Good morning, and welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. I am your host, Krista Burns, here at the Nebraska Library Commission. Encompass Live is a commission's weekly online event. Yes, you can call us a webinar, we won't be offended. We're going to try to embrace it as much as we can. We do this show every week, live every Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. central time. But all of our shows are also recorded, so if you're unable to join us on Wednesdays, that's fine. You can always go to our website online and find all the recordings of all of our previous shows there and watch them that way. We do a mixture of things here, training sessions, book reviews, Q&A sessions, interviews, basically anything related to libraries. We want to share and get it out there to our librarians across the state and across the country sometimes. We bring in guest speakers sometimes, and sometimes we have Nebraska Library Commission staff, which is what we have today with us. Trio of Nebraska Library Commission staff. Well, I'm always here, most of the time. Yeah, you can always come and post something. This morning, I have Mary Jo Ryan, who's our communications coordinator here at the Library Commission, and Alana Navani over on the end there, who is our technology access services librarian. I think it's the beginning part right here at the Library Commission. And they're going to share with us about everyone on a new campaign that started just now, it's a couple of years campaign long, that could be a great opportunity for libraries to get out there and get out the information about what they are doing in their library about various things, and to get some more resources for your patrons. But what I'll do is I'm just going to hand over to Mary Jo. Would you like the mouse? Oh, that would be good. And she is going to take over rearranging the debt chairs here. Great. Thank you, Krista. Krista and Alana and I have been talking over the past few weeks about the Everyone On Ad Council campaign. And we think it's a really amazing opportunity. There's some things about it that we feel like Nebraska librarians will really want to know. And actually, we do have some librarians on this, some people on this show with us today who are logged in, who are not from Nebraska. So I don't think that this is so much Nebraska specific. But if our comments don't relate to your questions or your needs, please do make a note in the questions section, and we'll try to address them as best we can. Krista is monitoring the questions section, so we will just stop, and this will be very informal. First of all, we would just want to say that EveryoneOn.org is really an opportunity. It's an ad council campaign, which is something that a national campaign that we here in Nebraska alone could never have the resources to do. So it's a very big win-win for all of us. We did want you to be very much aware about how it works. It is something that was put together by an organization called Connect to Compete. And Connect to Compete is a nonprofit organization. It's a national nonprofit, and they have a lot of partners. There are a number of partners, a real host of them, including the American Library Association and the Advertising Council, which of course is a very big deal because we can get a lot of mileage and a lot of eyes on libraries because of this ad council campaign. The important thing is that it's a multi-year campaign and that this year the message is Find Free Training Near You. So it's a message to your library customers, to the citizens in your communities, and they are telling people these are the things you can do to find free training near you. You can dial 1855 everyone on. You can text Connect to a specific number, or you can visit their website, which is www.everyoneon.org. And their message is pretty much what you see here on the screen. One in five Americans don't use the Internet. Luckily, help is all around. And what they're trying to do is set up a network, a national network of helpers, helping organizations primarily. This does include libraries and it does include many, many other organizations. The One Stop Job Career Center is many other organizations, but they are trying to have in their directory all the libraries that are willing to, A, provide a class for people, or B, provide one-on-one coaching and assistance. So they want to make sure that that's really clear, that those kinds of things are available in libraries. Sometimes from volunteers, not necessarily from trained teachers in your libraries. I know across Nebraska we've been doing a lot of computer skills training and we've been doing it using trainers from community colleges who are skilled and have a lot of experience training. But this message is not really so much that there will be those skilled trainers in the libraries, but that there will be someone who will help you. And many times what can happen is people get their help from a variety of different places. Like Alana pointed out that there are lots and lots of resources on the Internet. We will be showing you some resources today where people can go online and use self-paced, self-directed, short video tutorials. And all you have to do as a librarian is give them a little help finding them and tell them what some other resources might be after they finish the tutorial. So I mean there's just a lot of stuff. It might be just that the library is providing space for a volunteer to come in and help. I mean that's what we've done for many, many years with income tax assistance and it's been tremendously successful in some communities. Having retired folks who used to work in the income tax field come in and help folks write in the library. So ARP does that a lot. Yes, and what's that other? The score. The retired business score retired. I don't know what it stands for. But if you Google score you can find out it's a retired business person's organization who provide these kinds of resources. So that's the important thing to think about is it's a multi-year campaign. It's an opportunity for us. We want to make sure that we take advantage of it as much as we can. Even though it's not really something we designed or put together, but we're happy to have the resource and really pleased that we've got a partner like the Ed Council which can really get placement on these ads. We'll talk more about that as we go along. And it's three years, correct? Three years, Elana. Yeah. So this is just year one and the message in year one is find free training near you. Now this is a screen that you will see when you go to everyone on and you want to remember that this screen is designed for citizens. It can be used of course by all the librarians or the volunteers in your library but it's really designed for citizens to be able to do it kind of on their own. So maybe Elana wants to go to that website and we'll just kind of click through the website. You can see what it's like. Here we are. Thank you. As Mary Jo mentioned, here is the everyoneon.org website. You can see here at the top they have some of these numbers that Mary Jo had already mentioned about how many people are not using the internet. The browser is not quite right enough. There we go. It's not going to be behaving for me today. I just want to take a few minutes and highlight some of the items on this website. You'll see there's these navigation links at the top here and they're also repeated on the front page. You scroll down past that banner here. The one that really jumps out of course is find free training classes near you. This is a way you can enter a zip code and locate some training opportunities near you. Before I actually go and show you how that works, I do realize that sometimes libraries as Mary Jo said may not be able to always offer the training they want or when that patron comes in you don't have that class schedule right that minute. Patrons it seems like always wants that stuff now. What's great about this site is these other four icons here actually are going to take you or the patron to other websites and information where they can do that self-paced training. It's great for that patron who walks in and wants that help now. You can see the first category here is what is the internet. It's getting started. It's broken down into get to know your computer, helpful programs and where do I begin. Or you can just scroll down to see some additional training opportunities here. Again, these are all online. Kind of cool. These are some of the partners too. Right. If you notice that the partners on this are like the GCF learn free. That's the goodwill industries and they have like a ton of resources that are designed for people to use on their own with just a little bit of help and guidance. That's actually the one I was going to jump out and take a look at. You can see here the headings Microsoft. As Mary Jo mentioned, it is from Goodwill. When you go here, you can see the GCF learning. I took a look at this site. One thing I liked about this is all of these icons here are different training sessions. One that jumped out to me is the Windows 8 one. It's possible that you will have patrons coming in who just got that brand new computer running Windows 8. Sometimes libraries don't have that new Windows 8 running yet. Do we have that running yet? I don't know if we do. Yeah. The great thing about this is though, there's that Windows 8 tutorial. You can click on it. As a library, you don't have to know Windows 8, but you can help the patron get to this point where then they can go ahead and walk through the lessons that talks about learning Windows 8. That's a great thing to keep in mind when you are helping a patron and going to this website. You may not have to know the technology, but as long as you know where to point the patron to, you can still provide them with help. Yeah, I could see even Elana, a student. If you've got a high school student that wants to do some volunteer time, I know some of the high schools require it. This would be a great thing. They could set up that they were just going to be there for an hour or two, just showing people how to use this. I just went back up here. You can see there's other options. There's using the Internet. Again, it's broken down to things like, let's get creative or I want to talk to people. There's a great session here on social media. Intro to email. I took a look at that one. That was a great way to get a person, shows a person how to set up their own email account and get started. Again, it's something you can sit down, the patron down at a computer, help them get started and then just walk away and let them actually go through the lesson themselves. I think that's a lot of what's going to be happening because so many of our libraries don't have the resources to put on formal classes. Or that patron may not want to wait and come back to that formal class. That's a really important point. One of the things we know about adult learners is that we, adults learn in very different ways. And some of the adults just can't absorb so much in a class, but they absorb a lot by having just a little bit of help from a person who's guiding them and then going through it themselves. When another adult might not learn that way at all and they need the class setting. So it's great that we have these different kinds of resources. And there's a section on internet safety and last section here is getting a job. So all things we've been hearing that customers and libraries are asking for. This is really responding to a need. I did want to point out quick on that I want a job. Keep in mind, as Mary Jo mentioned, this is a national ad campaign. So you're not going to see just like the Nebraska job site listed here. But the first link when you want a job is the career one stop. And this actually is a site that is done by the, down here it says, this is sponsored by the US Department of Labor. And one of the first links they have up here at the top is job state job banks. So it's really easy to go here. You're assuming they want to stay in Nebraska, you know, find Nebraska. That's what we want them to do. So you look there first. And then now you just like that you're out to the Nebraska Department of Labor site where you can just search for jobs in Nebraska. So I just wanted to make sure you realize that was there. Just to point out to Elena on this Nebraska Department of Labor site, there is a section for creating a resume. So if someone comes in and that's all they want to do, you can help them get to that. They can go right through it and do it themselves. They have to create a user account, but it's really, it's easy. It's easy. And I was looking around on this career one stop site also. They do have resume information also. So interviewing too. Yeah, so there's a couple different places where you can find that here. Oh, and cover letters and thank you notes. I love your notes. That's good to remind people. Okay, back to everyone on. We'll move away from the jobs here. So that kind of gives you an idea of the different online training that's available. You can put your patrons too. I'll just let you explore that on your own since that's probably the most beneficial. And then the last thing I do want to point out is this link to find free training classes near you. You've seen it in a couple different places on the website. Can you enter our tip code here, Mary Jo? All right. We're at 68508 Atlanta and I'm hitting enter. All right. Nothing like a demo that went bad. I know. Let me try that again here. There we go. You can see now I did find these training locations. Now, I think from my point of view, this is probably the most important thing you want to remember and do when you get back to your own computer or have time is take a look at this information. And the reason I say that is this information was pre-populated. And I think some of the libraries will definitely need to tweak their information. The reason I say that is because we entered the zip code of the library commission and we have the Bennett Martin Public Library that's one block away. And they provide training. We know that. We know they provide training and they're not actually even showing up here. You can see there's not a single library in Lincoln and we know there's multiple branches here in town that do it. And just after playing with it a little bit, we know because the training setting is set to yes. If I change the training setting to any and do a find a location, then you can see now I do get the Bennett Martin Library, which is the name of the branch. This is down the street from us. And you can see here information that everyone on is providing says they don't know if they offer any training courses. So that's why they didn't show up at first. Not a big deal. It's pretty simple to go out and update this information. And that's what I just want to make sure everybody notes and how they can do it. And probably takes a little time when they have to take a few moments and make sure their information is updated. And we'll have this information out when Krista puts the links out and stuff in the PowerPoint. And I can also show you how to get it. But everyone that on actually has a two page PDF document that walks you through the process of updating the information. It's pretty simple to do. And I will point out if you didn't catch the link or find it later, you can always go down here to the bottom of the screen and look for the campaign materials. And Mary-Jo is actually going to talk about this site more in depth in a couple of seconds. I'm actually going to jump right into the tools and resources for the partner training. And I want to point out that right here then is the instructions for training tool locator. And that's what we were talking about. There's a link here to download it. I'm going to skip that step. I already went ahead and downloaded it so I didn't have to wait for the PDF open. You can see here it tells me exactly where to go. It tells me the username and password. I'm going to grab that password right here. And it just walks me through how I can either add a new site if your library is not listed, how you can review or edit and update your information. And for those people, for whatever reason, if you decide you don't want your library listed, they do tell you here how you can get your site removed. So let's go ahead and... So that's like if you can either just update the info or have you completely removed. Yes, that's nice. You know, it's up to your librarian. Of course, we want to encourage the local libraries to update the information, make it as accurate as possible and actually keep their library information on there. But if you really need to remove it, you can. I would say definitely make sure that that don't know says something. Exactly, exactly. I mean, even if it just says will help local residents access online training. I mean, that's just showing people what's online for them to use. Oh, sorry. No, that's okay. I'm just fine. I kind of failed in my typing duties. I was so busy talking. You know, and I pasted the wrong thing into the wrong box, so you're talking just covered it up. Oh, okay, good. Hey, happy to help. So I just logged into the path into the site now where you can update your information. You can see it just brings up default information to start with. But what you want to do is search for your library. So Mary Jo. 68508, right? Correct. And it's already brought up the results. Oh, okay, that's fast. So I'm just going to pick on the Bennett Martin public library since it's the one I've been talking about down the street. You can see it's listed here and there's an action to edit the information. And it's really straightforward. You can see here, there's just boxes you can fill in. The address information looks okay. You can enter your website. You can enter the URL for your Facebook and Twitter if you have those. If you do enter those, they will show up. Now we got it going on. I'll just go back here. The little icons for Facebook and Twitter will appear right here under the library state. Oh, okay. There it is. I've got too many tabs open now, Mary Jo. We do. I see that.  Everyone can identify with that. Next section here is clearly labeled facility information. Now, this one I find kind of amusing for the Bennett Martin public library. Are they open to the public? Not sure. They're not sure about that one. So this is why I think it's important for everybody to get in here and just check their information because obviously they are open to the public. But, of course, they're already set to have Internet access to the public. So I'm not quite sure how that works.  They really wish to safe route with their information. They didn't want to assume. There's not really even a parking lot. You can sit in and use it at Bennett Martin as well. But it does ask things like number of public computers, or appointments required for training. You can see additional questions here. And it looks like a lot of these have been set to not sure. That must be the default. I believe so. It's either yes, no, or we don't know, which is not sure. Training inside information. Do you have scheduled training available? I know they do, so they can change that to yes. Online training. I'm sure they would be happy to help you sit down and get started on some of those lesson plans and stuff that I was showing you earlier. Again, pretty basic questions here. Easy to answer. And the last thing on the page is operating hours.  So it's a pretty quick fix. Very quick. Pretty quick fix. Yeah. So we really want to encourage Nebraska Libraries to do that quick fix on your information. And the PDF document will help walk you through the whole process. I won't talk about how you can, you know, add other locations and stuff, but again, it's all in this PDF right here. So I should last thing before I turn it back to Rachel, I did want to point out that it does take three business days to get the database updated because they have a person who actually looks at the information before they put it live. So it's not going to be an instant fix. Don't expect to see it right away. Exactly. So perfect. And that's good to know because obviously this login thing you're just showing, that's just, that's not what I want. I don't want to be bad about it. That's public. It's a public password. It's public information. Like anyone can do that. I see what you're saying. It's a generic password. It's not like you ask for the password, they send you a private one for you.  A lot of the stuff that comes up is simply little check boxes. So I'm not, you know, and with the person looking at it. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. That's good. It's better. That's really good. Yeah. It's a real humanized look. Yeah. You do have to go into the PDF to find the password and stuff. So. Well, we're about halfway through our hour. And I'm just going to have to ask the folks that are out there, if you have any questions, I mean, we will be going over some of the campaign materials. We'll be going over some more resources. But if you have any questions or comments, would you please let Kristen know by raising your hand if you want to talk with a microphone. We'd love to hear your voices. Or if you don't want to talk with a microphone or you'd like to just tap a type, a question in the question box or a comment, please do so. We got anything that you want to share, Kristen? Not just yet. I will interrupt as I get them appropriately. All right then. OK, we'll go back to this PowerPoint slide. And that's what Alina just talked about. OK, here we are at the partner toolkit. Now they're considering they have, of course, a host of national partners. I mentioned ALA. I mentioned the Advertising Council. They have a lot of national partners. But I do want to make it clear that they are also considering all the local organizations that help people access the internet, learn how to use computers as partners as well. And so they have created a toolkit at the Ad Council page, which I think is really pretty useful. You can see, as Alina mentioned, there are PSAs, public service announcements, and localizable materials. There are tools and resources for partners and trainers. And then there's another section called Spread the Word. And here you find, in that those PSAs and localizable materials, we'll take a look at what you could customize for your own community, postcards and flyers, and PSAs for television in English and Spanish, and some radio PSAs and web banners. There's also, if you are able to do some talking to organizations in your community, and there's talking points and curriculum. And then there's just basic information about how to get the word out through social media and other ways. And this How to Engage a Friend is kind of cool, because if you have a volunteer and they don't exactly know how to get started, this will help. So basically I'm going to suggest you go to the Ad Council page and we're going to do it right now. And that is this one, I think. Is it? Yes it is. Okay, go to the Ad Council campaign and you click on this PSAs and localizable materials. And you will find what some of these things are. There's posters, postcards, table cards, flyers. So you can see there's quite a lot of great stuff. And again, you can do some of those things with it. Am I at the Ad Council? I'm not am I? Yes, I am. Okay, good. That's great. Okay, where's my television? There it is, television. I want to show you a couple of these TV PSAs that can be run. You can run these in your cable markets, your local public access channels. You can ask anybody to run them for you. And you can use these as little trigger videos to help you talk about some of this in your community organizations. So here we go. Let's start it. She's going to go all over. Do you need help? See how quick they are? And they're in Spanish as well. There are 32nd versions too correct if they want it just a slightly longer. Let's do this one. This one's English, I think. You could also share it with your friends. Okay. What did you do? I don't even know what to say right now. I'm so nervous. Gia, you're so big. Come closer to the camera. Wait, now you're in my face. I mean it really, I think, helps to tell the story of why libraries are so involved with helping people get access to the Internet. I mean this is so important to our communities. Elena, didn't you say you saw commercial online? I did. I saw the original one. I believe I was watching Animal Planet. It was on the weekend. I think it was on the weekend too. So these have already been obviously the ad councils already started putting these out there. Now we did not know we were one of the markets. I mean because it looked like it was just cities that were the early markets for this campaign. But when Elena saw one on a cable channel, I mean that tells us I think that we could be seeing these in our communities at any time. And I think that's just amazing because after 30 years of trying to get PSAs on television, I can tell you getting a PSA on the weekend to be run during the daytime, not at 3am is pretty phenomenal. And of course that's the power of these national partners that they're able to do this kind of thing. So let me go back and see. Anybody have any questions about that? We do have a question going back to updating your info. Let's go back to that then. And one of our librarians here, Jan Sears wants to know, does each library set up their own username and password in that system? Is there any way to then reset something that's specific to yours? Not that I saw. If you look at the PDF on the website, it just clearly says that here's where you need to go, here's the username and here's the password that you should use. So once you're in there, there's nowhere. There is nowhere that I saw anywhere or any mention of setting up your own account. So well, let's do this. I'm going to stay right here. I also wanted to point out the radio resources again. I think we'll just do that. Okay. So just type the job looks like I got this here. That's it. Then you enter a job you're looking for there. The Trishan. This is Peter. Recently he got help going on the internet for the first time to look for a new job. Then you just hit search and the past Peter's gotten worked with people he knew, but he heard there were more jobs online. There we go. These are all for me. Really? He had no idea just how many. I can't believe it. This one looks good. Peter's thinking the internet might be for him after all. And this is just one website. Wow. Why didn't I do this sooner? The internet can help you do. But everyone on.org will call 1-855-387-9166 to find a free training class near you. So just type the job looks like I got this here. I think it just went started over. Again, this is something that it'd be very simple to get your local radio station to play for you. I know we have had here in Nebraska such good luck with the libraries in partnership with their local radio stations. They are very willing to play these kinds of PSAs, especially when they're all done like this. So that's another option. This is a little harder. Now we're talking about getting stuff printed and there's a little little money involved obviously. Particularly if we start talking about billboards and that kind of things. But truly they're the a lot of the work and a lot of the money's been spent. The research has been done to tell us what kind of message people are willing to hear. The money's been spent on ad professionals to develop these materials. Now all we have to do is customize them to Nebraska. So once again if we can get some of these other materials out that will help reinforce it. Web banners, we're very familiar with how you use that on your website. And then we're back to the localizable materials which is where we started. The posters, the postcards, the table cards, the flyers. Things that you can use and you can localize right in here with your library information. So if anybody has any questions about these materials I would be more than happy to talk to you personally or to talk about it right now. Just type it in or stick your hand up and we'll hear your voices. We'll go on to tools and resources. I just wanted to point out some of the things Elana was on this sheet earlier when she found the instructions for the training locator tool. I wanted to point out some other things that are here. Here's some information if you decide to talk to your city council about this or to another organization in the community the campaign fact sheet will be useful. I think this social media guide is great. I know a lot of you have got really active Facebook pages and you can use this to help you figure out some ways to use your Facebook pages. I looked at that and I like that they gave you suggested text to just put into a tweet or into a Facebook update or something so they'd kind of compose some things that you could use. I thought so too Chris. I thought that makes it so easy and of course then once you start you think of other things too. How to get PSA's placed very good suggestions and then again key talking points. There's just a lot of good resources here. There's even a curriculum on internet basics but as Elana mentioned before you may or may not be actually providing something like this. You might be providing someone who helps people just get into the online self-paced courses and an optional evaluation and participant certificate. I'm going to go to this digitallearn.org in a minute because this is another resource I really wanted to stress as a resource for librarians who are trying to assist people but maybe aren't really ready yet to do classes, formal adult education type classes or maybe you are but you also know that you need to assist people on a one-on-one coaching setting. First let me go back here and show you this. There. If you can see this What did I do? Okay. If you can see this, I think this is a very interesting slide and it's on the everyoneon.org website. The slide basically says that we can help friends get online and the reason why I like this is it's not just us helping library customers. It's us being a good friend and we may actually know some people in the community who are willing to take some time to be a friend in the library and we may have friends of the library groups that might want to take this on as a little project to basically not necessarily teach a class but just help a friend and these are just six steps for helping a friend which basically is what we've been talking about. Helping friends in our libraries or having your library friends help their friends in the library and it's a great way for a friends group to build their membership. One of the libraries here in Nebraska told me that they've been doing having a community college person do classes throughout the BTOP grant. Some of you know about our library broadband builds Nebraska libraries grant and I really thought that was a cool idea. They've been doing these classes they want to continue and they didn't know how to keep them going. So the friends group said they would pay the salary of the community college staff person to continue to offer the classes and they would ask the people who came if they wanted to leave a donation and if the donation they wanted to it could be a membership in the friends group. And I think what's going to happen is that's really going to build their friends group and it's going to make for a more diverse friends group. I think it's a really cool idea. It's another way to look at this as a friend building activity. This is just a resource list for everyone on. It's also information about the ad council about a discussion and frequently asked questions from Web Junction about this and also about digitallearn.org which is what we're going to talk about next because it's another resource. This is a resource that's a partnership that PLA has been funding public library association and it's really got two things here. It's got a section for learners which people can go into and can do little curriculum modules. They're on video and online and do those just on their own and then it's got a section for those that help learners the teachers or the coaches that are maybe in the library helping a learner. So let me just go to that website and it's right here and you can see that there's a ton of resources here. If you're a learner you click here and there's these great little short sections on things that people want to know how to do. How to use a web the internet to find things on a web website. Elena mentioned this one intro to email. This is a really good one. First of all they have a handout you can look at. Sorry I didn't do this earlier. It's not, it's going pretty good. Anyway they have a handout and it's excellent. It goes through all kinds of information about it and then let's see. I think that opened a new browser didn't it. And then you can start the class and we'll just start for a second or two so you can get an idea of what it's like. Oh would you like to resume where you left off? Sure. In order to receive emails you'll have to have your own private email account which is an electronic mailbox just for you. You also have to have your own email address so people will know where to send you an email. Like a real address the email address has to be typed in correctly or the other person will not receive their email. An email address will always have three parts. It cannot have any spaces in it. The first part of the email address is the person's username. Well this kind of gives you an idea how basic this is. I mean this is really basic but it's something for people who like to learn this way and who have a little time as you can see 14 minutes and who can just kind of go through the lessons and learn how to set up an email account and so this just gives you an idea what's available right now. People at digitallearn.org are just dynamite. They're going to continue adding to this section and so the next time you look at it there might be 8 classes, there might be 10 classes. It's an amazing dynamite community of educators and learners. I really enjoyed finding out about this. It's a great resource. The next section of it is for people who want to help learners, people who want to teach or who want to coach and if you look at this it's really great because there's all kinds of discussion going on here. Like there's a discussion here about evaluation methods, a discussion about recruiting computer lab volunteers, web literacy standards. Oh here we go. Here's a description of a group that Catherine Brockmeyer from Nebraska. We have a Nebraska group so anybody who wants to join can join the Nebraska group. It's very easy to sign up for this and this is a great way to communicate with other people or just look here and see what other people are talking about and what other libraries are doing to help folks in their area. Again, this is somebody who's from Goodwill, the goodwilllearnfree.org site. This is a dynamite site. This is one of the ones that Alana showed you. There's tons of resources for people to work on on their own. As you can see, we don't need to reinvent the wheel. The wheel's there. We just need to get on it. And sometimes it's kind of a balancing act on that wheel but it's there. There's a lot going on. I guess at this point, if there are questions about this, we could certainly talk about it. If anybody have any questions, comments, suggestions for anyone else of resources, maybe you found that can help this kind of thing. Take them into your questions section of your GoToWebInner interface or say you want to be unmuted. I can do that and you can use your microphone. As I noted when I was on the site, you can log into the community. You just go ahead and sign in and put your profile together and you're in the community. You can join groups in the community. I know I joined the communications and awareness group and the Nebraska group. I joined the Nebraska group of course. Yeah, I didn't know there was a Nebraska and I thought it was pretty cool. I got to join that and see what they're doing there. Yeah, I think it'll be real fun. Again, there's just this is just one resource I found an adult learning handout that I just loved because a lot of people know a lot about learning but don't know very much about how different adults are and our way of learning. They're not like teaching children and again, so many people like to learn on their own when they get to be our age or older. Other whoops, what did I do? I messed up. I just spoke to the editor. There we go. Other thoughts or questions? Nothing's come in yet. Anybody have any questions about the presentation? I guess one thing I might do is go back to these resources and remind everybody that they're here, that this is the Everyone On resources that are here to help you. EveryoneOn.org the ad counsel everyoneon.adcouncil.org the Web Junction resources and this is kind of a long URL but if you just remember it's Webjunction.org and it's EveryoneOn so if I think if you search that way you'll find it. And I bookmarked it in our delicious account as well at the library commission here so when I put up the recording for this, we'll have the direct link to that but it'll also be in the slides, it'll also be included when you do the recording so you'll have that way too. Thanks, Kristen. Actually I did just do that to find the link myself that you mentioned. I just went to Webjunction.org typed in EveryoneOn and it brought up this one and a couple other things. Okay, good. Good. Excellent. Excellent. And then digitallearn.org both the digitallearn.org slash learn which is the great resources for those learners and library customers and then also digitallearn.org slash teach for you or your volunteers or your friends group. I do have one comment. These are absolutely great resources. I really like that it helps librarians who maybe aren't ready to teach digital classes. Thanks for sharing these. Yes, I think that's kind of the idea and like I said, not having to invent the wheel. People are coming to the libraries anyways needing help. You guys know that. You've encountered it. We've heard. I don't know what to do. I can't learn how to Windows 8 is all about because I don't have one. We don't have one here. I don't have it at home. I would never clue to begin teaching someone about how to use their brain or computer that they just bought but the fact that these organizations put up that resource is that we can then just use and point people to just make things I think so much easier at the libraries. We can't afford to learn it ourselves at the time. We can't afford to hire the friends group that did it with that community college. That's not a cool idea. Not everyone has the money to do that. I know. That's why I think these organizations have done this because they realize that they know they're involved with ALA in libraries and they know what the libraries need. So the main thing that as Alana mentioned to take away from this is don't be shy. Hop right on here. Get to that locator tool and make sure it says what you want it to say about your library. The other point they make on everyoneon.org is you can also, if you know of other organizations in your community that does this, if there's a community action agency that's offering classes or that's offering help using government resources online, be sure they enter their information in too. So for your zip code, it's fabulous. So if there isn't a group that they added by default, they can be at it. They can be. Yeah, new ones can be at it. So it's not just restricted to what they found. Correct. Because they pre-populated this, but I think you can tell by the way it's pre-populated, they didn't expect it to stay that way. They expected it to be changed by the organizations that are doing the work. That's the way it should be. So it's great. Yeah. Yeah. You put out your own info. Yeah. So thanks everybody for joining us today. What are we doing next week, Krista? Yeah, I'm actually, if you go to browser. Oh, okay. Where am I supposed to be? Oh, just go to your browser. Get rid of that. Uh-oh, what's that? Just type in. Get rid of that. Just type it in. The wrong person is at the keyboard now. It's okay. Okay. Yeah, okay. So thank you very much. Everyone for attending this morning. There we are. And thank you, Mary Jo and Alana for collecting all this information and resources so that we can get the get the word out about this. Oh, we have a comment. That was really great. Thanks. Tender Morgan is on the line actually out there. Oh, Kendra, hi. Kendra, hi from Web Junction. So she was watching what we were doing. So we'll wrap it up for this morning's show then. It has, is being recorded so that will be available later. And like I said, the PowerPoint presentation and all the resources will be put out with it as well. So that's for today. I hope you'll join us next week when our topic is libraries lending e-readers, not e-books but e-readers, the actual devices themselves. We have a few public libraries here in Nebraska that are doing it. I know there's other ones across the country as well. And I'm going to have some of those on libraries on to talk about how they're doing it, why they're doing it, what the deal is with the actual readers that they're sending out. Oh, that's really going to be interesting. I was out in an open house at a library and they had a bunch of e-readers set up and we're showing people how to use them and telling them they could take them home and already pre-populated with books. That's very cool. And I know universities are doing it as well. In this particular one, I focus on getting some public libraries together to talk about their experiences. That sounds like a great show. So hopefully you'll join us for that next week. Also, Encompass Live is on Facebook. So if you are a Facebook user, there we are, you can like us on Facebook and you will get announcements of when we had new shows, when the recordings are available. I do a little reminder in the morning of a show letting everyone know that what today's show is that you can log in on the fly to join it if you didn't register ahead of time. So if you are a Facebook user, go ahead and like us there and keep up with what we're doing. Other than that, we are wrapped up for this morning. Thank you very much for attending and we will see you next week. Bye-bye.


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