For a variety of reasons, I've been terribly sleep short lately, I've been traveling a lot and I'm in a major deficit. And so when Dan asked me if I'd drive in from Marin at 8.30 this morning, it really tested my commitment to both Dan and this organization. I'd rather be dreaming. But the reason I'm here, instead, is that I have a dream and you folks are part of it, intimately I think. And my dream is pretty simple. It's the same dream I've had since I discovered the internet back in about 1985. And that dream is that we will create a time and maybe sooner than many people would think in which anybody anywhere can know as much as they are intellectually capable of assimilating about any subject as is presently known to all of humanity. I mean that some kid in Mali can know as much about some particular intricacy of proteomics as he is capable of learning because the information will be available to him. Back in 1993, Mark Endresen added and then removed annotation from Mosaic. This is pretty much how the history of annotation on the web seems to have gone down for the last 20 years. There have been various annotation platforms in the past where they've simply said, well here is my XML schema, here is my JSON schema and it's going to be locked up in my little platform and it hasn't worked out very well. So by following the architecture of the web we see that it's going to be, or we hope that it's going to be more sustainable, more interoperable and just better regarded future proof. This is a challenge that we think can be solved in a community if not by a single company because it's not about whether everyone has exactly the same technology, it's about getting people together to discuss things in situations like this and online asynchronously with the community group so that we arrive at a common understanding of what is required to be done so that everyone benefits from the interoperability of annotation. So we're trying to create consensus within the community as to a single way to do things even if it's not exactly what everyone is currently doing now. How do we try to solve this problem where in a thousand years from now we might look back and actually have a record of the conversations that happen around the things that are really important to us. The question is, is this T0? Is this the point at which the denizens of the future will look back and say presto annotation started happening in 2013? I don't know, but if it's going to happen then we need not to just build the technology and create the standards, but we actually have to get people annotating. We've got some early annotation technology enough that we could probably start using it to make some real annotations, but what we need to do is try to figure out what real people, real communities need in order to actually use it to do useful things and that's why you guys are here and thank you for coming. So a couple of things that are important from these kind of annotations and annotation systems is that the spatial relationships are very important and also in that I mean also that they are ambient, that they actually occupy space around us. And they require a lot of graphical elements and it requires a development of a language either personal one or a shared one that you, you know, this is critical to sort of develop a system that we all kind of understand and it's very difficult for people to enter into a book sprint once it started because they don't have the shared understanding, the shared language in shorthand and notation and annotation. First of all we need to provide a platform, a web-based platform where this stuff can happen.  We just have to provide it at a global scale. So we think that a web-based portal that supports different roles, scientists can create their own annotations and reuse them but librarians in particular who are a trusted source of curated metadata are best informed and prepared to actually create the annotations that we know we need to use to incorporate in our system. And I've seen pretty amazing cutting-edge research being done in science but then when we write up that research the tools that we're using to write up the research is tools like Word and LaTeX for example that whether we like it or not those tools were not built for the web, they were not built for collaboration and what's even worse is that we're packaging that all that information when we disseminate science in things like papers in PDF that look a little bit like that so we lock them up in papers and the thing here is that if we want to change the way that we disseminate science we need to change the way we write science. These days most of scientists are still printing out papers and so their notes are on paper. Some are starting to use technologies and they have PDF annotators and some HTML annotators they use Twitter blogs emails and so if at the end of the month they ask you can you aggregate your own annotation can you give me an idea what you thought in the last month how hard it is to pull that together. If you've got all of the prior versions of the article, the pre-print, the draft, the poster presentation, the abstract and you can annotate that as a peer review process and see the annotations and see it in the final form and everything then that's clearly a much more powerful form of peer review than just annotate it or just peer reviewing the final fossilized journal article that gets submitted to the journal. Now all of a sudden so you've got a lot more access to unbedded materials and a kind of slightly haphazard well and this kind of invites some kind of comment or review streams in here that are almost reactive. One of the complaints of peer review is that you just get somebody who's listing a whole lot of snarky comments just to be clever or funny and I think what we're seeing is that if people are aware that perhaps those comments will be made publicly available on paper they're actually being a lot more pleasant. You know in the academic life those anonymous comments were really dependent on to get people's real feelings because they're so sensitive about commenting on their peers publicly egos are huge. What we're seeing is the more senior people in the field are happy to provide their name so often when the name is provided it's because they're a clear expert in the field that they're happy to stand by their word their reputation is made and usually it's the younger people still trying to make the reputation that aren't provided to the peer you know at some level if you believe the words you've written you should be prepared to stand by them and put your name by them. How much do you have to insist on people standing behind what they say their use cases for people needing to be private how private do they need to be some attributes are more important to some communities than to other communities you can't assume that everything is consistent everywhere. If we think about annotation as a really old thing that humans have done for a long time how does that inform the way that we move that into the current tools that we have to do annotation with addressing the persistent problem of how the interactions around annotations and around text can sometimes turn quite nasty quite fast in the anonymity of the web which kind of gets at some of the issues of reputation. We started talking about how the you could leverage existing in-person social interaction cues that we all sort of learn inductively and appropriate how some of those conventions could be moved and structured into the online space to kind of mitigate some of the the nastiness that comes from I can be really awful to you online and there's no social consequence or embarrassment that happens from that. When you cite something in a way you annotate it but you also validate it and I think it would be useful for us to have tools that would make more explicit the extent to which a citation is validating a piece of research that is all very implicit now the cultural conventions in science that when you cite something you're obviously not disproving it and so in a sense you're validating it because you have this sort of myth of you know I'm only reporting what's there in nature as opposed to I say this you have somebody else say they reported that for nature and so before you know it's a canon so I think we should collectively look at systems that make this whole trail of citation much more explicit what is it that the claim was what part of that claim are you supporting or do you need for your own argument so that you can trace it back to the original data that the original how do we get a universal shared repository of citation data that can be flexibly used by a broad number of tools so that it's appropriate for for all of the different domains the idea behind citations as they are straight what they should be having citations that take advantage of the digital nature of our medium would be great so one of the key things as we think about annotation and description of the life on earth and taxonomic description is a big problem that we've had for the past 250 plus years which is what something we call the taxonomic impediment within the community and the basic problem here is that we've collected all of this information over time we've filed it in file cabinets in books and in huge specimen collections in our large natural history and botanical garden collections where we literally have hundreds of millions of specimens that have been collected over the years the problem is none of this is linked together the data is often locked up in analog sources how do we share those resources how do we share the commentary the annotations that have occurred on all of this types of material over those years in order to better understand what we have on the planet earth and what we're losing but increasingly a large number of our use comes from other machines so again systems like tropacos at the Missouri Botanical Garden and Cyclopedia of life all of those types of systems and tools pull in this content so it's not just annotation that needs to occur within our own platform in that own silo but the annotations would need to move between the different systems where this content begins to flow around the the info sphere but I think that we're missing a big trick by not utilizing the web to communicate science as well as we all know in this room that we could and so threads is an idea which I think has the potential to help a little bit just a little bit so what is a thread like I said it's like science you take articles there's three articles there with components you pull out components and then you just publish those components in their own individual you published object this is the threat we probably already know this but the volume of human generated content is already vast and it's going to grow an automation supports all of those good things that we've been talking about so displaying facts making it easy to navigate the content we're interested in connecting hitherto disconnected but related content and the systematic analysis of vast corpora so ultimately it opens the door to new discoveries by realizing that potential of connecting the sum of human knowledge but to do that we have to automate what we are doing while the you while the users are annotating and typing the text is we are on the fly analyzing their text and we are proposing tags semantic tags this means the labels you see here like Mediterranean Sea Street of Gibraltar etc. are not strings those are links to Wikipedia and the user can accept or reject those tags so users essentially create positive and negative tagging relationships to Wikipedia which we use in this case while they're writing the annotations so there's a very precise way of getting unambiguous references to clearly defined concepts instead of strings on the one hand we we're feeling like there isn't enough participation people aren't annotating enough you know do we want to get as much community as possible involved in this stuff but I hope we're not doing that for its own sake because I think Mr. Barlow used the word metabolism and maybe that's a better way to back up and think about you know what we're doing and are we finding truth in all these things or are we just doing like pretty elaborate data structure manipulations which I think is a great thing to do but maybe we want to be doing more than that but there's more than just preservation ideally you want the data that is created by one group to be usable by another we should not be reinventing the wheel we should not be remeasuring the same data right now many groups say that they cannot reproduce someone else's research so they just do it themselves over again they reinvent ways of doing things so it's essential that data is usable by others so we can do better science and improve interdisciplinary work and really get better and help this kid and Molly get the next Nobel Prize I do think it's essential there that we create systems that allow the researchers immediate and complete control over their own research data but then these systems can excrete semantic metadata that can be shared with larger repositories so you allow them to titrate what part of their research they're exposing to exactly which part of the outside world another issue is the the matter of the fear of being scooped if people do something interesting with their data they're afraid other pipe people will find even more interesting aspects of their data and so we think that the key to this would be really looking at the reward systems looking at the way that research is funded and it's great to have some funders in the room to think of how can you move towards a system where you have a shared mission this idea of going to Mars or mapping the human genome where collectively you need all your data because you need everybody's brain power to work together and it's not just a competition who gets their first it's how do we all get there the bottom line I think is that research data sets are ripe for crowd sourced techniques for adding value such as annotation and this applies to the long-tailed data as well as to the larger more celebrated data sets a really good example is we can learn so much from what Zooniverse has done with their under the citizen science alliance from galaxy classification to planet discovery mining old ship logs and weather data crowdsourcing with consumer based help to conduct all sorts of science very creatively turning things into games that's all wonderful stuff what I came up with was it's an efficient rapid centralized scholarly communication system and I'd just like to drill down for a second to try and pull out things that are relevant it's efficient it's very low cost that means we don't have much effort to spend it's rapid one day turn around it has to be automatic centralized actually turns out to be quite important it is the one go-to place for scholars in a number of disciplines which means actually we have a nice opportunity to do things to help a community in one place and it's scholarly it's not designed for the great unwashed to communicate their ideas to the scholarly domain it's designed for communities to talk to a first approximation within themselves so with a view to look larger information environmentalism two final points it's important to capture the conversation which is what we're here to do it's important to measure rank and summarize the conversation fundamentals and needs to be real-time integrated as metadata mobile moves with the object and we'd like to have quantitative and qualitative summaries of the of these conversations now all of these are techniques that we have developed over time to translate so these technical core documents to people who want to get involved but it tends to be more one way than two way we get a lot of feedback in all sorts of ways we get people who send us emails we get tweets we get people who write blog posts people who just stop us and talk to us about these things but you we haven't traditionally seen kind of a collaborative response and opening up opening up a bill for annotation how do you if you don't necessarily have a community of people software code is a really interesting community because there's both a sizable community of people who understand code and who are inclined to engage about it online in a way that you don't see historically traditionally with statutes and laws so it's like what can you do so it's more dialogical where you like go out and to communities that you want to engage with and be like what are your objections and then like try to understand and distill their argument and then like rebut it and then when the document and then you end up with a document or a site that's like you know here are the other arguments so if someone comes to it from that group they can look at it and be like oh I see yes they're acknowledging the concern like so you know what we're trying to achieve through annotation studios to really engage students in the process of interpretation and of course that's done through close reading developing an argument making connections across text because you know texts have sources they had they have adaptations and looking at this whole ecosystems of how texts have evolved the fluid process the fluidity of text is really important to get a sense of what that means so it's also a shared and a participatory process it's not the loan scholar or the loan student it's part of a larger conversation that's going on so it's but it's also really reflecting on the process what do student students do when they annotate when they read a text so this also means making that process a visible rap genius is fun that's one of the things I feel like it's sort of missing from this morning I don't mean that as a criticism again I'm totally new here but the success of rap genius on some level at least for me was that I didn't know where any of these tools were that you guys were talking about before but rap genius was there and rap genius was fun for the kids and there's a playfulness about it and a kind of more relaxed and it's not that it's not scholarly on every page we acknowledge the top scholars of a particular of a particular text or a particular author but it's fun you can play around on rap genius really is the unwashed in a lot of senses it's it's inclusive of everybody as scholars not restricting that to any academic institution and inviting everybody to participate in this way and encouraging them to do so through some pretty fun features that I don't think distract from close reading and I think add to the engagement of the very same skills that everybody in the humanities and another classrooms is trying to get students involved in close reading analysis being informed the great aspects of this is that students that are if you want the wall flowers that don't participate in discussions in class have the opportunity to voice their perspective in this environment and so that way that can be brought into the conversation which usually does not come into the conversation that's these are really interesting multi-step processes that students have to go through but that's part also then of the pedagogy of that course so so faculty need to rethink how they actually construct them the assignments and think about about this multi-step process right they were read a chapter you know and annotated and be required to put an annotation online afterwards but then that would fold into face-to-face conversation and fold back onto the online conversation so and they would be interacting with each other at the same time online at homework you know one kid would annotate something other kid would come along and say I see it differently so it was time and space sort of collapsing from the teacher's instructor's perspective so how do we use annotations for teaching and then from the student perspective how do I use annotations for learning but teachers also can learn from the annotation so it's probably an iterative continued process annotation and education could be everything from well annotation as a pedagogy in itself right as part of a way of as you said motivating conversation getting people to read critically blah blah blah annotation could also just be a way of sort of capturing the exhaustive educational discourse probably many people here would say that it's pretty interesting to think about students and teachers obviously but really students taking that much more active role in not just taking information as a given but seeing it as something which they can really consider in light of their understanding of what the expectations are and then capturing that in some way right having that be part and parcel of the instructional process high school kids are engaged in maybe called something different maybe it's a more rudimentary version of it but the same thing that the college students are doing and the same thing the scholars are doing and the same thing that you're doing with your complicated manuscripts of you know medieval Europe or whatever you know breaking it down visually it's all the same process and you can call it annotation and maybe that ostracizes people but everybody does it you do it when you walk out of a movie theater right you do it when you read the newspaper you do it any time you look at something and you think something else yeah it's a very basic skill and it's that it needs to be taught across at different levels and into different degrees but we've got to not create barriers to having conversations with different groups and create tools that are restricted in terms of application we can innovate all we want on the tech side and give all the tools we want on the table but unless unless they're unless we help faculty imagine how they can use them and then and then let that grow naturally having faculty show examples of how they have been using the tools is the best driver for adoption this is the big one the ability to deal with the fact that the web changes people move things around and in general annotating dynamic content is really hard there is no you can't even work out what the even if you didn't know how to implement it you can't work out what the ideal behavior would be because if the content changes enough you can see that you probably don't actually want to keep annotating that content the New York Times had a fabulous example where if the content changed too much your annotation would just evaporate so this might be solved by multiple addressing fuzzy anchoring but I think perhaps the biggest way of the biggest or most likely way of solving this problem which is my last point Peter is persistent reference or to put that another way can we please put the Internet the whole Internet in git and for those of you who aren't overly familiar with get the important thing about get is it is an append only log of content objects and at the moment the Internet isn't a pen don't lead I can remove stuff from the Internet I'm looking at a man over here who's trying to build some pieces of this the fact that Tim says cool your eyes don't change is not enough the web is not cool enough your eyes do change and the Internet archive and memento are trying to fix this but I think that in some ways they're not ambitious enough I want to be able to say this is the thing that I annotated and know that that reference will exist forever that is the point if I annotate a journal article as a PDF those annotations should appear in the HTML version if I annotate a book on one page or on a Kindle that should appear on another page or on a nook and there are a couple of ways that we might solve this one of them is by having some kind of canonical representation one of them is by fuzzy anchoring if you like what I call content address annotation where you address an annotation by the content that it annotates we want to like build enhance books books with annotations and books scientific books that include data sets and much more things like that we need powerful open standards but when there exists a whole bunch of different standards out there Kindle I books have different capabilities they are authored differently you know they want everything certainly they want the metadata in a certain way and that's it and then once it gets popped into their system they're really the masters of that domain so I originally came at this from a developer I wanted to develop enhanced books I wanted to develop things that used enhanced books but when they come in proprietary formats with not only technological baggage but also legal baggage that makes developing novel applications things like annotation you know pretty hard definitely get the frustration because I'm doing that too but it's it's not it's not an easy terrain to navigate if what you want is to continue with the ecosystem that we have with all the different kinds of publishers we have then there's going to be some of this like capitalism exists part of our job is to talk more about what kind of targeting within books is appropriate necessary to really want to be able to target them or what what kind of target requirements are people going to want new books but now I point to paragraph X in a PDF copy of that same book versus the EPUB version where it's possibly a version that's authorized for a poem I have to do a fair amount of work to make that DUI useful so I think the trick here is that they're they're you want to identify functionality you want to identify some features and you want to say what these features functionality be present and as many of the annotation tools can want the individual tools to work on as many places as it can but we will recognize that they're going to be more than one tool it's not one tool it's all it's going more than one tool and it's going to have to sometimes make trade-offs with what function now the idea that we started from is that everyone is a journalist on the web that annotating is an act of reporting the problem and and and people are already empowered to some extent to do it by commenting but commenters are notoriously bad journalists I think that it's because the tools are bad that they're bad at it also something that we figured out is that text comments are overkill most of the time what people are trying to do is react to something on the web and annotations give them the ability to do that it would be best if the tool that gives people the ability to annotate had its own interface but it would also be good if you could use the same types of annotations to point to anything that you did on any domain a blog post of your own a tweet whatever and count that as an annotation to I think annotations are a window onto the soul and I think that annotations are important in digital media because they're a crucial form of interactivity in a medium where use is otherwise kind of invisible and people like ball yard in you know in the latter half of the 20th century became quite exercised about this the compact disc it doesn't wear out even if you use it terrifying it says though you never used it so it's as though you didn't exist gathering is another kind of annotation we don't think of much we usually think of being inside the document but what's next to the documents important to and we can aggregate the marks of lots of different readers and we I've tried doing this in a couple again in a couple different examples and the consensus of what's important is is significantly it's it's more there's more consensus than you would think I'm feeling a really strong sense that at its heart we all still wished that the web were more of a read write web you know if this if this community evaporates another community will come along at some point in the future and we'll take up that role I think what's important is we want to try and find a way to make the implicit connections between these conversations more explicit on the web but there's a much more complicated and subtle set of problems that you folks are dealing with which have to do with creating the ecosystem of meaning the metabolic sort of truth that makes it possible for that kid to have access to the good stuff and not be completely overwhelmed by the irrelevant and the untrue and I think that what you are doing and what you have the leverage to do even though you are a small group of people you are a very smart small group of people who are on to something that I think is the right thing to be on if we're really going to achieve that dream and I'm very grateful to you I think this is really hard work just just understanding what an annotation might be is not an easy thing and trying to come up with a system that replaces or enhances peer review in a way that gets us closer to an understanding of what is not an easy thing to do but I think that you are here and from all evidence I see you were doing it and I'm very grateful to you for that


Any time this time of year rolls around, I think we all get a little bit excited. And it just feels good to get back out on the field with everybody and get back to work. It's gone pretty well for us. We don't have a lot of kids back, but the kids that we got out here now, they're catching on pretty quick and they're eager to learn and they're happy to be here. So when they want to be here and they want to learn, then things will move along pretty smooth. We lost 15 seniors and a lot of those guys played both sides of football. So I know we got two kids back on offensive line that started last year. And defensively we got about four kids back. So we'll be young.


Good morning and welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. I am your host, Krista Porter, here at the Nebraska Library Commission. Encompass Live is the commission's weekly webinar series where we cover a variety of topics that may be 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 as we are doing today. Excuse me. And it is then posted to our website for you to watch at your convenience. So, and I'll show you the end of today's show where you can watch those archives. Both the live show and the recordings are free and open to anyone to watch. So please share with your friends, family, neighbors, colleagues, anyone you think might be interested in any of the topics we have on the show. We do a mixture of things here on Encompass Live. We do book reviews, interviews, mini training sessions, demos of services and products. It really runs the gamut. And as the library commission, the Nebraska Library Commission is the state agency for libraries in Nebraska. We provide services to all types of libraries. So you'll find shows geared towards all types of libraries, public, academic, K-12, corrections, museums, archives, really anything and everything. Our only criteria is that it's something to do with libraries. Something cool libraries are doing, something you think they could be doing. We have library commission staff that sometimes do presentations for us about things we're specifically offering, but we also bring in guest speakers. And that's what we have this morning with us today is Christine Gale. Good morning, Christine. Good morning. And she is from our Nebraska Community Foundation. And she's going to talk to us about our wonderful, one of our favorite grants, one of mine. The Creets Bennett Donor Advice Fund. This is specifically for our little libraries, which we have a lot of those in Nebraska. Most of our libraries are the small ones. So I will just hand it over to you, Christine, to tell us about what's going on with the grants this year. Well, thank you, Christa. So as she mentioned, I'm Christine Gale with the Nebraska Community Foundation and I am a community impact coordinator. So I help funders make the most impact with their dollars that we can in our communities. And this one specifically, like Christa said, is for small town libraries. I live in North Platte, but I do help all the communities across the state. So I don't have a certain area. So that is who I am. But one of the funds that I have been assigned to that is an affiliated fund of the Nebraska Community Foundation is the Creets Bennett Donor Advice Fund, which was established by an estate gift from Shirley Creets Bennett. So as you can see on the screen, she was a lifelong learner. She was a teacher. She was very interested in academics. She was a traveler. She loved to travel with her husband, but they did not have any children. So upon her death, she put in her will that she wanted her estate, which actually had built up to be quite extensive, even though she truly was a teacher for all of her years. But she had saved up quite a big amount of money that she decided she wanted to do good with in the state of Nebraska. And she wanted to follow similar to her life that she traveled and experienced and learned a lot of different things. And also with her education, she thought the best way to do good in the state was to give to smaller communities. And she herself grew up in a small community. So this was a way to give back. So she started upon her death. It was developed and created as the Creets Bennett Donor Advice Fund to make grants to rural libraries of 3,000 population or less communities. And she named her nieces and nephews as the committee who serve on that donor advice fund and help make the selection. So I am the staff member that is assigned to this fund to just help with the administrative process. But the nieces and nephews are actually the committee who makes decisions on these grants. So when they develop this grant, it was never set up to be as an endowment fund where it would be around forever. But instead it is a donor advice fund that was set up to be spent down to zero. And so we are in the final year of the Creets Bennett Donor Advice Fund, assuming the applications come in. They have been around for the last nine years and during that time have given away almost $600,000 to libraries across the state. So the impact that Shirley was able to make truly has been enormous and it's been really fun to see all the great things that she has been able to help make happen. So that has been really great to work with this. But all good things must come to an end. So this is our last year. And as I mentioned before that the applicants that who are eligible are libraries that are located in Nebraska that are in towns with populations of 3,000 people or less. But they did decide to create this grant so it can be given in three different areas. So the three areas are listed there planning grants enhancement grants and facilities grants. So for the enhancement grants and facilities grants, libraries do need to be accredited. But the planning grant is actually a grant to assist with getting accreditation. So I'm sure Krista and all of you have dealt a lot with what's necessary in order to become accredited. And what the committee realized is that there are some costs associated with accreditation, even though there's lots of things you can select from within the different sections. But there are some time costs for the librarian, obviously for the librarian's time to be accredited or to be, I think it's called accredited. That takes time and to set up your friends of the library group that takes time and money. So this grant is to assist with those costs for and we really want to help out those libraries who are truly trying to become accredited but struggle with some of those costs. So this is a smaller grant, but it is, as you can see, a minimum amount of $500 and a maximum of $2,500. All of our grants are one-to-one matches, which means that for every dollar given, another dollar in the community needs to be matched. So if they ask for the $500, then they have to match it with $500, so it can be a $1,000 grant. So in this case, with the $500 being a minimum, which sometimes these grants are really small, but just every little bit counts, it could be a $250 grant and then matched with $250. That would be the smallest, but otherwise... Okay, I did have somebody who had asked about that previously in the email and I was waiting for today. Hopefully they'll be here to watch that, yeah, that the $500 or whatever the minimum of each grant is like how the math works out. So you could go as low as half of that is all you need to come up with from your library. Exactly, exactly. And I also want to be clear about the accreditation, too. That is something that I run here at the Library Commission for our public libraries, so if you have questions about that, you can ask me. There is no fee to apply for accreditation or be accredited, but there could be costs depending on what you're trying to do to earn the points towards your accreditation. So, for example, like there is a fee to start a friends group if that was something you wanted to do and there are a few points for that, sure. If you needed to buy books or you needed to subscribe to some online database and that gives you more points towards becoming accredited, that would be something the grant could help with. The staff time, the salary, Christine mentioned in order for the library to be accredited, the library director needs to be certified, which entails earning continuing education credits, going to classes, watching webinars. There might be costs for those. There's lots of free stuff out there, but there is your time. So if you need to get paid for that time or something. So, lots of things. And there's even more examples on the guidance document on the Corey's Bennett website. Yes, absolutely. Even travel time, I know some of the things are offered more on Zoom and the web now. But if there is a seminar that someone needs to go to and it takes time and travel, that can be used with this grant. And we have done a few grants in the past for something. One drive, I think, is what you were talking about, the online services. And there's a cost there. Overdrive. Overdrive, sorry, yes. Overdrive our group subscription for eBooks and audiobooks, yeah. Right, so this grant can be used for that as well, since that's part of being accredited. So I just put the last bullet here. Sterling Public Library was one of our recipients this past year. And they used this planning grant towards accreditation, towards their process of getting their friends of the library group started. So they received a $500 grant for that that they matched with $500 for $1,000. So that is the planning grant. The next one is the enhancement grant. And as I mentioned, the next two are for accredited libraries. That's one of the stipulations. This one is a little bit larger. The annual amount, minimum, is $1,000. But maximum of $10,000 this year, which we did lower that a little bit this year, because we are winding down this grant. And we just wanted to make sure that we could do multiple grants this year. So we did lower that maximum if you've been aware of this in the past. Just note that. It's also a one-to-one match. And up to 50% of the match, just is that in kind? I can't read my slide because of our, just a sec, let me move this. Yeah, okay. So 50% of a match may be in kind, which you may have seen in the planning grant. In kind is not permitted. And neither is it in the facilities grant. But in enhancement grant, it can. So some examples of enhancement match might be if, well, I could give an example. Last year, we gave for a library community garden that they wanted to do on the library grounds. And they had gotten some local businesses to donate the wood for building the raised gardens, but also for the dirt and fertilizer. And they got all of that donated. And we were able to count that towards their match for in kind. So materials can definitely be used in the enhancement grants. This can also allow you to get multi-year. And that was also true with the planning grant. Although, so I guess that is important if you received a grant last year or in previous years, you can ask for another grant. But since this is the last year, it really can't be a multi-year going forward because the funds will be spent out, I believe. So a couple examples. Only way it could be considered that we've done a multi-year. We've done, I've known we've done this in the past where, for some reason, the year of the grant being awarded, something unknown happened, an unforeseen happened, and we allowed them to wait and do it like the next year. It was still this year's money. So that's not really applying for another one. It's just, yes, we'll give you extension because, you know, nobody could have planned for the fact that you couldn't put in the garden for some unknown reason. There was a flood here. You got to wait till next year. That's okay. But we actually had a ton of that happen last year and the year before due to COVID. So we've extended many of those, but that money is still recount as spent, even if we haven't paid it all out. You wouldn't have paid for new money. So there still could be a chance of an extension to spend it if you can't do it in the next year. Absolutely. Absolutely. We're not going away. Just the money will be spent. So all right. And things to finish out this still. Right, right. So just a couple to give you a couple of examples. The Butler Memorial Library in Cambridge, Nebraska did just a smaller grant of 1,500 to upgrade their children's section and Hastings Memorial Library in Grant, Nebraska, which both of those are kind of confusing because their libraries are different names than their towns. But they did a little bit larger of a grant for a permanent maker space, which we've done a lot of those. And these pictures are actually of an enhancement grant that we gave to the Plainview Public Library. And they had gotten a new laser etcher for their maker space. And these are some of the products that they have made over this past year. And we just got this yesterday, so I wanted to include it. But I thought it was a really neat display of all the different things they can do now and that they're using in their school system. But also people in the community are able to come and create as well. The last grant is the Facilities Grant, which again is for accredited libraries. This one has a little bit higher minimum of $5,000 just because it seems like Facilities Grants cost a lot more. And then we did lower the maximum to $10,000 this year. Again, the one-to-one match with in-kind not being allowed on this grant. And so if you did receive a grant last year and you wanted to reapply, you could. But we just need to stay within the $20,000, which probably would not be difficult to do unless you got a $20,000 grant last year. A Rappahoe Public Library was one that did receive a Facilities Grant. And it was a much larger project than their $20,000 grant that they received last year. But these are some of the things that they did. And they just had their open house on August 6th, I believe. And this is the end of product. So some of the tradesman's money went towards this renovation. And that is also possible on a Facilities Grant. It can be for one thing, like getting an ADA door installed if that's something that you need. And it's kind of a smaller renovation like that. Or it could be a part of something larger. Like this was a community room, new children's area and circulation desk. And then they added the drive-through up in the top right corner.  So this went towards that. And that is possible as well. And that's one of the things too, especially with these larger Facilities Grants that entail construction and usually are much larger, big projects potentially. You can combine different grants to complete your project. And I know there was one before, and I forget which library it was. I don't want to mention it wrongs. I'm not going to give the name. But I know there's one library that a few years ago, the Creutz Bennett, they had a big amount they wanted. And they were contingent on getting this grant if they got a library improvement grant from the Library Commission to help with part of the cost as well.  We want to make sure you can actually make it happen in the end. So did you get some other grant as well? And we don't want to put our money towards it and then have it not even happen because you didn't have that other big chunk that you still needed. So once we approved them for that grant, then they were able to get the grant from the Creutz Bennett as well. So you got to kind of think creatively of what, you know, if I do have this, it costs more than what is the maximum from here. Look at other grants you can also apply for, for part of it. Yes, absolutely. And we, besides the Library Commission grants, you can also pair it up with other grants. There have been some communities that have had it be towards their match of CDBG grants and other economic development grants. If the library is a part of that, then that has worked as well. So obviously, these bigger projects do cost more than what this one grant can support. But when you get a few together, that sure does help along with private fundraising, which has always been successful for libraries. So this is the Ravenna Library. And there was a story that was done last, no, two years ago now on Pure Nebraska on 1011 News. And it was just talking about the Ravenna Library also had a major renovation, but this particular room was the part that the Creutz Bennett donor advice fund assisted with them renovating.  So the application process is pretty simple in the world of grants. This is, there's a short form that is very easy and just a few questions and needs to just kind of get your scope of your project and just double check that you are eligible with all of the little guidelines that we have set. Those are due October 1st. And after we have a chance to review those probably into about mid-October, we discuss those and then get back to the applicants to let them know if they are eligible to submit full proposals, which are due in the first part of January. And I should have had that on, but the date for 2022 for Creutz Bennett I believe is January 11th, but let me double check that. Oh, for when the? Yes, actually, it's the 10th, but it's a little bit after the first of the year because we just like everyone else aren't ready to roll right away on January 1st. So, so we give a little leeway there to get back into it after the holidays, but but you do have to be requested to submit that full proposal and that comes from the short proposal. Now October 1st is our deadline. So that's why we do this at this point. So we're hoping that some projects are being thought about and that you have time then to submit at least the idea of it. I would say that the short application is fairly simple. So even if you're just kind of starting to hatch your idea, go ahead and put that in and we'll, you know, we'll ask you for more specifics by January, but that gives you a little bit more time to actually get all those specifics in place. But the guidelines for the applications and the full application forms are at the Nebraska Community Foundation website there at that at that link. But also they are with the Nebraska Library Commission on their site with the Corey Spenet donor advice fund link there and there is my contact information. If you have any questions, I am more than open to hearing just a thought if you're you've got something going on and you and you'd like to run it by me before you actually dive into doing the paperwork. I am more than willing to listen and share some thoughts about what might be qualified or not. I even do do that also went in the short application process just to make sure that people have the best chance of competing just to make sure that they fit with what the advisors are looking for. So I'll do my best to try to help get that money spent out where it needs to go. So that is what I have today are Krista. Are there any questions? So yeah, we got plenty of time here. We do have one question, but then I just want to let me know if you have any questions about the grant about any ideas you have go ahead and type in the question section or say I have a microphone. Question we have isn't really related, you know, to you necessarily but some of us know about the cost to the library for overdrive. What does that cost? Since we did mention that overdrive group is a group subscription we have here through the library commission and there is an annual participation fee of a minimum of $500 and it has to but I'm looking at the page here that but for the smaller library and but it's based on population. Let's see for new participants and this was with the grant was that it was the $500 for sterling. No, it wasn't sterling. Whoever it was that got the grant to do join overdrive it's there's actually a per a population charge of the fee per capita but if your population is 3,846 or less that's a weird number is just how the math comes out then it's just the minimum of 500 and then there's an that's an annual fee that you would pay so this grant could help you get your first year but then of course you'd have to maintain that afterwards every year of an annual participation fee when you do renew to stay in the group. So that is something to think about there's you know there's in this case it's not a one-time fee. Some of the other things you may be doing to earn your accreditation or to work towards it could be a one-time but overdrive itself you would have to have some way to maintain paying that $500 every year if the grant gives you it for the first year. The library commission does help pay for a lot of this the overdrive group. There is an annual maintenance fee that libraries are not responsible for originally was $12,000 a year and that does increase each year so that is you know so we do help keep the the the overdrive group going by putting most of the money into it but as a participant you do pay that $500 each year and I think I'll do here I'm going to because I did bring up we can show that news story from about Ravenna okay if I like because I did go ahead and find that here just let me I know people would like to see I think this is a great story so yeah I do too see here is there is the page so this is just the link to the news story that's still up there about the Ravenna library putting grant funding to the use and they have a great video here here in Bergen Joy's bringing her four-year-old son Chester and her two-year-old daughter Mullen to the Ravenna Public Library. They come here at least a couple of times a week. We enjoy the time it allows us to read different books that allows them to have imaginative play this new $1.4 million library officially opened in August of 2018. The community worked together to make it a reality but local leaders also utilized grant money. A large grant came from a Shirley Croix Bennett donor-advised fund. They definitely came through and donated $20,000 for us. The children's library is now dedicated in honor of the Croix Bennett donor-advised fund. The fund was established by Shirley Croix Bennett. She was a lifelong educator and she was also a world traveler and she wanted to provide people a world of information just like she had through her travels and she decided that by investing in libraries she could do that. When Shirley died, she made a gift to the Nebraska Community Foundation. According to her wishes every year, a fund advisory committee of her nieces and nephews makes grants and receives applications from the libraries and communities where there are fewer than 3,000 people. Jane Stone is a niece of Shirley Croix Bennett and she is involved with reviewing the applications for the grant money. Every year we give out about $80,000 a year that we grant out every year. So plenty of funds available for people in their projects. Jane says her aunt would be happy. That's well said, libraries are getting assistance. I think probably the reason Shirley focused on rural communities is because she was a farm girl herself. She was a 1941 graduate of Harvard High School and our family farms still to this day between Harvard and Gilbert, Nebraska. So she, you know, I think that's where her heart is. There are a number of requirements for libraries to be eligible for the grants. There is a requirement that libraries need to provide a one-to-one local funding in order to get matching grants. So once the grant money is secured, looking libraries are finding plenty of ways to use the money. We have three different areas that we do grant funding in. One is towards accreditation. And then we also do enhancement grants and facility grants. The Ravenna Public Library is a beautiful facility here in this Buffalo County community. And as you might imagine, it's being used in a number of ways. We are an after-school bus to drop off locations. So the school bus brings them to our doorstep every single day after school. We do programming three days a week for those kiddos. We have book clubs for the adults. We have Pinterest nights. And for people like Stephanie, she is just clad with Shirley Croy's Bennett Donor Advice Fund playing a role in building a library in Ravenna, where her kids can start the journey of learning. Now, a quick note, libraries are being encouraged to apply for the Shirley Croy's Bennett Donor Advice Fund, the initial deadline is coming up on October 1st. For more information, you can go to NebraskaHometown.org. Well, it really is great to see how this library fund is helping the smaller communities in the state as well. And so joining us now to more on this is the Nebraska Community Foundation Executive Director, Chef Ghost, and it's good to see you this morning. Good morning, John. Yeah. So as we heard in this previous story about a donor advice fund, what kinds of projects and programs are sponsored and supported by donor advice funds for the Nebraska Community Foundation? We can use philanthropic dollars for all sorts of public good purposes. Libraries, K-12 education, early childhood development, youth engagement, aging in place, economic development, leadership development, entrepreneurship, training and work. I mean, we've done that sort of work in lots and lots of communities all over the state for years and it's really fun to see the difference it makes. With libraries in particular, this is libraries are one of the main pieces we have to help communities not have a digital divide in their place. So libraries are actually more important than everything. I know we're talking to them and they were saying, hey, libraries aren't not about books, just about books anymore. There's a lot more going on. When it comes to a donor advice fund, can the donor choose to remain anonymous? Yes, we have a number of donors who have chosen to remain anonymous for a short period of time, or maybe that's their wish indefinitely. So we're happy to protect that donor confidentiality if that's what somebody chooses to do. Let's say someone out there is watching right now and they want to maybe establish a donor advice fund in their hometown, how could they do that? They can contact any of us, the Brassky Community Foundation or they can talk to one of the affiliated fund leaders in their community. We're working about 250 communities around the state. So we probably have a friend or a neighbor that's now connecting the Brassky Community Foundation. I know in my town of Pender, there are lots of people connected. So it's a network across the state. Yeah, and the website I can is NebraskaHometown.org. Okay. And the telephone number is<PHONE_NUMBER>. Is that the number? Yeah, that is correct, yes. Even for a little bit older video, all the information there is correct. I guess there's just a couple of things that I might add. I wanted to go back to the facilities grant. There are a few things that we stipulate that you cannot use the facilities grant for. And that's mainly, that is in the guidelines, but it's mainly things that we believe are the responsibility of the owner of the facility. So that may be the village or city and maybe the friends group. But we don't want this money to be used to like try to offset the community having to spend tax dollars because we do believe there is a certain responsibility that every community has to maintain and keep up their library. So those things are listed. They're gutters, roughing, sidewalk, just plain sidewalk repair is not covered. But if it's a part of a renovation, it can be. But the HVAC system is the part that's really challenging because I know there are a lot of older libraries that are really struggling with that because those systems are starting to fail. But unfortunately, this grant doesn't help towards just replacing an HVAC system. But I just wanted to point that out that there are a few restrictions. But generally speaking, this is a pretty open grant process. And then the last thing I guess I'd like to say unless there are more questions is just that Shirley was a very humble person and who lived a very, I would just call it a normal life. But she left an extraordinary gift and you may not have expected that from Shirley if you knew Shirley in her lifetime. So who knows where the next Shirley Creutz-Bennett is? And if you in your communities probably run across people who have the potential to do the same kind of work if not for libraries all across the state like Shirley did at least for your particular library. And so that is something I just want you to all keep in mind. And if you think that there is someone out there like that and you're not sure how to handle that, feel free to reach out to the Nebraska Community Foundation because that is what we do. We hold a lot of specific funds designated for specific communities or even facilities like libraries or community centers. And if your friend's foundation is not equipped to handle something like that, that's where we really like to help these smaller communities and you could become affiliated with us like the Creutz-Bennett Donor Rise Fund did. So since this one's coming to an end, I just would like to encourage everyone to be looking out there for their own Shirley Creutz-Bennett. Yeah, that's why I do like that, even though that story about Ravenna is a couple years old that does have that bit at the end with Jeff Yos talking about how anyone can, if you have come to the Nebraska Community Foundation to figure out how they may want to give away some of their money they've saved. So think about that or if you know someone in your community who's trying to figure out what do I do when I pass away or when they're a state. But also for libraries, we mentioned that Sterling did use the Creutz-Bennett grant to set up their friends group. Libraries can also have foundations as well that help to sometimes at the library if they don't have the bank account or to be able to handle their finances. They have donations, not their basic budget, of course that deals with the city. There's always donations and grants and things and you need some organization, somebody to handle that. And having a friends group or foundation do that is really helpful. We highly encourage that for all libraries to have something like that to help supporting the library. And then Resa Community Foundation can help you set one of those up for your library if you don't have one yet. And then you have an expert in financing, who can keep track of all this for you. As a small town library director, you probably don't know how to do that. I know I don't. That's right. There is kind of an expertise to it. But for instance, the Ogallala Library has a foundation fund account with us. And they just built a brand new facility as well in Ogallala. But they have an unrestricted endowment fund with us. And what that means is they get a payoff each year from the amount of money that they have raised and that money can be used for that library. And they've specified that it would be for maintenance and upkeep of this new facility. So they know that the money that they've invested in this brand new facility that it will continue to be maintained a hundred years from now because unrestricted endowment funds in general are forever. So there's always a payout. And so that's something that we can help with. And we highly encourage when new facilities are being built that they consider a maintenance fund of some sort so that there is always the insurance that those will become maintained. But I always love the facilities grants. But I really love the planning and enhancement grants as well. The creativity that librarians have around the state has been amazing. And we have seen so many really cool projects that this grant has helped come to fruition. And so I love to continue to see those creative grants offered. And then, you know, planning, like I said, I actually lived in the town of Bassett, which is 600 people for nine years. And I know how hard it is to become accredited to have a part-time librarian or a volunteer librarian and how to move to that next level. So I'm really pleased that this grant does allow for some funding towards that as well. And some villages sometimes worry about, oh, I don't know if we can allow the librarian to spend that much time to try to get accredited. They're worried about payment for their hours. And that's where this grant can help. So hopefully that's answered some questions. They already have a limited budget and it just covers them keeping the library open. And now, what about the extra time that might take to do other things? Yeah. Absolutely. You can have additional hours added to the librarian's time, specifically for these purposes. Yeah. And while we're talking about accreditation, I will mention, let's see what this link open again. Yes. So we'll go to the main accreditation page here. Yeah. And you can see here we've got a big red blur due to COVID, as is a lot of things. The main accreditation program where we have every year, libraries can be accredited for three years. So every three years you do an annual. Due to COVID, we have extended that twice now and gave everyone an extra, in the end now, two years for renewing if you're already in an accredited library. So there will not be a renewal accreditation process until next year. But this year and sometime later this month, I'm working on it, we will be opening up what I call like a mini accreditation process, modified for any new libraries that want to become accredited for the first time. We don't want them to have to wait longer to start getting the benefits of being able to apply for grants like this or anything. So for anyone who has not been accredited before, I will be reaching out to those libraries to say, okay, this year, 2021, we're doing a special thing just for you to get you on board. So look for that if you are not in accredited library that will be coming to you soon from me. So this suspension is for renewals of already accredited libraries. They're just some very basic qualifications to become accredited. This is the short basic thing that's not a lot. The legal follow all the rules, have a board and library director that are certified, those certified programs we do here for the library commission. You do have some local funding that you get. The public library survey is a very important survey. Most of our libraries do that every year. You submit that every year and that data is used to determine your accreditation. You have to pay your staff who's there. So there's some basic things here and then beyond this and I'm not going to go into details. I just want to quickly show this for anyone who's interested. There are, after you've made these 12 requirements then there are points you can earn depending on what you do in your library and there is a preview application here you can see for all the different things and that like overdrive is mentioned and having an online catalog and other things you do. You can look at that anytime you want to and ask me any questions if you want to about that. So any other kind of questions about the Creates Bennett Fund? Type in your questions. If you're interested in it, do you have any thoughts and ideas of IAM projects you may want to use it for? I did have that one emailed question that we already answered from the library about how the match works when we answered that question. You did, someone did ask about overdrive. This is just our overdrive webpage on our library commission website. If you search for overdrive you can find this. This is all about joining the group. So if you're interested in that, this is all the details about that. Susan, Nisley, and Debra Dregos here at the library commission handle all of everything with the overdrive group. And while I'm here on the commission page also this is something that Christine showed in your slides. We do have this fly out menu here about grants. All sorts of different grants that you can apply for. The Creates Bennett one being here and we mentioned the community development block grants. That is something else, at least you're a little wonky, that library is going to apply for for facilities type things if you wanted to. The USDA gives out facilities grants and libraries that always work for those as well. So if there's something that Creates Bennett can't do or you need something in combination those are ones you can look into. Those are also both through the USDA and then Department of Economic Development. Do both of those. Those are not grants that are going away like Creates Bennett. So if maybe you're not ready this year to jump on the Creates Bennett one look to those. And I know some people have been we have our ARPA funding here while we're talking about money I will mention this. We have ARPA grant money, American Rescue Plan Act money that was allotted to the Nebraska Library Commission from the Museum of Student Museum and Library Services. And some of the money is available right now in our formula based grants amounts that have been allotted to libraries. But we will have coming up library improvement grants and youth grants for excellence also using the same funding. And we have had many libraries mentioned to ask about what they can apply for. One thing that you can't use we can't allow libraries to use this funding for because it's federal money and the federal money has rules is things like construction which the Creates Bennett does have allow you to do like installing things upbringing a new circulation desk that kind of thing. That's just one of the cutoffs for federal funding that we receive from the Library Services and Technology Act money where this is all coming through. So if we have told Ted to tell you when you asked about something you want to do through ARPA no sorry because that's construction turn around and apply for Creates Bennett then they can do that or the other two grants there's you've got other options the block grants and the USDA grants and even other ones that are out there too. So don't just stop because we said no there's other things out there we just have certain rules that are linked down to us about these grants at this point there. It does seem like the small silver lining of what we've been going through is that there is a little bit more money now available for libraries so we know this isn't going to last forever so I say jump on it while you can and share that with your village that now is the time because this money is available. Absolutely yeah. I'll talk since we have some time I will talk a little bit about this so I want to make sure we get the word out about this ARPA funding but if you have questions for Christine questions about Creates Bennett get them in there right now and ask us I'm watching for the questions here but as you can see here the Library Commission was given about 2.4 million dollars part of it we're using for these formula grants 1.4 of it we're giving out to libraries this is not a grant where you apply and say here's a project I want to do do you approve the project? I get evaluated we decide this is just it's more similar to state aid money where are you a library? Do you want your money? Just let us know and we'll give it to you this money has already been allotted it's been divvied up amongst all the libraries here's a list of the libraries the amount your library can get is on here as well so this is not a competition this is not a competitive grant where anyone evaluates it this is just do you want your money? Let us know we'll send it to you the minimum payment the minimum amount is 3,750 dollars so everyone gets that a minimum and then there's a per capita amount on top of that base in your population so check here and see if your library is listed you can see here too we are keeping track of the process the application status in process we've received the application here already you can see Atkinson has already gotten its money this is a really quick turnaround we're doing on these formula grants here as soon as you set in your application Sam Shaw who's working on this particular grant just checks it over make sure it's all good and correct and then passes it immediately onto our accountant here who immediately starts a payment process a week or two you have the money and then you can start spending it on whatever you need so check this see what your library can get we do have oh okay all legally established public libraries in the state are eligible you do not need to be accredited in addition state-run institutions and tribal libraries that's trying to remember exactly that are available for this as well you have until the end of this year to request your formula grant money December 31st there is a list here of a lot of things you can apply for but I wanted to bump down to other requirements yes there is no match required for this yay everybody cheer for our grants that we've given out here at the library commission usually library improvement grants see or not see youth grants there's always been a 25% match for this grant there is no match required because I am less is not requiring us to do any match for anything so you ask for that money you just get that full amount of money you don't have to imagine anything with that you just get it all to spend but we have a long list here the kind of things you can apply for this is kind of an extension I think it's the next step of after the CARES Act grants we did last year some of you remember we did do CARES Act grants they were competitive grants we had a lot less money that would given us from the CARES Act last year that was only about $173,000 rather than 2.4 million so some of the same things that you applied for if you didn't apply last year or you didn't get approved with the CARES Act from us last year or your grant was reduced because we're limited not a funding same kind of thing you can get requests again this year and related to responding to the pandemic that is the key cleaning supplies furniture that you can move around outdoor furniture air purifiers now signage about things those touchless water stage what about stations touchless sand sanitizer et cetera et cetera anything related to IT you can see all these things this is you're going to hot spots if you want to buy new computers for the library it's much more expanded this year beyond the CARES Act CARES Act was we're in the middle of pandemic what you need for safety and what you need to do digital or remote services but now some libraries are opening and they have other needs you can also do collections you can buy print books if your budget has been cut or you know you've got had restriction because of covid you can buy any collections anything you circulate technology for upgrading your meeting rooms et cetera et cetera there's so many things here that you can apply for so submit your little application here it is your basic info what kind of library are you are you legally established means two things that your city established the library and you've got a board you do have to have what is called the Dunn's number Dunn and Bradstreet number you can look that up here if you have one or if your city has one either one of those will work it's just to require to do business with federal government you may have one and not realize that we've discovered you just need to enter that if you're doing anything internet related you do need to be SIP a complaint but only if you're doing something that relates to connecting to the internet and that's it everything else here is just all of the legalese yes yes yes we agreed all of that and at the bottom you sign it all electronic and that is it there's no follow-up application to submit or agreement to sign this serves the purpose as your agreement to participating in this you will need to submit after you do make your purchases copies of your invoices to us and then there's going to be a final completion report sometime next year of how it all worked out for you. So this is money already allotted to your library you just have to ask us for it. So do it it's it's free money it's just there waiting for you you just have to let us know you want it. We want to make sure that we have this entire list here everybody says paid paid paid paid paid absolutely don't leave money on the table. No, no exactly yes. Something that libraries have been have asked about that I'll mention to is a member I told you this is a very quick turnaround we have had library say I what if I want to not receive the money until next year's fiscal year I want it in next year's budget because we're getting to the end of this year's budget and it really needs to be there. That's perfectly fine. Just wait to do your application. I mean, I know I just told you do it but like I said as soon as you submit this application we immediately start your process of payment. So if you don't want the money until October or November go ahead and do your application then and then you'll get your money. That's perfectly fine. Like I said, we're giving you until the end of the year to ask for this funding. The other thing I might add is this funding could be used as the match for Crate Spinnett. If you got this funding and then wanted to ask for Crate Spinnett it could be used as the match because it's now your your extra funds. So yes, it could be we've actually also had libraries asked for similar can it be used as for anyone who does E-Rate which is getting discounts from the federal through the FCC on internet services and there's E-Rate pays for a certain percentage and then the library is responsible for that extra percentage. Like you get an 80% discount your consul for the extra 20. This could be used for that extra 20 for just this year. This all does have to be spent out before September of next year. So this isn't this is like an immediate what you need right now thing. And like Christine said, this is this is available now like here's Actors available next last year and only for that year. Grab it now while it's here next year. There's no guarantee that this kind of money will be available again. So if you ever been iffy about applying for something or you are not accredited so you couldn't apply for our grants usually this is the time to jump on this and do it. You figure it out decide what you're going to do with it. Think big start dreaming and get your money here. Also we will have as I said library improvement and youth grants for excellence that later this month as well opening up using some of this money as well. Which means now this year only both of these grants open to any library in the state not restricted to accredited like previously and both of these grants youth and live improvements no match required. You ask for $20,000 to upgrade your online circulation system you get $20,000 you don't have to put up anything that would be a library improvement grant you ask for $2,000 to run some youth Lego club you get $2,000 you don't have to put up any money to match that. So look for both of these to open up this later this month as well and apply for them. Think about things you want to do. These are multiple pots of money you've got out there to look for these three grants the crates Bennett grants the USDA and the you know these three and the crates are all this year one time thing. So I'd say think about these first because they're only going to go away. But think about what you can do with them and where you want to use your money for the youth grants are specifically for youth and teen services library improvement grants have some restrictions on what you can do. The form of grants are a little broader. So if you have a youth program you want to do think about applying for youth grant. Don't use your form of grant money for that use that for something else at the library. We plan on both of these grants you will have answers by the end of October about if you have been approved and funded. So you will have time to this to learn did I get the youth grant okay then I know that money goes to youth and my family grant can go to other things. Same thing for live improvement. There's our plan. They both will open up this month. We will have answers to you by the end of October. So you still have a couple of months to then decide how you're going to use all of this. Anybody have any questions? We're almost at 11 o'clock. If you have questions about any of the ARPA funding, let me know. But if you have questions about the credits Bennett talk you know ask your questions now. Definitely look into applying for this one. I'm kind of sad it's going away. I know the nieces and nephews are kind of like yay we did it finally. We gave away all the money. But it has been a great thing for our especially being focused on those small and real libraries that sometimes I'm sure feel they're not not as. Absolutely helped as much. You know, they need them a lot of help. Yeah, it's definitely bittersweet, but it's nice to know that one woman was able to do this kind of funding for 10 years. So yeah, yeah. Well, thank you so much for letting me be on your show and share some information and I hope that a lot of different libraries will reach out and be a part of this. I'm glad we had a lot of interest today in today's into a show with people registering attending. So I'm sure we'll get some applications in and you'll probably be hearing. But you know, when people think about it, what they want to do definitely reach out to Christine to ask, you know, what about this? What about that? Can I apply for this? Absolutely. And I are happy to help you with any of that. It doesn't look like anybody does have any desperate questions. So I am going to prep up today's show. Here's our Encompass Live main page. As I mentioned, these are upcoming shows and here is where archives are. This is where today's archive will be. Most recent one goes to the top of the page. So today's show will be listed there should be up and ready for you by the end of the day tomorrow. I will send everyone who attended today and preregistered for today show an email letting you know when the recording is ready. We will also have a link to the slides that Christine used. You'll email them to me when you get a chance. Christine. I'll do that. And the entry there and our archives will have the same description here. So you have a link right here to the grant page for you as well. While I'm here in the archives, I will show you there is a search feature here. So you can search all of our previous shows we've done if you like. You can type in any keyword you want and it'll search the descriptions and the presenters names and everything. I will you'll see there is you can search the full archives or just the most recent 12 months if you just want current information. That is because this is our full show archive. I'm not going to scroll all the way down, but as you can see the days go by pretty far. This is all of our show archives going back to when we first premiered and Compass Live, which was in January 2009. That's yeah and we have all of our archives here. So just pay attention to the original broadcast date. They all have a date of when it was originally done. Some of the sessions will stand the test of time, but some things will become outdated. Some services may have changed drastically. Program is very different. Links might be broken. Some things might not exist at all anymore. Some services or resources or anything. So just pay attention to the date of when you are watching something. But we'll always keep our full show archives on here as long as we can, as long as the place to host us. We're librarians. That's what we do. We keep things out there for historical purposes oftentimes. We also have a Facebook page. I've got a link here, but I've got to open up over here where we do post reminders. Here's a reminder that today's show speakers, reminders when here's last week's recording available and anything else we think may be of interest to libraries. So if you like to use Facebook, give us a like over there and you'll get a reminder of when we're doing shows, what's coming up. We also use the hashtag and comp live, a little abbreviation on Twitter and Instagram to promote the show as well. So you can also just look for that hashtag if you like. Whoops, here's my income live tag. There it is. So that wrap up for today's show. Next week, we'll be talking about books. You can sign up for any of our upcoming shows here. You see, I've got August book. I've got some more September dates to fill in. Keep an eye on here if you want to get things finalized. We do take one week off every week. That is when our Nebraska Library Association conferences. So we are here 51 weeks a year. So October 13th is when our half part virtual part in person State Library Association Conference is happening. So we will not be here on income is live. Go ahead and register for the conference next year. Next week is one book for Nebraska kids and teens. You know, there's one book for Nebraska, one book on Nebraska programs, one book, whatever your city is. We are at the Library Commission. Sally Snyder has for years been doing a same program specifically recommending books for kids and teens do a specific program for them. So these are our titles for 2021 and 2022 have been selected. So she will be here along with Amy Owen, one of our reference staff people to talk about this year's program and next year's titles. And they have a lot of resources and games and things online that you can use to do a one book for Nebraska for your kids or teens. So please do sign up for that and any of the future shows. Thank you everybody for being here with us this morning and we will see you on a future episode of income is live. Bye bye.


Hi everyone, Joe for Jaspy's casebreaks.com coming at you with 2019-2020 Panini Illusions Basketball Fat Pack Break number nine with a single thousand dollar Chronicles box war spot we're giving away at the end of the break. We're gonna re-randomize everyone's names with a new dice roll on that one. But as always, we gotta do the break first. Big thanks all of these folks for getting into it. Good luck, boys and girls. There's the teams right there. Let's roll it, let's randomize it. Three and a one, four times for each list. One, two, three, and a one. Fourth and final time, Robert down to Ryan. There we go, Robert down to Ryan. All right, once again, three and a one, four times for the teams. One, two, three, and fourth and final time. Got spurs down two bowls, after four. All right, so there's the first happen list right there. Nancy, you got yourself the pelicans. Could be some zions in here. What about Memphis? Jason Fractor has Memphis, all right? All right, so no trade windows. Let's just quickly print and rip. There it is right here, illusions. Orange and teal are the exclusive parallels. There's the teal right there. Kind of hard to tell, but let's put them right next to each other, you can see. There you go, T.J. Warren, teal to 125. That'll be for Francis. Darius Basely, rookie, Lucas Samanich, and Romeo Langford. Darius Basely looked pretty good in the bubble. There you go, that goes to O.K.C.  From Chris down to Kim Soo Min, let's put everyone's names there. Name on top after five, four and a one, five times. One, two, three, four, and fifth and final time. After five, name on top.  There will be another opportunity if you want. And congrats to Chad Meyer. There you go, Chad. A $1,000 Chronicles box war spot going your way. Congrats to you. Thanks everyone for giving this a shot. I'm Joe for jazzy'scasewrakes.com. I'll see you next time for the next one. Bye-bye.


So guys, I am back with another Halo Infinite video and today guys, I bring you the location of all 3 audio logs found within the House of Reckoning mission. How's it going guys? My name's DPJ and if you do enjoy the video leaving a like really helps out and if you like what you see and want to see more be sure to subscribe. Also guys, I'm giving one lucky person a chance to win a game of their choice. To enter my giveaway, simply drop a like on the video, leave a comment down below, make sure you are subbed and have those notifications turned on. I will pick a win at the end of the week and announce them on a future Halo video to come probably next week Monday. So good luck everybody. So today guys, I bring you the location of all 3 audio logs found within the House of Reckoning. Okay so let's get straight into it people. So literally as soon as you start this mission, which I ain't going to spoil for nobody, please be epic, you'll literally walk through 2 double doors and you'll come to this room right here. So from here guys, and I apologise about the joey footage, so I'm using my capture cards playing up and I think I'm just going to have to buy a new one to be honest but yes, come through this door on your right and you'll see that the audio log is literally right next to that vehicle on your left. Now these areas will be occupied by enemies so you will have to take them out so be cautious of that but there is the audio log guys, grab that bad boy and we are ready to move on. Okay so from here guys, you want to progress on into the next area where there isn't actually an audio log here but you need to progress past this part. So go to this next area guys, take out all of the ads and then you are good to go and move on. Okay so from here we move on to the next area, we take the elevator upwards as you do. Once you get to the top of the elevator guys, you go forward, go through the right end of this main room via the door on your right and once you do this guys, you then can see right there that big or dirty ship, is it a ship I'm not even sure, looks like a ship, looks like something with legs, I don't know but you can see the audio log is right here so grab that bad boy and we are ready to move on. And lastly guys, from the house of reckoning audio logs, the final one is found within the final room where we can see our pal is chained up and we have to well help him escape. But if we go past this dude, we go to the room behind him as you can see right here, just on your left hand side is the final and third audio log from the house of reckoning mission. And there we have it guys, good luck with this mission, it's pretty epic, I'm not going to lie to you guys, so yes enjoy that and guys I hope you enjoyed the video if you did leave a like, it really helps me out, if you're new and want to see more Halo, be sure to subscribe and if you never want to miss a video upload, you can turn on notifications on by hitting that bell, boys and boys, thanks as always for stopping by and hopefully I will see you on that next one.


TfNN, Deadline News Update. Hi everyone, Basel Chapman on this 16th day of July, mid-month, and it's been quite a spectacular month. Now we can start to see a little choppiness, right? So the Dow is down 23, it was up more, it was up 19, it hit 27,398, went into the 27,398, where there's a lot of resistance, and now it's pulling back just a little bit, and I think that this is going to be a very important moment, and we'll see if the next two days the Dow takes out 27,220 support, or whether it takes out the 27,390s resistance. This is leg D, and the mag D is good, stochastic is way up at 96%, all of that is good. So I'm just expecting it to be a pullback, it's kind of a minor at this point, a minor pullback. So let's go to the S&P, and the S&P at this particular point is down 7, and 3,007.23. This is a leg F, and it recycles, if after this is a really strong move to the upside into the three, what was yesterday's high, 3,000, I think it was 3,000 and teens, 3,017.80, if it gets to 3,024 by Thursday, that's going to be very good action, if it slides and goes to the 2,992 level or lower, that's going to say short-term pullback, QQQ, now this is going to be interesting, because the Q's are down 0.74 and 193.41. They also have made potential peak F with 194.194 high yesterday, 193.44 today, 194.09, 10 cents lower, today we're going to be watching this closely, into the 195.80s is really good action, but by Thursday, if we take out 190.180, that's going to be poor action. IWM is up 0.34, it's amazing how the IWM just manages on a week, overall session, to move higher as the small caps get a little bit of a bit, 155.65, just stuck in the range. Now if this is going to be interesting, gold is down $8 at 14.05, silver, and I had a question yesterday about silver, and I said, yeah, it should move a little higher, might need a day or two, no, it went right today, went right up to the 15.73 level, it's a 1560 leg D, and let's see what happens now, very often silver is late to the party, and the dollar is still holding, well, how about that for an idiot's synchrocy, $1.38, I'll discuss this more in my show, The Tiger Trek, this is our coming straight up and check out my opening call newsletter, I'll be back in a moment, otherwise.


The Brainerd girls swimming and diving team, they're undefeated so far this year. Their last match up on 18 point victory over St. Cloud Tech. Today the Warriors were in the pool against Alexandria. We'll start things off with some diving. How about eighth grader Izzy Olson, one and a half somersaults with a full turn. She will get first in the event. Team-mate Ella Hanna will take second. On the swimming side, Alexandria gets the win in the 100 butterfly, but Brainerd's Madeline Gibbons right behind in second getting those crucial points. Violin the 100 free, Jacqueline Rudy takes this one for Brainerd. Brainerd would end up with another win to their season, 116 to 70.


So God's abandoned me. God's rejected me. God's ignoring me. Or you can be the kind of believer who faces a trial and says, even in this trial, I have joy, peace, love and grace because of the presence of God within me. The inner man who is always in fellowship with God should dictate how we perceive these outer circumstances.