Welcome to this information services today webinar on today's information professions. This webinar addresses content from Part 2, Information Professions, specifically focusing on chapters 6, 7, 8, and 9. This webinar is part of a 10 webinar series representing the diverse authors and topics of the second edition of my book, Information Services Today and Introduction. As the editor, I am thrilled to be presenting this webinar series in conjunction with my textbook, Information Services Today and Introduction. Hearing directly from the contributing authors as they reflect and share their insight on today's information landscape is a unique opportunity to glean from their experience both the opportunities and challenges that lie on the horizon. In this article from Community to Technology and Back Again, Havens states that libraries have been and still are centers of knowledge and resources for tens of thousands of communities. They are the hubs across which networks of learning connect millions of users and all kinds of scholarly activities. Part 2, Information Professions explores the changes in specific information environments, including those that serve students through school and academic libraries, members of the community through public libraries, and clients through special libraries and information centers. Chapter 6 through 9 address both the similarities and uniqueness of the different types of information organizations where information professionals work, including school libraries in Chapter 6, academic libraries in Chapter 7, public libraries in Chapter 8, and special libraries in Chapter 9. Each chapter highlights the organization's environment, including their physical and virtual spaces and the diverse and unique communities they serve. Each chapter also addresses the specific competencies needed for successfully meeting the needs of its users. Of tremendous value to this book are its contributing authors. These authors were specifically chosen for their expertise, passion, and commitment, not only to the field of information science, but also to the professional development of tomorrow's information leaders. I would like to now introduce the panel of authors for this webinar. Mary Ann Harlan is an assistant professor at San Jose State University School of Information, and she is the coordinator of the teacher librarian program. She has extensive experience in public education, including many years working as a teacher librarian and in middle and high schools. She is the author of Chapter 6 on school libraries. Todd Gilman is librarian for literature in English at Yale University and a part-time instructor in the School of Information at San Jose State University. His book, Academic Librarianship Today, was published in 2017. He is the author of Chapter 7, focusing on academic libraries. Pam Smith is the director of anything libraries in Adams County, Colorado, north of Denver. Through her leadership, the public library system went from being the worst funded system in the state of Colorado to one of the most recognized library brands worldwide by creating an entirely new service model. She is the 2017-18 Public Library Association President and is a member of the Working Group for the Aspen Institute Dialogue on Public Libraries. She is author of Chapter 8, focusing on public libraries. Michelle Macias is government law librarian with the Department of Justice Libraries. She previously worked as the chief librarian of the Civil and Criminal Division Libraries at the Department of Justice. Macias has over 25 years of library experience working in government libraries, including in the Executive Office of the President, the Defense Technical Information Center, and the Department of Interior. She is co-author of Chapter 9 on special libraries with Crystal McGaradis, Scott Brown, Jan Knight, and Joyce Fidesco. There are six key themes for the second edition of Information Services Day, an introduction. Chapter 6, 7, 8, and 9 address four of those key themes. These chapters all provide a state, overall state, of the field beginning with the history of the information organization and key influencers to forecasting future trends and issues that will require information professionals to remain forward-thinking. They also address how libraries and information centers will remain valuable entities in their communities, but to thrive they will need to remain creative, innovative, and technologically advanced. Additionally, they address new competencies, roles, and opportunities for information professionals. And finally, they address challenges and key issues of the field and for the sustainability and essentialness of information organizations. So Marianne, Todd, Pam, and Michelle, what is your interpretation of these themes and how do they specifically relate to your chapter's content? Marianne, let's start with you. So I think the themes about where school libraries are today and the ways that they've transitioned are that they're very learner-focused. In specific, the new AASL standards, which just came out, talk about learners and they talk about learners as a whole, not just the students that enter into our doors, but that they are the teachers that we work with and the community that we are a part of. And so it centers itself very much within part of the community. There are also, one of the things I think is happening around school libraries, and I see this across a lot of different library information environments, is the complex nature of literacy. And that goes to the nature of being learner-focused. The focus is changing to interdisciplinary. And I just put a few of those types of literacies up there as far as information media and information and community technologies, literacies. These are practices that involve disciplinary literacies from all types of different disciplines and you sort of knowledge structures and bases that are part of those. And that's very much a part of the way school libraries are focusing today and the ways they see themselves fitting in to communities. And they really are future focused towards building partnerships so that it's not just the school library, that it's part of a larger community. And it's not just the school community, but how we interact with, say, universities in our area, how we work with the public institutions in our areas, how we work with parents and business communities in our area and all of that in terms of trying to build something where we're community-centered. And then finally, I think the biggest issue for school libraries is how we provide equity. Thank you very much, Marianne. So Todd, what are your thoughts? Hi. In academic libraries, the current trends are an emphasis on information literacy and technology literacy, evolving scholarly communications models, which includes digital humanities, otherwise known as DH, open access libraries as publishers, especially libraries posting open access journals. This is motivated by technological and economic disruptions to the publishing system. There are also new outreach models, which involve embedded librarians. There are new roles for librarians, such as research informationists, which are librarians who help scientists conform with data management requirements for federally funded research, and then scholarly communications librarians who help the publishers publish on campus. And then there's a big change in philosophy about collections. So the real emphasis now is on access versus ownership, because nobody can afford to collect everything. And that has motivated changes such as patron-driven acquisitions rather than buying everything in sight in the hope that someone is going to use it. Thank you very much. Pam, what are your thoughts? So I think you're going to see some similarities of the topics that we're talking about in public libraries. We are moving away from collections being the center, I think, to really focusing on people and learning. So transactions are really important. We're important, just checking books out and keeping our materials organized and on the shelf. And today it's really about the people when they walk in. 21st century public libraries really focus on 21st century skills. We're still the anchors of our community. And going back to our origins with Ben Franklin and the initial idea of a sharing library, we were actually doing a conversation in the community last year. And I had a customer say or a member of the discussion say, I think you're really going away from what Ben Franklin originally thought you should do. And I had to chuckle because we're very much the center of our communities. We're still circulating materials and sharing materials, but we're very much focused on people. We are all about collaboration, communication, critical thinking and creativity, which relates directly to 21st century skills. Our library professionals, our roles are shifting. And the things that we have to be adept at, we have to have people skills, technology skills, community relationship, building skills, partnership. So our focus is moving outside the library. And I think we're all going to be talking a little bit about that. And then transparency and accountability to our citizens and governance are key. I think that in today's age, we have to be very mindful and people are looking to make sure that we are transparent. Everything that we do, our transactions are above board and we are held accountable to our communities and we're providing excellent value. And I think that that spotlight probably because of government and governance and things, skepticism happening today, public libraries have to be even more aware of how we appear and our communication and relationships with our government structures. Thank you very much. And Michelle. Thank you, Sandy. So the three key themes I'm going to talk about are training, competencies and mission support. And so at the Department of Justice, we take two things very... We think two things are very important, professional development for our staff and training for those that we support. So I currently head the Workforce Development Committee and this is a committee where we recently worked to review competencies and we enrolled the staff to help us do that and now we're teaming with the Professional Development Committee seeking ways to ensure that we get the training we need. But again, it also comes to serving those that we work with every day because technology is changing so quickly, we have new resources all the time, electronic resources. Being able to teach those skills to our patron base is extremely important. So we develop and deliver training programs and provide instruction on the fly. The other thing I just want to cover is mission support. In federal libraries, one of the things I can speak to is that, unlike I think some of the people we've heard from already, it's really important for us to be able to capture the work that we do and convey that story to the people that hold the purse, if you will say. There's been a trend in special federal libraries that we've seen over, oh gosh, I've seen over the course of my 25 years where we are downsizing space, staff, et cetera. And so being able to convey how the work that you do supports the mission so that you can ensure viability and survivability is critical. Thank you very much, Michelle. That's an interesting point. And I think maybe Pam was alluding to some of that too in terms of the transparency and providing value. I think that that's an interesting point that you're making. I don't know, Todd and Amirian, did you have anything that you wanted to build on that or Pam? I have to say it's such a part of my thought process in terms of having to ensure that we are clear about our value in terms of advocacy because depending on the state you live in, there's jobs are being lost or have already been lost. But I don't think of it as a trend. I just think of it as something that is realistic and has been since I've been in the profession. So that's interesting that it kind of came out in terms of accountability and transparency because for me it's just an automatic. It's just something I've been doing since I went through the program at San Jose State. I would just say that there definitely isn't a greater emphasis on assessment and accountability and I'll talk more about that as we go on. Great. Thank you very much. So let's now direct our attention to today's information landscape. The first edition of this book came out three years ago and as we've been talking about there's been a lot of change in the field and the change in the field of library and information science is constantly happening. So what are some of the key changes as they relate to your chapter's content that have occurred since the first edition came out three years ago? So Marianne, we'll start with you. So and this might go a little bit to what Todd was just talking about in terms of the increased attention on assessment. But I think what there is is definitely a much more deeper understanding of a need for flexibility and responsiveness to our world. It's impossible to talk about the last year if not the last three years in terms of information literacy and school libraries and the types of literacies we're teaching about to not talk about media literacy and the emphasis on fake news but just the ways that social media has impacted the channels for information and what that means in working especially with youth. And so there's this flexibility in terms of the types of skills that we're teaching to make sure that they're skills and practices that can respond to what is immediately in front of us. I think the issues around equity are incredibly important and I see a lot more focus and issues on these changes. So just some ideas about information deserts and the ways that net neutrality has a potential to impact learning in particular but certainly geographic equity issues. And then there's just these pedagogical trends that are again swinging back into the center of our focus in education which would be things around student center learning. This sort of comes out in maker spaces, the DIY movement. All of those things are impacting the ways school libraries deliver services and how flexible they are in delivering those services so that they are not there, there are institutions that shift and change as their communities have needs. Thank you, Marianne. So Todd, what are your thoughts? I don't think there's anything new under the sun completely but I would say that I have noticed a greater and ever greater emphasis on service overall. And the way that that is playing itself out is through a greater emphasis on the liaison model of outreach and the outreach in general has become the sort of buzzword along with service that you don't, the idea that you don't sit passively waiting for somebody to approach you about a question you go out there and you do what you can to encourage people to make use of your services. So that's the chief thing. Then the thing that actually is brand new is the new ACRL framework for information literacy. So getting to the question of information literacy and technology literacy and all the evolution that is happening there. So there's a greater emphasis on active learning rather than passively receiving information, looking at information more critically than in the past. So challenging an individual's understanding of information, not just the librarian standing up there and telling them what they need to know, making them more actively engaged to have a deeper understanding of their information environment around them. There's also an ever increasing emphasis on digital humanities, which is one of the changes to scholarly communications models. Another one is open access. So making things as freely available as possible, publications so that the world has a more equitable access to the products of research. And then as I said earlier, libraries taking on the role of publishers in the wake of the devastating financial crisis that has been really decimating the academic publishing industry for decades. Libraries are finally really stepping up to the plate and there are 30% more members of the American Association of American University Presses that are now reporting into libraries as they're sort of their institutional overseer than there were even five years ago. And then finally, the idea of collections as a service.  That's a new thing. Even in the great libraries, the Harvard's, the Yale's, and along with that, one example of that is that you have a patron-driven acquisition. So you don't buy books unless somebody has a need for them. And then also cooperative collection development, the sharing of the burden of collecting across consortial groups. So groups of libraries working together. Thank you, Todd and Pam. I think public libraries are feeling a lot of pressure to move quickly, to make decisions quickly, to be more entrepreneurial for sure. And something that over the last couple of years, the library as the place of civic discourse, I think is becoming even more important. Our forums that libraries are hosting where people can come together and have conversations because it's becoming increasingly difficult to have civil conversations in society today because of how discordant things are. And so the library is that safe space where you can come together and explore ideas and talk about things in a civil manner. We had a conversation about the Vietnam War in conjunction with the ALA Ken Burns PBS TV series and we had a moderator and we had a room filled with about a hundred people, most of them are Vietnam vets, but also a fair number of people who would have been protesters during the Vietnam War. And for people to have that opportunity to talk about something that is a national wound in a way. And we really haven't talked about things, was a way for the library to open doors for people to get information in a different way. And in a way that everybody walked away, I think feeling good about it. We didn't solve anything, but it was an opportunity for people to feel like they were being heard. Definitely the interactive programming is something that is so critical to our success today. It's not just getting off to have a program where people come and listen to somebody. You come and you actually learn. And so the STEM programming, the STEAM programming, the interactive programming, my illustration is a program at the Skokie Public Library in which people are learning how to tie knots. And I think this is something that's an offshoot of years and years ago or in another generation, you might learn some of these skills from your family, your grandparents, your neighbors. And today you're learning those things at the library. So informal learning is very important to us. And we concentrate more and more on learning in the library. And then lastly, community partnerships. We cannot go it alone and we're not the experts. And so bringing in experts and talent that we don't necessarily have or working on projects collaboratively in our community in conjunction with other folks at the table, I think is becoming incredibly important to public libraries in the success. It's not just about the library being successful, but about the library being part of the success of the community. Thank you Pam and Michelle. So for today's information landscape, if I look at just the past three years and these years and where we're at today, I actually would have a broader view just because three years in government time seems to move rather slowly. But one thing that we certainly are faced with is a diminishing budget. And I've heard people say over the past years, and I think it's true, you can't do more with less. You just have to do what you can with the budget that you have. And we have figured out several ways to do that. One of them is actually has to do with where I'm sitting today. I was a manager on the staff in Washington, D.C. and was relocating to the Denver area coming back home after many years in D.C. And because we were on a hiring freeze, one of the ways we solved not being able to replace me was actually to make me a full-time virtual employee. So that's just one of the ways that we've dealt with that. Over the past 10 years, our staff has gone from 100 to 60. So you can really see where this is definitely a trend that's impacting us. We still do a great job. And then back to something I spoke to earlier, ensuring the viability of the library. One of the ways we've done that is we created our own SharePoint Reference Tracker to track the reference that we do. So we would have information, statistics, the types of questions that we're answering in a way that we can now take that information and make it into a group. Conversation and create reports with it so that we can tell people what it is that we exactly are doing for them. And an increase in electronic resources, I'll speak to that a little bit more in the next slide, but I'll just say that it really has had a big impact in the legal world. So there's less print that we can need to sort of store our warehouse. And then, again, speaking to ensuring value for taxpayers, we really need to be sure that what we're doing is value. Like, are we following our mission? Are we doing what we need to do? And are we doing it in the best way that we can with the dollars that we have? Are we organizationally efficient? Thank you, Michelle. It's interesting to hear all of you talk about your different types of changes that have happened in each of the different environments. I was wondering if you had any comments or questions or observations that you would like to make based on what we just were talking about. So I'll jump in. I've heard patron-centered collection development in academic libraries, and that's something that's critical for public libraries as well and has been for a while, but it's becoming even more important. As you know, it's impossible to collect everything. And so sharing is also important for us and making sure that we have our collections that are focused on the things that are most interesting or most interested in our particular communities. We have to focus and narrow our scope. I think that the idea of value is something that's critical for public libraries as well. We have to constantly be helping people understand what our values are and the value that we bring to the community. And it's our responsibility to be articulate about that. Thank you, Pam. I was really struck by that too. I mean, and I think each one of you talked about it in a different way, but it was there in terms of the outreach and the connection with the community that you're serving or that you're working with. And that communication of that value, I think really came through. Any, Todd, did you wanna say something? So the emphasis on service is a direct result of that because before it was okay that you just had this building full of stuff and now you have to show people all about it and tell them all about it constantly because otherwise you're not really demonstrating value. Thank you. Excellent. Well, why don't we move on then? So now let's direct our attention to the future. What trends or emerging issues will impact the field of library and information science as it relates to your chapter's topic. So thinking to the future, what do you think is gonna happen? So Marianne, we'll start with you. I really think that there's this issue of equity and I know I've mentioned it in the previous two slides, but it's just becoming a much bigger deal, particularly in public education, but in general. And recent concerns around net neutrality changes have only emphasized this, but as you see what's happening in schools, in suburban schools, in richer schools, you have one-to-one initiatives, where every student has access to a computer, you have better broadband services, you have libraries that are staffed, whereas if you go into schools in poor communities, you have understaffed or not-staffed libraries, you have old technology, and I think it's a real problem. So this equity issue around underserved communities and underserved schools is a real problem. I think one of the trends that you're gonna start to see is how we build global partnerships and how we make the world a little smaller for our students by building those global partnerships. And one of the things, and I think we saw this in what was being talked about in the last section around what's happening in public libraries, this idea of doing things, this idea of being able to complete and practice versus the knowledge that's given to you. I know for sure you see that in the ACRL framework for information literacy. It's starting to, I haven't wrapped my mind yet around the school library standards that just came out in November, but I think you'll see it there as well. So what, so that literacy is doing, not just knowing. Thank you, Marianne. Todd, what about you? The real emphasis, the real coming emphases are, in terms of new directions, data management in all of its forms, especially to do with digital resources. There's definitely an emphasis on a student assessment, which I mentioned earlier briefly, to really determine what the outcomes are. That you can't just, it's not enough just to assess what you have, how good a teacher you are, but you have to assess how good the result of that teaching is. And a new emphasis, therefore, on pedagogy and the results of pedagogy, recognizing different learning styles, making sure that the staff demographic matches the community demographic, so that students feel that they are being talked to by people that they can relate to. There's definitely a broadening scope of scholarship at various levels, as we've had to deal with the retrenchment of resources devoted to scholarship, so different things counting as scholarship. We have creation of digital archives now, working with big data. And then, like I said before, the library is working at becoming publishers. And then finally, on the technical services side of things, we have changing description tools and increased metadata needs and metadata data about data. So we have new formats, we've left behind the machine readable, the mark record, the machine readable cataloging record in favor of things that are less cumbersome to use that can describe resources. First of all, more expansively, so deal with multiple formats, but also can get books and other media into the catalog more quickly. So we've got the RDA, which stands for Resource Description and Access, FERBER, which is the functional requirements for the geographic records to bring, let's say, every iteration of the title Hamlet together under one record, and then other non-mark metadata schemas. We have evolving, could you, yeah, there you go. Evolving outreach models, we've got embedded librarians going to where the students and faculty are rather than expecting them to come to us. Research informationists that we mentioned, I mentioned before, these are the people who, librarians who help scientists comply with data management requirements, given issued by the federal government in exchange for federal funding for research. Changes to pedagogy in terms of our being, locating librarians inside course shells, like in Canvas, the librarian is now present in Canvas so that he or she can be where the students are. We have new curatorial activities involving digital preservation, so making sure that we don't lose access to ephemeral material, pre-material that is here today and might be gone tomorrow, and that analysis of data, archiving web collections that are maybe here today gone tomorrow. And then finally, making everybody into a, you know, cross-training people, so making positions that are flexible across departments. A greater emphasis on computer skills, everybody has to be super computer literate these days, and therefore also, as you might expect, more specialized. Thank you very much, Todd. Pam, what about you? So in some ways, this might sound like more of the same, but community issues really are driving library, public library strategy. We cannot make, we can't make our strategic decisions internally. They need to be connected with our external factors. And our projects, programs, collections are influenced by the needs of our community. This slide, the image on my slide is a summer school lunch program that's happening in public libraries or after school snacks that we work with local partners to be able to help ensure that the kids in our communities have nutrition. You see the libraries working and providing GED programs. Something that's been prevalent in the last year is the opioid situation in libraries being trained on how to react to that, on social workers in libraries, so that we're better prepared to actually connect customers with resources in our community. And so each community is different, and each community makes these decisions based on each library. It makes these decisions based on the needs of the community. In my own community, our Adams County is the eighth fastest growing county in the country, and our community is asking us to be a catalyst for innovation. And so that's something that is an awesome ask, and it aligns with our own energy and passion and creativity, but that's an unusual ask, I think. And shifting perceptions of the library, I think we still have a very strong brand, which is the book brand. However, libraries do that and so much more. And so it's our responsibility to help our communities understand our expanding role and impact in our peace of that success measure, our quality of life that we're offering, and how important we are to the success of the community and residents wanting to live in a particular community is dependent upon the library, but we've got to talk about ourselves in different ways. Then lastly, we're all talking about governance and funding. Again, this goes back to accountability, but in public libraries, our governance structures are varied, and some I think we need to really examine governance and what type of governance structures could we, do we prosper in? Can we do our best work? And then clearly funding, that accountability and value. And I think libraries have to work faster and harder. We have to be more innovative and we have to prove our worth over and over again. Thank you very much, Pam. And Michelle, what are your thoughts? So again, it might sound like I'm repeating myself and in some ways I am, but I'm gonna speak to diminishing budgets, a smaller footprint and increase in electronic resources and forecasting future trends. So, and I have covered the topic, certainly of diminishing budgets, but another way that we're working around that, as far as staffing, I've already mentioned my move here, but other ways are having staff who are cross-trained in areas that are maybe outside their area of expertise. So having catalogers who are now working with the web team, having catalogers have a bigger contribution to collection development, those kinds of things, really looking at collections. One of the unique things we do at the Department of Justice is we help our patrons, and by patrons I mean our litigating division, so our civil division, criminal rights, et cetera, they have a large budget for publications that they keep in their division sections. And so we, through an arrangement, will purchase those publications on their behalf. But when we do that, we're also saying to them and educating them, hey, look, you've got this particular item, but this is available in these different electronic resources and in the library, et cetera. So it's trying to help not only the library with their diminishing budget, but the entire department with diminishing budgets. A smaller footprint, certainly at the department, we have, like most government employees have been asked to downsize, and we're currently doing that. Then another way that we can deal with that is just making sure that the money that we're spending for the resources we have really are what we need, and we are somewhat turning to that model of just in time, but for us it's a little bit harder with legal resources to do that. But we're finding ways that we can do it within what resources we have available to us. And by that, I mean just a lot of the money and resources to do things like eBooks. Even an eBook is a big challenge in our technology environment. So that along with the increase of electronic resources, we have been able to move away from large, large print collections of legal resources that take up a lot of space into smaller footprint. And then I think forecasting future trends is something that one can't necessarily just do, but it's a skill that you learn through a lot of different ways. If you've got a staff, for example, we have an emerging technologies committee, and we look at the different types of technologies that are out there, and we try to figure out what we can use within the confines of our organization because we have challenges like security. We have challenges of the budget. We have challenges of being an organization with over 100,000 people, and how do you manage implementing any new technologies? And if you're the only entity within an organization that large that actually has access to everybody in the department because everybody else is siloed in these old sort of organizational ways of being, but yet that really can't change. How do you try to implement some of those future trends and do so while understanding that there's just only so much you can do, but try and be creative to do that? Thank you. So you've all outlined some really interesting future challenges and opportunities for the field. I wanted to open it up to you to see if there was anything more that any of you wanted to add or build on. If you heard something that made you think of something that somebody else said, like to open it up. I just wanted to comment on something Pam said in terms of something we've all said, which she talked about having a strong book brand but that we do so much more. And I thought that was a really interesting way of phrasing this because we're talking about what our trends are in future watching and Todd talked about providing services, like it's not just enough to have a building anymore, you have to teach people how to use them Michelle just talked about that with electronic resources and certainly I've been learner focused. And yet there is this sort of traditional branding that at least three of our information but I think all of our information environments have and this idea of not losing that while being future focused and thinking about how to bring those ideas together is I think a really important thing that we need to struggle with in our discipline. Yeah, I would add that the two of us talked about cross training and I think that that speaks to a diminishing emphasis on staff from the past. We're going to see a lot of many fewer paraprofessional positions I think in libraries because so much of the work has become more efficient and automated. And I'll talk about that in my next section too about just how to be competitive and make sure that there's a job for you. Great, thank you. So something that I often say is merging innovation with tradition is that we have this rich, wonderful place in our culture which started as a book culture and now it doesn't necessarily need to be format-based and we're expanding on that. So all of us are innovating but all of us are anchored to our origins and our traditions. Thank you, great. Well, let's move on. So now we've addressed the changes of the past few years and some of the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead but at the core of the information landscape are the people who work in these organizations providing services to the communities that they serve which leads us to focus on today's information professional. So what advice do you have for the new information professional to meet the needs of tomorrow's information landscape? And based on your area of expertise what are some of the key competencies information professionals will need to succeed in meeting the needs of their communities and organizations that they serve? So Marianne, we'll start with you. So I think the key thing is being a master learner and by that I just mean that you're always learning you're always looking at the ways that people learn and how that shifts and what that, so that you're always a part of that. And I will say, I always say that being a school librarian hasn't changed that much since when I entered the field 20 years ago but some of that is because I entered the field with this idea that I was a learner first and there are a lot of things that have shifted and you have to continue to be learning. So if you're gonna stay on top of the trends and be future thinking and see how things are changing that's really, really important that that is the way you see your position in the world. The second is that you have to be information literate. I actually prefer the ACRL frameworks I think to what I see out of the K12 framework for information literacy now they don't even use the word information literate but it's really important to understand information to be an information scientist to understand how it's created and how it's circulated and how we experience it because that will help you be a master learner and to me that's what's really important and just really finally, I do honestly think that being a school librarian is the best job in the school building.  Great, thank you, Marianne. So Todd, what do you think? I'd just like to emphasize three sort of qualities that you should have for the to be fully prepared, fully armed for the future further your education, get trained in pedagogy and work with the digital world, digital collections. So going back to furthering your education in the academic libraries there are fewer and fewer positions now than ever before this lack of emphasis on staff but there are still positions and they're very good ones to be most competitive for them you should try and get an additional master's degree. I think that I've been pushing that for over a decade and I think it's still really important. Recognize that the MLS programs as good as they are have way too much that they have to cover for all the different information environments that their students are going into. So you cannot just assume that you will learn everything you need to know in your MLS program you have to continue to educate yourself in any way you can. And just recognize that there's just greater competition than ever before for fewer positions than ever before. Second, get trained in pedagogy. Pedagogy, learning to teach and practice teaching is what we will be called upon more than anything else. When everything else becomes automated as it eventually will, the human factor will still matter in the sense of our ability to reach students through our web interfaces and through our personal interactions and that all happens through instruction in pedagogy. So get some training in instructional design, get some practical teaching experience if you can. And then finally, digital collections are what's the future? We're going to, while we're still collecting books we have to, and we will continue to collect books, the digital world is taking over. So learn about metadata, data curation, digital preservation, web archiving, learn about open access, learn about copyright, learn about intellectual property. Thank you very much, Todd. Pam, what are your thoughts? So public librarians, our roles are evolving into and at my library we call our librarians guides because our relationship with our customers is to help people along their quest to understand where they want to go, what adventure they're taking, what skill they want to learn. And then we walk side by side to help them find their path or the information that they're looking for. And so we expect again at my library for people to be wizard genius and explorers, which is very high expectations to try to live up to. Our competencies as we move into the future, and I think it's actually here, is that we need to be connectors. We need to be relationship builders. And so the personality skills, the affective skills are even more critical today than they've ever been. Professor John McKnight talks about libraries and we talked about libraries role in the abundant community and the library's ability to make those connections in our community so that people find each other or people find the, not only the information, but the people who have the information on our community. So we're those connectors, collaborators. Again, our world is a place where you have to work in a team environment. And so in order to be successful, we have to learn how to be a team player, both in our community and within our own library system so that we can bring out the very best in our teams. Curious and continuous learner. You've got to, just as Marianne said, we've got to always be learning. And as leaders in the profession, we've got to model that learning. When we hire people, we look for people who have that natural curiosity because I think that creates that sense of that endless quest for always having an interesting life and to create that spark in the community and to create that sense of possibility within our community as well. Thank you very much, Pam. So Michelle, what do you think? So yeah, I think we can all agree at level of learning. Similar to Marianne, I entered this profession just because I have always loved learning and I'm still learning today, so embrace that. One thing I heard today and I liked, or I actually read this on a blog, was the terms reskilling and upskilling, which I thought was an interesting way to describe ways that both organizations need to make sure they're viable, right? So they need to make sure that they're helping their employees do that and also as a librarian or really in any field, it's just so important to continue to learn. The other thing is professional development. I can't speak enough about professional associations and just what they can do for your career. It's a place where you may not be able to get the skills that you're getting, that you want to get on the job, but it's a place where you can certainly get them outside of your job, but yet still within the profession. And certainly reading library literature, but also I encourage people to read a wide variety of literature because you may have a discipline that, for example, for me, it's as a law librarian, but reading when it comes to sciences and medicine and anything I can get my hands on that somewhat interests me, the environment outside of what I'm already know is really, I think, important and it helps bring value not only to your knowledge and the knowledge you have, but also to your environment where you work in some way. And then I think obviously blogs are another way. And I can't say enough for just being flexible because life is changing so quickly now. We've got to be able to bend a little bit and compromise and be willing to change. And then one thing I'd like to point out is as somebody who's been a manager and been in a hiring position, I can't say enough for an enthusiasm for the profession, being enthusiastic about what you do is really important. It conveys a lot of different things. And then for me, the professional competencies that I see are communication. As Pam mentioned, you have to work in teams and everything we do at the Department of Justice Libraries really is in a team environment unless we are answering a question one-on-one. So to be able to communicate well, not only with the people you work with, but with people throughout the organization who may not have the same language as you, and to be able to figure out how you can communicate with them and being really patient about it too. And maybe you need to learn a different way to communicate. Obviously, reference and research, that's a large part of my job and actually the biggest part of what we do for the litigating divisions at the department. And collection development, again, it's traditional, but it's changing in so many ways. And just being able to continually learn about the new resources that are out there, being able to see what resources are important to your clients and what you'll need to be sure that you can give them what they need. Training and outreach, I can't say enough for it. We teach classes on legislative history on some of the work we do, like finding experts, researching experts, vetting experts, that kind of thing. But also developing training that really focuses for certain sectors of your population that you serve. Outreach, we have a marketing team. I mean, it's critical to reach the people that, for us, again, you heard me mention earlier, we're sort of siloed. We don't see each other, all 100,000 of us, and we don't all come to the library. So how do we make sure that we're getting to the people that are out there through our outreach? And the management of web and internet content, I can't speak enough to it. We have a large virtual library presence that has been developed like most libraries over the past 20 years, but that content, it's a big part of our job managing that and making sure that when people come to our website, because they are all out throughout the US and people abroad that they can get what they need somewhat and maybe in some ways more than somewhat from our virtual library. And then the impact of technology, I mean, obviously it's just huge and being sure that you understand technology, you implement it as much as you can in your everyday life and just integrate those tools as best you can. And then just touching on copyright, just understanding those laws and how they relate to your work and your organization because they can be different depending on where you're at. Thank you, Michelle. So you've all raised a lot of interesting points and about competencies that people need to be prepared for. One thing I was struck by, and this I think all of you touched on this a little bit was related to a lot of soft skill type of competencies, being a good communicator, being a good relationship builder, being flexible, being enthusiastic. I wondered if you could talk a little bit about how you envision people being able to develop those or cultivate some of those kinds of skills and be able to demonstrate that. I can answer that. I think one way that if you're a new librarian in the field, you can do it is by taking small steps. Like if you've got a team at work that's coming together for a specific task, like developing a succession plan or marketing, I think that's a good safe place to start. One, figuring out how you're going to be as a team member. And then two, taking on leading a team. I think a lot of it has to do with personal interest too though. You really need to be able to explore what that means to you. So if that's reading, if that's taking classes, if that's trying out different ways of being in the workplace and communicating, of course be a little bit careful there in the workplace. But I think having an interest is really important because it is just a skill that we're all going to need. And we've always needed it, but it's become even more important because we're communicating in so many different ways too. We're not just talking to each other. We're IAMing, we're emailing. We're working in closer proximity with each other. And so, yeah, I'll stop there. I would like to just add that I've been involved in an initiative with a group of librarian peers and a consultancy to try and define what will make the librarian of the future of say 2023, the academic librarian involved in teaching and learning. And what we're trying to do as a result of our efforts is to come up with a tool that can be used as self-assessment tool that can be used, that can be administered to employees, but that can also, that employees can have their supervisors use to assess them. So it's sort of that kind of 360 evaluation. So you assess yourself, do I have these confidence? Am I friendly? Am I, you know, am I responsive? Am I good communicator? And you assess yourself and then maybe your supervisor assesses you and says, oh, you know, well, you were right about this, but in my opinion, this could use some work. You're even better at this than you thought is other thing and that sort of thing. It's interesting that you brought that self-assessment up because I was gonna say one of the things I think is really important is reflection on your skills and strengths and weaknesses and how those play out. And I was thinking along the lines of developing relationships with mentors to help you with that self-assessment or reflection. And that's a really important way, I think that you develop those skills as you're working through and becoming a stronger professional. I think that hospitality is a word that we don't use in libraries often enough, but I think paying attention to hospitality and how we make people feel. So we don't talk about feelings or when people walk into our library, that sense of ambiance, but I think how we make people feel and how we support each other in developing hospitality skills, which is one of warmth. And that's something I think that working as a team and celebrating when you create that environment and when one of your colleagues actually hits it out of the park when you have a particularly difficult situation. But I think hospitality and warmth and feeling is really important for us to think about as a profession. Thank you very much. So I'd like to thank Marianne Harlan, Todd Gilman, Pam Smith, and Michelle Macias for joining us today in this webinar on today's information profession. I'm very grateful that you have participated and shared the advice that you did in this webinar and also made the contribution to the book Information Services Today, an introduction to the listener. I'd like to thank you for joining us and I hope that you gained a deeper understanding of some of the changes and challenges and opportunities that are within the field of Library and Information Science today. For more information, please also check out the online supplement of additional materials. There's a lot of additional information there. And I'd like to thank you all again.


Folks, we are back. Welcome on back for our final edition of Traders Talk for this calendar year 2023. Great to see all of our students and members alike. Once again, we have Abdul, Grant, we have Margaret, Phil, we have Charles, Ravina, Brad, we had John before, Brian, we had Kathleen, and a whole slew of our students joining us inside our live trading room. Of course, let me know if you can hear me folks loud and clear inside our chat board, but great to see all of us there, great to have all of us back otherwise on Facebook live, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, the works at CybertradingU for anyone that is new to the stream. Well, allow me to introduce myself. My name is Josh Levitin. I'm Faustos Senior Instructor here at CybertradingU. Welcome aboard to Robert G joining us on YouTube might I say, Roberto, might I say Roberto G. And with that, hey, if you are not subscribed just yet, be a friend, tell a friend, hit the subscribe button and always look to spread the good word of Cybertrading University at CybertradingU on all of our social media streams and platforms alike. But here we are, Tuesday morning as such coming off Christmas though, might I say again, Merry Christmas to you and yours and happy new year going forward, right? Hopefully it is a happy, healthy, most importantly healthy, but alongside those two a very prosperous year for all of us alike. So without further ado, great to see Ron, one of our new trial members joining us here. So whether you are a new trial member joining us inside our live trading room like Ron B is here today or joining us on YouTube, Facebook live, et cetera, fairly new to Cybertrading. Here every morning, traders talk or every Tuesday morning might I say, at 11 o'clock Eastern we conduct our weekly workshop traders talk. This really gives us the best outlet to go over the X's and O's as to why a stock actually made the move that it made. You know what I mean? Not just like, oh yeah, looking back at hindsight everyone should have bought at the bottom and sold at the top and oh yeah, if trading was that easy, right? You know, if you ever students call that AMD today. I'm just using this as a very quick example but hey, this is a stock that we love and you could have done really well on this trade in the morning. But you know, here in traders talk this workshop the goal of it is not for me to tell you, oh yeah, just buy the bottom here, sell the top here. Done, that's all, that's easy, right? No, yes, we are going over things in hindsight but we're breaking down real moves as they happen at least inside our live trading room. So let's talk about ARBB. This was a phenomenal pop that like probably like 20, 25 of our students collectively at the same time were in and took money on. So you know, to go over this move at least it's actually trying to push back up to $4 as I'm talking. So perhaps as we go through this trade it'll make a new move for us here. But ARBB news came out on this trade early in pre-market. What I'll do is even show my Benzinga Pro news feed.  We're gonna go over all of this trade from head to toe but this trade started in pre-market. Let's see, I don't have any news for this. I know Rich posted some news on a bunch of trades this morning and I assume that ARBB was even one of them with it being up as much as it was. But honestly, this is all I got here so far from early this morning, eight o'clock. Yeah, this is, there is no technical news out on the stock even. So that can be a little weird of trying to trade it, right? And if that's the case, teach their own, right? Everyone has their own cup of tea and if you'd rather at least have a headline out for the stock I don't blame you. So that's that. But for those that were following this in our trading room without news, well we had resistance at 250, 50 cent level right here in pre-market. It popped a little over it after eight o'clock probably some lead print that came in but otherwise really did a good number after 7.30 in the morning held pretty tightly under that level. So you know that that's like this pretty big level to work off of the more buying that comes in off that level. Perhaps it could pop. Really silly question folks. I know every one of us should get this right away but especially those of us inside our live trading room but what's the next big level above $2.50? Just regardless of the stock regardless of what book mat may look like or level three, you know what's the next assumed level after 250? Especially for cheap stock. Next 50 cent increment here that being a whole number price at $3. $3 is the next assumed level. It's had a little resistance at 265 to 70 the pre-market tippy top right there but I would say $3 is your next assumed level. Let me ask us here folks from Patrick of Dual Brad Margaret is 50 cents a big move from a cheap stock like this $2, $2.50 stock. Is that a big move 50 cents? Do you think 50 cents is big or small? Every one of us saying yes it is a big move Mark saying a huge move certainly. So why would you not think hey if it could break over 250 there is a great case to see this try and run up higher to three. You know maybe it doesn't break three maybe it has a tough time breaking three. Obviously in hindsight, captain hindsight comment this is now trading at $4.20. So in terms of just simple risk reward simple opportunity in terms of what we look for here at CTU just without even looking at what level three and eventually level four looked like at the time it's to say hey if this could break over 250 cleanly why not see a move up at least closer up to three. So hey maybe not 50 cents but if you can get 35, 40 cents out of that 42 cents that's a pretty handsome profit right? And on a thousand shares that's 400 bucks, $420. Here is the issue on this trade after 9.30. This popped and it got halted right at 9.34 like basically on the cusp of the first five minutes right there. So that's where a lot of us probably didn't have the chance to jump in. You know if you're a more experienced student if you're someone that definitely is no more successful day to day with us then perhaps you could try and take the first few minutes. Me myself I typically hold off on the first three to five minutes that's typically what I say. When I saw this pop I wanted to get filled on a pullback at 250 and it didn't give it to me. So the more it popped up I was thinking okay maybe like if there's an iceberg that comes into play I can make a new level. Otherwise three is the next price. Well this did what you all see it did here not just move up more but it got halted. So that's where I decided to take a chance when this started to come in on the HFT is just at what time is it? It was a 10 minute halt. It was right at 9.33 and 32 seconds. It was like pretty much right in that window. I said all right let's give it a shot. Now I got filled right at the high there 277 which I personally hate doing.  There's only about 6,200 shares there on level four. So right there there's not much showing even. Is there anything even above three dollars? Is there anything even above just even two dollars and 60 cents here prior to the halt? Not really don't really have any orange or yellow and certainly no dark red that would indicate a clear level of resistance really briefly. I have this up before from my coaching session with one of our students earlier Michael and he had a nice trade on CCL. Only reason I bring this up to you is because while comparing apples to oranges I think that we could all see here live today you got a big resistance at 20 bucks. I think it's a dark red line. That's easy on the eyes to call that a key level. On the ARBB after three dollars they're really or even after like 260 a year prior to the halt there wasn't much above that let alone above three. So that's where I said, all right let's give this a chance see if this can make the push up higher and if this pulls back and tanks right away after then I'll just take a small loss or break even just be quick to get out. That's not easy to say for a new student to do by the way. This certainly is more of like probably a level three stock at least given the halt. Thankfully this had good liquidity earlier today. Right now it's thinning out a little bit more as I'm talking so it looks like it's probably just more of a level four I'd say but either way in terms of how we categorize these stocks this is not a stock any new trader should be trying to jump head first into. This is not a stock that a new student of CTU should be trying to follow on a large amount of shares. You want to do it on small size that's one thing you might guess but it's already up a lot when it's reopening up here at three bucks. So if this crapped out the other way I would have had no problem getting stocked out completely break even but thankfully what this did was build higher lows that was shaking around the opening the halt print line here at 297. So certainly if not three bucks you can definitely guaranteed 100,000% say 297 is your key level going forward. It's about a 217,000 share transaction that came in on the tape. Now if you don't have level four you could actually see this the old fashioned way I do want to show that briefly if I could just on the old time in sales. So as you're watching the stock get halted well by the time it reopens up at the time 943 in like 50 seconds roughly hopefully I can get this one shot right there perfect. So it's a 217,000 share transaction it got filled at 297 by the time it was reopened up. So we teach this in our class in the phase one stock course and much further in phase two where you gotta have your eyes on the tape when it comes to seeing a stock reopening up off of a halt because this big price or this transaction creates a huge level for the trade going forward. So where this ended up shaking around on the first candle or two it began to re-solidify itself back above 297 from there we got a pretty big move shortly after. And with that I mean hey on this trade it's just to say you can scale out and the more it goes up obviously you're happy but the more it goes up you are expected for this to see a pullback right. We were saying 10, 15, 10, 30 is that infamous reversal time. We ended up getting out sooner on this trade it tried to pop over 450 it gave us a chance again but once the foot's taken off the gas pedal you know once this stock either makes a very sharp rejection or simply begins to make lower highs over time it could always pop higher but even with this iceberg order that showed up at 450 this is something that would prevent this from making the larger run up. So this was looking really strong up to five we had this order pop up here for about 22, 23,000 if it's not gonna suddenly add a nowhere make a strong push up to it which we don't expect notice the other words that we're using there to describe it this is a lower high and you're seeing the foot taken off the gas pedal a bit there. So the difference between a stock like this and a stock like Neo which is also on our morning list I mean one is up God knows how much percent the other isn't so eventually when this loses its momentum going up you're gonna see a sharper retracement and this ended up pulling back I took a small loss on this after 375, 370 level I looked for the entry it was right here even took the trade and then I went break even again on the second attempt but afterwards I didn't jump back in I was on a coaching call for one of our students we were going over a few different trades but here we are now look at this thing now looks like it moved up just kind of wrapping up this move but you know moved up pretty nicely suddenly an iceberg showed up here at 440 and although that order got pulled looks like the order got pulled the stock went right up to the price and you had the same reaction it's the same reaction that you would have had if that order was there and actually got filled you know they pulled the order but I think it was to lower those last traders in and then they just smashed the sell button at market right back down so you know hey for a stock that's up this much we saw it happen on POL just look at the daily chart this is up like a thousand percent tanked C4 was up a thousand plus percent tanked you know we had the TPST trade which I always love to show from earlier this calendar year that was up three thousand percent I think that's one of the largest moves I've ever seen in my near ten years of being with Fausto well hey ARPB is still right now up three hundred and one percent as I'm flapping my gums right now that means it was up that much more when it was pushing here so yes it could keep pushing up so long as you see something that justifies the push you know hey if it just breaks higher and people just smash through all of the sell volume here that's one thing but more so it's to see hey is there any support that could pull up is there any support that could step in here like a ladder on the buy side this was something popping up but it was on the sell side so that's what pushed this down a lot further now on this trade hey you have the VWAT price here technically at three forty five you do have this order that's been here since ten forty two eastern this morning about forty minutes ago so with saying that this area here should be our next designed support but if it just breaks right under there and then just keeps tanking there's no entry so our whole philosophy of CTU is to go with momentum right so hey I'm gonna do it folks you're gonna be annoyed I'm gonna ask you to repeat my catchphrase for me inside our live trading room so for Patrick and like Joyce and Mark I know that you're quick to the punch definitely what is my catchphrase with buying a stock my best entries to buy a stock are directly after what my best entries to buy a stock are directly after what and Leida actually summarizes it quite perfectly there so technically my catchphrase goes my best entries to buy a stock are directly after it breaks through a big level on the way up well in this case if this is going to be the bounce spot here well we actually need this to break under this level first because that's the only way it's gonna break through this level here on the way back up so in terms of seeing support you gotta see that under and over move that Leida typed in the chat room otherwise a breakout over resistance is just a break over big level it's the same exact thing so here this is just looking for support we gotta see this go under first then back over if it goes under and then tanks there's no ball there's no game to play on this trade that happens earlier on a trade I think ah jeez it's been a long morning folks you had the IINN I think it could have been on this where you know it broke through a big level and it just kept dropping right there's just zero entry so you sit there you're like alright don't feel bad about yourself you're on the right thing but if it just keeps dropping and there's no attempt from the buyers out there then we're gonna follow that meaning we're not gonna take that trade we'll just either you know either see what the next level is which honestly isn't the best plan otherwise it's more so to just say move on find another stock out there that's moving right so you know ideally that's what I would like to do now really quick we just showed book map that is level four but I want to show level three this is the NASDAQ book viewer and just right now live before I go into the question from my student Arthur here I just want to show this live right now right just want to see what the NASDAQ book viewer looks live just at least you know from from NASDAQ side here specifically there isn't really a major sell order out there there isn't anything a hundred thousand plus shares out there 50,000 plus shares you know I can't really rely on a clear level as far as what's on here right now and that's okay you know that you know just because there is not an iceberg order out there doesn't mean there won't be one that pops up it just means that right now there isn't really much that I could dictate an entry off of here at least looking at this order book you know perhaps if I expand the price fields and go down lower you know at 350 it's probably through a different ECN notice there's only only about 4,300 shares right there at 350 well just before on book map on level four technically we saw a lot more from there but that's likely because that's through a different order book or ECN a smaller one but just here in this case this rare case you're seeing a pop up just through this ECN at 350 so it's not showing on NASDAQ side notice though the column where it shows the orders well that's how you could also try and identify potential support resistance so even on the sell side actually as we go up here looking at where my cursor is on the far right at like 410 there's about 13 total sell orders out there possibly that could be a level to work off of for 40 there's about 15 total sell orders out there that could be a level of resistance to work off of definitely 450 then because that's about 37 that that's definitely a larger level above but that's where here at 350 on the buy side notice here there's about 15 16 total buy orders out there you know the size isn't impressive making up 4,300 but the fact that there's a 15 15 total buy orders out there it leads me to ask well what if there's more volume once that price gets tested so you know we talk a lot about this in our main curriculum the phase one stock course we did this actually just this past month so if you're a new new student joining ctu i do recommend for you to even go back in like the november classes the recordings on your webpage just for you to go through let's see something may have just popped up actually suddenly here give me a quick moment and this is likely through the same ecn as the order at 350 look at this whoa on level four this just popped up suddenly 141,000 share buy order just showing up right now at three dollars and 55 cents so it looks like predominantly you're seeing more orders being routed through the edgx book or the arkabook either one so right now that definitely solidifies that area support 350 ish 355 area just see if it drops down there and you know we'll see if it makes that famed under and over move over time but getting back to book viewer at least you could still identify that area as support looking at the total number of orders that make it up because looking at 15 versus one or 15 versus three or versus five versus you know all these tiny numbers there that stands out so that's how you could also identify support resistance with book viewer let's actually go through one quick example here because this one actually I took this picture this morning and it was a great snapshot how so if you're listening you'd be impressed now it's to say that we had this larger order pop up oh you know what shoot I don't know if I ended up clipping it it may have been on the uh morning meeting video I ended up doing but it was a pretty massive sell order out there it was on this II add in stock ah crap I didn't actually take the screenshot we showed it in the morning meeting though at 9 a.m. this morning well obviously it's the line pretty much right here 270 it was a 175 000 share order on the sell side and let's see even on book map if it will show because I think it did there now that was directly through nasdaq so that showed on the book viewer and it shows on book map too so this one will be pretty simple to see here about 189 000 shares in total at 270 so you know when you see 175 k pop up that was it oh this was at 851 in the morning I'm looking at here so this is probably 10 minutes before the order showed up or 15 minutes before right because it showed or no not even like five minutes damn look at that it popped up at 856 I actually took the snapshot at the time 851 it's tiny font there but ah shoot well you see it there it showed up on book viewer try and take my word for that there and suddenly if it's not going to smash through that order at 270 it's more prone to see it drop off so I bring that up to you just because the same thing to a degree happened here at ARBB at 440 showed up before it moved up to the price and you know although that order got pulled the same result happened a massive shake probably a bunch of just market sell-off profit taking there now the question is do more buyers step in and that's what you're starting to see here so this may look to get tested coming up we'll see if this ends up laddering up on the buy side too perhaps over time here but let me get back to my question here there was one from Arthur that I had from email and I wanted to kind of just go into the book viewer here with that so Arthur a was asking how do you set up the book viewer and book map he's actually asking both he's actually in perfect okay so I don't feel so bad talking as much book map there for Arthur he actually has both okay I will tell you if you got book map level four that is then technically don't really need to be following the NASDAQ book viewer this level three if you have level four already that is if you don't have level four then you definitely need to get the NASDAQ book viewer it's an utter like necessity I mentioned that right away in class so at least Arthur has both so Arthur as a as a C2 student we'll be able to get you set up on book map down the line but really here for book viewer what I want to show for everyone is really just showing you like the columns that we use so when you launch NASDAQ book viewer it's going to auto populate a lot of these columns at times and just like just kind of by default there's no save button that's the only gripe voucher and I got with this whole thing so sometimes it might give you all the numbers that you don't need so the ones that we try and focus on the columns that I you know show are orders shares and then like the price meaning bid or ask so all these others here otherwise I'm going to just take off again and it should just give you this you want to make sure that the price column here is checked off because if not it's going to look like this you want to have it checked off so right there and then filters we teach this more in the phase one stock course that I do so more kind of showing you how you could filter this based off a certain price range or certain order size and all that through the filters tab on the top left all right now book map that's definitely a bit more intuitive so that I could talk to you about more on the side perhaps just after you finish up trader's talk where I could just email you back on the side there all right uh when this is Josh screenshot my turn up on windows no it's I checked already just on my other monitor I was checking by my uh file folder and I didn't see it there so I appreciate the suggestion all right so hey II and then dumped off after that iceberg order showed up unfortunately that was a bit of a loser here this morning I had a question from another student um you know I just mentioned it at least generally speaking because they were a bit frustrated going into this week they took a lot of time to study going off of uh you know christmas and the holiday weekend hopefully they they didn't spend too much time studying right you got to spend time with family there right I'm just teasing but you know it's great that they were dipping into the classes still but they they were a bit frustrated through email and I could just tell this from my side of things so without mentioning the student it is to say that their biggest right is feeling overwhelmed by how much is moving out there in the market even before the market opens up and then once the opening bell hits basically when the market opens they say you and Fausto are really just diving into a bunch of different trades that weren't even on the list um you know makes new students like myself very frustrated how do I take advantage of the callouts being made and how do I feel like this will be something that's worth my time so that is a very good question and I do want to make mention right this is not this part is not to this student but this part is to everyone else just as a blanket comment there is a lot to digest in our classes phases one and two you know there's a lot that I teach it's a rotating cycle of classes meaning it's not the same classes we do every single month that actually makes it really boring right so a number of years back I expanded Fausto's curriculum and you know 16 classes uniquely in phases one and then 16 in phase two just one thing to mention in 2024 I'll even show you a small little snippet right here we are redesigning the curriculum it's been a little while it's going to be three months cycle instead of four that's basically what you're seeing there so it's not to say there's less to go through but we're going to be able to at least make it more efficient for the student to go through so you don't feel like you're staring up Mount Everest you know when you're going through the recordings now that is where though we will have a much greater chance to answer this question how do you build up your like personal list throughout the morning and you know really how do you just stick with that everyone is a different human being right so it's not as easy for old Josh here to tell everyone oh you got to do your best to stay focused on a group of two or three stocks and that's it there are some people here that simply don't have that in them to like they're just much more antsy to look at this look at that look at this look at that and that's just like a character trait as a person that's you know everyone is different I have my own character flaws I'm no robot come on so it is to say though that no matter what I say in this conversation I know that I'm speaking to a group of people a group of humans and not robots where I don't have a 100% expectation for everyone to just do as I say it's not as easy right so that's where beginning in pre-market you do want to take the time to be organized and scan you know if I don't if I don't have my list set up at least by 8 30 in the morning then I'll feel like my backs against the wall when it comes to prepping up those stocks that I am interested in even if I do decide to dwindle that list down to a group of two three four stocks and that's it all right well if it's 9 15 in the morning and I figure that out I only have 10 15 minutes to plot levels and that is not going to take you a long way right before them you're going to feel like your backs against the wall so one thing to do is to just simply be a present at your desk if you're able to be at your desk by 8 30 Eastern you have a full 60 minutes to grab your coffee to stretch the legs to take a step back and breathe and be like okay what's on the gainers list here what's josh calling out in the chat what's rich calling out in the chat what's on the pre-market watch list right like simply put if you're not there at your desk doing that to begin if you're you know maybe at your desk but if you're just kind of looking at the news twiddling your thumbs you're wasting time so it's not just being at your desk but it is like eventually hey what's on the gainers list let's start scanning on our own what's already on the pre-market watch list and start from there so let's say i i n n well hey we know this was a loser today that's easy to say in hindsight but after we picked the two or three stocks that we're interested in well hey let me ask us aside from just plotting levels which is so important obviously it is aside from plotting levels support resistance what is one other basic characteristic of a chart that we need to follow hint follow right so you know what's on the chart another basic you know characteristic of a trade aside from support resistance mark sam i mean of course volume there too brad but that plays into the whole buy sell side right or and plays into the whole uh support resistance thing right but trend yeah trend simple trend okay hey this popped in each 45 in the morning right looked pretty good uh i put it on the morning watch list right it was one of four stocks i put on the list at like nine o'clock nine oh five in the morning right okay leading into the market open from 850 to 930 what is that trend from 850 in the morning going into 930 the 40 minutes before not the market opens up what is that trend is it up is it down or is it flat after the big pop obviously you know around 850 in the morning all the way to 930 the 40 minutes prior to the opening bell what is that trend up down flat what do we got robert saying sideways still saying down raiment saying sideways market saying down no one's saying up that's the answer there right zero people here saying up so that leads me to say okay let's just even say down just to go with this example you could say sideways great answer just notice no one set up and if we're not really seeing much buying pressure here at this time what are we more so seeing even if you said flat what are we more so seeing if we're not seeing buying pressure momentum to the upside we're seeing selling pressure momentum to the downside right so the question you want to ask is what happens after 930 when history repeats itself now hey you could say that in relation to a pop like if there was a ton of buying here near the near the top and pre-market and it breaks over that there could be a fair entry there could be a legitimate entry right there and let me just take a look did I even remove this for me no not it okay okay so we had that iceberg at 270 again that's where we had the major resistance there really isn't much here that is signal is like any specifically large price and then you have the massive sell order popping up here anyway so to me there really isn't anything looking good here as far as like you know maybe if there maybe if it could smash over 270 that's different even before the market opens up actually look what happens it seems like this order still shows at 270 but you have a new sell order popping up it was for about 87 plus thousand shares there now since this order showed up for me on the nasdaq book viewer at the time it did lie at least go back on the morning meeting it was there we saw it all as a team then my belief is that you would see this one also at 250 so you have an iceberg at 270 and iceberg at 250 and by the time the market opens up it doesn't even false break 250 doesn't even test 250 doesn't even give you a hard time the drops off but makes it easy for us to say let's just move on right so it's not even just to assume the first breakout is where you're going to expect the run but it doesn't even give you one false breakout not even one it just makes it so easy where it's just all right drops that's it so not a bad setup if you were thinking like all right let's see your resistance turn into support but clearly once this begins to shake lower here at this time it's only 938 939 in the morning that is where you just say all right done move on and you know you don't trade it but you say all right that's it clearly the you know history repeating itself part is more in the sense of this continuing to trend down right so you know that's where otherwise ardb what made this such a great trade was well a from my trade safe when i took it from 277 this didn't break lower didn't stop me out on a break even trade thankfully this held that 297 price and kept going well even here this is like not really a safe entry it does hold support nicely around 350 but there's no guarantee it's going to come back up again you know if you take the chance it worked out but you know this was on a pretty smooth downtrend here too so over time the more this could begin to build support then perhaps there's a better trade on it or you know if there's something clearly popping up that that could be a ladder on the buy side something of that nature but yeah right now this looks like it's just pulling down towards that 355 350 here for the time being and and the v-wap and then you got the v-wap there too that's a third level right there the factor in uh robber saying if you see that coming how about buying a put so i don't think this one's optionable to start that's a very good question in terms of general strategy a if you are experienced with trading options then that would be something to cater that that that would cater to you you don't need to do that just so you know uh if you don't trade options then just realize then there is zero necessity to do that there's zero need so if this gets discussed just realize i'm assisting other traders that are interested in trading options right so to answer robert's question if i inn he's talking about optionable um yeah i mean listen if it's liquid if the option order book is liquid and you think it's not going to break higher and you jump in buying puts won't make sure you set your stop obviously because if this breaks a higher high over time hey look at what happened even earlier look what happened to c4 you know i don't know if that was optionable even but if it was imagine getting smashed on the run up here as it continues so you know on any single trade stock option you name it you got to set your stop you got to put your seatbelt on to answer robert's question full if you're experienced with trading options and you know you follow the cyber cyber trading university reversal time rule and thinking like 10 30 you can really pull back lower then there's a chance where hey if it breaks support then there's a case to see it hold resistance after dropped off nicely it's a gap fill yeah why not but that's like easy to agree on after the fact right you got to find the right level to take any trade from to start so you know hey if there is no clear level of resistance that you would buy that put from and it just drops off from a sudden price and then it goes without you so be it you know that happens to me on the way up with certain trades that buying calls or just buying the stock outright um hell that arbb popped from 250 without me initially like shit come on like this thing's got to pull back right so i had to take it from the next leg up but yeah i mean i'm not a big fan of that at least i you know if there is a trade that goes without me you can't beat yourself up for it this is one of the worst weeks to be actively trading anyway even if we had what we had today i'm still saying that because you're not expecting much so the market's not permanently closing after today tomorrow or after the end of 2023 it's going to be open in 2024 hopefully it's going to be open in 2025 too no it definitely will be and we're saying that we're always going to be able to capitalize on a new trade as long as we are at least present at our desk and at least have a good level to take the trade from to begin that is what matters most um you know hey you can look at matter right here and say oh my god this trade moved up so much how could i have gotten in well we've been calling this out as a swing trade for a long time now since back in like late august right like brian and i a bunch of us louis grant all this talking about these crypto stocks it's not just the fact that this stock moved up but we had a such a strong level that 1065 1070 go back into like july we were talking about advantage traders so once this re broke this strong level that's what allowed the entry on the trade at least allowed the opportunity to jump in you know what i mean so even if you think they're going to move up all together regardless well you got to find the right price to do it from right so you know it's just to say that i wouldn't have been as jumpy to call that out as a swing if i wasn't as keen to see that level now roblox really quick because my god chuck was talking about this earlier and i want to make sure i got this for him so i was chatting with chuck back on friday right and we were talking about roblox pushing up nicely it's one of his bread and butter stocks so the way i looked at this chart as a wow like across the whole calendar year 2023 it was like holding you know certain highs pretty nicely here you could say uh you know breaking 52 big highs or close to it here but once it broke this trend line though it was pretty choppy at first and chuck was calling it out on more thursday and friday from last week so really just these two candles it was above the line and i said wow okay it's already been chopping around it here a bit a few days you're trying to lay over it as support maybe well the more it's above it and it's closing above it then you're in good position to see a good swing trade over time i wouldn't have been as jumpy to say that if i didn't see this trend that was built off these highs back in april and then like you know july time here you could also likely say that you have a psychological level to a degree at 45 dollars five dollar increment but yeah i mean just once it's above that the trend line at you know just makes for a clean possibility at least so we'll keep an eye on this roblox at least throughout this week going into you know next week so forth but it's all based off a strong level now the level that we focus on is initially based off level three and level four uh then you could look back on your regular chart and see if there's any strong chart level to take a trade from but you know at least right now as we're talking about roblox we don't really see too big of an iceberg showing up here midday you don't normally don't see icebergs popping up out of the blue like that so you know folks if there's any other questions you got for me here definitely let me know as i've been doing this exact workshop every tuesday morning for the last nearly 10 years i realized this is one of the slower weeks of the year i don't get too many questions on this week so you know i'm not trying to end trade to talk early but definitely if there's any other questions that that you got for me let me know i got a nice trade though on sxtp stock trying to push up a little bit right now let's take a look at this live now is that book viewer here i have it filtered slightly it's on 500 shares minimum but we got 133 about 10 000 plus on the bid so technically that could be support looking at every other buy order above and below it as far as resistance looks like right around 150 you got 25 total orders making this up here between 148 and at 150 so i would simply just focus on that if you're using that as that book viewer 133 and then basically 150 no i'll even destroy the line at that 148 though but all right let's take a look at book map in just a second here and again that goes across the board for all of us at cyber trading you if you're on any of our social media streams right now as we're conducting this workshop welcome on a board just make sure if you have any questions feel free to type and then before we finish this up go another about five or so minutes here but yeah sxtp hey this ended up making nice little pop-up just a moment ago here looks like it broke over vwap price which you know for all intensive purposes could be good but it held under vwap really well from the morning here here here now it's trying to lay over it so you know for a mid morning trade late morning trade literally coming off one day from christmas where you typically don't have too many participants in the market or as many at least i wouldn't be as jumpy even if this pops up from here it's totally okay to miss a small move if there is a better level ahead meaning like hey if this really wants to pop then perhaps if this could break over that 148 150 i you know see i see if you can make that push if it makes that break then what's our next resistance after that because if it's not for a while then i'd rather take it from a higher price on book map at least it's a more balanced order book you don't really have like anything that stands out 170 a little something there but really up top at two bucks 20 000 plus shares on the sell side so yeah as long as this could hold over 133 there's a chance for the 150 and then maybe later today we'll get get our better push that's all all right so folks say i think that we're gonna wrap up here in just a little bit typically not as many of us on a holiday week let alone christmas heading into the new year anyway so um there's one other stock i was looking at for a second but it died off the Tupperware trade so Tupperware had a pretty large block print that got filled at $2.25 earlier looks like it at least held it as support here so there's a case for another push higher but this also has some good resistance at $2.50 yeah i mean this is how you could tell so notice a there's no real large order at 250 oh even 258 actually that number is my apologies i was going to go into the whole uh orders column again but you could see a 258 even there's about 27 total orders that make this up so pretty interesting that it's 2700 shares and it's 27 orders and maybe that could be in manipulation just that's a very clean balance there but nevertheless i would say 350 or 250 anyway would be a big level and then from there 258 at 27 total orders here making this up i understand there's also like 20 000 here at 243 but i keep an eye on like this 258 this is here for a reason so i think over time you'll look to kind of see 258 acts as a top on this trade but we'll find out even later on this afternoon just at 230 eastern we'll come back for the afternoon meeting we'll reconvene see if that 258 becomes a strong price to work off of folks but hey i think that we're going to finish up for right now just more of a shorter traders talk for 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