And thank you to everyone that has joined us for today, a Monday, a brand new week, a wonderful opportunity to start our week off strong. Julie and I are thrilled to have Boris Kievsky joining us today. Boris is the chief storyteller and also a nerd, nerd for good. And so glad to have you here, Boris, to talk about this topic. Again, as we wrap up the end of the year and start a new year, storytelling is really big and critical for all of our nonprofits. So I'm interested in learning from you here today. Julie and I want to make sure that you know who we are if we haven't met you yet. Julia Patrick, CEO of the American Nonprofit Academy. I'm the other nerd today. I'm Jared Ransom, your nonprofit nerd, CEO of the Raven Group. And again, we are so appreciative of the continued support and partnership with our sponsors. Thank you also to Bloomerang. Steven Shattuck was the one who suggested that we have Boris on as this, you know, really deep expert in today's conversation. So thank you to our sponsor for suggesting today's episode guest. And again, Boris Kievsky, thrilled to have you, chief storyteller and nerd for good at dot org strategy. Welcome, Boris. Thank you so much, ladies. I'm excited to be here today. And yes, thank you to Steven for the introduction. And it's going to be fun to nerd out with you guys about storytelling and how nonprofits can really make the most of it. If anybody is interested, by the way, I'm going to compile some resources. I've already compiled them. They're up on my website for storytelling, some of the stuff that I'll mention today as we talk. But if they go to dot org strategy.com slash TNS for the nonprofit show, of course, then they could get quick links to all of this stuff. I'd like to make things as easy as possible, as frictionless as possible for people. Okay, what are you doing for the rest of my life? Because you're the dream guest. So just keep me caffeinated and we'll keep going. Well, you know, in the nonprofit world, there are a lot of stories. And that's one of the things that engages us. And this has been bandied about, I mean, everybody's talking storytelling storytelling, but what does it really mean? And this is why I'm super excited to have you on today. Because I don't think that we understand fully what this actually means. And so I'm wondering if you could start with how we are framing the narrative and like what this means. Yeah, so you're absolutely right. It's become buzzy to talk storytelling. And it means a million things to a million different people. And it's kind of come this quagmire of a subject, which really kind of bothers me to be honest, because storytelling is a few things, but it is all specific and it is all coherent. And before we even get to like how to frame the narrative, which I'd love to talk about, because organizations definitely need to focus on that a lot, I do want to define what is storytelling, at least how do I look at it? Because I don't want to say that I'm the ultimate export on everything that has to do with storytelling in the world. My mother might tell you that, but I'll humbly deny. So storytelling is essentially how we communicate, but also how we relate to each other, how we understand things. We like to frame things in our minds, speaking of framing the narrative, in a causal structure. Okay, we want to say that, oh, this happened because of this, and therefore, this is going to happen next. We like to see that plan and that line in space time, if you will pardon my physics nerd neurology. So when we, there's actually been some studies that say that when we dream, we see little snippets of things, we might even just see flashes of things. But as we wake up, our brains instantly try to put them together into a cohesive narrative. So by the time we're talking to anybody about it, we're thinking, oh, this is my dream, isn't it exciting? And you could do an exercise like this where you could basically take three pictures, any three pictures on the internet, and your brain will try to form a story. So what is that story? It's a beginning, a middle, and an end. And combined, excuse me, it tells a narrative, hopefully a good one that's going to engage the viewer, the listener, the reader, whatever it is, and put them in the point of view of the hero of the story. It's actually baked into our DNA. And feel free to interrupt me if I'm going way too far and nerding out too far. No, that's great. I think it's really important that you said that because I think a lot of times in the nonprofit sector, we feel we use storytelling interchangeably with tug at your heartstrings. Yeah. So good stories can tug at your heartstrings. They don't have to every time, but they can tug at your heartstrings. They are essentially, look, there's, I love reading all kinds of fun stuff. And there's an author, Yuval Noah Harari, who wrote a brief history of mankind. I think it's called Sapiens, a brief history of mankind. And in there, I was stunned and thrilled to see him credit our survival and are becoming the dominant species on this planet, because we're not the strongest. We're not the fastest. We're not anything, but we are best at storytelling. We can relate to each other and form societies because we can tell stories. And when we do, we can't help it if I were to tell you a story right now about my childhood, even though I don't think you guys grew up in Ukraine. You don't look Ukrainian or Russian. But you would be able to relate to me. If I tell it, well, you'd be able to put yourself in the shoes of a little Jewish boy in Ukraine, not far from Kiev, hence my last name, and empathize. It would release oxytocin. It would release if I'm telling you, you know, certain scary things, other neuro neurotransmitters, that you would have to put yourself there.  And so to this day, we can use that same technology, if you will, because it's tech baked into our brains to tell stories that connect us to each other, to communities across space, across time, across media, across languages, and really form a connection that can inspire people to action and make the world a better place. I think for me, you hit the nail on the head when it came, because you're right, I did not, I was not raised in Ukraine. But I do have family connection, but really the relatability. And I believe that's what we're all looking for. I mean, that is a common need. It is a, you know, basic human need for us to feel that connection, that societal, you know, community. And really looking at, you know, as we tell our stories for our nonprofits, perhaps defining that common vision that is so relatable. And there's so many ways that we can tell that story. As Julia said, and you confirmed, yes, maybe it is tugging at the heart strings. But how do we, you know, tell a really good, you know, beginning, middle and end that helps to define this common vision when it comes to that relatability, Boris? Sure. So when you're talking, when we're talking about storytelling, we're talking about content, right? Content that we put out across all kinds of media, social media, websites, you know, shows that are live on air across all kinds of streaming platforms. And we need to be very aware of who our audience is and what they're going to connect to. Whenever I've worked with clients, and I used to work more with for-profits, now I work almost exclusively with nonprofits, and I say to them, well, who is your target audience? Who is your avatar that you're trying to speak to? Invariably, they all say, oh, everybody. Everybody should care about my cause from age eight to age 108. My cause is super important. And yes, you know what it is, but no, not everybody's going to care about it. We have a million different things pulling at us in different directions, and we have different things that we are primed for, that we are sensitive to, as we are going about our lives, that if we come across the right message at the right time that resonates with us, we're going to connect to and then hopefully take action on it. So when it comes to defining that common vision, there's a lot of tricks to the trade, if you will, but it's making it super clear what your vision of a better world is. And that starts with the beginning of the story is, what's the world look like today and what's the problem? And what's the problem specifically from your point of view in your specific world? Because we all live in different worlds. As much as the earth is one small ball of gas that is overtaxed at the moment, we are all living in our own little world, our little community, our family, our nuclear family, they're all worlds. So connect to me on a level where you're defining a world and you're telling me what the problem with that world is. And that might be, you know, I love classic story structure. I've got here my Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader sitting here as well as R2-D2 and C-3PO.  And I'm gonna talk more about the hero in a minute, but a villain can be Darth Vader. It could be a person, oftentimes if you're talking politics, you frame it that way, but it could also be global warming and weather, as we were chatting about earlier, right? That could be a villain and the bigger your villain, the more it could relate to feeling it, the more people you're gonna unite around me in a common vision for the future. I love that. I have never heard anyone frame it quite like that. That, you know, what's the problem? What's the villain? Is it homelessness? Is it education? Is it health? I mean, we could go on. There are nine main sectors within the nonprofit world. A fascinating way to look at this and to almost, I don't want to say narrowing it down. But for me, when I hear you frame it this way, it also seems like it's easier for us to call our donors to action. Well, it is because you're going to make that connection to them in the first place. And then, so this is the transition from defining that common vision and that villain to calling your donors to action. You've got to know who they are, and you've got to understand that they are the heroes of the story, that your donors, your supporters, your volunteers, your clients, they are the heroes of the story, not you, okay? Luke Skywalker is the hero of the story. Ben Kenobi is the organization, Obi-Wan is the organization that's going to get them there. It, you, your role is to take them from the potential hero that they are and amplify their innate desire and abilities to a whole new level where they could really become a superhero. For something that they care about, you've got in that common vision. So you need to, once you've gotten them to identify that, yes, this is a problem I care about, yes, I think this vision is a good one that I want to devote some of my resources. And resources, by the way, are not just money, money, money, money. Resources are time. Resources are voice and resources are money. So voice, I mean, you know, sign a petition or share this message, right? Whereas time might be volunteer, come to an event, all of those things. There's so many more, I've got lists of them that people can ask for. Too often, I see nonprofits either not do a call to action at all, which is just possibly the worst thing you could do, or just ask for some big donation right off the top. You've got to be mindful of where your hero is in their journey, how far along you've taken them.  So if you're talking about the events of this weekend and the disasters happening in the middle of this country with the tornadoes, then you want to tell that story, and then you want to say specifically not, oh, donate to help people. No, it's donate to help these people right here right now. And here's how, right? Give them a very clear call to action that makes it easy for them to put on a cape and be a superhero for something that they already care about. I am curious. One of the things you said, and we all hear it, is our avatar is everyone. It's from eight years old to 108 years old and even beyond, right? If someone is that lucky, do you recommend that we shape and shift the way we tell our story once we identify our avatar? And how does that look? Absolutely. I'll take it a step further and say we shouldn't be telling the story at all until we've identified our avatars, because then you're just talking general to the masses. People have this fear that if I make my avatar specific, then I'm going to lose a lot of audience. And I love because I am a theater nerd as well. I have got, I spent a lot of time doing theater. I've got my undergrad and post-grad degrees in theater, and then I was in Hollywood for a long time. So I love Shakespeare. And excuse me, I'm going to clear my throat. I love Shakespeare. And Shakespeare wrote a story about two 12 and 14 year olds in Verona some 500 years ago. And yet my middle schoolers are reading it and still relating to it today. Okay. Don't worry about being too specific, but you can't talk to everyone in the same language. You can't talk to a teenager the same way you do to an octogenarian. You can't talk to someone who is very concerned about technology to someone who's and knows everything about it like the same me, to someone who is brand new to the subject in general. Your supporters, your potential supporters, there are many stages of them. And then there are different programs that you might have. You can have 30 avatars depending on how big your organization is, but at least you've probably got three. I'd say at minimum, if any organization thinks they have less than three, they're doing something wrong. And once you identify who they are, what their pain points are, what they're worried about, and then what language they speak, what interests they have, then you could really talk to them like you do to a friend that you're going to talk about a story that's going on right now that you would like their help with because nobody wants to help an organization. They want to help people and they want to connect with people. So you've got to treat them like a person. Okay. So I am going to put you on the spot and I would love to have you come back onto the nonprofit show and just do a segment with us on defining those these avatars, testing them and managing them because I think that this is such a critical piece that's missing that we don't understand in the nonprofit sector what and how we should be behaving with our stakeholders, with our donors, with our clients. The for-profit world understands this and spends a lot of time and a lot of energy on this and for some reason we've missed this in the nonprofit sector. And so I think this is one of the things that frustrates me about the concept of storytelling is that we're not addressing exactly what you just said Boris and that is okay but who are we telling our story to? So I'm fascinated with that and I'm putting you on the hot seat I think because we need to really explore that. You have a thing that I want to kind of move into a little bit and that is about showing your nonprofit success and your organizational success and for some reason when we tell our stories I feel like a lot of us we leave out how we are you know doing and what the impacts are and I'm wondering if you could address that. Yeah so this is a little bit tricky because it could be a double-edged sword like a lightsaber no sorry it could be dangerous because some organizations will just flout them their own success will just tout not flout their own success all the time and talk about oh look at us look at us look at us look at us that is the opposite of what you should be doing because no one really cares about you they care about the lives that you're changing they care about people like themselves who are helping you do that that said your story is scary to a lot of people I don't know that I can make a difference I don't know that I can make a change I don't know that your organization is the right investment of my resources again time voice money to make the kind of impact that I want to see in the world so at the right point in the story do show your success and show it by showing me the heroes who have come before me who have followed your path that you have laid out whom you have taught as Obi-Wan Kenobi did or Yoda did or Dumbledore did pick any sci-fi or fantasy or even rom-com there's always this mentor who guides the person to the to the solution that's already always been in their hearts right I mean every hallmark movie so you can't you can't just talk about yourself but you should be talking about the people whom you've helped become heroes in their own lives before I came along so that I could see ah yes if I donate if I volunteer I can become a hero I will succeed I will make the world a better place for all of us I think that really helps to drive everyone towards that true altruistic meaning of of giving right and again giving of time voice financial resources and really making it so that we feel a part of this you know community that we talked about earlier and I have heard and I'm sure we all have the stories of well I don't want to share how successful we've been because people then may think we don't need their help so how do you address that when it comes to sharing our success with our community yeah and there again I think it comes back to whether you're talking about oh look what we've done as a company as a business versus oh look what people have done look at the life that was changed the one life the many lives that were changed by one person making one gift by one effort one concerted effort and now invite me to do the same thing it's not that we've conquered the world and we've made it perfect no this challenge exists we and in your story you lay out the villains and the villains are still alive and and threatening you lay out the obstacles that we might have to overcome if we're going to conquer these these villains and make the world safe and better cure ignorance and insecurity and disease right so if you are framing it like oh look what we do and how great we are then yeah it's going to be like oh good for you I'm so glad you exist thank you bye versus if you're framing it like look what people are doing with our help look what we're empowering people to do and I see that as a problem and I see that as a great solution then that's not an issue that's not a danger there's also the concept of a donor sized problem which I think kind of connects to what you're talking about right now Jared where if you ask me to save an entire village I don't think I have the resources but if you ask me to empower a child to learn by donating x amount of dollars or volunteering x amount of time then yeah I could probably do that I could find that in my you know not my couch cushions maybe but in in my discretionary I can allocate some of that to your cause and and at least find that commitment to do that and I love you know really finding that donor size commitment and I'm assuming we all have different size commitment and so knowing your avatar knowing the capacity of just how big of a hero might this person have the ability to become I think is really fascinating I really enjoy your connection to I'm gonna say cinema right like really cinematic scenarios it makes it so tangible right I think it really makes it so tangible and that to me is a way that I don't think Julia any other guest has related telling our stories which going back to the beginning of this episode is what is storytelling right and that's exactly why we needed to start at the basic because we've been listening to stories all of our lives you know and it's interesting too I think Boris you do bring I wouldn't use the word a presentation skill but a knowledge of how we are physically transformed by storytelling and I think by framing it that way it changes our our call to action is nonprofits in terms of how we communicate and why we need to communicate so I love that you've done this and I've been super impressed and I am going to press you to get back on with us to talk about this further but before we let you go I'd really love for you to share some insight with us about the nonprofit hero factory I'm fascinated by this I learned about this on your website and I'm wondering if you could share with our viewers what this means and how you go about this sure so this is actually the nonprofit hero factory itself is a show it's a podcast it's a video show that I do weekly I don't know how you ladies do this daily I'm so impressed I can't even tell you but I do this weekly where I invite guests on as well sometimes I do solo shows but my goal is to help nonprofits create more heroes for their cause I think nonprofits play a vital role in this capitalist world that I love and so I want them to survive and thrive and I want them to create more heroes for their cause so that it makes a better world for all of us frankly and that's what the impetus was behind the nonprofit hero factory where I invite guests and every conversation is about okay how do we use what you know and what you do to attract the right people to activate them and create more heroes and a better world so that's the nonprofit hero factory it's one of the ways that that I try to help I do also have online courses on my website they're not part of the nonprofit hero factory but there are plenty of courses many of them are free some of them are not if I could do one last plug actually I'm for those interested in specifically in website storytelling I am super excited because I have had a dream for most of my life to be a teacher in one way or another and my kids will tell you all I'd like to do is teach they get very frustrated but I'm going to be teaching a course at NYU starting February second I believe it is on developing high impact websites for nonprofits I'm so excited about it NYU is you know I'm a New Yorker NYU is kind of the pinnacle of schools when it when it comes to these things so if anybody's interested those resources again are on dot org strategy.com Wow congratulations that is awesome and you know that is a tool this that's knowledge in this approach is a tool that can carry an organization I think to another another level it's astonishing it really is it really really is Jared what do you think about this concept of how we have been maybe miss sharing our stories. Again I love the connection and as a thespian myself Boris it's it's so great to hear the connection to the storytelling my undergrad is mass communication in theater and so you know really seeing how this aligns in that way has been fascinating I love the hero I love the villain as Julia you mentioned there are nine main villains in our community and so we can each be a hero to help combat eliminate you know these villains in our community and the way you share this Boris is fascinating congratulations on the NYU teaching opportunity that is absolutely a pinnacle moment so congratulations to you on that and have a feeling we will have you back if not at least once next year perhaps perhaps a few more times for you you've been fantastic and if you would you had mentioned earlier in the show that there's a web address we can visit for more resources would you mind sharing that again. Sure happy to it's you're seeing on the screen right now dot org strategy.com if you put a slash tns for the nonprofit show you will get a page that I just created just for the show where it has several storytelling tools including a downloadable target avatar worksheet that you guys could go through and I would love to come back on the show you don't actually have to twist my arm folks at home can't see it but I'm in a lot of pain right now because Julia is virtually twisting my arm to come back on but yeah I'd love to come back on and talk about all these things I'm happy to share and happy to help more organizations basically create a better world they love it you know this is great I love that we started our Monday this way this has been a devastating time for our country in just the last 72 hours it's going to get worse with these tragic losses across the middle part of our country and so I think there are many many stories to be told that will help resolve some of these long-term issues moving forward certainly for all of our viewers and this is something to really take to heart and it could be one of those strategies that you think you understand and that you know you have to do but you need to finesse it and really think about what the concept of storytelling means and for me today you've really done some amazing things Boris I'm just delighted that Steven Shattuck from Bloomerang connected us so yay team on that we want to say thank you so much everyone for joining us for another episode of the nonprofit show we are ending the year strong coming up on almost two years of the nonprofit show you can believe that so make sure that you're checking us out regularly you can access our archives on bloom or bloom listen to me on Vimeo on YouTube TV all sorts of things Roku Amazon Fire TV we got a lot cooking so check us out and again thank you to all of our presenting sponsors if you were not with us we would not be having these amazing conversations as we did today with Boris Kievsky okay Jared I'm rethinking the story that I need to be telling about the nonprofits I'm involved with how about you absolutely every day I know I'm going to visit that link so thank you Boris providing that additional resources to our viewers it's been amazing thank you guys so much this has been a total pleasure and an honor Jared Julia thank you for the work that you're doing on a regular basis to bring all of these amazing topics and I've watched several of your episodes to light and helping organizations become better at doing the things that they are created to do well it's been it's great it's a great journey it makes for a great story and so we're going to have you back my friend and we're going to explore some of these things that you talked about it's it's been riveting and I'm so appreciative that we have people like you in our sector helping us move towards the achievement of our missions visions and values it's really powerful you know as we end every episode we really mean this stay well so you can do well we'll see you back here tomorrow everyone thanks Boris


Okay. Good morning and welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. I am Christa Burns, your host at the Nebraska Library Commission. Encompass Live is the Library Commission's weekly online event where we cover commission activities and any library topics that may be of interest to librarians across the state. We do these free one-hour sessions every Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. central time, and they are recorded as this one is being. So if you are unable to attend a live session, you can always watch our recordings. We do a mixture of sessions here. We do presentations, interviews, book reviews, web tours, little mini training sessions, anything we can come up with. And we do have guest speakers and NLC staff as we do today. Today we have Alana Novotny from here at the commission who some of you may know, many of you probably know, who's going to talk about some new interfaces and new database in our Nebraska access. So I'm going to hand over control to Alana and have her go ahead. Well, good morning everybody. Today, as Christa mentioned, I just kind of want to go over a brief interview, a brief overview of the new Books and Print 2.0 interface. And hopefully, if time allows, I'll also give you a quick demo of the new nonfiction connection database. To start off with, I want to talk about the Books and Print 2.0. This is a brand new interface released from Falker. You'll see right now I'm on the main Nebraska access page. To access the databases, you can just click on the right-hand side on the databases available link. And you'll see in the center of the page now we do have a link for Books and Print and we do have it labeled with a new look. For right now, we are maintaining a link to the old interface. At this time, Falker has not told us when they are going to actually turn off that interface and stop using it. So for now, we're just going to link up there to the old interface. So if you still want to kind of go back and forth a little bit, you can as you're getting used to the new interface. So I'm going to go ahead and get into the interface. It's nice to have that transition period sometimes to get used to the new one. Some days it is. As long as you remember to actually start using the new one. Yes, eventually. A few things about the new Books and Print interface. First of all, I want to point out that this new interface is actually going to replace the Books and Print professional, patron Books and Print and global Books and Print. We never did have access to global Books and Print, but we did have access to the patron and professional. So all of those interfaces are basically you rolled into one new interface, which they're calling Books and Print 2.0. As we look at the interface, I think you'll see sort of influences of all three of those products in this one new layout. So to start with on the page here, you can see they have some links on the left-hand side. They give you a little idea about what's inside. On this page, let me jump to what's inside before I start talking about it here. They do highlight a few of the new features in Books and Print 2.0. And the one I want to make sure I point out to everybody is the fact that your search results are now going to be ferberized. Basically, this just means that after you do a search, you will only see one record for each title. In the patron Books and Print professional now, when you do a search, a title could appear multiple times, depending on how many editions. And the way the new BIP 2.0 is set up is you're going to see one record for each title. And then under that record, you'll have individual records for the different editions. And we'll get in and I'll do a search so you can see how that's laid out. They also have a quick demo available here if you'd like to take the time to watch that. And then the next tab is FAQs. And they have quite a few FAQs available here. I'm not going to take the time to go over all of them. But if you would like to know more about the product, you can take a few minutes and read them. Don't forget there are additional ones about the word cloud and the refine options, et cetera, across the top here. Those are new things that are coming with the 2.0 and that's why they have their own separate sections in there? They're just pulling out some of it, our changes. Some of it's with a new interface. So we'll talk about them as we go into them. So to start out, I'm actually going to go ahead and do a search and don't miss the search bar here at the top of the screen. Sometimes it's so big, I think you could almost miss it. So I'm going to go ahead and do a search for the title New Moon. And as this search results are loading here, I just wanted to mention that it's a very buzzer. So as I was talking, I think now the screen has loaded and you should be able to see it. First of all, I really want to just kind of cover the parts of the record for you, but before I do that, I do want to point out a couple things on the screen. First of all, the Books and Print 2.0 is using the new Aqua Browser interface. If you have used a fiction connection in the past, this interface is going to look very familiar to you. On the left-hand side of the screen, you're going to see the Word Cloud. And this Word Cloud, actually, all those different words that you see on the left are different links that you can click on. And clicking on any one of those is going to perform a brand new search on that word. So keep that in mind that it's a brand new search. If for some reason you can see mine, it kind of looks like a Word Cloud. You do need to have Flash installed on your computer in order to see the Word Cloud. If you do not have Flash installed, you're just going to see a list of terms. So if you have that problem, that's the solution. You'll just need to install Flash. I know some people really like the Word Cloud and some people not so much. So we'll let you play with it and decide what you think of it. I do want to point out on the blue bar on the left-top-left corner here is a white arrow. And that white arrow can actually be used to show or hide the Word Cloud. So I'm going to go ahead and hide the Word Cloud right now just so it doesn't take up as much of our screen space. If I would want to get the Word Cloud back, all I have to do is click on the arrow again. So I'm going to jump in right now and look at a title and then I'll come back and talk about some other parts of the screen. So you'll see here, I'm actually after the book New Moon by Stephanie Meyer. And you can see it's the third one on the list here. You can see this does have some basic information. It does have the publication date. How I mentioned the records have been ferberized, you can see now under this New Moon listing, it does tell me here that there are 20 editions. And you can see here by the little icons that there are audio and book versions of this title available. So I'm going to go ahead and click on the title New Moon. And now it's going to retrieve hopefully all 20 records. So now it tells me I do have the 20 records. And you can see now I have this format here. There's a mixed media product. Another edition is the paperback. I have hardback. There's another paperback. Again, another paperback, another hardback. And I'm just going to keep going through the list here. Again, there's some electronic versions of the title. I won't go down all the way, but like I said, there's 20 different editions here. If any one of these editions I want to know more information about, all I have to do is click on the title. The first screen I'm taking to is the overview screen. And you can see this screen provides the basic information about this title. I have title, author, publication dates. I have ISBN information. It does tell me, again, it's a paperback, 608 pages. It tells me what language it does have. This particular title does have an age, grade, and audience breakdown. You can see it's been on a number of bestseller lists. It has one of a couple of awards. And then finally at the end we have the different subject headings that have been assigned to it. Going back up the screen on the left we have some additional links. The next one is annotations. So here is a number of different annotations for this title. I'm actually going to skip over the My Discovery area and come back to that in just a few minutes. Below that we have professional reviews. So this is the full text reviews for this title. You can see it looks like there are students from publishers weekly. And also one for a couple. It's like here in the school library journal. One from youth of voice advocates. Booklist, Kirkus. So this can be really handy if you are trying to identify some new titles to purchase. It might be nice to be able to go in here and read the professional reviews for the title and see what people think of them. I know other people have also used them if you have someone come into the library and challenge one of your titles and you want to be able to bring up a review and show them what the professional reviews say about the title. This is also a great place to go to find that information. That's a really good idea. Below that we have author biography. Not all authors in the database are going to have an author biography. Author biographies tend to appear with more well-known authors. And obviously in this case Stephanie Meyer is pretty well known. You can see it's just a very brief biography about her. Next is publisher information. So this is the information about this particular, the publisher information about this particular title. And then the last link here is stock availability. So you can see this particular title looks like Baker and Taylor. Taylor carries it. And they have quite a few copies on hand. There's a book source, broad art, quite a few other companies listed here too. That is the basic parts of a record. Krista, has anybody had any questions? Not yet but they've come up with. Anybody have any questions about this? You can ask it in the questions or just say unmute me and I can do that and you can ask using your microphone if you have one. Nobody came up with anything during this session. Please don't hesitate to jump in if you do have questions. I'm going to go ahead then and do another search. And this time I'm actually just going to do a general, a keyword search or topic search. I want to find books about Yellowstone. So I'm going to type in Yellowstone and do my search. And you can see the word cloud would be available but I still do have it hidden just so I have a little more screen space. Again, if I ever want to bring the word cloud back it's a little arrow up here next to the search box. And you can see now I've come up with 1,500 results. I don't know about you but that's a little too many titles for me to look through. I kind of want to narrow my results down and books and print and the 2.0 interface has made that really easy to do. They offer about 50 refined facets available on the right-hand side of the screen. And I'll kind of slowly scroll through them here. A couple things I want to point out, you will see for example behind the word paperback, it tells me there's 1,009. So that number that appears behind all of these different terms tells me how many titles out of my search results, which is in this case is the 1,504, meet that criteria. Books and print, they've actually done it this way to make sure you'll never come up with zero results. So you always know when you click on something how many titles you're going to be limited down to. So I'm going to go through and just apply a few of these limiters.  And I should mention one of the limiter options that I was really looking for at first was a simple toggle to limit to fiction or non-fiction. Unfortunately they do not have that option available although they said it is on the list to an enhancement that they will be adding. So I'm going to be looking forward to adding that one. I'm just going to kind of keep working my way down here. I'm going to go to pub date and that will expand. And I'm going to go with titles that have been published in the last three years. And so that's going to drop me down to 372 titles. And we'll keep going back down here. I'm also interested in audience because I really don't want to have any juvenile titles. I am looking for adult titles. I want to point out the fact here under audience you can see I have trade, juvenile audience, scholarly, college, young adult. If you are interested in just your basic adult titles you will want to select the option of trade. The next feature I want to scroll back down to is the subject headings. And I just kind of want to talk a second here about all the different subject headings that are available. Again I think this is sort of you can see the influence of how they merged all the different versions of books and print together. You may not be familiar with all these subject headings. Just to do a quick run down here the BIC, the BIC, that's the book industry communication and that's actually a UK based system. The next one is the BISAC, that's the book industry standards and communications. And you can see now BACR has their own subject headings here and they actually have an audio and a children's version of them. And the BACR subject headings are actually modeled off of the LC classification system. But it's not an exact match to LC. LC goes into a lot more in depth, more specification. BACR stays a little more general. And then the last one on the list is THORP and that is actually an Australian based system. So for the purposes of my example I'm actually going to look at the BACR subject headings. And you can see here I have five of them listed but a lot of times you're going to see this little link that says more. In this case there's 256 more. I'm going to go ahead and click on that and it's going to take me to another screen. And they actually do not list all 256 of them. I haven't taken the time to count but you can see there's about a screen full of them here. And they do have a little note and more not shown. Now these terms are put in order by relevancy. By that it means the number of books that are associated with each term. So in the case of United States you can see five books Yellowstone National Park 41. And if you get down here towards the bottom you can see there's railroads to social life and customs too. If you're looking for a particular term it's kind of hard to look through the list this way. So on the right hand corner you do have an option to sort by alphabet. So this will re-sort them in alphabetical order. Does it only work if you know the term that is used? Yes, if you're looking for a specific term. Generally you can kind of guess that pretty well. In the case of my example I'm actually going to go ahead and click on Yellowstone National Park. And so you can see now that my list has been narrowed down to 41 titles. So that's not too bad to look for. Again how narrow you want to make your list really depends on how many titles you want to look through and the time you have to look through them. I'm going to call this good for now. I do want to point out a couple things about the list here. Hopefully you can all see this here. It actually does list all the terms and limiters that I just applied. There's one little kind of trick or catch to this list I want to make sure I point it out. If for example I decide I do not want to limit the last three years in order to remove the last three years from the list I have to click on imprint IP. So clicking on that is actually going to remove the term to the right. So just keep that in mind. And then the catch to this is the fact that I also cannot remove imprint IP because if I click on Yellowstone it's going to clear all of them. So it's a little tricky but hopefully you play around with it a couple of times you'll get it. So keep that in mind. Another feature I wanted to make sure I pointed out is this RSS link on the right hand side of the screen. In the past versions of books and print you could set up email alerts. They have actually are going to have phased those out right now in the new BIP 2.0 interface and they have replaced them with RSS feeds. So if you're familiar with RSS feeds you can set up an RSS feed for any search that you'd like. You can see the one that I did for Yellowstone is fairly a complex search. You could do a simpler search maybe if you want to just stay on top of your favorite author you could just do a search for your favorite author's name and set up a feed. I do want to point out here they have two links when you get to the RSS feed page. I'm a little hesitant about the first one I'm not quite sure what they're thinking and the first link is called All New Catalog Items. I don't know about anybody else. Sounds like a little too much. Yeah there's no way I really would like to get an RSS feed for every item that's been added to the BIP catalog. That's just way more than I ever need in my life. So the one I'm really interested in is the second one here. And so I just went ahead and clicked on the link and if all goes well you can see now here is the RSS feed. So whenever new titles are added to the database that meet my search criteria I will receive them through my RSS feed. And if you want to know more about RSS feeds if you're not sure exactly what that's all about or how it works. Last week's End Compass Live actually was about how to do RSS feeds, how to sign up for them. So the recording is out there for that and if you want to go back and listen to that it'll help you with this and the IP. Great. So I'm just going to close the window and go back to my main screen here. Let's see the next area I want to show you is the Advanced Search screen. As I told you before the keyword search basically searches almost every field out there. If you do have some more specific information and want to do a bit narrower or more focused search screen you can see here I do have options drop down options here to select what fields I'm searching on. There's quite a variety of different fields I can use. There is an awards option. In the FAQ section that I pointed out at the beginning on the front page of the BIP screen if you go to the FAQs there they actually will provide you with a list of all the different awards included in the database. I think there's like 300 and some of them. I know it's a big Excel sheet full of them so if you're interested you can take a look and I can tell you that the golden sour is included. Cool. Another option in the drop down here that you might be interested in you can also limit your search to review source. Unfortunately they do not actually have a list of review sources available. We did see some earlier I know it includes things like library journals, school library journal, book list, Kirkus. So you can go ahead and type in a reviewed in source so I'm going to go ahead and do a search reviewed in source of library journal and then I'm going to go ahead and just do a keyword and subject and I'm actually going to do oil spills since that's been in the news too much lately and do my search and you can see now I have received 92 results. Again if that list is too long I can always use the different facets to refine my search that you can find along the right hand side but you know now all of the titles here in this list have actually been reviewed in library journals so if you are trying to actually purchase titles you can easily go in here then and start reading the reviews or narrowing your search a little more and then going out and reading the reviews and see what folks have to say about these particular titles. There's last two things I want to talk about before I move on to the other product. Christa is there any questions yet? No, not yet. I'm not sure about that. Well I want to point out on this blue bar there's a link here next to advanced called list. For those of you who are pretty familiar with books and print professional you may have remembered that there is a list option available there. These lists that are found under the list term and I have to find my correct wording here to make sure I are actually ones that the Bowker in their mind, if Bowker can have a mind really thinks these lists are something that librarians would want to use and in their FAQs and stuff they're going to actually refer to these as collection development lists and so these are designed because they think librarians and stuff may want to use these if they are working together to put a list of titles together they may want to purchase for the library. When you actually get in and take a look at one of these lists, oops I had a list in here that's okay, but these lists actually have a bit more information. There it is, I just missed it. You can see now these lists contain title, author, publisher, ISBN, format, publication date, price and then you can also add quantity and information and notes information. So if you are, like I said it really works well if you are doing collection development you want to make an order list basically. Now where it gets a little confusing is when I'm going to go ahead now and talk about my discoveries. This is an area where end users and librarians can create basically their own account and you do have to, if you don't already have one you will have to register and create an account and provide them with your email address. I already have an account set up so I'm going to go ahead and log in to my account and you can see the first thing when I log into my discoveries area is that I also have a list option available in my discoveries. Now these lists are completely different than the other lists I was just talking about. I'm going to go ahead and take a look at my vegetable list here. I've been picking up a lot of stuff at the farmer's market lately so I'm trying to find good creative ways to start using all my vegetables. So I have a list here of vegetable cookbooks basically and you can see now I have a list option but in this time it's only going to provide me with the title and author information and it's not going to provide me with that other additional information that we saw in the first set of lists that had the publisher of information, ISBNs, etc. There's a couple other things I want to make sure I point out about my discovery area. You will see that there is an option here to make this list public and also in my discoveries area I can add tags to books I can rate books by giving them a number of stars and I can even write reviews if I want. What books in print is trying to do is sort of make this BIP two point a bit more social probably a little bit more Amazon feeling with the ability for users to give stars write reviews, make their lists show and see what is on your list. Problem is right now even though I can go in and add tags and add ratings at this point in time I can only see these when I'm logged on. They're not actually available to anybody else so for example if Christa was on right now looking at books in print she would not be able to see the fact that I've actually rated an item. From talking with them they are going to make these available at some point in time so keep in mind if you are going to start writing reviews or adding tags, making lists that these could become public. I'm going to go ahead and let's see I can jump to the undead unwed title here I'm just going to go ahead and do a title search and bring up the title so you can see what it looks like. So you have to be looking at a particular edition in order to give it add tags or ratings. I have assigned it to my list called Vampires I've tagged it with Betsy Taylor, Sinclair, Vampire, Vampires and I've given it four ratings for five stars actually. It's easy to do when you find a title you can just click on after you're logged in and you can see that you're logged on by the fact that my name is there the box is turned yellow but I can click on save a tag and then I can either select a list or create a new list. I can just start typing in any tags that I want and of course very easy to give it a star rating all you have to do is click on how many stars you like and I also mentioned I haven't done this yet but you can also do it if you're interested. So that is my discovery area. I think that is the main parts of the Books and Print 2.0 database I want to show you. Before I move on to talk about a nonfiction collection are there any questions? Don't forget typing your questions if you want to or let me know you want to be unmuted and you can use your microphone. Jan says it looks fun. This is fun. I hope you think it's fun after you start to use it. I'm going to go ahead Dan and talk briefly about nonfiction connection. I'm going to actually go ahead and go back to Nebraska Access and say I spelled that wrong. That's bad. Oh well. So I'm going to go ahead back to Nebraska Access and go back to the list of the databases. And you'll see now we have included a link below Books and Print 2.0 nonfiction connection. So I'm going to go ahead and click on that. As loading you might want to pause and talk. I hope anyone else can hear. When Books and Print was loading there was some sound quality issues until it was finished loading up. I'll pause and talk for a couple seconds here as this is loading. But according to the comments I got after it was done loading and then from then on it was perfectly fine. Okay. Well it did this morning. It was slow this morning. I was a little worried. Okay. I think it's loaded now Christa said. So this is the new nonfiction connection database. I just want to start off by mentioning the fact that this is actually not a database that we went out and purchased. When we renewed our subscription with Bowker for the Books and Print database they kindly included access to nonfiction connection this year for us at no additional cost. So we're very grateful for that and thankful. So let's go ahead and take a look at this database. Before you jump in I do have a quick question about the Books and Print actually. Rita Horst from Carnegie Public Library wants to know they have a link currently to Books and Print. Will that change for the 2.0 version or need to be changed or do we know? Well it depends Rita on actually where you are pointing to. If you are going directly to the Books and Print and not going through Nebraska Access then yes you would need to change it. If you're going through Nebraska Access then actually it would also probably depends on where you're going I think because it really depends on which link. I did send out an email when I talked about the changes I pointed to the Nebraska Access Toolbox and in there we do have all the different linking options listed out. And I just went to the www.nlc.state.ne.us slash Nebraska Access slash Toolbox. And on here let's see under promotional materials there's one called Linking to Nebraska Access and it says add a link to your website and on this page we go over all the different options and how you can link to the different databases so you can take a look at that page and see what works best for you and if you have any questions feel free to give me a call or drop me an email and I can help you walk through it and figure out what would work best for you. It looks like I sympathize they are going through Nebraska Access the one that she's showing I guess. Yeah that's actually going to continue to take you to the old one old URL you will need to change that URL slightly to start going to the new one. Anything else? That looks good for now. Back to nonfiction connection I have to admit I didn't really go out and read the description when I first started I thought nonfiction connection so I was just kind of thinking about general nonfiction titles but so I wanted to make sure I read you the actual definition of what nonfiction connection contains this database actually is going to feature narrative nonfiction titles that have characters storylines and drama that read much like a traditional novel so these are going to be nonfiction titles but they are going to read more like fiction than those type of titles. There are a couple different ways you can search this database. First of all you can just search on one of these different topics genres, settings, characters, location, time frame as you can see they do sort of rotate through those tabs but also really one of the great benefits of this database is if you start out with a book or a title that you know you find other titles that are similar and I want to show you that option first to make sure we don't run out of time and then we can come back and talk about these other options if there's time permitting. So I'm going to go ahead and type in the title on kitchen confidential and just go ahead and click go and the first thing notice is this interface looks very familiar and similar to the BIP 2.0 interface and again if you use fiction connection pretty much identical interface to that also. You'll see again we have the word cloud on the left hand side clicking on any one of those words and the word cloud will again perform a brand new search on that term we do also have the refine results by options on the right hand side we really don't need those in the search that I did right now because I was looking for a known item but again they're looking very familiar and similar to what we just showed, I just showed you in the BIP 2.0 interface. What I want to do right now is you'll see the first title is the kitchen confidential. You can see it has a little blurb about it I can click on the title and get a little bit more information about it you can see there's a summary. This title has been reviewed in publishers weekly it's been on a number of best seller lists in the detail information it does break down and tells me what the genre is, topics, time frame, etc. are that have been assigned to this title and then the last thing it does show you is some of the different covers that have also appeared on this particular title The button I want to make sure everybody notices here is the Find Similar button located over here on the right hand side the green button. It is located on this secondary screen but also by back up to my search results you can see again it's also listed over here and so I'm going to go ahead and click on that title and it's going to activate this left hand tab that's called Find Similar and so now you can see on the left hand side I have a number of different terms listed with checkboxes in front of them now these terms were all pulled from that Book Kitchen Confidential that I started out with so what this is going to help me do is find titles that are similar to the Book Kitchen Confidential so what I can do is go through this list and just kind of narrow down my results right now I'm starting out with like 12,000 results and again there's a few too many for me but what I can do is select those terms that really are of interest to me you will see also again that there are numbers appearing behind each one of these terms and that does tell me how many titles have that particular term associated with it so maybe I'm interested in the fact that this was about the topic of cooking so that's going to drop it down to 496 and oh maybe I really want to read more books about chefs so I could select chefs and then maybe I want them to be a memoir and again I can just go through the list and just well let's see there's actually one title that was mentioned on NPR so let's go ahead and click that there's only one title now but you can just sit there and tweak these terms however you like coming up with a list of titles if you are working with patrons it would be really great if you could actually get the patron to sit down and either do these selection themselves or at least help tell you what to select because then they could really narrow those results down to the titles that you want so maybe one title I want more than one title so I could unclick national and public radio and again now I'm back to 28 titles so that is how the find similar title works like I said you have start out with a title that you know and then you can help you develop a list of other titles that are similar to it I'm going to go ahead and click on the nonfiction link or the logo on the top left and this will take me back to the main page and I'll just quickly show you how you can browse I'm going to go with just the topic of animals so this will bring back a list of titles in the database that are all about animals you can see there's 754 again that's a few too many for me to look through so I'm going to use the refine options on the right to narrow my results maybe I'm really interested in pets maybe pet adoption that should drop me down to about 17 titles so you can use it that way again also to find a list of titles you may potentially want to read I just have like 5 or 6 minutes left here we started about 5 after so I want to just really quickly jump in and show you fiction connection just because you'll see that it is basically identical to nonfiction connection so I jump back to Nebraska Access and here is the fiction connection database set up as I did a nonfiction connection again I'm going to go ahead and well let's go with New Moon a title for earlier today again I have the word cloud on the left hand side I have the refine options available on the right hand side of the screen and again there's going to be the find similar button I can click on the title New Moon and it does have the basic information again about the title and again I can do the find similar and work through it just the same way as I did in the nonfiction database the one thing I also wanted to point out it's unique about fiction connection as the fiction connection does contain series order information you will not find that in BIP or the nonfiction connection so you can see this the New Moon is part of the Twilight Saga so if I click on it it is going to tell me then the proper order series I think that is the different items I want to highlight it across those three databases Krista do you have any questions or comments nothing has come through yet anybody have any questions about fiction connection or nonfiction I suppose either one you'd accept I would take questions about books and friends fiction connection or nonfiction connection anything you're wondering about that you saw that you want to know more about if you can't think of any questions now that's just fine but feel free to get in touch with me later and I would be glad to help you wait and see if anybody has anything to type in Jan says thanks I guess there's nothing urgent well thanks everybody for coming today okay well thank you very much Alana that was good to get a little overview of those two new things in Nebraska access everyone will have to learn how to use now we don't know what's going to happen with nonfiction connection after the first year it was just part of our contract this year take advantage of it while it's there hope you'll join us next week for next week's Encompass Live which is our monthly tech talk with Michael Sowers the Technology Innovation Librarian here at the Library Commission he is going to have on board with him J.P. Porcaro who is a librarian at New Jersey City University but also the founder of 8bitlibrary.com a website about gaming in schools and libraries and he's going to talk about video game collection development and advocacy at your library so sign up for that and hopefully we'll see you next week we have a lot of thanks thank you, thanks guys thank you very much for attending and we will see you next time bye bye


Hello everybody and welcome back to Investor Intel. I'm Peter Klossy back with Thomas Smink who I've known since I think 1998 Correct Today we're talking about hemostemics where Tom is the CEO Tom tell us about the technology within the company Sure. It's really a platform technology Peter. It comes from the patient's own blood What we do is we take a cup of blood from the patient's arm We fractionate out their stem cells from that cup of blood and then we culture them and change them from a raw stem cell Into an angiogenic cell precursor that's programmed to address Ischemia in the circulatory system of the body right and ischemia is common in diabetics, right? It's in it's common in diabetics. It's common in Individuals who suffer from heart disease such as angina or ischemic cardiomyopathy. It's common in individuals who suffer from COPD a lung condition it's It's common in wound care in the right in in bed sores and In wounds that won't heal in individuals who have lost circulation It's also common in you have a back scratch that won't go away. That's that's peripheral neuropathy It's common. I thought that was I thought that was a family member It could be but it but that's a that's a you know, that's it another form of Reduction and circulation that results in and itchy So hemostemics has actual sales. This isn't a theory. This is a proven success We have treated more than 500 individuals on a compassionate basis That was mostly in the time period when I ran the company as a private company from 2006 to 2011 the end of 2011 Now we're in clinical trials and the previous management team Stopped the revenue side of the business to focus just on clinical trials I'm going I'm ramping the I'm ramping the revenue side of the business backup. So you mentioned it's a platform technology What else can you use it for? So ACP is the first Derivation that we we derive from the patient's own stem cells the second one that we patented is NCP neuronal cell precursors And this is a a cell that can be used to treat stroke. It can be used to treat Diseases of nerve that have nerve damage. So Degeneration of nerves in the optic nerve in preparation for this I took a look at the stock market your stock is up today And it's had it looks like it's had a general trend upwards So congratulations to you for rejoining the company and appearing to fix what had been wrong Can we check in with you at the quarter? Yes, please. That'd be fantastic. I hope you have a great safe day I'm Peter Clausi signing off from investor Intel Thomas Mink from Hemostamix trading as HEM on the venture exchange


It got very interesting in the end, Jack. We've been saying that a lot about Yankees' games lately. Very dramatic, very tense at the end. The Yankee bullpen was wobbly again, but even though the bullpen was wobbly, it was also successful. Chapman able to strike out, cruise there and strand the potential tying run. As you mentioned, the Yankees have had some rough finishes lately. So in the dugout, in the clubhouse right now, there's a collective exhale that they were able to beat the raise at the top, a place where they have a difficult time winning. Before the bullpen took hold of the game, Jordan Montgomery was terrific. Five scoreless innings. He had to throw a lot of pitches, but he did a really nice job in setting the Yankees up. Yeah, I think the most important thing in that Yankee clubhouse tonight is you get the win and you get able to take a deep breath and say, okay, let's settle down a little bit after that crazy weekend in Boston. Yes, there were a lot of things in this game that you don't like and you've seen a lot of. A lot of double plays, some bullpen guys struggled, but Jack is right. Jordan Montgomery, who did not have his good curve ball, went more with the cutter tonight. It was an effective pitch for him and then that big Lamar home run to give the Yankees a little separation. It got a little dicey at the end, but they can relax now knowing, okay, let's put that Boston weekend away for a little bit and look forward to tomorrow night.