12:01:10 From Jude Schanzer to All panelists : Hi, This is Jude from East Meadow Public Library. 12:01:28 From Stephanie Vierow-Fields : HI Jude! 12:01:54 From Rachel Koehne : Rachel from Wayland, MI :) 12:02:25 From Stephanie Vierow-Fields : Hi Rachel! 12:03:47 From Greg Mosshammer : http://www.starnetlibraries.org/our-planet-earth/ 12:05:16 From Kristen Chelmow : Kristen from the Laurel Library in Delaware 12:13:20 From Jude Schanzer to All panelists : Annie always knows what is happening. 12:18:50 From Naomi Macias to All panelists : Hi, our library is surrounded by refineries. 12:18:54 From Rachel Koehne : We had several requests for Earth Day events and I thought a Community DIalogue would be a good, low stress way to get patrons involved 12:18:59 From Jude Schanzer to All panelists : We had meeting with community members as we began construction for a major renovation. 12:23:25 From Jude Schanzer to All panelists : If you are doing controversial programming, would a community dialogue be a good idea to hear people out? Or, do you feel that it might move people to be more obstructive. 12:23:31 From Naomi Macias to All panelists : and Mexican libraries have fees, like a membership 12:25:30 From Jude Schanzer to All panelists : For Moslem Journeys, we had an interfaith panel. Tempers ran high. 12:27:07 From Greg Mosshammer : http://www.starnetlibraries.org/resources/community-dialogues 12:27:28 From Naomi Macias to All panelists : teachers 12:29:32 From Stephanie Vierow-Fields : Going to where people are already comfortable (Luna) 12:29:44 From Jude Schanzer to All panelists : We went to the local County Hospital to read to children in the waiting room of the children's clinic. We invited their parents, most of whom were immigrants. They were afraid to use a public library as it is a government entity. We gave them specific invitations to events. Some came. 12:30:12 From Greg Mosshammer : https://nightsky.jpl.nasa.gov/ 12:30:46 From Greg Mosshammer : https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/solar-system-ambassadors 12:30:53 From Jude Schanzer to All panelists : BEER AT A LIBRARY? I would be run outta town. 12:32:40 From Naomi Macias to All panelists : I recruit at garage sales, LOL 12:32:49 From Anne Holland to All panelists : Naomi that’s genius! 12:33:08 From Anne Holland : Naomi that’s genius! (She said she recruits at garage sales) 12:35:43 From Jude Schanzer to All panelists : Jude does not have a mic. 12:36:25 From Naomi Macias : Water contamination- I live in the area where the pipe burst and flooded/closed a major Houston freeway. 12:36:49 From Jude Schanzer to All panelists : Discover Earth came just after Sandy hit Long Island. Our front doors were knocked in. Most of our town did not have electricity for weeks. Some staff lost their homes. 12:37:35 From Jude Schanzer to All panelists : Discover Earth was delivered. , we set it up and opened on time. It was one of the best things that could have happened and brought the community together. 12:37:38 From Naomi Macias : The town around the library is a food desert. 12:38:07 From Jude Schanzer to All panelists : Our opening day brought in 2500 people in 4 hours. 12:38:13 From Naomi Macias : But we have poor soil quality due to Port Houston soil deposits 12:38:44 From Jude Schanzer to All panelists : We set up a picture wall of photos of Sandy damage 12:39:22 From Naomi Macias : We partner with the Houston Food Bank in the summer 12:42:23 From Naomi Macias : High turnover rate due to a high renters community 12:44:47 From Jude Schanzer to All panelists : Right now---Coronavirus. Our attendance for programs is way down in the last week. 12:45:12 From Jude Schanzer to All panelists : We are thinking of streaming programs 12:46:44 From Naomi Macias : Houston is freaking out, they just cancelled the rodeo 12:47:03 From Greg Mosshammer : http://www.starnetlibraries.org/resources/community-dialogues/overview/ 12:48:06 From Stephanie Vierow-Fields : svfields@spacescience.org 12:48:12 From Stephanie Vierow-Fields : aholland@spacescience.org 12:49:56 From Jude Schanzer to All panelists : We are still going ahead with programming and playing it by ear. 12:50:08 From Jude Schanzer to All panelists : We did cancel a bus trip.