give me an idea of something else that I could try, I would be very happy. Because I do a lot of things I don't come up with my own idea. I'm looking at other libraries, websites and other places where I can find information. Like I said in the beginning, we don't have to reinvent the will. We should be sharing our ideas with each other. So I would like to let you know that if you would like to, my website has a lot of our information on it, our programs, our newsletter. For more ideas, our Facebook, we're very social on our social media. We have a lot of interaction with our patrons. We are on Pinterest. And that's another great place to put all of our programs and projects that are going on. Twitter. We also like to try to get a lot of our information out there. Trying to hit every kind of age group. Where are our patrons at? What are they doing? Where are they getting their information? We really want to be right out there where they can find us and get our information. If you have questions, you can anytime, director at RochesterLibrary.org. I love to share my information. And like I said, if you have any programs or projects that you could share with me, I would be thrilled if you would send them to me and let me know what you're doing. What's a little bit different with this kind of an online session is generally when I speak to a group at a conference, it's in person and we can share our ideas back and forth. It's just a little different when I'm sitting here looking at my computer and saying, give me your ideas. So if you have any questions, please make sure to send them to me. I think I'm just a few minutes early getting done with the session. Oh no, perfect timing, Janet. Is it good? Absolutely. Five minutes for questions? Absolutely perfect. So actually we do have some questions from the audience and some comments. So Laura, would you like to share one or two of those? They'd like to know where and how you store all the donated items. We do have our baskets and then we do have a closet that we actually utilize for storing our extra things before the organizations come pick them up. But our organizations are really good. If I call them today, they're out by the afternoon to pick up the stuff. So generally when our baskets get full, I'm calling. And I didn't add a picture of our latest, new and improved because it's been so successful. We did spend money in getting a larger piece of furniture, a shelving unit that has enough area for probably about 10 to 12 baskets now. So we do have a bigger area where we do take the donations. And it's actually when you walk in our library right by the front door along one wall. And so it's easy for them to drop it right there and then go come into the library and do their business. Great. Thanks. I was trying to figure out where you were putting the dozen bicycles that got donated until I came. But if they're coming... Well, they actually brought their truck that day and picked them up. But the groups are coming almost immediately. They're not storing long. Exactly. I set it up with them. Absolutely. Great. We have a couple places who are saying yes that they had some programs where they did donations. One place had a mitten Manhattan scarf tree. We have donating books, two choice for tops. A knit and crochet group that donates items. So, yeah, some people are doing stuff over. I don't think quite on your scale. Yeah. That's for sure. So, here's a question. Have organizations started approaching you? Yes. Okay. Yes. They are starting to... Yeah, absolutely. Most of the shelters and the animal shelters definitely are now... We have the dog shelter. It's like, what can we come up and do? So, we're open for everything. So, yeah. Okay. And so, correct me if I'm wrong. What I've understood it is you do have... Some of these programs are kind of continual where others are, this month we're going to do X and this month we're going to do Y. How do you decide which are which? Is it just a question of scale or like bicycles constant wouldn't work versus monthly? Exactly. Yes. The bicycles once, you know, once every hover often he would ask us to do that. The things that we keep are the smaller like the box tops, the eyeglasses, the fleece. So, it pretty much kind of what really would work and what we could really achieve and what we could do. I think, you know, like the bikes, you can't keep bikes for longer than a couple days, right, when you take them in. So, so far they've kind of... It's been easy for us to just keep a handful of things that we do constant and then the other things we just focus on monthly. That way it's just a focus or even a focus on a day project that we're doing. Great. Okay. Our limited space, you know, kind of does figure into... Like I said, the dresses, the dresses are huge. So, the wedding dresses, that was the one that we really can't do all the time. So, we will say like, okay, this month we're doing dresses and I will take them in and then we'll say, you know, maybe every quarter do dresses. So, it kind of depends on each project that we're working on and how often do the organizations really want to come get those. Okay. You know, so we talk, we sit down and talk with each of the organizations and really understand like, you know, they don't want 20 boxes of books. They don't have the space for that. So, you know, we kind of sit down and really brainstorm with them, what they're looking for and what they need before we actually put it out there to the public. And Kristi, you said we got one more suggestion. Yes. You're asking for other ideas. An organization called Ethiopia Reads. So, I looked it up. It's an organization that... Their goal is providing in-language books to children of Ethiopia. And their wording is actually interesting. It says they plant libraries and they planted over 60 libraries across Ethiopia with books in their language. And so, that's something that you can donate to as well. Ethiopia Reads. Ethiopia Reads, I'll be looking into that one. All right. Well, Janet, that is our time. Thank you very much for taking time out of your day to share your library story with us. We really appreciate it. And her contact information is there on the screen. So... Thank you so much for having us. Oh, you're very welcome.