All right, we're still here, a big talk from small libraries starting, it's a little after one o'clock p.m. central time. We had a lot of good lightning round sessions going and so we're a little into our next hour but that's okay, we're going to jump right on into it. Natalie Bazan is on the line, as I pronounced that right, I forget. You got it. Okay, she's from Michigan and she's the director of both Hopkins District and Doortownship Libraries in Michigan and she's going to talk about some free low-cost training online workshops that you can do to get your staff up to speed on certain, you know, whatever you need. So I'll just hand it right over to you, Natalie, to take it away. All right, wonderful. This is going to be kind of interactive so if I ask a question, please do write in and I know that I'm going to get interrupted quite a bit and that is totally okay. That's okay, I'll do that as often as I need. Sounds like a plan. I am going to talk really fast because I'm going to try to get us back on time too. So no worries, I already emailed in my slides so you have access to those, don't try to scribble down notes or anything like that. A little bit of background, I've talked a couple of times so some of you have already heard this but Hopkins is a tiny, tiny little rural library, serves 4,600 people over about 100 square miles and my budget is about $100,000 a year so I don't have and that we maintain our own building and everything else so we don't have a whole lot of money and I don't have a whole lot of time between the two libraries to spend on continuing ed but it is a passion of mine and it is something that I think all of us need to pay a lot of attention to. So just a couple of things that I put together on why it's really important to continue lifelong learning and I'm hoping that some of you will chime in, why do you think it's important for you? For me it helps me learn new things, I don't want to do the we've always done it that way, I hate that phrase, it just drives me nuts, it's like that's nice but it's not the world that it used to be, things have changed since then and it helps me be more flexible, yeah everybody gets stuck in a rut, everybody likes the we've always done it that way but even if it's worked for you in the past other things might work for you better and you should at least hear about them so if you can think of anything any reasons why it's really important to you maybe things that you use to justify if you're gonna go if you want to go on a training write in I'd love to hear them and I think all of us would love to hear them. We actually have a bunch of those coming in right now, first one says keeps me up to date and fresh with what is happening now another person says we have to be knowledgeable about many things in order to serve our community as well and it adds value to your organization having that you know getting your knowledge bringing new things into my community I always say if you don't do professional development you don't get to call yourself a professional oh so true there's one yeah it makes me a well-rounded person keep the creative juices flowing yes see what other people are doing avoid job burnout yeah I always think about it if I'm putting money into one of my employees or into myself to attend something like this and we'll talk about that when we get to budget but it's not just investing in me I mean that's great if I leave or if one of my employees leaves they leave with better certifications more knowledge and that's great for them but before they leave it's great for me because I get to take advantage of that it's always good to learn new things it is in my screens when you guys get them there are additional notes on the bottom so that'll give you links to websites that you can use if you're interested okay budgeting it's not just about the money obviously Hopkins has a tiny budget I have a hundred thousand I think I have about two that and I have like five hundred dollars or something for continuing at but I get to supplement some of that with grants and donations and things like that but it's about time too and I know I'm not the only one out there who is running running running non-stop if you're a lone librarian which I how many of you are out there I'm gonna guess that there's quite a few hopefully you can find a volunteer who can work for part of the day or the day so you can attend trainings or thank God there are a lot of webinars that are archived so you can listen to a little bit of it go answer that reference question teach story time get back to it and not have to be tied to that computer the whole time or not have to actually invest in the time and the effort to drive somewhere or to fly somewhere or whatever it has happens to be they have to prioritize what things do you specifically want to achieve I like to write out a series of goals I don't know how many of you look at the year or look at your strategic plan if you've got one even if you don't where would you like to see your library go just think about that and what can you do what can your staff do what can your friends group do what can your board members do to make that happen and prioritize maybe you can find some webinars that are free maybe you can find some local trainings that are not terribly expensive it's about finding something that fits in with your time and that fits in with your priorities which has been really hard quite honestly because you look at the list of things that I'll give you shortly and I'm going to show you an email that I just received about an hour ago actually that has just a ton of upcoming webinars and they all sound fantastic but I don't have time for that I don't have time to take them all I want to and I'm sure all of you do too but priorities okay so how many alone librarians we have out there maybe a couple yeah if you want to you can raise your hand use the raise hand function function on your go to webinar interface and see a bunch of those come up we got a few people say me I am also in the viewer solo librarian out there alright how many of you even if you're so low if you're not how many of you to have a budget line item for continuing education or training or travel if you know great let us know if you don't know then maybe you should find out just for your own information see if that money is actually being used or if that's something that you can suggest different ideas for I always try to budget line items for education and training both for my staff and for myself I am very excited when they come up with something on their own that they want to do a lot of times quite honestly I come up with a lot of things and say hey guess what I need somebody to take this training and they're all quite excited to do it because it's something new for them it's something different for them gets them off the desk for a little while but how do you pay for it like I said Hopkins has a very very small budget doors budget is not that much larger the community is about twice the size my budgets $150,000 but I have a lot more employees there and there are seven of us we're all part-time and I want to make sure that everybody gets a chance from my teenager who's working for us all the way up to the lady who just turned 72 I would like to make sure that all of us get a chance to pursue what we love and what the library happens to need but definitely what we love everybody has something that they are very excited about and I want to give them a chance to connect with the larger library community and people that are also excited about those topics and I do that a lot of times through grants and donations and fundraising and scholarships the American Library Association is a large scary organization I'm not gonna lie it's it's huge it's fantastic it covers everything there is it also has a lot of grants and it has a lot of grants that maybe maybe not as many people know about maybe not as many people put in for I don't know but they're available and you don't know if you're gonna get them unless you try the Association of Rural and Small Libraries has fantastic grants to attend their annual conferences which I believe this year is in Nebraska right I think so no no the Fargo no oh Fargo yep yep I talked about that this morning yep yep I am very sad I was here a couple years ago but yeah I made it last year to Little Rock and it was fantastic just absolutely wonderful if you get a chance go I know it's time I know it's money but on the other hand you're gonna connect with a lot of people who are in the same situation you are similar situations to what you are and you're gonna be able to create lasting friendships lasting impressions and a network people that you can lean on when crazy things happen or hey you want to do a Dancing with the Stars episode you know who to talk to besides just coming on here of course grants donations have been my number my one and two I do a lot of grant writing and you know you get some you lose some but you have to try so let's touch on some webinars that I've looked at and that I like to go to web junction I know you guys mentioned this earlier they have topics everything from WordPress community engagement things programming grants they actually cover a huge gamut and they're free a lot of them are ALCTS has sessions that are all pre-recorded and it's really nice once they're six months old they're free for you and they tend to run more on the technical side which is great if you're doing your own cataloging and you want to find out more about RDA you're starting to do some metrics you need to find out more about that if you're into grant writing grant seeking tech soup has some really great things that they come out with and they're all free info people has been really really nice for me when I'm doing surveys or I want to put together different ways to measure programming it's been helpful and they're all archived so if I'm up on the desk and somebody's asking questions or I need to go and teach a computer basics class or was the latest one I did barn quilts we painted barn quilts sorry no pictures and you know you have to go and help people taping out their boards you can come back and listen to the next section of the webinar before you have to run off and somebody one of our teenagers dripped white paint on our carpet between the table and the bathroom that was fun but it gives you that that opportunity so not so free I'm focusing mostly on webinars because travel is expensive and like I said the the grants that a la p la the association of rural and small libraries everybody has are fantastic to attend larger things to attend a la to attend p la but there aren't that many of them and although I'd love to say that all of you should get them and I think all of you should get them it doesn't mean that all of you will get them but keep applying so in the meantime webinars p la does some fantastic webinars some of them are free and they always make sure to put on there which ones are if you're a member of p la most of them are a lot less expensive and for single use if you're just going to go on there they're only 28 bucks so they're not terrible if you've got a whole group of people together maybe you've got a library system again they are not very expensive University of Wisconsin I get emails and pamphlets from you guys all the time and I wish I could take all of them yet again there are so many things in this profession it's hard to keep up on everything but everything is fascinating if you happen to be you happen to have a certification that requires continuing education units or maybe your school librarian and you need those to keep up your certification you can get them through the University of Wisconsin and some of our programs are very affordable at $65 a piece they range the gamut I think most of them are right around $200 and they are very intensive they are fantastic programs a la offers several certifications if if you can get donors to fund you these are very very well worth it the CPL a the certified public library administrator is seven classes I just got accepted into the program and I'm working on it now and those classes run the gamut from marketing to finance to I'm working on buildings right now which is great because we're looking at a building addition at the same time and those classes run about $300 each so they're not super cheap but they're very very well worth it again I this is my second class and I am meeting up with several people that I had in my last class so we're forming a wonderful network and I have talked to these people at conferences it is very very helpful and info people info people has lots of classes California librarians I don't know if there's anybody in here but I get emails all the time telling me you California librarians get these classes really cheap and I have to pay a little bit more but you know what they're great classes national state and local co-ops and associations I we have quite a few in Michigan we have a fantastic rural library conference coming up in a couple weeks we are very very lucky the library of Michigan does programs and collaborates with us the Michigan Library Association does things we have MCLS we have a lot of different organizations here along with our local co-ops that at least my co-op has a great continuing education group that puts on things every couple months for us but if you don't happen to have those you can learn wonderful things from the learning roundtable if you're an ALA member join up with the learning roundtable if you're PLA member look at the webinars on demand look at the ALA archived webinars list serves I want to touch on and I am going to go over to my email so this is live so if weird things pop up I don't know anything about it but I just received this one from ARSL so the Association of Rural and Small Libraries on their lists serve and these are conferences for March look at this massive list it is fantastic they put together a wonderful comprehensive list for anything you can think of and if I keep going you'll see that they include descriptions for all of these things fundraising I think I want to do all of those at this point since we're also looking at the building addition and programming and outreach are both my passions I enjoy doing them very much but there is no way that I can fit in 15 to 20 webinars in a month there's just no way so prioritizing is going to be something that I have to work on I like how I do like how this list and some other ones do this arrange them by topic yes I'm interested in or I work at a school library so I need to know what are the things that are appropriate for school librarians to potentially watch yeah which is really really helpful especially when you don't have the time you know you don't have the time to go looking for these things on your own being part of a listserv that puts out things like this seriously helpful now how do you get on so much know how do they get how can they get on this listserv for ARSL is this public thing for members I'm not exactly sure myself you need to be yep you need to be a member but membership is really really cheap I think individual members membership might start at like $25 something like that it's not very expensive at all yeah this morning in their session in their presentation yeah I I have no desire to ever leave small libraries I really love working at small libraries and I have to say that it programs like this and groups like this are wonderful ways to get together with other small librarians and get an idea on how to do assessment how to do a strategic plan for your library when you don't have one of the people in a class that I'm in it said that they're looking at doing $10,000 for a plan like this I don't have $10,000 to put towards a plan like this I don't have $10,000 to put towards anything quite frankly but when I can take a class like this and maybe it's free maybe it's a little I can do it with the help of some community members it is very very helpful for me okay does anybody have questions let's see we do have some we had some comments before when you're talking about funding if people have funding yes most people said they did some not very much a few people said no there isn't anything specifically for as you said specifically for professional development but a lot of mixtures of things sometimes a separate budget one for travel one for training some can use their tuition reimbursement monies for towards that for the if they're in school and one person says I'm using it for ARSL this year oh fantastic so yeah someone because you mentioned getting grants to actually attend some of these sessions is I guess is there anywhere you can go to find more information about how to write a winning grant how to I think I saw on that list there some grants yes but it might be a different of writing a grant for like programming at the library or construction and maybe different from writing for attending a session of some sort right TechSoup does a great grants program they do wonderful topics on grant seeking and grant writing there are several others Web Junction has some nice grant writing programs but if you're going to you're applying for a grant to attend some professional development you want to tell a really good story you want to make sure that people understand that one you need the money because if you're applying for it in your library has the budget for it then why would we give you the money into that you're going to use this this is going to be really necessary for your day-to-day life this is going to be a huge boon for your community it just make sure that you can write a good story be passionate about it make sure that they understand that you know they don't have that much money to give out you know that it's really special for them to pick somebody whether it's you or somebody else and give them a really good reason to pick you why me as opposed to someone else who is presenting is submitting the same grant request yeah right and it's hard it's not easy whatsoever but if you have something unique maybe your community has a special need maybe the conference is going to have a particular speaker or a particular session that is going to be really really influential for your community for your career then make sure to bring that up it's the little things that seem to count a lot and people are asking about ARSL someone mentioned and I did look it up that the ranges for being a member of the Association for Rural and Small Libraries anywhere from down to $15 up to $59 that's individual membership and it's based on your type of a employee you are whether you're a student retiree friends trustees volunteers get the $15 and then it's based on salary more salary you make it be a little bit the highest is $59 a year so it's fantastic for all of us because I don't know about you but small libraries don't pay the best so I don't think it's going to be terribly expensive and like I said they have a couple of grants to attend ARSL as well right and definitely put in for them and someone did ask if it is available ARSL members are available to Canadians I do not know I don't know if someone can tell us that is it is anybody still are you guys still on from ARSL Jed or anyone let us know if it is because I'm not sure okay I yeah I don't know I'm at librarians from all over the country when I was in Little Rock but I don't remember meeting anybody from Canada yes sorry Becky is a previous one of their officer says yes it is available for Canadians ARSL so go ahead Canadians join them wonderful they've tried to reach out yes it definitely you've got anybody here who's on go ahead and go to the ARSL website you've got it linked off our page and you'll be able to join up okay the only other thing I wanted to touch on and ask everybody else about is outside of the box training so where do you go for any type of training that maybe it's not strictly library related I have a couple of sources here but I was going to talk on some other things I we're working on this building project and yeah it's going to take a while but I don't know that much about buildings let's be realistic I spend most of my time in a library I do not spend most of my time out building things however I stopped at our local code inspector and they said they sat me down and said what do you want to know I tell them well this is what we're looking at is this feasible what should I ask contractors what should I be looking for what should I be asking their references and they went through oh my gosh I think I was there half the day they went through everything they could possibly think of it was very very helpful very knowledgeable people and I don't think that many people go in and ask them these questions I think most of the time they're dealing with builders so they were having some fun but that's one of the things that you need to know that you certainly need experience with if you're going to do any kind of project even if it's just a renovation and you need to know hey can I accommodate that extra bookcase here or is that going to be too narrow is this going to have an effect on ADA requirements is this going to have effect on our lighting requirements do we need more sprinklers or well heaven forbid you have sprinklers if do we need more fire extinguishers should we have different types of batteries in our smoke detectors which I found out that we should our fire department came in and they did a wonderful assessment of our building in door in Hopkins it's pretty small and I don't really have that issue I have about 1200 square feet of usable library space and then we have the township offices in there and all kinds of weird stuff but in door it's about 7500 square foot building however it was built by a pool barn builder so there are a lot of issues that hopefully none of you have to deal with with a huge big open building it has been really interesting but the code inspectors have been very helpful with that our fire departments have been very helpful with that so where do you guys go for training that maybe it's not strictly library related have you ever gone to is anybody gotten creative with their education we've gone to the health department we're talking about the possibility of putting in an industrial kitchen so we've had them come out and do an assessment of our area and tell us what we would need and talk to the staff about what they their needs would be and their expectations would be to keep this a commercially viable kitchen if we wanted to be able to rent it out to patrons or to do classes in it or different things like that okay here's a few someone says our local chamber of commerce has a speaker at their monthly luncheons and the luncheons are $10 and they the library can present but then other speakers they would see there that are not obviously library state labor commissioner fire chief disabled services advocate so they attend those chamber of commerce presentations that's someone has gone to the county sheriff for security training that's something they maybe need to be aware of it went to the fire hall and learned how to use a fire extinguisher learned defensive tactics from a police officer yes we had a SWAT team member come in and teach us all self-defense and defensive tactics and then we had him come in for an additional couple classes for our community which were really really well-received our libraries offering universal class to patrons and our director our director also encourages staff to also do it someone else mentioned that as well but women in business groups the Red Cross oh we attend storm spotter training for out here with in tornado alley heck yeah definitely that's something I don't have to deal with you never know where you might find a tornado nowadays that's true I have the blizzards but not so much the tornadoes thankfully let's see training and organization and curriculum through universities hosting on Coursera that's always meet a few other librarians in those classes that's interesting to if you encounter other librarians are doing the same thing you are and some of these more national or international type of online sessions that you can attend see CPR and first-aid training from the first from the Red Cross that's all very good when you have a lot of the public coming in using your facilities we had a local organization a salon actually that donated an AED to the library to both libraries actually and we had local ambulance service came in and did CPR training and AED training and got us all certified for it oh here's when someone says they became certified in first-aid CPR and now I have a Red Cross trainer to come in to teach a babysitting courses for the for the kids for the youth anyone who's going to be doing babysitting so that they can then be promote themselves as you know hire me to be your babysitter Red Cross has also offered to do things like just regular first aid and cleanliness and different things like that for little little kids they did pre-k for us and they do all the way up to high schoolers for yet the babysitting classes and things like that but they like to do different first-aid classes for us which is really helpful in our community what about hunter safety is anybody team up with the DNR I I don't know if everybody has DNR if it's different in different places but the Department of Natural Resources does classes for us and they do trainings for us on you know how to safely handle a gun if somebody comes in what open carry act really means yeah it does something you definitely want to know if and if that is something in your state area that you'd want to know what is and isn't allowed I don't know if anybody else has issues with things like that but occasionally we do have people who like to open carry and it is not against the law they can open carry we just try to make sure they do things responsible and some said Red Cross the Red Cross is a wilderness first aid wilderness first aid class and that'd be good for those preppers out there nice those near absolutely community emergency response team oh have the local banks come in to do something money related has anybody done active shooter scenarios at their library yeah we actually just went to one here the state of Nebraska did for us it is frightening and horrifying and a fantastic class to take yep we just people saying yep yep we did it here someone did an online version of that as well yep ours was run by a local sheriff was did the better to our presentation for us or disaster scenarios you can talk with your emergency manager I have a wonderful friend that I went to high school with who's an emergency manager at a county just north of me and I've talked to her about putting together disaster manuals for the library and doing possible disaster scenarios and how can I back things up and how can you keep the library going during a disaster if if that's possible which it may not be right and here's something it's interesting they encourage our libraries to put training opportunities into their technology plans so that specifies the library is actually closed for two days a year for the entire chef go to tech training at no cost from their regional library system and the board signs off on the technology plan and allows them to do that so build it into the actual strategic your technology plan for your library that this is something that is important and that is a part and then have them get them to go and do it yeah a network national network libraries of medicine offers training resources for disaster planning and response for libraries that definitely somebody reach out to I know they do some we have the national network libraries of medicine do workshops and webinars here in Nebraska they have local offices all across the country but they will come and do something specifically for you as well I have seen some of those preservation webinars and preservation preservationists we have some wonderful ones at local universities and they have come and given talks for my co-op they've given talks to I have sent various staff members there on everything from just the basics on how to repair a book fast easy and cheap and how to repair something that is of historical significance or how to handle something like that versus your your typical paperback that we just want to make it last as long as we can and they have been really very realistic and have given us really great advice so a mental first as a couple of them mentioned this mental health first aid class for patrons that may be coming in with issues such as that yep the there's a mental health organization just north of us we don't the one in our county has not done very much with the libraries but we're close enough to another county that is much larger and they have a lot of outreach so they have come in and done talks with us and different scenarios if you have somebody say you're in a group of three and you're trying to understand what it's like to have a voice talking your head the whole time they had one of the group talking in the ear well you're trying to talk to another person and carry on a conversation and it is hard really really hard that's nice to have this is what they're actually experiencing yes yes practical application is a wonderful but on the other hand it is it is difficult and you get a new sense of what people are going through so here says that they're required by their city to take FEMA classes for disaster training and emergency management so it's sort of the city requirement if you're a city office that may be something as well and that it comes lots of places we've heard this with lots of disasters that have happened both natural disasters or some of these like community disasters will call it that they are becoming safe zones that people will come there first you use the Wi-Fi to keep up what's going on just in this libraries are lots of times in the first lines of we are open we are here come here if your internet is down because there was a blizzard a tornado or whatever another thing to look at is finance training the I know that our local IRS office has different classes there are a lot of people who maybe they're bookkeepers maybe their CPAs that will do little classes or come in and do little tutorials for you if you're just getting into a director position or position where you have to deal with financing and budgets they're very helpful even if you're just going to look at writing grants they're very helpful to understand exactly how to put together a budget for that program and how to carry through with it and what forms you need to look at and who do you need to 1099 and what is the cutoff and all of those things oh this is a good one sign language classes take sign language classes so you can assist any of your heart of hearing patrons if they do that oh that is a fantastic idea oh and also this year someone says the National Network Libraries and Medicine can also train those training to help libraries to help your patrons apply for health insurance the new health insurance marketplace that's out there that they will help you figure out how to help them or bring in trainers to help you get your patrons on the health insurance Michigan has a wonderful department of finance and insurance and they will actually send people out to all the libraries and do programs on how to apply for insurance what do you do if you have a teen driver how do you take care of that on your your car insurance how should you change things how should you prep for social security how should you prep for retirement all sorts of different things I just got at the updated list of what they'll be teaching coming out that's pretty exciting yeah and also this one yeah someone here just mentioned the university extension offices here in Nebraska our university in Nebraska extension does programs on all sorts of things so that would be somewhere good to look into and see what kind of programs they have available that you could and what kind of trainings you have they've available that you can participate in I'm so jealous you guys have some neat things coming up okay guys that's about all I had for you I was hoping to leave lots of time for questions because last year I did not leave very much time for questions and I was trying to keep us on time and on topics so that's good yeah we do have some questions that did come up to great let's see what do I have here I mean it does if you do have any other questions for Natalie or for anyone else wanting to know how we can get info info from other librarians on the line here if you're looking for some sort of training in some area or you have no there's some sort of issue what where you can you go for training you go offer your ideas so what's to know besides price what is the difference between the different webinars you're mentioning earlier the ones that are free or not is there you know how would you a lot of them cover different topics so you can look at okay the paid ones often especially the University of Wisconsin and some of the PLA once will offer you continuing education units so if you are a school librarian maybe went for the certified public library administrator program I know that you do need continuing education units to keep those certifications going and I know that some state certifications also require you to continue doing education units Michigan is not like that once we once we get our certification we have different classifications and once you get it you have it yeah here in Nebraska there's a certain number of continued education credits and it's a three-year rotation if everything's last for three years and then you'd have to start over and do some more training so some of these might be really useful for you also some of the webinars that are free do offer continuing education units I'm gonna go back to that that one this one meme here the first one that I have it's a Michigan organization I believe anybody can take care to can take these classes they're not specifically library they're actually for teachers but a lot of them I I have a teacher on my staff and she said you know what I use some of these things in my classroom but I'll use a lot of these things in the library and for her it was ten bucks to get the continuing education clock hours that she needed that they will send you know they'll send you the certificate after you finish up the program and you have to it's a six week course you turn in a couple of things of homework and you participate in conversations a lot of the free webinars here that I have a lot of them are recorded not all of them some of these are live but you know the recorded ones you don't get that chance to interact with people you don't get that chance to ask questions which you know if you're just looking for the information that's fine right but if you really want to be able to talk and discuss and find out if your ideas would work or what they think about different things that you've done it might not be the topic for you yeah depends on how you how you do best yeah how you learn exactly your learning style and your learning preference we have our we do a weekly online webinar here and we also record it and post their archives up and we have noticed that statistically about twice as many people attend watch the recordings and I know it's just because not everybody's available at the time when these are being done live I wish very much with some of these recordings and I know you know some of these are six months older older so it's not realistic but I wish with some of these recordings that you could go on there and ask questions so that would be very helpful but realistically there are a lot of webinars out there so hopefully the topic that you want maybe it wasn't at the time that you wanted it and it will come back up at a time that you can attend that's true that's time they redo a topic absolutely or update a topic that was in previous one here's a good question is there a source for training specifically aimed at solo librarians and not that I know of specifically doesn't mean there's not I'm sure there probably is somewhere but not that I've run into specifically at Hopkins I have two part-time staff and me and I'm also part-time so depending on the day any one of us is a solo librarian so I'm very familiar with the the trials and tribulations that you could be going through which is why I like the recorded webinars because it gives me a chance maybe I want to watch it on a day off or well if I want to do library stuff on days off maybe you know like I said you can get back to it after you're done with storytime or after you're done helping somebody paint their barn quilt or you never really know a lot of some of things maybe if you look into things that are done through the Association of rural and small libraries I mean that's kind of what rural and small libraries that lends itself totally to a solo librarianship because that's the situation and that's how we are in Nebraska lots of libraries that are individual independent just by run by one person with maybe a couple of volunteers we have a lot of those I'd say that some of the classes they do attend and look for do assume a staff or an organization that doesn't exist that there is a staff so it's hard to find yeah okay a very quick note I applied for some of those ALA grants that I was talking about earlier and I did get one to attend ALA and to attend a pre-conference I attended a pre-conference I'm hoping I'm not going over time this time I'll talk fast I attended a pre-conference on library media centers thought this is great right I have a tiny little library hundred thousand dollar budget maybe I can do some of this stuff it be cool I would love to be able to offer it to my community I get in there and they're talking about staffs that have dozens of people who don't have library degrees they have technology degrees they're spending 78 million dollars on putting in this one small area in their library I'm just sitting there thinking what am I doing here at the end of the program I asked them so what gets used the most they said our VHS to DVD converter and our photo scanner so I go home and for $400 I put those in that actually totally what your experience speaks totally to why this conference exists we heard the same thing from people saying I've gone to PLA I've gone to ALA and they got great stuff but it's so not focused to me it doesn't I can't identify with what they're trying to tell me ARSL conference totally does oh yeah but the ability to travel to them and that's what your whole presentation is about you know I have the ability to travel wherever they're going to be in the country this year necessarily so that's what we're hoping this is that it helps out people yeah I think it's very important to just find that one little thing even if you find one tiny little kernel out of a webinar or out of a program that you go to like that media center program I went to that you can use and you can adapt it's a huge benefit for your community I mean we didn't have any way to preserve VHS's in Hopkins but now people can come in with their homemade VHS's make them into DVDs make a bunch of copies give them to the whole family nobody's fighting over them when somebody dies anymore very helpful okay just a couple of us few things we are about done at the time here someone does say that they think the special libraries association might have a solo librarians division so look into that potentially special library association and someone wanted to know what was the organization we talked about the National Network of Libraries of Medicine NNLM so Nash it's a weird phrase but National Network of Libraries of Medicine is the one that does a lot of they have local people in each state that can help you out with lots of different training and just as a quickie last thing could you Natalie review your population search by your different locations and how much staff you have at each one like what are you working let me go back to the beginning Hopkins library serves about 4600 people it's in a village of about 600 people actually but I'm within walking distance of the elementary middle and high school which is fantastic it's over a square mile a hundred square miles give or take which for me is about three townships and it has a staff of three me and two part-time ladies and I'm part-time there I'm also part-time in door door serves about 7400 people it's only one township so that's 36 square miles for me and it's it's located right off an expressway so I have a lot of commuter traffic but it's a mix between commuters and the old farming families that were there so leads to a lot of interesting things that come up yes I have a staff of about seven there and everybody's part-time again so you do have some people more than some these individuals but everybody being part-time is a different thing to have to deal with yeah all right thank you very much Natalie this is great really good resources this is the kind of thing we're definitely trying to do here as well get your education get your continuing education someone did say I'm a volunteer would that be would this be good for me of course if you're anyone who's in the library this kind of professional development and continuing education is going to benefit you in some way anything that help you do your job yeah like I said if I'm investing time and money in something like this for one of my staff I look at it as it's going to benefit me until they possibly leave and then it's going to benefit them later in their career absolutely all right thank you very much Natalie thank you for joining us


Good evening. This is Crime Classics. I am Thomas Highland with another true story of crime. Listen. The sound of Baltimore, Maryland in the good old summer time. The great claw of steamed crabs between the nutcracker. And the wonderful beer. Hot summer night, August 14th, 1953. And the room on Utah Place. And one of Baltimore's favorite summer indoor sports. Chesapeake crabs, and the golden brew in the frosted glass. With the two-fifths of bourbon on the side and piquant conversation. Mickey, uh-huh, did you read where it says next year the Orioles gonna be in the American League? Just talk. Don't you believe it? Mickey, did you have a committment? Before tonight? Uh-huh. No. Never before tonight. Can we have this party someplace else? Don't worry. You got nothing to worry about. Just don't look at her. Tonight, with names changed to avoid any embarrassment of the principals who may still be alive. And my report to you on the death of a Baltimore birdie and friend. Crime Classics. A series of true crime stories taken from the records and newspapers of every land from every time. Your host each week, Mr. Thomas Highland, connoisseur of crime, student of violence, and teller of murders. Now, once again, Mr. Thomas Highland. I was in Baltimore last autumn when the Peabody Bookshop was still selling the dustiest books and the best beer in the world. It was a pleasant evening, cool enough for a small fire in the fireplace, and the hum of talk had just the right amount of laughter in it. And one of the patrons had brought along his violin, so the hours spun away. So it was after midnight when my friend let me pass the Red Brick building on Mount Royal Terrace and told me that a couple of murderers had lived here. And the next morning passed the house on Utah Place where they had done their murder. Busybody as I am about such things, I had to find out all about it. And I did. And I learned that it started when two young men were walking from Hyatt'sville to Baltimore. And they got an arena in the place called Collins Park I hear. Maybe I could get a fight there. Joe Anderson, a very bad middleweight, plumping into an even worse, light heavy. They hear what happened to you in Washington.  Non-admiring friend Mickey Thayer, lately, since they met at the Salvation Army Center in Scranton, Joe Anderson's handler manager. What's the matter?  All of a sudden you're worried about me, huh? Uh-uh. Just interested in you as a type, that's all.  That I am, Mickey.  You want to see if I can break you in half? How about him? Huh? A fellow walking towards us on the other side of the road. What about him? Another type, Joe. Pipe smoker and dog walker. You know what they call those dogs, chihuahuas. Lots of yaps, no more biking a flea. The fellow now were tweed coat and leather elbows, plucked pie hat and special walking shoes. Money. And we don't have any. I'm hungry. We don't have any money, Joe. I bet he has. Bet I'm hungrier than you. Then us would know, though.  How did I do, Mickey? Let's see the wallet. Well, how'd I do? Just eight dollars worth. Not real good, Joe. Not very good at all. A few hours later, a Mr. James Henderson of Hyatt'sville, Maryland had picked himself up out of a ditch and wondered what he was doing there. As a matter of fact, he didn't even know he was Mr. James Henderson. And the fact that he had no wallet didn't help matters. He was led home by a small Chihuahua, and it was only last April that he recovered his memory. But the eight dollars served to assuage the hunger of the two hoodlums, one of whom the next night appeared as a contestant in a special event at Carlin's Park. Now, stay away from him, Joe. He looks awfully tough. I'll kill him. Yeah? How are you going to get in back of him with a lead pipe in front of all these people?  One of the shortest fights on record at Carlin's Park, the home of notoriously short fights, but long roller coasters. Mickey ran to the center of the ring and assisted Joe to his corner. And three hours later, when they were walking around Druid Hill Park Lake, Mickey was still supporting him. That fellow knocked me out. It's going to be a champ. Yeah, Joe. Take my word for it. Joe. Yeah? The fella you fought tonight is 46 years old. First fight he's won since he was... Mickey. What? No. Yeah. Lady in the convertible. Lady needs help. Yeah, she does. You need help, lady? Oh, I stopped her to look at the lake and I can't get started. Ah, move over. I said move over. Well, I... I'm going to fix it so as your car's going to work, so you move over. All right. Well... Well, I forgot to turn on my key, didn't I? Sure did. Uh, lady?  Lady? Yes?    Did you just stall the car when you saw us coming? What are you talking about? Joe. Huh? Get in the other side. This is Joe. Hi. Get out of this car, both of you. And leave you alone? Oh, that'd be dangerous. Like you? Pretty girl like you? Well, thank you, sir. Let's us drive you home. Why, thank you, sir. Where do you live? Utah Place. Not far from here. You tell us how to get there. Sure. Thank you, Mickey. I've never really. Alice, is that you? Why didn't you answer me? Oh, I'm sorry, Ms. Wilkinson, but I... Who are these men? Well, this is Mickey and this is Joe. This is Ms. Wilkinson, my employer. Oh, good evening, Mrs. Wilkinson. Alice, you should know better. Making noise at this hour of the night. Oh, it was our fault. Yes, ma'am, it was.  You want me to quit or quit? I can get a job as companion any time I want. I can get any kind of... Oh, Alice, it's just that the neighbors... Myself, I don't mind. Uh, Mrs. Wilkinson? Yes?  Yeah, a drive-in. Oh, well... Sure, Ms. Wilkinson. I don't know. Oh, come on.  Oh, uh, no. Not at all. Hi. Hi, Mrs. Wilkinson. Hello. I'm a prize fighter. Well, isn't that interesting? Oh, Alice? Yes, Mrs. Wilkinson? Joe here. Did you know he was a prize fighter? And they drove through Druid Hill Park. The ladies pointing out the famed mansion house, the zoo, and further east, the campus of Johns Hopkins University. All in all, it was quite a cultural ride. They found no drive-in that was open, but did find a liquor store that was. On the drive back through Druid Hill Park, they searched for Druids, and finding none, greeted Daybreak from the famed Hummock where the defending Baltimoreans broke and ran in 1812. Greeted Daybreak. And there is something friendly in that. Alice? Yes, Mrs. Wilkinson? Don't call me Mrs. Wilkinson. Call me Birdie. That's my first name, and I want everybody here to call me Birdie. You said it, Birdie. Everybody. Hi, Birdie.  A real-life doll.  That was the latter part of me, and in the middle part of June. Alice? Yeah, honey? Nice how we met and all, and how we took to each other and all. Do you want to know what bothers me, honey? What? Mrs. Wilkinson. Birdie. Yeah, Birdie and Joe.  He's a real bum, isn't he, Mickey? Yeah. I just don't figure it. Come here. Now, don't say a word. Baby? Yeah, Mickey. Shh. Don't answer. Don't say a word until I ask you a question. My, you look cute smiling up at me like that. Pretty girl. Where's your safe, Alice? Mickey. You work for her, you know. Where does Birdie keep her safe? If I didn't know you were kidding, I'd throw you right out of here. I'm kidding. And on July 4th... Wow! That was a beaut. Joe. Yeah, Birdie? You. You like me, don't you?   We have good times together, don't we? Like sitting on the grass and watching the fireworks. It's just like we're young together, isn't it? Stars! How about that, stars? Look, look. Yes, I'm looking, Joe. Joe. Yeah? You're very nice. Mickey. Mickey, wake up. Huh? Hey, you know what? Huh? Birdie. She's crazy about me. You hear what I said? Yeah, I heard you. Sit down, Joe. I want to talk to you. Alice told me she's got 50 grand in her safe. Birdie? And jewels. Birdie? I think she ought to give her some of that, Joe. What? She said if I married her. What for? She said if I married her. It'd be easier if you didn't, Joe. Now, just step up and ask her for some of it. Yeah. Yeah, let's do that. Okay. Now, suppose she says no. Not to me, she won't. Well, just suppose. I don't know. I'll be there. I'll tell you what to do. Okay. And Joe slept the sleep of the innocents. Not Mickey. He paced. Paced. Sweltering night. Walked over to Joe's bed. Wiped Joe's brow. Smiled upon him. Good weapon, Joe. Dependable. Something to watch over and take care of. Get your rest, Joe. Sleep. You are listening to Crime Classics and your host, Thomas Highland. CBS Radio brings you the great news reporters of the CBS Radio Newsroom. Edward R. Murrow, Lowell Thomas, Robert Trout, and all the great news reporters of the radio, Lowell Thomas, Robert Trout, and a long list of familiar names for news. And remember, every week night, CBS Radio broadcasts a complete, up-to-the-minute summary of the Army McCarthy hearings. Throughout the hearings, tune in to CBS Radio for complete evening coverage of each day's significant events. Now, once again, Thomas Highland and the second act of Crime Classics and his report to you on the basis of a Baltimore birdie and friend. A few more words about my last trip to Baltimore. There stands out the walk through the old cemetery below Easterwood Park, where the headstones are remarkable for verses like this one. A young man, as you pass by, as you are now, so once was I, as I am now, so you will be. Prepare for death and follow me. Baltimore is filled with such tidbits. A charming city of marble stoops in Goucher College and beautiful women and crab cakes and waterfront. It's interesting to note that more Baltimoreans changed their names per capita than any major city in the world. And I want to tell you, too, what the house on Utah Place looked like, not far from the Francis Scott Key Monument. It was of three stories, granite construction, and a maple tree grew up from the curb. Its facade was Neo Baltimore Rococo, a style somehow found nowhere else. The interior suited the character of Birdie, a 45-year-old Baltimore widow. China closet, Dresden figurines, grand piano. So many things I own, Alice, and I don't own love. Birdie? Carved canopy bed, Italian chest, a John Sargent portrait, and I don't own love. Birdie? Yes, my dear? Is it true? Is what true? All that money you told me you have in the safe? Oh, $50,000? Oh, yes, for an emergency. It was a thing that my husband... Well, I don't understand. I don't understand it at all. Well, now, what do you mean? Well, all that money, just lying around.  It may be tied up in litigation, and what would you do for money? So, you'll keep this amount of cash in the safe. Oh, Birdie. What? What's the matter? Well, suppose you got hurt.  You couldn't get to your emergency money at all. And suppose the banks were closed, holiday or something. Oh, I should give you the combination of the safe, shouldn't I? Do you think I've worked for you long enough and you trust me? Of course I do. Just in case you got hurt or something and couldn't get to the bank, you know. I'll write it down for you. Now, remind me to write it down for you. All right. You know, Alice, I'm worried. Oh? Well, I'm getting forgetful. Forgetful? Yes, I'm misplacing things. My little pearl bracelet is a $50 bill I put down. Now, I thought I'd put it down on my dressing table. And you remember that cameo brooch? Oh, you remember my cameo brooch? What, have you looked everywhere? And some other things, too. Birdie, you know what? What? I think Joe likes you. Oh.  He likes you a lot. Well, children aren't very discriminating, Alice. As I said, Joe is just a child. You'd be surprised. What do you mean? I've heard him talk about you. Not childlike at all. Oh. Tell me what he said. Oh, tell me. Believe me, it wasn't childlike. Here, Mickey. This watch. She won't miss it. She's got three or four more.  I love you. You know, I was thinking, Mickey, I might be able to get us $50,000 for a wedding present. Oh, marry me, Mickey. But Mickey would always get rogous when the subject came up. And somehow he had a trick of making her forget her immediate plans of wanting to get married, stalled her, as it's known in the trade, and relieved her of whatever bobble she had filched and pawned and go have his with Joe. And one day, the two fellows had a heart-to-heart talk. She's got a safe. And she's got $50,000 in it. And probably who knows what else she's got in her. Yeah. And that evening, another heart-to-heart situation. The way you hold me so tight, Joe. So strong. So strong. Baby. You face, baby. Well, I was just going to tell you something, Joe, about me. I'm a new woman since I met you. It seems like things I only dreamed about before. I find myself doing because of you, Joe. Because, well, you're not complicated. You're not caught up in the welter of being a civilized human being. And I find myself spinning when I'm near you. Joe. Joe. Anything I have is yours, Joe. How about the $50,000 in the safe? Oh. I see. How about me? No. Well, you just said... A thing a woman always says when she's spinning. Not to be taken literally, Joe. You mean... I mean I'm not going to give you any money. You mean you just get through your teeth. Get out of here. Come to Joey. Come on. Joey, don't. Don't. Come on. Get out. When you can say forgive me. Come back. But now, get out. Please marry me. Oh, Mickey, please. Mickey, I know the combination of the safe. She wrote it down for me. I have it. Will you marry me, Alice? Please marry me. Yes. Oh, yes. Good. I'll bring Joe. We'll have a party. Tonight I'll bring some steam crabs and beer. You got the beer, huh? The four of us will have a party. Alice, Joe, and you and me. Will morning. Oh, please. We've got to be quiet. Now we've just got to... I know about your husband, and I do hope he's feeling better, and it was very inconsiderate. I was too made so much noise, and we won't anymore. I promise you. Now you see, that was Mrs. Garvey again. Now that's the third time. She said she'd call the police if we're not more quiet. No. No. So please, let's all of us keep having a good time, but let's... I mean you too, Joey. Joey. Joe. Leave him alone. Leave him alone for a minute. Joe. Okay, I'm okay. Is she dead? Did I kill her? Yeah, yeah. Alice? Yeah, come here. The safe's right in here. Right in the back of that desk. Hurry up, Mickey. Hurry. Just keep quiet, that's all. Please, look, Mick. Look. Look at all that. Yeah, yeah. Hey, Alice. Hey, Alice, say something. Let's just get out of here, please. Please, please. Joe. Please, please. Sorry, Alice. Explain to me again. I forget. What? Well, it dawned on me again, and I forget your answer. I could have married pretty. Real nice, Dane. Everybody's dead. Oh. No, don't worry about it. All this dough. Let's get back to the party. Huh? Read where it says next year the Orioles gonna be in the American League. Just talk. Don't you believe it. Mickey. Did you have a committment later? Before tonight? No, never before tonight. Can't we have this party someplace else? Don't worry. You got nothing to worry about. Just don't look at her. Okay. All that dough, huh? Wow. Hey, that must be Mrs. So-and-So from next door. Always tell us to keep quiet.  So-and-So.  Now you shut up, Mrs. So-and-So. Oh. Mickey. It ain't Mrs. So-and-So. No, it wasn't Mrs. Garvey at all. It was Officer Ned Gleel, Bad 715 Baltimore Police Department. Come to quiet down the neighborhood at Mrs. Garvey's house. A walking through the house then, Officer Gleel quickly determined that Birdie and Alice would no more disturb the peace. And neither for that matter would Joe or Mickey. Ever. In just a moment, Thomas Highland will tell you about next week's crime classic. Baltimore Birdie tonight's crime classic was adapted from the original court reports and newspaper accounts by Morton Fine and David Friedkin. The music was composed and conducted by Bernard Herman and the program is produced and directed by Elliot Lewis. Thomas Highland is portrayed on radio by Lou Merrill. In tonight's story, Paula Winslow was heard as Birdie, Ted DeCorsia as Joe, Jerry Hausner as Mickey and Mary Jane Croft as Alice, Bob LeMond speaking. And here again is Thomas Highland. And this week, that portion of the Ottoman Empire known to us as Albania, there used to be a fellow there who killed everyone who got in his way. Friends, passersby, uncles, aunts, brothers, brother and law sister, even mom. It's listed in my files as Ali Pasha, a Turkish delight. Thank you. Good night. Tomorrow night, the Fork of the Road is a warm human dramatic document with a glamorous viewpoint of a mother looking backwards over the years. Kathy and Elliot Lewis on stage are the principal performers in this delightful original play. CBS Radio is happy to present Kathy and Elliot Lewis on stage over most of these stations at their new Thursday night time. Don't miss them tomorrow evening. Everybody loves Junior Miss Thursday nights on the CBS Radio Network.


Hi you guys, Lindsay here. Welcome back to my channel, Inside the Hymn. All right you guys, so simplicity new look has come out with some new new look patterns and that means today we are going to take a look. New look. Probably the worst intro ever. I'm really sorry.  You've got a little crop top with an asymmetrical button detail which I feel like they've been doing that a lot this year and then you've got these slim fitting pants. There we go. The concept is definitely cute. I would 100% put this top with a like a wider skirt. I don't just don't really do the slim fit of anything but the skirt has the matching button detail so when these are paired on top of each other you have buttons all the way down. Doesn't this remind you a lot of the Mimi G pattern that just came out? I mean very similar. This is also probably a cinch to sew. I wonder what the it looks like.  So that's interesting. What other information do they provide us with here? Let's see. Line drawings. Pretty straightforward. Yeah I mean a side zipper. You've got some darts in the front. This is like a princess seam type of detail and I'm assuming the other princess seam is like worked into this button band somehow. You've got the same seaming in the back and then little back darts. Yeah pretty straightforward stuff here. I think it's cute. It's definitely you know kind of younger but I think we establish with the spring patterns that new look might be for like teenagers, misses. I mean it does say misses but a lot of the McCalls ones say misses too and they aren't that young. Okay here's a just for Knit's pattern which is fun. This is just called Mrs. Sportswear. You've got a dress, a top, a skirt and it's the letter sizing extra small through extra I'm sorry extra small through extra large.  This is all in one so it's not a separate set in sleeve so that's super simple. Same thing with the top. The top is just the dress chopped. The skirt is elasticized. Yeah no big deal there. There's the back. I'm sorry it's cut off. I can't move it to the left anymore. So yeah there's that gathering of the neckline. There's literally not a single seam in the dress or the top. Oh but there are side seam pockets. Same with the skirt side seam pockets. Here are the line drawings a little bit bigger. There's also gathering on the sleeve on the top. Yep again very simple. Now this must be the top tucked into the skirt. Interesting okay and it's a fairly slim skirt guys. I mean it looks more a line here but on her I mean that's kind of mermaidy trumpety. So yeah cute little top though. I like how they match the fabric too so looks like a dress. That's fun. Okay here are those same line drawings. We just saw those on the look back. So here are our fabrics interlock, jacquard, jersey, single knit. You just need to make sure it has enough stretch. That's all. Five sizes in one. Okay here are the finished garment measurements for the bust. Super helpful and the hip. Awesome and you really don't need a ton of fabric. Cool that's all right. If I could get the fit right I think this dress would be super comfortable. All right let's see. So now we've got a top and what do you know pull-on pants. The design of the year for all of our pattern companies. Everyone's doing elasticized waist. I don't know what that's about. So this top is like kind of cool. Yeah it's got like a bat wing style on one side and then a set in sleeve on the other side and then this kind of I don't know if it's a faux tie detail. A little asymmetrical hem. Then you've got the pull-on pants and then there's this version of the top without any of the sleeve detail which is interesting and then these are just the pattern version of this. Yeah they give you your bust and hip again. So there are those measurements. Suggested fabric charmous. It's going to be so different for the top and the bottom but like for the top it's probably charmous, lawn, crate, double door jet and silky types and then they separated out the pants. Also in crate and lightweight linen. Yeah I agree with that. Any of those like mid lightweight wovens would be good for the pants. Here are line drawings so you can see here. This is kind of cool and fun and different. I really can't see it paired with anything other than these kind of wide leg pants though. Maybe leggings or something? I don't know. And this could be cute too. I guess it depends on how loose fitting it is. Beautiful darting in the back. I love that. Same thing with this one on this side. Maybe under here is the same thing as this and this is like an overlay I'm guessing. And then you've got little side seam pockets in the pants. So here she is again. That's pretty. That could be really nice I think. Styled well. Cute. Sizing is all in one. 10 to 22 all in one. All right now we've got a top and cologne skirt. So the top looks to be like a little peplum-ish top with an elasticized waist and wrap. The wrap hits at a really nice place that her bust apex is here. And so the crossover is maybe an inch or so above her apex which is nice coverage. And I'm assuming they also give you instructions for all of this lace and ribbon detail. So if you like that look they'll teach you how to do that. You also have a little cap sleeve option. Oh here's something interesting. So I've been paying a lot of attention to the patterns that come with a sleeveless version and a sleeved version. And inevitably what I'm realizing I think is happening without actually looking at the pattern pieces is they're trying to get away with using one pattern for the bodice and then having you either just leave off a sleeve or add a sleeve. And inevitably when that happens one of the two of them doesn't fit well. And it looks like this one was drafted for a sleeve because you can tell that the shoulder is all the way out like almost to the end of her shoulder. And there is all of this extra fabric here which is added when you put on a sleeve you need all that extra fabric. When it's sleeveless you want it to be you know much more fitted through the arm. You can see it over here a little bit too. So that's a little disappointing. I don't know how hard it is to draft two different bodices. One for one drafted for sleeveless and one drafted for a sleeve. But I don't think it's that hard to alter this.  I think that would probably be pretty easy I guess. I've never really tried it before. But when you look at the line drawings there's no bust darts or anything. So yeah I don't you know I'm not super super educated on that but you can see here see how it's gaping. That's because this bodice is drafted for a sleeve and you need all that extra room when you have a sleeve so you can lift your arm and move around and all the wearing ease that you need. So a little something for you guys to pay attention to. Maybe you don't really care that much that's fine too. No more feelings. I'm just trying to be a little bit more aware of the quality of the patterns that I'm buying. I have so many patterns that I don't really need you know anything super new unless it's like unlike anything I have. So if I'm going to buy a new one I want it to be better than the one I own. So if I have like a wrap you know with an elasticized waist I want the new one I buy to be better quality pattern than the one I already own. So that's why I'm kind of trying to pay attention to that. All right sizing one size 10 to 22 again and here's the envelope back. So again I'm very pleased that they're adding bust and hip garment measurements on all of these. You can see it's really generous in the bust. So and then suggested fabrics are calico, chambray, cotton types, eyelet, gauze, jacquard, linen types and silky types. Pretty much runs the gamut of lightweight midweight woven so probably have something in your stash for this. This makes me a little nervous. That's a very high slit on the side. Right but it could be a cute little combo especially if you like the one with the sleeve. This is going to be a beautifully drafted pattern. This one would need a little bit of work though. All right I'm going to try and get off that soapbox. If I notice it again I'll point it out. All right next up is Mrs. Skirt in three lengths and what do you know it's a pull-on skirt. No zipper, no waistband, just elastic. One version has a little tie, one version has nothing and this one has a little belt. I do think these might be cut on the bias which is really cool and very elegant and you know high end looking when you wear it. It looks like a million bucks no matter what shape you are. It just hugs your curves in a very beautiful elegant way. All right this is interesting. They provided bust measurements but there isn't a top. Oh you know what it is? This is supposed to say hip. It's a miss, it's a typo. Oh my gosh. So A and B have this hip measurement and then C is slightly narrower? That's odd. Why wouldn't they all be the same? I have a feeling this whole section might be copied and pasted from a wrong pattern but cotton type, I mean fabric types are cotton on, cotton types, lightweight linen types, shirtings, wall? No. This whole thing is wrong. This whole thing is wrong. I wonder if I'm weird. Okay well the fabric types really should be your silky types. Your crepes, your crepex satins, satin, that sanded satin that they have at Joanne would be beautiful. Fabrics like that. Wild. Let's see if it's in this one. Yeah same thing. Lord help them if this is what the actual printed version looks like. Oh man because look here requirements. One length of elastic cording. You don't need that. A button. You don't need that. Scalloped lace. You don't need that. And ribbon. You definitely don't need that. So I'm not even 100% confident that this is right. This is wild. All right well good luck with that one. Oh man. Wow okay well it is what it is. Moving on. So now we have a top. Looks like that's real cute. All right I'm feeling this one guys. Well you know me in ruffles.  That's so cute. This version has little ruffles on the sleeve and the hem. Now I don't know if the back, the back of these is all the same maybe with this little crossover. I don't know. We'll have to look at the back and then C just has this kind of maybe flutter sleeve and whatever this is. Cute. I love this. That is just so my style. Okay yeah there's the back. Okay so here's the front. It has some bust darts. Maybe kind of like fringe darts. That might not be the correct term. But they are kind of at an angle. And then you've got this little, I don't know if that's bias tape or a band or what. And then the ruffle detail for A and B that wraps around the back like so. And then C has the same detail but no ruffle. Cute. And then here's this. So we're not going to get any pictures of the front which is unfortunate but it does look very slim and very well fitted through the bust. This looks really good to me. See how it's fitting her shoulder really well. Which makes me wonder what's going on with this one. You know. You wouldn't really know until you looked, you could pull out the instruction booklet and look at the, you know how the very first section they have all of the pattern pieces. They have line drawings for each individual pattern piece. So you could see is there separate ones for the bodice pieces. All right here's our envelope back. So seven sizes in one, eight through 20. Yeah it's contrast binding. So you're making your own like bias tape basically for the neckline of all of them and the armhole of the sleeveless one. All right. So they provide the bust, the finished bust measurements there. And then your suggested fabric, shally, chambray, cotton types, crape to sheen, jacquard, linen types, shirting, silky types. Yeah all of those light to mid-weight woven. Super, super cute. I love that. This one I would think you would want something lighter just because this little sleeve but these two you can go into the mid-weight. So cute. And then we've already looked at these. So yeah I think I'll definitely be grabbing this one. I mean 430. Can't beat it. All right next up is this topper tunic. Interesting, okay. So we have, I love this. This raglan sleeve is beautiful with this little gathered neckline and a little like neckband and the bishop sleeve. So cute. Center front seam. This belt thing, I don't know. I don't know about that. But this version has this little sleeve tie. Cute. And this one has a flutter sleeve. Maybe if this were lighter weight so it's, see how this is laying real funny? Like all that gathering looks odd because it's more of a shirting. Maybe if it were lighter weight and then you added this belt thing that would be better? Yeah I don't know. They don't give us any pictures of her without the belt. I'd be inclined just to leave that thing off. All right here's the line drawings. So this looks like a tunic length to me and then a little bit shorter and then a little bit shorter. So three different lengths there and then here they are without the belt like the drawings without the belt and then here's the belt. I mean the belt could be cool also if it weren't in chambray. Like out of weather or suede or something else would be a lot cooler than whatever this is. So keep those suggestions in mind. Here's the envelope back. So one size, I mean sorry one yeah one size eight through twenty. You just need a little bit of interfacing for the belts. Here's your fabric requirements. So they're giving you finished bust measurements and then the length notating that they are three different lengths. Cotton types, linen types and shirtings and then also for the top portion chambray, cotton lawn, seersucker and silky types and then D yeah denim leather and suede. So I don't know why they didn't do that for the sample but whatever. Okay this could be cute. I just feel like this sample isn't isn't a great representation of what this could be. I'm thinking silky type with like a leather belt would be very chic. Even if it were like tonal like black on black black leather with a black like silky type you know fabric that could be cool. Yeah this could be this could be improved a little bit but some neat options I think. I love the sleeves and the raglan a lot. Okay next up is this little wrap top and well that's bizarre. So it's a wrap top. It makes me feel like it's this but really maybe they mean this. I don't know. Wrap top seems to be a little bit of a loose term in this one. So you've got your set in sleeves with a like longer like elbow length fell sleeve, short sleeves, sleeve less and then randomly they just threw in this wrap version. Wait a minute these are both C. I'm so confused. Is this the back? Oh that's the back. That is very confusing. Doesn't that make it look like that is an option for the front? They need to say like back or something. Here are the line drawings. Well again C and C. Oh that says back. I'm so confused. Here are the backs. I don't understand how there are two versions of a C front. One with a rounded neckline or a crew neckline and one with a with a wrap. I don't understand that at all. I feel like this is the back of C but then they drew it this way. I don't understand.  Which one is she wearing? She's wearing B but again we get one picture so I really don't know. It's cute though. I love it as a concept for like a little t-shirt. But I don't know what I'm buying. What's happening here? It's a wrap top and it wraps around the back I think is what is happening. That's all I can think of. That'd be my best educated yes. All right here's the envelope back. Five sizes in one. Extra small through extra large. Contrast overlay for A. I don't even know what that means. I don't know. Contrast overlay for A. I don't get that. And B. B also has contrast overlay. Typically that means it's like a solid layer and then like a lace or eyelet or something on top. So maybe that's what they mean. Then there's C.  Suggested fabrics are shally, charmeuse, crepe, crepe to change, a card, silky types. Guys no this is wrong again. Oh this is so frustrating. This is asking for elastic cording in one button. What the heck do you need a button for? Which makes it makes sense as to why the contrast overlay makes no sense. This is like a knit top. I am beyond with this. I can't even. Okay well this one's wrong too. This is annoying. I hope they get this fixed. I'm just moving on. I really just can't give you guys any. I can't really critique it if it's so messed up. I don't really know what I'm looking at. Okay now we have to try and brush that off. Okay so we have this little dress pattern. Great. It has a yoke. I mean look at this sleeve. This sleeve comes over her shoulder completely. It has a yoke, some interesting stripe placement, and then a band at the bottom. Same thing for B. This might be sheer on B I'm guessing. And then C has contrast yoke sleeves and this is like an embroidered border print deal. So there they are. The back just has a back yoke keyhole opening so you can get it on. Some kind of maybe binding for the openings and side seam pockets. Okay there she is again. I mean this is almost like a drop shoulder but in the drawing it's not really drawn that way so I don't know. This doesn't look bad. I'm just not a thousand percent sure that that's the way it was intended to be so. Also pretty you know straight, straight design here so and then there's no back darts or anything like that. So most of us would probably have to grade out here and give it more of a trapeze look. I mean that could still be cute for sure. You'd just be going away from the original design a little bit. I love those shoes. Okay sizes 10 through 22. We have the envelope back. Let's see if this one's right. Yeah okay so we've got a contrast yoke and lower band separate fabric requirements for that which is really nice and then this one C cut crosswise the whole thing. This whole thing is cut crosswise. That's interesting and then your contrast yoke. You need a lot of fabric to do it that way. Is she wearing C? No. Oh because they're because it's for the border print. Okay okay that makes sense and then you have your bust measurements and your length. Suggested fabrics or shallot, crepe, dupeoni, okay, jacquard linen types, pk, shirtings, soaky types yes. Then for your lower band and the yoke, batiste and organza. So yeah that is a sheer you know suggestion and then C and border print fabrics. Okay yeah it looks like the this is bias finding all of that. A button and cording. Cording? Oh for the little neckline. All right not my favorite but all right this one looks fun. Mrs. Dress in two lengths easy just for knits. So we've got a uh what is that? I'm forgetting the name of this neckline. Oh shoot I cannot remember it. Anyways higher kind of crew neck neckline. Sleeveless version and a sleeved version. It looks like this little belt is sewn into the side seam and then tied on front and then we've got a variety of lengths happening here. So all I can really tell from that and that I can't tell much about that either. Little keyhole in the back, center back seam and the belts. ABC and then D has a separate belt. So maybe A is A and D. Again it's so confusing you guys. I gotta imagine this is just one solid piece of fabric no darts no seams nothing. If I had to guess that's what I'd say. I mean yeah that's definitely sewn into a side seam it's on a separate belt so. And I also feel like you could wrap it around the back and then tie in the front. It's long enough to be able to do that so yeah depending on just kind of the overall look you were going for you could tie it in different ways. We've got let's see. Yeah eight through 20 one size all the sizes in one pattern eight through 20. Here's your different lengths your bust measurements probably pretty generous and then your finished lengths and widths stretch knits only bamboo interlock ity jersey modal stretch velvet yeah all those would be really great. And then single fold bias tape one button and two inch length of elastic cording. That's all for this these last two are for the little keyhole and then I'm guessing the this is all bias bound the neckline and arm holes. All right there you go here's a cute little number I love shoulder ties. This is just a one dress with many different options so it looks like you've got this center front deep V with gathers at the shoulder and the under bust kind of a curved Empire waist seeming here in the skirt which is lovely I love that detail and then you've got just a straight hem you've got a little gathered not even gathered it's just a flounce you've got an added flounce which they're making it feel like that's what she's wearing. Oh there it is right there so rather I mean I imagine this is her knee maybe so yeah a really decent sized flounce and then here is the same version in a solid and then C has this really cool like off the shoulder flounce which is also fun. This could be cute this would be out of my comfort zone with the length for sure I don't normally do things that hit I don't know that ankle length but I love the bodice a lot a lot a lot I think she is again sorry I can't get it all in one yeah the fabric's a little busy and hard to really tell what's going on but I think it's a very cute very flattering design I think it would look good on a lot of different body types this is adorable her yeah her ties maybe they didn't do bows just look how long her ties are versus what is here these look so dainty I like hers better and then this is the back so you've got a side zip which is also really nice center back seam and then again with the little darts here so the shaping through the waist is going to be like really nice really really nice hard to tell on her because she's so slim as it is but if they put this on a woman with like more curves you'd really be able to tell cute I really like this one you guys let's see if they got this part right all right so yes this all seems to be making sense now okay so seven sizes in one 10 through 22 you need a little bit of interfacing oh the bodice is lined even better I'm really liking this one this is a very nice pattern yeah and then B and C has separate measurements four yards oh my gosh if you do it I mean I hardly ever buy fashion fabric that's 45 inches wide every once in a while something will come along but mostly it's 60 inches and then your bust measurement I wish they had the hip measurement here too but I mean it seems to be wide enough but to maybe not matter too much and then this is the finished lengths charmeuse cotton lawn crepe crepe to sheen double georgette silky types of wall yeah B not suitable for one-way design fabrics meaning like stripes I'm assuming that's because of this this must be cut in a way maybe on the bias which is actually nice because it will hang really beautifully but because of that you can't do anything with like a directional fabric and then you just need a little invisible zipper cute I'm definitely getting this one super cute okay now we've got this little jumpsuit which is sort of reminding me of the butter it learned to sew pattern remember it had the center front invisible zipper I think this is what that is supposed to be this makes a lot more sense than a center front invisible zipper but alright so we've got this square neckline with a little spaghetti strap and you can see you can see that it kind of comes to a point at the bottom which is a nice you know kind of interesting detail you've got this massive waist tie this looks really low even in the drawing so this is kind of like a drop waist I guess which isn't my favorite especially when you have a belt tied at the waist and then a seam below that that's odd I would move that up so that the belt concealed the waist seam but then you've got I want to say maybe some darting or pleating or something happening in the pant side seam pockets and then kind of a slim straight leg let's check out the line drawings so we can tell really what's going on so yeah it looks like there's two pleats in the pant or short and then no shaping at all in the bodice all of that is reliant on this belt which is interesting okay that would make me instantly want to make a muslin um then you have a center back zipper your belt is sewn into the center back seam and then back darts so a is a address a might be a dress that's cool I like that they include both um again with the side seam pockets I mentioned those before then you've got your you know kind of slim straight leg pant and then a short romper super cute in this little stripe but yeah a is a dress okay this is cute that again this this way this bodice fits it looks great on her which makes me feel a little bit more confident but the fact that it has no darts anywhere uh makes me you know pause a little bit but I do think this style although it is a little young um I still think it's really cute and modest and even though I don't love spaghetti straps usually because this neckline is so high um I think that it's it's a nice detail I'd probably give this one a try this is the same picture of her all right now we've got let's see what the envelope back looks like okay this looks correct um seven sizes in one eight through 20 I like that I I like that a lot about new look patterns that I don't because I typically my bust is in the smaller set like in McCall's my bust is in the smaller set and my hip is in the larger set so if I ever want to do like a jumpsuit or something I always have to buy both I don't have to but I tend to buy both to make it easier on myself so this has them all which I think is really great all right there's your fabric requirements and then bust measurements again I wish they had finished hip but that's okay I'll take this over nothing that's for sure finished back length so a b and c and then you have your leg widths which I mean I don't know who cares about that batik chambray cotton types gingham linen types shirtings yeah I would think maybe for the dress all of those will be okay these ones with the pants well yeah maybe it could work in all of them sure okay perfect super cute all right next up is this little number I'm getting immediate wedding vibes either for the bride or for the bridal party or a guest the scalloped neckline is stunning stunning I literally have nowhere to wear this but it is beautiful you also have this version with a strap which is also nice you've got horizontal bust darts and vertical waist darts waist darts in the skirt as well and look they even give you this really beautiful like circle skirt version too I want to wear this where can I go where can I go in that I need a garden party you know what I mean it's lovely really beautiful and we get all these illustrations beautiful brocade little floral like digital print I guess that could be like a cotton or something right she looks like a million bucks so cute I wonder if it has boning or anything I'm guessing not lovely lovely lovely there's our backs I didn't call those out earlier center back zipper and some more darting in the back so cute one's eyes 10 through 22 all right so it looks like the bodice is lined but not the skirt a little bit of interfacing this skirt is cut crosswise which is beautiful I mean it takes a ton of fabric but I mean obviously it's worth it in my opinion no boning so I don't know how this thing stays up but maybe your shoulders just hold it up um garment measurements here's your bust measurement and then the finished lengths I would think A and B would be the same but I guess they're not and then C obviously is much longer brocade chintz cotton types crateback satin damask dubioni I think I said that's pronounced fail fall I don't know jacquard satin chantung so definitely they are going for a more elegant dress here they're definitely going spring summer event dress and then C is not suitable for one direction prints because the skirt is cut on the bias okay it's really beautiful if you have any event going on this summer highly recommend this so fun and sewing scallops is so much easier than you think all right this might be our last one yep it's our last one a little another dress okay this is interesting several different looks here we've got that same kind of high square neck with a spaghetti strap except this one also has this little crossover panel which I think is actually really cute and cool so A is the dress without the panel and just this little waist tie and then B has the little wrap wrap around panel and then C randomly I guess is maybe A without the belt and patch pockets it looks completely different I'm getting a totally different vibe from it right here are line drawings so you've got little bust darts a little split hem for A I was really I was holding my breath for some back darts but they aren't there but as you've seen from my tutorial they're easy enough to add center back seam center back zip too and then also what's interesting is and I really like this is this little panel is just sewn into the side seam so it doesn't wrap around the back and the backs basically look the same you also have an option for a wider strap which I know will be appealing to some of you based on your comments cute so this would be maybe a more drapey fabric this would be something a little bit more substantial I just think that's such a fun detail especially in this like batik stripe so cool and then this little box plaid I don't know if I love that but some kind of like denim look I'm getting like kind of like an apron vibe from it not a bad thing but this is like a maybe a satin or something so nice that's real cute real cute nothing like I own for sure for sure okay seven sizes eight through 20 you need a little bit of interfacing you here's your fabric requirements which guys look less than two yards for all of these even B how is that possible B is the one with the wrap right yeah well now I'm thinking that's not right here's your bus kind of close fitting I agree with that and then they only provide you with the finished lengths and widths but the fabrics are right batik shally cotton types gingham lightweight linen type shirtings and silky types yeah I don't know about the fabric requirements for B I would think B would need a lot more because you've got this whole little extra thing so I don't see how A and B have the same fabric requirements so man yeah I just I don't get it so I guess proceed precaution on this one as well maybe if I hadn't seen the great uh egregious errors and the other ones I would maybe not even notice but because those other ones were so messed up I don't know if I have a lot of confidence in any of the envelope backs if I'm being 100 honest oh man okay well I mean trying to overlook that what did you guys think of this collection there are some really good ones in here I will say especially for the new look collection which tends to be a little bit younger and a little bit uh not basic but basic that's simple you know there's it's not vogue you know with these complicated designs there's a lot of lined bodices which is really nice to see yeah let me know which ones you guys like I think I'll be grabbing the top 6622 and this dress 6617 for sure maybe this one too 6614 if I had to pick three I also do like the jumpsuit though I like this knit dress so I like the top although it's confusing as what's going on so yeah there's a lot of really cute ones in here but this uh top and this dress for sure let me know what you guys are going to be picking up and what you think of this new summer collection after this I think we're just waiting on the calls at this point so stay tuned for that and until next time I will see you all very soon bye


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