Good morning and welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. I am your host, Krista Burns, here at the Nebraska Library Commission. Encompass Live is the Commission's weekly online event or webinar, webcast, online show, whatever you want to call us. We're here live online every Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. central time. However if you're unable to join us on Wednesday mornings that's fine. We do record the show every week and the recordings are then posted onto our website and the end of today's show I'll show you where those are. We put the recordings up there. If our presentation presenters or speakers have any slides or handouts or documentation we put that up as well and if any websites are mentioned I grab that and we bookmark those in our delicious account so that's available to you as well. So after the show you'll be able to have access to all of that. We do a mixture of things here on Encompass Live, book reviews, interviews, many training sessions, discussions, basically anything library related. We are happy to have it on the show. That's really our only criteria that it's something that has to do with libraries. The libraries are doing it. It could be of use to libraries of interest, whatever. We're pretty open about that. We do have guest speakers come in sometimes to join us here both in person and remotely. We will bring in guest speakers from anywhere around Nebraska and around the country. But we also have Nebraska Library Commission staff come in as well to do sessions and that's what we have this morning with us. To my left is Debra Dregos. She is our Technology and Access Services Director here at the Nebraska Library Commission and she has a presentation here. I just want to talk about Google Books and there's a lot of different resources people have that they use for different things but this is one that you might be able to find some really interesting things and stuff you didn't know that was in there. I know I haven't explored it much myself. Sometimes when I'm doing searches it pops up in the middle of results and I use things because I find something interesting but I'm sure there's much more if you actually used it. The purposefully way is that it would be much more useful. So I'll just hand over to you to tell us all about Google. Okay, thanks Christa and I'll start out by warning all of you that I apologize. I wasn't quite expecting this when I first scheduled this session with Christa but I have just recently had cataract surgery and I don't have my prescription glasses yet and this screen is just far enough away that I can read the word Google but everything else is sort of a blur. So if I mistype something please forgive me I will have to have Christa sort of nudge me in the right direction but we will soldier through. And as Christa said Google Books is a resource that maybe not a lot of people have really taken time to look at yet but because the courts did finally give a final decision on the lawsuits that were brought against Google about their whole Google Books project and they were at the lawsuit was settled in Google's favor I thought it was time that I started taking a look at this particular resource and then talk about why other librarians other people might want to add it to their list of good resources. So today we'll talk a little bit about how the site works what types of resources you can find in Google Books and why you might want to go to this site first as opposed to just Google and who might really benefit from the things that are in this particular database of materials. If any of you have used Google Books to a great extent or you know you're curious about something that maybe I don't talk about please ask please contribute your experiences if you found something that really helped out a patron or helped out yourself please let us know that too we'd like to like it to be a bit of a discussion here today but I will start out by talking a little bit about the Google Books project itself and I'm going to go to the about and how this all got started let me see if I can click on the right thing I'm looking for library project that's right yeah right there yeah right there got it okay sort of muscle memory here and then I am going to click up here on library partners we'll come back to that other page in just a minute so when Google started working on this project they partnered with a number of academic libraries and then they have spread to libraries around the world so when you're considering you know thinking about what materials might be in this particular collection you want to consider what types of materials these particular academic libraries or other national libraries might have so you are looking maybe towards some things that are more academic but there are also government documents local history information just a lot of you know general information plus classic fiction and things of that nature however Google has added some more components to it too which we'll look at here in just a minute but I'm going to back up one page and mention that not everything in Google Books is available to the general public in full text okay there are four different options for each of the books that are in Google Books that are that are basically you might say cataloged or indexed in Google Books okay some items are full text which is wonderful some items you get just a limited view and that might be a few pages some show just snippets so whatever your search topic was it might show one sentence that has that particular those particular phrases or words in them and then no preview okay but you as I'll mention here later too there's generally information how you can find a print version or other versions to get the full text too okay the full text items are generally materials that are in the public domain basically that means they were published before 1923 okay so with that in mind we are going to go back to the main site here okay from the initial page which is books.googlebook.com you get a basic search box and I'm just going to go ahead and type in a search and I'm going to go with prohibition did I spell that right okay imagine that you have a student for example who needs to do some a research paper on prohibition okay they could just type in prohibition and they get all of these different resources you'll notice you've got different dates here you've got some items that are in full text some that have no preview at all some are snippets etc so there's a lot of data here now if it's not if it's just a preview or a snippet for this particular project that the students doing research on and it's a current book those are things that they could probably find within their local library or they could find similar information on a website even Wikipedia will give you an overview of you know the opposing views and who the main main people were in the whole movement against having alcohol available and the ad the Volstead Act that finally brought about prohibition all that general information could be found in a lot of other places so what we want to look for maybe for this particular student are the primary sources that maybe his teacher is requiring so there are a couple different ways that you can go about limiting to primary resources and if you go to search tools you'll notice that you have several options to do limiting and this one which is for time by default it's any time they do let you pick a particular century or you can do a custom okay I want to do a little bit more limiting than that because you also can specify whether you want yeah whether you want any books or whether you want to retrieve items that have free Google books that you can download or things like that what I want to do is and I've okay I need my little gear and I can't see it or is it okay if you come over here you can get to the advanced search screen which gives you a lot more options okay you'll notice you have a number of different boxes that you can use to do billion type searching you can limit it to how much tax do you want I think I'm clicking on the one that says full tax don't you full view thank you you can limit it by language and I can't quite see so we might just skip limiting my language and you can also search by a title specific title by author publisher ISBN etc what we're going to do to make ours a little bit more specific is we are going to go down to the subject field and type in prohibition okay so I will limited by the amount of text I've limited by saying I want it for a particular subject I can also put in date a date range okay you can specify a month if you'd like you don't have to I am going to pick the dates of 1873 which is when the the Women's Temperance Union was first established and then I'm going to go to 1919 when the Volstead Act actually passed okay I can also choose to increase the number of results that show on the page and then click search okay now I have a lot of items that were specifically written during that time okay so they can be considered primary sources and they will offer the viewpoint of the people from that time so you can see okay what were the arguments on both sides and what what were they what were not just the people out in the public staying but what was said in and I'm sorry I can't quite read the titles but there are there are Senate hearings listed in here before the Volstead Act was passed so there's a variety of different resources here so I'm going to go back up to the top and I am going to okay we're gonna do this we'll just go ahead and click on one of these and we have the people versus the liquor traffic wow thank you yeah that helps Christa okay what you can do then is you can because I search by subject it's not going to give you the links to where that word specifically shows up within this particular book okay otherwise there'd be little little bars along the side that show you you know generally where the those that's that's how I've kind of come across in Google books things I just do a general search not specifying like you did here to subject in Google and sometimes this will come up as a result and then it pops you right into where that word is sometimes in the document right right okay so because this is not or because this is full text you can if I wanted to I could go to the box over to the side take out the search the subject search that I had put in there where it's gone now okay and I could type in the word prohibition or I could type in any other word actually and it will then show me each of the pages where that particular word shows up so then I could go into that particular page and read the full text there okay it also tells me on the left hand navigation side that this book e-book is available for free so I could go ahead and just download it or if for some reason I wanted the book in print I can find booksellers that have it available or I can click on the find a library and it actually goes to OCLC Worldcat and then we'll show which libraries actually own this and how close they are to you and it does work by zip code and for some reason it's defaulting the library commission to a different zip code but that's okay yeah it's a Lincoln zip code go back up I think it hit on the right whoops okay yeah nearby libraries up here yeah so it's the closest listing yeah south branch of so it's putting us in a little bit in southern Lincoln as opposed to downtown but that's enough close enough okay so we're going to go back and I also wanted to mention if you click the whoops sorry my mouse is being a little bugaboo here if you click about this book it gives you the publisher the date it gives you some subjects the number of pages so it gives you a little bit more information it gives you a table of contents it shows you if other editions are available they like to show these common terms and phrases if you're interested in you know drunkard makers you know that's interesting but then what I also wanted to show you at the bottom is that if you're if the person who needs this for research has software that allows for import importing citations then you can use these buttons to export the citation for that particular software so it does have some neat features and it has a QR code for you to if you're interested in that now you'll notice that there it also says my library my history if you want to use those things or if you notice up here at the top to it also says right review you do have to have a Google account and you have to sign in to use those particular features which I am not going to do right this very moment okay so the next thing I was going to show you from here is you can just go ahead and type another search in this box and related to prohibition you know okay what happened after prohibition oh we had bootleggers so and it likes to it likes to give you suggestions so pops up and you'll notice that if I go back to my search tools and I have to admit I'm still learning why it does something sometimes if I had come back to this page and typed in bootlegging it would have preserved the time frame that I had from the last search but because I was within a book when I typed in a new search it did preserve those limiters so you those are things that you have to keep in mind if they're really important to you okay so I could now go back in and do a custom time or I could go back to the advanced search and you know do something from there so you'll see again you know these are there are a lot more current items so I could if I wanted one of the other ways that I could limit is to say I just want books and no magazines or I could say I want at least a preview available in which case I get preview and full text okay so there's just a variety of things there okay another type of search that you could do and I'm going to go to it I'm going to do this one up here I'm going to put quotation marks around this one and it is it first oh it's a little slow yeah forensic medicine okay this way it will look for the entire phrase instead of looking for the term those two words individually okay and you'll notice it brings back and a lot of in current information which we will work on limiting here in just a minute but I wanted you to notice also that now we have an ad at the top so that's something that you have to be aware of with Google books you will get ads sometimes so yeah and that's actually interesting that you're doing a search in books you can see at the top in the blue it's limiting to that part right but this is an ad for a website not something right books yeah whenever you see that little yellow ad thing next to something at the top of Google results anywhere in Google is pay attention to it it might be something good something is exactly what you're looking for sometimes it's not at all and you just have to ignore yeah yeah okay I limited this particular search the 19th century just to show you you know how popular the CSI and all those other television shows are you know maybe somebody's interested in well what did they do you know in the 1800s for this particular thing there are a lot of books and as a matter of fact this very first one that shows up is a handbook of the practice of forensic medicine so we can click on this particular book and you'll notice this time because I typed it in as a phrase it does show you page by page but all these little blue all these little blue bars show you the different pages that that particular phrase shows up on okay what I'd like to do though is just to page down here a bit to the table of contents to show you that they did go through and actually create lengths so that when you're in the table contents you can jump to chapters or however many parts there are within the book so you'll notice okay this title was from shoot 18 darn I forget the exact year and I and we'd have to go to about this book to find it but we'll get we can look at that later okay so you can skip down to anything you know within here and and find the text or you can forensic medicine you know is sort of a broad subterm so if you click on it anywhere and then go down you know you never you don't know exactly what you'll get okay but again I could go over here and say well I wonder what they how they defined rigor mortis or did they talk about rigor mortis back at that in those times imagine they did it's a Latin phrase so and they did so again they give you each of the pages that you could go into to find what how they talked about rigor mortis okay now if I wanted to know okay what do they say about rigor mortis today then what I could do is type in rigor mortis and look for at least something with a preview so I go back to my search tools and say that I want something with a preview available okay the very first one forensic pathology for police death investigators etc we'll click on it and see what they have and in this case with the preview we get several pages and so we can read through the entire piece that they have on rigor mortis it'll take a minute to load so you can use this in different ways if you want something current that you need just maybe a blurb about it you don't need the full book you can look for something that has a preview in it okay nobody has a question so far comments if you have any questions use your question section every go-to webinar interface type in there we'll be able to see that if you have a microphone and you want to voice your question just say I have a mic unmute me and we can do that for and I'm going to go back to the advanced searcher and we'll go back to our student and you know this could be also for genealogists for writers who are doing research you know want something accurate to put in their books some feature from something okay this time I am going to put in say this student is basically looking looking for a topic but they don't know quite what they want to talk about but it has to be written it has to use a primary resource primary source so what I'm going to do is I'm going to say I want everything that has the word personal and then either the term narrative or journal or story or experience okay so it can have any of those terms too why story thank you take that out okay everything will have personal and then it'll have at least one of those other terms and then I'm going to say I want full view and then I'll say I want a hundred and those they will go for English this time and do a search so now you can see all the different personal narratives that people have written and because we're asking for full text they're generally going to be in the 19th from the 19th century or earlier okay so you have explorations in Texas in 1854 you have pilgrimages in the Middle East you have a siege of luck now I'm trying to place that in 1858 hmm some war somewhere a thrilling experience personal experience Brooklyn's horror oh my goodness that one really there's a massacre someplace in New York theater oh must have been oh so this could be one way that a student can narrow down their subject you know or get some ideas for what they might want to do their research on okay so there are there are different ways to do searches I do have one question yeah looks like it's come up here I'll pop it up so you can see it I was using the wrong button on the mouse thing there we go okay what kind of materials is Google books good for finding does it have any collection strengths getting particular strengths um if I'm hmm doesn't really have a collection development policy beyond what's available what's academic and in the foreign libraries yeah and you know open to be included right it you'll find some libraries really collected talking about out of the ordinary books some libraries collected a lot of like court report summaries government documents from way back when association papers military records but sometimes you know military records might be local to the area of the university so it's not country wide and I think looking at the beginning Debra had showed you showed that list of the universities that were library partners that would be a way to find out what it might have something more so more in is seeing what those universities might be interested in or I didn't read their description on that site say this is the kind of stuff we do or not they talk about their mission and a bit about what they contributed but not everybody you know and I had one point I guess I skipped to Google started out with the universities but for them a lot of them for some of the more current items they have opened this up to publishers and authors who want their materials all want to go both voluntarily can right so individually right so sometimes they're available in ebooks that you could purchase then through Google books or you can find them at a library or or a bookstore you know if you want them in print right okay follow-up is there any way that libraries can work to partner with Google books how do you get bells now there is a from the main site let me let me just I'm going to do this if you go down to the link that says publishers on the main site it does tell you how you can partner and this is particularly for publishers but I would imagine that you could probably get information from here how to how they work with partners I don't actually remember but let me go back and we can look and see if I go to about and go back to where it said library project programs in the library there's library partners screenshots in library I don't yeah it doesn't say anything from this particular from the library partner site on how a library could partner but if you went through the information on that the publisher site on how to partner you might you would find somebody to contact yeah okay get in touch with people who are working on this and they can direct you in the right place yeah right yeah okay so if there are any other questions please let us know and I am going to go back here and speaking of for example you know unique items or items that you might not generally think about being in a library I'm going to do a search actually I'm going to go to advanced search sorry I will go over here and say advanced search and this time I'm going to I'm going to do an advanced search with truncations and some other various things here I am actually looking for items that relate to cook and sun tours the they were basically one of the very first you might say travel agencies yeah okay and sometimes they say Thomas and sometimes they say they have Thomas abbreviated so I'm saying I want either Thomas or the abbreviation and I want cook or cooks and I want sun just to try to limit it to materials that are related to them and I will do the search so now these I find really interesting okay you've got cooks handbook to Normandy and Brittany you've got cooks Indian tours you've got excursions in New South Wales they literally were all over they help people travel all over the world and they were actually the called the representatives of the railway companies the shipping companies they started the for the first real tours in Egypt back here sorry I'm having mousing problems but we'll get there again I need a new battery it's getting choppy notice that too I'm gonna limit it here just a little bit we'll go back to the 19th century when they were putting things out so you could actually go in to any of these books and find the hotels that they recommended the sites they recommended you could find the times on ships when they sailed for that particular year you could find the cost for first class second class passage you could find what the limits were on the amount of luggage that you could take with you you know just like today you could find out just all kinds of information so let's go to the health resorts of South France here for just a second okay and sometimes and I'm not quite sure this is something I'm still trying to figure out too sometimes when they put you in and you've put in a phrase they put you not at the first one but all the way at the bottom so we're just going to sort of scroll back up at the top but you'll notice while we're here in the index they've linked you to the pages so in the index you know you can use the index to hop to the page that you want maybe am I not hitting the right one looks like that one that you're on doesn't have okay and it could be my mouse here too so we'll just skip back up here and sort of the general anything that looks like a link is should be a link should be a link yeah but okay so the journey between Paris and Marseille you have it's shortened so by express train it's only 15 and a half hours oh little attraction to the love of the picture ask not a pretty view but yeah it tells you how many miles it tells you from Paris to Lyons what the population is my goodness their populations about what population is of Lincoln today it tells you what hotels are available what sightseeing what sites you might want to see so just all kinds of curious things so you know how many libraries I guess today we still have to our guys you know oh yeah for your two different places so close to do this they're out of business now they they were they've been bought multiple times and are part of different entities now but in when I was doing searches in one of the other cooks guides that I pulled up it was talking about how to send them telegrams asking them to book hotel rooms and other places and they actually had a code book because for telegrams you paid by the word they would use one word for please reserve me a room at so you would use that one word and then in the hotel name you know so that means yes enough to do another search on just telegraphic codes and I found that there are a number of codes code books that were used for secrecy and of course to save money yeah yeah and some of them were based on words and we'll just pull up the weavers here and again well no this time we did wind up at the middle sort of let's see if we'll work here now we'll go from bonds legal yeah okay sometimes there was just a word to mean this whole long sentence and sometimes they also for secrecy use numbers and sometimes they would say depending on the day you take this number you would add a certain number and then you would go find the word that match that number so you know just the things that you find out so just think what an author could do writing about you know all these realistic you know things that they could put in you know a mystery writer or if somebody read one of those books wants to know is this real what this author made up in their novel or is it actually something that was out there that got right yeah they got it in real life yeah so something just a little bit different okay okay to show you a bit of a few other things that you can find in here I am going to say we have a someone who is interested in researching Fort Carney which is a place here in Nebraska you can find maps and other things about Fort Carney but or you can find multiple materials about Fort Carney but what I also wanted to point out is if you click on maps it will actually give you the location a map location of Fort Carney State Park which is located where Fort Carney was maps don't show up for everything but they do show up for for some like like this particular place okay so that's one thing that you can use this for if you've got someone who is doing genealogy research they can if I can spell correctly it's my own family name here and I know icy frost sounds a little strange must there must have been some family members in my family who are sort of a little strange but there's more than one of them more than one icy frost in our family so anyway so you can find you can find books that have that are genealogy books that are already existing and in this case it says there's a snippet so we click on it and we find that all all that's available is just this one little line which isn't very much but if you think well that might really be related oh sorry there's two little snippets from this because there's two pages a couple pages three pages sorry anyway but what you could do if you wanted thought that this was really related to an ancestor that you wanted to read more about you could see if you can either purchase it or you can find it in a library print because there is no look available the idea that this might have you might want to read more right based on just okay and then also there might be a full book full-length books and you know these the historical books for counties are wonderful for information again because we're limited to the academic libraries that Google is working with you won't find the county histories for every single county in every single state but it just so happened that Marshall County in Kansas is here and you'll find that it has all kinds of information I see actually married Daniel G. Purdue and she rates last paragraph but there's a lot of a lot of information about Daniel it has his parents names his grandparents name his siblings names and then in the last paragraph it says he has was married to the esteemable or he had a very esteemable wife miss icy frost and where she came from when they were married and it lists all of their children's names at that point in time so there's a lot a lot of good genealogy information there so then you could take those names and go searching to find if you know there are other interesting yeah right you can sometimes that person's name might also show up in well for example I found University of Nebraska catalogs from the 1800s where it showed the courses that were required of the students at that time and it gave some descriptions and it also listed the professors with their home addresses so if you you know one of your ancestors was a professor at the University hey that would be you know you could see what classes they taught and where they lived at that point in time yeah so there's a variety of things that you can use for genealogy research in here too okay and I should show you we are getting sort of close okay to show you another feature of this I'm going to do a search for a company that used to exist sorry one minute here Sondra a gir I did put in one too many Sondra a girner series and seed house okay this was a business that existed in Beatrice Nebraska and the late 1800s early 1900s so you'll notice we do get some results but they basically say there's hardly anything that is just about them that's in full text okay so see you'll find them in something like the florist's review where they're listed as a company and in the history of Gage County there's a brief piece of information but there's nothing you know specifically about just them that is in full text so I'm going to click on the all button and hey presto I find that in the internet archive and in the biodiversity heritage library they have the actual seed their catalogs their annual catalogs so we'll go to the biodiversity heritage library first and the very first item is the 1912 garden book seeds plants and trees and there's a button here that will allow me to view the book and those beautiful colors for those old catalogs so this is going outside of Google books right right so you can find other materials sometimes they'll point you to what just websites or other information but in this case hey we found another site that has actual materials that have been digitized now for this particular site you can scroll through each of the pages and look at the different information which is which it's nice it and it works and you can you can go to full screen and you can enlarge it etc one thing I wanted to know before I move off of here this is from 1912 and you'll notice it says German nurseries and seed house it's put out by Carl Sondreger which it says on here somewhere yeah right underneath there but the name is the German nurseries okay and he does offer within the book to send a German version if you prefer that to the English wow okay there were a lot of Germans in the Midwest who still spoke German at that time I'm going to back up and go to I'm gonna back up here twice maybe there we go and I am going to go to the very first one up here that's at the Internet Archive okay and this one's also in the biodiversity library library yeah but I wanted to show you that the Internet Archive has a slightly different interface and you'll notice here by 1919 they've changed their name to Sondreger yeah they got rid of the German because this is World War one you'll notice here you do have a much it to me I'm sorry it's a better display you get to see whoops click in the right place here Debra you can click on this on the page to move it forward or you can click the arrows which I'm trying to do and then you get a double page spread and again you can enlarge it you can do various things I'll just note up here he does make a point of saying that he moved here from Switzerland a German canton but he moved here from Switzerland he's not German and I also wanted to just point out as a resource again this is a wonderful thing and all all of the catalogs from this time are wonderful things because you see how much they charge for the items you know it's and I'm gonna enlarge just a little bit so that I can see it maybe okay so you can get can you read that one Krista I'm having a little bit of a problem the two three foot whips one year old 18 cents yeah 18 cents for one uh-huh and then a dollar 10 or something for 10 yeah yeah 18 cents dollar oh dollar 70 for 10 and then you can get a hundred for 16 dollars can you imagine today but beyond the price just look at all these different air what I would now call air less and there are descriptions of what how what kind of apples these are you know describing the flesh and the skin and sometimes the climate it grows in just think you know somebody researching old recipes oh yeah or you know somebody today looking for information on the heritage different heritage varieties there's just all kinds of things that this could be used for or go back to that author again and hey the historical romance they could be eating the right kind of apple and I was we'll go back one more time here and I'll show you one last feature and I'm going to go to more and I'll go to images this time and they're the covers of all those catalogs plus others because it it looked for it put the Sondrega first it's in relevancy order so it put the Sondrega first and then it does give you images of other seed catalogs too okay so any last questions while we're waiting to see if anybody does have questions I will throw out one more thing here I'm going to go back to the about pages and I am going to go to the partner program and I'm not quite sure why they put it under the partner program but perhaps oh no sorry maybe it's here maybe it's not yes it is okay success stories there's a couple different ways you can get to this I think they might have put this here just to maybe use it as a selling point for publishers and authors to put their information up here but there are six videos of different real-life people who use the resources in Google books to help them in their research in their personal life you know in their in their work and how it benefited them so that's enough you know something that you might want to look at which would give you more ideas of how maybe you or your patrons could use Google books here yeah so that's I think those videos are pretty yeah interesting yeah about a topic can you print out okay so we do have another question that came in while Deva was talking okay printing so once no if you find a section about a topic can you like basically how can or can you print anything from out of these items you find some of the items you can actually get you can download PDF and then you could certainly download a print from the PDF actually I'm not worried depending on where the books came from yeah or did Google say whether it's in public domain or not right yeah shoot see there's that mouse again let's try to go back here okay what I want are books and let me see okay we'll go into this one where we can actually get information you can't actually highlight anything to print it but in this case you can get the e-book or see if it can see here you can download the PDF and then you do what you want and then you can do whatever you want and it also offers plain text and you know I didn't try the plain text option so I'm well let's just click on it see what happens gives okay so it changes the view and you can highlight it so you could highlight and paste it into something else and then copy it but I well it won't let you print it just from from now you have to like take multiple steps of your own right so you can work around it to do that right they don't have like a print button like a database or something or like other things would necessarily yeah no so any other questions comments you have anything type it into your question section where I guess you're wrapping up here we got through everything what to show alright I think I I hope I covered the basics for everyone I just thought it would be helpful to bring this to people's attention to let them know that okay well if you were concerned about lawsuits or things like that that's all settled and this could be a really good resource to send some of your patrons to depending on what they were looking for depending on I know some people did have different opinions on it yeah in the library world even there was conflicting opinions that is a good as a bad is it should we allow them should we be fighting them on this is it legal or not but now it's been said you know the court as you said the beginning have said it is so it's there and it was there anyways even when it was behind her debate I see that's a good resource and I think lots of authors and publishers do get concerned in libraries doing well what if they don't come to us anymore you know what if you know this takes it away well all those links on the left there to how to get it from buying from Amazon so publishers and authors get their money going to your library so you still need to use your library I can't see me personally thinking that this would take away you know all of their resources the reasons why people would go there instead it's just another one looks like we do have oh nice comment okay so I'm so glad you offered this quick overview of Google books without having to listen to a sales talk yes we're not in this no we would know no money was exchanged to do this is no Debra's idea completely on their own as far as I know all right it doesn't look like anybody has any urgent questions coming in wanting to ask but if you do you know go ahead explore it play around with it you see all the different things you can click on there and do or you know contact Debra you guys know where to find her here just look for the library commissions website which I'm going to show you in a second here and you'll be able to reach out to her email if you want to to see if she has any other insider tips about using Google books so we'll say that we'll wrap it up for today's show the show has been recorded or is being recorded and we'll be on our website and I'm just to show you here how to get to our website and come us live what's nice about our show is apparently so far except for that ad first there nobody has called anything in compass live so you can Google us and we come up first so that's convenient so look for us online and compass live on the Commission's website when they're recording is being done right now when it's done they'll be right here underneath our upcoming shows we've a link to our archive sessions we post them as I said the recording itself goes to YouTube Debra didn't have any print any PowerPoint or slides or handouts there won't be anything like that but there will be I will put links into the Google book site here's last week's one where we had recording and we had a presentation but then the links in our delicious account so we'll do the same thing here it'll be here most likely later today I will let you all know that email when it's ready it's got a process through our system or go to webinar system here and then YouTube's got to get it going and then it'll be up on there so look for that later today or than that this is our upcoming shows I hope you join us next week our topic is passport to Vermont libraries Jess and West who's from some you may know of her recognize the name she's big in the library world lots of work she does with technology but in remote small libraries Vermont it's got a lot of those just like Nebraska and many other states she was actually here a few years ago working well she didn't come here but worked with us in a technology planning event that we had she 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So, what I want to do today is give you a little bit of a history of who she was and what she did. And then we'll go over the highlights of her philosophy, particularly as it's relevant, I think, to the world around us, although everything she said is relevant. So the intention here is more to give you a little teaser, to encourage you to read the books, to encourage you to dig deeper into the books. Are there any students here? All right. So there are flyers back there. There's a barcode. If you scan the barcode, you can download a free one of Einwund's books for free. So anyone you choose, there's a menu you can choose which one, and you can download it for free. So sorry, it's only for students. But you can do that if you register and get it. So Rand, of course, is known primarily, I think, in the US, but really all over the world, as the advocate for capitalism and advocate for individual rights, as somebody who had a huge impact, I think, on American political dialogue, but also among American entrepreneurs and businessmen. If you go back and you look at the founding of Silicon Valley in the United States, almost every single entrepreneur involved in the founding of Silicon Valley, read Einwand, Atlas Shrugged, and the Fountainhead in particular, and said they were inspired by her towards the career that they chose. I mean, some of the biggest names you can imagine thought Atlas Shrugged was their favorite book. So Rand had a huge impact on the business community. At some point over half of the, I think, the 500 biggest companies were run by people who again thought Atlas Shrugged was their favorite book and loved the ideas. They weren't necessarily philosophically completely aligned, but certainly the books inspired them to greatness. And I think that's one of her strengths is that she inspires people to live the best life that they can live, inspires them to become great. So she was an inspiration to so many and, of course, somebody who is identified with certain political views and will get into those. Rand was born in 1905 in St. Petersburg, Russia. She was born into a middle-class family. Her father was a pharmacist. He owned his own pharmacy. Her name was Alicia Rosenblum. That was her original name. And she, at the age of 12, witnessed the Russian Revolution. It literally started outside their pharmacy in the big square in St. Petersburg where they had a business. She witnessed the revolution and then suffered the consequence of the revolution, the decline in the standard and quality of life. The pharmacy is, of course, taken from her father. They have to move into an apartment with other families. She goes to university. She studies. But it's very clear to her that if she stays in Russia, she won't survive. She has opinions. She cannot stay silent. She voices those opinions. And we all know what happens to people who disagree with the prevailing views of under-communism. So at the earliest opportunity, there was a small window of opportunity where Lenin allowed people out. You know, under the assumption they would come back to do different projects overseas. She got, for some research project she was working on, she got permission to leave Russia. She had family in Chicago. She left Russia. Everybody who knew her knew she would never come back. So here's a 22-year-old woman on her own, on the way to the United States. She spends a few weeks in Chicago and then she heads to what she really wants, which is to become a writer in Hollywood. She wants to make movies, but write movies. She always loved going to the theater and seeing the movies, the silent movies in Russia. And she wanted to be part of that. So she heads to Hollywood and she goes to the C.C. B. DeMille Studios. You guys probably don't know who C.C. B. DeMille was. But he was the Steven Spielberg of his time, right? He was the number one director in those days.  But she walks out and this is a true story.  And she stares at him. She had these really penetrating eyes. If you've ever seen pictures of her, she's got these amazing eyes. And he looks at her and he says, why are you staring at me? And she tells him the story, I want to be in the movies. I'm just here from Russia and she had a very thick Russian accent. And he says, you want to be in the movies? Okay, get in the car. And he takes her to where they're filming The King of Kings, which was a silent movie on the story of Jesus Christ. And he says, here's a pass for you to come and see how movies are made for two weeks. And that starts her career in the movies. And she becomes an extra in the movie, you know, part of the crowd. She meets a husband on the set of that movie, whom she marries a little while later. And she then takes on all kinds of odds and ends jobs in Hollywood just to stay connected. In the evening, she's studying English and writing, writing, writing, writing, writing. Remember, English is not her first language, it's Russian.  She writes a novel called We The Living, which is the most autobiographical of all her novels. It's about a young woman's life in the Soviet Union in communist Russia. A very, very powerful novel. But nobody's interested in America in novels critiquing communism because in the 1930s in America, almost all the intellectuals are pro-communist. This is an era where communism is viewed as the future, it's viewed as more successful than America. I don't know how much you know of the history there, but the New York Times correspondent in Moscow turns out to be a Moscow agent. So he's sending stories to the New York Times about how wonderful Stalin is and how wonderful things are in the Soviet Union and he's influencing the President of the United States, the established relations with Stalin. The whole perception of the Soviet Union communism in the U.S. was very, very pro-carbonist, particularly among the intellectuals. So the book doesn't do very well. She then writes a small book called Anthem, which is kind of a dystopian novelette. That doesn't get published initially in the United States, but she gets it published in the land of dystopian short novels, The United Kingdom in England. And there's evidence to suggest that it is read by the author of 1984, so there's a connection there between the various dystopian novels of the time. But the book does fairly well in England. And then she starts working, you know, and at the same time she writes a number of scripts in Hollywood. She becomes somebody who reviews scripts and gives her opinions on them. So she's very successful in Hollywood after all these years. And then she starts writing a book called The Fountainhead. It ultimately is published in 1945 and becomes, you know, 12 publishers. She sends it to 12 publishers, they all turn it down. Nobody will be interested in this book. It's not, you know, it's too idealistic, it's too philosophical. We don't want it. The 12th publisher publishes it, but doesn't really believe in it too much. Right? So they make only, I think, 2,000 copies. They do a first run. But the book really takes off. And word of mouth, and it becomes a best-selling book. And they immediately print more copies. And to this day, The Fountainhead sells, you know, tens of thousands of copies in the U.S., potentially hundreds of thousands of copies if you count all global sales, since then it's been translated into pretty much every language on the planet. Only two major languages don't have Ain Rand in them. Anybody want to guess which two languages? No, Russian, they're all translated to Russian. They've sold very well in Russia in spite of, I don't know who's reading them there. Putin actually has a copy of Atlas Shrugged in his bookcase. We know that, because Ilanayov, I don't know Ilanayov, who used to be in the late 90s, Putin's economic advisor, was a huge Ain Rand fan, and he gave Putin a copy of Atlas Shrugged. Probably never read it. Or if he read it, he thought the villains were the heroes. The heroes were the villains, something like that. But no, the two languages it has not been translated in, unfortunately, Arabic and Farsi. So Iran and the Middle East is where it hasn't expanded. But every other language you can think of, including Hungarian, the books do exist. So she published the Fountainhead, became a great bestseller. She starts on her next novel, which is Atlas Shrugged. It takes about 12 years to write the novel. It's published in 1957. And of course at this point everybody's competing to publish it, because she's done so well in the Fountainhead. She publishes it. It becomes an immediate bestseller. It today sells hundreds of thousands of copies. It is translated to every language.  She died in 1982. And the books still sell, which is almost unheard of, that a dead author's books sell when, particularly when, the books are not taught in schools, right, because they're not part of the curriculum. So a lot of old authors still are alive today in their books, because schools teach them. But how many ordinary people go out and buy a book by a dead author, it doesn't happen much. Einrand is unique there. Sales have only increased over the years. From 1957 on, after Atlas Shrugged, Einrand basically starts writing philosophy. And it's interesting why she wrote philosophy. Why she became interested in philosophy. Einrand's goal from the beginning in her fictional writing was to portray the ideal man. So the perfect human being. And so when she was researching for the Fountainhead and for Atlas Shrugged, she started reading about people's perceptions, people's views on what the ideal human being was like, what values, what virtues, what character did this human being, what did philosopher think did this human being have. And everything she read, she was disappointed. This isn't ideal. This isn't right. This is no good. It didn't fit her sense of what a hero could actually be. So she started, in a sense, to create her own philosophy in order for her to be able to create her ideal character so that she could write her novels. And her novels indeed project an idealized vision of men and women. Her heroes are amazing once you accept certain tenets of her philosophy. So she became a philosopher in order to be able to write her novels, in order to achieve her artistic goal in the novels, which was to portray an ideal. But after she published Atlas Shrugged, she realized that while she had this philosophy that was being portrayed in the books, in order to get the philosophy out there into the culture, she would actually have to deal with the issues that people cared about philosophically and politically and even aesthetically. And she started writing books about ideas. She particularly wrote a lot of essays and then made the essays into books. And, you know, books again are all in print. You can find them in a lot of different languages, but books like capitalism, the unknown ideal, the virtue of selfishness, which has a purposefully very, very controversial title. Of course, selfishness is not usually associated with virtue, but for Rand it is, and that's a big deal. And philosophy, who needs it? She has a book on epistemology, which is the theory of knowledge called Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology. And she called her philosophical ideas. So all these philosophical ideas projected in her novels and in all these philosophical essays that she put together, she called this philosophy Objectivism. She spent the rest of her life writing. She at some point actually wrote the film, a script for The Fountainhead, and The Fountainhead was turned into a movie. You can still find the movie. I think it streams once in a while. It's with Gary Cooper playing Howard Rourke in The Fountainhead. So it's a pretty good production. Don't go and see The Atlas Shrugged Movies. They're terrible. They were made just a few years ago, and they're really horrible. But the movie she made, The Fountainhead, is pretty good. She wrote philosophy. She wrote commentary. She wrote a lot about politics. She was very involved in political engagement during the 60s and 1970s. She had something to say about almost every major event during that period, about every political cultural event during the period, including she commented on major philosophical debates. For example, there's a famous essay she wrote about John Rawls, the famous American political philosopher who's been unbelievably influential over the last 30, 40 years. In spite of the fact that Iron Man trashed him completely.


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