All right, 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. We broadcast the show live every Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. central time, but if you're unable to join us on Wednesdays, that's fine. We do record the show as we are doing today, and it will be posted to our website and our archives for you to watch at your convenience. And I'll show you at the end of today's show where you can access all of our show archives. Both the live show and the recordings are free and open to anyone to watch. So please do share with your friends, family, neighbors, colleagues, anyone you think might be interested in any of our shows. For those of you not from Nebraska, the Nebraska Library Commission is the state agency for libraries. Similar to your state library. And so we provide services to all types of libraries in the state, so you will find shows on Encompass Live for all types of libraries. Public, academic, K-12, corrections, museums, archives, et cetera, et cetera, special libraries, museums, anything and everything. We do book reviews, interviews, many training sessions, demos of services and products, all sorts. We have Nebraska Library Commission staff that come on sometimes to do presentations about services and programs we do here through the commission. But we also bring in guest speakers sometimes as we have this morning. With us today is Melanie and Kim, who are going to talk about health resources for libraries, some great work they've been doing, some great resources they've available. And I'm just going to hand it over to both of you to introduce yourselves more fully and tell us about what you've been working on. Thank you everyone for coming this morning and taking time out of your day to see this presentation. And this is going to be on expanding the health information landscape in your public library. I'm Melanie Newell and we also have with us Kimberly Rothke. And we are both catalysts for community health fellows. And we attend the University of Missouri Columbia in a master's program that's been funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. And it's not going to the next slide. We're not. You'll be able to just try and just click on it somewhere and then maybe use your arrow keys. There it goes. Sorry, I don't know what happened there. OK, so there we are. And that's our contact information. I work with Lincoln City Libraries as well. And so I've been there getting close to eight years. And Kim, you work at UNMC. Right, I'm the education program coordinator for a PhD program for biomedical research at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. And I both have some library experience and some medical experience that we bring to the table. And then we've been in this graduate program for a couple of years now. And that's weird that the slides aren't advancing. OK, sorry about that. So the program that we've been doing is called Catalysts for Community Health. And I really love these catalyst programs from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, because what they kind of do is pair people with mentors and make it very community-based so that you're getting education and mentorship that you can directly apply to your community. So the model is really inspiring. And I just encourage people to follow the catalyst programs from IMLS if they do any more, just because I think they're pretty neat. This just shows who our advisory board is. You might know some people on our advisory board. So we are here for anyone who is trying to read all of that on there. That's a lot of text to read just to get right now. We do have a link to that page with all the information about the group, about what you were doing in the show information too. So people can go ahead and read that later if they want to know more. Yes, thank you. Thank you. So our studies have been across disciplinary focus. So we've been doing not only library and information science, but also medical librarianship classes on public health and health informatics. And all of us have been developing community partnerships between libraries in our communities and health agencies and also developing lots of health resources for libraries. We've had the guidance as well of a wonderful group of mentors in the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, which we'll talk about today that has a wealth of resources for anyone working in any type of library where they might have health or medical things to do. So we're going to be talking about expanding health in public libraries. And I wanted to just take a second. And I wonder if folks in the chat can just briefly say who you are, maybe what type of library you work in, just so we have a sense of who's all here today. Sure. Yeah, if anybody wants to go ahead and type into the question section of your go-to-webinar interface and just let us know if you're in public, what kind of library it is. And I will cut that open over here. There we go. I do know. Oh, all right, cool. We've got someone from a public library in New Jersey. Welcome, Kenzie. I know we have a couple of people from public libraries here in Nebraska. I see their names in the list and I know. I get a sense of who's here and why people are here today. So you can continue to share that if you'd like to like to mention. And then there's Rose, who's at our La Vista Public Library here in Nebraska, and they share a building with their community college. So that's an interesting they've got. I've been there. I love that model. I wish we had that here in Lincoln. They said my dream job, but we'll see. You have a few libraries like that in Nebraska that have a shared space like that or share that they can really work together, I think, on a lot of things. Yeah. So I wanted to just touch on as a beginning here, why it's important to have health empowered librarians in libraries and communities. I know that librarians are constantly sort of asked to do more and more and more. So this is just another area where, unfortunately, our job requires us to develop some some expertise. But 73 percent of those ages 16 and over say that libraries contribute to people finding health information. And 42 percent of those who have gone online at a library have done so for health related searches. And so that comes to 10 percent of the full population, 16 and older. And a reminder that roughly 10 percent of Nebraskans are uninsured. So they may not be running directly to a doctor for health information because they can't. So the take home point there is that your patrons are seeking answers to their health questions in your library, whether you know they're doing it, whether you've had much to do with it. They are there looking for those answers. And so just briefly what we're going to kind of cover today. So you have an idea of what direction we're going in. We wanted to talk to you about addressing those health questions in the library. When they come your way, it is good to be prepared and know where to go. And we hope to make that a little easier for folks today. Want to talk about some resources for you in ordering more books for your library that may be related to consumer health and health issues. And we'll also talk about health information through displays, different types of pamphlets, brochures, things like that, that you can get for your library for free and also health programs and partnerships. And we'll touch a little bit also on community data related to health. So how you can gauge what your community's health issues are. And then some a grab bag of lots of things for training, funding and more support with this issue. Hey, there my enter button worked. I don't know why sometimes it is and sometimes it's not. So as we go forward with our presentation, this is from DHHS and their annual report. Just kind of summarizing some of the things coming from the annual report that these are Nebraska's top health priorities and challenges. So these are the things that might direct what types of health information you provide, health programs you might be providing, because these are our big top five here. And can everybody see those hopefully? I don't think I need to read each one. So that'll kind of give us some direction as we go forward of things to think about as you're developing ideas. And that this is about your library and your community. So is there a health challenge that you're aware of that might need your help? And so it's good to focus on what your community needs. So just briefly we'll touch on where you can find community data. If you're not aware of what your community's biggest health issues might be, even though you're probably aware of that, you can look at the community health rankings and roadmaps. And you can also look at your health department's community health improvement plan. So every three to six years they should be making a community health improvement plan. That will really lay out what has been identified as your community's top strategic issues that they're wanting to focus on. And Spark Maps is another one where you can create very easily a map or a chart that's wonderful to use for grants. And we'll touch on that a little bit later. So if you're not sure what to do, these are some great ways to get started. OK, addressing health information in the library is a big challenge. I think some of those more complicated issues that require more expertise like legal reference, business reference and health reference are really difficult things to do. I know as a public librarian, you know, kind of that entry level, we don't have a whole lot of training on it or things that come our way all the time. So we get those health questions and they can be hard to answer. So we're going to go over some things today that will assist you with that. And you might not know what some of these things are, but we'll go through them. And then I wanted to point out to everyone. There's going to be a link. I'll share it in the chat. It will also be on this page for this webinar to a toolkit that pretty much everything that we're going to talk about today is listed in this toolkit. And you can use that to go back to things that you like from today's presentation. It's got everything in there. We'll show it later too. And I did have a couple of take home points for people. So if someone has to leave early, these are a couple of things that I want to make sure people know about. And Kim, did you want to jump in and talk about these? Well, you've got a couple of really great options available to you. Of course, you've got the Network for the National Library of Medicine. They have an amazing amount of resources along with some education opportunities. And we'll talk more about one of the certifications coming up. One of the other things that you may not know about is locally within each of your states, many of them have your university's medical center. And just probably about 99.9% of them all have libraries. And your librarians in those places are wonderful resources. Just for an example, here at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, we have through the McGuggan Library an option for patients and families to go to our website. You can go to the link in the upper right-hand corner and you can fill out a form asking the librarians here to help pull reliable information for you on any health topic that you can possibly need. There's even a specific spot just for cancer type of research. You enter in your information, it's a free resource. They will compile an entire packet of information for you and for any patient or family member and they can email it or mail it to you. And so that's just a free service that we offer here in Nebraska for anybody that needs health information. And then Kiara Comfort, she is the National Network of Libraries of Medicine Education and Outreach Coordinator for Nebraska. She's out of Creighton. And I have emailed and worked with both Kiara and Christian to come up with the ideas for this presentation. So it's not all, you know, this isn't all about me and my training and our training. I used my local health librarians to help me come up with resources and they will help you too. And then lastly, I did want to just show everyone the toolkit that comes along with this presentation. And so I'm going to navigate to that here. So bear with me for a moment. That is so strange. My keyboard won't go out of this. Let's see. There we go. I don't know. I just have to hit harder on the keyboard, I guess. I don't know. It's weird. OK, so this is the toolkit that you're going to have access to. And it takes a while to load ever since I added a picture in there for some reason. But everything we're going to go over today is in this toolkit. And I encourage you to use the outline view so that you can see all of the resources that will show up. There it is. Sorry, it's taken longer to load ever since I added a picture. So everything we're going to talk about is here in this toolkit. And there's a lot. There's a lot of links and a lot of resources and we'll kind of go over what all of them are. So this is something you can return to at any time. Come back to this. Everything's there in one place for you. So we also wanted to point out that there's a consumer health information specialization. You can get more training on how to answer health reference questions and work with customers regarding health information in your library. And it's through the MLA. This is some of what you will learn through that specialization. Kim and I both have one of these. And also, within the toolkit, there's a way that you can apply for them to pay for this.  But you can apply for a scholarship. And most people who would apply for one will get one. So you can really get your consumer health information specialization for free. So if you're someone who really wants to expand your expertise in this topic, this is a wonderful way to do it. And you will really come out being an expert. I know that for both Melanie and I, we walked away from that training with just a whole lot of better understanding of where to find information. How do I present that to the patrons? Where can we do with that? How do I look at some of the legal things? How do I increase health literacy? That's a big part of what we talk about is how do we look at that literacy component? Because not everybody understands when you get into some of the medical jargon that happens on a daily basis, you walk out of a doctor's office and they hand you a packet with terms on it you may not understand. This class has really helped us to be able to say, how do we talk with patrons to say, here's how you kind of work through some of that information and where to find better sources for that. Definitely, it is a great training. The hard part about it is it takes your time, but you can do it over a long course of time as well. And you get a really cool certificate when you're done. I love certificates. So the first line of defense in expanding the health information landscape in your library is you, your staff, the frontline folks that are working with people. But you can do it. So we just kind of wanted to open up here wondering what types of health reference questions can you remember a patron asking in your library? So if somebody has one they wanted to share in the chat, go ahead and do that. And then how well would you rate your ability to answer that question? So you can rate yourself one being low, five being high. Just right after you say what somebody might have asked. Yeah, so go ahead and type in the questions section. Anybody if you've had any sort of these kind of issues, you've been unsure about what to do or something you know people are asking about? While people are thinking, I'm going to share a couple that I've had. So one of the questions that I got recently was the person came in asking for books about Tai Chi. But after talking with them a little bit, really what this individual wanted is they wanted to advance their ability to be more balanced. They wanted balance exercises. And somebody had told them Tai Chi is a good way to work on your balance and it is. But there are some great resources I was able to find that have linked up to some YouTube videos that are from a trusted medical source showing some simple balance exercises that someone can just do with a chair in their living room. And then another one I had that I get a lot is like, well, I want to find a doctor doctor's office. How do I know if that doctor is any good? And so I have a reference for that that I'll show people to. So did anyone share any questions? No, it doesn't look like anybody had any thoughts about it. Anybody wondering if there is questions you're concerned you might get that might be hard to answer? And you're hoping to find out more about today? If I can do a question section of your GoToWebinar interface? If not, it's OK. I understand that sometimes hard to come up with stuff right off the top of your head like that. No problem. But for me, I know that sometimes some of these questions have been very memorable to me because of the fact that they were maybe difficult to answer or I didn't know quite where to turn right away or automatically. So just practicing at this and getting better at it and knowing where to go really helps so that your knee jerk reaction is is a good one. OK. And it's one of those things it's like you mentioned legal questions and things that you don't know the answers, but you know where to find them. Exactly. That's OK. You're not necessarily going to be a medical expert, but these resources that you and Kim are putting together and other things you've mentioned are at least you know, wait, I know where to go and get you on the right track. And that's great that you mentioned that because you are not supposed to be a medical expert. So on this slide, I've pointed out the reference and user services association, which is under the ALA, they have provided health and medical reference guidelines that kind of tell you how to how to address these questions and how to do it ethically. And it really gives you a good just guideline to go by when you're trying to answer these questions. And so on the next slide, I have just a little summary of what these say. So first of all, it does show us that there are responsibilities that we have in the library to provide clear and accurate responses whenever possible, provide aid with finding credible, relevant and authoritative information and how to use those resources. And we can provide referrals, but not recommendations. We don't want to recommend a certain doctor or a certain doctor's office or a certain treatment or anything like that. But you can refer people to other agencies in the community. And we also have a responsibility to provide health programming and outreach and an appropriate collection. So those are things that are part of our responsibilities. The referencing user services association guidelines also tell us that we are not meant to be medical experts and it is OK to tell your patron that our ethical guidelines say that, you know, I'm not an expert. I can't interpret this for you or tell you what it means for you. But we can just help you get to it and maybe help people find some things that are written in language that they can understand better. Like Kim was mentioning yesterday, people get packets from their doctors of stuff that is very hard to understand what it's saying. So some of what we can do in the library is find credible, relevant, authoritative information sources that are easier to read for them. So I do encourage folks to look at the Rusa guidelines. They are linked in the toolkit and they really will give you a clear understanding of what your role is and what your role is not. And I also want to mention privacy. So these are often sensitive issues that people will be talking to you about. Make sure you maintain that person's privacy. And you can also go to a more private, you know, corner place in the library to discuss this, you don't if you are getting the sense that it might be something a little more sensitive. So we're going to start with reliable health websites. So I know that my go to when people used to come in and ask a health question was let's go to the shelf. Let's go see what we have in our, you know, in our five hundreds over there. And a lot of times there would be really old things. Unfortunately, which isn't great, but it happens. So the rule of thumb for your print is five years. But sometimes things are changing so rapidly in some areas that even one to three year old materials are now outdated. So what can we offer as a better alternative for folks? So here on this slide, we have some trusted online sources of health information. And if you can start with these, all the guesswork is kind of taken out of it in terms of should I trust this information? Where is this coming from? Is this any good or not? So if you can encourage your patrons to start with a trusted health resource, that is great. And we'll talk about some ways that you can do that. Like even putting Medline Plus, you know, posters by your computers. Or one thing we're trying to do is create a health research computer that has these websites linked on the desktop. And so you could take them to that computer and go directly to one of these websites when somebody asks you a health question so that they're starting in a good place. So I have I'm going to something like that is good and having the signage up to and have that dedicated computer for people who may be uncomfortable even coming to library to ask. Right, right. They can just sign. There's a computer that says health, I can just go there myself. And it's right there. They don't have to like, yeah, come up. I can't wait to have our embarrassing question or something. Yeah. Well, I really like Medline Plus because it is really based for a consumer. It is for everyday people. So the difference between, say, like Medline Plus and someone who may not be familiar with PubMed, PubMed is research world. So if you're looking for somebody who is trying to take their consumer information and go, OK, I need more really hardcore information to really look what are the studies out there? The doctor's given me this thing. How do I look more into it? And you need to dive into some of that research level. That's what PubMed is for. But general, every day, very consumer friendly information. Medline Plus is my go to spot. I'm going to jump out for a second and show a couple of things. Again, in the toolkit, everything's in the toolkit. So the first thing I want to show here is from the Medical Library Association. And this is linked out in the toolkit, MLA top health websites. So these are ones that are already vetted by health professionals and health librarians. They divide this into categories for general health. For cancer and complementary and integrative medicine, diabetes, mental health, rare diseases, LGBTQI plus resources and resources for those asking about health care and health insurance. And so hopefully on your own time, you might be able to just use this list and just start looking at these websites, seeing what's available on them. When I had the customer asking about balance exercises, I was able to use this one, the National Institute on Aging. And that's where I found they had this list of videos and exercises for balance. And so that was really easy to do. And so use this list. It's linked in the toolkit. And then I wanted to just briefly also show Medline. So I know a lot of people know about Medline, but sometimes we don't often, you know, really go out and see what's all out there. So there are over a thousand health topics that this website covers. So it's got a lot and pretty much anything people would be asking about is probably on here. Videos are a really great resource, too, because sometimes things are just easier to understand when you watch a video. I have a customer in my library that doesn't speak very much English, but he loves to watch videos on like repairing his car and stuff like that. It helps him understand so he can understand the video without understanding the language. And that's often the case for people. So there are lots of videos and tools. And then also just going to point out, if you have customers who are needing health information in other languages, there's a link right at the bottom of the home page of Medline Plus. And there are a lot of languages represented here. And you can also browse that information by topic, too. So if I were to go to Acne, then you can see, you know, which things are available in other languages related to Acne. So that's a really good resource. If you have customers who don't speak English. All right, I have to go back to my slide here. Thank you for bearing with me. I know I'm going to go in and out of the slides quite a bit, but I want to show some of this real stuff. I also wanted to point out the Merck Manual. That one is really cool. Here, I'm going to show it because it's cool. If you haven't seen that and I don't have it up, it's bookmarked. Sorry about this here. I knew this would happen at one point because I have so many things. There it is. I just want to show it because it is really nicely laid out for people. And the Merck Manual is something that you may have like a hard copy of. It's kind of expensive. But now they put the whole thing on the internet and it's free on the internet. And I like it because it has a symptom, kind of a symptom finder and people are always looking for symptom finders. And many of them are not not very credible, in my opinion, and like really lead people down bad rabbit holes. So I would encourage people to use this if they're wanting to do some symptom finding. Yeah, I think this is one of the things many people say, you know, just Google something and what comes up will be great. Health related things are one of those things you don't want to just Google. And I think it's great. There is these free resources that are out there if you just go to the right ones with the authoritative correct good info. Yeah. And that's what we're going to touch on now because most of your customers are probably going to go out and just Google something. And we're going to show a little example here in a second of what happens when you do that. So, Kim, do you want to talk about evaluating online health information? How can we tell if it's something we should we should look at? Because I'm just as guilty as everybody else. And the first thing I do is go to Google and I work at a medical center and I still Google everything. And so one of the things that we really want to help our patrons understand, especially myself, even looking at websites trying to go, OK, what am I getting? What is this really looking like? Is looking at these the ABC and D's of everything that goes with that website? Who wrote it? Where are they from? What is their backing? What is their background? Do you know? Can you find that? The bias side of it, where are what is their motivation for doing the site? Are they there to make money? Are they there to provide information? Are they selling a product? How current is it? That's a really big piece, because as we were saying, stuff that is anywhere from a year to three years might be out of date already, depending on what it is. And then where are their sources? Where are they getting their information from? Now, the CDC, I don't normally question what they do because it's the CDC. But we know them to be a reliable source. So these are some of the things that we want to encourage our patrons to taking a look at. And then also, in addition to that, I always want to encourage my patrons and anybody that I talk to is what information is that website requesting from you? Do they need your name? Do they need your address? Why would they ask for a credit card? There's you're looking for health information. They shouldn't be a need for health information to be having to provide a credit card or a debit card information. What are they going to do? And if you do share your information, how do you know what they're going to do with it? And so those are the things that I always want to talk to people about when they are looking at those online health resources to make sure they're getting to something that is actually going to be helpful to them. And in the toolkit, there's some kind of like checklist, little posters you could put out by a computer that points this out. It's always nice when you're working with a customer, if you can point to something on the wall, like, oh, we have this and we can see maybe this isn't the greatest website that we should look at for this issue. Let's try a better one that's recommended by medical professionals. So Kim and I did a little experiment here. And I want to show this just because it kind of hones in on this point here. So we did a quick search of hard to attack info. So I just went and searched that. And then the first website that you come to is this one. Hard attack FAQ dot com is right at the top. And so as someone who has family members who have had a heart attack, this would be information I would look at as a consumer. And I would go, OK, we've been down the road. We've had a heart attack. My life has now been shook up. What should I do? And this website looks really good. OK, you've just had a heart attack. Here's what I should expect month one, month three, month six. And I as someone who's taking care of a heart patient is like, this is what I need. This is what I could use. And then we get down to here. And now all of a sudden they're wanting to connect with us and send us information. They want my personal information and everything with it so they could send me something. But then I'm like, this is where we were talking about how do you evaluate those websites? Because especially when people are like for a heart attack, it's usually a pretty traumatic thing for a family to go through something like that. So they're searching for whatever they can and we get to the bottom and who is presenting the information. And the other thing I want to go to it and it brings you to this. Oh, you want to go back? Well, I will in a second. So what really caught my eye is right there on the right side. So here's what we think is health information, right? Because it looks really good. But in this little box of text, all the information contained in this website is for informational purposes only and not medical advice. OK, so that should be a warning flag right there. That are an endorsement of content is concrete, you know, all of the readers are encouraged to consult other sources. So those are that kind of the things that pop a red flag. And then Melanie, can you switch over to that the contact information company? Well, this is what happens when we go to contact us. And we can see. Investors of. Yeah, products. So these are the things that we kind of want to make sure that we're talking with any all of our patrons as they're going through and evaluating a website because this right here is not what I would then be as my first line of information, especially for a patient as they're moving forward. So that I just think provides us kind of a poignant example of what your what your patrons are often seeing when they kind of do this on their own. And that's going to be happening all the time. And, you know, they're susceptible to paying for things, paying lots of money for things that they might think will help them. So use those trusted websites. I encourage you to go out and look at lots of them. They're so good. You'll be really encouraged when you start to look at them to know that you have a place to find trusted health information. But if your customers are anything like mine, we always have people that just want to take a book home. And so it's hard to get, you know, people to to go to a website sometimes a lot of times I'll offer it to people and they'll just say, no, I don't really. I just want a book. So here's some resources for you. If you want to order print for your library. These are two lists that are vetted by medical librarians for good print materials to order. So that way you don't have to guess if this book is any good or not. If this book is any good or not, that work has been done for you. So the Consumer Consumer and Patient Health Information or Consumer and Patient Health Information Services Organization has a Goodreads list. So this will link out to that. And then Keara Comfort provided this really great Google Doc and it's in the toolkit. And it is a bunch of books that you can order for your library. It has their ISBN number and their, you know, price, title, author and it's divided into topics so you can look at general health, alternative and complementary medicine. So Keara has already done this work for you. So if you're going to be ordering a print or you want to focus on a certain issue and ordering some print materials, this is a great place to go. And it's divided both by subject and title. And that's linked out in the toolkit for you. It's there. So that's great. That's something our medical librarian just provided for us here. And then also a new thing that's kind of been coming out and growing is graphic medicine, which I'm really excited about. There are graphic novels that have great health information and that just kind of can expand health information to a different demographic, different types of readers. And so you can go out and look at their website, too, for lots of ideas on graphic novels to order that are related to medicine. I read a shot in the arm and it was great. I love it. It's my new favorite book. So sometimes, you know, it's expensive to to buy print materials and it may be difficult to get somebody to a computer. So the next thing that I wanted to talk about are like things that you can either print or order for free for your library that contain health information. So I do have a lot of customers. They might have a high school education or less. And they do not know how to use the internet and they don't really use the internet. And sometimes these these are young folks, too. So not everybody is going to want to go online. So some more ways that you can get printed materials like brochures, handouts, that kind of thing. I will show you in the toolkit. But I have this slide because when I first started this whole project, what I wanted to do was envision where libraries could have a lot of different really like brochures on health issues so that if somebody asked about that, you might be able to send them with a brochure. And when people encounter health information unexpectedly, they get an emotional response. It's something that kind of feels like, oh, like this is meant for me. I I needed this information and then here it is. So that serendipitous moment when you kind of encounter health information can really open up your your life to new information and new knowledge that you you never knew about before. And so that was kind of my inspiration for this whole thing. And hopefully when people get this information, they'll pass it around. It'll end up on a coffee table and four or five people might look at it. So that's the power of those print materials that I like so much. So like at my library, we just took where we have all the pamphlets and stuff and we just made a section that's community and health pamphlets. We've collected some of these from local organizations that gave them to us and some of them I've been able to to get from the sources that I'm going to show you. I'm going to go out to the toolkit here. So in the toolkit, I have a bunch of where you can get free health information like brochures and things like that. I'm going to wait for this to load for just a second. I apologize. While that's loading, I'll just go to the first one. I have it bookmarked. This is called CDC info on demand. And you can order any of the CDC's publications. There are limits on how many you can order for free. Usually it's 25 on a brochure. Sometimes it's 10 posters or sometimes just one like they have large poster sized things. And on their order form, you can divide it by different issues that you want posters of or even languages. And type of material. Nice. The colorectal cancer screening is a new campaign. And so their brochures are like really new and nice looking. And you can order 25 brochures for free on colorectal cancer screening. You can also order like posters, bookmarks, all sorts of stuff. And all of these, of course, are vetted by the CDC so you know that they're you know, pretty reliable and you can order that stuff and get it into your library. Also in the toolkit, there's a bunch more. So this is under free materials to print, download and order. I do love that colorectal cancer screening campaign. That's been really big, like the NFL has been pushing it. So that would be a great thing to have in your library. Also, when we were looking before at Medline Plus, a lot of the topics have like a PDF that go with it. And that PDF is printable and it's free. And you could, you know, print some of those off and make them available as handouts for people to take. Maybe even, you know, swapping those out every couple of months, put out four new ones for people to take or something like that. So those are free. There's the Nebraska Quitline in English and Spanish. You can get posters, you can get brochures for that. Suicide prevention has posters and wallet size cards. We've had those up in our library. No stroke in English and Spanish. So all of these are available for you to go get to print for free. There's also some like signs for Medline Plus that you could put next to computers and say, you know, looking for health information, start here or something like that.  And I did want to mention that we have some funds available in the grant. So if any of you here today didn't want to absorb the cost of printing something, you could email me with your request for what you want. And I would be able to print it for you and send it to you using the grant. Yeah, I saw that when you sent me the link to that and I clicked on you opened up. I thought that was a really great service. Yeah, that used to have money that they can use for that. And, you know, on the CDC website, so in the Medical Library Association and the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, they all have so many campaigns where often on that campaign, they're going to have like a slide that you can use. If you do slides in your library, they're going to have like a social media post that you can put up.  Let me go back to my slides here. I'll show you a couple other displays that we did. So with those free printable things that we found, you can make displays and on the toolkit, it talks about like monthly topics or or recognized weeks for different health issues. So you could always make a display based on one of those. Here's a mental health awareness week display using some of the information that can be freely printed. Some of these I pulled off Pinterest from, you know, librarians that that post their their displays some of them are from our library. I like this one because it has brochures and print materials and a QR code. So all kinds of things to reach people in different ways, all in one display, which I like. Just something to realize that different people that you're helping are going to want the resources in a different format. You know, they want the book, they want the news, the little brochure or they do want to take their phone and do that QR code and go that way. Right. Oh, and I'm sorry, I'm not even on. I'm not even on the slideshow. I apologize. So this was one. This was just really simple, you know, we just had a couple little bits of information about this, but somebody. I bet a lot of people don't know the term neurodiversity. Learning that new term might really change the way a person thinks about themselves and then to have resources from the library to help you go a little further on it. So it doesn't have to be hard. You can do very small and simple things to expand the health information that people are seeing in your library from day to day. We did a transgender day of visibility display just recently and it had information on like what gender identity is and what that means. And I think this was a good display, not so much for necessarily transgender individuals, but more not transgender individuals who might have a better understanding of what that means by seeing the display. And so far, we haven't had any complaints or issues with having that display out. It's gone just fine. So so we don't have a ton of time left. So I'm going to briefly just go over the rest of what's available to you in this toolkit because there is a lot more. But remember that you can reach out to your local health department or reach out to other organizations in your community because they might give you current materials. They might give you brochures and handouts and things that that you can have in your library. We contacted our Asian Cultural Heritage Center here in Lincoln, and they gave us some materials that were written in other languages. And I've put them out, but I don't they're not like going like hot cakes, but they're there if we need them. So and then a little bit of what's left in here is just a lot of resources for you on developing programs and just looking at other trainings and resources. Most programs that happen in libraries related to health happen through partnerships. So a lot of times you don't have to really do anything special other than just be what you are. Libraries are trusted places and they're hubs. And sometimes that's all that's needed for health programming to be successful. So if you can bring in the expert, the medical expert or the physical education expert, whatever it is, all you have to do really is be a space and be a hub. And so, for example, I was able to partner with the Game and Parks Commission and we did a virtual program on community science activities where people can go out in the community and participate in real science and data that's trying to be collected. And so that was something that, you know, we got together and we're able to offer that program and it benefited them and us. And now we're working with Game and Parks and we're a sponsor for the City Nature Challenge every year. So that was an ongoing partnership. And these are two of my favorite resources for if you're wanting to develop programs in your library. So Noah Lenstra, you may have heard of him. He's done a whole bunch of stuff with Let's Move in Libraries.  Yeah, he's awesome. I love this webinar that I have linked here in the slide on Let's Move in Libraries. There's so many ideas for expanding, you know, movement programs and just even incorporating movement into existing programs. And he just makes it so easy when you watch that webinar. And then my other favorite one here is Public Libraries and Public Health Partners for Community Health. And they have such cool examples of programs that people have done in their library. So I'm just going to go to their slides just real briefly here. This was a library, Lee County Public Library. They made this whole health center in their library annex building where they bring in people to like sign them up for Medicaid. They have all these health resources. They do like food giveaways. And they even were able to obtain like vouchers for people to get free food. It was just they have done some amazing stuff with their partnerships in their community health hub. Some libraries going further to offer telehealth. And that's a big one. Christa pointed out that some libraries. Applied for grants through Nebraska Library Commission to get little telehealth kiosks. Bill, yeah, like that one, I mean, that's not one of our libraries. But yes, there are these little module rooms that are that one's like size of like two phone booths or a single phone booth. You can get smaller ones. We provided grants to some libraries to do that. You don't have a separate meeting and we don't have a private space for someone to go to to do their telehealth meetings they may be doing with their doctors. It also could be used that when you were talking about earlier, we were talking about if you're trying to answer someone, you'd mention you take them to a private place, someone somewhere more private in the library to answer someone's question. You as a librarian could use one of your rooms like this if you get one of them. Yeah, so that just kind of brings me back to my next point, which is just that there is we'll skip that one for now and go on. There is a lot of funding resources available to you too. So the National Network of Libraries and Medicine, you can apply for a grant if there's a project that you want to do. And even the Nebraska Library Commission Library Improvement Grants have been help have been, you know, used for health issues. So. All of this stuff that we looked at today is all in the toolkit. There's links to everything we went over, all the health websites, all the free printables, all of the webinars that are going to give you more information. There's a campaign called Health Happens in Libraries. And that was also an IMLS funded initiative. And I encourage folks to go out to Health Happens in Libraries. They have resources there to learn so much more about health information. It's just such a good resource and so much good stuff in there. So that is kind of where we're at with this. Just a couple of future things that we're doing. Kim and I will be going to the Medical Library Association Conference. And we are in my library working together to create a proposal to the NLA to create a Health in Libraries interest group in the NLA. And then also working on partnerships to like be able to order bulk printed health materials that we could distribute to libraries. So that's kind of my next endeavor. And then we're working on making our health kiosk. Computer for health research as well. So those are some of our little future projects. I like something new. Does anybody have any questions or closing comments that they'd like to share? Yeah, let's see. If anybody just have any questions, anything you want to ask of Melanie or Kim before we wrap up for today, type into your go to webinar question section. Nobody had any questions while you were talking. That's OK. Sometimes it's just a lot of good information and resources people are going to look at, I think. But go ahead and type in something you want to ask anything or anything you want to share, anything you've done at your library that might be helpful to other people. I think this is a great session. Definitely, I was glad to have both of you on to share about this. This is something that is it comes up every now and then, you know, a library saying, I don't know what to do. I don't know anything about health and how do I how do I even help someone get where they need to go? And I think you always need a reminder there are so many free places. And every time we do one of these, someone says, oh, I didn't know about that one.  So I've got some comments coming in. Thank you so much, excellent information. So I can't wait to go and look through the toolkit that you have there. We will have the link to that. Yep, available to you all to use afterwards. Well, I so appreciate the opportunity to to share it. It's been really great, just like gathering all the resources. And we do need reminders because we always have new staff coming into our libraries and, you know, things are changing all the time. So even though health and libraries is not a new topic, it's also a topic that's not going away. So we always can use more training and more information just to stay abreast on what's going on. So also just educate yourself on health issues. Be looking at those websites, you know, we can follow the CDC on Twitter to stay up to date on things because things are always changing. Oh, yeah, nothing is static. All right, it doesn't look like anyone. Let's see, we do. OK, question to just come in here. Someone's note, does someone produce the ABCD posters that you suggested you put next to the computer for research? No, but in the toolkit, there's a similar one that's in a PDF format and it's under evaluating health information, I think. So under that heading, there's one that you can print. That's a poster that you can put up. It's it's not exactly ABCD, but it's similar. It's like in a checklist format. And oh, gosh, I'd have to look at it to see who produced it. It was I think it's an MLA resource, but I can't remember off the top of my head. It is to in the questions out to everyone responding to this person's question, about the link that you had sent to the Google Docs toolkit. So if anyone wants to go and look at it right away, it's right there. But it will be available on the session page for today's show and on the archive page, too. So I'll get those added there so you'll have access to that whole document. We'll also post in the toolkit, there's like a feedback form. So if there is feedback that you want to provide or if you know of a resource I should add to that toolkit, please let me know. So you can use that feedback form that's linked in the toolkit if you have some feedback to provide. Yeah, because if there there might be something that. And I was this toolkit, you know, it says in our description here that it's for Nebraska public libraries, but it's resources that could anyone could use. Correct. Right. Just a few of them are, you know, Nebraska oriented like the Nebraska quit line or, you know, Kiara's list of of print materials to order. I mean, anyone could use that, but it just it did come from a Nebraska librarian. So it's just lightly localized, but really, I think most things in there could be used by any anybody in any but any library. They said, OK, thank you so much. Great. There are three webinars through the NNLM that are virtual programs that are all completely done and everything that you can just, you know, link to through your website or your Facebook page and the program. You don't have to do anything. It just links people to it. So there are free virtual programs through the NNLM. And they will send you a media kit, like if you wanted posters and things to put out to promote it, you could. And that's just if you're ever like, I need a program. I need some a virtual program to plug into this month. I don't have anything, you know, do a do a free health program that's totally, you know, done for you. You literally don't have to do anything except for just link to it. Send people to it. It's nice. Yeah. And there's there's a link to that in the toolkit where those free virtual programs are through the NNLM. And it's also on one of the slides here that you can link back out to it. So if you save these slides, a lot of the slides have all the links in there, too. I've kind of embedded that. And I should mention we talk about the toolkit, but also the slide presentation will be available with the recording afterwards as well. Yep. Yeah. And it has pretty much all the links, too. I got very link happy with this. That's good. You talk about all these different for so many resources and we do need to look, how do I get to them easily? And yeah, we have those clicks. There's the easiest way, definitely. Yeah, I think it just makes it easy. Awesome. All right. Well, it doesn't look like any other desperate questions came in. So I think we will wrap up for today's show. Thank you, everybody, for being here with us. Thank you so much, Melanie and Kim. This is great resources, great information, of course. And hopefully we'll get lots more libraries feeling library staff, more comfortable dealing with these kind of questions that they have these resources. I'm going to pull back presenter control to my screen here. So I can wrap up and share everything as it be. So here's the session page for today's show. I will be adding the link to the toolkit that's mentioned here in the description. I have that up here. So I have that in the Google Docs. So we'll have a link to that in the archive when we get that posted. Our archives are here on our main page.  Nobody else is allowed to use that name. And here's our coming upcoming shows. But then right underneath there is a link to our archives. Most recent ones are at the top of the page. So today's show will be up here. Should be done and ready by the end of the day tomorrow at the latest as long as go to webinar and YouTube cooperate with me. Everyone who attended today's show and registered for today's show will get an email from me letting you know in the recordings available. We also push it out onto our social media. We do have a Facebook page that we link to from everywhere. If you'd like to use Facebook, give us a like over there. Reminders go out. He's reminded a log into today's show. Information about our presenters. And then here we go. The recording of last week's. We also do Twitter, Instagram, which or else we have a little hashtag and comp live a little abbreviation for the show so you can look for us out elsewhere using that. While we're here on the recordings, we were talking about previous shows that are done. You can search our archives as a search feature here. You can search the whole show archives or just most recent 12 months if you want something very current. As he was talking about, you need to have up to date information about some things. But this is the full show archive going back to when Encompass Life first premiered, which was in January 2009. So there's a lot of old. I'm not going to scroll all the way down to this this page. It's huge. But just pay attention to the original broadcast date whenever you do watch something. Some of the shows will stand. The content will stand the test of time. Still be good, you know, useful information, but some things may change. Resources and services may change. Links may no longer work. Products may have either changed drastically or no longer exist at all. So just pay attention to that. And I mentioned, let me see if I can have this come up with. Yeah, there we go. You mentioned Noah Lundstra. We've had him on the show twice in the last couple of years about feeding America, garden seed exchanges, summer music more and how to add movement to library programming. So if you want to learn more about that from Noah himself, he's been on the show a couple of types. Here we go. All right. So that'll wrap it up for today's show. Thank you for being here, of course. Thank you, Melanie and Kim. This is great. I hope you join us, everyone, sign up for our future shows on next week's show. We'll be talking about tweaking your library social media. We'll be talking about how to share things. So this would be a good presentation. Suzanne McCauley is from the Pioneer Library System in New York. And she is going to be giving us some tips and tricks on how to use social media really well to promote our library services. So hopefully you'll join us for that show or any of our other upcoming shows we have. We're getting our May dates booked here, as you can see. So keep an eye on our schedule here for what our other topics may be coming up in the month of May. So thank you, everybody, for being here. Thank you, Kim. Thank you, Melanie. This is great. And hopefully we'll see you on a future episode on Compass Live. Bye-bye. Thank you so much. Thanks for coming, everyone. Yeah.


Welcome to Unit 4 of Sailor.org's Introduction to Financial Accounting. This unit is divided into five subunits and will take just under three hours to complete. We're going to focus in this unit on accounts receivable. Basically, accounts receivable is a term that refers to money owed to a business. The business calculates and keeps track of this money that is owed to it, so it knows how much it expects to have. So for example, imagine that a company has made three big sales, each of which is worth $1,000. The company has set out invoices to the three buyers, but has not yet received payment. The $3,000 amount owed to the company by these buyers is recorded as accounts receivable. Make sure you pay attention to when a transaction is recorded in accounts receivable versus, for example, when it is recorded as an actual cash transaction. Now you might be wondering, what happens if a company cannot collect the money owed to it? Non-payment or the inability to collect anticipated revenues will of course affect a company's profitability. When money can't be collected, companies can handle this by using what it calls write-offs, which are losses taken by the company for bad debt. Companies suffered millions of bad debt write-offs during the 2008 recession, since customers could not pay off their credit card bills owed to companies. Now on a lighter note, you're almost halfway done with the course, so keep up the great work.


Wow. A lot has changed since the early 2000s, except for my shirt and teacup choice. Hey guys, I am doing another X-Men review. I've basically just done three in a row here, and this is the third one. The original X-Men film. Wow. If you haven't seen it in a while, watch it. It's really interesting to go back over 15 years. 15 years am I correct? If you wanted to know the film that really started comic book movies in our generation off, it's X-Men. Because before we had Superman, and that just could never escape its 70s, 80s campiness. And then, sure, there was Batman. Batman had its own idea, but the problem was it was Tim Burton-y and as dark as Batman Forever was, it still was cheesy, and then we got Joel Schumacher, who ruined it all. So really comic book movies were a dead end, except with X-Men. Brian Singer brought a vision of these characters together, and it's probably the one thing that boosted Marvel up. It basically gave Marvel the idea, the inkling, of that it could be a studio, of course it's not with these characters. But either way, X-Men is a pinnacle in comic book movie history because of how good that movie is. Despite the fact that it's barely over an hour and a half long. It's the shortest film out of all the X-Men movies, and I think it may tie with Wolverine Origins. But it's still, the amount of character development, the amount of story, and the amount of tension that they put into that film is fantastic.  Now this is going to sound really stupid, but when I watched this when I was a kid, I thought that Professor Xavier was stopping the bullet. It took me many years later before he realized, oh wait, he can get into people's minds, but he's not a telekinetic. Either way, I still love that scene. The end fight between Magneto, Wolverine, and Rogue on top of the Statue of Liberty is so well done with the music, the visuals, so cool, Ian McKellen is so awesome as this character. And what's really interesting too is if you watch the first movie, and then you watch the beginning of first class, you'll see that Matthew Vaughn basically did everything, movement for movement, frame for frame of Xavier's discovery of his powers at the Nazi death camp. So I thought that was actually pretty interesting too to watch that back and forth. The action is fantastic. The idea of Rogue being a character was really cool. Unfortunately, they really couldn't do much work with her. Maybe they had something better in the third one until Brett Ratner ruined it. But either way, I still think that this film stands on its own. It's still one of the best films, mainly because of what it was. Sure, it's a little dated here and there. Sure, some of the fight scenes, especially as cool as it is with Wolverine going around, one of the horns of Statue of Liberty, that scene still makes no sense physically wise.  I don't know. I didn't like Cyclops, but I thought Wolverine was really cool. I thought Xavier was cool. One thing that I liked, which is what I thought, this is why I don't like Jennifer Lawrence's version of Mystique, is that in the originals, the first three movies, she had a kind of a weird voice, like a frog-like voice, like multiple voices when she talked. And I liked that about her, kind of made her more lizard-like almost, even though she wasn't. In Jennifer Lawrence's version, she's fine. She sounds exactly like she was, but it pissed me off. But I still, I think that her fight with Wolverine is still super cool on the bottom of the Statue of Liberty. Either way, the X-Men film, admittedly, it's gotten a little dated, not with its effects. I think the effects still stand up. But in terms of grandeur and how the films go, and then also this whole sort of situation with Senator Kelly is, it's a cool idea, but it doesn't really manifest into as much as you would like. Also, Halle Berry is trying to do that action. This action is so bad. But either way, I still think this film is definitely one of the more pinnacle films in the X-Men series. So I'm going to give X-Men the first film of 5 out of 7. If you guys haven't seen it in a while, watch it. It's really interesting seeing this film that I saw when I was 12 years old, and just seeing... I have not seen it in so long to imagine a film that's that old. It's older now. Now, it's more time has passed since I saw as a kid than I was before when I was born until the movie came out. So that's just... it's kind of like how I feel when I watch the Lord of the Rings movies. Anyway guys, that's the third review in the X-Men movies. X-Men 2, which is still the best one, is coming up next. And I will have a different shirt for that one. Anyway guys, that's all from me. I hope you guys are enjoying these X-Men reviews. See you guys later.


before it all gets jumbling down. I read that. It wasn't very good. This wishes it was Cersei. It's understandable. I don't know me. I don't know what I'm going to like. So in July I read I think 19 books in DNF one or I read 20 books and I DNF one. I don't know but this stack has already fallen once and I don't fancy having it fall again. So I don't know. I will not count them. It's like 19-ish. Okay, okay. Let's do this before it all gets jumbling down. First book I read in July. If I let go, will you fall? First book that I read in July was the Stardust Thief by Chelsea Abdullah and this book I did not really like. Like at all. It was one of the most mediocre and boring books. Like I legitimately forgot that I read this until I looked at my TBR stack and I was like oh yeah. I read that. It wasn't very good.  I believe it's a debut. I'm not sure about that. It certainly feels like a debut. If it's not it really has no excuse for being this amateurish. I really wanted to like it. I really would like to find some Middle Eastern inspired fantasy that I like. This is not it though. It's definitely not it. I've seen a lot of people liking it. So you know, don't listen to me. A lot of people like it. But if you're super picky like me, then probably don't read it. The first three books were big disappointments. So just trying to get through those. Next book I read was when this guy fell on Splendor by Emily Henry. I picked this up quite a while ago or I mean I acquired it quite a while ago because it was like right after I read Beach Read and that was my very first Emily Henry book and I loved Beach Read. So I was like I must have this author's backlist. So this in particular called out to me at the time because this was compared to Stranger Things and I love Stranger Things. I was going to say I'm wearing my Stranger Things shirt but I wore that for a different video that I filmed today. Anyway, yes I love Stranger Things. I really love Beach Read so I was like an author who I like writing a thing that's reminiscent of another thing that I like. That sounds great. This was another two star book because it was the execution was it was a little more invested and intrigued than I was by Stardust Thief. Like the characters grabbed me a little bit more, not a lot more.  Maybe that has a decent enough explanation or a decent enough conclusion but no like the the resolution to this is the reveal for like what has been going on. The Stranger Things esque thing you know the supernatural. It's also kind of like Super 8 from the movie um or just like a lot of stuff like that.  Unfortunately this was a big big big big miss for me but you know I continue to read Emily Henry books I've got her new book book lovers um on my on deck to be read on point soon. Next up is another book that constantly gets lumped in with an author that I love and that is the Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker the author that I love with whom this gets lumped is obviously or perhaps not obviously but I think pretty obviously Madeleine Miller I really haven't liked anybody else's stuff that's like Madeleine Miller so or that's considered to be like Madeleine Miller anyway this is a retelling of not the whole love but part of the Iliad but from the perspective of the female characters um yeah it's um people call it feminist I don't think it's very feminist people call it you know what are these I don't know the I feel like the people when I saw people talking about it you know it was like oh it's like Madeleine Miller and it's like a a great twist on this like classic mythic story and so brilliant to see it from the perspective of the females that aren't usually centered in these stories and like that's what Cersei is and Cersei is great this wishes it was Cersei like all of the attempts at like feminist conversation they're so like surface level and obvious slash also not quite in keeping with the world with a greek like understanding of the world like it feels extremely like I mean I don't know we've seen a lot of like sort of like western christianized versions of greek myths I remember in particular watching the book of virtues tv show when I was a kid on pbs and it was like you know a bunch of different fables for kids like life lessons and things like that and it would show stories from the bible and it would show stories from greek mythology and it would show asops fables and things like that they were quite a western christianized version when they were talking about greek and roman myth and then like you know disney's hercules is again a quite you know western christianized version of greek kind of stories and greek gods I mean the fact that like hercules' parents are in a monogamous relationship you're like that's absolutely not true this wasn't like disney's hercules but I don't know it just felt like it didn't really have anything interesting to say like I don't know how else to say it like just if you take a story you tell it from the perspective of a female instead you know to get an existing story and existing myth and existing play and existing whatever and the only thing you've done is to tell it from the perspective of a female but there's like nothing no reason to have done that you know like there's no there's no like interesting twist to what's going on by doing that there's no like interesting new perspective that that creates it's more just like huh yeah we do always focus on the men huh but like that's that's it like that's really all that there wasn't I didn't get anything out of this there wasn't anything any food for thought you know it was just like yeah okay we focus on the women who are like we're the ones that suffer and the men are the ones that get the glory yeah never heard that before so I just like you know like dark descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein tells the story of Frankenstein from the perspective of Elizabeth Levenza and that is one of the best books I've ever written in my life because not only does it fully understand Frankenstein and pay a great respect to the original source material it also has something interesting to say when we tell it from the perspective of Elizabeth instead a character that is practically not a character in the original story telling it from her perspective is a project it's not just like what have we told her from the girl's perspective like no like it completely recontextualizes the entire story of Frankenstein and it is brilliant so well done Cersei by Madeline Miller which is you know more akin to this because it's Greek Roman type stuff uh existing mythic figures the character of Cersei and telling it from her perspective well done brilliantly done very thought-provoking very beautifully written this had nothing to say beyond exactly what you would expect without ever having read it the next book I read um was a surprise delight and that was the queen of the tearling by Erica Johansson I have the entire queen of the tearling trilogy and everyone tells me that it gets shitty like the last I don't know if the second book is bad but that for sure the conclusion of the trilogy is quite bad it was very disappointing because I really really enjoyed the queen of the tearling I'd heard a lot of great things about queen of the tearling which is why I had gone ahead and just purchased all three books when they were coming out because I was pretty confident that I would like it and having read just the first one if I hadn't talked to anybody I'd be like this is gonna be a great trilogy like fantastic so I'm very upset to help you to hear that if I continue with this series I will guaranteed be disappointed because I really really enjoyed Queen of the Tearling I was I found I don't think this is why I think it was one of those books that was like lumped in with YA all the time because it's got queen in the title and it's a biofemale author and therefore it's YA and the protagonist is like pretty young not like a child you know not but she's like a youngish protagonist I mean it says an untested young princess must claim her throne so like people are like oh that's YA but I believe this is not YA yeah it's published by harper not harper teen so it isn't doled but anyway like there are so many books that have like queen or princess in the title and it's some young queen young princess who's coming into her own and like those stories are a dime a dozen but this book had some fairly unique royal building and some legitimately good like political situation navigating like I've again read books like that where like this young queen is thrust into the situation where there's like a tough political situation but it's like not very well thought out and pretty straightforward and like the challenge the queen was faced like I must do something for the people but like sacrifice the romance that I want to have oh no like you know it's some bullshit like this is legitimately a kind of a kind of gray situation with like a lot of different competing interests that would be difficult to navigate in addition to just sort of like secrets that have been kept from her that she's trying to figure out there is some magic it's I believe a post apocalyptic world so I'm not exactly sure how magic that's into that but I was looking very curious to find out I'm I'm guessing maybe that's what makes the ending stupid is like some reveal to do with that because I don't mean this beginning is so promising that I'm like already trying to like prepare myself for like okay so how's it gonna fuck it up like what's it gonna do wrong which part of this is going to like utterly fail to stick the landing I don't know I do want to finish the trilogy because the first one is really really solid really solid so yeah I enjoyed this I'm just sad that apparently I'm not gonna enjoy the rest of it the next book that I read was Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons I read Hyperion the month before and I had started Fall of Hyperion in June so I finished Fall of Hyperion and I didn't like it as much as Hyperion some of what I said about like where I was worried about where this was going it kind of did go up there it's very very spoilery and complicated so I can't really can't really say even if I wanted to it'd be a lot to explain but basically we get sort of more complete answers for some of the mysteries that are set up in the first book and the answers are sort of kind of where I was afraid they would go but overall I still really enjoyed it and overall I still think it's very very impressive and definitely you know complex and interesting ways it does some stuff that I find very irritating beyond just the ending and the answers um especially as concerns the AI there's an AI that's in the first book and in this book and a lot to do with that AI in particular is very irritating to me and it's in the stacks so I'll get to it but there's another book that is far worse than this um but that irritated the piss out of me last month for similar reasons this is a much much better version of that but still irritates me so I like it I don't I gave it four stars um I gave Hyperion five and I do intend to read the rest of the Hyperion books but uh definitely liked the first book better next up I read well let's do them together I reread Red Country into our pens is the first law read-along that we're doing on the podcast me and Bethany uh that's we did both of these together in July and the podcast episode for that is up on the the podcast channel I'll leave the link down below we were joined by Ben from Overly Average Ben and it was honestly such an amazing discussion I really really enjoyed that discussion which was a pleasant surprise because Red Country is my least favorite first law book I love sharp ends and Red Country is good don't get me wrong but it's definitely not my favorite one and I just we had some it was really amazing just like it had a lot to unpack for us and uh in particular because we had quite different takes on it and quite different opinions about certain aspects of it so there was a lot of food for discussion more than I expected like we could have talked for like twice as long as we did we cut ourselves off because we were trying to keep it to an hour so anyway I'll leave that link down below if you haven't seen it and yeah I mean this uh I get up to my rating for Red Country before we had our conversation to four stars because I realized that 90 at least 90 percent of my favorite first law quotes like the quotes that I send to people and I'm trying to convince them to read first law quotes that I'm like this is a great example of what Abercrombie can do here's a quote that should go on a mug 90 percent of those quotes are in red country and I was like that's not nothing so even this is my least favorite story it's got some of the best words in all of first law in my opinion but anyway so yeah I did enjoy three read and I definitely definitely enjoyed discussing it with Bethany and Ben so check out our conversation if you would like the next book I read I don't know a physical copy of but that was Morning Glory milking farm by Samet Neskasta I think this is the author I have an entire vlog of me reading it and then there's about uh the blades and bodice book club which was the entire reason that I read it we had our discussion on Mara's channel so I pretty much said all I have to say about that book I hated it I had all kinds of problems that I did not expect to have if you're not familiar at all you haven't seen that vlog don't know what this is it is Monster Erotica about a millennial who gets a job at a milking farm where minotaurs are being milked and in a romance ensues my problems with this book I mean I expected to have problems with this book but my main problems with this book were not even to do with the erotic nature of it so I hated it but not what not for the reasons that I thought I would so anyway uh check out my vlog check out our chat on Mara's channel or don't save yourself a couple of hours and just forget this book ever existed next is another book that I read with Mara and that is Fool's Fate by Robin Hobbs this is the third and final book in the 20 man trilogy she and I are planning to have a chat on my channel to talk about tawny man now that we finished it and it's sort of like where we're at in our journey through the realm of the elderlings sort of check in uh and then hopefully you know we'll check in again after rain wild and then check in when we when we finish the realm of the elderly so anyway we finished tawny man we did the thing uh she and I have chatted about it just amongst ourselves we have a lot of thoughts about how tawny man ended a lot of thoughts and she and I are pretty much in agreement um on those thoughts but a lot to unpack with sort of choices that were made with the series and with this book in particular we both enjoyed it but but not without asterisks so i'm very much looking forward to having that chat and I mean I did enjoy Fool's Fate but but it uh ended up giving it a four stars and not five because of because of my thoughts next up I read the veiled throne with my patrons by Ken Liu because we are reading along readalonging buddy reading the dandelion dynasty me and my patrons um and everyone told me that I would hate veiled throne but just to like to accept it that I will hate it and then look forward to speaking bones and um veiled throne is possibly my favorite book in the dandelion dynasty so clearly no one knows me I mean I forgive you it's understandable I don't know me I don't know what I'm going to like or even what I do like but yeah I was pleasantly surprised because I went into this going like okay apparently this is the one that I have to suffer through and just accept that before I get to what is good again in speaking bones um but I loved veiled throne I really really did and the part of it I mean I was halfway through and I was like I'm loving this I don't know why all y'all said I was gonna hate it and then those who had already read it they're like no no no we didn't think you'd hate the first half you haven't gotten to the thing that we think you're gonna hate just wait do you're gonna hate it and then I finished it I was like um no I loved it second half too possibly my favorite so I remain an enigma to myself and to everyone else but I really enjoyed it I get why other people wouldn't as much as I'm able to understand anyone's opinion other than my own I don't really get why people thought that I would hate it though like I get why this the second half of this book would be one of those like hit or miss kind of things where it's not like everyone's gonna love this where you're like the second half you might like it you might not but I don't know why everyone was like oh you in particular liana you specifically you will hate the second half of veiled throne and I did I loved it can't really tell you why because I'm not even because it's spoiler because this is the third book in a series I'd have to explain so much to explain to you how we got to the point that we did and why people thought I would hate that and why I actually liked it but anyway looking forward to chatting about this with my patrons uh we haven't had a chat about it yet but we will soon. Next up is the book that I DNF'd and that was Keeper of Night by Kylie Lee Baker this is my second time DNF'ing it I got the audiobook from the library like a while ago and I started it and I was like I'm not into this right now and then like my hold on it lapsed so I got it again from the library now because it's a book of the month club book and I like to check those off I was like okay let's try that again so I got a little further this time in the audiobook because I was determined to actually read it this time and I was like no I don't like this and I'm not going to like this I already know that nothing's going to change that I don't like it I'm not gonna like it I don't want to film a review for it I don't have that much to say about it I just don't like it I think it's pretty amateurish and clunky and I don't I don't want to read this so I DNF'd it like a boss. Next up is another book of the month club book that I did actually finish I started reading it physically when I first got it and then like accidentally DNF'd it I just like put it down and it didn't finish it in that month and TBR's being TBR's it just then wasn't on my TBR the next month so I just I just never finished it but not like because I DNF'd it. So I got the audiobook from the library for this as well and that is A Burning by Mega Majumdar and this book I think is quite good but I think it's too short like it's way too short because it's kind of it's a breakneck pace like this is paced the way that a film is paced and a film could get away with this uh short amount of like this such a short story with like the scenes kind of just like skip through you know you kind of like the important scenes and like nothing else and nothing in between which is what you have kind of have to do with a film but a film is able to like really maximize each of those scenes by like using camera angles and you know actors acting and music and things like that to really get as much out of each of those scenes as possible but here it was like the amount of scenes you'd get in a film but without all of the impact that a film is able to sort of like suck out of every single scene so this is a screenplay I'd be like this would be a great film but it was just too short and the points it was making just like couldn't marinate or give you the impact like I barely felt like I knew these characters because we were introduced to them and then the main events of the story like immediately start taking place like before you know them at all before you even like I barely figured out who is who before the events before the sort of catalysts happen and massive life changes happen it's just too fast it's way too fast and then not enough space in between to kind of like sit with the characters and see how this is affecting them it was it's too short it's too fast so it didn't like it didn't have the impact it didn't punch me in the heart the way that it should have because what's happening like it is pretty devastating it is really fucking devastating and I just I wish it hadn't kind of like fast forwarded me like whipped me through um this pretty dark uh an important story on this is uh what is it it's I haven't said it all if you don't know what it is it's not fantasy it is a contemporary lit pick I guess uh it takes place in India and it's to do with freedom of speech about politics about selfishness about just you know sort of the shittiness of people yeah it was it was good but too too short too fast uh next up I read these uh I got these from the library so that's why one of them is still wrapped in plastic um but I'd gotten bonecrier's moon from alcrate a long time ago and I was like before I just toss it but by toss it I mean like sell it or donate it let's get the audiobook from the library and like actually see if it's any good because it's a it's a very very pretty book and the alcrate edition in particular that's got gold pages and the like it's like shimmery and stuff and I was like it's very pretty so I was like hit the audience in the library see how it is before you just toss it and I devoured it one night and immediately and I was like does is the second book are available from the library and there was no weight on it so I immediately started listening to the second one and then finished at the next day so like in less than 24 hours I'd read both and then uh ordered because I didn't have it the alcrate matching exclusive to edition which they released later so I'd gotten this because I was subscribed to their box at the time I'm not anymore so I had to just come in my box but like they separately released this and I remember being like I haven't read the first one I'm not even if I like it and I was like I'm not ordering that and it's purple I still am upset that it's purple it's not nearly as pretty as that's what it might be because it's purple but uh I wanted a matching set because I really really enjoyed this I think the second one is not as good it's not because it's purple but the first one I really really really enjoyed a lot more than I thought I thought about filming a separate standalone video for this but then I was like eh eh like I really shouldn't like these books um the first one in particular because it has like everything that I hate if you put you know like a bullet list I'd be like it has enemies to lovers which I do not like it has faded mate bond kind of romance which I hate it's got a chosen one can not to like that it's got a love triangle definitely don't like that yeah so like I just and I remember hearing what the premise was like what the setup is like what what these characters their situation is and thinking that sounds contrived as hell and really stupid and I still think it is contrived but it works and I really like the characters and I like really like their dialogue and it just worked for me like I absolutely devoured it like I don't think it's great like I don't think this is like this is what YA code should be I'm just like sometimes these tropes sometimes they just work and I haven't heard the very positive reviews for this or like I haven't heard anybody low or love this which is another reason I was like uh well I guess I'll read it before I give up on it but I really enjoyed it it's just like it just hit right place right time I was in the mood and I just marathoned it the second one I didn't hate it I just didn't think it was as good as the first one but I think this was four stars this was three stars I had I had a great time it was fun reading these so I guess I recommend if you're in the mood or something like that but um they're not they're not great but I had a good time so you know if you've already got it like I did then try it next up I read Endless Night by Agatha Christie I read this because I've seen several times the the adaptation of it that was they did it as a miss marvel even though miss marvel is not actually in Endless Night I saw that when they first aired it like when it first came out and then I've watched it a couple times since then and I just recently rewatched it again because that had been a minute and I was like yeah I'll watch that again I was like I'm pretty sure I remember what happened in it it won't be like I have forgotten so it'll be like new no I was I was pretty sure I remember what happened but after I finished watching it this like fourth time or whatever probably I was like I wonder because I was like I know I'm I'm also fairly certain Matt that miss marvel is not in this story originally they did a few like that where they like they did a marvel episode but that's not actually a marvel book it is an Agatha Christie mystery but it's they've just like stuck miss marvel into an existing mystery so actually I read The Secret of Chimneys last year I think for the same reason because I've just recently rewatched The Secret of Chimneys and I was like oh yeah I should read this I'm pretty sure miss marvel's not in it even though she's in this so anyway I was like yeah I want to read Endless Night because Endless Night is really like the adaptation of it I was like this is very chilling it's the darkest marvel adaptation for sure I remember every time I've watched it I've been like this is this is really dark this is dark as fuck how is this a marvel marvel is cozy this is not cozy and God be wondering though I was like well this isn't a marvel story so I was like I wonder how much they changed like I wonder if it even is this dark like the original story like I wonder how different it is and I was like you know what I'll read it so that's why I read Endless Night and to my surprise the adaptation with miss marvel in it is extremely loyal to the original story which is crazy like you would think that's not possible because well for one they've stuck miss marvel in it like how loyal could it be but it really is because like I remember you know it's pretty obvious like when you watch it you're like if someone tells you oh yeah this isn't originally a marvel story you'd be like yeah I could have guessed that because she's hardly in it miss marvel is barely in that one they basically just did an adaptation of Endless Night and then for the key scenes invented a reason for miss marvel to kind of like be around in the background or to like be passing by when something happens and then like to have her towards the end like show up and like do the explaining of what happened in this mystery but she's barely in it um so the adaptation with miss marvel is actually like an extremely faithful adaptation and it does make one really important change and I like that change a lot and it's not I mean obviously they put miss marvel in it doesn't change but that's not what I'm talking about they did something else we're like it's basically they took two things that already are in Endless Night they both already exist in Endless Night and in the adaptation they connected them they like added in something that would connect those two things I'm being vague because in case I don't want to spoil anything if you haven't seen it or read it and I really like that choice I liked that they took what was already there and they were like you know how much more would add to this story if we connected those two things that are already there um so great idea um I really like the adaptation I really like the book I would probably like the book slightly more if I hadn't seen the adaptation not just because I liked the choice and it was that it wasn't actually in the book but also because I already knew the ending I already knew the mystery I already knew the answer to the riddle um so I wonder how it would have felt if I didn't know but I remember watching the adaptation and being shocked the first time so I probably would have felt similarly reading this the first time if I had not ever seen an adaptation before so anyway very good very short very dark and the adaptation is good next up is the book that my patrons chose for me to read and vlog for them and I shorted in I gave them an hour and a half long vlog of me ranting about the long way to a small angry planet by Becky Chambers I expected to not love this I expected this to be a book that I would feel meh about that I would disappoint people because I would be like I don't get the appeal I didn't care for it it's not my cup of tea and I expected that to be you know a 20 minute vlog in which I'm like you know I just it's not for me um but instead I chopped down like three hours of footage into an hour and a half of ranting about this book because they hated this book so much this isn't a situation where I'm like it's just I don't get it it's kind of boring whatever no fucking hate this book I despise it in the vlog I was like I know Norwegian would is worse right now this feels worse yeah um because I mean Norwegian would came to mind because this isn't just a book where I'm like I don't get it I really don't understand people like this no I'm like genuinely kind of upset to learn that people like this and like it a lot and it's really really popular and like the people that do like it I'm like I I'm sorry but I think less of you now I can't help it I'm sorry and that's many people this is really really popular but this was this book deeply upset me I was I was livid so yeah that's a one star um and no from me the next book that I read was pillars of creation by Terry Goodkind for the sort of truth read along the live show where this was on Bethany's channel and I really really enjoyed this the second time I remembered liking it the first time like not loving it like it wasn't an all-time favorite anything but I remember it I was like I think I remember enjoying that one and I did really enjoy the second time there's I think it's too long there are some things about it that I would be fine with not having in there or at least less of but I really enjoyed it and I really had a good time talking about it with Bethany on her channel so if you missed it you know the replay is available to you I'll leave a link down below yeah I'm not really looking forward to Naked Empire the next one I remember I remember that one not doing it for me so much so that I stopped reading the books not because I hated it but I just you know anyway so this is the last one that I remember quite enjoying and I did enjoy it I was glad I enjoyed it the second actually more than the one that had been my former favorite that one I didn't enjoy as much on this one I enjoyed more so yeah that's Pillars of Creation next up I read Cricut House by Agatha Christie the reason that I read this and in general I was interested in reading it but the audiobook that I got of Endless Night from the library for some reason was an audiobook that was like combined both Endless Night and Cricut House and because I wanted to get Endless Night I was like okay well I'll get this one and I finished Endless Night and then I had other stuff that I need to read like Pillars of Creation for the live so I didn't have time to go on and read Cricut House but I was like I've still got it I was like let's read Cricut House too and I have seen the movie Cricut House the newest one the one with Glen Close and so I was like I wonder how loyal that is as an adaptation and I am happy to report that the adaptation of it is extremely loyal obviously they take some liberties and make some changes and make some scenes and it's more cinematic and dramatic and some of the relationships between people have more tension and more drama and the climax of the film is much more sort of like big and like an action set piece more not an action set it is an action set piece but anyway other than that though like the story is the same pretty much the twists are pretty much the same the answer is the same it's just you know made more dramatic and Hollywood in the film and it's a good film in my opinion so I really enjoyed reading the book it's a good mystery I really really enjoyed like it's again one of those I should read a christie where I don't know the end because like I remember when I watched Cricut House the first time I've seen it a couple times the first time I watched it I was like what that I was dead did not see that coming as like the twist or the the answer to the mystery so I'm guessing I probably would have felt that way reading this the first time but I already knew so mostly I was like I wonder if it's the same or if they changed it and if they did change it how much they changed and they didn't change it so I was like okay so it's like them like the movie so that means like I couldn't be surprised because I already knew but I was happy to learn that the film had been accurate so anyway I did enjoy it and I think I would have loved it if I didn't know the twist and the last book that I read in July at long long last finally finished jade war by hondily this is the second book in the green bone saga I'm intending to read jade legacy in august for realsies it took me for I started jade war I read like the first half of it a couple months ago and then just you know had other books that were obligations for this on the other that kept getting in the way of me finishing jade war because jade war wasn't as anything that I had like a live or a buddy read or anything that for so I finally finished it because I had finished all my obligation books for July and I was like I'm freezing jade war and it's all good it's so good it's so good I'm gonna film a review for it soon so good oh my god it people say legacy is better like how this is all good five stars love it love it love it yeah I I mean it's a it's a second book so when I film review I will probably do you know non-spoiler and spoiler because it's hard to talk about no spoilers because most of what happens it's a second book so even the starting point is kind of spoilery so anyway um non-spoiler I love it five stars it's amazing can't wait to be horrified by reading jade legacy promises to be brutal and those are all the books that I read in July let me know your thoughts and feelings about my thoughts and feelings whatever you want to let me know I post videos on Saturdays 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