WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 1 00:00:02.630 --> 00:00:07.374 Good morning, good morning. I'm so happy to see all of you. 2 00:00:07.374 --> 00:00:12.435 Welcome to Seattle. Those of you in the room, welcome virtually 3 00:00:12.435 --> 00:00:16.942 to those of us joining us online. We are so happy you're 4 00:00:16.942 --> 00:00:21.924 here. I'm Terry Devoe with MLS and we just are so pleased that 5 00:00:21.924 --> 00:00:26.352 we continue to have this opportunity to bring everybody 6 00:00:26.352 --> 00:00:30.859 together from the States and have this ongoing training. 7 00:00:31.100 --> 00:00:35.493 It is an investment. We continue to feel that it's worthwhile and 8 00:00:35.493 --> 00:00:39.421 our current leadership also feels that it's worthwhile and 9 00:00:39.421 --> 00:00:43.548 we hope that's the case for a long time to come. But we don't 10 00:00:43.548 --> 00:00:47.210 take it for granted and having you here is such a joy. 11 00:00:48.470 --> 00:00:51.685 This is a state federal partnership program. We really 12 00:00:51.685 --> 00:00:55.426 do think of it as a partnership and we hope that throughout the 13 00:00:55.426 --> 00:00:59.167 conference we'll be listening to you as much as we hope you are 14 00:00:59.167 --> 00:01:00.980 listening and learning from us. 15 00:01:02.110 --> 00:01:06.202 I just have a few quick things that I'm going to say before we 16 00:01:06.202 --> 00:01:10.166 get a nice welcome from our home state. So health and safety 17 00:01:10.166 --> 00:01:14.259 wise, the masks this year are optional. You're welcome to wear 18 00:01:14.259 --> 00:01:18.416 them as you see fit. And we've kept the health and safety dots. 19 00:01:18.416 --> 00:01:22.380 I am wearing mine high in the eye line. If you want to put a 20 00:01:22.380 --> 00:01:26.343 little knot in yours in the back and and do the same, you're 21 00:01:26.343 --> 00:01:30.501 welcome to. They're not exactly adjustable, but you can sort of 22 00:01:30.501 --> 00:01:32.579 make it work. So the green dots. 23 00:01:32.650 --> 00:01:36.432 There, you know, I'm open for the hugs and the handshakes. The 24 00:01:36.432 --> 00:01:40.034 yellow is a little more like fist bumps and elbow bumps and 25 00:01:40.034 --> 00:01:43.697 red is I'm really still just distancing and that's OK. We do 26 00:01:43.697 --> 00:01:47.299 have restrooms in the facility. If you kind of walk out the 27 00:01:47.299 --> 00:01:50.901 doors and look to the left corner, there's a door that will 28 00:01:50.901 --> 00:01:54.624 get you into the hallway with the restrooms. So they're here. 29 00:01:54.624 --> 00:01:58.286 And because this is a hybrid conference, again, we learned a 30 00:01:58.286 --> 00:02:01.949 lot last year and one thing everybody did really well and we 31 00:02:01.949 --> 00:02:03.390 want to emphasize again. 32 00:02:03.460 --> 00:02:07.060 Is using the microphone. It will help with the audio for those 33 00:02:07.060 --> 00:02:10.718 who are listening in from home and it's going to help us have a 34 00:02:10.718 --> 00:02:14.319 really good recording that we can put on the website after the 35 00:02:14.319 --> 00:02:17.805 fact. So please, would you do have a question or a call out, 36 00:02:17.805 --> 00:02:19.920 be sure you're using the microphone. 37 00:02:21.570 --> 00:02:25.423 We we learned through some hybrid conference experience, 38 00:02:25.423 --> 00:02:29.277 it's good to have a little placeholder on the slides for 39 00:02:29.277 --> 00:02:33.333 that zoom box. So if you're tuning in remotely, that little 40 00:02:33.333 --> 00:02:37.795 space which is consistent on all our slides is in the upper right 41 00:02:37.795 --> 00:02:41.649 hand corner. So you should be able to just set your zoom 42 00:02:41.649 --> 00:02:45.976 speaker box there and you won't miss any content. We have Cindy 43 00:02:45.976 --> 00:02:50.168 and Laura over on the side who are kind of our auxiliary core 44 00:02:50.168 --> 00:02:51.249 for the virtual. 45 00:02:51.320 --> 00:02:54.634 Intentioned and although we're gonna get both of them up here 46 00:02:54.634 --> 00:02:57.841 to stay remarks at different points in the conference, they 47 00:02:57.841 --> 00:03:00.888 are doing the lion's share of lifting for virtual. So we 48 00:03:00.888 --> 00:03:01.530 applaud you. 49 00:03:05.680 --> 00:03:10.034 We also have interpreters here with us, so hopefully that's not 50 00:03:10.034 --> 00:03:14.389 too distracting to anyone. But we have a variety of tables that 51 00:03:14.389 --> 00:03:18.676 you can choose to sit at if it is. And I always like to give a 52 00:03:18.676 --> 00:03:22.827 shout out to our tech team, which is giving us the sound and 53 00:03:22.827 --> 00:03:26.365 the vision, two of our senses that we need for this 54 00:03:26.365 --> 00:03:30.856 conference. We are recording and we will do our best to get these 55 00:03:30.856 --> 00:03:33.170 slides shortly up on the website. 56 00:03:33.250 --> 00:03:35.980 They just, it may take some time. Well, the slides are 57 00:03:35.980 --> 00:03:39.156 there, I should say, but we're going to get the recorded videos 58 00:03:39.156 --> 00:03:41.440 of all of our content over the next two days. 59 00:03:42.830 --> 00:03:47.009 So one thing we haven't been able to do for a couple of years 60 00:03:47.009 --> 00:03:51.053 is have an official welcome from our host state. And I'm so 61 00:03:51.053 --> 00:03:55.165 pleased that this year it's working out. Sarah Jones is with 62 00:03:55.165 --> 00:03:59.209 us from the Washington State Library. And in case you don't 63 00:03:59.209 --> 00:04:03.321 know, it's not in Seattle. So she had to drive here in a lot 64 00:04:03.321 --> 00:04:07.433 of traffic from Olympia, and we really appreciate her. Sarah 65 00:04:07.433 --> 00:04:11.140 took the helm during the pandemic, really dynamic time 66 00:04:11.140 --> 00:04:13.230 for all of the state libraries. 67 00:04:13.430 --> 00:04:17.746 And she is just a force of energy and good ideas. She also 68 00:04:17.746 --> 00:04:21.916 has some background in state libraries in Nevada and has 69 00:04:21.916 --> 00:04:26.452 worked in public libraries as well. So please help me welcome 70 00:04:26.452 --> 00:04:28.720 her so that she can welcome us. 71 00:04:35.000 --> 00:04:38.851 Thank you. It's wonderful to be here and I wanted to take credit 72 00:04:38.851 --> 00:04:40.510 for this weather, so I will. 73 00:04:42.070 --> 00:04:46.235 It's such a wonderful thing when we get beautiful blue skies here 74 00:04:46.235 --> 00:04:50.148 in the Pacific Northwest and my understanding is you may have 75 00:04:50.148 --> 00:04:54.313 them today and for several days. So first of all on behalf I want 76 00:04:54.313 --> 00:04:57.721 to thank or I want to welcome you all to the state of 77 00:04:57.721 --> 00:05:01.824 Washington very specifically for from me as the state librarian. 78 00:05:01.824 --> 00:05:05.358 But also my office is in the office of the Secretary of 79 00:05:05.358 --> 00:05:09.397 State. So I want to welcome you on behalf of Secretary of State 80 00:05:09.397 --> 00:05:12.490 Hobbs who is a wonderful supporter of libraries. 81 00:05:12.560 --> 00:05:16.728 He was. He was the governor Inslee gave him the post to 82 00:05:16.728 --> 00:05:21.417 after our current Secretary of State moved to Washington DC to 83 00:05:21.417 --> 00:05:26.181 fight election disinformation. So we were really proud of that. 84 00:05:26.181 --> 00:05:30.796 And then last November he won a reelection to just finish her 85 00:05:30.796 --> 00:05:35.187 term. So he will be running again in November of 24. So we 86 00:05:35.187 --> 00:05:39.951 are Secretary of State election season all the time, but I just 87 00:05:39.951 --> 00:05:42.779 want to say a few words on behalf of. 88 00:05:42.850 --> 00:05:46.499 Secretary Hobbs. In his passion for libraries and library 89 00:05:46.499 --> 00:05:50.463 services, Secretary Hobbs is the first person of color to hold 90 00:05:50.463 --> 00:05:53.798 the office of the Secretary of State in the state of 91 00:05:53.798 --> 00:05:57.008 Washington. He's Japanese American and he's a true 92 00:05:57.008 --> 00:06:00.972 believer in libraries. One of the things that he will, a story 93 00:06:00.972 --> 00:06:04.936 that he will often tell is he grew up in the Pacific Northwest 94 00:06:04.936 --> 00:06:08.649 and as a young person, his he was in a single parent home, 95 00:06:08.649 --> 00:06:12.676 single mother, and the library was his sanctuary and one of the 96 00:06:12.676 --> 00:06:14.690 things he did in that sanctuary. 97 00:06:14.790 --> 00:06:19.254 Was played dungeons and Dragons, and he had great support from 98 00:06:19.254 --> 00:06:23.434 the library there and the librarians, and it was the place 99 00:06:23.434 --> 00:06:27.615 where he felt safe and able to express himself. He, as you 100 00:06:27.615 --> 00:06:32.221 would can imagine, experienced a great deal of racism, including 101 00:06:32.221 --> 00:06:36.897 someone painting, you know, some terrible words on their door and 102 00:06:36.897 --> 00:06:41.078 on their on their front lawn. So he really understands why 103 00:06:41.078 --> 00:06:45.471 libraries are so important as sanctuaries, as places where we 104 00:06:45.471 --> 00:06:46.180 feel safe. 105 00:06:46.270 --> 00:06:49.968 And he continues to be a huge supporter of Dungeons and 106 00:06:49.968 --> 00:06:53.798 Dragons and other role-playing tabletop gaming, which I'm 107 00:06:53.798 --> 00:06:57.629 learning a whole lot about because one of the things he's 108 00:06:57.629 --> 00:07:01.459 tasked us to do, and we are going to use some some of our 109 00:07:01.459 --> 00:07:05.818 LST allotment with, is to really support role-playing, gaming and 110 00:07:05.818 --> 00:07:09.583 particularly dungeons and Dragons. So you're in the home 111 00:07:09.583 --> 00:07:13.612 of Dungeons and Dragons. Wizards of the Coast is here in the 112 00:07:13.612 --> 00:07:16.650 state of Washington and Dungeons and Dragons. 113 00:07:16.720 --> 00:07:20.855 For those of you that are players or no players, is will 114 00:07:20.855 --> 00:07:24.700 be celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2024. So this 115 00:07:24.700 --> 00:07:29.126 very week we are going to the Washington Library Association 116 00:07:29.126 --> 00:07:33.407 conference in Wenatchee, which is the Apple capital of the 117 00:07:33.407 --> 00:07:37.977 world. If you didn't know that and that we are going to have a 118 00:07:37.977 --> 00:07:42.258 session on why role-playing gaming is really important for 119 00:07:42.258 --> 00:07:46.611 all kinds of social, emotional reasons, collaboration, 21st 120 00:07:46.611 --> 00:07:47.700 century skills. 121 00:07:47.840 --> 00:07:51.678 And then in the after dark session, we're going to play a A 122 00:07:51.678 --> 00:07:55.773 we're going to play a game and have people watch people playing 123 00:07:55.773 --> 00:07:59.676 that game. And the whole idea is that we're going to support 124 00:07:59.676 --> 00:08:03.450 gaming and libraries with some resources, particularly the 125 00:08:03.450 --> 00:08:07.161 games themselves, but also helping people with, you know, 126 00:08:07.161 --> 00:08:10.808 finding, you know, experts in their area to support that 127 00:08:10.808 --> 00:08:14.327 gaming. But there's a really important part of this in 128 00:08:14.327 --> 00:08:17.910 addition to it just being in libraries and in the safe. 129 00:08:17.980 --> 00:08:21.653 Space of libraries, we are also going to do this in our 130 00:08:21.653 --> 00:08:25.851 institutional libraries, which are correctional centers and two 131 00:08:25.851 --> 00:08:29.655 psychiatric hospitals. And very recently we just opened a 132 00:08:29.655 --> 00:08:33.656 library in a female juvenile detention center. So we're also 133 00:08:33.656 --> 00:08:37.657 going to be deploying gaming in those aspects and we're also 134 00:08:37.657 --> 00:08:41.921 going to be deploying it through the Washington talking book and 135 00:08:41.921 --> 00:08:45.857 Braille Library. So we have assistive ways to to play those 136 00:08:45.857 --> 00:08:48.939 games too. So stay tuned. I think we might be. 137 00:08:49.540 --> 00:08:53.420 You know, one of the few states in the nation that are leading 138 00:08:53.420 --> 00:08:56.684 this at a statewide level, especially with the broad 139 00:08:56.684 --> 00:09:00.503 perspectives of inclusivity and accessibility. So I wanted, I 140 00:09:00.503 --> 00:09:04.445 think that that's an important part of knowing that how lucky I 141 00:09:04.445 --> 00:09:08.386 am to be in a state agency that is so supportive of our work as 142 00:09:08.386 --> 00:09:12.267 it is and has and as it can be. So the other thing I wanted to 143 00:09:12.267 --> 00:09:16.085 tell you is that I heard this wonderful story and since it's, 144 00:09:16.085 --> 00:09:19.350 you know, blue sky out there, I can tell it because. 145 00:09:19.440 --> 00:09:23.441 Sorry, I hate to tell it when it's dreary and dark and cloudy 146 00:09:23.441 --> 00:09:27.571 because you wouldn't know what I'm talking about, but this is a 147 00:09:27.571 --> 00:09:31.120 story that came from the Washington Poet Laureate. Her 148 00:09:31.120 --> 00:09:35.122 name is Reena Priest, and she tells a story about Mount Baker 149 00:09:35.122 --> 00:09:39.058 and Mount Rainier, which you often cannot see when it's Gray 150 00:09:39.058 --> 00:09:43.318 outside. But the story, then the legend is that the two mountains 151 00:09:43.318 --> 00:09:47.190 were once married. Mountain Baker is the the male gender in 152 00:09:47.190 --> 00:09:50.030 the story, and Mount Rainier is the female. 153 00:09:50.100 --> 00:09:54.323 Gender in the start. So they were married, but they ended up 154 00:09:54.323 --> 00:09:58.478 not getting along, so they parted. So the the the legend is 155 00:09:58.478 --> 00:10:02.771 that Mount Rainier, which is very true for anyone who's lives 156 00:10:02.771 --> 00:10:06.925 here or visits here often. You often can't see Rainier. You 157 00:10:06.925 --> 00:10:11.149 can't often see Baker either, but Rainier is often even in a 158 00:10:11.149 --> 00:10:15.442 blue sky. The clouds will kind of top the peak. And the story 159 00:10:15.442 --> 00:10:19.873 is that Rainier hikes from Mount Baker purposefully so he can't 160 00:10:19.873 --> 00:10:20.220 find. 161 00:10:20.300 --> 00:10:24.229 Her or see her. So I love that story. And as I say, those of us 162 00:10:24.229 --> 00:10:27.667 who live in the Pacific Northwest and here in the Puget 163 00:10:27.667 --> 00:10:31.412 Sound, you, you know, when you get the glimpse of especially 164 00:10:31.412 --> 00:10:34.666 right near, it's just breathtaking. And you have the 165 00:10:34.666 --> 00:10:38.472 pleasure today if you can get out to see all of our mountains 166 00:10:38.472 --> 00:10:42.463 because I think we're often not, you know, not really thought of 167 00:10:42.463 --> 00:10:46.330 this huge amount in the state because we often can't see them. 168 00:10:46.330 --> 00:10:49.891 I also know that you are going to have the opportunity to 169 00:10:49.891 --> 00:10:50.260 visit. 170 00:10:50.330 --> 00:10:54.437 The Washington talking book and Braille Library today, I really 171 00:10:54.437 --> 00:10:58.608 hope you take advantage of that. It's a short walk. It will be a 172 00:10:58.608 --> 00:11:02.780 beautiful walk. There's lots of great places to eat that you can 173 00:11:02.780 --> 00:11:06.758 find something quick. But we are very proud of the Washington 174 00:11:06.758 --> 00:11:10.160 talking book and Braille Library. It was the network 175 00:11:10.160 --> 00:11:13.946 library of the Year last year for the third time. So we're 176 00:11:13.946 --> 00:11:17.540 very excited about that. It is also innovative and does 177 00:11:17.540 --> 00:11:21.070 incredibly exciting programs, but in addition to that. 178 00:11:21.140 --> 00:11:25.124 That's a very cool building. It's a building that used to be 179 00:11:25.124 --> 00:11:29.173 a Dodge dealership. So when you come, there's kind of a round 180 00:11:29.173 --> 00:11:33.092 front of it. And then it once had, it was in the 50s and it 181 00:11:33.092 --> 00:11:36.619 had a turntable. So the brand new Dodge could be on a 182 00:11:36.619 --> 00:11:40.734 turntable and the people walking by could see it and admire it 183 00:11:40.734 --> 00:11:44.784 and desire it and come by 1. So we're really there. There's a 184 00:11:44.784 --> 00:11:48.833 number of reasons for you to see that wonderful facility. And 185 00:11:48.833 --> 00:11:51.120 then as I mentioned briefly, so I. 186 00:11:51.230 --> 00:11:54.871 Was able to bring hand out to you all the services that the 187 00:11:54.871 --> 00:11:58.756 state library is providing here in the state of Washington. And 188 00:11:58.756 --> 00:12:02.701 just to give you an idea, but we do have the four components. We 189 00:12:02.701 --> 00:12:06.343 have the library development group, which I think Claire is 190 00:12:06.343 --> 00:12:10.167 here, she's our representative from Washington and the Library 191 00:12:10.167 --> 00:12:13.930 Development Group, as you know, does the work that you're all 192 00:12:13.930 --> 00:12:17.815 here to talk about. I'm really proud of them. They do excellent 193 00:12:17.815 --> 00:12:21.396 work. They've been incredibly committed to really doubling 194 00:12:21.396 --> 00:12:21.700 down. 195 00:12:21.770 --> 00:12:25.635 Especially during the pandemic to make sure that our libraries 196 00:12:25.635 --> 00:12:29.440 are served. And I think most importantly as all of us, I came 197 00:12:29.440 --> 00:12:32.998 from the Public Library world just most recently. What we 198 00:12:32.998 --> 00:12:36.312 needed in the pandemic was flexibility. So ohh a huge 199 00:12:36.312 --> 00:12:40.055 thanks to I'm less for both the cares and the art of funding 200 00:12:40.055 --> 00:12:43.859 funding because that did give us that flexibility so we could 201 00:12:43.859 --> 00:12:47.663 meet libraries where they were. So for many of our libraries, 202 00:12:47.663 --> 00:12:51.284 you know, is because we have very large libraries like the 203 00:12:51.284 --> 00:12:52.450 King County system. 204 00:12:52.530 --> 00:12:56.380 King County Library system in Seattle public and we have very 205 00:12:56.380 --> 00:13:00.044 small libraries in the most rural components of our state. 206 00:13:00.044 --> 00:13:04.080 So as you can imagine the things that we supported were had that 207 00:13:04.080 --> 00:13:07.496 broad breadth. So for King County we supported lockers 208 00:13:07.496 --> 00:13:11.222 excuse me so people could come get their resources and then 209 00:13:11.222 --> 00:13:15.196 rural Stevens County great deal of support for a Wi-Fi hotspots 210 00:13:15.196 --> 00:13:19.108 which were really and still are unfortunately some of the only 211 00:13:19.108 --> 00:13:23.207 ways people can get connected to the Internet in that part of our 212 00:13:23.207 --> 00:13:23.580 state. 213 00:13:23.680 --> 00:13:27.694 So library development does a lot of exciting work. We also 214 00:13:27.694 --> 00:13:31.641 have pretty important state funding that supports our work 215 00:13:31.641 --> 00:13:35.455 too. We are in legislative session right now and we just 216 00:13:35.455 --> 00:13:39.201 found out yesterday that our funding for a program that 217 00:13:39.201 --> 00:13:42.680 supports Microsoft certification, LinkedIn learning 218 00:13:42.680 --> 00:13:46.628 including lynda.com that has been funded by the governor's 219 00:13:46.628 --> 00:13:50.642 budget, the Senate, the House and it's been recommended for 220 00:13:50.642 --> 00:13:53.720 ongoing. So we have been getting it one shot. 221 00:13:53.790 --> 00:13:57.482 Since 2013, but if we get it ongoing then it will be 222 00:13:57.482 --> 00:14:01.104 permanently in our base budget. We are also getting 223 00:14:01.104 --> 00:14:05.633 significantly more resources for institutional libraries which I 224 00:14:05.633 --> 00:14:09.673 mentioned is the the program where we support. We have 12 225 00:14:09.673 --> 00:14:13.714 facilities in correctional centers, psychiatric hospitals 226 00:14:13.714 --> 00:14:17.267 and recently a juvenile detention center and we're 227 00:14:17.267 --> 00:14:21.656 hoping to add the other center that is for young men. So we're 228 00:14:21.656 --> 00:14:25.070 really proud of that if you are looking towards. 229 00:14:25.450 --> 00:14:29.312 Making sure that that library work is equitable, providing 230 00:14:29.312 --> 00:14:33.108 libraries for incarcerated individuals, I think is really 231 00:14:33.108 --> 00:14:37.167 incredibly important in that work. I think we're getting more 232 00:14:37.167 --> 00:14:40.964 and more aware of. One of the things that I think is less 233 00:14:40.964 --> 00:14:44.499 aware than people would know is 95% of people who are 234 00:14:44.499 --> 00:14:48.426 incarcerated will return, will leave incarceration and will 235 00:14:48.426 --> 00:14:52.223 come to society. And it's a very, very difficult path for 236 00:14:52.223 --> 00:14:55.299 those folks to come in and find jobs and find. 237 00:14:55.370 --> 00:14:59.105 Ways to really thrive in this society. So one of the things 238 00:14:59.105 --> 00:15:02.715 that we have that's a really important partnership is the 239 00:15:02.715 --> 00:15:06.513 fact that our local libraries partner with us and we can get 240 00:15:06.513 --> 00:15:10.373 someone the local library card as they're being released from 241 00:15:10.373 --> 00:15:13.921 their incarceration so that hopefully they can find that 242 00:15:13.921 --> 00:15:17.718 same library services that they had in their institution. So 243 00:15:17.718 --> 00:15:21.142 we're excited about that. And also I can't not mention 244 00:15:21.142 --> 00:15:24.380 anywhere we are hiring, we have about 10 positions. 245 00:15:25.650 --> 00:15:29.031 Open up in the in the ILS system. So if you know anyone 246 00:15:29.031 --> 00:15:32.774 that would like to have, you know, really an impactful career 247 00:15:32.774 --> 00:15:36.578 there, there are both librarian positions and paraprofessional 248 00:15:36.578 --> 00:15:40.200 positions and they're located all throughout the state. And 249 00:15:40.200 --> 00:15:43.641 then, so I think I've covered them, library development, 250 00:15:43.641 --> 00:15:47.385 institutional libraries, the talking book and Braille Library 251 00:15:47.385 --> 00:15:50.766 and our wonderful library development group. And I just 252 00:15:50.766 --> 00:15:54.388 want to end with a huge thank you for all the work that you 253 00:15:54.388 --> 00:15:54.569 do. 254 00:15:55.450 --> 00:15:58.470 As Terry's mentioned, I've been in and about. 255 00:15:59.850 --> 00:16:03.747 This work either as a second time as a state librarian, but 256 00:16:03.747 --> 00:16:07.774 always findings both library services and Technology Act, and 257 00:16:07.774 --> 00:16:11.932 I've been able to be a principal investigator for several Laura 258 00:16:11.932 --> 00:16:16.089 Bush grants and this money makes such a difference. I think the 259 00:16:16.089 --> 00:16:19.596 part that I always feel so strongly about is it's not 260 00:16:19.596 --> 00:16:22.909 enough to do something completely, but it's almost 261 00:16:22.909 --> 00:16:26.872 always enough to leverage the other resources that the local 262 00:16:26.872 --> 00:16:30.120 resources, the state resources, the philanthropy. 263 00:16:30.190 --> 00:16:34.708 To get really spectacular things done. So thank you on on behalf 264 00:16:34.708 --> 00:16:38.810 of the Washington State Library and welcome to Washington. 265 00:16:49.800 --> 00:16:53.284 Thank you, Sarah, so much for those rallying words. We're 266 00:16:53.284 --> 00:16:56.829 going to make good investments here this week. That's what 267 00:16:56.829 --> 00:17:00.614 we're doing. What we are going to do actually is give everyone 268 00:17:00.614 --> 00:17:04.399 a chance to who's in the room, get out of their seat and we're 269 00:17:04.399 --> 00:17:08.245 going to do a quick icebreaker. We haven't done this format for 270 00:17:08.245 --> 00:17:11.730 a while, but what we have in mind is we'd like to create. 271 00:17:11.810 --> 00:17:15.901 So basically like a big conga line of y'all that represents, 272 00:17:15.901 --> 00:17:20.327 you know, people that are new to the state library administrative 273 00:17:20.327 --> 00:17:24.687 agency, maybe you've been there weeks, months, days, and on this 274 00:17:24.687 --> 00:17:28.979 end of the spectrum you've been there decades. So everybody can 275 00:17:28.979 --> 00:17:33.205 line up in the room. Those of you who are online, you're going 276 00:17:33.205 --> 00:17:37.430 to chat into the box, you know your name, your state, how long 277 00:17:37.430 --> 00:17:41.655 you've been in the state library and your role and once we get 278 00:17:41.655 --> 00:17:42.929 people in the room. 279 00:17:43.000 --> 00:17:46.633 Signed up. Then we'll pass the mic and they can sort of do the 280 00:17:46.633 --> 00:17:50.094 same. And then we'll hear from Cindy and Laura as sort of a 281 00:17:50.094 --> 00:17:53.324 wrap up as to who's with us virtually. So you got a few 282 00:17:53.324 --> 00:17:56.612 minutes to get yourselves organized here in the room and 283 00:17:56.612 --> 00:18:00.188 go, alright, Laura, kick us off. Hi, I'm Laura Hicks. I'm the 284 00:18:00.188 --> 00:18:03.533 state data coordinator in Maryland and I am the backup to 285 00:18:03.533 --> 00:18:07.109 our state grants coordinator. And I've been with the Maryland 286 00:18:07.109 --> 00:18:08.839 State Library for seven weeks. 287 00:18:13.760 --> 00:18:17.875 Good morning, everyone. I'm Jeff Regensburger with the state 288 00:18:17.875 --> 00:18:22.126 Library of Ohio. I'm a library consultant and LSA coordinator, 289 00:18:22.126 --> 00:18:25.837 and I've been with the state Library of Ohio for seven 290 00:18:25.837 --> 00:18:26.310 months. 291 00:18:30.290 --> 00:18:35.435 I'm tulala Florko and I'm from Idaho. I've been in the position 292 00:18:35.435 --> 00:18:40.260 for 13 1/2 months and I'm the grants and contracts officer. 293 00:18:44.310 --> 00:18:48.111 Hi, my name is Amanda Gammon. I'm the LSA coordinator for 294 00:18:48.111 --> 00:18:52.110 California, and I've been there just over a year, 14 months. 295 00:18:56.150 --> 00:18:59.784 Hi, my name is Kate Ingy and I'm the grants and continuing 296 00:18:59.784 --> 00:19:03.479 education coordinator for the Alaska State Library and I've 297 00:19:03.479 --> 00:19:06.928 been there for 15 months and doing my job for about 3-3 298 00:19:06.928 --> 00:19:07.360 months. 299 00:19:10.860 --> 00:19:14.293 My name is Tara McLeod and I'm with Oklahoma Department of 300 00:19:14.293 --> 00:19:17.842 Libraries and I am the federal programs officer and business 301 00:19:17.842 --> 00:19:20.810 manager, and I've been in that role for 18 months. 302 00:19:23.770 --> 00:19:27.213 My name is Tammy Lee and I'm the state library director from 303 00:19:27.213 --> 00:19:30.600 Minnesota. I've been in my job for about a year and a half. 304 00:19:31.740 --> 00:19:36.605 And I have a very sad sack story about really desiring an LSD 305 00:19:36.605 --> 00:19:41.314 coordinator not being able to have one. So I'm gonna ask me 306 00:19:41.314 --> 00:19:43.590 about it, but bring a napkin. 307 00:19:46.560 --> 00:19:49.952 Hi, I'm Ashley. I work for the Montana State Library as an 308 00:19:49.952 --> 00:19:53.230 accountant and I've been there for, I think two years in 309 00:19:53.230 --> 00:19:53.690 October. 310 00:19:56.640 --> 00:20:00.373 Good morning. I'm Amy Parker Disorbo from the United States 311 00:20:00.373 --> 00:20:03.422 Virgin Islands. I'm the territorial director for 312 00:20:03.422 --> 00:20:07.342 libraries, archives and museums for the Virgin Islands, and it 313 00:20:07.342 --> 00:20:08.960 will be two years in June. 314 00:20:11.730 --> 00:20:14.122 Hi, I'm Bruce Smith. I'm the project coordinator for 315 00:20:14.122 --> 00:20:16.920 Wisconsin at the Department of Public Construction. I've been 316 00:20:16.920 --> 00:20:19.853 there three years, which means I started at the beginning of the 317 00:20:19.853 --> 00:20:20.260 pandemic. 318 00:20:23.650 --> 00:20:26.182 Good morning. My name is Christine Weiss. I'm from the 319 00:20:26.182 --> 00:20:28.714 Hawaii State Public Library system. I've been with the 320 00:20:28.714 --> 00:20:31.431 system for a little over three years, but been in the LSST 321 00:20:31.431 --> 00:20:34.240 coordinator and special projects librarian for about a year. 322 00:20:37.360 --> 00:20:40.976 I'm Alice Smith and I'm the LSA coordinator and also a state 323 00:20:40.976 --> 00:20:44.533 data coordinator for Kansas, and I've been in my position a 324 00:20:44.533 --> 00:20:47.735 little over three years. Also putting me right at the 325 00:20:47.735 --> 00:20:49.810 beginning of the pandemic as well. 326 00:20:53.370 --> 00:20:56.773 I'm Wendy Copeland, and I'm the director of finance and grants 327 00:20:56.773 --> 00:21:00.338 at South Carolina State Library. And because I started about five 328 00:21:00.338 --> 00:21:03.525 years ago, it's pandemic years, so it's like dog years and 329 00:21:03.525 --> 00:21:05.470 things like that. Really long time. 330 00:21:10.310 --> 00:21:14.345 I'm Jessica Otto. I've been at the Wyoming State Library for 331 00:21:14.345 --> 00:21:18.645 almost five years now, but next week I start as the research and 332 00:21:18.645 --> 00:21:22.020 statistics consultant and working with IMLS stuff. 333 00:21:25.780 --> 00:21:30.050 I'm Natalie dunnaway. I am the grant programs coordinator with 334 00:21:30.050 --> 00:21:33.847 the Mississippi Library Commission. I've been there now 335 00:21:33.847 --> 00:21:37.914 for a little over five years, but I started my job as grant 336 00:21:37.914 --> 00:21:42.118 programs coordinator right in 2020, March 2020. So everything 337 00:21:42.118 --> 00:21:46.050 I know, all the wisdom I have, has been learned remotely. 338 00:21:47.930 --> 00:21:48.360 Correct. 339 00:21:49.390 --> 00:21:50.070 That's a lot. 340 00:21:51.720 --> 00:21:54.528 Hey, I'm Mary raymie. I'm the grants coordinator for the 341 00:21:54.528 --> 00:21:57.681 Maryland State Library Agency, and I've been there for a little 342 00:21:57.681 --> 00:21:58.470 over five years. 343 00:22:01.180 --> 00:22:04.344 Good morning. I'm Rebecca Camp, and I am the state data 344 00:22:04.344 --> 00:22:07.338 coordinator for the Montana State Library. I see her 345 00:22:07.338 --> 00:22:07.960 everywhere. 346 00:22:10.700 --> 00:22:12.150 She said she's been there five years. 347 00:22:13.620 --> 00:22:16.901 I'm Angela fox. I'm the federal projects coordinator for 348 00:22:16.901 --> 00:22:20.527 Indiana, which means I do the annual report and LSA. So I know 349 00:22:20.527 --> 00:22:24.327 there's some other annual report people here so they could hear a 350 00:22:24.327 --> 00:22:27.608 lot more of me on those listservs, and I've been yelling 351 00:22:27.608 --> 00:22:28.990 at them for 5 1/2 years. 352 00:22:32.140 --> 00:22:36.236 I'm Carmen Redding from North Dakota. I started as the school 353 00:22:36.236 --> 00:22:40.333 and Youth Services and I am now the library Services division 354 00:22:40.333 --> 00:22:44.297 director and it will be 6 years in July and I'm retiring in 355 00:22:44.297 --> 00:22:44.760 August. 356 00:22:48.850 --> 00:22:52.571 Hi, I'm Nicole apophony. I am the LSTA coordinator and library 357 00:22:52.571 --> 00:22:56.233 development coordinator at the Rhode Island Office of Library 358 00:22:56.233 --> 00:22:59.718 and Information Services. It will be 6 years in May that I 359 00:22:59.718 --> 00:23:02.139 have been with the State library agency. 360 00:23:06.040 --> 00:23:08.923 Hi, I'm Lindsay Forbes. I'm the project manager and grant 361 00:23:08.923 --> 00:23:12.105 specialist at the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners, 362 00:23:12.105 --> 00:23:15.287 and I will also have been at the agency for six years in May. I 363 00:23:15.287 --> 00:23:16.529 didn't know she was good. 364 00:23:18.910 --> 00:23:21.855 Hi, I'm Katherine Prince with the state library of North 365 00:23:21.855 --> 00:23:24.697 Carolina. I'm the federal programs consultant and I've 366 00:23:24.697 --> 00:23:26.920 been at the state Library for 7 1/2 years. 367 00:23:30.930 --> 00:23:34.865 Suman Jones, LSA coordinator for the state of Nevada, and I have 368 00:23:34.865 --> 00:23:36.500 been there for eight years. 369 00:23:39.270 --> 00:23:42.554 Hey, Sadia Cleveland. I am from Pennsylvania. I have been the 370 00:23:42.554 --> 00:23:45.892 LSA coordinator for nine years, but I'm a lifelong learner. So 371 00:23:45.892 --> 00:23:46.740 does that count? 372 00:23:50.650 --> 00:23:54.573 Lynn Burris with the state of Mississippi Library Commission 373 00:23:54.573 --> 00:23:55.860 and almost 90 years. 374 00:23:59.710 --> 00:24:02.676 I'm Sarah black. I'm with the DC Public Library and I've been 375 00:24:02.676 --> 00:24:04.160 there for 9 years. Almost done. 376 00:24:07.150 --> 00:24:10.222 Supported him Terry Bluebelt, but I'm from Missouri and I've 377 00:24:10.222 --> 00:24:13.245 been with the Secretary of State's office for 20 1/2 years, 378 00:24:13.245 --> 00:24:16.318 but with the state library, which is a part of the Secretary 379 00:24:16.318 --> 00:24:17.929 of State's office for almost 10. 380 00:24:22.100 --> 00:24:25.588 I'm Laura Walsh. I'm with the New Jersey State Library, and 381 00:24:25.588 --> 00:24:28.785 before that I was in a Washington State library. But I 382 00:24:28.785 --> 00:24:32.390 kind of have amnesia and I'm not sure exactly how many years. 383 00:24:37.060 --> 00:24:40.427 I'm Claire Amara and I took over Mary's job at the Washington 384 00:24:40.427 --> 00:24:43.631 State Library six months ago, but I had been at the Alaska 385 00:24:43.631 --> 00:24:46.130 State Library before that for 11 years total. 386 00:24:49.520 --> 00:24:53.485 I'm Erica McCormick from the Texas State Library and Archives 387 00:24:53.485 --> 00:24:57.386 Commission. I've been there. I should have known. I did know 388 00:24:57.386 --> 00:25:01.416 this eleven years, but I've been to USA coordinator for three, 389 00:25:01.416 --> 00:25:05.190 and I am the manager of the grants and accreditation team. 390 00:25:08.570 --> 00:25:11.627 Good morning, everyone. I'm Evan strubel. I'm the associate state 391 00:25:11.627 --> 00:25:14.592 librarian for the state Library of Ohio. I've been in that role 392 00:25:14.592 --> 00:25:17.464 for almost five years, but I've been at the state library for 393 00:25:17.464 --> 00:25:20.521 12. I, too, will also be hiring, so if you need to give me a job, 394 00:25:20.521 --> 00:25:23.301 I have a consultant position coming open soon. Come talk to 395 00:25:23.301 --> 00:25:23.440 me. 396 00:25:27.680 --> 00:25:32.135 Hi, I'm Kim Armantrout from the Library of Virginia. I am the 397 00:25:32.135 --> 00:25:35.727 state aid administrator, the SDC, and now the LSA 398 00:25:35.727 --> 00:25:36.590 coordinator. 399 00:25:39.550 --> 00:25:43.144 Hi, I'm Brenda Hamilton with the South Dakota State library. I am 400 00:25:43.144 --> 00:25:46.139 the access and development services manager. I've been 401 00:25:46.139 --> 00:25:49.680 there 14 years and I've been the LSTA coordinator for about two. 402 00:25:52.770 --> 00:25:56.387 I'm Michael Golick with the state library of Louisiana. I've 403 00:25:56.387 --> 00:25:59.828 been at the state library there for 14 and a third years. 404 00:25:59.828 --> 00:26:03.623 Because I did the math. Because I've just, as I said, I've been 405 00:26:03.623 --> 00:26:07.064 the state data coordinator. I've been the associate state 406 00:26:07.064 --> 00:26:10.800 librarian since November 15th. So, and I too am hiring. I have 407 00:26:10.800 --> 00:26:14.062 a position open now. The application deadline is April 408 00:26:14.062 --> 00:26:14.300 9th. 409 00:26:18.340 --> 00:26:22.458 Hello, I'm Jamie Ball, grants administrator for the Arizona 410 00:26:22.458 --> 00:26:25.890 State Library. And I've been there 15 plus years. 411 00:26:29.780 --> 00:26:34.749 I'm Susan Mark with the Wyoming State Library. I've been with 412 00:26:34.749 --> 00:26:39.880 the state library 21 years, and I'm not sure how long I've been 413 00:26:39.880 --> 00:26:44.930 LSA coordinator. I think it's 7 ish, and I used to be the SEC. 414 00:26:49.440 --> 00:26:51.550 Amy Heefner from the New York State Library. 415 00:26:55.370 --> 00:26:59.453 I'm from the New York State Library and I think I've been to 416 00:26:59.453 --> 00:27:03.537 LA coordinator for six or seven years. Before that I was the 417 00:27:03.537 --> 00:27:07.420 SEC, and before 2012 I worked in the research Library and 418 00:27:07.420 --> 00:27:08.090 reference. 419 00:27:13.130 --> 00:27:16.361 I'm Karen Reese from the Library of Michigan, and that does sound 420 00:27:16.361 --> 00:27:19.396 familiar. I started as one of the research librarians for the 421 00:27:19.396 --> 00:27:22.382 legislature in 1999, so I've been there for 24 years, 19 the 422 00:27:22.382 --> 00:27:25.417 LSST coordinator, and I'm also the Grand Coordinator, and I'm 423 00:27:25.417 --> 00:27:27.179 also the school library consultant. 424 00:27:31.580 --> 00:27:34.974 I'm Jennifer Cowan Henderson. I'm at the Tennessee State 425 00:27:34.974 --> 00:27:38.428 Library and archives. I have been there for 25 1/2 years. 426 00:27:38.428 --> 00:27:41.643 I've worked with LSA for about 10 years, but been the 427 00:27:41.643 --> 00:27:43.490 coordinator for the past three. 428 00:27:44.290 --> 00:27:45.290 And I do a lot of things. 429 00:27:49.550 --> 00:27:53.779 I'm Debbie Hall from Arkansas State library. I'm manager of 430 00:27:53.779 --> 00:27:58.290 grants and I have been there for 37 years, 22 of which has been 431 00:27:58.290 --> 00:27:59.700 the LSA coordinator. 432 00:28:02.860 --> 00:28:08.418 Hi, good morning. My name is Hector Reyes. I'm operation two 433 00:28:08.418 --> 00:28:13.704 years operation Manager Service program, Library services 434 00:28:13.704 --> 00:28:18.807 program in Puerto Rico, Department of Education and one 435 00:28:18.807 --> 00:28:23.090 month coordinator and to No2 year development. 436 00:28:27.160 --> 00:28:31.170 Thank you, everybody. Alright, everybody in the room can like 437 00:28:31.170 --> 00:28:35.181 make their way back to their seats. Thank you so much. What a 438 00:28:35.181 --> 00:28:38.933 demonstration of the vast institutional knowledge we have 439 00:28:38.933 --> 00:28:42.944 here. So be sure that you grab some before the end of the two 440 00:28:42.944 --> 00:28:46.955 days. And now we're going to beam over to our virtual set and 441 00:28:46.955 --> 00:28:50.772 hear from Cindy briefly who's in the room. So we have this 442 00:28:50.772 --> 00:28:54.329 Microsoft the whole time. So I don't know what to say. 443 00:28:55.770 --> 00:28:59.581 The minute that will hurt all that. So we have about 22 folks 444 00:28:59.581 --> 00:29:03.332 in the virtual room and some of you have a real family look. 445 00:29:03.332 --> 00:29:05.730 Come see you later or I will find you. 446 00:29:07.210 --> 00:29:13.295 We have a lot of folks in the two to five year range, which is 447 00:29:13.295 --> 00:29:18.704 not not surprising. We have Lauren, 10 months or any in 448 00:29:18.704 --> 00:29:24.113 Florida, 22 years. Sam from Nebraska 14 years. Jean and 449 00:29:24.113 --> 00:29:30.005 Colorado 18 years. Brenda in Iowa one year. New Mexico has a 450 00:29:30.005 --> 00:29:36.380 new coordinator who's been there nine months, but Karen Egan. God 451 00:29:36.380 --> 00:29:36.960 bless. 452 00:29:37.510 --> 00:29:43.783 29 years, she wins the virtual raffle. That's it. So thanks 453 00:29:43.783 --> 00:29:48.280 everybody. Alright, thank you all so much. 454 00:29:49.460 --> 00:29:53.377 I'm going to wrap up this section with a little bit of 455 00:29:53.377 --> 00:29:57.936 IMLS overview. It's kind of like the flotsam and jetsam that we 456 00:29:57.936 --> 00:30:02.353 didn't fit into other sessions. So you're going to get it all 457 00:30:02.353 --> 00:30:06.627 here. But just by way of saying welcome again, you know, we 458 00:30:06.627 --> 00:30:11.328 welcome you aboard the grants to states bus. And this bus is full 459 00:30:11.328 --> 00:30:15.816 of some wonderful, fun, kind, responsive federal folks, public 460 00:30:15.816 --> 00:30:19.805 servants that I have the pleasure of working with every 461 00:30:19.805 --> 00:30:20.090 day. 462 00:30:20.220 --> 00:30:24.671 And we are lucky enough to work with you in our work, and that 463 00:30:24.671 --> 00:30:28.768 makes our work worthwhile. There's room on this bus for a 464 00:30:28.768 --> 00:30:33.290 friend or 50, so hop aboard and you know the next two days will 465 00:30:33.290 --> 00:30:36.470 be a fun time of learning and collaboration. 466 00:30:37.980 --> 00:30:41.636 We have some program updates and conference notes to share with 467 00:30:41.636 --> 00:30:44.892 you. So this is going to be kind of a flyby. Last year's 468 00:30:44.892 --> 00:30:48.377 conference theme was news when we were in Baltimore. And I I 469 00:30:48.377 --> 00:30:52.148 think it's safe to say like this was the noisiest year we've ever 470 00:30:52.148 --> 00:30:55.575 had in the program. You were all finishing up your stimulus 471 00:30:55.575 --> 00:30:59.117 funds, you were doing five year planning activities and we've 472 00:30:59.117 --> 00:31:02.488 spent the last nine months trying to elevate all that work 473 00:31:02.488 --> 00:31:05.858 in our various communications channels. I won't belabor it 474 00:31:05.858 --> 00:31:07.630 here, but you can check it out. 475 00:31:07.920 --> 00:31:10.686 And and I do want to say that we have two of our own 476 00:31:10.686 --> 00:31:13.871 communications colleagues with us this conference, Erica and 477 00:31:13.871 --> 00:31:17.055 Dan, and they're actually going to be doing short interviews 478 00:31:17.055 --> 00:31:20.292 with some of you, you know who you are and that's going to be 479 00:31:20.292 --> 00:31:23.424 upstairs. And we hope to take little sound bites from those 480 00:31:23.424 --> 00:31:26.765 interviews and feature them on our social media. So this is the 481 00:31:26.765 --> 00:31:29.480 first time we're trying that. We're pretty excited. 482 00:31:31.530 --> 00:31:36.095 We have in other news reached a very important milestone in our 483 00:31:36.095 --> 00:31:40.375 statute, which locks in a base of $1,000,000 for States and 484 00:31:40.375 --> 00:31:44.727 $100,000 for territories. It's due to the very large program 485 00:31:44.727 --> 00:31:49.078 bump that we got this year in our overall program budget. So 486 00:31:49.078 --> 00:31:53.002 congratulations to all of you for doing great work and 487 00:31:53.002 --> 00:31:57.211 reminding Congress that it's important, important work and 488 00:31:57.211 --> 00:31:59.280 worthy of getting more money. 489 00:32:02.320 --> 00:32:06.402 Not all news in grants to states is positive and happy. So let me 490 00:32:06.402 --> 00:32:10.298 bring it down for a moment as I have a heart to heart with you 491 00:32:10.298 --> 00:32:11.350 about extensions. 492 00:32:12.800 --> 00:32:16.207 So we've had a number of extensions the last few years 493 00:32:16.207 --> 00:32:19.925 owing to the stimulus funds and supply chain issues and all 494 00:32:19.925 --> 00:32:23.704 kinds of other things that were outside of your control. And 495 00:32:23.704 --> 00:32:27.732 we've tried to be very flexible and very accommodating and we've 496 00:32:27.732 --> 00:32:31.697 given a lot of extensions. So at this point, we're kind of back 497 00:32:31.697 --> 00:32:35.600 getting back to normal order. You're going to have your normal 498 00:32:35.600 --> 00:32:39.070 allotment every year. You're probably going to have two 499 00:32:39.070 --> 00:32:42.850 grants that you're administering at any given time, we think 500 00:32:42.850 --> 00:32:43.160 that. 501 00:32:43.230 --> 00:32:46.352 Scenario usually gives states enough flexibility to 502 00:32:46.352 --> 00:32:50.134 accommodate those strange things that are happening with their 503 00:32:50.134 --> 00:32:53.856 money. And so we'd really like to rein in all the extensions. 504 00:32:53.856 --> 00:32:57.699 So as 20 fiscal 2022 is coming to an end and you're going to be 505 00:32:57.699 --> 00:33:01.421 reporting on it, you know it will end in September and you'll 506 00:33:01.421 --> 00:33:05.084 be reporting on it thereafter. If you're sensing that you're 507 00:33:05.084 --> 00:33:08.926 having the same kind of issues coming up into fiscal 2022, just 508 00:33:08.926 --> 00:33:12.889 think creatively about could you use your fiscal 23 money and and 509 00:33:12.889 --> 00:33:14.149 sort of work through. 510 00:33:14.220 --> 00:33:17.215 Some of that, it's not that we're not gonna grant 511 00:33:17.215 --> 00:33:20.810 extensions, it's just that they're gonna have a really high 512 00:33:20.810 --> 00:33:23.985 bar and we always have to escalate those up to other 513 00:33:23.985 --> 00:33:27.760 offices in our agency. And so they're going to want to see the 514 00:33:27.760 --> 00:33:31.355 evidence that this was truly outside of your control and if 515 00:33:31.355 --> 00:33:34.890 you can come to us before a period of performance ends, so 516 00:33:34.890 --> 00:33:38.544 that's usually September 30th, that helps us stay within our 517 00:33:38.544 --> 00:33:41.900 regulatory framework. So PSA for the good of the order. 518 00:33:43.360 --> 00:33:48.510 This is a visual of the SPQR Cliff as I like to call it. 519 00:33:49.730 --> 00:33:52.974 There are implications for extensions in the SPR and this 520 00:33:52.974 --> 00:33:56.218 has been a driver for this program. This is a visual I've 521 00:33:56.218 --> 00:33:59.798 been carrying around in my head for the last two years and I've 522 00:33:59.798 --> 00:34:03.379 finally put it down on paper. So there's a lot of words on this 523 00:34:03.379 --> 00:34:06.847 slide. But the basic gist is that in a normal reporting year, 524 00:34:06.847 --> 00:34:10.483 when you've got two grants, you sort of finished up your SPR. We 525 00:34:10.483 --> 00:34:14.007 sort of carry it to the finish line with program officer input 526 00:34:14.007 --> 00:34:17.699 and then there's a little bit of a buffer zone where we allow the 527 00:34:17.699 --> 00:34:18.929 maintenance of effort. 528 00:34:19.740 --> 00:34:23.663 Sort of numbers to be locked in and you've got a little buffer 529 00:34:23.663 --> 00:34:27.648 before you start the next year's report. But if you have a nine 530 00:34:27.648 --> 00:34:31.260 month extension, there is no longer any buffer and you're 531 00:34:31.260 --> 00:34:35.245 basically finishing both reports out at the same time. Which is 532 00:34:35.245 --> 00:34:39.106 very frightening when I think about those of you having to do 533 00:34:39.106 --> 00:34:43.091 this work and sort of toggling between the different years. And 534 00:34:43.091 --> 00:34:46.267 it's just rife with opportunities for things to go 535 00:34:46.267 --> 00:34:50.377 sideways. So we have to, by law, give you 120 days to finish your 536 00:34:50.377 --> 00:34:50.999 reporting. 537 00:34:51.160 --> 00:34:55.204 If you see fit to finish it earlier, I think it'll be good 538 00:34:55.204 --> 00:34:59.111 for all of us. PSA #2, the next three slides come from a 539 00:34:59.111 --> 00:35:02.881 colleague of ours who wasn't able to travel with us to 540 00:35:02.881 --> 00:35:07.062 Seattle. She's our director of grants policy and management, 541 00:35:07.062 --> 00:35:11.175 Connie Bodner, and she's been helping us sort of go through 542 00:35:11.175 --> 00:35:14.945 some of these changes at the government level that are 543 00:35:14.945 --> 00:35:18.989 affecting all of us this year. So I'm not going to belabor 544 00:35:18.989 --> 00:35:21.800 these three slides because they're here. 545 00:35:21.880 --> 00:35:25.669 You want to revisit them, but I've got kind of a sound bite 546 00:35:25.669 --> 00:35:29.585 for each one of them with the unique entity identifier, which 547 00:35:29.585 --> 00:35:33.375 was the changeover that the sam.gov system implemented last 548 00:35:33.375 --> 00:35:37.291 year for the first time. It's been a rocky first year. We all 549 00:35:37.291 --> 00:35:41.144 recognize that the take away that we've been getting is that 550 00:35:41.144 --> 00:35:45.060 there should be a one time pain point theoretically, and that 551 00:35:45.060 --> 00:35:48.787 going forward renewal should be much, much, much smoother. 552 00:35:48.787 --> 00:35:52.640 However, if you let your renewal apps, you may be in danger. 553 00:35:52.730 --> 00:35:56.018 With having to do a lot more paperwork again in the future. 554 00:35:56.018 --> 00:35:59.580 So our words to the wise are do not let your registration lapse. 555 00:35:59.580 --> 00:36:03.032 Like keep it active and you may not be the person sitting here 556 00:36:03.032 --> 00:36:06.484 in this room that's responsible for that, but be in touch with 557 00:36:06.484 --> 00:36:07.800 your colleagues who are. 558 00:36:10.140 --> 00:36:13.409 Login.gov is a system of authentication for different 559 00:36:13.409 --> 00:36:17.284 government systems and we have implemented it this year for our 560 00:36:17.284 --> 00:36:20.614 EMS system, which is our electronics grants management 561 00:36:20.614 --> 00:36:24.549 system. We haven't had a lot of feedback about how this is going 562 00:36:24.549 --> 00:36:28.122 from the states, so if you've experienced any pain points, 563 00:36:28.122 --> 00:36:31.815 we'd be interested in hearing from you about it. And there's 564 00:36:31.815 --> 00:36:35.448 some resources on this slide that can help if you have been 565 00:36:35.448 --> 00:36:37.869 in that position of having some issues. 566 00:36:40.340 --> 00:36:44.362 We want you to get paid when you get the grant money. And so our 567 00:36:44.362 --> 00:36:48.260 colleague has laid out a number of, you know, pitfalls that we 568 00:36:48.260 --> 00:36:51.849 run into that prevent us from making your payments to you 569 00:36:51.849 --> 00:36:55.686 quickly. And again, we may have a few people in the room that 570 00:36:55.686 --> 00:36:59.585 are responsible for requesting drawdown payments from IMS, but 571 00:36:59.585 --> 00:37:03.297 if this is not you, make sure that your fiscal counterparts 572 00:37:03.297 --> 00:37:06.763 get access to this information. The one thing I want to 573 00:37:06.763 --> 00:37:10.476 highlight here is in sort of an internal review of how much 574 00:37:10.476 --> 00:37:11.590 people are asking. 575 00:37:11.660 --> 00:37:15.549 To draw down funds, we've seen that some States and some 576 00:37:15.549 --> 00:37:19.370 entities ask for multiple amounts of money in any given 577 00:37:19.370 --> 00:37:23.396 month, and if it's possible to consolidate that to maybe 2 578 00:37:23.396 --> 00:37:27.490 draws a month, that would make our work a lot easier. So we 579 00:37:27.490 --> 00:37:30.970 humbly beseech you to tighten that up if possible. 580 00:37:34.360 --> 00:37:37.871 Some of you know about limited English proficiency. Some of you 581 00:37:37.871 --> 00:37:40.944 may not wonder what we're talking about here. This is a 582 00:37:40.944 --> 00:37:43.852 policy requirement of the program. It often comes up 583 00:37:43.852 --> 00:37:47.199 around the time that we make site visits because it's on our 584 00:37:47.199 --> 00:37:50.382 site visit checklist, and we start asking you if you feel 585 00:37:50.382 --> 00:37:53.729 policy for it. This is just to say that we've heard from our 586 00:37:53.729 --> 00:37:56.747 legal counterparts that I'm LS who have heard from our 587 00:37:56.747 --> 00:37:59.490 Department of Justice counterparts in the federal 588 00:37:59.490 --> 00:38:02.618 government that there are changes coming to this policy, 589 00:38:02.618 --> 00:38:03.990 which is government wide. 590 00:38:04.090 --> 00:38:07.881 And that as soon as we get more information, we will roll it out 591 00:38:07.881 --> 00:38:08.290 to you. 592 00:38:11.810 --> 00:38:15.403 We're going to again partner with Kosla on the National Book 593 00:38:15.403 --> 00:38:18.997 Festival. Some of you in the room are the people that travel 594 00:38:18.997 --> 00:38:22.767 to Washington, DC for this and some of you are not. But we have 595 00:38:22.767 --> 00:38:26.302 heard that the date is going to be moved earlier this year. 596 00:38:26.302 --> 00:38:30.014 Library of Congress has not yet publicly announced this. So if 597 00:38:30.014 --> 00:38:33.549 you need, if you are on a need to know basis, you can track 598 00:38:33.549 --> 00:38:37.083 down me or Dennis and we can tell you, but I'm not going to 599 00:38:37.083 --> 00:38:40.736 proclaim it publicly until they do. We are thinking this year 600 00:38:40.736 --> 00:38:43.800 that we're going to give an additional about $1000. 601 00:38:43.870 --> 00:38:47.705 Per state, which will enable there to be perhaps local events 602 00:38:47.705 --> 00:38:51.354 that sort of hearken to the National Book festival in your 603 00:38:51.354 --> 00:38:54.818 area. And these would take advantage of the great reads 604 00:38:54.818 --> 00:38:58.405 books that are picked by each state to be featured at the 605 00:38:58.405 --> 00:39:02.302 National Book Festival. And they would allow you to, you know, 606 00:39:02.302 --> 00:39:06.199 tie them into the National Book Festival, acknowledge IMS with 607 00:39:06.199 --> 00:39:09.787 funding, and sort of have that footprint of National Book 608 00:39:09.787 --> 00:39:13.251 festival iness in your community. If you're hearing all 609 00:39:13.251 --> 00:39:14.549 this and saying, wow. 610 00:39:14.620 --> 00:39:18.289 That sounds like a lot of work, and we're not cut out for that. 611 00:39:18.289 --> 00:39:21.787 That's OK. We think you could also use those funds to offset 612 00:39:21.787 --> 00:39:25.514 more travel if you have to send more people or buffer unexpected 613 00:39:25.514 --> 00:39:29.126 travel costs, or if you want to send more exhibit materials to 614 00:39:29.126 --> 00:39:32.567 Washington, DC, maybe you want to print and ship some extra 615 00:39:32.567 --> 00:39:36.179 things. But we're going to give you this extra amount of money 616 00:39:36.179 --> 00:39:37.900 this year and see how it goes. 617 00:39:42.090 --> 00:39:45.558 We've got a great couple of days planned for you now. We're 618 00:39:45.558 --> 00:39:49.026 getting into the conference proper. Just a couple of things 619 00:39:49.026 --> 00:39:52.610 to highlight on this slide. Our director, Crosby Kemper, will 620 00:39:52.610 --> 00:39:55.905 speak to us tomorrow. He's actually in the building. You 621 00:39:55.905 --> 00:39:59.662 may see him, but he's off doing other other excursions today and 622 00:39:59.662 --> 00:40:03.246 other visits with institutions. But think about questions you 623 00:40:03.246 --> 00:40:06.714 may want to ask him tomorrow. We've got 45 minutes with him 624 00:40:06.714 --> 00:40:08.680 and it is probably the last year. 625 00:40:08.750 --> 00:40:13.232 That he will be with us because he is coming to the end of his 626 00:40:13.232 --> 00:40:15.510 tenure with MLS. So get him now. 627 00:40:16.650 --> 00:40:19.959 The optional lunch tour at the Talking Book and Braille 628 00:40:19.959 --> 00:40:23.151 Library, that's Sarah so graciously extended to us is 629 00:40:23.151 --> 00:40:26.993 something I'm going to walk over to. So if you'd like to join me 630 00:40:26.993 --> 00:40:30.539 on my walking excursion, I'll probably stand outside at the 631 00:40:30.539 --> 00:40:34.144 registration desk at the lunch hour and then I'm going to go 632 00:40:34.144 --> 00:40:37.809 because we need like 20 minutes to get over there and I don't 633 00:40:37.809 --> 00:40:41.177 want to cut anyone's lunch short, but we're very excited 634 00:40:41.177 --> 00:40:44.546 about seeing this ex car dealership facility and all the 635 00:40:44.546 --> 00:40:46.320 exciting things it does today. 636 00:40:48.760 --> 00:40:52.418 All right. In terms of the logistics, we do have kind of a 637 00:40:52.418 --> 00:40:56.262 yellow cover colored survey in your conference package should 638 00:40:56.262 --> 00:40:59.982 be the last sheet in your paper clipped packet. We take the 639 00:40:59.982 --> 00:41:04.075 feedback from this survey really seriously every year and we make 640 00:41:04.075 --> 00:41:07.795 iterative improvements to this conference. We also have the 641 00:41:07.795 --> 00:41:11.763 conference survey available by URL if you prefer to fill it out 642 00:41:11.763 --> 00:41:15.545 that way or for those of you who are tuning in virtually, we 643 00:41:15.545 --> 00:41:17.220 tried two things last year. 644 00:41:17.290 --> 00:41:20.996 That we're reviving and they're over on this side of the Deus 645 00:41:20.996 --> 00:41:24.224 one is a peer-to-peer appreciation wall. We are going 646 00:41:24.224 --> 00:41:27.871 to do formal recognition this afternoon, so some of you have 647 00:41:27.871 --> 00:41:31.279 already sourced those People's Choice Awards and we will 648 00:41:31.279 --> 00:41:35.045 formally acknowledge them then. But if you just want to give a 649 00:41:35.045 --> 00:41:38.751 shout out to someone who's, you know, helped you find a great 650 00:41:38.751 --> 00:41:42.577 lunch eatery or just whatever, you can take the sticky notes at 651 00:41:42.577 --> 00:41:46.463 your table, write a little piece of appreciation and stick it on 652 00:41:46.463 --> 00:41:47.479 the appreciation. 653 00:41:47.550 --> 00:41:51.300 Small and we will revisit those at the end of tomorrow. We also 654 00:41:51.300 --> 00:41:55.051 have a parking lot for sessions like this where I'm just trying 655 00:41:55.051 --> 00:41:58.568 to cram everything in and we don't have time for questions. 656 00:41:58.568 --> 00:42:02.260 So if you have questions that remain unanswered that you would 657 00:42:02.260 --> 00:42:05.425 like us to address tomorrow morning stick them on the 658 00:42:05.425 --> 00:42:09.117 parking lot and we will sort of have a a grab bag of questions 659 00:42:09.117 --> 00:42:12.575 that we can answer tomorrow morning. We have a dine around 660 00:42:12.575 --> 00:42:16.208 sheet on the side of the room. So if you're looking to have a 661 00:42:16.208 --> 00:42:17.850 dinner out with some of the. 662 00:42:17.920 --> 00:42:21.269 Fabulous people in this room, but you don't know where to 663 00:42:21.269 --> 00:42:24.446 start. We've got several restaurants identified. Thank 664 00:42:24.446 --> 00:42:28.027 you, Dennis, who vetted these restaurants. One in particular, 665 00:42:28.027 --> 00:42:31.492 wild ginger, I've heard is an excellent Thai restaurant. So 666 00:42:31.492 --> 00:42:35.304 just sign yourself up in a slot. And then after the conference is 667 00:42:35.304 --> 00:42:38.827 over, you may want to connect to yourselves, figure out when 668 00:42:38.827 --> 00:42:42.120 you're dining, whether you need a reservation, etcetera. 669 00:42:43.590 --> 00:42:47.455 If you're drowning in our acronyms, I'm sorry. We do have 670 00:42:47.455 --> 00:42:51.653 an online handout that we sort of summarize these up last week 671 00:42:51.653 --> 00:42:55.919 and you're welcome to reference it throughout. And just hang in 672 00:42:55.919 --> 00:42:59.984 there with us. You spent, you know, as many years as Debbie. 673 00:42:59.984 --> 00:43:04.249 You're going to eventually get those acronyms. We've taken some 674 00:43:04.249 --> 00:43:08.315 inspiration from this beautiful city that we're in, Seattle, 675 00:43:08.315 --> 00:43:12.313 which has a nickname of the Emerald City, so our conference 676 00:43:12.313 --> 00:43:13.379 theme this year. 677 00:43:13.450 --> 00:43:17.795 Is the Wizard of Oz, and you're going to see some references to 678 00:43:17.795 --> 00:43:21.190 that in our slides throughout bad puns, etcetera. 679 00:43:24.330 --> 00:43:27.827 I never like to hold appreciation till the end when 680 00:43:27.827 --> 00:43:31.862 like half of our attendees have left. So I just want to say 681 00:43:31.862 --> 00:43:35.965 initially we have a official meeting planner, Matt Brodetsky 682 00:43:35.965 --> 00:43:36.840 and Anna who. 683 00:43:39.640 --> 00:43:43.355 Do you so much? They get you here, they facilitate your 684 00:43:43.355 --> 00:43:47.402 travel, they get this beautiful room figured out and set up, 685 00:43:47.402 --> 00:43:51.251 they handle the beautiful recording with experts from our 686 00:43:51.251 --> 00:43:55.497 tech and audio team, and we just could not do these conferences 687 00:43:55.497 --> 00:43:56.360 without them. 688 00:43:57.360 --> 00:44:01.755 We've got again interpreters and tech staff who are our silent 689 00:44:01.755 --> 00:44:05.592 auxiliary corps. We so appreciate you. We Co host this 690 00:44:05.592 --> 00:44:09.918 conference with Imolese staff from the Office of Research and 691 00:44:09.918 --> 00:44:13.825 Evaluation and we will be introducing our IMS selves to 692 00:44:13.825 --> 00:44:18.220 you throughout the program. Bus to suffice it to say that Matt 693 00:44:18.220 --> 00:44:22.476 and Emily are true partners in this and we could not do this 694 00:44:22.476 --> 00:44:24.569 conference without their help. 695 00:44:25.660 --> 00:44:26.450 Yeah. 696 00:44:30.440 --> 00:44:34.197 We have a new colleague we're going to introduce to you this 697 00:44:34.197 --> 00:44:37.647 afternoon. As we think about support for the SPR, we've 698 00:44:37.647 --> 00:44:41.096 always got support from our office of Chief Information 699 00:44:41.096 --> 00:44:44.916 Officer staff. Again, we've got office of communication staff 700 00:44:44.916 --> 00:44:48.735 here and of course you who have taken your time to be in this 701 00:44:48.735 --> 00:44:52.431 room and my colleagues, the grants to state staff, you guys 702 00:44:52.431 --> 00:44:55.881 make this conference the wonderful thing that it is and 703 00:44:55.881 --> 00:44:58.529 we are so excited about the next two days. 704 00:45:04.890 --> 00:45:09.141 Those of you have been with the program a few years, have seen 705 00:45:09.141 --> 00:45:13.393 the star on the left a few times because we've been saying you 706 00:45:13.393 --> 00:45:17.307 can do hard things, states. And last year we had a humble 707 00:45:17.307 --> 00:45:21.559 request from one of you to start doing easy things because you 708 00:45:21.559 --> 00:45:25.945 were tired of those hard things. So maybe the time is now, maybe 709 00:45:25.945 --> 00:45:29.319 this is the year let's all shift into doing some. 710 00:45:29.390 --> 00:45:33.143 Easy things. So I would just say set your burdens down on the 711 00:45:33.143 --> 00:45:36.958 grants to states bus the next few days. We're here for you. We 712 00:45:36.958 --> 00:45:40.772 get to lean on each other and and let's go forward and do some 713 00:45:40.772 --> 00:45:42.709 easy things together. Thank you. 714 00:45:46.860 --> 00:45:51.266 All right. We took a few extra minutes from that session, but I 715 00:45:51.266 --> 00:45:55.397 know that Emily is a pro and will catch us right up for our 716 00:45:55.397 --> 00:45:59.321 break. Emily Plowman is, as you've seen her last year in 717 00:45:59.321 --> 00:46:03.521 Baltimore, just A and she was a face last year on the screen 718 00:46:03.521 --> 00:46:07.652 because she did not make it physically, but she's here this 719 00:46:07.652 --> 00:46:11.852 year, which is so exciting. Emily, last year was part of our 720 00:46:11.852 --> 00:46:15.570 auxiliary staffing team and is now a full IMS member. 721 00:46:15.680 --> 00:46:19.757 Which is owing to not only the wonderful things that she does 722 00:46:19.757 --> 00:46:23.375 for us as an agency all the time, but I would say Matt 723 00:46:23.375 --> 00:46:27.518 Birnbaum's creative approaches to hiring. So we're thankful to 724 00:46:27.518 --> 00:46:30.938 both of them. Emily is the strategic evaluation and 725 00:46:30.938 --> 00:46:35.147 research officer for IMLS. She has done deep dives with us on a 726 00:46:35.147 --> 00:46:38.896 number of our initiatives including five year plans. And 727 00:46:38.896 --> 00:46:42.645 since last year we sort of departed Baltimore with those 728 00:46:42.645 --> 00:46:46.657 plans being due within days, we never really had a chance to 729 00:46:46.657 --> 00:46:47.710 talk about them. 730 00:46:47.800 --> 00:46:51.508 So we're going to spend a little time revisiting plans from last 731 00:46:51.508 --> 00:46:53.790 year, so please help me welcome, Emily. 732 00:47:01.430 --> 00:47:01.720 Right. 733 00:47:04.740 --> 00:47:08.342 OK, so I am Terry, going to catch us up. Just to give the 734 00:47:08.342 --> 00:47:12.318 tech team a heads up, I'm going to go faster than you can click 735 00:47:12.318 --> 00:47:16.169 your heels together three times and say there's no place like 736 00:47:16.169 --> 00:47:16.479 home. 737 00:47:17.950 --> 00:47:22.043 I also, you know, I would be remiss if, as the data lady, you 738 00:47:22.043 --> 00:47:26.268 can just call me that from IMLS didn't do some kind of informal 739 00:47:26.268 --> 00:47:29.240 assessment when we were doing introductions. 740 00:47:30.900 --> 00:47:35.320 As you all were lined up here, I noticed that there tended to be 741 00:47:35.320 --> 00:47:39.468 more titles on that end of the room than on this end. So for 742 00:47:39.468 --> 00:47:43.821 those of you who are looking for career advancement, it doesn't 743 00:47:43.821 --> 00:47:48.037 seem like you get rid of what you do as you advance. You just 744 00:47:48.037 --> 00:47:48.650 get more. 745 00:47:49.920 --> 00:47:54.180 So, you know, but everyone's hiring, so keep going. 746 00:47:56.000 --> 00:47:59.517 OK. So we're going to just start really briefly. I'm going to go 747 00:47:59.517 --> 00:48:03.090 through some of the major topics that we saw really pop up in the 748 00:48:03.090 --> 00:48:06.608 five year plans. The next slide is a list of is a bar chart that 749 00:48:06.608 --> 00:48:09.855 we would have showed, Oh my gosh, why am I telling the tech 750 00:48:09.855 --> 00:48:13.211 people to do this? I have the clicker myself. Sorry guys, me, 751 00:48:13.211 --> 00:48:14.510 I need to pay attention. 752 00:48:16.200 --> 00:48:20.215 So we saw this slide at the last conference where we looked at 753 00:48:20.215 --> 00:48:24.422 the different topical areas that showed up really commonly in the 754 00:48:24.422 --> 00:48:28.502 plans that you submitted. I went through and looked at a lot of 755 00:48:28.502 --> 00:48:32.518 the comments that the program officers pulled out as they were 756 00:48:32.518 --> 00:48:36.470 reading through each of your plans and just kind of looked at 757 00:48:36.470 --> 00:48:40.485 what it was in these most common topics that we were seeing in 758 00:48:40.485 --> 00:48:44.437 terms of where you're investing dollars. And I'm not going to 759 00:48:44.437 --> 00:48:46.859 read every single note on each slide. 760 00:48:46.950 --> 00:48:51.506 But library workforce shows up the most. Not a huge surprise. 761 00:48:51.506 --> 00:48:55.621 That's a really easy thing to fund, get staff training, 762 00:48:55.621 --> 00:48:59.589 support, student advancement, help with elevating the 763 00:48:59.589 --> 00:49:03.998 competencies of libraries. But it was by far. It's almost a 764 00:49:03.998 --> 00:49:08.775 universal funding mechanism that you all use with your grants to 765 00:49:08.775 --> 00:49:13.625 states money and and plan to use with your grants to states money 766 00:49:13.625 --> 00:49:17.520 reading shows up next, almost also nearly universal. 767 00:49:18.050 --> 00:49:22.007 Reading an early literacy have different, have very similar and 768 00:49:22.007 --> 00:49:25.902 a lot of overlapping concepts. But literacy tends to be really 769 00:49:25.902 --> 00:49:29.365 broader of course, right? We're not talking about early 770 00:49:29.365 --> 00:49:33.013 childhood literacy. Summer reading though tends to fall in 771 00:49:33.013 --> 00:49:36.970 this category more than we see it fall into the early literacy. 772 00:49:36.970 --> 00:49:40.433 One thing that I thought was really interesting reading 773 00:49:40.433 --> 00:49:44.143 through all of the comments for reading is that it could be 774 00:49:44.143 --> 00:49:47.915 broad. You know we're going to reach the whole community for 775 00:49:47.915 --> 00:49:48.410 reading. 776 00:49:48.480 --> 00:49:52.493 All levels and identification of specific activities or we have 777 00:49:52.493 --> 00:49:56.506 the example in Wyoming and other areas where they're supporting 778 00:49:56.506 --> 00:50:00.519 reading in places like prisons are harder to reach populations. 779 00:50:00.519 --> 00:50:04.595 We see broadband of course also show up. This doesn't count. You 780 00:50:04.595 --> 00:50:08.232 know, this is another place where there's overlap. You'll 781 00:50:08.232 --> 00:50:11.994 see it in some of the other slides, but there's this nearly 782 00:50:11.994 --> 00:50:15.568 universal commitment to accessibility with broadband. So 783 00:50:15.568 --> 00:50:19.268 we do see investments, people planning to invest in things 784 00:50:19.268 --> 00:50:21.400 like equipment or infrastructure. 785 00:50:21.470 --> 00:50:26.270 Grades, training, et cetera. But it's this topic for almost all 786 00:50:26.270 --> 00:50:31.070 of you, is really about getting access to your pot, your entire 787 00:50:31.070 --> 00:50:35.795 state, populations. There's not necessarily a particular focus 788 00:50:35.795 --> 00:50:40.370 on a type of population. This is a universal access concept. 789 00:50:42.730 --> 00:50:47.654 For early, for early learning. This of course is our is a bread 790 00:50:47.654 --> 00:50:52.656 and butter issue for libraries. We have things like partnerships 791 00:50:52.656 --> 00:50:57.350 that show up here. I really liked how like in the Washington 792 00:50:57.350 --> 00:51:01.812 example, they talk about sharing best practices for early 793 00:51:01.812 --> 00:51:06.660 learning. And when we had our convening for reading last March 794 00:51:06.660 --> 00:51:11.123 in Washington DC, sharing best practices showed up as the 795 00:51:11.123 --> 00:51:11.970 number one. 796 00:51:12.070 --> 00:51:15.747 One of the number one things that all librarians wanted in 797 00:51:15.747 --> 00:51:19.362 terms of being able to advance early learning concepts in 798 00:51:19.362 --> 00:51:23.040 libraries. So early learning broadly and sharing this best 799 00:51:23.040 --> 00:51:26.842 practices really hit hits on that one. That one stood out to 800 00:51:26.842 --> 00:51:30.333 me. Georgia talked about targeting a very specific type 801 00:51:30.333 --> 00:51:34.260 of reading, so early learning can be broad. It can also be one 802 00:51:34.260 --> 00:51:36.130 example, one specific program. 803 00:51:37.480 --> 00:51:42.338 The non library workforce tended to be one of the more broader 804 00:51:42.338 --> 00:51:47.351 topics where we saw more variety in what people were going to be 805 00:51:47.351 --> 00:51:51.978 planning to spend money on and this could be job or digital 806 00:51:51.978 --> 00:51:56.373 skills training, making job information accessible. Good 807 00:51:56.373 --> 00:52:00.769 overlap of the digital or broadband access concepts here 808 00:52:00.769 --> 00:52:05.088 too Tennessee talks about partnering with the Treasury, 809 00:52:05.088 --> 00:52:07.710 Arkansas talks about free access. 810 00:52:07.780 --> 00:52:10.861 Going to get free access statewide to those rural 811 00:52:10.861 --> 00:52:14.498 populations. So that's another good example of an overlap, 812 00:52:14.498 --> 00:52:18.505 reusing money for core concepts both in one topic that you might 813 00:52:18.505 --> 00:52:22.511 be primarily focused on and then in another like broadband where 814 00:52:22.511 --> 00:52:25.840 that's just such a major issue for rural populations. 815 00:52:27.360 --> 00:52:31.224 We will take a 30 second commercial break so I can make a 816 00:52:31.224 --> 00:52:35.555 shameless plug for my MLS report that the Office of Research and 817 00:52:35.555 --> 00:52:39.686 Evaluation supported funding through Kasla last year. This is 818 00:52:39.686 --> 00:52:43.750 this was conducted by Mount Auburn Associates. And one thing 819 00:52:43.750 --> 00:52:47.748 that I just really wanted to highlight here is that it it's 820 00:52:47.748 --> 00:52:51.746 looking at the different types of workforce activities that 821 00:52:51.746 --> 00:52:55.810 public libraries offer and the original concept was what are 822 00:52:55.810 --> 00:52:57.610 the trends, what do we see? 823 00:52:57.680 --> 00:53:01.514 If we were to interview every single branch across the United 824 00:53:01.514 --> 00:53:04.853 States, what's kind of the common denominator of what 825 00:53:04.853 --> 00:53:08.564 libraries offer and what we we ended up having to dial that 826 00:53:08.564 --> 00:53:12.275 back because trying to interview every single branch in the 827 00:53:12.275 --> 00:53:16.171 United States would have done several people under and it just 828 00:53:16.171 --> 00:53:20.067 was really, it ended up being really logistically challenging. 829 00:53:20.067 --> 00:53:23.840 So we did case studies instead and not surprisingly but also 830 00:53:23.840 --> 00:53:27.179 surprisingly, we found that libraries in this area in 831 00:53:27.179 --> 00:53:27.860 particular. 832 00:53:27.960 --> 00:53:32.235 They have very strong passionate like want to provide a workforce 833 00:53:32.235 --> 00:53:36.056 role. There's there's really this like gap filling element 834 00:53:36.056 --> 00:53:40.073 that libraries tend to recognize in themselves. We aren't the 835 00:53:40.073 --> 00:53:44.153 primary workforce drivers in our community unless there is not 836 00:53:44.153 --> 00:53:47.716 one, unless there is not a workforce element where the 837 00:53:47.716 --> 00:53:51.279 people who provide tech where tech is not available in 838 00:53:51.279 --> 00:53:52.510 workforce training. 839 00:53:53.840 --> 00:53:57.399 And that there's so, so much variety in terms of how 840 00:53:57.399 --> 00:54:01.631 libraries step into these roles that they're. I would guess if 841 00:54:01.631 --> 00:54:05.526 we were to go out and look at all the branches across the 842 00:54:05.526 --> 00:54:09.623 United States and the structures within systems, it would be 843 00:54:09.623 --> 00:54:13.989 incredibly hard to come out with a consistent trend. In the same 844 00:54:13.989 --> 00:54:18.288 way we might see what libraries do for early literacy or in the 845 00:54:18.288 --> 00:54:22.385 same way of what we might, might see libraries do for summer 846 00:54:22.385 --> 00:54:24.400 reading. So anyway, go online. 847 00:54:24.480 --> 00:54:27.705 Visit the report. Thank you for the time. Now back to our 848 00:54:27.705 --> 00:54:29.430 normally scheduled programming. 849 00:54:31.890 --> 00:54:35.348 Humanities was a super interesting topic that came up. 850 00:54:35.348 --> 00:54:38.492 This one also had a lot of variety in what people 851 00:54:38.492 --> 00:54:42.453 considered maybe some type of humanities concept. And I should 852 00:54:42.453 --> 00:54:46.414 say some of this has some, I am less interpretation on it. You 853 00:54:46.414 --> 00:54:50.439 did not check a box anywhere in your report that said that this 854 00:54:50.439 --> 00:54:54.086 happened. So if you don't remember writing humanities and 855 00:54:54.086 --> 00:54:57.984 you know, you know something like that shows up, that was our 856 00:54:57.984 --> 00:55:00.939 interpretation of what you were committing to. 857 00:55:01.860 --> 00:55:06.071 I have to also give another shameless plug for America 250. 858 00:55:06.071 --> 00:55:10.563 Arizona is committing funds to help promote civic conversations 859 00:55:10.563 --> 00:55:14.984 for the America 250 effort, and that's something I'm unless is 860 00:55:14.984 --> 00:55:19.195 also fairly involved in rural and hard to reach populations 861 00:55:19.195 --> 00:55:23.406 for those of you that have an area and a focus. And here we 862 00:55:23.406 --> 00:55:27.126 see a lot of things like bookmobiles, mail programs, 863 00:55:27.126 --> 00:55:31.548 expansion of digital materials, my home state, tiny, tiny town 864 00:55:31.548 --> 00:55:32.110 of Iowa. 865 00:55:32.230 --> 00:55:36.627 Um, the the Iowa example really spoke to me, the rural shrink 866 00:55:36.627 --> 00:55:41.237 smart program, not about plastic wrap, it is about helping small 867 00:55:41.237 --> 00:55:45.350 populations plan for their population shrinking, which is 868 00:55:45.350 --> 00:55:49.818 really interesting in my mind because a lot of times is how do 869 00:55:49.818 --> 00:55:53.719 we keep our communities vital, but how do you actually 870 00:55:53.719 --> 00:55:58.258 anticipate kind of this outflow within your community. So I had 871 00:55:58.258 --> 00:55:59.890 to throw that in there. 872 00:56:01.360 --> 00:56:06.482 OK, so that was very fast. Thank you to the translator for 873 00:56:06.482 --> 00:56:10.390 keeping up with me. We're going to do about. 874 00:56:11.140 --> 00:56:14.183 A couple of speed round activities. So you've gotten up 875 00:56:14.183 --> 00:56:17.661 and gotten your blood flowing in the room. We are going to do a 876 00:56:17.661 --> 00:56:20.867 speed challenge and we're going to keep, we're going to do 877 00:56:20.867 --> 00:56:24.019 however many rounds we can get to before we have to go on 878 00:56:24.019 --> 00:56:27.279 break. And what's going to happen here is that you're going 879 00:56:27.279 --> 00:56:27.659 to get. 880 00:56:28.320 --> 00:56:32.866 2 minutes to go around your tables and identify programs in 881 00:56:32.866 --> 00:56:37.034 starting with non library workforce and then rural and 882 00:56:37.034 --> 00:56:41.581 hard to reach populations, broadband and early literacy. So 883 00:56:41.581 --> 00:56:45.748 start the first round is non library workforce and the 884 00:56:45.748 --> 00:56:50.371 challenge with this is brevity. So how many programs can you 885 00:56:50.371 --> 00:56:54.842 list at your tables in a 2 minute time period? So you need 886 00:56:54.842 --> 00:56:55.600 a counter. 887 00:56:56.410 --> 00:57:00.839 And then you get 30 seconds to identify what you think might be 888 00:57:00.839 --> 00:57:05.130 the most unique program. And this is going to be hard because 889 00:57:05.130 --> 00:57:09.560 I've intentionally not defined unique. I have intentionally not 890 00:57:09.560 --> 00:57:13.366 to find what fits and non library workforce. So you're 891 00:57:13.366 --> 00:57:17.726 just it's going to be a little wild, you're just going to have 892 00:57:17.726 --> 00:57:20.080 to go with what you come up with. 893 00:57:21.370 --> 00:57:25.160 For those of you online you're gonna be furiously typing in 894 00:57:25.160 --> 00:57:29.203 chat and once we get through the I'll I'll call the two minutes 895 00:57:29.203 --> 00:57:33.246 you get 30 seconds to pick the most unique example that came up 896 00:57:33.246 --> 00:57:37.163 at your table and then we'll do a quick report out to see how 897 00:57:37.163 --> 00:57:40.701 many people were able to identify how many programs you 898 00:57:40.701 --> 00:57:44.428 were able to identify and an example of unique program and 899 00:57:44.428 --> 00:57:48.155 this might we might just have time for one. So let's start 900 00:57:48.155 --> 00:57:50.430 with non library workforce remarks. 901 00:57:51.090 --> 00:57:54.687 Cassette go and lucky you were about ready to head off to 902 00:57:54.687 --> 00:57:58.719 break, so once we get done with the report out, I won't make you 903 00:57:58.719 --> 00:58:00.579 do the other three categories. 904 00:58:02.110 --> 00:58:05.654 If I could get Dennis and Madison just to help out, grab 905 00:58:05.654 --> 00:58:09.571 mics and go around each of the tables, we're going to start in 906 00:58:09.571 --> 00:58:13.363 that corner just so you have five more seconds to figure out 907 00:58:13.363 --> 00:58:16.970 who's going to go and what you're going to say. And we'll 908 00:58:16.970 --> 00:58:20.700 just go around around the room and then we'll go online and 909 00:58:20.700 --> 00:58:21.820 then we get break. 910 00:58:23.040 --> 00:58:24.970 I'm going to sit back here. Hey, guys. 911 00:58:28.180 --> 00:58:31.938 Again, we had a a little bit of a difference between states that 912 00:58:31.938 --> 00:58:34.020 do subgrants and states that don't. 913 00:58:35.650 --> 00:58:39.986 But what we came up with the most unique was, um, technically 914 00:58:39.986 --> 00:58:44.533 she was mostly 2022 funding, but we had a community that is very 915 00:58:44.533 --> 00:58:48.450 wealthy. They're north of Chicago and close to Lake MI, 916 00:58:48.450 --> 00:58:52.577 but surrounding them are a lot of fruit farms with migrant 917 00:58:52.577 --> 00:58:56.633 workers. And they did a very intensive migrant children's 918 00:58:56.633 --> 00:59:00.760 education program. They're wrapping up and they did great. 919 00:59:00.760 --> 00:59:01.810 That's awesome. 920 00:59:05.060 --> 00:59:09.246 OK. Texas has, well, we had a couple of other items too, but 921 00:59:09.246 --> 00:59:13.500 they said Texas was the best one. So I guess I'm the best one 922 00:59:13.500 --> 00:59:17.892 to talk about. We were able to get a work, a library consultant 923 00:59:17.892 --> 00:59:21.461 position for workforce development only and we have 924 00:59:21.461 --> 00:59:25.716 used that with state funds and federal funds. We have built a 925 00:59:25.716 --> 00:59:30.039 collaboration relationship with our Texas Workforce Commission 926 00:59:30.039 --> 00:59:32.510 to train the trainer for libraries. 927 00:59:32.810 --> 00:59:37.583 In locally and to train patrons of those libraries as well. 928 00:59:37.583 --> 00:59:38.140 Thanks. 929 00:59:41.120 --> 00:59:45.762 And if I mean if you had time to count as a as the data lady, I'd 930 00:59:45.762 --> 00:59:47.240 love to hear numbers. 931 00:59:48.920 --> 00:59:51.300 Like how did you get 5/10/15? 932 00:59:55.890 --> 00:59:58.180 Well, we kind of struggled for a little bit. 933 01:00:01.390 --> 01:00:07.157 But I I think we all had similar workforce development grants 934 01:00:07.157 --> 01:00:07.530 for. 935 01:00:09.100 --> 01:00:13.331 Migrant populations and reaching those populations Mobileye. So 936 01:00:13.331 --> 01:00:17.099 in California we had one specifically in Santa Cruz area 937 01:00:17.099 --> 01:00:21.330 which did really well and they had some technology devices they 938 01:00:21.330 --> 01:00:25.561 were they were able to provide for that community and help with 939 01:00:25.561 --> 01:00:28.139 job searching space. Successful, cool. 940 01:00:32.660 --> 01:00:33.530 Ohh, online. 941 01:00:40.530 --> 01:00:44.720 Well, that was fun, let me tell you, we had a lot of. 942 01:00:45.350 --> 01:00:45.610 Thanks. 943 01:00:46.510 --> 01:00:50.964 We had some really interesting thoughts and projects, but we 944 01:00:50.964 --> 01:00:55.200 landed on reentry resources and that was out of Nebraska. 945 01:00:57.070 --> 01:00:59.340 I'm seeing a theme start to emerge here. 946 01:01:00.750 --> 01:01:01.420 Over here. 947 01:01:05.860 --> 01:01:09.980 Alright. We didn't get through very many examples before the 948 01:01:09.980 --> 01:01:13.762 time was up. So I think we counted maybe 4, but there's 949 01:01:13.762 --> 01:01:17.815 probably more. And then we decided the most unique was from 950 01:01:17.815 --> 01:01:21.530 Washington, yeah, where they have a program for FAFSA. 951 01:01:23.300 --> 01:01:26.933 But maybe you should explain, yeah, we have a pilot program 952 01:01:26.933 --> 01:01:30.142 right now to increase FAFSA completion in the school 953 01:01:30.142 --> 01:01:34.018 districts with the lowest rate of completion currently and it's 954 01:01:34.018 --> 01:01:37.167 grants to libraries to partner with community based 955 01:01:37.167 --> 01:01:40.558 organizations to increase that completion rate in their 956 01:01:40.558 --> 01:01:41.830 community. Very cool. 957 01:01:46.480 --> 01:01:48.010 Dennis, you wanna go with this table? 958 01:01:51.470 --> 01:01:55.950 Thank you. At our table we talked about a a program in Ohio 959 01:01:55.950 --> 01:02:00.654 where a library was using grant funds to pilot a program where 960 01:02:00.654 --> 01:02:05.208 they're using virtual reality headsets to do skills training 961 01:02:05.208 --> 01:02:09.465 and trades training for for people that working with the 962 01:02:09.465 --> 01:02:13.870 company. They could use the the headsets to do traditional 963 01:02:13.870 --> 01:02:18.201 training but use the virtual reality model which we think 964 01:02:18.201 --> 01:02:19.620 could be, could be. 965 01:02:19.840 --> 01:02:20.730 It could be big. 966 01:02:22.450 --> 01:02:23.180 That's cool. 967 01:02:24.580 --> 01:02:25.260 We're here. 968 01:02:27.820 --> 01:02:31.088 So we talked about I think we had maybe like 5 or 6 just in 969 01:02:31.088 --> 01:02:34.030 general we were talking about one of the things that. 970 01:02:35.520 --> 01:02:39.608 We talked about was the database that we have is like the job and 971 01:02:39.608 --> 01:02:43.387 career accelerator that we put out there that uses state and 972 01:02:43.387 --> 01:02:47.166 federal funds. And then Natalie here, it happened to be this 973 01:02:47.166 --> 01:02:51.131 morning she got an e-mail from one of our sub grants where they 974 01:02:51.131 --> 01:02:55.034 did a senior graduation for one of their computer programs. So 975 01:02:55.034 --> 01:02:58.441 she's got the pretty picture where they have all their 976 01:02:58.441 --> 01:03:02.468 graduation stuff. So senior like over. Well, it's for computers. 977 01:03:02.468 --> 01:03:05.689 It was computer learning. So yes, was it the older? 978 01:03:06.350 --> 01:03:09.185 Senior citizen, yeah. So it's like she got the pictures 979 01:03:09.185 --> 01:03:11.160 actually today, so it was interesting. 980 01:03:13.600 --> 01:03:14.010 Pussey. 981 01:03:16.430 --> 01:03:18.090 Alright dude, let's go back to. 982 01:03:19.700 --> 01:03:19.860 No. 983 01:03:22.500 --> 01:03:23.830 Have they done it? No, they haven't. 984 01:03:24.790 --> 01:03:29.595 OK. So we came up with about 5 databases, learning platforms, 985 01:03:29.595 --> 01:03:34.632 senior digital literacy, hotspot lending, you know all that good 986 01:03:34.632 --> 01:03:39.670 stuff and our unique which is it because Ohio's doing it project 987 01:03:39.670 --> 01:03:43.855 was VR for teens, so that the teens can practice with 988 01:03:43.855 --> 01:03:48.815 different tools and so forth and you know practice interviewing 989 01:03:48.815 --> 01:03:53.387 virtually. So that was our project. Thank you. Alright, we 990 01:03:53.387 --> 01:03:54.550 have over here. 991 01:03:55.060 --> 01:03:57.120 Actor hi. 992 01:03:58.700 --> 01:04:00.050 When one of the. 993 01:04:02.010 --> 01:04:06.593 Puerto Rico and Departamento Casium TNM project to the 994 01:04:06.593 --> 01:04:07.260 lecture. 995 01:04:08.830 --> 01:04:09.140 From you. 996 01:04:09.840 --> 01:04:10.520 Impact and. 997 01:04:13.060 --> 01:04:15.790 The baharak also. 998 01:04:18.390 --> 01:04:19.360 So what are they micro? 999 01:04:20.980 --> 01:04:25.717 Good morning, Puerto Rico Department of Education. Since 1000 01:04:25.717 --> 01:04:31.119 the pandemic, we have a reading program that has impacted 20% of 1001 01:04:31.119 --> 01:04:33.530 students low income students. 1002 01:04:36.630 --> 01:04:37.130 81. 1003 01:04:39.220 --> 01:04:39.750 Yes, I would. 1004 01:04:43.540 --> 01:04:46.450 Ohh and mid, low and middle income. 1005 01:04:49.330 --> 01:04:50.310 Yeah, yeah. Vamos. 1006 01:04:51.960 --> 01:04:53.090 Impact ammo. 1007 01:04:55.010 --> 01:04:59.419 Puerto Rico Kenya. No Cassie kenyetta. Escuelas in Puerto 1008 01:04:59.419 --> 01:04:59.800 Rico. 1009 01:05:02.250 --> 01:05:04.480 Yeah, yeah. 1010 01:05:06.070 --> 01:05:07.980 In the lecture. 1011 01:05:09.520 --> 01:05:15.155 So we've had the reader, the reading program for our project 1012 01:05:15.155 --> 01:05:20.420 for about two years and it has had an impact on over 500 1013 01:05:20.420 --> 01:05:26.332 schools in Puerto Rico. That's great. Thank you, gracias. Let's 1014 01:05:26.332 --> 01:05:26.610 do. 1015 01:05:29.980 --> 01:05:34.050 So we had maybe 4 ideas at our table, and. 1016 01:05:35.440 --> 01:05:39.483 North Carolina and Missouri actually have the same program 1017 01:05:39.483 --> 01:05:43.731 going on. We are partnering with different people, so working 1018 01:05:43.731 --> 01:05:46.129 with Excel High School which will. 1019 01:05:47.540 --> 01:05:50.900 What students go through the program they will grant a high 1020 01:05:50.900 --> 01:05:54.204 school equivalent diploma as opposed to a GED. Missouri is 1021 01:05:54.204 --> 01:05:57.901 partnering with their Department of Education, North Carolina, or 1022 01:05:57.901 --> 01:06:01.093 partnering with Department of Corrections to get justice 1023 01:06:01.093 --> 01:06:04.453 involved into individuals as they come out of the system to 1024 01:06:04.453 --> 01:06:07.309 help them get their degrees. Wonderful. Thank you. 1025 01:06:10.690 --> 01:06:14.985 We have two tables left. Hello. OK, I found the website. So 1026 01:06:14.985 --> 01:06:19.351 Pennsylvania is has a thing called skill up PA and I'm going 1027 01:06:19.351 --> 01:06:23.575 to read it to you, it says. Skilla. PA is designed to help 1028 01:06:23.575 --> 01:06:27.512 the Commonwealth build with a workforce ecosystem that 1029 01:06:27.512 --> 01:06:31.521 supports positive economic development. Job seekers can 1030 01:06:31.521 --> 01:06:35.959 explore career pathways, view local job postings and register 1031 01:06:35.959 --> 01:06:40.040 for free online learning and receive workforce services. 1032 01:06:40.290 --> 01:06:44.170 So these are so this is All in all Pennsylvania libraries as 1033 01:06:44.170 --> 01:06:47.987 well as with other other in Pennsylvania to try to build up 1034 01:06:47.987 --> 01:06:52.122 the workforce. It is partnering with grilling career link and it 1035 01:06:52.122 --> 01:06:55.939 is a state initiative and we came up with six other things. 1036 01:06:55.939 --> 01:06:59.883 OK, wonderful. Thank you. And I think this is our last table. 1037 01:06:59.883 --> 01:07:01.410 Did we miss anyone else? 1038 01:07:06.730 --> 01:07:10.845 So I have to say in Maryland, we we spend a lot of money on 1039 01:07:10.845 --> 01:07:15.098 library development, not so much on workforce development. So 1040 01:07:15.098 --> 01:07:18.940 what we do fund is primarily databases that are offered 1041 01:07:18.940 --> 01:07:22.850 statewide things that offer test prep for the SAT's Tech 1042 01:07:22.850 --> 01:07:27.034 certifications, Petersons Niesha Academy. But I also want to 1043 01:07:27.034 --> 01:07:31.425 mention that Baltimore City and Enoch Pratt Free Library system 1044 01:07:31.425 --> 01:07:32.660 in Baltimore City. 1045 01:07:32.850 --> 01:07:37.379 They've been really pushing high school completion and that's one 1046 01:07:37.379 --> 01:07:41.017 of the big programs that has been most successful in 1047 01:07:41.017 --> 01:07:42.390 Maryland. Thank you. 1048 01:07:45.750 --> 01:07:49.581 OK. Thank you, everybody. I appreciate your willingness to 1049 01:07:49.581 --> 01:07:53.347 do a speed challenge this early in the morning. Just as a 1050 01:07:53.347 --> 01:07:57.503 reminder, deadlines always exist when you work with the federal 1051 01:07:57.503 --> 01:08:01.529 government. These are your cycle deadlines for coming up with 1052 01:08:01.529 --> 01:08:05.361 your awards and I know we'll go over them again many times 1053 01:08:05.361 --> 01:08:06.399 between now and. 1054 01:08:07.330 --> 01:08:08.220 Eternity. 1055 01:08:09.810 --> 01:08:13.306 We are going to take a 15 minute break. Thank you for your 1056 01:08:13.306 --> 01:08:16.980 brevity. We will. That would put us back here right at 10:30. 1057 01:08:23.880 --> 01:08:24.800 I would love to chat. 1058 01:08:26.290 --> 01:08:31.322 Hello to those of you tuned back in. I'm going to give us a 1059 01:08:31.322 --> 01:08:31.910 gentle. 1060 01:08:32.710 --> 01:08:36.951 Recovery into the room and into the virtual room while I 1061 01:08:36.951 --> 01:08:38.960 introduce our next speaker. 1062 01:08:39.930 --> 01:08:44.129 Many of you are probably right in the thick of SPR reporting 1063 01:08:44.129 --> 01:08:48.604 since we have so many extensions this year, which means that our 1064 01:08:48.604 --> 01:08:52.391 program officers, our three program officers Cindy and 1065 01:08:52.391 --> 01:08:56.522 Dennis and Madison are also in the thick of reading the SPR 1066 01:08:56.522 --> 01:09:00.997 reports. And you may or may not know that they meet regularly to 1067 01:09:00.997 --> 01:09:05.059 compare notes and make sure that the feedback that they're 1068 01:09:05.059 --> 01:09:08.432 sending back to you is consistent across all the 1069 01:09:08.432 --> 01:09:09.189 portfolios. 1070 01:09:09.860 --> 01:09:14.619 And they take a lot of effort to get things right and to read and 1071 01:09:14.619 --> 01:09:19.163 to absorb all the things, all the exciting impacts that you're 1072 01:09:19.163 --> 01:09:23.850 writing about in addition to the suggested tweaks. So this think 1073 01:09:23.850 --> 01:09:28.322 of this session as a peek under the ILS hood of that process. 1074 01:09:28.322 --> 01:09:33.009 And it's going to be led by one of the program officers, Madison 1075 01:09:33.009 --> 01:09:37.408 Bowles, who's been with IMS for eight years and she's been a 1076 01:09:37.408 --> 01:09:40.510 grants to states program officer for five. 1077 01:09:40.640 --> 01:09:45.280 She has, I think, remarkably put new energized effort into the 1078 01:09:45.280 --> 01:09:49.994 reading of the SPR's every year. She really like, reinvents her 1079 01:09:49.994 --> 01:09:54.192 energy for this every year, which I think is a wonderful 1080 01:09:54.192 --> 01:09:58.906 sign. And you know, it involves somewhat monotonous reading and 1081 01:09:58.906 --> 01:10:03.325 sending back of messaging to you. But she really she brings 1082 01:10:03.325 --> 01:10:07.744 all of her heart and soul to this work, among so many other 1083 01:10:07.744 --> 01:10:11.280 things. So get ready for some helpful insights. 1084 01:10:11.380 --> 01:10:12.530 From Madison. 1085 01:10:17.460 --> 01:10:22.111 Hi everybody. Welcome. Great to see all of you. BM benitos. As 1086 01:10:22.111 --> 01:10:26.837 Terry mentioned, we are slowly as program officers looking over 1087 01:10:26.837 --> 01:10:31.489 the SPR as projects come in and and while we typically provide 1088 01:10:31.489 --> 01:10:36.067 more mechanical insights at our SPR refresher trainings, this 1089 01:10:36.067 --> 01:10:40.350 one is going to be a little broader in scope and a little 1090 01:10:40.350 --> 01:10:44.190 more generalized and overall what we want to cover. 1091 01:10:44.390 --> 01:10:48.239 Is that the SPR is more than just a compliance tool and I 1092 01:10:48.239 --> 01:10:52.620 know some of some of that is the farthest from your mind when you 1093 01:10:52.620 --> 01:10:56.669 have a looming deadline. But we want you to use the SPR as a 1094 01:10:56.669 --> 01:11:00.717 demonstration of how you spend your funds and the value that 1095 01:11:00.717 --> 01:11:04.766 you bring to the grants, the states program. So we just have 1096 01:11:04.766 --> 01:11:07.820 a little insight of what we're seeing so far. 1097 01:11:09.460 --> 01:11:12.424 So overall today, we're going to be talking a little bit of 1098 01:11:12.424 --> 01:11:12.770 optics. 1099 01:11:14.660 --> 01:11:18.725 In terms of how your reports are are viewed and received, a 1100 01:11:18.725 --> 01:11:22.857 general reporting components allowable costs which is always 1101 01:11:22.857 --> 01:11:26.787 an Evergreen topic and the state profile pages that Terry 1102 01:11:26.787 --> 01:11:28.210 mentioned previously. 1103 01:11:32.140 --> 01:11:36.811 So optics. When we say optics, we mean how you spend your funds 1104 01:11:36.811 --> 01:11:40.752 will be scrutinized and interpreted in many different 1105 01:11:40.752 --> 01:11:44.913 ways. We all have heard the different news headlines and 1106 01:11:44.913 --> 01:11:49.146 probably our own personal stories about how libraries are 1107 01:11:49.146 --> 01:11:53.234 becoming part of the culture wars and budgets are being 1108 01:11:53.234 --> 01:11:57.248 contentiously scrutinized all the time on Congress, in 1109 01:11:57.248 --> 01:12:01.190 Congress. So how we spend federal funds is important. 1110 01:12:01.340 --> 01:12:05.332 And since our SPR reporting is the record of how we do that, we 1111 01:12:05.332 --> 01:12:09.013 want to make sure that you convey your reports in a really 1112 01:12:09.013 --> 01:12:12.880 useful and valuable way. I know this sort of feels like a Big 1113 01:12:12.880 --> 01:12:16.873 Brother is watching you, or in the context of the Emerald City, 1114 01:12:16.873 --> 01:12:20.491 the great and powerful Oz is watching you. But you as LSA 1115 01:12:20.491 --> 01:12:24.296 coordinators are the ones who are great and powerful, and we 1116 01:12:24.296 --> 01:12:28.039 know that you could convey the value of the great work that 1117 01:12:28.039 --> 01:12:29.350 you're already doing. 1118 01:12:31.710 --> 01:12:36.228 So this is worth a reminder that your program projects in the SPR 1119 01:12:36.228 --> 01:12:40.267 are public facing information. Once they are submitted and 1120 01:12:40.267 --> 01:12:44.444 reviewed and approved by the program officer, they are moved 1121 01:12:44.444 --> 01:12:48.825 to the public SPR site and you can see the link on the slide as 1122 01:12:48.825 --> 01:12:52.728 well as a screenshot of what a project may look like. We 1123 01:12:52.728 --> 01:12:56.904 encourage you to take a look at your projects on this public 1124 01:12:56.904 --> 01:13:00.464 facing site, the only information that's not in the 1125 01:13:00.464 --> 01:13:01.560 SPR public view. 1126 01:13:01.640 --> 01:13:05.481 They are the budget details and the upload additional materials. 1127 01:13:05.481 --> 01:13:08.732 Everything else is public, but even though that budget 1128 01:13:08.732 --> 01:13:12.514 information and the additional materials are subject to Freedom 1129 01:13:12.514 --> 01:13:16.356 of Information Act requests, so they are available to the public 1130 01:13:16.356 --> 01:13:17.419 at any given time. 1131 01:13:21.890 --> 01:13:25.680 Now, allowable costs. We get more questions on allowable 1132 01:13:25.680 --> 01:13:29.803 costs probably than anything, and they are seemingly the most 1133 01:13:29.803 --> 01:13:33.792 obvious actions and how you spend your funds. When it comes 1134 01:13:33.792 --> 01:13:38.115 to optics with allowable costs, context matters. Many of us have 1135 01:13:38.115 --> 01:13:41.639 already learned that allowable costs rules are never 1136 01:13:41.639 --> 01:13:45.496 one-size-fits-all, so it's important to justify the costs 1137 01:13:45.496 --> 01:13:49.020 in writing when you're formulating your projects and 1138 01:13:49.020 --> 01:13:50.549 you're reviewing those. 1139 01:13:50.630 --> 01:13:55.105 Award applications and make sure that you apply your reasoning 1140 01:13:55.105 --> 01:13:59.652 consistently across all of your projects, whether it's match or 1141 01:13:59.652 --> 01:14:04.127 federal funds. Now here we have a list of components that make 1142 01:14:04.127 --> 01:14:08.603 up a solid cost justification. Now in this case, to get to the 1143 01:14:08.603 --> 01:14:13.149 Emerald City you have to follow the yellow brick road and to do 1144 01:14:13.149 --> 01:14:17.696 that you must have a solid cost justification. So the first are 1145 01:14:17.696 --> 01:14:20.679 program, statute and program regulations. 1146 01:14:20.760 --> 01:14:25.139 Those are things like the LSA program, the IMS Statute, all of 1147 01:14:25.139 --> 01:14:29.241 that information is on our website. We also have the grant 1148 01:14:29.241 --> 01:14:33.273 agreement, so you're aware documentation, the grants, the 1149 01:14:33.273 --> 01:14:37.236 States manual, the, the official, what we call an OEM or 1150 01:14:37.236 --> 01:14:41.616 official award notification is that piece of paper PDF, if you 1151 01:14:41.616 --> 01:14:45.996 will, that you receive when we issue those awards. But then we 1152 01:14:45.996 --> 01:14:50.376 have the cost principles, which I'm sure you all have tried to 1153 01:14:50.376 --> 01:14:51.279 look through. 1154 01:14:51.350 --> 01:14:55.355 Many times there are federal, they're the same across the 1155 01:14:55.355 --> 01:14:59.636 federal government when it comes to grant making two CFR 200. 1156 01:14:59.636 --> 01:15:03.779 Those set up a general baseline of of how we are allowed to 1157 01:15:03.779 --> 01:15:08.268 spend our funds no matter who is spending the federal funds. And 1158 01:15:08.268 --> 01:15:12.480 then there are administrative and legal decisions around how 1159 01:15:12.480 --> 01:15:16.692 funds are spent, what costs can be allowable, as well as any 1160 01:15:16.692 --> 01:15:20.836 sort of guidance documents that we may provide at any given 1161 01:15:20.836 --> 01:15:22.009 moment including. 1162 01:15:22.150 --> 01:15:26.073 What we provide at this at this level of conference and then 1163 01:15:26.073 --> 01:15:29.803 there are things like existing cases, precedent and prior 1164 01:15:29.803 --> 01:15:33.791 approval. Has another state done a project similar to the one 1165 01:15:33.791 --> 01:15:37.585 you're looking at? Have you talked to your program officer 1166 01:15:37.585 --> 01:15:41.444 about the costs that may be involved and what their take is 1167 01:15:41.444 --> 01:15:45.046 and whether or not it's allowable? Oftentimes we we get 1168 01:15:45.046 --> 01:15:48.969 information and wisdom from our colleagues and other offices 1169 01:15:48.969 --> 01:15:52.250 that MLS such as our grants management office and. 1170 01:15:52.330 --> 01:15:55.575 Of our general counsel to make sure we are applying things 1171 01:15:55.575 --> 01:15:58.820 consistently. So please always come talk to us if you have 1172 01:15:58.820 --> 01:15:59.370 questions. 1173 01:16:00.900 --> 01:16:04.995 And then finally, the rationale which really can can fall into 1174 01:16:04.995 --> 01:16:09.026 any of these topics, which is how how does this specific cost 1175 01:16:09.026 --> 01:16:12.926 or idea serve your program or project? Is it reasonable and 1176 01:16:12.926 --> 01:16:17.217 necessary? I'm sure you've heard us say that ad nauseam, but it's 1177 01:16:17.217 --> 01:16:21.053 worth considering those things and whether or not it has a 1178 01:16:21.053 --> 01:16:25.279 programmatic purpose when you're formulating how you're going to 1179 01:16:25.279 --> 01:16:29.114 spend your federal funds now, the more components you have 1180 01:16:29.114 --> 01:16:31.130 here, the more solid your cost. 1181 01:16:31.210 --> 01:16:35.327 Justification is, and as I mentioned earlier, it's really 1182 01:16:35.327 --> 01:16:39.445 important to be consistent across all of your funding and 1183 01:16:39.445 --> 01:16:44.060 keep the document documentation thorough and consistent as well. 1184 01:16:47.650 --> 01:16:52.030 Now you may hear and and Terry mentioned it earlier today that 1185 01:16:52.030 --> 01:16:56.340 we read each and every project that you submit in the SPR and 1186 01:16:56.340 --> 01:17:00.373 I'm looking at all of your you states who submit 150 plus 1187 01:17:00.373 --> 01:17:04.684 projects every year especially during these arpa's times. Now 1188 01:17:04.684 --> 01:17:08.994 Cindy who's recently crossed over from being a coordinator to 1189 01:17:08.994 --> 01:17:13.583 being a program officer can tell you that we do read every single 1190 01:17:13.583 --> 01:17:14.140 project. 1191 01:17:15.250 --> 01:17:19.514 We read them thoroughly and we look to see if the project 1192 01:17:19.514 --> 01:17:23.632 accurately reflects all the wonderful work that we know 1193 01:17:23.632 --> 01:17:27.970 you're doing throughout the year. We want the language and 1194 01:17:27.970 --> 01:17:32.087 the reporting data to be consistent, correct and legal. 1195 01:17:32.087 --> 01:17:36.278 The budget area is a place where where it's it's a great 1196 01:17:36.278 --> 01:17:40.396 opportunity to accurately reflect what you are spending 1197 01:17:40.396 --> 01:17:44.587 on. For example, on the slide we have up, if a narrative 1198 01:17:44.587 --> 01:17:45.690 indicates that. 1199 01:17:45.880 --> 01:17:50.220 Two staff members participated in the project, but the budget 1200 01:17:50.220 --> 01:17:54.630 reflects salary costs for .75 FTE that could be interpreted as 1201 01:17:54.630 --> 01:17:55.610 a discrepancy. 1202 01:17:56.910 --> 01:18:01.931 If the activity details and the other example on the right, if 1203 01:18:01.931 --> 01:18:06.076 the activity details, it indicate 2500 print books, 1204 01:18:06.076 --> 01:18:11.256 excuse me, 2523 print books, 422 e-books and 25 audio books were 1205 01:18:11.256 --> 01:18:16.278 purchased which adds up to 29170 items. But you only indicated 1206 01:18:16.278 --> 01:18:21.379 that 2900 items were were in the budget. That is a discrepancy, 1207 01:18:21.379 --> 01:18:25.842 so please be sure that the narrative and the budget are 1208 01:18:25.842 --> 01:18:26.640 connected. 1209 01:18:26.720 --> 01:18:28.320 And tell the same story. 1210 01:18:29.840 --> 01:18:33.530 We also would like you to be specific, especially with these 1211 01:18:33.530 --> 01:18:37.341 art projects we feel you guys on. You don't even know how many 1212 01:18:37.341 --> 01:18:38.370 masks you bought. 1213 01:18:40.550 --> 01:18:44.616 But but using using not descriptive words like other or 1214 01:18:44.616 --> 01:18:48.610 supplies is not helpful for us or anyone who reads the 1215 01:18:48.610 --> 01:18:53.040 projects. But so please be sure to be consistent in terms of 1216 01:18:53.040 --> 01:18:54.420 what you purchased. 1217 01:18:57.810 --> 01:19:01.689 So look how data the SPR gives you options for reporting 1218 01:19:01.689 --> 01:19:05.501 activity, local data. And we want you to understand the 1219 01:19:05.501 --> 01:19:09.517 implications of these choices that you make which are as I 1220 01:19:09.517 --> 01:19:13.873 mentioned visible to the public and feed data visualizations on 1221 01:19:13.873 --> 01:19:17.820 the IRS website. Ideally speaking I am LS would prefer to 1222 01:19:17.820 --> 01:19:21.972 know the name and address of institutions that participated, 1223 01:19:21.972 --> 01:19:25.240 benefited, attended etcetera your projects and. 1224 01:19:25.820 --> 01:19:30.152 This is the option on the left side of the screen. We also get 1225 01:19:30.152 --> 01:19:33.521 requests from Congress to identify projects in a 1226 01:19:33.521 --> 01:19:37.922 particular area or Congressional District. So this is this more 1227 01:19:37.922 --> 01:19:42.254 detailed information is really helpful to us when we get those 1228 01:19:42.254 --> 01:19:46.379 kite types of requests and we pull them right from the SPR. 1229 01:19:47.730 --> 01:19:51.399 Now for example, if an SLA awarded 10 libraries in STL SA 1230 01:19:51.399 --> 01:19:55.195 funds to support connectivity, you could report this higher 1231 01:19:55.195 --> 01:19:58.991 level data, excuse me, higher level detail by selecting the 1232 01:19:58.991 --> 01:20:02.660 name of those 10 institutions in the local section of the 1233 01:20:02.660 --> 01:20:06.393 activity. Now assuming that these institutions are already 1234 01:20:06.393 --> 01:20:10.189 listed in the sub sub recipient area of the SPR and you can 1235 01:20:10.189 --> 01:20:14.048 always go in and add new ones and you don't have to type out 1236 01:20:14.048 --> 01:20:17.907 the address information every single time. Now alternatively 1237 01:20:17.907 --> 01:20:19.110 we understand that. 1238 01:20:19.180 --> 01:20:24.555 Projects. They may not be statewide, but they do benefit 1239 01:20:24.555 --> 01:20:29.460 hundreds of libraries in your area you can include. 1240 01:20:31.150 --> 01:20:35.220 The number the number next to the institution type. 1241 01:20:36.750 --> 01:20:40.119 This is illustrated on the right side of the screen, but we want 1242 01:20:40.119 --> 01:20:43.281 you to know that the higher level of detail in this area can 1243 01:20:43.281 --> 01:20:44.940 reap the benefits down the line. 1244 01:20:49.230 --> 01:20:53.350 So project outcomes and lessons learned, these project outcomes 1245 01:20:53.350 --> 01:20:57.083 in each project you have a question, we'll take questions 1246 01:20:57.083 --> 01:20:58.500 at the end. Thank you. 1247 01:20:59.380 --> 01:21:02.621 Thank you. India. Project outcomes are the open-ended 1248 01:21:02.621 --> 01:21:06.103 fields near the end of each project and they allow you to 1249 01:21:06.103 --> 01:21:09.885 share lessons learned. Program officers, as we've been reading 1250 01:21:09.885 --> 01:21:13.427 projects recently, haven't seen a recent downward trend in 1251 01:21:13.427 --> 01:21:17.149 filling out the project outcome section. Now please know that 1252 01:21:17.149 --> 01:21:18.169 these text boxes. 1253 01:21:18.830 --> 01:21:22.768 If they are left empty, we have no way of knowing if the SLA's 1254 01:21:22.768 --> 01:21:26.019 are deliberately omitting information, accidentally 1255 01:21:26.019 --> 01:21:30.021 including what they're supposed to be typing in there. Or maybe 1256 01:21:30.021 --> 01:21:33.897 the wicked witch dropped a house on you. We don't. We have no 1257 01:21:33.897 --> 01:21:34.210 idea. 1258 01:21:36.170 --> 01:21:39.902 But you might and and we understand that sometimes these 1259 01:21:39.902 --> 01:21:43.503 boxes may not be directly applicable to the project at 1260 01:21:43.503 --> 01:21:47.825 hand. However, you might be able to glean some content to fill in 1261 01:21:47.825 --> 01:21:51.558 there from your subrecipient applications. Or if it is a 1262 01:21:51.558 --> 01:21:55.159 statewide project and it's a solid program, we totally 1263 01:21:55.159 --> 01:21:59.154 understand. But we can't read minds. We don't know what type 1264 01:21:59.154 --> 01:22:02.755 of outcomes are coming from these projects. We are not 1265 01:22:02.755 --> 01:22:04.719 professional Professor Marvel. 1266 01:22:05.800 --> 01:22:09.517 To give another shout out, so please put some some information 1267 01:22:09.517 --> 01:22:12.350 in these text boxes. It's super helpful for us. 1268 01:22:15.880 --> 01:22:19.784 Now Terry already mentioned the state profile page refresh and 1269 01:22:19.784 --> 01:22:23.750 many of you collaborated with us to help update these pages. As 1270 01:22:23.750 --> 01:22:27.344 each state has its own profile on the IM list website, we 1271 01:22:27.344 --> 01:22:31.310 updated them to reflect the new five year plan information, the 1272 01:22:31.310 --> 01:22:35.091 evaluation information and new projects. We've also included 1273 01:22:35.091 --> 01:22:38.995 updated Chief Officer Headshots and quotes. So feel free to go 1274 01:22:38.995 --> 01:22:42.713 check them out. We're really proud of them and we're really 1275 01:22:42.713 --> 01:22:46.370 appreciated of your work of helping them us refresh those. 1276 01:22:47.530 --> 01:22:51.118 And there is a screenshot here of what that looks like. Thank 1277 01:22:51.118 --> 01:22:54.649 you Mississippi for for being our visual cue. Here we have a 1278 01:22:54.649 --> 01:22:58.006 nice quote from the chief as well as the project examples 1279 01:22:58.006 --> 01:23:00.089 with some really great photographs. 1280 01:23:02.530 --> 01:23:05.627 That was really quick. But overall we want to to let you 1281 01:23:05.627 --> 01:23:09.051 guys know that what you submit in these in the SPR and how you 1282 01:23:09.051 --> 01:23:12.095 really your projects to us matters. And we already know 1283 01:23:12.095 --> 01:23:15.573 you're doing great work and we just want to make sure that that 1284 01:23:15.573 --> 01:23:19.106 is conveyed, the value of those projects is conveyed to not just 1285 01:23:19.106 --> 01:23:22.530 to your program officers but to the United States for large. I 1286 01:23:22.530 --> 01:23:25.520 know there are questions. Hey, do you have a question? 1287 01:23:27.480 --> 01:23:28.430 Yeah, yeah. Yes, please. 1288 01:23:32.330 --> 01:23:32.750 Isabel. 1289 01:23:33.500 --> 01:23:37.503 The attachments. So my, my folks love Sharon using that 1290 01:23:37.503 --> 01:23:41.649 attachment section and they almost always attach like the 1291 01:23:41.649 --> 01:23:45.652 200 list of folks that participate in their programs as 1292 01:23:45.652 --> 01:23:50.084 attachment because it's it's just too much capacity. We can't 1293 01:23:50.084 --> 01:23:54.587 add each one. Is that helpful or we've talked about that. Yes. 1294 01:23:54.587 --> 01:23:59.019 And it is helpful if if you, if it's too laborious to include 1295 01:23:59.019 --> 01:24:03.380 the local data and each activity you can, but you have that. 1296 01:24:03.450 --> 01:24:07.870 List it exists, you can upload that as an attachment. 1297 01:24:09.280 --> 01:24:12.865 In the additional material section of the project, we will 1298 01:24:12.865 --> 01:24:16.875 see it. We will make note of it. Thank you for pointing that out. 1299 01:24:16.875 --> 01:24:20.703 Yes, good job, Madison. I have two questions over here. Great. 1300 01:24:20.703 --> 01:24:24.349 OK, great. The second question, I'm going to stick with the 1301 01:24:24.349 --> 01:24:28.117 attachments. Some of this is coming from Rachel Cook in Utah. 1302 01:24:28.117 --> 01:24:32.127 Some of our additional materials are really impressive or provide 1303 01:24:32.127 --> 01:24:36.016 helpful context. Will there ever be an option to have them show 1304 01:24:36.016 --> 01:24:37.050 up public facing? 1305 01:24:38.600 --> 01:24:42.865 And our next session is about the future of the SPR. So we're 1306 01:24:42.865 --> 01:24:47.268 going to, we're going to parking lot that for the next session. 1307 01:24:47.268 --> 01:24:51.189 Great. Thank you, Rachel. And our first question, let me 1308 01:24:51.189 --> 01:24:55.386 scroll back up is from Karen Egan. She has a question on the 1309 01:24:55.386 --> 01:24:59.582 locales when possible, do you want this down to the building 1310 01:24:59.582 --> 01:25:03.366 level? This is such a caring Egan question. I love the 1311 01:25:03.366 --> 01:25:07.562 detail, the attention to detail. Karen Egan for example, the 1312 01:25:07.562 --> 01:25:10.589 grant is awarded to Chicago Public Library. 1313 01:25:10.670 --> 01:25:15.962 Which has 81 branches, but the project was only held at a 1314 01:25:15.962 --> 01:25:21.254 particular branch, so this location lists that branch and 1315 01:25:21.254 --> 01:25:23.900 the and the address question. 1316 01:25:27.620 --> 01:25:28.710 But we're getting Terry. 1317 01:25:32.830 --> 01:25:33.460 The SP. 1318 01:25:34.850 --> 01:25:37.820 Preloaded PLSS data at the system level, so that would be 1319 01:25:37.820 --> 01:25:40.739 the Chicago Public Library level. So that is sort of our 1320 01:25:40.739 --> 01:25:44.016 baseline understanding of what you're uploading. If you want to 1321 01:25:44.016 --> 01:25:47.396 upload your individual branches, we're not going to stop you, but 1322 01:25:47.396 --> 01:25:48.370 it is not required. 1323 01:25:50.720 --> 01:25:51.530 Thank you, Karen. 1324 01:25:53.700 --> 01:25:54.920 You know how we're doing on time. 1325 01:25:57.660 --> 01:26:00.780 All right. No other questions. Thank you all so much. Muchas 1326 01:26:00.780 --> 01:26:01.190 gracias. 1327 01:26:09.010 --> 01:26:12.667 I'd like to call my two colleagues up to the dais 1328 01:26:12.667 --> 01:26:17.275 please, sweetheart and Matt as we get started. Madison gave us 1329 01:26:17.275 --> 01:26:21.664 a wonderful kind of flyby SPR peek under the hood and we're 1330 01:26:21.664 --> 01:26:26.491 thinking of this next session as a little bit more of a deep dive 1331 01:26:26.491 --> 01:26:30.807 into things that we could take from you and consider as we 1332 01:26:30.807 --> 01:26:35.049 think about making iterative improvements to the SPR, so. 1333 01:26:36.910 --> 01:26:37.630 Umm. 1334 01:26:39.100 --> 01:26:43.351 We have two colleagues from IMLS joining us for this next 1335 01:26:43.351 --> 01:26:47.750 section. Many of you know Matt Birnbaum here in the middle. 1336 01:26:51.610 --> 01:26:56.378 He is now the director of the value of research and evaluation 1337 01:26:56.378 --> 01:27:00.844 at IMS, and he's been working with you longer than I have. 1338 01:27:00.844 --> 01:27:05.612 Specifically, Karen Reese and Debbie in Arkansas and Jamie and 1339 01:27:05.612 --> 01:27:10.608 Arizona worked with Matt over 10 years ago to start brainstorming 1340 01:27:10.608 --> 01:27:15.225 about the future of the SPR and help architecting the system 1341 01:27:15.225 --> 01:27:18.480 that we use today, which is no small feat. 1342 01:27:19.010 --> 01:27:23.050 In addition to helping establish that evaluative framework, which 1343 01:27:23.050 --> 01:27:26.722 is amazing and all the other things that Matt does, I think 1344 01:27:26.722 --> 01:27:29.966 the most amazing thing about Matt is that he's super 1345 01:27:29.966 --> 01:27:33.578 approachable and wonderful. He's a wonderful fed. Like you 1346 01:27:33.578 --> 01:27:37.312 couldn't get a better fed than Matt Bernbaum. So he's really 1347 01:27:37.312 --> 01:27:40.801 interested in listening and learning from all of you and 1348 01:27:40.801 --> 01:27:44.719 he's going to do the majority of our presenting here today. But 1349 01:27:44.719 --> 01:27:48.208 first, I want to introduce a second MLS colleague who is 1350 01:27:48.208 --> 01:27:49.310 brand new to this. 1351 01:27:49.380 --> 01:27:53.880 Community, but not to the SPR, because he's been helping us for 1352 01:27:53.880 --> 01:27:58.310 years. So sweet, dark Hazarajat you has been our acting CIO at 1353 01:27:58.310 --> 01:28:02.811 times, and at the moment he is our senior IT program manager at 1354 01:28:02.811 --> 01:28:06.959 IMS. He helped us when we moved the SPR to cloud migration 1355 01:28:06.959 --> 01:28:11.390 behind the scenes. That was a critical moment for the program, 1356 01:28:11.390 --> 01:28:15.749 whether you know it or not. And he's also been working on the 1357 01:28:15.749 --> 01:28:20.180 visualization data that now goes from the SPR into theirs.gov. 1358 01:28:20.250 --> 01:28:24.167 Website. He's constantly asking us really good questions about 1359 01:28:24.167 --> 01:28:28.085 the SPR and we said why don't you just come with us to Seattle 1360 01:28:28.085 --> 01:28:31.941 so you can hear from all of the people who are actually using 1361 01:28:31.941 --> 01:28:35.548 it. And he did. So we're so thrilled he's here and you're 1362 01:28:35.548 --> 01:28:39.528 going to be hearing from him as well. But I would like to start 1363 01:28:39.528 --> 01:28:41.830 this off by turning it over to Matt. 1364 01:28:53.200 --> 01:28:56.190 Everybody, it's so wonderful to be here. 1365 01:28:57.080 --> 01:28:59.760 13 years ago when I first joined MLS. 1366 01:29:00.650 --> 01:29:01.920 There was some of you. 1367 01:29:02.580 --> 01:29:07.285 Got to be with me in Baltimore, my first meeting and we started 1368 01:29:07.285 --> 01:29:11.696 a strategic planning exercise and the question we wanted to 1369 01:29:11.696 --> 01:29:16.181 say to ourselves how, how does a reading program in Michigan 1370 01:29:16.181 --> 01:29:20.740 compared to one in Mississippi using federal funds, what does 1371 01:29:20.740 --> 01:29:25.372 that look like and as we look what the reporting was like back 1372 01:29:25.372 --> 01:29:25.740 then? 1373 01:29:26.470 --> 01:29:30.893 We didn't have the tools to do that, so consequently we were 1374 01:29:30.893 --> 01:29:35.245 handicapping ourselves and trying to tell a story about the 1375 01:29:35.245 --> 01:29:39.451 difference that reading programs make, the ways that they 1376 01:29:39.451 --> 01:29:42.860 function and vary the things that are similar. 1377 01:29:43.580 --> 01:29:47.048 And the importance of that little bit of federal dollars to 1378 01:29:47.048 --> 01:29:48.840 helping make that contribution? 1379 01:29:49.620 --> 01:29:51.000 So we then spent. 1380 01:29:51.880 --> 01:29:52.770 Bit of time. 1381 01:29:53.430 --> 01:29:56.780 Working through got some some smart people like shridar. 1382 01:29:57.500 --> 01:30:02.559 To help us with the architect, and a lot of you worked with 1383 01:30:02.559 --> 01:30:07.365 some some folks who had my skills and it was a real team 1384 01:30:07.365 --> 01:30:12.087 collaboration using the expertise of the folks like you 1385 01:30:12.087 --> 01:30:16.556 in library science, the expertise of the information 1386 01:30:16.556 --> 01:30:21.277 engineers, and some of the cloudy, vague social science 1387 01:30:21.277 --> 01:30:25.999 folks like myself to work together and to build out the 1388 01:30:25.999 --> 01:30:26.590 system. 1389 01:30:27.710 --> 01:30:31.614 And it's always been based on trying to accommodate different 1390 01:30:31.614 --> 01:30:35.330 needs, trying to make sure that the federal policy makers. 1391 01:30:36.120 --> 01:30:39.606 Who have to be accountable? Taxpayer dollars can have some 1392 01:30:39.606 --> 01:30:43.270 good assurances that the dollars are being spent really well. 1393 01:30:44.340 --> 01:30:48.230 It's also being to ensure that all of you can be benchmarking. 1394 01:30:49.200 --> 01:30:53.611 Yourselves overtime as well as each other to start thinking 1395 01:30:53.611 --> 01:30:58.169 about what's going on. What can I learn from? And so we're at 1396 01:30:58.169 --> 01:31:00.890 this point now where a decade later. 1397 01:31:01.570 --> 01:31:05.075 We don't quite want to do all that crazy lifting we did a 1398 01:31:05.075 --> 01:31:05.740 decade ago. 1399 01:31:06.470 --> 01:31:09.820 But let's look at the system in terms of what really works well. 1400 01:31:11.040 --> 01:31:14.958 What might be able to work a little bit better, and in doing 1401 01:31:14.958 --> 01:31:19.197 so, we're really introducing you to three dorks. He's going to be 1402 01:31:19.197 --> 01:31:22.987 the the main architect, but Terry and I, Terry says really 1403 01:31:22.987 --> 01:31:26.327 sweet things about me. But Terry's like my favorite 1404 01:31:26.327 --> 01:31:30.116 colleague because I know that she is so considerate and so 1405 01:31:30.116 --> 01:31:33.200 respectful, and she is such an active listener. 1406 01:31:33.870 --> 01:31:36.868 And when she says Matt, I think this is a good opportunity for 1407 01:31:36.868 --> 01:31:37.820 us to work together. 1408 01:31:38.660 --> 01:31:42.136 I'm going to be really excited and we're really happy to be 1409 01:31:42.136 --> 01:31:45.554 here. So this is kind of the overview we'll do Terry and I 1410 01:31:45.554 --> 01:31:49.263 will present a little bit in the beginning and then we're going 1411 01:31:49.263 --> 01:31:52.739 to have some questions for you and we're going to really be 1412 01:31:52.739 --> 01:31:54.130 starting a conversation. 1413 01:31:54.910 --> 01:31:57.960 Where we're going to be listening. No action, but we'll 1414 01:31:57.960 --> 01:32:01.010 be coming back later in the fall with some reflections. 1415 01:32:03.090 --> 01:32:04.680 OK, so a little bit. 1416 01:32:05.440 --> 01:32:09.756 Big picture. So decade ago we were post Baltimore, we were 1417 01:32:09.756 --> 01:32:14.000 probably in Nashville, can't remember where. Saint Louis, 1418 01:32:14.000 --> 01:32:18.244 Kansas City, Milwaukee. And we're building out the system 1419 01:32:18.244 --> 01:32:20.000 and we've got 15 states. 1420 01:32:20.650 --> 01:32:24.335 Who are the ones who are piloting it? Michigan, Illinois, 1421 01:32:24.335 --> 01:32:28.212 Arkansas, all these great folks that I know some of them are 1422 01:32:28.212 --> 01:32:32.088 here today. Arizona. And then we were looking at what public 1423 01:32:32.088 --> 01:32:35.965 libraries sociation. Emily, before she was working with Mrs. 1424 01:32:35.965 --> 01:32:39.841 Who's my counterpart at PLA, and she was heading the project 1425 01:32:39.841 --> 01:32:40.350 outcome. 1426 01:32:41.190 --> 01:32:44.900 And we started to align our outcome reporting with project 1427 01:32:44.900 --> 01:32:48.359 outcomes that the public libraries didn't have to do 2 1428 01:32:48.359 --> 01:32:51.190 separate things. It was something identical. 1429 01:32:52.080 --> 01:32:54.997 And then as Terry was mentioning, we behind the scenes 1430 01:32:54.997 --> 01:32:58.179 we had variants of cerebral and we started moving this to a 1431 01:32:58.179 --> 01:33:01.150 cloud migration and now we've been in the steady state. 1432 01:33:02.300 --> 01:33:05.553 And we've got some really great national data, but what can we 1433 01:33:05.553 --> 01:33:08.702 do to do a little bit better to make your lives a little bit 1434 01:33:08.702 --> 01:33:10.820 easier in terms of your compliance work? 1435 01:33:11.610 --> 01:33:14.280 Is also to be able to do some better improvement in learning. 1436 01:33:16.140 --> 01:33:19.799 So a little bit of an example. Here's you know, the way we 1437 01:33:19.799 --> 01:33:23.644 built the system that we used to tell the stories and when we 1438 01:33:23.644 --> 01:33:26.870 were what the heck is this estimates grant data do. 1439 01:33:27.890 --> 01:33:31.999 Oh well, we give the states some money for them to use in their 1440 01:33:31.999 --> 01:33:32.770 territories. 1441 01:33:33.590 --> 01:33:37.088 They're going to be doing something like maybe building up 1442 01:33:37.088 --> 01:33:40.586 their infrastructure, the capacity. Maybe it's about doing 1443 01:33:40.586 --> 01:33:42.779 lifelong learning. Maybe it's about. 1444 01:33:43.390 --> 01:33:46.291 Human Services, civic engagement, economic 1445 01:33:46.291 --> 01:33:50.002 development, and we started breaking those out into 13 1446 01:33:50.002 --> 01:33:51.149 separate intents. 1447 01:33:51.760 --> 01:33:56.063 And that's just the way every project is based on this uniform 1448 01:33:56.063 --> 01:34:00.025 common thing that, however, might differ in Iowa compared 1449 01:34:00.025 --> 01:34:00.230 to. 1450 01:34:01.740 --> 01:34:03.920 New Mexico compared to Maine? 1451 01:34:04.930 --> 01:34:08.788 It was all based on what the intentionality was in terms of 1452 01:34:08.788 --> 01:34:09.560 making some. 1453 01:34:10.990 --> 01:34:13.898 Person in one of these public libraries across the country 1454 01:34:13.898 --> 01:34:15.180 lives a little bit better. 1455 01:34:17.010 --> 01:34:19.845 And then we started thinking that, well, not only what's the 1456 01:34:19.845 --> 01:34:21.100 outcome, what's the intent? 1457 01:34:22.180 --> 01:34:25.580 But how can we better describe it? So the first part was where 1458 01:34:25.580 --> 01:34:29.034 some of these places that might be one small community, another 1459 01:34:29.034 --> 01:34:30.060 might be statewide. 1460 01:34:30.710 --> 01:34:34.262 So we all started looking at ways practically to start 1461 01:34:34.262 --> 01:34:38.332 describing what those locales where the activity was going and 1462 01:34:38.332 --> 01:34:41.691 then looking at the beneficiaries. Was it some part 1463 01:34:41.691 --> 01:34:45.761 of the library workforce or was it a part of the public and it 1464 01:34:45.761 --> 01:34:49.895 was a public, was it the broad general public? It wasn't really 1465 01:34:49.895 --> 01:34:53.512 targeted to some specific population? And if so, we can 1466 01:34:53.512 --> 01:34:54.740 get pretty precise. 1467 01:34:57.160 --> 01:35:01.230 So these were some examples of what the system was and then 1468 01:35:01.230 --> 01:35:05.233 administratively trying to make it a little bit better and 1469 01:35:05.233 --> 01:35:09.643 easier for all of us, all of you to use the data to improve your 1470 01:35:09.643 --> 01:35:13.103 administrative decisions, any planning, any policy 1471 01:35:13.103 --> 01:35:17.173 conversations. So we started doing these data pulls. It's a 1472 01:35:17.173 --> 01:35:21.515 kind of wicked wild data set. So we made it a little bit easier 1473 01:35:21.515 --> 01:35:24.975 to pull out the Excel spreadsheets to give to your 1474 01:35:24.975 --> 01:35:27.350 evaluators or possibly your cells. 1475 01:35:27.790 --> 01:35:30.596 There's some work with the automatic default to draft 1476 01:35:30.596 --> 01:35:33.818 status to make it easier for when you're doing your reporting 1477 01:35:33.818 --> 01:35:34.389 every year. 1478 01:35:35.150 --> 01:35:39.004 And then saving the active scenes, active screens. And now 1479 01:35:39.004 --> 01:35:43.250 we're starting to look at maybe over the next three or so years, 1480 01:35:43.250 --> 01:35:47.496 we do some much more incremental but important enhancements that 1481 01:35:47.496 --> 01:35:51.024 would make it a little bit better for yourselves, for 1482 01:35:51.024 --> 01:35:55.009 policymakers who are looking for the data, for the libraries 1483 01:35:55.009 --> 01:35:59.060 themselves and for the citizens who are using those services. 1484 01:36:01.320 --> 01:36:05.201 Principles, just same way it's always been. This is truly a 1485 01:36:05.201 --> 01:36:09.213 partnership, Terry and her team and all of you. I always love 1486 01:36:09.213 --> 01:36:12.965 coming here because there's such great mutual respect and 1487 01:36:12.965 --> 01:36:17.106 admiration and consideration for what everybody does, and it'll 1488 01:36:17.106 --> 01:36:21.182 be that same way going forward. Scatter work for IMS, it's got 1489 01:36:21.182 --> 01:36:23.770 to work for the States and territories. 1490 01:36:25.960 --> 01:36:28.538 So to do that, we're going to rely on your active 1491 01:36:28.538 --> 01:36:31.736 participation and input. It's not going to be, even if street 1492 01:36:31.736 --> 01:36:32.820 art is really bright. 1493 01:36:34.110 --> 01:36:37.345 Your folks and your knowledge collectively is much brighter 1494 01:36:37.345 --> 01:36:40.580 and it's going to be what's going to be driving the system. 1495 01:36:41.640 --> 01:36:44.720 Some of the improvements will particularly help all of you, 1496 01:36:44.720 --> 01:36:47.955 and some might help I am a last self, but we'll be transparent 1497 01:36:47.955 --> 01:36:48.880 about all of that. 1498 01:36:52.020 --> 01:36:55.690 And we're going to try to do it in a way which is going to be 1499 01:36:55.690 --> 01:36:59.301 respectful of the actual rural demand you have. We know that 1500 01:36:59.301 --> 01:37:02.913 we're in the beginning of a five year planning cycle and the 1501 01:37:02.913 --> 01:37:06.820 first three years is what's used for the evaluation. So we're not 1502 01:37:06.820 --> 01:37:10.372 going to do any big heavy lifts during those three years of 1503 01:37:10.372 --> 01:37:12.799 reporting. We'll try to time that right. 1504 01:37:15.370 --> 01:37:18.697 OK, so some potential facets of work and everything's on the 1505 01:37:18.697 --> 01:37:22.297 table, but when Terry's team and my team began talking about this 1506 01:37:22.297 --> 01:37:25.680 a couple months ago, there were just some of the big buckets. 1507 01:37:26.540 --> 01:37:29.290 And we bought St. area, can we? 1508 01:37:30.070 --> 01:37:33.802 Update the look and feel of when you actually log on to the SBR. 1509 01:37:33.802 --> 01:37:37.478 What are some ways we can make that user interface a little bit 1510 01:37:37.478 --> 01:37:37.880 better? 1511 01:37:39.270 --> 01:37:43.675 Is there behind the scenes? What you folks may not know is Terry 1512 01:37:43.675 --> 01:37:47.741 and her team spent a ridiculous amount of time doing manual 1513 01:37:47.741 --> 01:37:51.401 labor to get the SPR to integrate to the larger grant 1514 01:37:51.401 --> 01:37:55.536 reporting system that I am less reporting called the GMs. So 1515 01:37:55.536 --> 01:37:59.534 we're going to be looking at some ways maybe to streamline 1516 01:37:59.534 --> 01:38:03.872 that, make it automatic so that the staff themselves don't have 1517 01:38:03.872 --> 01:38:07.600 to spend so much of their manual time doing this work. 1518 01:38:09.040 --> 01:38:12.403 Trying to find some better ways of the data that we're 1519 01:38:12.403 --> 01:38:16.133 collecting it making it more useful for all of you to use in 1520 01:38:16.133 --> 01:38:19.435 your decisions. Maybe it's some improvements for data 1521 01:38:19.435 --> 01:38:23.226 visualizations, trend analysis, maybe it might be some better 1522 01:38:23.226 --> 01:38:26.772 work using some narrative keyword searches. Lots of ways. 1523 01:38:26.772 --> 01:38:30.380 And today's focus though, is really understanding what the 1524 01:38:30.380 --> 01:38:34.110 experience is like for each of you. Everything, every design 1525 01:38:34.110 --> 01:38:38.024 step going forward is going to be based on your experience as a 1526 01:38:38.024 --> 01:38:38.330 user. 1527 01:38:40.260 --> 01:38:43.268 So Terry, I think I'm going to turn it over to you. And it's 1528 01:38:43.268 --> 01:38:46.080 kind of like work it through through what the user sees. 1529 01:38:49.280 --> 01:38:52.684 We realized that not all of you might have shown up today with 1530 01:38:52.684 --> 01:38:56.143 the SPR in your mind, so we're going to give you a visual flyby 1531 01:38:56.143 --> 01:38:59.547 to just refresh us all on what we're talking about. Here's the 1532 01:38:59.547 --> 01:39:00.250 login screen. 1533 01:39:01.330 --> 01:39:04.861 You go in. If you're an LTA coordinator, you're probably 1534 01:39:04.861 --> 01:39:08.765 adding a project. You could be copying or continuing a project 1535 01:39:08.765 --> 01:39:11.740 from a prior year. There are some options here. 1536 01:39:12.650 --> 01:39:15.905 Once you get to the ADA project page, there's some initial 1537 01:39:15.905 --> 01:39:18.994 fields you're filling out. You're giving it a title and 1538 01:39:18.994 --> 01:39:22.250 abstract, telling us who the director and the grantee are. 1539 01:39:24.050 --> 01:39:27.582 We've got those additional materials that Hadia was talking 1540 01:39:27.582 --> 01:39:30.703 about and lots of budget information. This is one of 1541 01:39:30.703 --> 01:39:33.941 those fields that Madison mentioned. Actually, both of 1542 01:39:33.941 --> 01:39:36.120 these fields not in the public view. 1543 01:39:39.010 --> 01:39:42.729 This is the controlled vocabulary kind of section of 1544 01:39:42.729 --> 01:39:47.079 the SPR, where we're asking you to pick one of the 14 intents 1545 01:39:47.079 --> 01:39:51.290 that roll up to those six focal areas that Matt was talking 1546 01:39:51.290 --> 01:39:55.781 about earlier. Plus we ask you to add up to two subjects, which 1547 01:39:55.781 --> 01:40:00.342 are subsets of different library areas that you could be working 1548 01:40:00.342 --> 01:40:03.500 on. So this vocabulary is set in the system. 1549 01:40:05.980 --> 01:40:10.036 We go into, you know, every project has a big umbrella and 1550 01:40:10.036 --> 01:40:14.299 then there's little activities below it. And so we ask you to 1551 01:40:14.299 --> 01:40:17.600 fill out activity titles and abstracts as well. 1552 01:40:19.310 --> 01:40:23.559 The activity specifically has what we call modes and formats 1553 01:40:23.559 --> 01:40:27.460 and quantities. Oh my, and we know that this has been a 1554 01:40:27.460 --> 01:40:31.710 traditional pain point for some of you and interpreting. You 1555 01:40:31.710 --> 01:40:35.960 know what? What are we really looking for here as I am a LS? 1556 01:40:38.790 --> 01:40:42.323 We ask you to get down to the activity beneficiaries. If it's 1557 01:40:42.323 --> 01:40:45.913 not the general public or the library workforce, you know, are 1558 01:40:45.913 --> 01:40:49.047 you looking to target certain populations with certain 1559 01:40:49.047 --> 01:40:49.560 projects? 1560 01:40:52.510 --> 01:40:56.010 Madison talked through the activity locale options. I just 1561 01:40:56.010 --> 01:40:59.569 lay it out again as something that we've traditionally give 1562 01:40:59.569 --> 01:41:03.188 you some choices around, but these choices have influence on 1563 01:41:03.188 --> 01:41:06.807 what shows up on our website then. And so we're here to kind 1564 01:41:06.807 --> 01:41:10.130 of talk about you know, trade-offs in that information. 1565 01:41:12.300 --> 01:41:15.796 The project Outcomes area is open text, so if there are think 1566 01:41:15.796 --> 01:41:19.292 really good important impacts that you haven't already talked 1567 01:41:19.292 --> 01:41:21.830 about, we want to hear them in this section. 1568 01:41:24.020 --> 01:41:27.348 We also have a way for you to tag a project as exemplary, 1569 01:41:27.348 --> 01:41:30.618 which really helps us when we're asked to call like some 1570 01:41:30.618 --> 01:41:33.832 highlights of the program for the year. And you can use 1571 01:41:33.832 --> 01:41:37.274 open-ended language to give us additional project tags that 1572 01:41:37.274 --> 01:41:40.602 might be helpful for you to track and it's also sometimes 1573 01:41:40.602 --> 01:41:41.979 helpful for us to track. 1574 01:41:43.230 --> 01:41:47.040 And then you get to the project status area, where you're 1575 01:41:47.040 --> 01:41:50.653 completing the project, saving the project, saving and 1576 01:41:50.653 --> 01:41:54.529 continuing and saving and saving, because we know that's a 1577 01:41:54.529 --> 01:41:58.734 pain point in the SPR as well. And then you eventually generate 1578 01:41:58.734 --> 01:42:02.544 a project list and all your money magically rolls up into 1579 01:42:02.544 --> 01:42:06.617 these projects. And then you go to validate and there's these 1580 01:42:06.617 --> 01:42:10.756 error messages. So you're not alone. Everybody gets these, and 1581 01:42:10.756 --> 01:42:12.989 then you save and you're done so. 1582 01:42:13.410 --> 01:42:18.071 Fly by. I'm going to hand it back to Matt as we talk about 1583 01:42:18.071 --> 01:42:19.020 what's next. 1584 01:42:23.270 --> 01:42:27.394 OK. First principle, we're just starting the conversation today. 1585 01:42:27.394 --> 01:42:31.328 We've got 10 questions. We'll take the rest of the session to 1586 01:42:31.328 --> 01:42:33.740 try to get some feedback about those. 1587 01:42:35.320 --> 01:42:38.389 Try to make sure everyone has a chance to participate if you 1588 01:42:38.389 --> 01:42:41.710 want, but there'll be more time. This is going to be, we're going 1589 01:42:41.710 --> 01:42:44.729 to be trying to collect this information over the summer so 1590 01:42:44.729 --> 01:42:47.244 that by the fall we might be have a more informed 1591 01:42:47.244 --> 01:42:50.364 deliberation about next steps. So these are the questions and 1592 01:42:50.364 --> 01:42:52.830 we're going to break them out into a little bit. 1593 01:42:53.940 --> 01:42:58.680 So walk us through your use of the SPR through the year. 1594 01:42:59.360 --> 01:43:03.385 What's working well and meeting your needs and what are the pain 1595 01:43:03.385 --> 01:43:07.410 points? I'm going to shut up for about 30 seconds and then we'll 1596 01:43:07.410 --> 01:43:11.311 take a couple of couple hands. You all have some post it notes 1597 01:43:11.311 --> 01:43:14.778 on your table if you can just take those and just start 1598 01:43:14.778 --> 01:43:15.459 scribbling. 1599 01:43:16.530 --> 01:43:19.608 Terry, Streeter and I, we're going to collect those at the 1600 01:43:19.608 --> 01:43:22.426 end. So anything that we don't get in addition to the 1601 01:43:22.426 --> 01:43:25.505 conversation, we've got it and it will help us as we start 1602 01:43:25.505 --> 01:43:28.010 collecting data and analyzing it going forward. 1603 01:43:28.730 --> 01:43:31.624 OK, so I'm going to shut up. Maybe just 30 seconds, then 1604 01:43:31.624 --> 01:43:33.960 we'll take some hands on this first question. 1605 01:44:09.120 --> 01:44:12.472 So, you know, as the elder, my memory gets bad and my 1606 01:44:12.472 --> 01:44:16.073 eyesight's really bad. So I'm just going to be calling on 1607 01:44:16.073 --> 01:44:19.922 people. And I probably know you and I forget I just asked for 1608 01:44:19.922 --> 01:44:23.772 apologies from. But can somebody please someone want to raise 1609 01:44:23.772 --> 01:44:27.497 their hand and get us get the conversation going? Go ahead, 1610 01:44:27.497 --> 01:44:27.870 Jamie. 1611 01:44:31.950 --> 01:44:35.322 Never thought I'd get to say this. Thank you for the data 1612 01:44:35.322 --> 01:44:35.730 export. 1613 01:44:38.000 --> 01:44:42.032 So that's something that works well. The thing that right now 1614 01:44:42.032 --> 01:44:46.260 I'm having a pain point about is a safe way for subrecipients to 1615 01:44:46.260 --> 01:44:50.097 enter data directly. I worry because it's based on library 1616 01:44:50.097 --> 01:44:53.220 system and they don't have individual accounts. 1617 01:44:55.300 --> 01:44:58.479 So I'm just going to repeat that, the issue of trying to 1618 01:44:58.479 --> 01:45:01.490 have Subrecipients report directly, how do you manage 1619 01:45:01.490 --> 01:45:03.220 that? It's kind of a challenge. 1620 01:45:04.350 --> 01:45:05.320 Somebody else. 1621 01:45:07.420 --> 01:45:07.700 This. 1622 01:45:14.540 --> 01:45:18.854 Hey, I just. I guess my one of my big requests is I look at the 1623 01:45:18.854 --> 01:45:23.100 SPR and I work with the SPR all the time, pretty much all year 1624 01:45:23.100 --> 01:45:27.414 round. However, like the state librarian, not so much. She only 1625 01:45:27.414 --> 01:45:31.526 looks at it once a year. Maybe there could be better prompts 1626 01:45:31.526 --> 01:45:35.705 for how to certify stuff. And that's PR that that was my pain 1627 01:45:35.705 --> 01:45:36.110 point. 1628 01:45:37.460 --> 01:45:38.610 Sorry, your name again is. 1629 01:45:40.140 --> 01:45:43.970 Mary Raby, Maryland State library. Thank you. Thank you. 1630 01:45:45.770 --> 01:45:47.780 Somebody else please. 1631 01:45:49.950 --> 01:45:50.250 Thanks. 1632 01:45:52.440 --> 01:45:53.980 I have lots of ideas. 1633 01:45:56.900 --> 01:45:57.320 Thank you. 1634 01:45:59.900 --> 01:46:04.260 As someone new working with the program, I found the reports 1635 01:46:04.260 --> 01:46:08.835 really helpful to look at to see what our agency has been doing 1636 01:46:08.835 --> 01:46:12.910 over the last couple of years. I know I've had other new 1637 01:46:12.910 --> 01:46:17.128 employees also reading through the past reports and it's a 1638 01:46:17.128 --> 01:46:21.131 place where that data is summarized and we don't really 1639 01:46:21.131 --> 01:46:25.563 have any other locations where that information is altogether 1640 01:46:25.563 --> 01:46:29.924 in one place. So really, really helpful for our own staff to 1641 01:46:29.924 --> 01:46:30.209 use. 1642 01:46:30.290 --> 01:46:32.030 Thank you. Your name again is. 1643 01:46:33.590 --> 01:46:34.860 From the Idaho. 1644 01:46:38.000 --> 01:46:40.410 OK, lots of ideas person. 1645 01:46:42.110 --> 01:46:44.440 Ohh, you want? Yeah of course. 1646 01:46:47.560 --> 01:46:49.510 Talking about you like, I'll give you 2. 1647 01:46:51.020 --> 01:46:54.088 You get things you like. Are things that are challenges 1648 01:46:54.088 --> 01:46:54.910 either way, OK? 1649 01:46:56.170 --> 01:46:57.270 That I have control. 1650 01:46:59.170 --> 01:47:02.340 Because control is a good thing with the SPR and getting data. 1651 01:47:03.920 --> 01:47:07.849 What I would like, I think initially with working with new 1652 01:47:07.849 --> 01:47:11.844 people entering in data to the SPR that the health techs be 1653 01:47:11.844 --> 01:47:13.110 more human focused. 1654 01:47:14.190 --> 01:47:15.060 Thank you. 1655 01:47:16.580 --> 01:47:19.163 Because I'm generous, I'll take one more comment before I move 1656 01:47:19.163 --> 01:47:19.820 to the next one. 1657 01:47:21.880 --> 01:47:24.880 Matt, we have a couple virtual, please. OK, great. 1658 01:47:28.040 --> 01:47:32.165 In the activities for content and acquisition, it would be 1659 01:47:32.165 --> 01:47:36.011 great to add counts for supplies, materials purchased. 1660 01:47:36.011 --> 01:47:40.416 This is Rachel Cook from Utah. He's a smarty pants. I have had 1661 01:47:40.416 --> 01:47:44.681 libraries pay for or pay for lots of things recently. We pay 1662 01:47:44.681 --> 01:47:48.527 for lots of children's programming in the pandemic and 1663 01:47:48.527 --> 01:47:52.513 those supplies can be reported in counts. If I should be 1664 01:47:52.513 --> 01:47:55.589 reporting it differently, just let me know. 1665 01:47:57.240 --> 01:48:01.372 And then I have a couple, so just bear with me. One request 1666 01:48:01.372 --> 01:48:05.711 from Jeanette and Vermont is to it would be helpful, she says, 1667 01:48:05.711 --> 01:48:10.188 if the numbers we enter into the open text box within the budget 1668 01:48:10.188 --> 01:48:10.740 section. 1669 01:48:11.990 --> 01:48:13.660 Basically auto populate. 1670 01:48:15.690 --> 01:48:19.653 And then, Shannon furlough, a pain point for us is how to 1671 01:48:19.653 --> 01:48:23.958 translate outputs into something that we can show more widely, 1672 01:48:23.958 --> 01:48:27.854 what my staff said that we report on, on such a way that 1673 01:48:27.854 --> 01:48:31.544 doesn't really feel it accurately reflects on what we 1674 01:48:31.544 --> 01:48:35.234 do. How can we change that narrative? Thanks so much, 1675 01:48:35.234 --> 01:48:37.080 Cindy. These are all great. 1676 01:48:38.380 --> 01:48:39.510 Next question. 1677 01:48:40.870 --> 01:48:46.189 What does pre SPR info gathering look like and does it involve 1678 01:48:46.189 --> 01:48:49.820 other systems? What's working well or not? 1679 01:48:50.470 --> 01:48:53.376 Just gonna give you a 30 seconds. Take those posts and 1680 01:48:53.376 --> 01:48:56.759 we'll start the conversation all the way. We'll and we'll start 1681 01:48:56.759 --> 01:48:59.560 all the way back to that end table when we're ready. 1682 01:49:13.290 --> 01:49:16.865 And please do post stuff on those posted things. We'll 1683 01:49:16.865 --> 01:49:17.580 collect it. 1684 01:49:50.650 --> 01:49:54.719 This is a great question. I was trying to ponder just how far 1685 01:49:54.719 --> 01:49:58.789 behind I was on the SPR recently and I was trying to chunk up 1686 01:49:58.789 --> 01:50:01.940 time and I think the pre planning is about 20%. 1687 01:50:03.200 --> 01:50:07.426 I have essentially an Excel planning budget because I force 1688 01:50:07.426 --> 01:50:11.865 everyone to send all of their charges through me sub grants or 1689 01:50:11.865 --> 01:50:16.303 or statewide projects and then per project it's all tabbed out 1690 01:50:16.303 --> 01:50:20.812 and I have every charge. So then I make a chart that is project 1691 01:50:20.812 --> 01:50:24.968 overview activities, project overview activities and I fit 1692 01:50:24.968 --> 01:50:29.195 all the charges in until I'm done with all of the money and 1693 01:50:29.195 --> 01:50:33.069 then I turn around and tell the other staff all right? 1694 01:50:33.160 --> 01:50:36.360 This is where your expenditures were. So this is the report you 1695 01:50:36.360 --> 01:50:39.110 have to turn in and I turn them back to a Google form. 1696 01:50:40.120 --> 01:50:42.090 That matches the SPR. 1697 01:50:44.690 --> 01:50:50.703 So yeah, my excel sheet, many spreadsheets, Google forms, 1698 01:50:50.703 --> 01:50:54.540 then, then to the SPR. Thanks Karen. 1699 01:50:55.410 --> 01:50:57.840 Thank you. Just gave us freedom. Lots of food for fodder. 1700 01:50:59.520 --> 01:51:03.189 Please, your name? Hi, I'm Nicola from Rhode Island. So we 1701 01:51:03.189 --> 01:51:06.859 do a lot of outlining and drafting in Word just basically. 1702 01:51:06.859 --> 01:51:10.654 And I'm wondering, I have gone through and kind of created a 1703 01:51:10.654 --> 01:51:14.510 template for all our projects based on what's in the SPR. But 1704 01:51:14.510 --> 01:51:18.367 is that something you might be able to provide so that we can 1705 01:51:18.367 --> 01:51:22.286 work on it outside of the system in a way that's a little more 1706 01:51:22.286 --> 01:51:24.090 user-friendly to the average? 1707 01:51:25.390 --> 01:51:28.279 Person, so that they can still answer all the questions, 1708 01:51:28.279 --> 01:51:31.321 including all of those like little questions that sometimes 1709 01:51:31.321 --> 01:51:34.565 we forget are going to be there. So I'll have my staff, they'll 1710 01:51:34.565 --> 01:51:37.810 do a whole report and then I'll go and be like, oh, I have five 1711 01:51:37.810 --> 01:51:40.598 questions that got triggered that I wasn't necessarily 1712 01:51:40.598 --> 01:51:43.285 expecting. So perhaps the template for that might be 1713 01:51:43.285 --> 01:51:43.639 useful. 1714 01:51:44.490 --> 01:51:45.520 Thank you. 1715 01:51:47.050 --> 01:51:51.557 Now I've got a couple virtuals again for Shannon furlough. My 1716 01:51:51.557 --> 01:51:56.210 departments gather statistic in such different ways that I have 1717 01:51:56.210 --> 01:52:00.790 to translate the SPR time. It would be nice if we could change 1718 01:52:00.790 --> 01:52:05.298 to use SPR questions year round and then in Florida we try to 1719 01:52:05.298 --> 01:52:09.369 synchronize our states annual reporting with the SPR's. 1720 01:52:11.350 --> 01:52:14.133 Having clean this is someone else, Alexandra from South 1721 01:52:14.133 --> 01:52:16.867 Carolina. Having a clean template to provide to others 1722 01:52:16.867 --> 01:52:19.701 would be really helpful. Everybody loves a good template 1723 01:52:19.701 --> 01:52:19.899 man. 1724 01:52:21.990 --> 01:52:26.028 Message is coming in clearly page three. Before we go to the 1725 01:52:26.028 --> 01:52:30.133 next question, just quick any quick brief summary things that 1726 01:52:30.133 --> 01:52:33.841 you're thinking about as you listen to the conversation 1727 01:52:33.841 --> 01:52:34.570 developing? 1728 01:52:35.920 --> 01:52:40.010 Yeah, sure. A couple of things I realized was. 1729 01:52:41.530 --> 01:52:45.127 The source data, right, one of the individuals talked about the 1730 01:52:45.127 --> 01:52:48.613 the templates to help them out that that's the key thing when 1731 01:52:48.613 --> 01:52:52.098 we were talking about the source systems and how we integrate 1732 01:52:52.098 --> 01:52:55.696 source systems with the SPR and SPR to the downstream like GMs. 1733 01:52:55.696 --> 01:52:59.294 That's the automation where like you know where 20% of the time 1734 01:52:59.294 --> 01:53:02.780 somebody said like you know the pre planning would take 20 to 1735 01:53:02.780 --> 01:53:06.096 30% of the time. How can we reduce that? If there is a way 1736 01:53:06.096 --> 01:53:09.357 to do that we would love to really work with you guys and 1737 01:53:09.357 --> 01:53:11.550 make that kind of a standard template. 1738 01:53:11.630 --> 01:53:14.657 And that will improve the efficiency. So that's one of the 1739 01:53:14.657 --> 01:53:17.890 key things that definitely we would love to work with you all. 1740 01:53:18.690 --> 01:53:19.320 Thanks, Rita. 1741 01:53:20.090 --> 01:53:21.440 Move to the next question. 1742 01:53:22.930 --> 01:53:27.778 Question four what works doesn't work well in terms of reporting 1743 01:53:27.778 --> 01:53:29.420 project level budgets? 1744 01:53:30.550 --> 01:53:34.689 Could we get it more fine-tuned for it? Not the project but an 1745 01:53:34.689 --> 01:53:38.368 activity? As a reminder, every project has at least one 1746 01:53:38.368 --> 01:53:38.960 activity. 1747 01:53:42.820 --> 01:53:44.230 I'm just the messenger. 1748 01:53:45.630 --> 01:53:49.744 Where did you give me like 3015? Thirty seconds? I'll start the 1749 01:53:49.744 --> 01:53:50.580 conversation. 1750 01:53:56.650 --> 01:53:57.300 You want to. 1751 01:54:06.040 --> 01:54:09.810 Someone please please an old friend. 1752 01:54:16.190 --> 01:54:20.850 When we first started doing the SPR, when you first came on 1753 01:54:20.850 --> 01:54:25.666 board and Arkansas was a pilot project, that was the goal was 1754 01:54:25.666 --> 01:54:30.094 activity level. And as we started working on it, I think 1755 01:54:30.094 --> 01:54:34.522 we found that that was not attainable. And so we kind of 1756 01:54:34.522 --> 01:54:39.105 drew back from that and I think that's still the case, the 1757 01:54:39.105 --> 01:54:41.280 activity level at our state. 1758 01:54:41.460 --> 01:54:46.223 You know, the way we do our finances and budgeting at the 1759 01:54:46.223 --> 01:54:49.590 state level, that would require a large. 1760 01:54:50.420 --> 01:54:56.071 Burden on us and coding and accounting principles and stuff 1761 01:54:56.071 --> 01:55:01.347 like that. So I would say activity level may not be the 1762 01:55:01.347 --> 01:55:02.760 best way to go. 1763 01:55:04.790 --> 01:55:05.940 Good to see you. 1764 01:55:09.160 --> 01:55:14.410 So, Carmen, North Dakota, new new fiscal director. 1765 01:55:15.050 --> 01:55:20.548 And I'm relatively new and LSA as well. So we're working 1766 01:55:20.548 --> 01:55:26.624 together and our fiscal director really wants the budget to be 1767 01:55:26.624 --> 01:55:27.300 set up. 1768 01:55:28.170 --> 01:55:34.693 Aligning with a five year plan so that all of our money then is 1769 01:55:34.693 --> 01:55:41.318 put into projects. So what I see is 29 projects for the upcoming 1770 01:55:41.318 --> 01:55:47.943 years and so it'll all be coded according, every expense will be 1771 01:55:47.943 --> 01:55:53.549 quoted according to those projects and that is how she 1772 01:55:53.549 --> 01:55:58.340 would like it and I think that's kind of what. 1773 01:55:58.460 --> 01:56:02.537 You are asking for, but it's probably not quite at the 1774 01:56:02.537 --> 01:56:03.650 activity level. 1775 01:56:05.180 --> 01:56:05.760 In the project. 1776 01:56:07.460 --> 01:56:08.130 Thank you. 1777 01:56:09.550 --> 01:56:13.180 Not the virtual folks are saying thanks, but no thanks. 1778 01:56:14.660 --> 01:56:19.281 Imagine that I just wanted to jump on so much of our LTA funds 1779 01:56:19.281 --> 01:56:23.902 support staff time because we are a very small state and we do 1780 01:56:23.902 --> 01:56:28.523 have a very activity level, sort of very complicated reporting 1781 01:56:28.523 --> 01:56:32.850 structure that we do for our time. But even with that with 1782 01:56:32.850 --> 01:56:37.545 and again we're very small, it's very difficult to get staff to 1783 01:56:37.545 --> 01:56:41.872 consistently and correctly report their time in a way that 1784 01:56:41.872 --> 01:56:44.660 genuinely accurately reflects things. 1785 01:56:44.750 --> 01:56:48.898 At an activity level, I think we managed to kind of capture all 1786 01:56:48.898 --> 01:56:52.593 of the project level. So I I love project level. I'm pro 1787 01:56:52.593 --> 01:56:54.020 keeping it. Thank you. 1788 01:56:56.410 --> 01:57:02.619 Carmen, North Dakota, once again, I did not remember that 1789 01:57:02.619 --> 01:57:09.150 yes, this is going to require our staff to basically do time 1790 01:57:09.150 --> 01:57:15.360 cards and that we do find that to be a potential problem. 1791 01:57:17.110 --> 01:57:20.230 However, we have not given up on that vote. 1792 01:57:22.080 --> 01:57:22.950 Thank you. 1793 01:57:31.980 --> 01:57:37.497 Just another scenario for our federal projects. Each project 1794 01:57:37.497 --> 01:57:42.653 has its own code and that code is set up in June of each 1795 01:57:42.653 --> 01:57:48.441 previous year and we start our new projects in October with our 1796 01:57:48.441 --> 01:57:53.959 federal funds. Our coding is set up in June if at some point 1797 01:57:53.959 --> 01:57:56.129 there is a new activity. 1798 01:57:56.210 --> 01:58:00.024 That comes about starting in October. There would be no 1799 01:58:00.024 --> 01:58:04.043 coding for it and no way to track it by the activity level 1800 01:58:04.043 --> 01:58:08.539 because we've already set up the coding the previous gene, what's 1801 01:58:08.539 --> 01:58:12.490 your state's fiscal year beginning July, this July, June, 1802 01:58:12.490 --> 01:58:13.240 July, June? 1803 01:58:17.140 --> 01:58:18.070 Move to the next one. 1804 01:58:20.560 --> 01:58:24.490 What works and doesn't work in terms of controlled vocabulary 1805 01:58:24.490 --> 01:58:28.357 like we use for subjects? Think we have 32 subject codes and 1806 01:58:28.357 --> 01:58:32.160 then we give you. You can use select up to two subjects and 1807 01:58:32.160 --> 01:58:35.583 then you can enter your additional keywords, your own 1808 01:58:35.583 --> 01:58:39.070 tags and we give you a chance to add up to three tags. 1809 01:58:39.800 --> 01:58:41.030 So when you think about. 1810 01:58:41.950 --> 01:58:45.693 The control valve locally for subjects, tags, what works and 1811 01:58:45.693 --> 01:58:48.210 what doesn't work. What can be improved? 1812 01:58:54.290 --> 01:58:58.406 So these tags are a thing. All right. So I've been like every 1813 01:58:58.406 --> 01:59:01.991 other state, building templates and things like that. 1814 01:59:01.991 --> 01:59:05.842 Pennsylvania by the way. Hey, how you doing? And with the 1815 01:59:05.842 --> 01:59:10.091 tags, I feel like we have been submitting enough reports in the 1816 01:59:10.091 --> 01:59:14.141 SPR. Is there a way to pull those tags to then compile? Like 1817 01:59:14.141 --> 01:59:18.390 sort of like a starting list so that we can hit a drop down box 1818 01:59:18.390 --> 01:59:22.639 or check box instead of typing in these tags every single time? 1819 01:59:22.780 --> 01:59:26.588 Because open text fields when you're trying to like analyze 1820 01:59:26.588 --> 01:59:30.651 that data is a nightmare and so that would be helpful. And also 1821 01:59:30.651 --> 01:59:34.270 with data entering and that would help my advisors with. 1822 01:59:35.140 --> 01:59:39.216 Those little things in life, you know So what 11 lesson I learned 1823 01:59:39.216 --> 01:59:42.983 in advancing and I am a lessons to hire really smart people, 1824 01:59:42.983 --> 01:59:46.566 people smarter than me like Emily. And then we we used to 1825 01:59:46.566 --> 01:59:50.086 have a statistician Lisa that came here and those of you 1826 01:59:50.086 --> 01:59:53.916 remember Lisa. Lisa should take these keyword tags and really 1827 01:59:53.916 --> 01:59:57.313 start helping doing this analysis. We want to see what 1828 01:59:57.313 --> 02:00:01.142 was the investment return on investment for early literacy or 1829 02:00:01.142 --> 02:00:05.033 digital literacy. We were using those tags that's something we 1830 02:00:05.033 --> 02:00:05.960 can definitely. 1831 02:00:06.060 --> 02:00:06.880 Follow up with you on. 1832 02:00:07.680 --> 02:00:08.070 Thanks. 1833 02:00:09.050 --> 02:00:09.540 Matt. 1834 02:00:10.420 --> 02:00:15.237 We have a request with what I'm going to go with as a an update 1835 02:00:15.237 --> 02:00:19.226 of the tags themselves, some things that may be more 1836 02:00:19.226 --> 02:00:22.990 intuitive, like Wi-Fi, something more direct and. 1837 02:00:24.270 --> 02:00:28.226 Instinctive as far as what's being used or utilized by end 1838 02:00:28.226 --> 02:00:29.500 users or libraries. 1839 02:00:30.570 --> 02:00:30.970 Thanks. 1840 02:00:35.250 --> 02:00:35.590 OK. 1841 02:00:39.140 --> 02:00:40.220 Let's go backwards, then. 1842 02:00:42.660 --> 02:00:47.216 Sorry, no, please. Wi-Fi on the tags from what state, South 1843 02:00:47.216 --> 02:00:47.900 Carolina? 1844 02:00:49.430 --> 02:00:53.008 If you did have drop downs but still have the option of open 1845 02:00:53.008 --> 02:00:56.645 fields because when something new happens you want to be able 1846 02:00:56.645 --> 02:00:58.640 to still report it. Thanks Wendy. 1847 02:01:04.080 --> 02:01:08.647 What works doesn't work well in terms of reporting project level 1848 02:01:08.647 --> 02:01:11.740 that we did this. I'm not going back there. 1849 02:01:16.210 --> 02:01:20.204 What works doesn't work well in terms of current locale 1850 02:01:20.204 --> 02:01:24.270 flexibility, reporting by institution, details of just a 1851 02:01:24.270 --> 02:01:28.692 number. Sometimes I'm I'm less can't convey the true reach of 1852 02:01:28.692 --> 02:01:33.186 the program without geolocation data. Some background. This is 1853 02:01:33.186 --> 02:01:37.679 going to be the elder speaking up. So 10 to 13 years ago, when 1854 02:01:37.679 --> 02:01:42.030 we were first trying to build this system, we knew that some 1855 02:01:42.030 --> 02:01:43.600 projects were the SLA. 1856 02:01:43.670 --> 02:01:47.622 Is doing for its entire territory, like entire state. 1857 02:01:47.622 --> 02:01:51.940 Sometimes it was being sub granted to a recipient that was 1858 02:01:51.940 --> 02:01:56.038 covering maybe just one community and then we had these 1859 02:01:56.038 --> 02:02:00.429 weird things in between. Or maybe it was all the big cities 1860 02:02:00.429 --> 02:02:05.113 or all the small rural towns, or maybe just part of a state and 1861 02:02:05.113 --> 02:02:06.870 we didn't have a way to. 1862 02:02:08.050 --> 02:02:12.784 Capture that. So we created a proxy of locale, like the number 1863 02:02:12.784 --> 02:02:16.917 of school libraries, for instance, and this is kind of 1864 02:02:16.917 --> 02:02:21.727 the way we've been going. So as you look at this question here, 1865 02:02:21.727 --> 02:02:23.230 we've got some maps. 1866 02:02:24.030 --> 02:02:28.159 To try to show you where we're at right now for some of the 1867 02:02:28.159 --> 02:02:32.014 states when we create a hypothetical of W Dakota, let's 1868 02:02:32.014 --> 02:02:33.460 assume that W Dakota. 1869 02:02:34.260 --> 02:02:38.627 Only they don't do any subrecipients and so everything 1870 02:02:38.627 --> 02:02:43.710 that shows up is forever. That's capital for the SLA's located. 1871 02:02:44.480 --> 02:02:47.792 And if we try to try to visualize and share it with 1872 02:02:47.792 --> 02:02:51.805 congressional people or whoever, it's going to be looking like 1873 02:02:51.805 --> 02:02:55.436 all that state state is just concentrated, right? With a 1874 02:02:55.436 --> 02:02:59.194 state capitalist. Now you picture that to the left. Here's 1875 02:02:59.194 --> 02:03:02.952 an opportunity where some state is giving us voluntarily a 1876 02:03:02.952 --> 02:03:06.392 little bit more detail about those locales where it's 1877 02:03:06.392 --> 02:03:10.086 captured so we can get a better sense of the reach of the 1878 02:03:10.086 --> 02:03:13.972 investment in that state. But it's a work in progress. So as 1879 02:03:13.972 --> 02:03:15.310 you think about this. 1880 02:03:15.470 --> 02:03:19.403 What works and doesn't work and your ability to tell stories 1881 02:03:19.403 --> 02:03:23.080 about where the SLA dollars are going in your territory. 1882 02:03:24.280 --> 02:03:24.830 It's about. 1883 02:03:26.330 --> 02:03:27.880 My extra work. Go for it. 1884 02:03:29.340 --> 02:03:33.549 So it's all with that humanistic approach, right? So I feel like 1885 02:03:33.549 --> 02:03:37.564 if there was an easier way to upload the locale data that you 1886 02:03:37.564 --> 02:03:41.450 would get more locale data. Right now it's that that manual 1887 02:03:41.450 --> 02:03:45.336 data entry and if you know all of us around like 20 million 1888 02:03:45.336 --> 02:03:49.545 hats, you'll know how it is. And so that's why that if there was 1889 02:03:49.545 --> 02:03:52.460 an easier way for data entry like uploading. 1890 02:03:53.760 --> 02:03:57.060 Thank you. How about a Congressional District? 1891 02:03:59.060 --> 02:03:59.790 Field. 1892 02:04:01.710 --> 02:04:05.614 Oh, I think you just made made a lot of fans with that comment, 1893 02:04:05.614 --> 02:04:05.980 Jamie. 1894 02:04:12.340 --> 02:04:15.558 And now I'm getting between you and lunch, I'm still going to 1895 02:04:15.558 --> 02:04:16.960 push you a little bit more. 1896 02:04:20.720 --> 02:04:22.690 North Dakota? Come on up. 1897 02:04:23.980 --> 02:04:27.757 Everybody's just trying to speak at the level at which I put the 1898 02:04:27.757 --> 02:04:31.069 mic, so I want to raise it because I'm uncomfortable for 1899 02:04:31.069 --> 02:04:31.360 them. 1900 02:04:40.210 --> 02:04:41.250 Seven question. 1901 02:04:41.960 --> 02:04:46.028 What SPR data is most useful to you year round and during the 1902 02:04:46.028 --> 02:04:49.900 five year evaluation? Great questions. So you know I think 1903 02:04:49.900 --> 02:04:53.772 about that five year evaluation, what was some of the data 1904 02:04:53.772 --> 02:04:57.513 elements that were really helpful or doing annual annual 1905 02:04:57.513 --> 02:04:58.170 reporting? 1906 02:04:59.960 --> 02:05:03.550 Take about 1530 seconds, then we'll start the conversation. 1907 02:05:04.670 --> 02:05:07.763 And I'm at the point now I'm going to voluntarily call on 1908 02:05:07.763 --> 02:05:11.230 people who I know are quiet. Who will they see me later. They're 1909 02:05:11.230 --> 02:05:13.630 going to pull my arm with their suggestions. 1910 02:05:14.890 --> 02:05:15.090 No. 1911 02:05:27.510 --> 02:05:28.660 What's it like in Missouri? 1912 02:05:34.270 --> 02:05:35.200 Come on up. 1913 02:05:40.420 --> 02:05:44.165 What we do use the SPR for some things. A lot of times we 1914 02:05:44.165 --> 02:05:47.975 collect as far as like new projects and that sort of thing 1915 02:05:47.975 --> 02:05:52.237 from conferences such as this or PLA or listening to other things 1916 02:05:52.237 --> 02:05:56.369 and then we go back to the SPR to get the data to move forward. 1917 02:05:57.790 --> 02:05:59.260 PS2 do you ever blend them? 1918 02:06:05.670 --> 02:06:09.472 Anyone with aspirations for the types of data storage you wish 1919 02:06:09.472 --> 02:06:10.680 we could be telling? 1920 02:06:16.620 --> 02:06:21.257 Matt Shannon furlough year round with surveys which I need my 1921 02:06:21.257 --> 02:06:25.596 staff to do more. Five year it was outputs to see overall 1922 02:06:25.596 --> 02:06:26.120 impact. 1923 02:06:27.350 --> 02:06:28.060 Thank you. 1924 02:06:32.900 --> 02:06:36.933 It's a tough crowd today. Maybe I'll give a, I'll do a proxy for 1925 02:06:36.933 --> 02:06:40.904 Colorado since they're the image on this slide. It's one of the 1926 02:06:40.904 --> 02:06:44.875 few states we saw that actually used the outcome survey data in 1927 02:06:44.875 --> 02:06:48.411 service to their five year evaluation. So shadow to Jean 1928 02:06:48.411 --> 02:06:52.444 who's online virtually and also just a question like can you see 1929 02:06:52.444 --> 02:06:54.120 yourselves using this data? 1930 02:06:54.950 --> 02:06:58.425 In the same way or is is the survey outcome data on a 1931 02:06:58.425 --> 02:06:59.970 different level for you? 1932 02:07:01.280 --> 02:07:03.670 And what could we do to potentially make it useful? 1933 02:07:05.930 --> 02:07:07.440 Pennsylvania, come on up. 1934 02:07:09.320 --> 02:07:13.153 No, no. You know what, it's really hard because you know we 1935 02:07:13.153 --> 02:07:16.603 are definitely evaluation and income, not income, but 1936 02:07:16.603 --> 02:07:20.500 data-driven. But with entering in the data we find ourselves 1937 02:07:20.500 --> 02:07:21.969 brightening up against. 1938 02:07:23.880 --> 02:07:24.380 Umm. 1939 02:07:25.640 --> 02:07:26.310 Give me the word. 1940 02:07:28.730 --> 02:07:32.678 When you when you're around like when you round up or round down 1941 02:07:32.678 --> 02:07:36.566 estimation estimations. And so when we actually get to the data 1942 02:07:36.566 --> 02:07:40.332 that we're putting in, our data is skewed because a lot of it 1943 02:07:40.332 --> 02:07:44.099 leads towards estimating. So then when my advisors are trying 1944 02:07:44.099 --> 02:07:47.743 to plan programs, it's not really creating the picture that 1945 02:07:47.743 --> 02:07:51.631 they want. So my advisors build their own data collection stuff 1946 02:07:51.631 --> 02:07:55.094 with their programs that we end up just uploading in the 1947 02:07:55.094 --> 02:07:58.192 attachments because the SPR doesn't really ask the 1948 02:07:58.192 --> 02:07:58.800 questions. 1949 02:07:58.950 --> 02:08:02.406 Capture what it is we find as useful. So however that could be 1950 02:08:02.406 --> 02:08:05.808 kind of melded or somewhere. It's hard dealing with all these 1951 02:08:05.808 --> 02:08:09.429 things. I think it's safe for me to say I'm speaking for straight 1952 02:08:09.429 --> 02:08:12.941 armed terrorists. It's safe. We would love to have any of those 1953 02:08:12.941 --> 02:08:16.562 stories, any of those tools that you're using in your state. That 1954 02:08:16.562 --> 02:08:17.660 would help us a lot. 1955 02:08:19.070 --> 02:08:22.670 Serena, do you have anything, any Internet goes back to my 1956 02:08:22.670 --> 02:08:26.454 initial readers where whatever the tools that you're using to 1957 02:08:26.454 --> 02:08:30.238 collect the data or to upload it to the SPR, if there is some 1958 02:08:30.238 --> 02:08:34.022 mechanism on your side, we would love to make that simpler by 1959 02:08:34.022 --> 02:08:37.806 automating the process. I mean, think of it as like you know, 1960 02:08:37.806 --> 02:08:41.346 the Excel spreadsheet that you maintain and automatically 1961 02:08:41.346 --> 02:08:44.763 adjust address PR and it automatically entered into EMS 1962 02:08:44.763 --> 02:08:48.181 and that's how all the three systems are integrated and 1963 02:08:48.181 --> 02:08:49.280 that's the vision. 1964 02:08:49.800 --> 02:08:53.003 I know there will be lots of things that we have to the 1965 02:08:53.003 --> 02:08:56.779 hurdles I would say, but I think we can do the work around and we 1966 02:08:56.779 --> 02:09:00.326 can make this a lot better. I mean do you lots of fewer stuff 1967 02:09:00.326 --> 02:09:03.129 like absolutely. Yeah, we need to talk for sure. 1968 02:09:04.520 --> 02:09:04.810 Yeah. 1969 02:09:07.200 --> 02:09:07.730 Please. 1970 02:09:10.110 --> 02:09:14.468 Catherine from North Carolina, the outcome data for us I think 1971 02:09:14.468 --> 02:09:18.896 is so at the activity level for a lot of our sub awards. So you 1972 02:09:18.896 --> 02:09:23.185 might have three activities and only one of them has required 1973 02:09:23.185 --> 02:09:27.060 survey. So just kind of reporting on that outcome level 1974 02:09:27.060 --> 02:09:31.349 data just for one part of the project isn't as beneficial for 1975 02:09:31.349 --> 02:09:33.010 us at the project level. 1976 02:09:34.560 --> 02:09:36.780 Yeah. That's an interesting one. Thank you sharing that. 1977 02:09:37.660 --> 02:09:38.210 Hector. 1978 02:09:41.370 --> 02:09:46.220 Yes, no practicando allergy or traverse me amigo. 1979 02:09:47.720 --> 02:09:48.100 Umm. 1980 02:09:49.000 --> 02:09:53.558 In Puerto Rico, at the open sando Trabajo al La Muffler 1981 02:09:53.558 --> 02:09:54.210 malaria. 1982 02:09:55.510 --> 02:09:58.150 And Microsoft Power apps. 1983 02:09:59.240 --> 02:09:59.630 But. 1984 02:10:01.200 --> 02:10:04.881 In Puerto Rico, we are considering creating a form 1985 02:10:04.881 --> 02:10:06.830 using Microsoft Power apps. 1986 02:10:11.010 --> 02:10:12.250 Looking for mineral? 1987 02:10:15.750 --> 02:10:20.150 OK, and we have a situation because the librarians. 1988 02:10:20.790 --> 02:10:24.100 Furnish their reports in Spanish to us. 1989 02:10:26.310 --> 02:10:33.760 Passava LSPR Salava Trejo quatro Dias Entre in Trello prieto. 1990 02:10:36.290 --> 02:10:41.733 Traducing elemento central aparte Financiera de Bella being 1991 02:10:41.733 --> 02:10:47.539 complicated so the the person in charge of uploading to the SPR 1992 02:10:47.539 --> 02:10:53.526 took like 3 days or more because they had to translate the forms, 1993 02:10:53.526 --> 02:10:59.514 enter them into the SDR and then after that go into the financial 1994 02:10:59.514 --> 02:11:02.780 area. So it gets really cumbersome. 1995 02:11:03.650 --> 02:11:05.220 Thank you. Thank you. 1996 02:11:07.220 --> 02:11:11.355 Matt Shannon from Georgia. I love the batch upload feature. I 1997 02:11:11.355 --> 02:11:13.690 wish I could do it for activities. 1998 02:11:15.800 --> 02:11:16.670 Thank you. 1999 02:11:18.640 --> 02:11:19.590 Next question. 2000 02:11:20.510 --> 02:11:21.940 Thinking about everything. 2001 02:11:23.140 --> 02:11:27.405 Including 10 minutes to lunch, what are your time investments? 2002 02:11:27.405 --> 02:11:31.737 Where are your time investments disproportionate to the payoff? 2003 02:11:31.737 --> 02:11:35.867 So where are the things that you're putting in a lot of time 2004 02:11:35.867 --> 02:11:40.268 to enter the data and it's just not giving you good bang for the 2005 02:11:40.268 --> 02:11:42.570 buck? Any particular pain points? 2006 02:11:46.190 --> 02:11:46.610 Jeff. 2007 02:11:51.960 --> 02:11:56.161 I'm I'm still relatively new at this but I think for me one of 2008 02:11:56.161 --> 02:12:00.362 the things that I've encountered giving out the the grants and 2009 02:12:00.362 --> 02:12:04.164 the projects is I'm only ever going to be as good as the 2010 02:12:04.164 --> 02:12:08.365 projects and the reports that I'm getting back from people. So 2011 02:12:08.365 --> 02:12:12.300 that's why the idea that a template that I can give people 2012 02:12:12.300 --> 02:12:16.034 and say here's what I need here's what it needs to look 2013 02:12:16.034 --> 02:12:20.236 like at the end that I can sort of seamlessly get into the SPR 2014 02:12:20.236 --> 02:12:21.770 so I'm not acting as a. 2015 02:12:21.860 --> 02:12:25.842 Translator for these things and they know what's expected, they 2016 02:12:25.842 --> 02:12:29.825 know what ultimately I'm going to be using. So like I said, the 2017 02:12:29.825 --> 02:12:33.620 just the realization that I'm only going to be as good as as 2018 02:12:33.620 --> 02:12:37.416 what I'm getting from the the project leads. Thank you, it's 2019 02:12:37.416 --> 02:12:37.790 great. 2020 02:12:43.420 --> 02:12:44.050 Come on. 2021 02:12:45.580 --> 02:12:47.480 All right. This is just more of an office. 2022 02:12:49.500 --> 02:12:53.029 Such change level validations. It isn't really about that, but 2023 02:12:53.029 --> 02:12:56.671 usually when I'm getting to the end and I'm adding adding things 2024 02:12:56.671 --> 02:13:00.200 in when I hit those errors. It'd be great if we had page level 2025 02:13:00.200 --> 02:13:02.890 validation if that was at all possible to help. 2026 02:13:10.820 --> 02:13:14.630 I have just, I think this might be more of an US problem in my 2027 02:13:14.630 --> 02:13:18.319 state than a you problem. But because we're spending so much 2028 02:13:18.319 --> 02:13:22.069 time getting this data ready, I always feel like I'm never. I 2029 02:13:22.069 --> 02:13:26.060 should be doing it now, planning for next year and ensuring that, 2030 02:13:26.060 --> 02:13:29.326 like everything we have is aligned to what's in there 2031 02:13:29.326 --> 02:13:33.137 instead of what our individual departments are creating. And I 2032 02:13:33.137 --> 02:13:34.770 just feel like I can never. 2033 02:13:34.900 --> 02:13:38.465 Quite get ahead of that so that the next report is really, 2034 02:13:38.465 --> 02:13:42.211 really meaningful to us in a way where we're not transforming 2035 02:13:42.211 --> 02:13:45.777 some of the data that our individual people are collecting 2036 02:13:45.777 --> 02:13:49.463 and then turning it into this. And again, I think it's an US 2037 02:13:49.463 --> 02:13:53.330 problem that I'm trying to work on, but it does seem like I can 2038 02:13:53.330 --> 02:13:54.659 never quite get there. 2039 02:13:56.490 --> 02:13:58.060 Thank you. No problem. 2040 02:13:59.270 --> 02:14:00.260 I think you're unique. 2041 02:14:04.070 --> 02:14:08.104 I have something that feels it may be an US problem as well, 2042 02:14:08.104 --> 02:14:11.477 but for me the actual difficulties with the SPR, I 2043 02:14:11.477 --> 02:14:15.313 completely agree with the you're only as good as your sub 2044 02:14:15.313 --> 02:14:19.480 grantees reports. That is true. And yet I'd almost rather work 2045 02:14:19.480 --> 02:14:23.382 with them than trying to get the data that I need from our 2046 02:14:23.382 --> 02:14:27.482 financial department. I don't know how many other states have 2047 02:14:27.482 --> 02:14:31.385 a real disconnect from the finance people versus them, but 2048 02:14:31.385 --> 02:14:33.700 I had a conversation with our CFO. 2049 02:14:33.770 --> 02:14:37.717 This year in which or past grant year where I kept going back and 2050 02:14:37.717 --> 02:14:41.604 saying OK, well you told me you sent spent it on Mussolini, they 2051 02:14:41.604 --> 02:14:45.252 can't report miscellany. What is that? And she finally said, 2052 02:14:45.252 --> 02:14:48.900 well, why? Why do you need to know that? And she had no idea 2053 02:14:48.900 --> 02:14:52.429 that we had a budget narrative to go with that because she 2054 02:14:52.429 --> 02:14:56.197 never looked at it. I think she thought I was just being super 2055 02:14:56.197 --> 02:14:59.905 annoying and trying to like make myself more important than I 2056 02:14:59.905 --> 02:15:03.374 was. And I had to say I MLS actually wants more than just 2057 02:15:03.374 --> 02:15:04.630 the numbers from you. 2058 02:15:05.230 --> 02:15:06.620 So if there was. 2059 02:15:07.730 --> 02:15:11.420 Any way to have like a, a list, something we could provide to 2060 02:15:11.420 --> 02:15:14.991 our business office here are the things that you need to be 2061 02:15:14.991 --> 02:15:18.622 tracking so that it's not just Angela really wants you to be 2062 02:15:18.622 --> 02:15:22.431 accountable to her even though you know, even though you're the 2063 02:15:22.431 --> 02:15:26.181 CFO and she's just doing this more. Angela is going to have to 2064 02:15:26.181 --> 02:15:29.573 go and justify this to her program officer and she would 2065 02:15:29.573 --> 02:15:33.144 really love it if you said we something more than we bought 2066 02:15:33.144 --> 02:15:33.739 stuff, so. 2067 02:15:37.180 --> 02:15:40.259 Angela, another one to make that many people happy here today. 2068 02:15:40.259 --> 02:15:41.090 You got a couple. 2069 02:15:44.200 --> 02:15:48.241 Matt Tamara from Oregon. One concept we wrestle with is deep 2070 02:15:48.241 --> 02:15:52.084 and narrow impact versus wide and shallow numbers seem to 2071 02:15:52.084 --> 02:15:55.860 speak to statewide impact. Sometimes an activity is only 2072 02:15:55.860 --> 02:16:00.100 for 15 libraries, but the impact is deep. It seems like we need 2073 02:16:00.100 --> 02:16:03.877 more in terms of context to really tell the story. Yeah, 2074 02:16:03.877 --> 02:16:07.521 they, they, they the investments reach so many people. 2075 02:16:07.521 --> 02:16:08.250 Absolutely. 2076 02:16:12.970 --> 02:16:17.182 I think we're moving to the last question. Beyond updating the 2077 02:16:17.182 --> 02:16:21.261 SBR, beyond the engineering of the system, is there anything 2078 02:16:21.261 --> 02:16:24.470 else we can do to help streamline or reduce the 2079 02:16:24.470 --> 02:16:28.014 administrative burden you have and those of your sub 2080 02:16:28.014 --> 02:16:28.750 recipients? 2081 02:16:30.500 --> 02:16:33.520 So putting aside the SPR, anything else we could do? 2082 02:16:38.160 --> 02:16:42.140 222-2222. 2083 02:16:44.100 --> 02:16:47.920 2222, OK. 2084 02:16:49.470 --> 02:16:53.202 One thing we could probably do because we have, I think all of 2085 02:16:53.202 --> 02:16:54.920 us have our own little tools. 2086 02:16:55.580 --> 02:16:59.637 In our own little pockets that could probably help somebody 2087 02:16:59.637 --> 02:17:03.492 else. You ask on one of the things on the SVR during the 2088 02:17:03.492 --> 02:17:07.549 outcomes is best practices or whatever. But I haven't we, I 2089 02:17:07.549 --> 02:17:11.810 don't think we've had a chance to a place where we can deposit 2090 02:17:11.810 --> 02:17:15.665 any of our tools and making up someone else. So like the 2091 02:17:15.665 --> 02:17:19.722 question about finances and activities, we don't even work, 2092 02:17:19.722 --> 02:17:23.644 we don't even ask finance to ask to do our activity level 2093 02:17:23.644 --> 02:17:26.349 activities. We have our sub recipients. 2094 02:17:26.420 --> 02:17:30.455 Give us that and we actually come through their receipts and 2095 02:17:30.455 --> 02:17:34.690 our request for funds, but we do have different procedures that 2096 02:17:34.690 --> 02:17:38.792 we've outlined that may help someone else that may or may not 2097 02:17:38.792 --> 02:17:41.770 be in our manual. But anyway, thanks, Erica. 2098 02:17:46.210 --> 02:17:47.860 So I'm going to turn it. 2099 02:17:49.270 --> 02:17:53.018 I'm going to just do a quick update and turn it to Terry. So 2100 02:17:53.018 --> 02:17:57.012 one of the things that's coming down the horizon is 3 hours been 2101 02:17:57.012 --> 02:18:00.884 working with the programmer and one of my team members who's a 2102 02:18:00.884 --> 02:18:04.387 data scientist. We've been working the piece of software 2103 02:18:04.387 --> 02:18:08.197 called Tableau to try to improve the ability to take the data 2104 02:18:08.197 --> 02:18:11.884 that's collecting SPR and to create into some types of apps 2105 02:18:11.884 --> 02:18:15.571 that you can all use for trying to tell some stories. So we 2106 02:18:15.571 --> 02:18:19.320 wanted to let you know that that's coming down the pipe but. 2107 02:18:19.440 --> 02:18:23.977 Terry, I think I want to turn it to you and wrapping us up for 2108 02:18:23.977 --> 02:18:25.490 starting to speed up. 2109 02:18:27.120 --> 02:18:29.890 Whatever you want to start from here. Either way, I'm fine. 2110 02:18:31.870 --> 02:18:33.190 This is the commitment. 2111 02:18:36.110 --> 02:18:36.620 All right. 2112 02:18:41.880 --> 02:18:42.810 Good morning, everyone. 2113 02:18:44.580 --> 02:18:48.486 Again, thank you so much for that great feedback. I mean this 2114 02:18:48.486 --> 02:18:52.581 is my first time here and super excited and thanks for the great 2115 02:18:52.581 --> 02:18:56.614 introduction you both. So just to introduce myself again, I'm a 2116 02:18:56.614 --> 02:19:00.331 Sridhar Kasiraja, senior IT program manager, O CI analyst. 2117 02:19:00.331 --> 02:19:04.237 So as we were talking about the features and the functions of 2118 02:19:04.237 --> 02:19:08.333 the SPR, I just want to pivot a little bit to the cyber security 2119 02:19:08.333 --> 02:19:12.365 aspect of it. Trust me, I mean I won't do more technical jargon 2120 02:19:12.365 --> 02:19:15.390 here, but I'll try to be as simple as possible. 2121 02:19:15.890 --> 02:19:19.555 So as you know, it's been the cyber threats have been 2122 02:19:19.555 --> 02:19:23.764 increasing so much lately. The federal government have issued 2123 02:19:23.764 --> 02:19:27.837 like you know more than 40 directives in the last 12 months 2124 02:19:27.837 --> 02:19:31.978 for us to beef up the whole security. We've been doing a lot 2125 02:19:31.978 --> 02:19:36.119 of these security initiatives and the background you may not 2126 02:19:36.119 --> 02:19:40.124 see them, but as one of the examples being the cloud, when 2127 02:19:40.124 --> 02:19:44.605 we move into the cloud, we moved the Gov cloud. So there are lots 2128 02:19:44.605 --> 02:19:45.420 of security. 2129 02:19:45.490 --> 02:19:49.297 Controls, we do. So recently a White House passed this issue, 2130 02:19:49.297 --> 02:19:52.306 that directive, it's called White House National 2131 02:19:52.306 --> 02:19:55.991 Cybersecurity Initiative. But there are like lots of things 2132 02:19:55.991 --> 02:19:59.738 that we have to do, which we have been doing. But one of the 2133 02:19:59.738 --> 02:20:03.545 things that matters here, the relevant to this context is the 2134 02:20:03.545 --> 02:20:07.476 multi factor authentication. I'm sorry, another acronym, sorry, 2135 02:20:07.476 --> 02:20:11.345 Sorry. Yeah, it's MFA. We call it again, this MFA is something 2136 02:20:11.345 --> 02:20:14.968 that's being mandated at this point of time for any of the 2137 02:20:14.968 --> 02:20:15.890 public systems. 2138 02:20:15.980 --> 02:20:19.613 Which requires authentication SPR being in the application 2139 02:20:19.613 --> 02:20:23.615 where you need to log in. So we have to make that a multi factor 2140 02:20:23.615 --> 02:20:27.371 authentication. So for many of you may already know what the 2141 02:20:27.371 --> 02:20:31.127 multi factor authentication is, right? I mean even the daily 2142 02:20:31.127 --> 02:20:34.576 life you have the banking applications where you log in 2143 02:20:34.576 --> 02:20:38.394 and there will be a code sent to your e-mail or text. So it's 2144 02:20:38.394 --> 02:20:42.088 pretty much that. And also if you're using other government 2145 02:20:42.088 --> 02:20:45.906 applications like EG MSMS, EMS or other applications, they do 2146 02:20:45.906 --> 02:20:48.000 use the solutions like login.gov. 2147 02:20:48.080 --> 02:20:52.684 So they provide both single sign on as well as the multi factor 2148 02:20:52.684 --> 02:20:57.289 authentication. So having said that, so our goal as part of the 2149 02:20:57.289 --> 02:21:00.670 future of this PR is to implement multi factor 2150 02:21:00.670 --> 02:21:01.750 authentication. 2151 02:21:03.060 --> 02:21:06.939 So other securities, as I said, you may not have direct impact 2152 02:21:06.939 --> 02:21:10.511 on you or the users in the system, but MFA definitely you 2153 02:21:10.511 --> 02:21:14.330 will see that impact because it's just it differs the way you 2154 02:21:14.330 --> 02:21:17.963 log into the system. But again our goal is to minimize the 2155 02:21:17.963 --> 02:21:21.905 impact negatively. So Terry, I'm working with Terry and Matt on 2156 02:21:21.905 --> 02:21:25.661 like you know, what are the solutions available. So we would 2157 02:21:25.661 --> 02:21:29.295 love to go with the solution that we are all familiar with 2158 02:21:29.295 --> 02:21:33.052 like login.gov but again there are certain logistics that we 2159 02:21:33.052 --> 02:21:33.359 have. 2160 02:21:33.430 --> 02:21:37.823 To have considered there lots of other factors, so as soon as we 2161 02:21:37.823 --> 02:21:42.149 make some decisions we will keep you posted on that and we will 2162 02:21:42.149 --> 02:21:45.934 give enough time for you guys to test it out, make sure 2163 02:21:45.934 --> 02:21:48.030 everything is smooth before we. 2164 02:21:50.780 --> 02:21:51.140 Thank you. 2165 02:21:58.740 --> 02:22:02.337 All right. So we're going to take everything we heard and 2166 02:22:02.337 --> 02:22:06.120 actually if you have sticky notes, I am going to leave right 2167 02:22:06.120 --> 02:22:10.089 after this to go to the talking book library. So maybe put your 2168 02:22:10.089 --> 02:22:13.872 sticky notes, if you would, at the Cindy Laura table. We can 2169 02:22:13.872 --> 02:22:17.656 just make like a big brick of sticky notes that we take back 2170 02:22:17.656 --> 02:22:21.067 with us to MLS. We're so interested in continuing this 2171 02:22:21.067 --> 02:22:23.299 conversation and mulling over what. 2172 02:22:23.380 --> 02:22:26.790 Heard today and continuing to get your input. 2173 02:22:28.320 --> 02:22:31.723 Thank you. To my colleagues. We're not actually going to have 2174 02:22:31.723 --> 02:22:35.236 time for questions, but we have the parking lot, so that's what 2175 02:22:35.236 --> 02:22:35.840 that's for. 2176 02:22:37.150 --> 02:22:40.263 One quick note before lunch break and I see many presents on 2177 02:22:40.263 --> 02:22:43.223 the back. If you want to be part of that state networking 2178 02:22:43.223 --> 02:22:46.336 activity and have a gift, make sure it's there by the end of 2179 02:22:46.336 --> 02:22:49.602 lunch at the table in the back of the room. If you want to walk 2180 02:22:49.602 --> 02:22:52.767 with me to the talking book and Braille Library, I'm going to 2181 02:22:52.767 --> 02:22:55.574 make a beeline out to the registration table countdown 2182 02:22:55.574 --> 02:22:58.687 clock of like 30 seconds and then I'm going to take off. But 2183 02:22:58.687 --> 02:23:01.953 you can also get there on your own. It's about a 20 minute walk 2184 02:23:01.953 --> 02:23:05.220 and it's kind of just straight down. If you can get to 8th Ave. 2185 02:23:05.220 --> 02:23:07.669 from here, it's it's basically a straight shot. 2186 02:23:07.850 --> 02:23:11.639 So we'll be back at 1:15 Pacific Time. Lunch is on your own. 2187 02:23:11.639 --> 02:23:15.117 There are ideas in your packet if you haven't seen them 2188 02:23:15.117 --> 02:23:19.030 already. And we'll hear about ARPA highlights at lunch, so you 2189 02:23:19.030 --> 02:23:22.757 after lunch, so you want to be sure you'll be back in time. 2190 02:23:22.757 --> 02:23:24.000 Thank you, everyone.