Yes, so, um, two years ago I came to learn about the exam, and so I, um, I went to a friend's class and I wanted to learn about it, so I, um, I'm used to it, but I've never done it. I've never done it. So not this last one that I'm living here before is my first year of class. And then my second, this is my second time that I'm passing. Okay. So I've been wanting to do this for a long time, but I didn't want to go without it. Okay. So I, yeah, you know, but I haven't been able to do this for a long time. I haven't been able to do that. So the most important thing is that when you, like, this idea is connected, when you make a commitment, you, the most important thing, the single most important thing is that you're justifying that you only believe in one and that God has, um, that anything that occurs to your mom and God is out of this and that. So we make no, we do not place on God any gender, any, uh, attributes other than what he has described himself. Even saying he is English, whatever you do there, well, you know what I mean? So the, that, that's what's really important to know is that the only way you can get out of this religion is to reject what brought you into the religion. And that is the same thing that my mom and I do a lot. When you say that, then you're accepting the obligation that God has placed on you as a Muslim. And the most important one is on the next phone call. So you're beginning to pray and only you're able to pray. And there are some things that prevent, uh, people from praying like sickness and, uh, for women. They have their own, uh, rules for the prayer that concern them. That you're committing to pray the 5th birthday day and to pay 2.5% of your standing wealth. Like, if a year passes over and you still have that money, then one thing that, uh, it goes to a category of people. Like God mentioned in, uh, you know, God. And then, um, you fast around once a year, if you're able. And then if you're able also, it's all on the ability to make the pilgrimage. So like, uh, once in your lifetime, if you're able. Those, those are the, um, also that as a woman, when you're coming to Islam also. Then if you're not there, then you would be out of it. So that's part of the faith. Um, so that's pretty much it. And once you say this can not, um, then if you're, you know, if you're able to, then you would pray the first prayer, which is mother and something like that.  Because that's the first thing that you do after you, um, take Shahada. And so we can say it and I just want to really make sure that you have the commitment that you're making. And, and I will say this, that they're mainly bad people. Uh, there's like, you're coming into a religion that has a lot of new aspects, including the interview. There's a lot of beautiful people. There's also a lot of bad people, like any group of people. And those bad people, there's a whole spectrum of that. So some are just, they don't pray, but they're still, you still consider them. And that's the objective. So even if you don't fulfill those other four pillars, along, you know, we get the first one, we still consider you.  I mean, we would hope that they wouldn't, but if you're still a Muslim, so it's really important to know that. That this is really about the commitment to believing in one God that we are a creator. And that's, you know, I saw this thing, somebody said that it's a thing of AI today. And they have this AI, I put it to a lot of people talking. And then they ask, and they have, let people, we all ask the fifth question. And I was wondering, I wanted to ask it, do you believe you have a creator? Like the engineer that makes you, like, do you believe in him? Does he exist? You know, and then the next, my follow-up question would be, is it logical that a staff engineer doesn't have a creator? Like, he doesn't believe in his creator and he doesn't talk to people. So that's the most important thing, just believing in God and then all of the stuff that we've got. There's been over millennia, God has sent guidance to his creation. And we believe in all of them. We don't make any distinction between them. And I include all the Jewish prophets. I include the Christian prophets and then also Jesus as a prophet, not as God. God has dependents, like, yeah, children, but not in biological children. So, in that way, we have a lot of all the dependents of God, our children have God, but not in biological children. So, that's Jesus. And then we believe in the Virgin Mary, the Blessed Mother of Jesus, who has the highest station of the women in the whole world. So, that's it. And then this is a really nice step here in our fun. So, I was involved in, so the books in there are good. Books to read. But what I would say to you is there's something called proper timing, which means what you and me also are like to learn. It's not a lot. It would take you good study, I think six months to learn. And once you learn that, you're free to do whatever you want along the path. But that's actually an obligation to learn. A lot of Muslims don't do it, unfortunately. That's why there's so much to do here in the community. But you should really try to do that. And you should do it with a teacher. There's good people here that like to spend a time with everything and everything. I don't know. You know, I'm sure she's capable of this. Many people that are capable of this need to help you. And then the one thing that I would really do is to learn about it. You know, our extremist Muslims, when you become a Muslim, there's a lot of excitement. And it's a very powerful event for this. It's a life-changing event. And the both licensees enter into this religion generally. Don't try to come in all at once. Just come in generally. And don't worry about just getting these basic things down. Try to move back to the able to. And just be really aware of any extremism. And I would say that you have to do it through parents. And I'm assuming you did it. Generally, what your parents call you is probably pretty accurate. You already have a good moral compass. So if it doesn't seem right, it's probably not right. And so just focus and ask your heart. Do this with stuff that comes back. You know, ask your heart. If it doesn't seem right in your heart, then it's probably wrong. Because this religion is a part of the religion. It's a religion of the natural understanding of good people. If anybody has a good heart, you'll feel very at home in the religion as well. So that's that all I have to say. Any other questions? No, I don't think so. Thank you. Thank you. So would you have to arrange this in Arabic and in English? And then what was your religion before? Were you raised in a religion? Yes, I was Catholic. So Catholic is an easy conversion. Yes. Because there's a lot of... There's a lot of... So because the Catholics, or they're not Catholic, believe in tradition. Yeah, so we have the same... Orthodox Christians have the same understanding that we follow the rightly guided. And we don't like an acronym that's typically kind of accused now of being just out of the average because it doesn't suit whatever the right kind is. So I'm going to say this in Arabic and you can say it. And then I'm going to add one thing to it, the two of Christian, which my teacher taught me to do, which is just to test why the Jesus was the logo of God, a servant of God, and a messenger of God, and that Mary was his virgin mother. And then... you know, the model of Jesus, the human being. So this is Ahmadi. Ashadu. Ashadu? Allah i-la-ha Allah i-la-ha Illa Allah وأشهد أشهر أنا وحمدا محمدان رق الله لشخن الله صَنُ والله عالي عالي عالي عالي عالي وصلنا وصلنا وأشهد أشهر أننيسة So, say now, I testify that there is no God but the One True Living God and I testify that Muhammad is the final and last prophet, superseding all previous prophets and I believe in all the prophets that God sent, the One I know and the One I don't know. I believe if it has a good meaning, there's no reason to change it. Some people take Muslim names, that's here for all of you who don't ever feel forced, but both sides do not change name unless they have a negative meaning.  I would rather give Muslim a game in my name and knowing what I knew much later, I would get into my father's name and he had every right to name me and it was, I think, hurtful for him, but I did not know that at the time. So, I don't really encourage people to change their name. The Persians have a lot of non-Muslim names, half a hundred people have names like Freddie Doe and Hossai and Shatnaz and the whole bunch of names, even the Arab South Chinese. Thank you.


Good afternoon everyone. I am Vimal Sharma. I'm a software engineer at Hortonworks. So I will be talking today about Apache Atlas. So a quick show of hands. How many of you have heard about Apache Hadoop or at least used it? Yeah, so majority. And how many of you have at least heard about Apache Atlas? Okay, that's good to know. So this is probably a good audience for me to at least introduce Apache Atlas and see how it works. So with respect to Apache Atlas, I am a member of project management committee and committed to the project. These are some of the details about the project. The development for Apache Atlas project started in late 2014 and it was incubated to Apache in May 2015. Developers from organizations like IBM, Hortonworks, Atna, Merck and Target are involved in the evolution of the project. There have been three releases in past one year, 0.7 release which was in July 2016, 0.7.1 which was in Jan this year, 0.8 release which was in March this year and Atlas graduated to a top level Apache project very recently last month. So a high level overview of the project. So Apache Atlas is basically the governance and metadata management framework which was initially built for Hadoop framework but it's generic and flexible enough so that any arbitrary component can be modeled and its metadata can be captured. So we can have two types of metadata. The first kind of metadata is that of the data asset for instance a high table or a HBase column family. The second kind of metadata is that of the processes occurring within that component or across those components. So if there is a CTA query in Hive that can be captured in Atlas plus if there is a yarn job which picks up some data from HBase, does some processing and then dumps into Kafka, these kind of events can also be captured. Apart from the metadata capturing and visualization, Atlas also provides the facility to classify the metadata entities using tags which can be used in tandem with Ranger to enforce security policies. So Atlas has built-in support for many popular Hadoop components like Hive, Storm and Scope and its architecture is very flexible so that any component can be modeled and captured. So let's look into the use cases for the governance problem. The first use case will that be of the extract transform load pipelines. So if I am the owner of a current ETL pipeline, so how do I narrow down any upstream failure? So let's say my source dataset is dependent on an ETL pipeline and which fails. So there is some data quality issue or data itself is not there. So how do I debug this kind of issues? Plus if there is any downstream ETL pipeline, downstream dataset which derives from my computer dataset, if there is a failure in my pipeline, how do I alert the downstream owners so that they can take proper measures to correct the data quality issues? So it seems a visual lineage and record of such kind of dependencies would be very helpful and Atlas does exactly that. Second use case is that of the redundant processing. So if I am the developer and I want to compute some information based on the source dataset, so can I avoid the redundant processing? So if I have some mechanism to know whether that information is already available in one of the datasets, can I avoid the redundant processing? So we will see that Atlas, we can exploit the Atlas classification feature to know whether the information which we need is already there. Third use case is that of the compliance and security from a business point of view. So if we want to restrict access to sensitive information to some set of users, how do I enforce these policies? So the standard solution would be to apply ranger policies on these datasets, but that would be an overkill. I mean, if there are datasets across components which have sensitive information, like a high table can have sensitive information and HDFS file can have sensitive information. So how do I make sure that there is a single policy which we can apply and the same kind of rules will apply across components? Fourth use case is that of the cluster admin. Very often Hadoop cluster admins have this use case of cleaning up their cluster from dormant and unused datasets. So it seems if there is some mechanism to come up with a relevance score for a dataset, so low relevance datasets can be archived or deleted from the dataset altogether. So using Atlas, ETL, using Atlas lineage diagrams and classification features, cluster admins can come up with some relevance score based on which they can take decision to archive or keep the dataset. This is the Atlas architecture. At the core of Atlas is its type system, which we will look into more detail in further slides. Apart from the type system, there is the ingestion and export engine, which is responsible for ingesting the metadata events and entities as well as the export. Atlas models the metadata as a graph and it uses the Titan library to do this. The metadata is actually stored in HBase and there is a solar based indexing engine, which is used to improve the search capability over the metadata. As I mentioned earlier, Atlas has built-in support for many components like high scoop and storm, and metadata events in these components are communicated to Atlas via KafkaQ. Apart from this, Atlas publishes the tag addition and deletion events to an entity, to another KafkaQ, to which Apache Ranger is a subscriber, and it can use the tag addition and deletion event to enforce the policies which are defined on that particular tag. There is a high level REST API which can be leveraged to do all these operations, ingestion, export, as well as registration of type system and search. Cross component lineage is one of the central features of Apache Atlas. Lineage is a visual diagram between the dependencies among the datasets. If we have created an external table with some HDFS path, the lineage will look like the one shown in the diagram on Atlas UI. So individual components like Hive or HDFS can have their own metadata store, and the metadata store logs can be used to investigate what events happen within that component. But where Atlas comes into the picture is the events which are cross component. So let's say there is one Spark job which picks up some data from HDFS, does some processing, and then dumps it into a Kafka topic. So in this case, neither the Spark logs nor the HDFS logs would be helpful in connecting this event. So Atlas can be leveraged to define the model for several components and capture all these events which are occurring across components. So Ranger is a listener on the Kafka topic to which Atlas publishes the tag edition and deletion entity events. And if we have defined any security policies on top of those tags, those will start applying on that particular dataset. So we have attribute based policies rather than asset based policies. We don't need to define policies individually for individual datasets. We can define policies based on the tag, and whenever we attach that tag to the dataset in Atlas UI, the corresponding policies will start getting applied. So type system is central to Atlas. So it's the skeleton of the metadata which we want to store in Atlas. Type system is analogous to object oriented programming in the sense that in OOP we have the notion of class. So we can have attributes and super types. So similarly, a type can have attributes. It will have a unique name and a set of super types. So an instance of a class is termed as object in OOP. And an instance of a type in Atlas is called entity in Atlas terminology. So attributes can have several properties like it can be mandatory or optional. It can be unique which will uniquely identify it across the Atlas repository. It can be composite meaning which the lifetime of the attribute is controlled by the parent entity. An example would be the high columns. So high columns don't have any identity outside of the high table in which they reside. So if we delete the high table, the corresponding columns should be deleted as well. Reverse reference is another property which is mainly used for a back pointer reference to the enclosing entity. So our example of high table applies here as well. So columns individually will have a back reference to the enclosing high table. So Atlas has a bunch of base types which are predefined for you and those are bootstabbed whenever Atlas server is restarted. We will go through some of them. So reference table is the one which has a mandatory attribute named QualifiedDem which is a unique attribute which identifies this metadata entity uniquely across the Atlas store. Asset is the one which is used to identify entities which have some notion of ownership. So it will have a mandatory attribute name and optional attributes owner and description. Dataset derives from reference table and asset and it is the one which is responsible for the entities which are actually stored in Atlas. So a high table for instance will be an instance of Dataset. Process is another one which also inherits from reference table and asset and it has optional attributes named input and outputs. So process is the one which is responsible for tracking the lineage in Atlas store and when we navigate to the Atlas UI we will see all the set of inputs which are used and the output datasets which are derived. So we will be modeling the Spark data frame type in our demo. So a little bit of introduction about Spark. So in Spark there is this concept of RDD which are the basic unit of execution in Spark framework and data frames are a special type of RDDs which have some notion of relation among its data. So may be a JSON in which there is a structure to the data or a high table in which the information is related in some sense. So let's try to model the Spark data frame type. So as outlined in the slide above, Spark data frame will inherit from, will be inheriting from Dataset type and it will have additional attributes. Source will be a mandatory attribute which will indicate from which source the data is derived. Destination and columns will be the optional set of attributes. Data frame column is another type which will also inherit from Dataset and it will have mandatory attributes type which will indicate the kind of data which is there whether it's a string type or an integer type and data frame which is a reference to the parent data frame and an optional command. So as I mentioned earlier Atlas stores the metadata entities as a graph. So this is a snapshot of the type which we have just defined and the entities. So vertex one indicates the Spark data frame type, vertex three indicates the data frame entity and it will have adjust to its type as well as the columns which it contains. So four and five are the column vertices and they will have their attribute values and they will have adjust to the column data frame type. So let's consider this use case in which there is a salary disbursement Spark data frame Spark process. So payroll details of an employee of all the employees are in one HDFS path which will contain personal details like monthly salary, bank account number, name and more details. And there is another HDFS path which contains the variable components like bonus and stock options. So Spark process will pick up data from these HDFS paths, do its processing and then compute the monthly salary for all the employees and then finally dump it into a Kafka topic from where the actual disbursement will be done. So as you can see, not visible, right? So here I have declared the Spark data frame type. Is it visible? No? Okay, so let's assume that I have put the model in place for Spark data frame type and data frame column and then registered those entities using this piece of code and link them together using this piece of code. So now we will go to the Atlas UI, search for this process which you registered and we can see that this lineage is created. These are the source HDFS paths and this is the process which picks up data from HDFS paths and this is the Spark data frame and then this is another process which puts the data into Kafka topic. We can go down to inspect other attributes like columns and a qualified name and source as well and this is the tags tab which shows the list of the tags which are attached to this particular entity and along with this there is the audit which shows the operations which you are doing on that entity. So we can go ahead and attach any tag to this particular entity. So let's say I am defining, I added this particular tag to this entity, tag expires on and I specified the value to 1st of September. So this information will be related to Apache Ranger and if there is a policy of the kind in Apache Ranger that all the expired data sets should not be allowed access. They should not be exposed to the user and admins. So this will start applying on this particular entity as well. Then there is the tags tab on which we can see all the information categorized by the kind of tags which are attached to that particular entity. So we can see that the expires on tag has these particular entities and we can navigate to PII, Personally Identifiable Information and we can see the list of entities which are attached to that particular tag. So there is search capability in Atlas UI. So this is the basic search which is based on the solar based index. So if we type in any keyword, all the entities which have that keyword in any of the attributes will be written in the list of results. Along with this, there is the advanced search in which we can specify more advanced predicates. We can search by the value of the attributes which are there in that particular entity. Okay, so the roadmap for Apache Atlas. So as I mentioned, there is in-built support for components like Hive, Storm and Scope. In-built support for other popular components like Spark, HBase and NiFi is in the roadmap. Along with this, there is the column-level lineage. So as of now for Hive, there is table-level lineage which is available. But going forward, we will be adding the support for column-level lineage as well. So let's say there is a query of this kind, create table destination as select, some operations on the columns and from the source table. So value in X is derived from the source columns A and B. So if we navigate to the entity page for column X, we will get to see the lineage diagram of this kind wherein A and B and the source tables will be on the left-hand side along with the operation in the middle. And then we derive the value for X. Apart from this, the import and export of the metadata is in the roadmap. So all the metadata which is there in Atlas repository, if it can be exported in a well-known format, so that it can be consumed by third-party metadata tools and vice versa. If there is some data in other third-party tools, can it be ingested into Atlas in a seamless manner? Apart from this, there is work in Open Discovery framework which will provide the capability for data scientists to go to an entity page and compute basic metrics in the entity, on the data which is there in the entity. So let's say there is a high table. I want to know the data quality score for that table or various basic statistical metrics like mean, median, things like this to determine the data quality score. So these are the details of the project. Project website, data and user mailing list along with the list of giras with the open issues. So Atlas has been gaining significant traction recently, mostly because of the critical area of the enterprise governance and various enterprises have been actively using Apache Atlas to govern their enterprise clusters. Apart from this, Atlas has a very rich code base in Java and Scala. So I would like to take this opportunity to invite potential developers to check out the project page, to check out the code and see if the list of open items interest you. And we would be happy to welcome you on board and start taking up issues and contribute to the project. I would close the presentation here and open for any questions from the audience. So is Column Level Lineage Supporter only for Hive for Inbuilt? I mean, the roadmap for its supporter for other hooks as well. Sorry, I didn't go to the question. Column Level Lineage you were talking about, right? Yeah, it's only for Hive. Though in roadmap, it's only for Hive. If it does others, then we have to extend it or like we can... I mean, it's so flexible that you can easily extend the model for any other component and start publishing data into Atlas. I mean, for Spark as well, you can put the model in place and then once the model is there, you can register the entities using the REST API which is there in Atlas. So on one hand, people who have administrative access for the cluster, you know, like Hadoop cluster, we use Apache Ambari, let's say, right? For configuring component or installing a component and other things. Why was this developed as a separate component and not within Apache Ambari as a data governance kind of thing? Can you repeat the question? See, we have Apache Ambari for administrative tasks like installing HBase or adding a new region server or adding a new data node in the Hadoop cluster, right? So the people who are going to have access to Apache Ambari, the admins of Hadoop, right? They are the ones who are also going to apply data governance policies. Structurally, fundamentally, HLD Atlas can be different from Apache Ambari, but from a user point of view, would it not have made sense had they been like a same project, done within the same project? I mean, Atlas is an open source project, so you can spin up independently from Ambari and start registering metadata and, I mean, connect it to Ranger to impose policies on top of all the data which is there. It doesn't depend on Ambari in any sense. No, it's not about dependence. I'm asking, would it have made sense to develop the features that you've developed within Atlas as a part of Ambari itself? I don't see, I mean, so Ambari is meant for Hadoop components, right? And Atlas was started as an independent effort. I mean, basically from an industry point of view to govern the metadata. But it's different. And it's extensible and it's flexible so that any arbitrary component, whether it be Hadoop component or not, can be modeled using Atlas and its metadata can be captured. For the demo that you showed, right? The demo that you showed, that's a salary processor, right? Right. How can we provide details about the processor? Like what kind of processing it is actually doing? Is it, we need to add those as the... Yeah, so we will have to add attributes in the model which we defined. So this is a very simple model which I used for the demo. So we can add all attributes which we want to capture. Let's say, how much time did it take or what kind of CPU power did it consume. So we can capture all those attributes and register it with Atlas. Can that be the part of the hooks that are developed or when the Spark hook comes, will it be part of it? Yeah, so that depends on the developer. So if you're putting the model into place, then you can put in triggers after your Spark job. So when the job finishes, all this metadata will be captured and then it will be reported to Atlas. Okay, thanks. And I have another question. Okay. Yeah. See, at present, when we manage through a range, we will allow even the end users to manage the policies. It's the same way possible in Atlas. They can define the governance and the data. Yeah. So Atlas integrates with Ranger in the sense that you can define tags in Atlas and the information about tag addition and deletion is communicated to Ranger. And on the same tag, we can define policies in Ranger like access policies or data expiry policies. So Atlas closely integrates with Ranger in that sense. Atlas is not the policy management framework. It is meant to capture metadata and then provide actions on top of the metadata. Yeah. So in an enterprise cluster, admin will have, I mean, the power to define tags and attach tags to particular datasets. There will be proper user management. Any developer can't go and attach tags, secure tags to a particular dataset. So if anyone is trying to use this for an enterprise application, right, what would be the key considerations for its scalability and high availability? Atlas is highly available. And it's scalable in the sense that it uses HBase as its metadata repository. So it's highly scalable. You can put in as much data as you want. And it's because it's been tested with enterprise hardware clusters. So we did have some performance optimizations when these were reported. But it seems to work well in enterprise Hadoop clusters as well. A lot of data. Yeah, we'll catch up. Yeah. So let's say if I were to develop a hook for Elasticsearch. Can you hear me? Yeah. Yeah. Let's say if I were to develop a hook for Elasticsearch using this, would I have to fork your code base and add it or are there just any interfaces that I can implement and that will start working for Elasticsearch? How easy or difficult is it? So you won't have to fiddle around with Atlas code base. You'll have to have an understanding of the component which you are trying to model, what all attributes you want to model, which you want to capture. Once that understanding is in place, you can define the model. That will be a JSON. And then using the Atlas REST API, you can register that model with Atlas. And after that, you can start capturing the metadata for that component. More questions? From Hortonworks, there is this schema registry, right? So is there any... Hi, could you please stand while asking the question? Yeah. Is there any intersection in the features between that and this? If yes, why is that a separate project? Schema registry is actually quite different from Atlas. That is mostly for streaming applications, wherein we want to define beforehand what kind of messages will be produced and consumed from the topic. Atlas is more from a metadata point of view, not the actual data. What kind of events are happening within that component or across the components in the enterprise cluster? Does that answer your question? So if I just have to store the schema of whatever message is coming in, I can do that using this one as well, right? I don't need schema registry. No, actually. Schema registry is more of, I mean, suited to streaming applications, as I said. You define the schema and register it in a database, and then the producers use that to... I mean, the schema registry engine makes sure that the schemas which are already registered are only produced, the data which is registered, the schema which is registered, the data follows that schema. Atlas is, I mean, more on what is happening across the component or within that component. Okay, you mean per message in case of schema registry? I'm sorry to cut you short, but you'll have to take the discussion offline. Thank you. Thanks, Primal, for the great presentation. Thank you very much.


Good morning and welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. I am your host, Krista Burns, here at the Nebraska Library Commission. Encompass Live is a commission's weekly online event, webinar, webcast, online show. We do this here every live, every Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. Central time. But if you are unable to join us, that's fine. We also record our show every week and post the recording to our website afterwards so you will always be able to go there and see any of the previous shows we've done that you weren't able to see on Wednesdays. We do a mixture of things here, presentations, book reviews, mini-training sessions, demos of various products and services. Basically anything a library related, we are happy to have on the show. We have a Nebraska Library Commission staff that sometimes do presentations, but sometimes we bring in guest speakers as we have this morning. On the line with us remotely from just west of here, Hastings Public Library is Jake Rundle. Hi, Jake. Good morning. Good morning. Is your title there, Technology Librarian, or what is your, is that what you're called out there? Technology London is my official title. Okay. And what does that exactly mean? Well, it's kind of the catch-all. It sounds nice and vague and open and ended. I'm in charge of collection development. I'm in charge of the ILS. I oversee the circulation coordinator, and then she oversees the desk. So I'm kind of the all over the place. Yeah. Cool. Sometimes it'll be three times. So. Ooh, nice. That's fun. And Jake's with us this morning to talk about, as you can see there on the slide, the Central Nebraska Digital Co-op, which is a group of libraries getting together to do some, getting some discounts on purchasing certain products. And I'll just hand it over to you to explain it all to everyone. Sounds good. Well, good morning all. Like, as I said, my name is Jake Reynolds. I'm a technology librarian at Hastings Public Library. And I just want to talk about the Central Nebraska Digital Co-op. It's our little group of libraries. We're actually 20 small now. It's just kind of a small group compared to when you talk to some libraries who do other consortial work. But we're just a group of libraries that work with vendors to get the best deal for all of us so that products and services mostly offered digitally can be made affordable for everybody. So the one page of history that I have is in 2013, Carnegie and Allen Hastings and Holdridge got together at my request because I wanted Xenio magazines from my library. But it was too expensive to pay the platform and pay for the content all by ourselves. So I negotiated with our vendor to let all four of us go together. We would split the content. We'd each play a platform fee, but we'd get more content for less money since we were splitting it. And the other three libraries thought this was a great idea. And the vendors said, sure, that seems reasonable. The only thing we'll do was they have to have at least 100 titles, which we thought, well, that's reasonable, because we wanted a big collection anyway. And so we did that for two years, pretty low-key. And then some other libraries east of us outside of Central Nebraska found out about a group and wanted to join in because they were paying through the notes for Xenio. And they thought, and they rightfully said, hey, can we join you? And so we talked with our record books rep, and they had no problems with it. So we added Raulston and Papillion and Bellevue in York and Columbus. And I feel like there's one more in there, but I just can't think of what it is, actually, because we got to 10. North Plant. And then when we added Raulston and Papillion, they also had One Click Digital, which is streaming audio through recorded books. They purchased subscription content, so it's about 6,800 recorded books, downloadable titles that are simultaneously check-outable with a two-week due date. So when they joined, we rolled that product into us as well, because they didn't want to lose it. And again, we could split the cost of the subscription and make it cheap for everybody. And I'm sure recorded books didn't want to lose it either, lose all those deals with them. And since then, we've used our group buy in power when the state signed deals with EBSCO for all the new databases. Some of us who were purchasing novelists on our own didn't have to anymore. So what EBSCO did is said, hey, we'll give you all a discount. The way it worked was they said, hey, we'll give you a discount, but you don't all have to participate if you don't want to. So we got the group purchase priced for, without having the whole group have to go in. So we got novelists select. I and some other libraries, and I believe Carney did it. I believe Columbus took us, took up on that. But it was just a nice way for us to get a discounted price without having to have the entire group go in. And since then, we've had conversations with people at Hoopla, Midwest Tape. We've had some conversation. I had a webinar the other day with the Gayle Virtual Resource Library for their book platform, 3M's Cloud Library, and who was the other one. A few others. Access 360 through Baker and Taylor. So it's a nice way for us to all get demos and potentially go in together and buy cool digital products to offer our patrons the best for the lowest price. And so the important part of this whole presentation was I was going to show you the kinds of things that we have, because it's always better to show than to just talk for an hour. So the first one I wanted to show was Xenio magazines. So since the other libraries have joined, we have increased the collection from 100. We started with 115 magazines, and now we are up to, I think, 137 to 145. It kind of changes year to year as titles drop off and new titles come on that we want to buy. I like to explain that we have magazine titles for all types, gifted and challenged. We have your Astronomies and your American Crafts.  I think we have us weekly. It's been a while since I looked. Your Star Magazines. So we've got your, yeah, we do have us weekly. So if you want to show Adele Gossip and your Charlie Sheens, that's great. We have a number of magazine titles in Spanish languages like Vanidades, USA, and Rolling Stone, and Esquire, and Cosmopolitan. The Mexican or the Spanish language publications of those, because we wanted to be able to offer a diverse collection for all patrons, and it just worked out really great that we could do it cheaply. The other nice thing is that since we're all sharing the content, we can all buy kind of those specialized titles that we wouldn't have. So we have a diabetic cookbook magazine. We have a skateboarding magazine. We've got the Smithsonian Magazine, and that's just this page, but it's trying to work together to make cheap all the good things. Magazines are simultaneous access. So that means that myself and 6,500 other people in the various communities can all check out Marie Claire and Men's Health, and we can all keep it forever. It lives in the cloud. I can download to a device. I can open up the Xenio app on my iPad, on my phone, and read it there. I can read it here on the web. The great part is that it's really the simultaneous access. I mean, magazines in libraries have a very finite shelf life because they're not printed on the best stuff, and they're not that sturdy. It sirks 10 times, and then it's lost its cover, and you're taping things together or restapling and Frankensteining it back to life. So this is a way for us to offer magazines where the people want them, anytime they want them. The other thing I wanted to show with Xenio is our Admin portal. So what's great about Xenio Admin portal is that I can go into reports, and I can grab my reports for who's joining the service, or I can just get circulation reports. It's excitingly, and also terribly, is when we added the 10 new libraries at the end of October, we added them to Xenio, so they each had their own barcode so that you could create new users. So the way that most libraries are filtering their circulation checkouts are by barcode. So now it's just a lot more sordian than I'm used to because I have 10 extra library barcodes to dig through. So in this what can each library see their own statistics then by using that? Yeah, so I just open it in Excel, which in the MAC has numbers, so it's going to be weird, but then I just sort out, see because it has your library's barcode right there, so if I'm 20604, I just find all of those, and then I can just get my monthly stats right there. Group monthly stats for the month of October, November, excuse me, holy cow. We checked out 1200 magazines between 20 libraries, which is really healthy circulation for magazines, truthfully. The other nice thing is the admin portal lets you add other kinds of filters. We do primarily barcode filtering so that your library's barcode prefix and the length of your barcode can be made so you can create a username. You can also do HTTP referrals, so if you just want someone to be able to sign up by coming from your library's website, you can do that. If you want to have an IP address range, be your filtering, you can do that. And then, that's not the fun one. The other great thing is Record Books makes a lot of marketing stuff available, so they used to. Yeah, they have users guides made up, so you can just print those straight off and give them straight to your patrons. They have an entire marketing site you can go to and pull up posters and stickers and shelf talkers and desk mats and the whole shebang, essentially, to explain to your patrons that you've added this great service and that this is how you access it. Additionally, we put our Zineo collection in alphabetical order because it's just easier for all of us. But from here you can also rearrange your order to be whatever you want it to be. And if you join the group and you already have Zineo, then you get rolled in as a child library under the parent of the co-op.  It works out really well because you don't have to do a lot of sorting because you still have your own dedicated website to get there. Krista, can I kind of go out of turn and ask if there's any questions about Zineo? No, of course. Does anyone have any questions about Zineo? Yeah, does anybody have any questions? You can type into the questions section of your GoToWeb in our interface if you have any questions about this service because I assume as you said you're going to show each of the services that you guys have in the group. Nobody's typed in anything yet, but if they do, I will be sure to interrupt you and let you know. Perfect. The other product we have is one-click digital downloadable, streamable audiobooks. Kind of the theme of the co-op is to access items that don't have a wait limit on it. For instance, we all have access to Overdrive, but since we share that with the billion other libraries in the state of Nebraska, there's times where you want to check something out but you have to put it on hold. Not the end of the world, but sometimes inconvenient if you wanted something right now. I'm waiting for an audiobook and I've been waiting for two whole weeks and it's killing me. That's not even a long time. I'm just going to wait patiently for it to get here. The nice thing about a majority of the one-click titles is that they are all simultaneously accessible and downloadable. Again, you and me and Krista and everyone else could download the Disgraceful Mr. Ravenhurst and listen to it and then return when you're done. There's a small collection of materials in one click that are not simultaneous access because libraries who have a recorded book stating order where physical product comes to their library have the option to bundle it with the digital for about 10% more off the physical price. For 10% more of that, you get the digital copy and those are one-to-one. So like we have, I think that's how you spell it. Google 50 Shades of Grey again. There it is to that. So Grey is a bundled title. It's checked out right now, so I have to place it. Oh, it's not checked out right now. Awesome. So I can check that out. Once I check it out, if you went to try to check it out, it would say there's a hold on it. I can check it out anywhere from one to 14 days. And then I have the option to renew it as long as no one else is on hold for it. The other great part about the two collections that we buy for one-click digital is that they are always adding titles. We have the adult collection and the children's collection, which essentially means the adult collection is about 5,000 audiobooks at this point. And the children's collection is somewhere around 28 at this point. So they're pushing closer to 8,000, 9,000 audiobooks all the time. But it's not like I have to pay more. I pay my subscription fee. Every quarter, they add their additional audiobook content. And that's just available for me. They're slowly making a lot of the recorded books back catalog available. And can you add specific titles if you want ones that aren't automatically being added, or is it just what they want put in there? No. There is the ability... I mean, everything that recorded books could get you physical or digital, you can also purchase. The Green Glass House is one. Somebody needed it for a book report they were doing and the physical copy was checked out and our audio copy was checked out. So I got it on here. It was inexpensive. I bought it. My library paid 40 bucks for it. And so, again, it's a one-to-one copy. It's not the simultaneous access. But if a library wanted to go in and purchase a run of a series that their patrons liked and would want to see, you share that content with the group. But it's a smaller group than Overdrive's group. And it really only benefits you because other libraries are doing the same thing, so everyone wins. So you did like adding the Green Glass House one was like an on-the-fly edition. How long did it take for you to get it actually from when you found out this person needed it to have it available in the collection? It was available in the collection 20 minutes later. That's awesome. Because when I do my Overdrive Advantage purchases, it says titles will show up up to 24 hours later. So this is one of those things where it said there would be a lag time and then we were standing around and I checked and there it was, ready to go. So it's a nice quick turnaround. And that's always just neat. So it allows you to be super flexible with your collection development. If you need something now, buy a copy and it shows up and you can have the patron walk out the door with it on their phone, on their iPad, checked out and ready to go for them on their computer when they get home kind of thing. Registration for both products is really simple because it's library barcode prefix. All you need is library card number. You make a username and a password and you put in some personal information and then you can go and you're done. A lot of personal information is mostly so that if you need to reset your password or if you've forgotten your password and you need one of your new libraries administrator to reset your password, they have some things to find and they want your zip code because one of the reports in one click is downloads by zip code which is nice for us out here but more tricky for libraries in the east who have patrons in three different zip codes with other libraries in those same zip codes. Let me just show you the admin portal. The dashboard is newly added audio and that's newly added for recorder books to sell me. I can look at the top holds for my library. I can look at what's popular. Some titles have a circ alert. None that we have purchased so far but if you had a number of circulations before it expired or went for two years and then expired you could get those kinds of things. You can do an advanced search if you're searching for titles that you wanted to purchase. Everyone loves Baldachi books. $60 for the audio book. If you happen to be purchasing it with a physical bundle, titles are much cheaper. It's interesting that record books has made it so that it kind of behooves you to buy both because to not do it is. The physical by itself and the digital by itself is twice the cost. If you just do it all at once. That's smart business on their part but it's also really good for the library because it makes everything a little cheaper. I can do patron search. You can set up rotator ads if a library had a specific event that they wanted to promote. They could make an ad so that on the front page when the patrons go in it would show up for that library. We haven't done that yet since we're kind of a disparate group of people all across the state but I think it's something we're going to work towards because if the patrons are going to be there grabbing your stuff you should be telling them about your other things too.  Someone does have a suggestion for that because you did say that you guys are all separate libraries. You could advertise the One Book One Nebraska Statewide program. Put a little thing in there about that. Is the One Book One Nebraska in there? It depends on if you mean the current one or the upcoming one. What's the upcoming one? Let's see. You think I should know this off that. Right now it's the Death Zones and Darling Spies. The coming one for next year will be the Meaning of Names. Let's just see if I can buy it. Who's the author? Karen Gettert, G-E-T-T-E-R-T. Wait, Shoemaker. Karen Gettert, Shoemaker. Actually, I'm not sure which is considered. She's got two last names. Try Shoemaker I guess. S-H-O-E-M-A-K-E-R. But Karen, yeah. That would be something to ask about then. Maybe they could add that if they don't. But that's the one that's going to be the one for 2016. And the current one is the Beverly Keever's Death Zones and Darling Spies.  It's not a bad idea. There's two today. That's two. Some of the other great... I clicked on Purchasing Tools, so we'll go to that one first. But the reporting tools, you can record books mixed. They're upcoming audiobooks, e-books. One-click digital used to be downloadable and then there was a second one-click digital that was for the e-book portion. Because recorded books got into the e-book game just like everyone else did. So we don't currently purchase e-books because e-books have a lot of the weird stuff. 24 checkouts or two-year contractual obligation stuff. It's mostly one to one whereas a lot of this is all simultaneous access. But it's potential to be another avenue for e-books is there should libraries want to spend some money on it. They recently made it so that those two apps could not work as just one app. They really overhauled their whole tech system. As far as reporting, you can get patrons. There's a patron recommendations feature coming soon so that titles that are not in our collection but available from recorded books will pop up like Overdrive used to do. And then that will feed to the admins of the libraries to make those decisions. I can do holds. I can do checkouts by zip code. The one I do to find out how many things have been checked out from the library's patron downloads will pop up blocked. And then you can sort again by your barcode and then you can just find your checkouts right there. There's me. But yeah, so those are the two products and they're two admin portals. I guess probably the important question a lot of people have is price. Yes, definitely. What we do is we put your information into what we call Steve's magical formula. Steve Fosselman from Grand Island Public Library made this great formula that takes your library's legal service population, your total annual operating budget, and your total circulations as reported on the library statistics for whatever years most available. It sums all those things together and gives you your score. And then you pay the percentage of the sum, essentially. So Norfolk is 9.27% of this total criteria score. So they pay 9.27% of the cost of the stuff. So right now, all of our things cost around $37,959, so all these libraries pay as much. If, for instance, Blue Hill, when you put their data into the formula, they come up as paying $97, I think, for the whole kitten caboodle, because they're so small. So what we did was said if you were under that, under $500, you just pay a $500 buy-in, like the lowest buy-in for overdrive. So it's like a minimum kind of fee. It has the minimum buy-in of $500, and then if you're over that, then it's a percentage of the total. And what's nice is that as we have more libraries, your percentage drops, because you add more people. So last year, Hastings paid $3,500 for Zinio and this year, we don't have to pay $27, so it's dropped substantially because we added North Platte and Norfolk and La Vista in Sydney and Beatrice and many intent on all these other libraries. The more people we add, the cheaper it gets, and really just the more fun you can have because it's a bigger group, so then you can go do other vendors and say we're this big now. We have this much purchasing power as a big group. What kind of deals can you address? Yeah, so and obviously, so looking at this, one of the questions I had was who can join and is that me? Who can join this? I mean it's called the Central Nebraska, obviously that is not a definition, a description of who is in it. That's just where it started now. Any accredited Nebraska library because we kind of went the overdriver out and thought that if you have accreditation from the commission and you're in Nebraska, you're welcome to join. So any accredited public library? Has to be public, yeah. Yeah, because it's public library accreditation as we do. We don't accredit any other types of libraries. You know, I don't think we ever really made that distinction. I suppose if a college wanted to join, we wouldn't be opposed. Nobody's asked yet? I know most of the colleges in the state have a public library in their community that services them. This kind of thing, they would send their people there anyways. Plus it's more public library content stuff. Definitely. I go to Hastings College all the time and let students know that we have 147 digital magazines that they can check out if they just sign up for a library card with us.  And that's how we sell ourselves. Looks sexier. Exactly. The only stipulation is we can't have Lincoln or Omaha join because they're too big and they would pump us up to the next payment tier. Not Lincoln or Omaha, but we can essentially take anyone else because all of us together couldn't possibly go over the next... Record books use circulation as their criteria for charging people. What's nice is that the... since we go straight off of the public library profile done by the commission based on everyone's statistics that they've sent in, any vendor that's doing any kind of work with the exception of the vendors who use active borrower as their magic number, since that one's kind of a waffly number depending on which library, but we've got the data right there so that if they say, oh well we do based on legal service populations, so we say well we serve, boom, this many people. So I haven't summed that column. Any questions for the good of the... Do they have any questions about the pricing and how they're doing this? Type into your questions section of your go to webinar interface. Or if you have a microphone I can unmute you and you can use your own microphone to ask your question and say, well, we can do that. Right now you've got just the two products, the Zinio and the OneClick. But you said you're in talks or have talked to other ones. Do you know, have any idea about what might be coming up or that's still in process too much? The Zinio and the OneClick are the two products that are the requirement of sorts so that the whole group has agreed that these two products will purchase. So as we get bigger or as other vendors talk to us there might be additional products that if as a group we decide we want that to be a required product we'll add that to it. And so a lot of what we're doing right now has just been we come as a group and say we're interested but we can't all buy in and then they give us a breakdown kind of of a group pricing up. The other one I couldn't think of earlier was Lynda.com. So what we did is they looked at our total group and said okay this is how big you are so if Carney wanted to do it it would be this much money for this mini seats as opposed to having us all buy in and do it that way. Which is also really great because then it gives flexibility because if Lexington for instance doesn't want to do that they're not forced to buy something they're not interested in because they want those other products for free because they want Zinio and OneClick but they don't want the Gale Virtual Resource Library. We're just kind of a clearinghouse for cheap deals and trying to find the best for the best libraries and vendors. Similar to the group things that we do here at the commission same thing we try and coordinate it on behalf of the library so they don't have to each do it on their own. Exactly. I was just too impatient to ask the library first. I had an idea and thought it would be cool for a few libraries and it's kind of been a victim of your success it's getting a little but you're still doing okay you're not going to you're not overwhelmed with it I hope. No it's not too overwhelming because outside of the making sure that everyone knows what they're being invoiced and making sure invoices go to the right library I really get to be hands off on it and I leave a lot of that to recorded books and to. Collection development along needing to be needed to be done because it's all collections already pre-made. Then in January we look at what magazines checked out what magazines didn't check out and I send a big group email to everyone that says okay here's the top-circuit magazines here's the bottom-circuit magazines here's the list of everything that's available what do you want to add what do you want to get rid of what are we keeping I mean that's the hard part but that's all group consensus super fun for the most part of the collection stays the same except for we drop off you know magazines that didn't check out anymore and when the library wants to add one and we say well okay perfect so bounces out yeah exactly exactly so when you were just a small I think you said with four just with four libraries and I've always thought that we've always had trouble that a lot of these bigger vendors don't work with small groups it's just not worth it for them so that's why we've had to try and set up groups that are statewide from commission or sometimes even working in conjunction with other states groups and things how did you convince them to do something just for four libraries I'm curious. The benefit was that this was a brand new thing recorded books was doing they were trying to just get anyone interested in it and so I said I'm interested these libraries are interested but this is the only way we can do it because we want a collection that's worthwhile because otherwise it was pay a platform fee and then we'd have enough money for 15 or 20 magazine titles you know which is nice but it's not a lot yeah it's not it doesn't give you kind of the range of motion to say look at all these various topics we can we can provide for you outside of our print magazine subscriptions so you got lucky and noted in getting into the Zinio that was a new service that they were more just trying to get the word out and once you guys start using it I know it's definitely become a lot more popular I hear it all the time from libraries talking about it as this new thing that and also a couple of that you mentioned and so it we benefited from being early adopters through all of the kinks that existed and then it was too late we were already a group so they you know they couldn't split us up now they're stuck with us which is fine because now I mean there's I mean just the conference I got to talk to Chris who's the recorded books rep for Nebraska and he was showing a comic book resource that's coming through recorded books soon and there's so you essentially download a program and then you can check out games for free like Lego Marvel and Lego Batman and I mean cool games and silly games and kids games and big kid games and so it's other opportunities for us to even be able to play with something I mean sometimes you look at something a product coming out from a vendor and it's you know right away it's out of your price range but you can say hey I belong to this group can you give me a demo because this is something I can take back and we can show it to any other libraries exactly and we encourage all libraries to talk to any vendor and bring anything they want to the group the the Gale Virtual Resource Library phone call came because they called North Platte and North Platte said well you know we're part of this group so here call Jake and have a chat with him and it looks really cool and it's simultaneous access reference materials and non-fiction materials and it's all indexed and I mean it's certainly something that I think some of the group would be interested in and Gale is willing to work with us to make a price that works for everybody so I mean it I think my favorite part about this whole experience is that at some point you kind of think the vendors are trying to get as much money out of you as they can which you know is kind of the game because that's how they get paid but they're not the bad guys because they're trying to sell you something they think you like and so they want to bend over backwards for you if you can show them that you're willing to spend money we say hey we're a group of 20 libraries willing to spend money and then they bend over backwards for us and hopefully this will get their attention that they started small with just the four and it can benefit them in the future they need to look ahead that just you know they could do this in other states just find a small group or offer to do something like this and then it could eventually grow like this one has and hopefully will grow even more I assume for anyone listening who's interested in any kind of consortium or co-op stuff it never hurts to ask and I think that's the one thing that I did was it all started when I asked my boss hey can I talk to these other libraries and to Carnegie, Green Island and Holdridge about you know doing this and then they said yes so then I went to record a book and said hey can we do this because you want to sell it we want to buy it so it never hurts to ask and the other I think the other benefit is that being from being in the state when you say well I can get these four libraries together and we're the same size as Hastings and you sell the Hastings so you should sell to us too so I mean if you're a small library and you get other four small libraries and you're now the you know relatively the size of Carnegie or Grand Island or Hastings and just say hey give us the deal that you gave them so it's not hard and it's it doesn't hurt to ask I guess that's the I think that's good to hear from you that I know I'm sure a lot of the smaller libraries are unsure of what to do afraid of that you are intimidated by these big companies and they hear that the vendors are just can everything's too expensive they'll never sell to anybody small like us so why even bother it's just too much to do you guys pulled it off without any sort of big organization behind you backing you up or any extra funding or anything you just kind of you can do it and if you want in on some of this stuff we've got something going here that could be that you could just join in with exactly I didn't put up my contact information that was going to be my other question my last question I have here is how can somebody join is it call Jake basically come on internet call or email I assume I'll put up my contact information as soon as my connection to the internet stops being persnickety goodness as you said you're on your laptop earlier is this the wireless being a little wonky yeah it's two things at once trying to talk to each other but yeah certainly give a call or an email and I can put in your numbers using Steve's magical formula to figure out what your libraries where your library's obligation would be we kind of have kind of right now we're in two windows to roll in because right now we get twice once in October for the one click and then once in February for Zinio so for the smaller libraries it might be one $500 payment at once in February because the small libraries that join got to be 250 and 250 and if you're a bigger library it might be something to wait until October because that's we're striving to get everything to do in October so it's everyone's fiscal year start over and that can all be well and good. Krista can you steal the screen back and throw out my contact information? Is that possible to add that to the slide? I'm sorry to ask. No that's okay hang on just a sec here I can't seem to do today. I've got your contact info here that's at the library or is there somewhere on the library's page where you've got your info or should I just do what we have here? Just do what you have is probably best. Yeah if you can't get yourself. Before I do that does anybody have any last questions for Jake? Anything about the systems services they have about the co-op? I'm sure anything well I don't know about that now that your internet's not doing well but type in any questions you have here and I will move this over. I have as I do for all our shows in our delicious account I have put in the URLs that you're putting up there for each of the links. Awesome. Thank you. The Zinio and the one click digital that are the specifically through the Central Nebraska digital co-ops collections. So if you're interested in wanting to know what kind of things are in there to see what you'd have access to those are their specific links to those. And in your initial email if you want a test I mean if you want a dummy barcode so you can give the services a test run yourself before you make any commitments for your library. People can get a trial. They can just use exactly what they'd be buying into so they know exactly what they're getting into. I like it. I think it's great. It makes me kind of a salesman type of person when I want other people to do it but mostly it's because I want my library to pay less so I can buy more cool things. Of course it works out for everybody. But we did the math for a library. A small library would pay in $500 so for Blue Hill they pay I think it was a dollar for every three audiobooks in just in one click. I mean you can't get three out of books for a dollar anywhere. So the price is super cheap just in terms of even if you're a smaller library I mean it might seem like a lot of money but when you take it divided by the amount of content that you have access to it's really you couldn't get it cheaper anywhere else. That's something like a car salesman. Look how cheap that is. Here's the better way to make it easier to figure out your contact info. I know what I was showing before was just a mishmash of stuff but here you go. If anybody wants to join this is Jake's contact info I copied from our system here. Anything else you want to share about it? We're almost to 11 o'clock here. Top of the hour again. I have nothing else to share. Does anybody have any questions? We've got a bunch of people on the line here but I don't know if we've been answering all their questions. Which is great. Anything you want to know about it from Jake before we wrap up for today? Give you a last few minutes to type in anything? No? Alright then I guess we'll wrap it up for today. Thanks a lot Jake. I had heard about this over the summer sometime and I feel kind of bad. You said you've been doing it since 2013. I had not heard of it before. But I heard about it at a meeting I was at earlier this summer and I had written myself this little scribbled note. And I wasn't even sure what the name was. I called Jake about the co-op thing. And then it was in our state library association Nebraska library association and the school library and association association annual conference. He was as he said you were on the schedule there and I said there we go. I'm going to get it on the show. And I'm glad we did. This is a great service. I'm glad that you guys pulled this together for everybody and are keeping it going. I hope you don't get too overwhelmed. No it should be fine. Alright looks like nobody's got any urgent questions we've been chatting here so we will wrap it up for today. Thank you very much Jake. Thank you everyone for attending. If you want to join the central Nebraska digital co-op contact him. There is his info on our screen. That wraps up for today's show. It will be posted to our website in the archive section here. I don't say anything about the slides because you don't need to send me those two slides a year is not a problem. I will have links to the recording and those two services that are available in here so you will be able to watch the recording afterwards. Later today and tomorrow it will be available. I hope you join us next week when our topic which just got added to our schedule this week is what is Nebraska Access. Also the collection of databases and things you can use that we offer through here through the library commission our statewide database program. Elena Navotny and Susan Nisley who run this program are going to be with us next Wednesday morning to tell us all about it and how what's available in there. Lots of things have changed with it. 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This video is brought to you by NordVPN. Stick around after the sketch for a special offer. What you working on? Nothing that interesting, just a logic puzzle our DM game is to solve. What do you mean non-interesting? I love puzzles. Let me help. Well, since you asked, Staberson the Rogue can only move in the dead of night. Okay, okay. Riddle stipulations, I'm following. Meanwhile, Stover at the Cleric of Cooking works long nights in his parish, and we need them both to pull off a big heist in the valley. There's a cooking domain? Oh yes, and Stover to his very devout, but he takes a holy day of rest on Saturday, so that is the prime heist night. Ooh, but which Saturday, right? That's the big catch. Exactly, and there are four Saturdays, but our wizard Moonlight is a DPS Hunter, and he has to raid with his guildies every other Saturday. We're planning for next Saturday, but then our druid went and broke her ankle. So she needs surgery, so she's not getting into a computer. Hunter, like, like World of Warcraft. Computer, like, is your DM making you schedule your next game? Yeah, it's just a little tough, you know. Okay, yeah, but that's his job. This is just punishment. We deserve it, trust me. All right, sure, fair, but like, that doesn't mean that you're responsible for it. Yeah, but like, it's still a logic puzzle, right? And if you love puzzles so much, does it really matter if the emotional turmoil is real or pretend? Nope, nope, you're absolutely right, it does not. Okay, well then, um, just do a midday. Surely the rogue is free then if he's doing stuff all night. Well no, he's got to sleep during the day. How do you think he stays up all night? Okay, so then, wait, when is he actually working?  He doesn't do any real work during quarantine. What about Sunday? No, Stovert, remember? Right, no, of course, I would never forget Stovert. Besides, every Sunday the DM spends three hours on social media, being salty and jealous in the comment section of people who have weekly games. Very necessary, okay, well we can just scratch off Sunday entirely then. All right, well I hate to say it, but it sounds like the sticking point is Staberson. Can you just drop the rogue? No way, Staberson is the DM's roommate's best friend's uncle. We can't cut him. Well no, I would never want to drive a wedge between a man and his roommate's frunkle. So what's the plan? It's the way I see it, we just split the party- Stop, don't even say it! But- No, but what is- Duh, how dare you? Maybe I'm just kidding myself. Maybe I just need to DM a new game and only invite a small number of friends who schedules all line up with mine. And yeah, maybe feelings will get hurt, but my friends should know it's just a game and there'll be others where they can get involved. And those who do play are going to take advantage of the smaller party size and the more individualized attention that they get rather than the nine-player bloated unscheduled mess of the game that we're currently playing. Nah, that plan is terrible. Just throw a dart at the calendar and make it happen, even if it's just you and the DM roleplaying your backstory. Oh yeah, that's it. Wow, just the two of us, huh? All right, well, we'll just give it a shot and see how it goes. That's exactly what my character's dad would say. This is such good RP. Oh, hi there. You just caught me relaxing in my relaxation garden. Thanks to NordVPN, I can relax in this troubled time and know that my internet data is safe. And if you use NordVPN slash door monster, you can get 70% off a three-year plan, plus a month free. Think of everything you could be missing. Do you know what Australians are watching on Netflix? I do. For 70% off a three-year plan at nordvpn.com slash door monster, check out code DoorMonster.


Stranger Things may just be the most homage-heavy television show in history, thanks to the Duffer Brothers Deep Love for all things 80s. It's a passion we here at Movie Nerds also share, so we've decided to honour this nostalgia soaked masterclass by looking at the subtle, and not so subtle references to the films that inspired the Netflix phenomenon. If this is your first time here and you want to know a little bit more about movies, make sure you hit that subscribe button and hit the bell notification so you don't miss anything here at Movie Nerds. Where did this come from? From the mind of a 12-year-old boy? Although this film's themes of time travel don't bear much resemblance to Stranger Things beyond the 80s setting, the success of the show may be the sole reason why studios have decided to remake Flight of the Navigator some 31 years after its release. Sit down. Aside from the fact there's a poster for the thing hanging in Mike's basement, the influence of the practical effects that were pioneered in John Carpenter's cult classic had a strong impact on the way the Duffer Brothers approached the show. You know how they did that? You know what that is? What? Melted plastic and microwave bubblegum. No way. The whole kids' communicating via walkie-talkie thing is a staple of 80s movies, but one of the best examples is in Joe Dante's film about a group of teenagers who designed their own spaceship. Ben, it's three o'clock in the morning, this better be good. You can also add this to the list of films Hollywood will probably remake one day.  Sure, you could say that Steve's hair bears an uncanny resemblance to Johnny Depp's character, but thematically speaking, the similarities to Nightmare on Elm Street go much deeper than that, complete with its own monster who terrorizes children in ever more horrific ways. It's clear that Ridley Scott's Alien had a profound influence on the world of Stranger Things, whether it be the similarities in costume design to the production design or the upside down itself. Is this where it came from? Yes. And if you needed any more proof, just take one look at this marketing poster for season two. The Duffer Brothers have made no secret of their deep love for all things Stephen King, so it should come as no surprise to see this 1984 adaptation of King's Firestarter on our list.  Remind you of anyone? The way in which Dustin, Lucas, Mike, and Will embrace adventure and attract mischief draws unmistakable parallels to the Goonies, from the character with the obvious quirk to the older brother with the crush. Basically, without the Goonies, there pretty much is no Stranger Things. Bye, Mr. Beemite! If you didn't get a strong Stand By Me vibe from Stranger Things right away, you sure as hell would have by the time this moment in season one came around. This is an almost identical shot that strongly evokes Rob Bryant as classic coming-of-age drama. There are several strong references to poltergeist in Stranger Things, the most obvious of which occurs during this scene, when Winona Ryder's joyous attempts to contact her son in a familiar manner. Even the most casual film fan would have picked up on the Spielbergian vibes from the very first frame of Stranger Things. Apart from the obvious link of Eleven and Mike's relationship echoing Elliot's and E.T.'s, there's also the shady government agency, a family rocked by divorce, and a small town set against the backdrop of a deep, dark forest. Ah, and then there's this scene. That's it for this week's Top 10. To let us know what film Stranger Things reminded you of, hit us up in the comments below. And for more videos, be sure to subscribe to Movie Nerds.