What's going on everyone? Sam here with Leighton Sports Guard, Drippin' 22-23, Pinini Prism, and Domros Optic Basketball 10 Box Mega Mixer, Number 1, Random Team Style. There's a look again at your random results as always. You can find those on the website, under the results tab, as well as the link in chat. Good luck. I guess we'll start with Optic. What is it? Signature Series of Hyper Pink. That's what comes in the Megas. Hyper Pink in the Megas. Hello, Chris Borte, Osemein Zheng, My House Trey Young, Hyper Pink, Wendell Moore Jr., and Yaka Perdell. Not really going to be much to read, unless we hit an auto. I don't think there's much to read out in these. Diabatae, Winner Stays, Dwayne Wade, McConnell, and Danny Green, Hyper Pink's. Jaden Hardy, Hollow Rookie. David Roddy, Splash. David Moore. Robert Williams, and Winner Stays. Hollow is Young's. Steph Curry Hollow, nice one there for the Warriors. That's a Terry Eason. Luca Donchich, Express Lane. Hyper Malik Beasley, and Marvin Bagley on the pinks. Nemhard Rookie. My House Booker. Got a Jason Tatum, and Express Lane Purple, KD. Hollow My House, Jabari Smith Jr. Rookie. T-minus is Kade. Got Scottie Kippen Jr., and Doug McDermott on your pink typers. Again, guys, just three spots remaining on T-Mall Crown Royale Asia, tiered random team style. Three to go. Just turned on the local news, a 12-year-old stole a pickup truck and drove it today, leading to police chase. Sounds like fun. Sounds like GTA in real life. Baseball. Yankees. Woo, don't lose. Woo. T-minus, Luca, Splash, Levine, Bari Smith, Pink Hyper, and John Collins. Focus. How's the focus, everybody? Is the focus decent? Focus is good. Might just be you on that one, Dean. Hollow, Bogdanovich, McGowens, T-minus, DeMar, Julius Randall, Dorian Finney, Smith, Pink Hypers. Yeah, that good old Rosemont, Illinois Wi-Fi. Kendall Brown, Winner Stays, Anthony Davis. DeMar DeRozan and Purple Express Lane, Luca. Shailen Brown can't even dribble his left hand, got paid $300 million.  Hollow, Paul George. Yeah, I agree. I agree, Paul. Jason Tatum. Walker Kessler and Shrey Young on your Pink Hypers. Not bad, not bad. All right, Jason Tatum. Colin Sexton and Luke Conard.  Kaloka, Winner Stays, Magic Johnson, James Wiseman, and Purple, Winner Stays, Larry Bird. You know what I'm going to start doing? Because like the national is now like a camera crew thing where everybody brings a camera crew because everybody thinks they're doing that sensation. And I want to start just playing copyrighted music every time someone comes near me with a camera crew. That's what I'm going to start doing. But they're just going to cut it out. True, so that means I won't be in it, so I'm going to win, win. That's true. And it was over on Twitch, Matt Grun, Ludzort, Caleb Hughes, Shady on Twitch. He's also a Celtics fan, though. KD, Jabari Walker, and Kevin Porter Jr. Pink Hypers. Yeah, that's a tough contract, dude. There's Hollow, Winner Stays, Dirk, Scotty Barnes, Express Lane, Usman Zhang, and David Bertrands, Pink Hypers. Or what you should do, you should just pick like a person, like a film crew and just Yeah, right. Just vlog the vlog with Ron James, Miles Turter, and Tyler Hero. That'd be like the episode of South Park, where Cartman starts commentating on people commentating about video games. Have you ever seen that one? So basically the premise is like... I remember it, but I don't remember exactly what happened. Tyrese Martin, Jabari Smith, My House, Jalen Brown, and Donovan Mitchell. So basically, Kyle wants to play Call of Duty with Ike, but Ike starts watching PewDiePie playing it. And he goes, nobody cares about playing the new game. Everybody just watches other people commentate on people playing the game. And then he's like, and then you have Cartman, who's commentating on people commentating about the game. And it's just like Butters and Tolkien are talking about one of the new games, and Cartman's just like commentating on that. Well, in McDonovich, Christian Coloco, Splash Curry, Yannis and Franz Wagner, and it's T-Kawaii. There's Cam Thomas and a purple Splash Ant-Man to Mark with a spot in T-Mall. Thank you, Mark. Wang with a spot in Top's Chrome. We're down to two to go in T-Mall, everybody. Two to go in Crown Royal T-Mall. Oh, boy. Yep. Yeah, Fanatics has all the quarterbacks, except Richardson, but they have all the receivers, all the running backs. Thank God. But yeah, you'll be able to, they'll still have memorabilia and base cards and numbered cards and short prints and all that stuff. So there's certain products, but it'll hurt for sure, but there'll be certain products where it's not really going to make a difference. Hallo, McDonovich, Benedict Matherin, Winner stays, Rodman, Coloco, and Darren Foxx. Sohan, Rated Rookie, Express Lane, A.D. Brunson and Kevin Herter, Pink Hypers, Jaren Jackson, Keegan Murray, nice one there, Lamello. There's Pink Hyper, Ant-Man, and Winner stays, Purple, Dirk. Just start my Will Lovis collection, probably Fanatics. Hallo, Express Lane, Darren Foxx, Ada's Kyrie Irving, Bryce McGowins, and Jason Preston, Pink Hypers, for the Hornets and Clippers, Hyper, Lori, Mark and Andre, and Ivy-based Rookie, Splash, James Harden.  Oh man, that's a new one. We've never been jingled like that before, and Cole Anthony, Kennedy Chandler, that is a T-minus LeBron, Hyper, Cam Reddish, and Caden Cunningham. Will Lovis should have been a, a Patriot. Peels to probably still make cards, they just won't be licensed. It'll be like similar to what they do with like, with baseball right now. That'd be my guess, I don't know, I have no idea what their plan is. I mean they still got other sports, they still have UFC, still have WWE, um, a few other ones as well. My favorite football box, it's a break. Uh, God, that's tough dude. Oshai Gbaji, I like gold standard, man. I've always been a gold standard fan. Giddy and Davion Mitchell. If anyone's fun, if anyone is cool, especially if you hit well, if anyone. Kat, Jalen Howeadurin, Harden, Jeremy Sohan, and Marcus Morris. No, do you see what happened to LeBron James' son? I heard about him. Karim Abdul-Jabbar, Keegan Murray, dude, that was terrifying. I woke up and I was like, I couldn't believe that. That was really scary. Sean Holmes, Dallin Terry, Express Lane, Davion, or Donovan Mitchell, Karis Laver, and Purple, uh, Optical, Illusion, Harden, and Embiid. Yeah, NFL Obsidian is pretty sweet. Obsidian football is awesome. David Roddy Hollow, for the Gris, Marjanbo Champ Rookie, T-minus Tatum, RJ Barrett, and Devin Booker, Pink Hypers. Oh, we have an auto. TJ McConnell on the green series, or a green signature series for the Pacers. Hit an auto, not bad. Grats on that. Jeremy B with a spot. And Eli, selling us out, we are sold out on Optic, not Optic. Crown Royal Asia team, all thank you all. Clay Thompson. Clay Thompson again, and Splash, Kawhi Leonard. Eli and Jeremy, appreciate you guys. Um, so yeah, that is officially no more spots to go in that one. We are sold out. Thank you all. Flawless, eight to go, everybody. Eight to go. Just two. Group breaks remaining with spots. Optic, uh, football Asia team all with nine. Nine to go. All right, let's do some prism now. Make that seven. Chris H with a spot and, uh, flawless. Chris, thank you, man. We're down to seven, everybody. Seven to go and flawless. All right, prism mega. Here we go. Good luck, guys. Prism mega. Yes, yes, Bass Fisher. Nationals is in Chicago. Well, technically Rosemont, but like outside of Chicago. Yes. Yes, it is. Silver, Reggie Jackson. Pink, Ice, Boucher, and Curry. Hadam Dominance, Christian Brown, T-Mac, Tracy McGrady, Beasley, Holiday. That's a kind of Waffden, Pink Ice, Silver, Frank Jackson, Instant Impact, Boost, Main, Zheng, Lacell, and Coloco. Not as much to sleeve in this one. Pink, Ice, Sexton, Silver, Caleb, Houston, Rookie, Silver, Dominance, Ja, Isaiah Mobley, and Magic Johnson. Flawless, tiered, random team style. Marvin Bagley, Pink, Ice, Pink, Ice, Subbonus, Instant Impact, Wendelmore Jr., Dennis Rodman, and Apollo Rookie. Nice for the magic. Silver, Corey Kispert, Calden Johnson, Pink, Ice, Pink, Ice, Duncan Robinson, Global Reach, Yolkich, Dyson Daniels, and Hakim. Pink, Ice, Walker, Kessler. Nice one there. We got Draymond Green, Peyton Watson, Emergent, Jabari Walker, and D-Wade. Hey, let's go. What's up? Is that, I'm assuming that's Jeremy? What's up, Jeremy? How you doing, buddy? I'm about to open that upside down. Yes, I did. Yeah. I don't know. Maybe I did. Maybe I didn't. Ola Depot, there's a Marcus Smart. We've got Ja Marant, Pink Ice, Kevin Durant, Dominique Anna, Nicola Yovic, Pink Ice, Dennis Rodman. Hey, Silver, Anthony Simon, Emergent, Dyson Daniels, Tim Duncan, Devante Graham. That's already winning. Pink, Ice, Seth Curry. Some of Jankler, Avia. Nice one there for the Grids. Instant Impact, Jalen, J-Dubb, Dylan Brooks, and Jeremy Sohan. Silver, Capella, Pink, Ice, Giddy, and a Bogdan, McDonovich. A.J. Griffin, Instant Impact. Steel of Draft, A.J. Griffin. Steel of the Draft. Silver, McCall, Bridges. Devon Vasell, Pink, Ice. Corey Kispert, Pink, Ice. Zion, Wendelmore, Rayal. Hoping we get jingled here. Nice. Palo, Pink, Ice. That's solid. Congrats, Magic, Brandon L with that one. Ricky Jackson, Emergent, Wendelmore, Nash, and J-Will, Jalen Williams. J-Will. Where there's a J-Will, there's a J-Way, Donnie. Donnie's still showing new life over there. I just... Do you have an Excelsior? No. I'm not, no, it's just, I can't get away from not being caught up. No matter what it is anymore. There he is. Christian Brown, Pink, Ice, Rookie, Denny Avdea. I'm not going to jingle Donnie on that base show angle because I feel like if I do, he might walk out. So I'm going to say a note and I'm going to elect to go no on that one. It's a good decision. Pink, Ice, Subcurrie, and Bama Tobaya. Glad that brain's thinking. Jeremy's so hot. It doesn't usually much, but... Oh, man. It is. Oh, I got you.  What up, man? Chris Duarte? Silver, Shadon, Sharp, Rookie. Silver, Tatum, USA, Basketball. Johnny Davis, Chris Weber. I pulled Jeremy something. Jeremy, what was the big card I pulled for you recently? I forgot about that one. That's Christian Coloco, Pink, Ice. Silver, Robert Williams. Wendell Moore. Something we posted on the Instagram. Silver, Moses Moody. There's Pink, T-Mac, and a Pink, Jay Crowder. Insta Impact, Sohan, Jay Dubb, and a Brandon Clark. Silva, Kendrick Nunn. There's PJ Tucker, Pink, Ice. Drew Holiday, Pink, Ice. Mergent, Branham, and Base. Paul, with a spot in Asia T-Mall. Thank you there, Paul. That's what it was. Austin Riley Moments Super Fractor. Dude, that was sweet, Jeremy. That was awesome, man. Very happy for you, buddy. 15 group break spots left on the night, everybody. That's it. That's it, Donnie. 15 group break spots. No more, no less. Not a lot. Seven to go, and Flawless. Eight to go now in Donriss Optic Football T-Mall. Pink, Ice. Ryan Rollins. Pink, Ice. Bradley Biel. Patrick Baldwin. Wendell Moore. Was it really your first Super, Jeremy? Let's go, man. That's awesome. Congrats, dude. That's so sick. That's such a good one to get to. Kyrie Irving. Pink, Ice. Silver J-Val. Silver, Emergent. Terry Eason. Kennedy Chandler. Peyton Watson. Especially how good Austin Riley is this year, too. How good the Braves are in general. Dude, there was a stat. I don't know if I told you or Sean this. Silver, Steph Curry. Rudy Gay. John Collins. David Robinson. And Sohan Rookie. There's a stat that Austin Riley has more home runs and the Braves have losses. That's insane. I don't think I just told that. I saw that somewhere. That probably changed now. Name is Keita. Pink, Ice. Pete Marovitch. And Russell Westbrook. Instant Impact. Chet. Desmond Bain. And Vince Carter. He also pulled the James Harden Mojo recently. That was pretty huge. Pink, Ice. Keiko. Hope he maged it. Well, unfortunately, you'd be disappointed to find out that despite popular belief that did not need one. Pink, Ice. Paul Pierce. Silver. Tyrese Maxi. Could have fooled me. Oh, man. Good Lord. That's true. Absolutely, Jeremy. Absolutely. Oh, shoot, I closed that accidentally. Whoops. Let me go open that back up. I'll take a team all down to eight. Again, flawless guys at seven spots to go. Matt Veerling is now two for two. Oh, man. Everybody get your Matt Veerling cards out. He is two for two. Invest. Invest. Oh, boy. Retire. Supposed to go to the race game tonight in the box to make it. Oh, that's brutal. Well, yeah. Yeah, the chop. Beautiful stadium, man. Beautiful stadium. How is the joke when me and my buddies would play like they were baseball box, probably tops, museum tops, tribute tops, tier one tops, five star, triple thread, something around there, Charles Barkley and Christian Wood, Jovich Chamberlain and Ty Ty Washington.  It's just not very nice. And it's not a good area. And that was like the, uh, the joke was, uh, Brooke Lopez and Chris Middleton, instant impact, Mark Williams. Me and my buddies would do like, uh, uh, franchise and then we'll be the show where we all pick a team and do the draft. And every time that like somebody was not performing, you started to hating and be like, all right, I'm sending you to the TROP and we trade them to the RAYS. There's Jared Allen, pink, silver, brand, I'm rookie, instant impact green, uh, uh, uh, Keegan Murray. I saw one there. That's a shorter printed, uh, instant impact. Herbert Jones, Doug McDermott. That was a Desmond Ritter. Still pissed about that, Donnie. Still not happy. Ben Wallace, silver, Jamal Murray, instant impact, Johnny Davis, Jaden Ivy, base rookie, and Zion.  Silver, Jalen Suggs, Terry Eason, the other one. Umelo Ball, Siakum, there's Marjan Bochamp, and a Jaden Hardy, Tampa Bay style gator hats. Ooh, that sounds good. Nice. Sounds really cool. PJ Washington, there's a Pokeshepskee pink ice, a Jonathan Isaac pink ice, Donovan Mitchell, David Robinson, and Jabari Smith. Again, like I said, not really much to recap. We just had the green T.J. McConnell auto for the Pacers. Um, so congrats to Indiana picking up the only autograph of the break. That'll do it for the rest of the break. Thank you all again for the fill. Coming up next, we've got, uh, our blaster case.


From around the globe, it's theCUBE with digital coverage of AWS Public Sector Partner Awards brought to you by Amazon Web Services. Hi, and welcome back. I'm Stu Miniman and we're here at the AWS Public Sector. They're partner awards, really enjoying this. We get to talk to some of the diverse ecosystem as well as they've all brought on their customers some really phenomenal case studies. Happy to welcome to the program two first-time guests. First of all, we have Jared Bell. He's the chief engineer of self-response operational readiness at T-Rex Solutions and T-Rex is the award winner for the most customer-obsessed mission base in FedSiv. So Jared, congratulations to you and the T-Rex team and also joining him, his customer, Michael Thiem. He's the assistant director for the decennial census program systems and contracts for the US Census Bureau. Thank you so much both for joining us. Good to be here. All right, Jared, if we could start with you. As I said, you're an award winner sitting in the FedSiv space. You've brought us the Census Bureau which most people understand the importance of that government program. Coming up on that, every 10 year I've been hearing TV and radio ads talking about it. But Jared, if you could just give us a thumbnail of T-Rex and what you do in the AWS ecosystem. Yeah, so yeah, again, my name's Jared Bell and I work for T-Rex Solutions. T-Rex is a mid-tier IT federal contract and company in Southern Maryland. I recently graduated from Hubzone status. And so T-Rex really focuses on four key areas, infrastructure and cloud modernization, cybersecurity and active cyber defense, big data management analytics and then overall enterprise system integration. And so we've been AWS partner for quite some time now and with the decennial, we got to really exercise a lot of the bells and whistles that are out there and really put it all to the test. All right, well, Michael, you know, so many people in IT, we talk about the peaks and valleys that we have. Not too many companies and organizations say, well, we know exactly, you know, that 10 year spike of activity that we're gonna have. I know there's lots of work that goes on beyond that but it tells a little bit your role inside the Census Bureau and what's under your purview. Yes, the Census Bureau is actually does hundreds of surveys every year, but the decennial census is sort of our main flagship activity and I am the assistant director under our associate director for the IT and for the contracts for the decennial census. Wonderful, and if you could tell us a little bit that the project that you're working on that eventually pulled T-Rex in. Sure, this is the 2020 census and the challenge of the 2020 census is we've done the census since 1790 in the United States. It's a pillar, a foundation of our democracy and this was the most technologically advanced census we've ever done actually up until 2020. We have done our censuses mostly by paper and pencil and this is a census where we opened up the internet for people to respond from home. We can have people respond on the phone. People can respond with an iPhone or an Android device. We try to make it as easy as possible and as secure as possible for people to respond to the census where they were and we wanted to meet the respondent where they were. All right, so Jared, I'd love you to chime in here because I'm here and talking about the technology adoption. How much was already in plans there? Where did T-Rex intersect with the census activity? Since this deserves a lot of credit for their innovative approach with this technical integrator contract on which T-Rex was fortunate enough to win. When we came in, we were just ramping up the 2018 test. We really only had 18 months to go from start to a live operational test to prepare for 2020 and it was really exciting to be brought in on such a large mission critical project. I think this is one of the largest federal IT products in the cloud to date. And so when we came in, we had to really bring together a whole lot of solutions. I mean, the internet self-response, which is what we're here to talk about today, was one of the major components but we really had a lot of other activities that we had to engage in. We had to design and prepare an IT solution to support 260 field offices, 16,000 field staff, 400,000 mobile devices and users that were gonna go out and knock on doors for enumeration. So it was really a big effort that we were honored to be a part of. And on top of that, T-Rex really brought to the table a lot of its past experience with cybersecurity and active cyber defense. Because of the importance of all this data, we had to roll on security all throughout and I think T-Rex was prepared for that and then did a great job. And then, you know, overall, I think not necessarily directly to your question, but I think one of the things that we were able to do to make ourselves successful and to really engage with the Census Bureau and be effective with our stakeholders was that we really built a culture of decennial within the technical integrator. We had brown bags and working sessions to really teach the team the importance of the decennial, not just as a career move, but also as an important activity for our country. And so I think that that really helped the team internalize that mission and really drove kind of our dedication to the Census mission and really made us effective. And going, a lot of the T-Rex leadership had a lot of experience there from past decennials and so they really brought that mindset to the team. I think it really paid off. Michael, if you could bring us inside a little bit of the project. 18 months, obviously you have a specific deadline you need to hit for that. Help us understand kind of the architectural considerations that you had there, any concerns that you had. And I have to imagine that just the global activities, the impacts of COVID-19 has impacted some of the end stage, if you will, activities here in 2020. Absolutely. Yeah, the decennial census is I believe a very unique IT problem. We have essentially 10 months out of the decade that we have to scale up to gigantic and then scale back down to run the rest of the Census Bureau's activities. But our project, you know, every year ending in zero, April 1st is Census Day. Now, April 1st continued to be Census Day in 2020, but we also had COVID essentially taking over virtually everything in this country and in fact in the world. So the way that we set up to do the census with the cloud and with the IT approach and modernization that we took, actually, frankly, very luckily enabled us to kind of get through this whole thing. Now, we haven't had, Jared discussed a little bit the fact that we're here to talk about our internet self-response. We haven't had one second of downtime for our response. We've taken 77 million, I think even more than 78 million responses from households. We have out of the 140 million households in the United States, we've gotten 77 million people to respond on our internet site without one second of downtime, a good user experience, a good supportability. But the project has always been the same. It's just this time we're actually doing it with much more technology and hopefully the way that the cloud has supported us will prove to be really effective for the COVID-19 situation because we've had changes in our plans, difference in time frames. We are actually not even going into the field or we're just starting to go into the field these next few weeks where we would have almost been coming out of the field at this time. So that flexibility, that expandability, that elasticity that being in the cloud gives all of our IT capabilities was really valuable this time. Well, Jared, I'm wondering if you can comment on that. All of the things that Michael just said seem like just the spotlight pieces that I looked at cloud for, being able to scale on demand, being able to use what I need when I need it and then dial things down when I don't. And especially, I don't want to have to, I want to limit how much people actually need to get involved. So help us understand a little bit what AWS services underneath, we're supporting this and anything else around the cloud deployment. Sure, yeah, yeah, Michael's spot on. I mean, the cloud is tailor made for our operation and activity here. I think all told, we use over 30 of the AWS FedRAMP solutions in standing up our environment across all this 52 system of systems that we were working with. Just to name a few, I mean, internet self-responsal loan relied heavily on auto scaling groups, elastic load balancers. We relied a lot on Lambda functions, DynamoDB. You're one of the first adopters of the DynamoDB global tables which we use for session persistence across regions. And then on top of that, the data was all flowing down into RDS databases and then from there to the census data lake which was built on EMR and elastic search capabilities. And that's just to name a couple. I mean, we had, we ran the gamut of the AWS services to make all this work and they really helped us accelerate. And as Michael said, we stood this up expecting to be working together in a war room, washing everything hand in hand. And because of the way we were able to architect it in partnership with AWS, we all had to go out and stay at home. The infrastructure remained rock solid. We didn't have to worry about being hands on the equipment. And again, the ability to automate and integrate with those solutions, cloud formation and things like that really let us keep a small agile team of DevSecOps there to handle the deployments. And we were doing full scale deployments with one or two people in the middle of the night without any problems. So it really streamlined things for us and helped us keep a tight and agile for sure. Michael, I'm curious about what kind of training your team need to go through to take advantage of this solution. So from bringing it up to the ripple effect, as you said, you're only now starting to look at who would go into the field, who uses devices and the like. So help us understand really the human aspect of undergoing this technology. Sure. Now, the census always has to ramp up this sort of immediate workforce. We hire, we actually process over 3 million people, through I think 3.9 million people applied to work for the Census Bureau. And each decade, we have to come up with a training program and actually training sites all over the country and the IT to support those. Now, again, modernization for the 2020 census didn't only involve the things like our internet self-response, it also involves our training. We have all online training now. We used to have what we call verbatim training, where we had individual teachers all over the country in places like libraries, essentially reading text exactly the same way to exactly over and over again to the people that we train. But now it's all electronic. It allows us to, and this goes to the COVID situation as well, it allows us to bring only three people in at a time to do training, essentially get them started with our device that we have them use when they're knocking on doors and then go home and do the training and then come back to work with us all with a minimal contact, human contact sort of model. And even though we designed it differently, the way that we set the technology up this time allowed us to change that design very quickly, get people trained, not essentially stop the census. We essentially had to slow it down because we weren't sure exactly when it was gonna be safe to go knocking on door to door, but we were able to do the training and all of that worked and continues to work phenomenally. Wonderful. Jared, I wonder if you've got any lessons learned from working with the census group that might be applicable to kind of the broader customers out there. Sure, well, working with the census, it was really a great group to work with.  I think that because we adopted it early on and we felt that we were true partners with the census, we had a lot of credibility with our counterparts and I think that they understood that we were in it with them together and that was really important. I would also say that because we're talking about the GoCloud solutions that we worked, we also engage heavily with the AWS engineering group and in partnership with them. We relied on the infrastructure that management services they offer and was able to give us a lot of great insight into our architecture and our systems and monitoring to really make us feel like we were ready for the big show when the time came. So I think for me, another lesson learned there is that the cloud providers like AWS, they're not just a vendor, they're a partner and I think that going forward, we'll continue to engage with those partners early and often. Michael, the question I have for you is, what would you say to your peers? What lessons did you have learned and how much of what you've done for the census? Do you think it'll be applicable to all those other surveys that you do in between the big 10-year surveys? All right, I think we have actually set a good milestone for the rest of the Census Bureau. The modernization that the 2020 census has allowed since it is our flagship really is something that we hope we can continue through the decade and into the next census as a matter of fact. But I think one of the big lessons learned I wanted to talk about was we have always struggled with disaster recovery and one of the things that having the cloud and our partners in the cloud has helped us do is essentially take advantage of the resilience of the cloud. So there are data centers all over the country.  For the decennial census, we've never had the budget to pay for persistent disaster recovery and the cloud essentially gives us that kind of capability. Jared talked a lot about security. I think we have taken our security posture to a whole different level, something that allowed us to essentially, as I said before, keep our internet self-response free of hacks and breaches through this whole process and through a much longer process than we even intended to keep it open. So there's a lot here that I think we wanna bring into the next decade, a lot that we wanna continue and we want the census to essentially stay as modern as it has become for 2020. Well, I will tell you personally, Michael, I did take the census online. It was really easy to do. And I definitely recommend, if they haven't already, everybody listening out there, so important that you participate in the census so that they have complete data. So Michael, Jared, thank you so much. Jared, congratulations to your team for winning the award and such a great customer. Michael, thank you so much for what you and your team are doing. Appreciate all that's being done, especially in these challenging times. Thank you and thanks for doing the census. All right, and stay tuned for more coverage of the AWS Public Sector Partner Awards. I'm Stu Miniman and thank you for watching theCUBE.


Welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. I am your host, Krista Porter, here at the Nebraska Library Commission. Encompass Live is the commission's weekly webinar where we cover a variety of topics of interest to libraries. The show is broadcast live every Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. Central Time. But if you're unable to join us on Wednesdays, that's fine. We do record the show every week as we are right now and the recordings are then posted to our website and I will show you at the end of today's show where those recordings are so you can watch them later. Encompass Live is actually, this is the beginning, this month is the beginning of the 10th year of Encompass Live. Wow, yeah, when I figured that out I was a little stunned myself. So we have a lot of archives out there. We do have everything that we've ever posted that we've ever had on the show. Going back to the first show which was in January, 2009. So be aware when you are looking at the archives, you will find some old information, some historical shows, but you know, we're librarians, we save everything, that's how it works, it's our archives. But you can watch everything we have, the recordings of the shows, if there are any presentations, handouts, links to websites, those are all included in there as well. Both the live show and our archives are free and open to anyone to watch. So please do share with your friends, family, neighbors, colleagues, anybody who you think may be interested in any of the topics that we are having on the show, they can sign up for our upcoming shows on our website or watch the archives. We do a mixture of things here on Encompass Live. Our only criteria is something to do with libraries. Something libraries are currently doing, some new product or service we think they might offer. From here at the Nebraska Library Commission, any programs or services or things that we offer to libraries, we have a lot of sessions on. We also bring in, we have Nebraska Library Commission staff that do presentations, but we also bring guest speakers from across the state and across the country to talk about what they're doing in their libraries or ideas they have or things that are going on. And that's what we have this morning. To my left here is Denise Harders, Denise, who is the director of the Central Plains Library System, which for those of you watching Cornet in Nebraska, here in Nebraska, we have four regional library systems in the four different areas of the state. And they are kind of our person on the ground, local consultant, trainer, contact before the Library Commission now in the state. And Denise is in charge of the Central Plains, pretty much top to bottom. All the way through the middle. And I invited her to come on the show today to talk about dazzling displays. This is a session that you've done in libraries or four libraries sometimes? It's been requested a few times because it's a topic of interest. People feel like maybe they need to have a great artistic person on staff to do this. And I wanna assure you that's not the case. So that's why it gets requested is, what am I gonna do? What can I possibly do? So Denise is gonna give us some ideas and tips and tricks about how to do that. So I will just hand over to you to take it away. I don't want you to be able to use the mask or the keyboard. Alrighty. So dazzling, I might have pumped it up a little bit, but I think you'll enjoy the displays we have. First though, I would like to talk a little bit about why you would spend time on displays. I know that a lot of libraries, the librarians time is so limited. And so they worry about actually spending that time. But even if you have a small collection, it's difficult to browse if the books are all just sitting on the shelf with their spines out. So that's one of the major reasons you wanna do displays is so then you can highlight some of those books that you have. Library collections just have too many books for patrons to browse comfortably. And the stacks contain such a wide variety of topics and the way nonfiction in particular is arranged. Patrons don't always understand how that works. And not everybody's going to ask for help. They might wander through and be gone before you know it and before you even have a chance to offer to help. So displays are a great way of doing readers advisory without saying a word. You can feature books and displays in those smaller groups that helps patrons select what they might want to take home. And actually something as simple as if you have a whole cart full of books and you don't have time to shelve them, roll those out towards the circulation desk. People will pick off the cart that serves two purposes. It's a display and you don't have to shelve it. So it's a- You can sign it like you know recent popular titles. Right. Because somebody just recently collected it. And I haven't signed further in that is like that. So displaying your collection is really essential because then you get the maximum use out of your materials. People don't know what you're buying. They don't anticipate that you're only gonna buy the best sellers and you don't. So sometimes older items need an opportunity to shine and displays are a great way to do it. So what should be displayed? Okay, that's always a question that comes up. Remember the three cues. First, you have quality. Patrons, especially children, will take whatever's on display. School librarians know that. If you line books up on the top of the shelves and a class comes in to check out, it's gone for- You're sticking to see the graph. Clear those shelves off. So you wanna make sure that you're offering material and that is good quality. Spend time to find well-reviewed or award-winning titles. But you don't wanna select only new books because there actually should be a new books display someplace in your library so people can see what's coming in. Covers matter. Select books with a jacket or a color printed cover because classics, let's say Treasure Island, the newer copy with a color printed cover will circulate time after time after time when the old plain blue cover will sit on the shelf forever. So patrons trust us to steer them towards engaging materials. So remember that, not just anything will do. All right, the second cue is quick. Quick means quick for staff to prepare and restock. If you have time and are really creative and artistic, make it as elaborate as you want it to be. But if your time's limited, use that limited time to select your material because that's what is important about a display. Quick also means quick for patrons. If we prepare carefully considered displays, patrons become used to it. Your regulars will come in and they'll walk to the displays every time they're in the library. And think about how your patrons will interact with your display. If you have a locked case and you have books inside the locked case, then they're not going to ask to borrow them because they're gonna think, oh, it's just for looks. Trish, I've not allowed to touch those. Yeah, don't take those out of there. So it's important if you have a locked case, that's a great opportunity to offer your patrons a place to put out there, just their collections that they have at home. Like if somebody has a fantastic salt and pepper shaker collection or a model airplane collection or whatever your patrons enjoy, be sure and give them the opportunity and use the locked case that way. Now you'll wanna keep your displays visible. Don't always hide them clear in the back corner of the room. It's okay to put a display back there, but that shouldn't be your only display. It's not like the grocery store where they put the milk in the back so you have to walk all the way through the store and pick things up. It doesn't work the same with library displays. You can have more than one display. Oh, certainly. Oh, yes. Different topics for different genres, whatever. In different lengths of time, you can have a quick one on a certain day and then a month long one somewhere else. All right, the third Q is quantity. You have to decide how many titles to display and that is totally based on the space that you have.  You think, oh, I found all these great books on this theme. Don't jam them together because then it gets overwhelming again. Just put a few out, restock it regularly. That's what's important. Make sure that you don't let it get picked over so there's only one or two things there because then they won't even stop. You need to have backups to fill in when people do grab these and check them out. Right, yeah. That's why you need a little bit of lead time when you're planning your displays because you do want to gather up the materials so you can just, then you'll have them in the back or under the desk with a note on them so you know which display they go to. Be quick and easy. And it's a good idea to tabulate circulation statistics for the displays. Statistics really validate the time that you spend doing this activity and it's not that complicated. You start out with the number of books that are on the display and you know how many you have in your stack under the desk. So if you get there and those are all gone, to add that number. And then when you're ready to take the display down, if there's any books left on it, you just subtract it and then you know how many books have gone out. Easy way to see how effective your display was in that particular topic. Right, and this is the one we were just talking about. It's a simple printed sign that says someone else just read this book. It's a small table. It's close to the SERP desk. Check items in. Of course, select the ones that are interesting covers. Maybe a different topic. Make sure and put your new books back on your new book shelf and then other books can go here. At the end of the day, clear it off, put them on the shelving cart. On the next day, you have a whole bunch more to check in because you've cleaned out your book drop and you'll be ready to go with this display again. It's one of the easiest ones and it saves work all the way around. So that's one place for a display is right near the SERP desk. Also, a lot of the library stacks have slap walls. You can put displays on those. You don't have to just only put a book or two up there. You can put signs and slogans. The book track is a great idea. Once again, you can wheel it any place. All of these locations that are listed here are a terrific place to put in a display. How do you do hanging from the ceiling? Well, maybe I'm too old. I remember the old macrame tables, the last table that comes down from the ceiling. It'd be great if it was a macrame table, you could put craft books on it. It'd be terrific.  Now what? Now what do I do? So it's important to design displays that last. It's a good idea to use books that do not already have holds. Of course, because if they have holds, they need to be on the hold shelf, but to not allow holds on things that are listed as being on the display in your circulation system. You could set up a temporary shorter lending period simply because then when it comes back, it can go back onto the display for someone else to look at. If you have a display plan, a good display plan will have stuff all over the library. If you have a plan where different displays can go, but make sure you put them up front so you can see them. Big display furniture is expensive and it's really not necessary, those special tables and the ones that stack you don't need all of that. It's easy if you have a small item like those cubes that you can buy in the like Lowe's or Menards, those little cubes that can sit on a regular table, sign holders for an eight and a half by 11 sheet that you can print out of your computer. Fabric is so easy. Tablecloths, plastic ones even, or sheets, those are, that's a big piece of fabric for not a lot of money. So you just need a small investment. And anything to make it interesting, have you ever walked through the Dollar General? Oh my gosh, they have tons of display things in there. And it's all a dollar, it's my favorite thing. So just be aware, it's a mindset. You think about it as you go along and remember to focus your displays on ensuring that patrons who have come in for any reason, maybe they didn't come in to check out a book for themselves. They brought a child to story time or they needed to make a quick photocopy or they wanted to jump on their computer and check their email real fast for an answer they're waiting for. Make sure you focus your displays so that they get caught. That way they'll say, oh gosh, this is clever and they'll stop and look. So it's, those are ways that displays can really help you and the one thing you do have to do is have that stash of books in the back. That's highly important to make sure. Now there's bulletin boards that you can keep up all year long. If you have a big empty wall, like a lot of schools do, I've seen this one in schools more than anywhere else, but you pretend like your wall is a window. You put up some window balances on a curtain rod, then you use sheet protectors for each of the window panes and then you can change out what's in them. And then student work or covers of book jacket, and it looks like a window pane, but it's ever changing. And or another big wall thing is if you can find a giant map or if you have a big bulletin board and you can, now I know that you can get a really big map on Amazon, it ranges from 10 to $25 on how big it is. But if you put that on a board that's just inside the library, students can have a little pin to mark the setting of the books, where the books that they're reading. And that way. Well, interactive. Yeah, they feel like, oh yeah, I'm putting this book in the book drop, but I wanna put my pin in the map. You can post a random question each week. Another interactive thing, students like to put their answers on sticky notes. You buy sticky notes, you get the little ones, the big ones, the in-between ones, all different colors. And you let the students answer their question and they enjoy looking at those. And of course you'll have some people who'll put something funny, somebody who'll put something serious, but they just enjoy looking at all the answers. It needs to be, of course, all age appropriate. But it's colorful. And then at the end of the week, they're all the stickies off, throw them in a dumpster and pull out another question. I see in some places, do this at a lot of universities for whatever reason, whiteboards. Oh, and then they write it with a whiteboard, they have it on an easel or something with a question and then put markers out there. And then it may just erase it for the next question. Yeah, no money spent. It's easy. And it can be up any time. You can start with a large tree. I like that tree idea, yeah. And then you have leaves cut out of all different, of course, all different varieties of leaves. The maple leaves, they own leaves, all of them are fun to shape some colors. Let them write a name for the book they read and stick the leaf on the tree or in the basket that's under the tree or wherever the blowing in the wind close to the tree. So it gets decorative and the kids, once again, it's interactive. It displays for any time of the year. You don't have to relate it to a holiday or a season. You can put up a big sign that says people you ought to know. You cannot stock it with biographies. Biographies, I remember shelving biographies, but there were never very many to shelve. Not enough of them get read, yeah. Yeah, the people in the news that are in the news this week, their biographies get read, but there are so many great biographies in both children and adult areas. You wouldn't have to restrict it to one or the other. Another idea that's kind of fun is novels that have a person's name in the title of the book, so it's mixed up with people that you know, they're not real people, but it would be a fun book to read.  Have I got a story for you? Then you can pair fiction and nonfiction books that are about the same event, like the Titanic. There's realistic books about the Titanic, but there's fiction books about that event as well. And of course, there's even a DVD of the movie. So then you just decide which event you're going to go for. And then did you like the movie, read the book or read the book before you see the movie? Right, that's a good one too. Staff favorites, it never ceases to amaze me because I always wonder who cares what I read. But staff favorites, some people, original, stop there first. And it needs to be personal. If you can, I mean, with the digital cameras and the photocopy machines we have now, you could take everybody's picture and have them hand write a little note about why this book, why they really like this book so well and use it as a bookmark in that book. But staff favorites is one that could be up all the time. And this one I just recently saw, back to the book and you include pictures. I mean, this is one where you'd have to think about it ahead of time. Books that have pictures of a person's back on the cover. It's so funny, people are facing away, they're looking into the distance. There's all kinds of books that's the back of the dress, but it's really, it would be a funny one to put out. It's kind of thinking, if somebody obviously realized there's a lot of the same kind of picture people are using on book covers, it keeps coming up as a theme. It does. So that's something else you could do. What other kind of themes could you put up with this? You wouldn't even think that are related is just this is what the picture is on the front. So almost every time. Yeah, anything you can find a whole bunch of books on something like pictures, books with flowers on them. The book might not have, all the different books are gonna have totally different topics actually, but they all have flowers. Or the titles, maybe the same word. Right. Because I can't tell you how many books have come out that it's the girl, the girl on the train, the girls and the train and whatever. So there will be other trends like that. So it's kind of fun to watch them and to put them up and think of a cute slogan to put with them. People enjoy clever. They like to see it and humor. They don't always think that humor is something that their librarian's going to display, but I think we need to let them know that yes indeed, we are fun people.  There are tons of best books list. My Pinterest page has a bunch of them. It says best book lists and it's full of them.  So that's one that can be used all year long and long-term book displays. Do save staff time. Now I wouldn't suggest this be your only book display, those long-term ones, because you want to make sure things are changing. It's just like your website or your Facebook page. You don't want it to be the same all the time. So that's true in your library as well. If people walk in your library and nothing looks like it has ever moved, that's not a good thing. You don't want it to be static. So then, of course, there's tons of displays related to the month. And I don't need to tell you January, there's slogans, there's about self-improvement and healthy cookbooks and money makeovers. And it's the month that you organize everything. Starting new. Do your closets, everything. So just grab a slogan off this list and then, of course, this PowerPoint will be with the display.  February, pink. Everything's gonna be pink or red. People like craft things. So if you can throw those in. What are the books from the bottom shelves? Because nobody looks down there. It's really inconvenient. And before I wore contacts for so many years that it didn't bother me. But then it got to the point where I needed trifold goals.  So yes, the books from the bottom shelf, that's one that you can do just before you consider weeding. Because that way, things that people are interested in or that catch their attention, they'll check it out and then it won't be in the weeding pile, right? So young adult books, they have such funny topics sometimes. Anti-romance. But yeah, you can put up a display, not your mama's romance and cut the hearts up or make them out of black paper. So there's lots of things you can do. So it doesn't really have to be all pink, but... And then, you know, I mean, it's in Black History Month obviously you probably would not do that display in pink. No, no, probably not. But yeah, it's important to look at the national things that are going on. Yeah, and there's actually websites. There's one, I should probably just find out that posted on Facebook, but the day, whatever this did the day or month of things. Oh, I have that. All of these things, yeah. So you can look up, what is the, you know, the... What happened on this day? Yeah, like, you know, Black History Month or Women's History Month or whatever and what happened on these days, you can focus on some of those things in your displays. Yes, you can look up ahead of time and see, well, what do I need to look on for June? Right. Yeah, that's a good way to do. Now, I was gonna show you a couple. This one I thought was humorous and that was one of those that I liked and they just picked books that had winner scenes and I just think it's important to let them know that we're real people too and when you look at that, it really would not be a hard display to put together. You have a couple of round circles, of course, the black spots for the mouth, the triangle for the nose. There's nothing there. Cut out those snowflakes. Right, and you can buy the snowflakes if you have to. But there's nothing there. You do not have to be an artist to do that display. March, of course, you've got Women's History Month. That's another one where the biographies fill in. Right, in March. And, you know, everybody's got a shelf of those chicken soup for the soul thing. Yes, there's so many. And so those are great to display on quick reads. It's National Quilting Month, so you can get little pieces of fabric, little squares.  Another one that could go all year long is An Author of the Week. Now, and yeah, you could pick Patterson or Nicholas Sparks, you can do that, but it might be interesting to pick somebody else. Make sure they have a few books under their belt because otherwise you're out of display material in a hurry. Kind of like the books in the lower shelf authors that you've maybe never heard of. That you missed, yeah. So those are, that's one that you could run all year. If you need a long-term one and none of the others interested you, that's a great one to try. April would be a good one for like humor because it's April Fool's Day. April Fool's Day, yeah. Do as someone's ever display related to that. Well, and you've got the out there too, I just wanna say it's about halfway through here. If anybody out there has any ideas of displays you've done too, friends, go ahead and type them into the question section. You can share your ideas of anything you've done too. Yeah, that'd be great. May is easy. It's all about mothers and motherhood and flowers. Like you said before, you could pick any number of books that have flowers on the cover. And then National Home Improvement Month. All those home repair books come out. Because it's getting warm enough and nice enough to do that. To do a few things. So, this is one that I like. It's a slogan that I saw on a brochure one time. And then it starts showing up as displays. Well-behaved women seldom make history. Yes, that is true. Something else going on in March is March Madness. Oh yes, basketball. And this is so easy. Get in the game, read. There's nothing. There's a basketball net. There's printouts of basketballs that have been cut out and laid on this tablecloth. And then you get out the team books, the players biographies, the how to play basketball type books. All of those can go on for March Madness. June, there are lots of things happening in June. Of course, Father's Day is there. It is audio book month. If you have any audio books, that's a great display to throw out there because so people know that you have them. Flag Day is in June, so the red, white, and blue. And that can continue into July. Into July, so you don't have to change it out then. And speaking of July, then of course, everybody thinks about paperbacks. And you can even display the paperbacks that are on your friend's book sales and not B1s that you check out because we really don't want them to take the library books to the beach. That's not really it. They come back with sand and it's not good. But you can say drop 50 cents in, take two books away you go. By July, kids are getting bored. So anything you can do that would interest the old children from third through eighth grade would be good and give parents a break, let them know what they might find interesting. You never think about snow in August, but you could put up a display. You're getting one reading to me. And this is one I saw just the other day, the potty training books. Now they go out pretty regularly on their own, but children have to be potty trained before they can start preschool in most preschools. So come August, it's crunch time. So you can come up with a little potty chair and do a tasteful display of those potty training books. So that's an interesting thing that some of these displays could be not just fun thing but educational. There may be some people that don't realize that that's something that they need to do or something that's coming up that they need to be paying attention to. That could be a display that this is happening next month. And I assuming earlier could have been like tax preparation. Right, April. You could do that in March. Right, you do it. And that's something to think ahead so that they can do it right. So cooks and crooks, any of those mysteries, there's several authors that do mysteries with recipes. So I thought cooks and crooks was an interesting title and so easy. You go to the dollar store and you get some recipe boxes and some three by five cards that are decorated. There are three by three cards in there. And it's fun to just put a few things in with your display but it doesn't have to cost a fortune. You know, school, September, we all think of school in autumn. Talk like a pirate day. Yeah, talk like a pirate day is gaining in popularity. It is. A lot of people know about it. It's September 19th. Every year. Every year. And there are so many books now in the children's area that feature pirates. And you can even dig out the adult. Cause they're, you know, they're talking about bad movies, stories of real pirates. Real pirates. Male and female. I mean, there's more stories coming out all the time. Yeah. And it's a topic that a lot of people find interesting. So that's a fun one. Just another one. Of course, October, everybody thinks about Halloween. So you, but I didn't know it was national pizza month. That's interesting. It is. And so you could look for books with pizza in the title. Sometimes I recommend like January is national soup month. I recommend that if you wanted to, you could have a soup, a chili competition or just a soup competition where library patrons could come in and taste the soups and choose their favorite. You could do that with pizza, you know, order a few pizzas in, call all your team advisory board members, have them come in and serve pizza to anybody who comes in the library on a particular day, advertise it. Who knows what your circulation will be. There's a pirate one. Books to treasure. So you could put, put your pirate books out with that too, if you liked. Now, this is one I've kind of liked over time. I've been, I've seen it where your, the pants, it says these will scare your pants off. And they're blue jeans and there's enough paper stuffed in them that they'll stand up. And the other one that is really funny, and I don't have a picture of it, but your table, if it has legs, you can put striped socks on them and then witch-looking shoes. Oh, like from Wizard of Oz. Yeah, so it's the witch legs. Yeah. So I think those are fun. Lots of fun to be had at Halloween time. We're finishing up the months, you know, of course, Thanksgiving gets lost in the chaos of Christmas, but there are some really nice Thanksgiving stories. You can... Genealogy kind of links to that, because you're getting along with your family. That's a family, yeah. Right. And so you can really feature that section of your library. Of course, you have your regulars that use the genealogy department, but there's probably a lot of people out there that don't know what you have there. So then in December, holiday stories, a homemade Christmas, all about Santa. Of course, Pearl Harbor kind of gets lost in there, but you have tons of people. I know my dad reads so many books about the Second World War. Yeah. And so if you get those out, they will circulate. I like the holiday stories for all different, because there's so many different holidays. Right. In December, Christmas, and Hanukkah, and Glanza. And it's... Right. And you want to make sure that it's an inclusive type of display. So that's a good way to make sure that you have books on all different topics too. Now, this is one that I really kind of like.  Whether it's a book or a DVD, and then you get out your Kleenex box, put a sign on it that says, read it and make it a big display, you know, of all the tear-jerkers. I love that one. So now, and here's the fact that you don't have to be super artistic.  Look at it.  It's just a circle, put out some feeds. Some little feet, the poles, and it's quilt batting on the bottom of it that you buy at the traffic store to make snow. Stick your head down in there. Then get out all the penguin books. Think of all the books that are in most libraries that are both fiction and non-fiction, but in the kids' department, there's tons of stories that have penguins in them. It's a great display, easy to do, and can last more than one month because you can start it in December. And leave it through February. Oh, there's your Valentine's display. Just gather up those red-covered books. And a lot of those will be your older titles because they don't have jackets on them, a lot of them. But if you have some empty shelves, it's a great way to do a display. I've seen people do similar displays with flag colors. Oh, to make it look like a flag on a shelving unit that's empty. I've seen some people do build, like for wintertime, white covers to build a snowman. See, make it look like the two circles with a snowman. And then black ones on top of that to the top of the hats. Just can get creative with just the colors. And I don't know if you have a thing here about the, I don't remember the title, but it was, the cover was blue. I think I might have that one in here. That's a funny one that, what's an ongoing joke, if it is, you know. If you've ever worked in a library? They say, I'm looking for this book. I don't remember the title or author or anything, but I know the cover was blue or green. And you had it over there. So you just put up a display of all your blue-covered books and put that sign. I don't remember, did you make a sign that says it? I don't remember the title, but the cover was blue. And that's the theme of your displays, just books. All books that are blue. They'll be in all different topics. It doesn't matter. And then it doesn't matter. It's a great one. Color. It's funny. Color displays are fun. They really are. And this is one you talked about earlier. Have you read a good movie lately? Oh, I like that. You know, books to movies. This could even be the start of a book club. So that people can read the book and then watch. You could start out with things that are already on DVD so that you have something to watch right away. But so you read the book and then you'll watch the movie. It's a great book club idea. And it's just a great display too, to remind people. I just put up on my Pinterest board and I believe on the website from the CPLS books that will be movies in this coming year, right? So that way you can get busy and read. You can get ahead of it. April is poetry month. And once again, a plan where it's poetry, not a hard one to do. Those leaves are not difficult. You just grab all your poetry books. And that I think is even actually on a rolling blackboard like what you see in a school. Yeah. And then there's a table underneath it or a little book display. The one book for one Nebraska book this year is a poetry book. It is. I saw that. So that is totally something you could link into the one book one Nebraska. I think that's what you're doing. Oh, and remember, that's in April. So be sure and reserve your book club sets for April. Do that right away. Okay, famous series are something girls, girls, it's generally little girls. I know little boys read the last on the prairie too. But if you put up a display like this and even the bottom of the shelf looks like the back of the wagon. I mean, now that one, I gotta say take some creativity. To make the prairie scooter there. Yeah. That does take interest in some, yeah. Right. So that's gonna take some time. That one I would wanna leave up for quite a while simply because it's gonna take you some time to put it together. Not to find the books, but to actually do that type of display. But it's still fun to do once in a while. This is a great one. Go to Goodwill. Get an old suitcase without wheels. Find a map and put inside the cover. You know, just inside the suitcase. You could put in there books about time travelers. Oh. You could put. Not just traditional travel books. Yeah. You could put actual travel books in there like full doors and all of those travel books. Or you can put books in there where traveling is part of the plot. So that there's all different kinds of things that you could do with that. But I love the old suitcase. Yeah. I think everybody needs to have one of those in their back. So just looking up, can I want to make sure I got the title right for anyone? We're talking about the one book, one Nebraska choice for 2018. The title is Nebraska Presence and Anthology of Poetry. And it is edited by Greg Kuznicki and Mary Stillwell. So, and we are gonna have book club kids just kind of on that side here. The book club kids gonna be available through the library commissioning through all the systems. That's what I was gonna say. Who wants to borrow them. The books are on their way. She's picking herself today. Yeah. And so if you want to, if you have that book club set for April, be sure and let us know so we can get you down on our list. Now, see, this is another one of those.  And it says, bet you can't read just one. Now you see those books stacked back there? Those are books in a series. Oh, okay. So you have the whole series there. And so you bet you can't read just one. You're gonna want to read the second and third and fourth. Yeah. Can't read just one. So I thought that one was really fun. I'm not sure. I don't know where you'd find a yellow trash bag, but that's what you really need something like that. Yeah. So, but I just thought that idea was fun. You can just do that on a bulletin board too. Yeah. This is one for schools. What to display material that has come in over the summer. Since you've been, yeah, since you've been gone or the books missed you or something like that, but you can display those for the first two or three weeks of school. And the kids will know that if you have readers that go through a lot of books, they'll really appreciate knowing what's new, what they missed. Here's one of those that is on a book truck and it happens in September, the last week of September is Band Books Week. There's generally a little bit of a theme, but it essentially is books that have been challenged. So those and Captain Underpants books are challenged all the time. So that's an easy one that everybody has a few of anyway. But there's a whole list of Band Books that you could put on that cart. And the chain link is plastic. Probably came from maybe Halloween display stuff, maybe. But once again, I've checked the dollar store. You know, leaf through a good book. That's a great one for a fall. You could put it up in September. You leave it up through months. Yeah, through almost, put the recto over you. And part of November even before you put up your holiday books. Those leaves, you don't have to go ahead and cut all those out.  Bags of those fake artificial leaves. Right, that are really great colors. And you just snip each one off and put it up on their ear display. A couple of dollars, you're going to have plenty of leaves. And it'll save you a ton of time. If you want to feature nonfiction, this is so simple. It's just a very simple display that that way whoever is reading it knows that those are all nonfiction books. And that's something that children don't always understand. So if you were in a children's area or a school, might be such a thing as you'd want to feature books that kind of read like a story, but they're actually true. This is one of my favorites because this is again, one of those interactive ones. If you, for the whole month ahead of when you want to do this display, everybody that checks out a book, you have them trace their hand. And you can either cut them out or have one of your volunteers do it or the person who draws around their own hand could do it. But then the next month, then you could put all their hands up. They know that I contributed to that display. They were part of it. Yeah. Something that's important that we don't always think of. Take pictures of, well, I put really good displays, but take pictures of any of your displays. And then you file them according to the holiday or the month or the theme, whatever works best for you. And then the old displays can either spark new ideas. And sometimes this has happened. It's like the whole blue book thing. They'll remember that they saw a book on one of your displays. They'll say, well, I don't remember who wrote it. It was about winter.  You'll put it on there, yeah. And also it's a good, I think too, a good reminder of what you did in the previous year, the previous month, that you either, and it can go both ways. I wanna remember that this is gonna be an annual thing we do. Or I wanna remember what we did. So I do something different. And then maybe like three years from now, go back to that one that we did before that month. So you have kind of like a stash of ideas. They've already created ideas and the letters. Because so many times you have to cut out letters that go with it or use the die cap machine to do that. You can gather up those letters and put them in a sandwich bag and file them with the pictures. Then at least you do have that slogan if you wanna use it again. But like I say, I use things like that to make sure I don't repeat. Because I forget what I've done. Exactly. So if you're looking for sources for display ideas, there's lots of different ways that you can gather those. We've talked about some here. I do send out a monthly email from the system. There's a minimum of 10 display ideas or activity ideas that I email out to our system. If you're not in Central Plains Library System, it also gets posted to our website every month. And what happens is at the end of January, I am posting March ideas. Yeah, time to prepare. So you can gather up those books and have a stash wherever you need them to be. So another thing that you can do is I do have a Pinterest for displays for libraries and I add to it all the time. If you go to our website, which is the, we have a commission website. So it's libraries.ne.gov and slash CPLS. You can go to our website. There's a link, follow me on Pinterest on the right-hand side of the page. And if you do Pinterest, then you just click follow when you get there. And that way you can see all of the ideas that I'm drawing from. There it is. Yeah, there it is. Yeah, that was library thing. The one below it is Pinterest. Yeah, there it is. So there's, I know that a lot of people hesitate to get involved in Pinterest or to even start looking at it because you can't lose yourself and spend hours and hours looking at it. But if you have a specific thing that you want and you say that you're gonna follow the displays for libraries, when I post something on my page, it will come up in your feed because you've followed me. And then you can see it if you wanna put it in your display list, well, then you can do that. And this is the website that you were talking about. I think so, yeah. Today's the history. And there's the website. And like to say the PowerPoint will be up on the website with the video, but. So that's the thing to look at to see what's coming up to do display on. They do post, I believe, like I said, I follow their Facebook page. And so each day they'll say today is so-and-so day. This happened today. So that's not really useful for what we're talking about today, but yeah, looking at it and saying, well, what's happening next month? Yeah. Right, and they break it down by category, like military things that happened on a particular day or political things. So they haven't all divided up. So you can see what might be interesting to your patrons. So another way to get extra mileage out of your displays is take that picture for your file, but also post that picture on your web page. Sure, because it doesn't have to just be an in-person interaction to your users. Right, they don't have to come in the library to see it. They can see it on your Facebook page or your web page. So another type of book that a lot of times gets ignored because it checks out so much anyway. Any of you that have graphic novels and kids that are reading them and adults. Oh, there's lots of adults now. So they are incredibly popular. So of course, it's going to take a lot to keep that display full. But it is something that if your graphic novels are kind of in the back of a corner shelf, it might be a good idea to bring it forward. And we talked about this.  If you look for something, you can look for any kind of book that has a bright green cover. And then it's all topics. But the sign says it's not easy being green. And if you happen to have a little stuffed animal of Kermit the Frog, you set him up there with the sign and all these green books, it's really fun. Or you can do the reading of the green if it happened to be March. Or you can do red books, red hot reads, more blue books, books with the blues. Or like Christa said, I don't remember the title.  But I know it was blue. Major news events. Of course, we have the Olympics coming up. And that is in my list of displays for February that I sent out at the end of December. People watch sports that they never have seen before. Oh, yeah, I do. So I do, too. I do for the Olympics. Yeah, you watch the Olympics. So get out the. I have no idea how many of them are played until I watch the show. So you see, what are they doing? Yeah, curling. Now that's gotta be one of those that none of us knew anything about. But the Olympics brought it to. And now everybody knows, yeah. We all know what it is. I say curling. The other thing, we've had horrible hurricanes if there's been an earthquake somewhere in the world or good things like the release of a film or a celebrity in the news. Take advantage of those things. And if you have books about them, this is a case where you don't actually have to have a whole stash of books. If you put a little sign on the circulation desk off to the side so people can step up and page their material, you can just put a little sign there and say and feature that book. Whatever you have to say to feature that book. And then if it gets checked out and takes the sign down, and it's over. But what that means is somebody that came in for three books, left with four. So that's a good thing. And that celebrity that makes me think local celebrities too, if there's local books about something local. Right. And a lot of the libraries do carry local authors. That's a great one. And I didn't even say anything about authors' birthdays. Oh yeah. There's nothing you focus on here. And that's something else that's easy to look for. If you have a ton of books by a particular author, put them into Google, you'll find their birthday. When it comes time for their birthday, you don't even have to pull the books off the shelf. Just move them apart a little bit and put that 8 1⁄2 by 11 shelf saying, so this is so-and-so's birthday. So-and-so's birthday, it will bring, if it looks different, people will walk towards it. They'll catch their idea. So-and if you see a catchy slogan, like the one about well-behaved women starting to want some of them make history, write it down. Put it somewhere where you think it makes sense in your files to use for a future display. Let's say reader's advisory is so important, but a lot of people don't feel comfortable with that. And this is what we were talking about before. Last week we were talking about this is, and I think it's in the description, this is what we're talking about with passive programming. This is one of the things where you're not actually interacting with people who might be shy or just don't know that they want to talk to you, but- Right. They don't realize they're being programmed to. Right, they don't know that by looking at that display, they have just participated in a program. So that is one great way to make sure that people are finding what they're interested in. And it really is the easiest way to promote your collection and it's going to increase your circulation. Absolutely, yes. If you go from zero displays to one or two. That's the huge thing about this is not just putting together some fun thing that makes it look interesting library, but things we'll check out, whether it's the books, the DVDs, whatever you have, the audio books, you're going to see an increase in them. And when you are, we talked about the books from the bottom shelf. It's important to give the books that have been purchased every opportunity. I mean, something has to be on the bottom shelf. It might be really great stuff. Just have us be where it ended up. So make sure that it gets plenty of opportunity to be checked out. That's why we buy material is so that the public can use it. So now I have listed the references that I used so that you have the opportunity to look at those if you'd like. And so you'll be able to see those on there. Yeah, don't worry about trying to write all this down. You'll have access to this presentation with the recording afterwards. Right. So, and that's where you find me. Cool. Most days. Awesome. All right. Thank you, Dees. Nobody's said anything during the show. They're all sticking around watching intently after taking notes. Anybody have any comments or questions before we wrap up for today? We're a little after 11, but that's fine. We started a little after 10. This is really great. I wish I had something to make me which I worked in the library again because we did displays where I went to the university years ago. And it was always fun every month or whenever to figure out what was coming up knew that we needed to focus on. And I think this isn't just when we talked a lot about public libraries in schools but universities do this as well. Oh, yes. They have their books they need to focus on and their own displays, all types of libraries need to make sure people know what you have. It's just a lot of time selecting them. We do. We look at reviews. We watch for a lot of work and do things that sell well at a bookstore. We spend a lot of time. So you want to make sure they get used. All right. Just some thanks for all the great ideas, comments coming in. So that's great. Oh, here's a good question. Is there a way we can share our display ideas, i.e. pictures with other libraries? Well, that would be Pinterest or Facebook. Yeah, if you post them. And a lot of times I feature book displays that have come to me in picture form. Like I had a library do. They had a mannequin, the top half of a mannequin. And they made the skirt out of fancy book covers that had fancy dresses on them. And it was near prom time. Or you could do it with wedding dresses with white things on the cover and say yes to the dress So I got one of my libraries in my system had done that. And then it was in the middle of a round display. And then the books were displayed all the way around it. And the covers were photocopied and just cut off and made into the skirt of this dress. It was a really clever display. So I put that in my newsletter because we and all the systems have newsletters that go out at least once a month. And mine's every other month. But yeah, that's it. And we're glad to share this. There's lots of you can create a Pinterest board like it like Denise did. And then that's yours that is and make what make it be a creative Pinterest account for the library and see what have different things. This is our library displays. And then I would follow you so that that would come into mind. And then or in Facebook, you can create an albums on different topics when your albums to be all of our library displays. There's also ways of sharing them. Also, if you are in one of our systems always looking for content for their newsletters right or to post on our web page. Yeah, so send them any ideas. Someone did just post. There's a, there is a website. Thank you, Diane. Librarian Design Share is a great place to share ideas. Now look at the URL is librariandesignshare.org. Just all those three words smushed together. I'm gonna show you that. Inspiration for the library. Yeah, let's go over here. Keep out of this. Get to here. Yeah. So, yeah, those things. I'll take a read. Oh, no, I guess spell it right first. Don't take too fast. My library. Or, yeah. It's hard. Fingers are faster than my brain. Keyboards off kilter. Yeah. There we go. Inspiration for library creatives. That's by type. So it's a loading something, too. So, yeah, different ideas here for doing design in your libraries. So you can put, you can share them there. Yeah, that's great. Is that, and then there is, you were talking about your Pinterest board, which I'm going here. This is where our regional library systems have their websites, Centra Plains. As you said, over here on the right, we scrolled down just a bit. So I have one up from Martin Luther King yesterday. I put that up ahead of time. Oh, there's a display for that, yeah. And then here's the Pinterest board for Centra Plains. Best book lists, book club recommendations, book folding trailers, displays for libraries. Does that say 600 and something then? Or 804. 804 and 100. Yeah. I'm looking out the time. I want to make sure that there's something that people can, I guess, I can't see it all until I sign up. That's fine. But if you have to create your own board, create your own Pinterest account, yeah. There we go. There's a different thing, I think so. Logos, bookmark your library, all sorts of ideas here on this website, too. So there's lots of places you can share or where you can get ideas from out there. All right, any other ideas or comments or thoughts for today's topic? All right, nobody's typing anything in desperately right now. I think we'll officially wrap it up for today. Thank you very much, Mrs. Stegman. I think that's a really cool idea. And I even get ideas for books that I might want to look up reading throughout some of these topics. The show has been recorded and we put on our Encompass Live website. You can find it off of our Library Commission site under Education and Training, our Encompass Live webcasts. But also, if you're just out there on the internet conveniently enough, so far in the world, Encompass Live is the only thing, our show's the only thing called this. Oh, nice. So you can Google it and you'll find our Encompass Live website right there. These are our upcoming shows. Today's archive will be posted right underneath our upcoming shows is our archive sessions. 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My name is Atsushi Natsubayashi. I like to talk about the method for controlling ultrasound field for haptic presentation. Outer sound haptics is a technology that uses multiple ultrasound transducers to create a high sound pressure region in the air to provide haptic sensation. The gain of the transducers in the sound pressure at the control points can be expressed by a simple matrix equation. This equation is for free sound field. If you consider the scattering sound field, which means considering reflection on the hand surface, you can generate a more accurate pressure distribution. In this case, the control points are set on the hand surface. To consider scattering matrix B is added to this equation, but replacing the matrix B to the same equation as for the free field. In order to control the sound pressure distribution on the hand surface, this optimization problem can be solved. In this study, we have proposed an algorithm to solve this problem with high accuracy. This method is particularly effective when, for example, presenting haptic feedback inside the hand, where many control points need to be set to zero to prevent extra pressure generation. We only give a brief description of the method. In this method, we fix the amplitude of the transducers to the maximum value. This simplifies the optimization to an unconstrained risk risk program. We studied this program efficiently with the Leidenberg-Marquardt method, which is iterative solver for risk risk problem. We performed the numerical simulations for the case where the sound pressure inside the hand was controlled. And we compare the accuracy and calculation time of our method with other optimization algorithms. The simulation results show that our method achieves both accuracy and speed. The fact is that our method is effective in this situation, but it should be noted that other methods may be more effective for some other applications. For more detailed comparison between them, please refer to the paper. Thank you.