Good morning everyone and welcome to the 12th annual Big Talk from Small Libraries online conference. The conference where all of our presenters are from libraries with a population served or FTE of 10,000 or less 10,000s are cut off for small library. Big Talk from Small Library is cosponsored by the Nebraska Library Commission and the Association for Rural and Small Libraries. I am Krista Porter. I am the Library Development Director here at the Nebraska Library Commission, and I'm your host moderator guide. Everything for the conference today. A few little housekeeping things first. If you have any, the conference will be recorded is being recorded as we speak. So if you're unable to stay for the entire day or have to pop in and out that's fine recordings will be available later on the previous conferences page, excuse me on our conference website. It does take about a week or so for all of that to be edited and put up but they will be there soon. Also, if you are looking for anything for continuing education credits for attending Big Talk from Small Libraries, if you are a Nebraska library, we have a special CE reporting form that was put together for today's conference. It is available in the emails I've sent out and is also available on our FAQ page here. So if you are from Nebraska, you can use that and submit to our continuing education team here. If you're not from Nebraska, we can't issue credits for other states or other organization programs, but you will be receiving after the conference is over if you logged in today live, you'll be receiving a thank you for attending email with a certificate attached to PDF certificate attached that you can use to present to your organization to get your CE credits. I think that is good for now. Alright, so as I mentioned, I'll get back to the schedule here. Big Talk from Small Libraries is co-sponsored by the Association for Real and Small Libraries. And with us today we have the current president, Jenny Garner. Good morning, Jenny. Good morning. Good morning. And I'm going to hand over presenter control to you so you can get your slides up on the screen. All right. You should see that link now. Hopefully I can remember how to do this. Why isn't a tan? Christy, you might have to guide me. There should be a pop up you saw that said that you have made a presenter and you have the. I've got three screens and it's on the farthest one away from me. Too many monitors. Hopefully it will do the right one today for us. There you go. Perfect.  Excellent. Well, as Christa mentioned, I am Jenny Garner. I'm the current Air Assault president. I am also the library director in North Liberty, Iowa. So I'm just east of you guys a bit. I'm on the east side of the state. I have been involved in Air Assault for just over 10 years and I am truly passionate about this organization. And I hope that I have some of you. I know we've got some of you on board and I'm going to show you a little bit about Air Assault. So I'm not going to read the slide to you. You can see there's lots of good things going on. I hope that as you read through our mission vision and values that it's apparent that air cells truly a community of practice for librarians just like us.  Truly willing to share and assist others in every way of their knowledge and resources. At our association, we are no longer a secret. As you can see, we're over 2600. When I joined, I think we might have had, you know, under 1000, I would guess in the organization. So the secrets out and people are now inviting us to the table. We continue to be a vibrant and growing organization. And from conference to our regular offered trainings, we are a member driven association. So folks just like us are doing the great work of the association. So why should you be a member if you're not currently a member, don't take my word for it. Ask your colleagues that you know our members find out more about what they do, but let me tell you just a little bit about member benefits. These are just a few. When you are a member that you get discounted pricing on workshops and conference costs. The conference is probably one of the best in the world and I would say volunteer opportunity highly recommended I have attended as often as I can and it's, it's, it's for us, you know, we're all in small lives, it's our peeps, it's our people. And that comes to the volunteer opportunities. You have volunteer opportunities at conference and in many, many committees that are more recently developed. So it's been exciting to watch those launch and do great work across. It's, it's amazing to me that we're like a well oiled machine, despite being all over the country, the networking opportunities, which is one of my favorite pieces. And we'll connect through the elist. It's a pretty busy elist, but I'll tell you what, you put in a question out there and you're going to have several wonderful answers by days and professional learning opportunities, like the train that we've done. And then online tools, which is new and I'll show you a little more about that. We have a new advocacy center and we're very excited about it. Our advocacy advocacy committee worked really hard on these things. As we have grown, we have been invited to the table now where we used to be waving our arms up and trying to get attention. We are now being asked to be collaborate and do partnerships with lots and lots of people. We did the support request and just for that reason to try to streamline those processes and make sure that our, we're keeping track of all the partnerships that we have, we're often invited to be on advisory boards for grant opportunities and other wonderful initiatives. So, then the other thing is that this advocacy center page is free to everyone we wanted it to be accessible, not just to our members, but to any library who needs us. There's all sorts of guides on there. There's a policy center starting. It's not, it's not launched yet, but it will be. And then other great information to help you be a good advocate. I know they're going to be creating some videos for those purposes as well. So the work is ongoing. And then just a little bit about our membership cost. As you can see, it's a sliding do scale. So it's very accessible to members and options are there for different types of memberships. You can be a member library or you can have your individual memberships. And then there's others for the nonprofits and the businesses as well. And my most exciting thing, the conference this year is in Wichita, Kansas. So right down the street from us. It's not far at all. It's actually a fantastic city. I'm very excited. We get to go visit in April to see it again. Our board will be having a retreat there at the conference site. And, but we're told it's there's so much fun things to do and great things going on. I will say the aerosol conference continues to be the best conference I've ever attended in 25 years of librarianship. Plus, I have not I've been to lots of conferences around around even around the world. And it's, it's by far the most amazing conference I felt the first day of time I went completely welcomed and people swooped in and grabbed me up and brought me into the fray immediately. And after lots of fun, lots of learning and shared experiences there. We see all the common challenges among our libraries and we're able to work together to, I would say it's unsurpassable. And this is just me. I love connecting with other people in library folks, please feel free to reach out to me with questions about aerosol. If you just want to talk libraries. I am available and willing to visit. And that's all I have for you today and I'm excited to go learn. Let's go forth. Yes, absolutely. We have a hang on a second here we have Jeanine Miller, you might know her. She says yay I am the conference co-chair for aerosol this year and our conference committee is excited to have a wonderful conference for everyone. And Jeanine will be more details as they go with a theme, a really exciting theme and going to be really cool. I'm always happy whenever it is, it is a conference that travels around the country. So you never know, you can see what it's going to be each year. And we are in here in Nebraska, specifically very happy when it is, as you said right down the road from us, we are actually for anyone who's here from Nebraska we are offering, we will be offering coming soon, we will be offering application grants to attend aerosol in Wichita $500 grants for anyone in the Nebraska library staff or board members that would like to attend a little help you out a little bit in getting to the conference since it is just in driving distance from us. So special, so we always have CE grants for attending things, we're doing a whole special extra funding we put together for attending this year's conference. Oh, here's a good question for you Jenny we do have, since it is, we're talking about aerosol. With there being many library groups on Facebook, is there one on Facebook for aerosol either open for members or a private one is there anything that you are doing on Facebook wise with Facebook groups. We do not, as far as I know have a Facebook group. There is a Facebook page where you promote things but not. Yeah, it's, I mean I think that could be something that someone could lead a charge for if they wanted to reach out and talk with us in the office that as of yet we have not done that. The email, the elist is extremely active and that is a member's only elist. So I don't know the kind of thing this person is thinking about elist. All right, does anybody have any other quick last minute questions for Jenny about aerosol. I invite you to check out their website. Thank you for participating in the conference. Highly recommended. Yes. Thank you all. Yeah, all right. Thank you Jenny. All right.


The future of government, the lessons learned from around the world, is a report looking at how the strategies, structures and processes of governments need to change and are changing to be effective and efficient in the 21st century. And what's so exciting about this report is that it really is lessons learned from around the world. It's written by practitioners working with these kind of issues in their governments daily and the report concludes that to be effective and efficient in the 21st century, you need to be quickly adapting, reacting to new conditions, citizens' expectations, you need to build capacity to operate the networks across the public, private and non-profit sectors to co-produce public value. And to be able to do that in an effective way, you need to build what they call forced governments, flexible, agile, streamlined and tech-enabled governments. And the report is describing what a government like that looks like and how it can be built in different parts of the world. It also includes a number of case studies which are very exciting from countries in different parts of the world. And we are very excited about launching this report in Vienna on the 7th of June.


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