 Good morning, and welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. I am your host, Krista Porter, here at the Nebraska Library Commission. Encompass Live is the Library Commission's weekly webinar series where we cover a variety of topics that may be of interest to libraries. We broadcast the show live every Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. Central Time, but if you're unable to join us on Wednesdays, that's fine. We do record the show every week, as we are doing today, and it is then posted onto our website for you to watch at your convenience. I'll show you at the end of today's show where you can access all of those archived recordings. We both, the live show and the recordings are free and open to anyone to watch, so please share with your friends, family, neighbors, colleagues, anyone you think that might be interested in any of the topics we have on the show. For those of you not from Nebraska, welcome. The Nebraska Library Commission is the state agency for libraries in Nebraska, similar to a state library in some other states. So we serve all types of libraries in the state. So you will find things on our show that are for public libraries, K-12, academic, schools, universities, corrections, museums, anything that is a library or something to do with libraries, excuse me, could have something to topic on the show. So you can probably find something for anybody. This is also, we've been doing Income As Life for about 10 years, so we have a pretty huge backlog of archives that you can watch as well. So definitely dig into those if you want to. We do do a mixture of things here on the show, book reviews, interviews, mini training sessions, demos of services and products you think may be of interest. Sometimes we have shows that are more on Nebraska specific, things done by Nebraska Library Commission staff about services and products we offer from here. But sometimes we do bring in guest speakers. And we have guest speaker with us this morning. But first, I just do want to mention as far as what is happening with the COVID-19 and the pandemic going on, we are going to be continuing with our show. We are able to work remotely, as you can see both myself and the speaker. I'm in my office, he's at his. I work from home a lot. We are going to keep going every Wednesday morning with the show. On our Nebraska Library Commission website, I want to point out for Nebraska libraries, we do have a post here that is pinned right to the top of our blog with resources and information for libraries. And we have a specific page for this. We are, if you are in Nebraska Library and are having changes to your hours or being open or services you're offering, we have a form you can fill out and let us know. We're trying to keep track of that as well as we can. But we also do a page with resources for you, depending on if you are a library business looking for anything else that you need. For librarians, our specific sub page here for libraries, lots of information that we have gathering. We have staff here constantly keeping on our reference from keeping an eye on things that are out there that may be of use to libraries. So please do keep an eye on that if you are in Nebraska Library. If you're not in Nebraska Library, check your own state libraries and see if they're doing the same thing. So this morning on Encompass Live, we have this and I'm going to hand it over to you now and Noah will get your slides up. So I'm going to make you a presenter so you should see that pop up now. Yep. And you can get your screen going. There we go. So this morning with us is Noah Lindstrom. Good morning, Noah. Morning. He has been on the show before last fall. He is a professor, assistant professor at University of North Carolina, as well as being the director of Let's Move in Libraries. Great organization all about having, you know, being healthy, being all those kind of active things that libraries are doing. And this morning he's going to talk to us about how to add movement to library programming. And there's a lot of fun and interesting things you can do. So I think I'll just hand it over to you, Noah, to take it away and tell us how we can all do this and get more active. I think it's a problem. A lot of us are having now being locked out on quarantine, not just in libraries, but at home, too. Yeah, thanks, Krista. And I just wanted to, before I get going, if people put something in the question box, is that can I see what they write? Or is there any way for me to tell if people are commenting or writing? Oh, that's that only I can I can see that. OK, well, just just if you do have any questions throughout, feel free to just put it in the question box. And Krista, I think you'll be monitoring it. So if someone has a comment or question, I'm more than happy to address it if it comes up. I will have time for a question and discussion at the end, but definitely want this to be as participatory as possible. So if you feel free, if you have questions, just put it in there and Krista, feel free to interrupt me and say someone's asking about this. And I'll be more than happy to address it if it comes up. I will. I'm not interrupting. Not a problem. You're here. Thanks, Krista, for organizing this and inviting me. And thanks to everyone who's here. It looks like we have a little shy of a hundred. So I'm really happy to be with you all this morning. And so and I'll be going over a lot of information today. And so if you want to access the slides, they're available on my website with the link of here. And we definitely also invite you to get connected to us on social media, which you can get through the website and subscribe to our newsletter for more information about some of the things we'll be covering today. And a link to the slides. I'll also mention that since you're mentioning it right now, when we do put up the archive, I didn't mention that in the beginning. When we when we put up the archived recording of this show, we also have a link to the slides as well. So you'll have access to that from that page as well later. Yeah, thank you. And I'll just make one more quick plug. This is my new block. It's now available for order through libraries on Lemmedad, a healthy living at the library. It covers not only movement, but also food and food-based programming, which was the topic of my last Encompass Live webinar, so food and physical activity in particular, how to embrace healthy living in library programming. And so this just to kind of keep us on track, here's kind of what we're going to go over today. We'll start with just some general questions to consider. Oh, sorry, before we move into six program ideas, we'll give you some tools that you can use now. And then I'll talk about how to enact some of these ideas through partnerships that you may be able to form with the groups in your community or even regionally. And then we'll finish up by opening things up for an open discussion. Okay, so but before we get into that, I want to just acknowledge, of course, the time in which we're living, the COVID-19 pandemic, and I've been closely monitoring some of the things that librarians have been doing to keep themselves moving and to keep their community moving, communities moving. And so this is an article I came across recently in Pennsylvania, when Children's Library Assistant Laura Carson found out her family dance party at Exeter Community Library would have to be postponed. She moved it to a new space instead of her living room. And this is a picture of a library dance party, not from Pennsylvania, but actually from British Columbia, Canada. They invited families that participated in the library's dance party to post pictures. So they made it kind of like a dance challenge, post pictures of your dance move of the library dance party. And so it's just a lot that you can do virtually. Of course, people are still, even if we're required to shelter at home, one of the exceptions is for exercise. So families are still being encouraged to exercise and be active outdoors, as long as you practice social distancing. And in support of that effort, many libraries are joining the library or the bear hunt challenge. So we're going on a bear hunt. This book, this is from Ohio. And at this library in Ohio, they took it a step further and actually created printable sheets. So these are either coloring sheets that you can print from home and then color it in and write something that you're thankful for. And so they wrote, I love e-books, my library. We love our health care providers in this together, Ohio. So again, maintaining that community and encouraging movement during the pandemic. Of course, we're all trying to encourage our community members to take advantage of our online resources. But we also know that it's not healthy to be connected to technology all the time. And so this library in Michigan says it's also important to take a break outside for some fresh air. And they invite people to share their social distancing, nature break in the comments. So again, building community, encouraging people to find that balance between staying connected and taking a break from technology and being active outside. And just another example, this is from Arizona. So the library had had planned they were going to do kind of a walk run kind of support type program so to encourage families in this small town in Arizona to do more walking and do in kind of a group setting. Of course, that all got canceled with COVID-19. So they moved it to an online Facebook group. And so family members were encouraged to kind of post pictures of their walks and just again, to kind of build that community and get everyone moving together. And let's see, I think I got a message, Krista, that there's some interference for the audio. I think you may have to mute your mic. That's all right. You're sounding okay. Okay, I'm fine. Okay, I'm fine with me. I just want to... Sometimes there is issues with a good webinar when we're also with the bandwidth. I think I may have lost audio for a second. Can you still hear me? Hello, Krista? Well, I guess I'll just carry on and hope that you all out there can hear me. I don't think there's any mechanism, the way this is fed up for you to indicate to me that you can hear me, but I'm just going to assume that you can and hope for the best. And so just to kind of carry on another... Oh, hey, Krista, are you there? I think you got booted out for a second. Yeah, I think I'm back now. Okay. So I'll just continue on. All right. Yeah, I'm going to turn off my camera just to make sure everything is okay with my side. Okay. That looks like I'm back now, yeah. Okay, so I'm just going to continue on with the technical difficulties. So and then just a few more strategies that libraries are using to keep their communities moving during COVID-19. This library in Massachusetts teamed up with two local senior centers to livestream their fitness classes. So senior centers have the expertise in fitness. Libraries have expertise in technology. They got together and started livestreaming fitness classes for older adults that normally would have been offered at the senior center are now available through this partnership. And then just finding fun ways to kind of encourage families to keep moving for this library in Ireland. Posted on Facebook a library teddy doing some yoga moves. So just even though the library is closed, kind of keeping that messaging going about the importance of physical activity. So just as part of this practice, so in terms of promoting physical activity during COVID-19, stay connected to your community, to other librarians, use the resources that you have available. Don't do more than you can. I think it's really important to practice self-care and not think that you have to create a ton of virtual programming, but also don't feel paralyzed, don't feel like you can't do anything. And let's get through this together. So that's my little preface. And so now I want to go into the main topic, which is just how to incorporate movement into library programming in general. And so we'll start with just some general questions to ask yourself to get yourself started in this type of programming. And so I think really the first question you want to ask yourself is, does this program spark joy? I think too often in our culture when we think about physical activity and movement, it becomes something where at the chore it's strenuous, it's not pleasurable. We associate movement and physical activity with kind of jocks who are on the football team who are kind of just always challenging each other to lift more, do more, and look a certain way. And so I think we always need to ask ourselves that what we're doing spark joy is it creating a culture where people feel comfortable moving no matter how they look or who they are. And the other thing is to really embrace the power of play, which I'll say a little bit more about later, but this is just a picture of a parachute play program at a public library in Orlando, Florida. And a little bit later, we'll talk about how we can all play and one of the best ways to encourage movement and physical activity is to embrace the power of play. And we're also thinking about inclusion, so we can all move our bodies, there's no one, and that's your comatocinic poma. Movement is good for you and you can move in one way or another. And so there's really great resources out there about accessible physical fitness. And this is just one example from the Barrier Free Library Initiative at the New York Public Library, where through their braille and talking book library, they created a workshop specifically aimed at physical fitness with accessibility in mind. So interestingly, since they serve a population of people, many of whom are homebound, they've actually been doing virtual programming for a while. So a lot of their programs, including this one, was actually available in person as well as online. So the Haskell Library is a great resource in general to look to in terms of how to do virtual programming since they've always been doing virtual programming, given the audience of homebound individuals that they typically serve. Also, when you're thinking about accessibility, another great way to think about it is how accessible is your library for people who may be getting to it by thought, public transportation, or bicycling. And so this library in St. Louis County did a walkability assessment. So they, in partnership with St. Louis County Human Services, they invited individuals to come, participate in a one-mile guided walk to assess the safety for pedestrians of the area around the library. And that also increases inclusion and accessibility. And again, like I said, movement is for everybody. And there's a lot of great resources about accessibility and inclusion put out by the federal government here in the States. I would recommend this particular health.gov to last move your way, as well as the FEDE fees, a new Active People Healthy Nation initiative which focuses on creating an active America together. So I think sometimes, especially when I first started, let's move in libraries. Sometimes people would complain that this was promoting some sort of ableist agenda, which simply is not the case. We can all move and we all should move. Can I jump in here quickly? Yep. Hi. All right. We did have a question. And also I have a suggestion, too. It looks like the audio is still doing some weird things sometimes. So I'm going to suggest you turn off your camera, your webcam. We have a question, too. Maybe something you're going to get into, but I figured I asked it since it just popped up. Is there any research as to why libraries should be offering physical activities at times it is questioned. Is this a service that a library should even be providing? Yeah. And let me, so I have, I'm going to actually jump into, I have it much later in the presentation. Okay. Well, that's fine. If you want to just wait and get to it when you do, that's great. Yeah. You'll answer your question. No, that's, so here's the answer from the World Health Organization since the question has been asked according to Dr. Kedros Adhanam Gebreyes, who's the Director General of the Leader of the World Health Organization. He says, we must get the world moving. Increasing physical activity is not an issue that can be solved solely by the education sector or the transportation sector. Actions are needed by all sectors. So really what, what we're finding in the public health literature is that there's been over the last 20 years a major focus on what we can do together to get our communities moving. And so the idea of kind of, that this is just a responsibility of a PE teacher or a planet fitness, it's completely, it's bendy-bunked. So, so really the answer is that you have to really make a difference in terms of our physical fitness. We need multi-sectoral collaborations and libraries have being trusted, safe institutions at the heart of their communities are perfectly positioned to do that work. So I don't know if that's a... Is everybody to be involved? Not just libraries. Everybody, yep, everybody. Everybody should be involved. Absolutely, that's that. So that would be my answer to that question and kind of what the science suggests. And so just, and from piggybacking on that, so actually related to that, some of you may know there's been a huge focus on what are called safe routes to schools. So ensuring that students, that children can walk or bike or take a wheelchair to get to school. And so the Safe Route Partnership, which initially focused on accessibility for walking and bicycling wheelchair to schools, has now expanded the Safe Routes to parks and it's now coming to libraries. So here again, I think that the perfect example of kind of something that didn't start in libraries but libraries are asked to get involved in, given again the fact that they're trusted, safe institution at the heart of every community. And so Palo Alto in California actually worked with the city of Palo Alto Transportation Department to create this guide for how to walk and roll to libraries. So they have suggested routes that are safe to walk or bicycle. So people are not dependent always on driving. You can walk to get to your library and also communicating that libraries think there should be accessible routes for people to be safely active outside. And just another figure from the CDC as part of their Connecting Activity-Friendly Routes to Everyday Destinations. You'll see over here on the right side of the screen that libraries are one of those everyday destinations along workplaces, home, grocery store, park and school. So again, being safe trusted locations. Libraries are being asked to step up and alongside partners work to ensure that there are ample opportunities to be physically active throughout the day. And just continuing on with some general questions to ask yourself, we do want to make sure that we check ourselves before we wreck ourselves. And what we mean by that is that in any time there's physical activity involved, any time there's food involved, so whether you're doing a cooking class or doing a tai chi class, there is always that risk of injury. And it very rarely happens. But just in the spirit of protecting yourself in your library, it is important to have a waiver of liability form that you're asked participants to sign or at least verbally consent to. And I just include two examples here in the slide. But I have many more on my website. So if you go to let'smoveinlibraries.org and click on resources, you'll see the collection of liability forms that I've collected. So just make sure that people know that the library is not liable in case of injury, which again, based on the research I've been doing since 2016, almost never happens. But you do want to be safe. Okay, so let's go into with that kind of just some general of either questions. I would encourage you to ask yourself before you get started. Let's move into what can we actually do. And really the first thing that I would recommend is to add movement into existing literary programs that your library offers. So you're not creating new programs. You're simply adding movement to existing programs. And so a perfect example of that is Yoga Storytime. This is the picture they've been doing Yoga Storytime at the New Hanover County Library here in Wilmington, North Carolina since 2009. So 11 years of Yoga Storytime with great success. It's been hugely popular. They've trained many of their children's service of librarians to do this. And now Katie Scheer, some of you may know, has put together this story songs and stretches curriculum specifically for libraries to help them encourage them to include yoga and yoga poses into their storytime. And it's not just for children. It's not that you can do the same thing with adults through a walking book club. Last November, I worked with the American Library Association Public Programs Office to do a webinar on walking programs. And one of the programs that we highlighted was the Walking Book Club, which Gayle Borden Public Library in Elgin, Illinois has offered on a weekly basis since 2009, again, with huge success. And so you can go to that webinar to learn more about how this works. But briefly, so they take a book, they divide it into small chunks. So it's a small enough chunk that you could read because it happens every week. And so every week, people meet at the library, go for a half hour walk together, and then they discuss whatever excerpt of the book they read for the next half hour, because it really doesn't work to discuss the book while you're walking is what they found and others have found as well. What makes the most sense is to go for a walk together, then come back to the library and discuss. And over the years, they've been able to identify a lot of safe walking routes they can go on that start and end at the library. And in case of the bad weather, they actually have a partnership with a fitness center across the street that normally people have to pay to get into. But they've arranged this partnership wherein their group can actually go and walk for free in the fitness center across the street on the indoor track during bad weather. And I've seen other libraries that have done similar things with churches. So I know a library here in North Carolina, they're next to a big church. And for their walking group, when weather is bad, they just go walking around the church, which is big enough and no one's using it at the time they're doing their club. So it's a perfect partnership. So the first thing you can do is simply add movement, whether it be walking, yoga, whatever it is, add movement to your existing literary programs. The second thing you can do, as I said, is to embrace the spirit of play. And this is add games, gamification to your program. So the picture in the upper right is from Dubuque, Iowa, where they've done every once a month, for I think five or six years, they do a monthly after hours adult Nerf capture the flag program. So this is Nerf capture the flag for adults after hours in the library. It's been hugely, hugely popular. As you can see here, it's brought in a demographic of adults, specifically males in their 20s, who many of you, I'm sure, know are not typically known for being avid library users. So they're bringing in a new demographic or embracing play and they're transforming kind of how the library is perceived among a certain sector of their community. And of course, we think of play for children. So this is a picture of when the library did the comic on in Charleston, South Carolina, got the kids lifting the big dumbbells in a playful fashion. And then I'll talk a little bit more about this library lanes image in the lower right in a minute. But it's the idea of they do an Xbox Connect bowling league at this library in Brooklyn, getting older adults moving and playing and just enjoying being together. The third thing that you could potentially do would be develop new collections to support physical activity, whether it be checking out pastas to your local YMCA. Some libraries actually have fitness equipment that you can check out, borrowing sports equipment like footballs or basketballs. Just thinking of new collections you can develop at your library to support physical activity. And even thinking about how this could be part of our space. So this image on the right is from one of the branches of the Philadelphia Free Library where they have a climbing wall in the Children's Area. Some of you who went to the Public Library Association conference in February in Nashville, if you went on that library tour you no doubt know that Nashville Public Library also had a climbing wall in the Children's Area. So really embracing that spirit of play, physical activity alongside books. Here we see some walking treadmills at libraries in Phoenix, Arizona and doing some peddling and reading at a library in Texas. So thinking about how you can actually embed physical activity and movement into your physical space. And a lot of things that I hear librarians tell me I'd love to do this but I have a tiny library I don't have any space available. Well, I have an answer for that. Think about outdoors. What can you do to get people moving outdoors? Whether it be starting a garden space at your library like they've done in Cleveland, Ohio and the image in the upper left. They're working with your parks and recreation department to start a story walk initiative. So just what can you do outside the library to encourage physical activity? And then of course many libraries are offering fitness and exercise classes. And I think I see Fran Fisher in the webinar. And Fran and I worked on a program called Jerry Fifth at the Library in which we made available exercise content for older adults at over 50 small and rural public libraries. These are available by DVD or streaming media. And we found it was hugely successful and you can get more information about that program either at JerryFet.com or my website. And what we're finding is that in particular for older adults public libraries are becoming a safe place to exercise. And even if your community has say a Planet Fitness or a yoga studio what we're finding is that older adults typically do not feel comfortable going to these spaces. And the public library is typically seen as a safer place to engage in fitness and exercise. And just going back to Nashville Public Library they found this to be true over and over again. And in the annual report of the Nashville Public Library they write for 89-year-old Dean Stevens, the free yoga class she attends weekly at the Nashville Public Library has given her a newfound stability. She says her peers are often lacking. And as it says right here last year be well at Nashville Public Library delivered 1,466 classes including yoga, zumba, nutrition and meditation to 18,000 Nashvilleians. So it's happening in a big way in some of our urban libraries it's also happening in our small and rural libraries and hopefully it can happen at your library as well. And again like I said I really think the way to start with this is to embrace the power of play. And we found this already happening in a big way for early literacy. So with young children we all know it's important to have movement in programming for small children. And this has been cute so in the research backs us up for the people who actually evaluated the American Library Association every child ready to read at your library initiative concluded that librarians that were trained in the every child ready to read curriculum were much more likely to include large and small motor movement. In other words moving your body all contributing to a fun atmosphere that encourages parents and children to play together. Well guess what libraries are for all ages and if this is working well for small children why not do it for everyone why not just open up open things up. So I would say one thing you could do if you're if you're thinking about how to get started doing this for adults is to talk to your children's services librarian. What are they doing in their story time programs that you could think about doing in your adult programming. And again doesn't have to be lifting weights it could be something as simple as Tai Chi gentle movements that are accessible for everyone that can have a huge impact on the health of your community. And I think that's a method so someone asked about kind of what messaging could you use to convince your administration. I would use the methods libraries are for all ages. So if we're doing something that's impactful for one demographic why don't we do the same thing for another demographic. So if this is so successful for young children let's see if we can have similar success with older older children adults older adults libraries are for everyone. And we all can play. So this is from an after hours indoor or late night recess offered at the Arlington Public Library in Virginia where they have twister nerf cookies and mouth jump rope hula hoops yoga just really embracing kind of adults need recess to and again bringing in that that 20 early 30s demographic that typically we don't always see in our libraries. In play also built community I'm sure many of you are probably familiar with the work of Eric Kleinenberg in his block palaces for the people. If you read that block you may know that one of the things that Kleinenberg talked quite a bit about in his block is this library lanes bowling league at the Brooklyn Public Library and he actually posted a video of the library lanes program to his Twitter and really the message there's no better way to build community than moving your body together with other individuals which is essentially what the Brooklyn Public Library does in this program. So in addition to the benefits to our individual health moving together at the library built community which is again what we're being asked to do more and more. And so again it doesn't have to be anything too complicated. Going back to children this is from the youth services a shout out blog from the Wisconsin Library Association and the librarian asked have you ever finished a program and thought I needed that as much as the kids that was my feeling after a dance party yesterday dancing for 30 minutes was a great stress relief. Now I'm thinking I need to add dance parties to the regular schedule and not at the special story time break. They are easy to plan there's lots of fantastic librarian curated playlists and they help promote your music collection and again this could easily be done for adults. There's no reason why you couldn't have a dance party at your library for adults. So open it up think broad and let's dance and play in our libraries. And Jay Breary is a good resource. I'm sure a lot of you youth services folks I'll be able to know about this but they have a wonderful resources you can use if you want to do kind of a dance party story program and there's a lot of similar resources for adults. And one I once wanted to mention people often ask me about copyright concerns. And so you if you don't know Vimeo so Vimeo is a tool similar to YouTube and you can actually search Vimeo by creative content licensees or creative comments license content. So if you search Vimeo and by creative comments license you can actually find videos that you can stream in your libraries without having to worry about copyright or licensing. So here's just a dance video that you could if you wanted to you could be sharing on your Facebook tomorrow. And once things return to normal you could be broadcasting to do a free dance program at your library. That's an awesome tip. That is one thing a lot of people are very concerned about copyright in general and especially with music it's something that's so people get caught by that all the time by surprise. Yeah. Yeah. So Vimeo is a great place for video but there's a lot of there's a number of kind of aggregators of creative comments music as well. So you can you can find us so if you just search creative comments music search there's a number of search engines that will enable you to find music resources that are have been released such that you could share them widely in use for your library dance party or what have you. There's also a number of resources have been put together by our federal government here in the States that are completely open access. So go for life initiative of the National Institute on aging they've created these the sample workout videos that there's no restrictions on youth. So you could if you want to if you want to do a 15 minute workout for older adults you could just play this video and there's no restrictions and in fact I know a number of library there actually youth in go for life content for exercise programs for older adults. In Birmingham, Alabama they've been using go for life content for I think five or six years. They do it once a week on I think it's usually Friday at 10 or 11 and they have a steady crowd of people that come to work out at the library along with this content which is evidence based and from the federal government and completely free to use. The other thing you can do so I mentioned about faith earlier and again so you can incorporate physical activity into your space. So this is actually from a university but at Walsh University in Ohio they actually collaborated with the university wellness department to develop these guides to simple exercises you can do in your library and they laminated these and they put them on the end of bookshelves. They put them on tables and they just made them available. So this is just one of their so how to do a lunch so how to get up and just get up from your desk for a minute take a take a break to move a little bit and so just thinking about how you could put up in your library kind of incorporated into the space kind of reminders of the importance of periodically getting up from your table and just moving a little bit and how that can really help you in your house and just your mental well-being. And again I think one of the things that I've been really finding in my research is that the librarians that are really doing this most effectively are librarians who also make it a priority to take care of themselves and so the health of ourselves so the more that we take care of ourselves the more capable and confident we will be in terms of offering these resources to our community members and so I just want to make a recommendation that you check out the resources of my colleague and friend Jen Carson who's a library director in New Brunswick, Canada she has put together an amazing array of resources about how to embrace self-care among library workers and given that she's a yoga instructor a taekwondo instructor and just an avid advocate for physical activity a lot of her recommendations just focus on how you as a library worker can incorporate movement into your daily routines and just another great resource that I want to plug is this instant resource moving at the library which was put together through a collaboration between the Los Angeles Public Library and the UCLA School of Public Health and so this is the free video you can watch to learn more but essentially it focuses on kind of taking 10 minutes break throughout the day to just move and they have structured kind of 10 minute activity breaks that you can use to kind of both as library staff get people moving but you could do it in a community too so you could so if you have your book club so let's say you have a 60 minute book club halfway through that 60 minutes you could say all right it's time for instant recess we're going to get up and do these simple things that don't require a lot of space you just push back your chair and do instant recess everyone gets energized gets a little bit movement in and then you go back to discussing the book or whatever it may be but this is idea of having 10 minute physical activity breaks throughout the day through this kind of framework of instant recess and so the I already included this slide again so there was a question why libraries and again the answer is everyone is being asked to do this this is not about library stepping into a new role this is about libraries being part of communities and part of the response to this public health crisis it's been the world health organization says that we are living in a pandemic of physical inactivity obesity rates are soaring type 2 diabetes is soaring all the heart problems associated with our sedentary lifestyles are leading to an enormous public health crisis we're familiar with kind of fast moving public health crises like COVID-19 or the opioid epidemic this is a more slow moving but no less devastating public health crisis and since libraries are responsive to community needs we are being asked to step in and help out along with everyone else and the good thing about that is since so many different sectors are trying to work on this there's a huge opportunity to partner with others in your community to make this happen so I mentioned the national institute on aging they've released the toolkit about how entities like senior centers and others can partner with public libraries to offer exercise activities for older adults and really I would say a great way to get started is to reach out to partners and in my research the three most common partners I've seen are parks and recreation the cooperative extension and the public health department so I would say reaching out to one of those three entities would be a great way to get started and again really thinking creatively about how your space your library space could be used so the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation they actually released a video called fun and fitness and a library parking lot talking about how in Monterey Park, California the library actually allowed a local fitness group to use part of their parking lot for their weekly fitness routine in southern California it can get quite hot so community members needed a sated place to do it the parking lot had space available and so thus fun and fitness in the library parking lot was born so just being open to and excited about these unconventional partnerships you could do to increase physical activity and movement in your community and again take it outside so just this is a nature walk book club in Orlando, Florida they call books in motion they just go to a park and walk and then discuss the book at a pavilion after walking around the park so partner up so we're getting towards the end so I just want to recommend after this webinar is over talk to our colleague about one thing you may want to try to do and so that'll build accountability I've given you a ton of information so I'd encourage you to verbally tell a colleague here's one thing I want to try doing so that you've kind of committed to trying something new and ask them how you can work together to make it happen and one of the most exciting things that I've seen in my research of library is actually working together so this is at the Grand Perry Prairie Public Library this is the library in Alberta, Canada they actually partnered with the library in Oklahoma that they found was exactly 2000 in 20 kilometers or 2020 miles so since we're in 2020 let's walk 2020 miles together so encouraging people to track their mileage so they're kind of collectively walking the distance so that you can virtually travel from Grand Perry, Alberta to Tulsa, Oklahoma and back again so thinking about how you can work with other libraries to make this happen and if you want to learn more there's never been more resources on this topic I mentioned Jen Carson has written a book on it I've written a book on this Katie Shear who I mentioned has written a book so there's lots of books there's lots of resources so take advantage of them and next steps join us we do a monthly newsletter we're on social media I've been aggregating some of the virtual programs that libraries have been doing on my YouTube channel so I have a YouTube playlist of yoga balance different virtual programs libraries are offered so share what you're doing so don't just join our newsletter actually share back and we will in turn broadcast your successes try something new don't do it alone and if you're struggling ask for help ask for help from partners in your community from community members themselves and simply from other librarians and just to end with a story of success these are two of our advisory board members in Atlanta Georgia and so they were actually they got the mayor of Atlanta Keisha Lane-Thottoms to pose with them in front of Let's Move in Libraries banner at the kickoff to their summer programming in May of 2019 so dream big and big things will happen and so thank you for your time and I'm now looking forward to your questions yeah that's awesome yeah definitely reach out to whoever you never know okay we do have a bunch of some questions and comments that did come out in throughout your talk we'll start with a bottom one here because it's a you know by practice someone to know who did you recommend to partner with they got public health and parks and rec was there other yeah so the third most common partner I've seen is the cooperative extension so this is part of the US Department of Agriculture and it's different every state have a land grant university and as part of that land grant university they have county extension agents and those county extension agents are charged to increase health in their communities and they frequently do sell through nutrition and often physical activity programming and so cooperative extension was the third partner that I recommended yeah we have that here in Nebraska it's like you said through the land grant university so through our university Nebraska system and so here you look for like Nebraska extension is what you're gonna find so um yeah look for the same kind of thing in your states like you said they're gonna be possibly called something else but yeah they do great programming and ours here in Nebraska at least have historically worked with libraries and lots of different types of programs so they may already be out there wanting to do things with you like I know some of them are we do their own summer reading program programming so working with them and doing something group wide together would be cool too let's see what we got here from other questions oh we did have a couple of questions which I think you did excuse me mentioned earlier about getting a waiver what about liability with the climbing wall this is when you had that picture climbing wall does every parent sign a waiver before children are allowed on it was that would be the yeah that's a great question so um so I'll offer and I know how they do it in Nashville because I actually visited their climbing wall in Nashville and I have a picture of this that I'd be happy to share with whoever so if you email me I can send you what they actually have posted but next to the climbing wall they actually have posted here's the rules of the climbing wall and one of the one of the things that it says is that you use it at your own risk so since it is a space permanently part of the library they just have posted next to it kind of and whether or not people read it you can never be sure but they do have it posted like let it be known you use it at your own risk and so that's what they do at Nashville and and I imagine they probably do the same in Philadelphia okay because you did save earlier there was you did have some examples of waivers that you could use if you're doing something something else I mean so you could do it both ways I suppose either have them sign something or at least have it posted and sometimes just posting is enough so I think in Richland Library in Columbia South Carolina they have just a posted sign when you enter the building not about physical activity but about how you agree by entering the space to be photographed yeah so they just post they're having every single person sign for top photograph waiver they just have a blanket like you enter the building that says you may be photographed just let it be known so you don't always need people's signature sometimes just ensuring that there's some mechanism that they know they're doing this at their own risk is sufficient right so then yeah one of the someone else was asking about recommending would you recommend a waiver for programs for young kids like the dance party I mean I guess it would it would depend and so actually I mean a lot of libraries have actually told me they don't have waivers and it's precisely because so we've been doing so I mean it is interesting like when you think about so it is kind of it's a paradox in a way like on the one hand like no one ever gets concerned about like having young kids move around and dance around it's only it's only concerning when you have adults move around some libraries have actually said like we consulted with our insurance company and you know we're already doing dance programs for kids and those are covered by our existing policy we can do the same thing for adults and we don't need any waivers so some libraries have actually moved away from waivers because they're already doing it for kids and and no so I think it really depends on your jurisdiction you'd probably want to talk your insurance company to see what types of coverage you have for you you may already have this covered it's not something you need some extra work for you I think some of the concern with you know the difference between kids and adults may be you know as us adults um kids heal faster than us as we get older so let's see talk about cooperating one of our librarians here it was a formerly director at one of our libraries here in Jenoa in Nebraska said that that she had an elementary PE teacher help with this targeting program a few years ago and she offered great movement games so working for your local elementary high school your K-12 would be an option suggestion too that's great Tim yeah that's great and I love that suggestion and I probably the same thing from Kansas so um a Kansas library and as part of her summer reading she has Fitness Thursdays where she invites the retired PE teacher comes down during the summer every Thursday and does fitness games with the kids so yeah I think PE teachers both current and former are great great resources to tap into as well I think that might help too with people I mean as a librarian you don't have the training for physical stuff maybe but a PE teacher that's their job they would know the right things to do the appropriate things for different ages safety and what not how to train how to teach the different things yeah if you're worried about how to run one of these things get someone who does yeah and I I agree with that and I do think certainly when you get into more advanced things it is important to bring people in but I also think like we all know how to move our bodies we all know how to dance and get out the we go and go for a walk and so I mean there's there's things and again not everyone there is some people that are not but the vast majority of us can can do things and and you don't always need to hire a yoga instructor to start during movement programs at your library mm-hmm I'll see we do have another thank you for the tips about the streaming music and other unrestricted videos like I said Maria that was great definitely as I was saying just thanks so much for that and there's some other examples of things someone who was asking about oh and you mentioned this creating semi-permanent outdoor spaces for the purpose of movement activities and they said in their library they are planning a story walk in a small field next door to our branch so you know work out with your community is there somewhere we can do this in a park an area that already exists that isn't necessarily owned by the library and the friends of the library are an integral part in creating the garden and participating in the program great yeah yeah I think friends are great great allies supporters for that I mean parks and recreation is a common partner for these initiatives since they have that expertise and maintaining outdoor spaces yeah I mean I've seen a lot of libraries there's a lot of green ways and rails to trails going up across the country so libraries are working with green ways and rails to trails programs to have story walk along green ways and new trails that are emerging there's lots of opportunities that you can do in partnership with others yeah yeah no as I'm here says we have a story walk at the county park great partnership in their fifth year of doing it so yeah that's great and what I would say with the story walk because I often people people love the idea of a story walk I would say what really works the best from what I've seen is that you you have a partnership where you have a librarian are responsible for rotating the stories maybe on a quarterly basis and doing a kickoff program hey we got a new story let's have a kickoff celebration and then the people from parks and recreation they handle all the physical maintenance of the of the installation including if there's been some water damage and just checking on the and that's that's a partnership that's worked really well parks and recreation people they love kind of being responsible for physical things outdoors that's that's what they do and so that that partnership model I've seen over and over again be really successful and nobody's asked about this but I'll mention anyways as you're wondering about story walks we've done a couple of shows on encompass live about them so if you want to know how other places are done it you can go into our archives to look at that and also you just look online there's the story for a walk lots of information about other libraries doing this and how they've done it in their communities but it's an awesome combo I think of reading and walking as you go Yeah and the possibility of the endless I mean I think initially and most story walks are focused on story walk for children but I've seen libraries that have done poetry that are more geared towards adults I mean it's not like our rated content but the reading level is a little bit higher libraries have done history walks so they're posting information about local history so certainly you can do this is kind of children's story walk but once you get a story walk installation off you can put whatever you want into where so it doesn't always have to be children's content I remember and I'm not you mentioned that I'm remembering I think last year we had one here in Lincoln, Nebraska that was oh it was associated with a Nebraska author it might have been a Willa Cather book or something different chapters of the book were posted in windows in the different businesses and organizations downtown and you would walk from one to another reading the story as it went and so it was more adult things you'd stand a little bit longer but just a few pages at each place so yeah you definitely doesn't have to just be kid stories yeah and I love that yeah and I know we're running out of time but yeah you can also do a downtown business story walk as well which Krista mentioned and I've seen lots of libraries do that kind of I mean downtowns we know are kind of struggling in a lot of places and so oftentimes downtown businesses are more than happy to allow you to post some pages in the window and because they're they're that's building their business and you're doing that not just in one business but in all the business there's so in a great way to support downtown and main street revitalization by working with local businesses to have story walks and into windows and you mentioned poetry that's a good right now April is poetry month National Poetry Month is before and that's those are short sometimes shorter things that people can read you know quickly in a different each window so yeah right yeah it is just a little after 11 o'clock but that's okay um 11 o'clock central time we will go as long as long as it takes for everybody to get your questions asked and to anything else no one wants to wrap up with so if you do have any other questions last minute questions you want to ask get them typed into the question section but I do have one here right now so I want to know if there are any grants or something similar out there available for libraries to assist with creating fitness programming yeah so I think there's there's two main source of the funding and so it's going to depend on your jurisdiction for the national network of libraries of medicine every every state so you whether you know it or not you're you're certified the national network of libraries of medicine but in the in the greater Midwest region they're actually doing a project right now where they're making fit bits available for libraries to use for programming so a lot of libraries that are participating in this fit bit project are actually using them to encourage physical activity and movement I mean that's what a fit bit is for so the national network of libraries of medicine may have funding depending on where you're at state libraries are increasingly supporting this so I know here in North Carolina for the first time ever the state library had their LSTA funding they had a dedicated funding stream for health related programming a lot of the libraries that applied actually use that LSTA money for movement related programming so one of our library has actually applied for a grant which was funded which they used to actually work with a local bicycle shop to make bicycles available for check out at the library since the library is right along a new greenway that was recently established so encouraging people to go out and bike on the greenway by having bikes available for check out so your state library their LSTA funding the national network of libraries of medicine again it's going to depend on your specific jurisdiction if you want to send me an email I can try to identify resources specific to your area but I would say state libraries and the NNL probably your best bet in terms of funding yeah I can definitely say for here in Nebraska because I'm my department library development is one that handles our grants we would definitely do that we don't have anything that we don't usually specify that grants are for a particular purpose that's that focus but we have youth grants for excellence that anything related to kids would be children and teens would be appropriate that would be appropriate for to apply for and library we've got continuing education grants that would be more for your staff if they wanted to attend or learn how to do something they could use that and then our internship grants some of what you wanted to have an intern that would run one of these programs we would definitely approve that so definitely look to your state library and see if they are what they're offering and you can then fit whatever you want to do into that so like I said we don't specifically say we're doing it you know like what you said that some places are saying really pushing the the movement part of it but we would definitely look at those grants and most likely approve them they are well-written ones yeah oh and here's another suggestion libraries can also apply through their area agency on aging for title it's a 3D OAA funding for evidence-based programs so for the older your older patrons yeah so thanks and I'm guessing that must be Fran Fischer who wrote that and yeah he is yes Fran yeah that's a great point and Fran I know Fran I apologies for not mentioning it but I mentioned Jerry Fett so Jerry Fett is one of those evidence-based programs so yeah area agencies on aging I know I'm actually doing a small study of and I found here in North Carolina our state area agency on aging have done movement-based programs for older adults some and over 25 public libraries throughout the state already and so the area agencies on aging are always looking for spaces to offer physical activity programs for older adults some and especially in small and rural communities so spaces inevitably are the public libraries because in many places there is no senior center or the senior center has such limited hours that they can't do anything sure sure all right those are great suggestions definitely all right so that is all of the comments and questions I had for the moment if you have any last minute things you want to ask of Noah or recommend or suggest get it typed in right now while we are wrapping up we can do that anything anything last minute last you want to say Noah to wrap up your presentation no just just stay connected I mean everything that I do is dependent upon kind of information that librarians share with me so just let me know what you're doing share with me how things are going I want to be connected with you all and please stay connected absolutely all right um oh and one more recommendation I should have thought about this because I just had was able to join whether I wanted to or not AARP they offer great things I wonder if if you part they just wondering if anyone you could look at them to partner with for programs as well yeah absolutely and I'll just make a plug for AARP they actually have one of the best walk audit tools out there so if you want to do all so I mentioned that walkability program that St. Louis did so if you just type in walk audit AARP they have a ton of information that you could quickly use to do a walkability program so how yeah get people together and then go see how accessible your library is for pedestrians but that's an AARP resource that I would highly recommend hmm okay all right um oh okay Christian Minther is on she's actually our national network libraries of medicine right in Continental Region Person we know her hi Christian that says they're currently offering funding for public libraries and K-12 partnerships oh great great and the deadline is April 30th so if you're a part in the mid Continental Region Nebraska is part of that if you look for the network national network of libraries of medicines and NLM look online for their website and there are different regions that cover multiple states so I know she's in our mid Continental one does have a funding out I'm going to look for that Christian and get that posted out to our people here but yeah look for your local and students your regional and see if they are actually doing this something similar lots of great ideas and tips all right so I think we'll work on wrapping this up for today thank you so much Noah I'm glad we're able to get you on the show and you're able to still do it considering the difficult times we're in right now as I said at the beginning we are an online show as long as I can get somewhere with an internet connection and a presenter can get somewhere whether it's home work wherever we will continue with our with our encompass live great yeah thanks for the opportunity Christa so we have it's just some comments saying thanks for your time best workshop with so much information thank you so much and so there's a question will the attendees contributions be available after today's webinar if you're talking about the comments or anything I mean it's just going to be in the recording so when this recording is available anything I've read everything that everybody typed in well except for your all of your telling me that you couldn't hear me talking earlier but that's okay and I will mention that now since we did have some audio issues of the live show at the beginning when potentially we had too many things going on at the same time bandwidth wise experience shows that usually our recordings come out with everything even though we at our end even mine or Noah's and 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