11:49:28 From Meghan Collins : Hello. My name is Meghan and I’m a part time Librarian on Long Island, NY. 11:50:07 From Anne Holland : Hi Meghan! What library are you at? (We know some folks at East Meadow) 11:50:32 From Diane Kizirian : Hi Meghan, From Diane also part time from Northwood,NH 11:50:45 From Meghan Collins : I am with the East Slip Public Library. 11:50:50 From Anne Holland : Excellent! 11:50:52 From KATHLEEN ROBERTSON : Hi, I am Kathleen from Sheridan Library in Denver, Colorado 11:51:00 From Meghan Collins : Islip sorry 11:51:11 From Anne Holland : Meghan, I assumed the autocorrect :D 11:51:19 From Anne Holland : Hi Kathleen! Not too far, we’re in Boulder 11:51:44 From Meghan Collins : Yeah. It is nice to meet everyone. 11:51:45 From Heidi Lanz : Hello this is Heidi from Missouri (near Joplin) 11:52:13 From KATHLEEN ROBERTSON : I love Boulder :) 11:52:16 From Heidi Lanz : Heidi from Barton County Library Lamar, Missouri 11:52:25 From Emily Kazanecki : I'm Emily from Brentwood Public Library (another Long Islander) 11:52:27 From Jolie Hamer-Conroy to All panelists : Hello, I work in Poughkeepsie, NY 11:57:57 From Stephanie Vierow-Fields to Anne Holland (Privately) : I don't have the power :) 11:58:12 From Anne Holland to Stephanie Vierow-Fields (Privately) : Hold on, will try to bestow it 11:58:37 From Anne Holland to Stephanie Vierow-Fields (Privately) : Maybe now? 11:58:45 From Stephanie Vierow-Fields to Anne Holland (Privately) : Yep! 11:58:55 From Diane Kizirian : I don't have a microphone 11:59:40 From KATHLEEN ROBERTSON : I don’t have a video option 12:00:05 From Marie Maltby to All panelists : hello from Clinton, Il 12:00:06 From Alka Patel to All panelists : hello 12:00:11 From KATHLEEN ROBERTSON : It’s weird—IDK why 12:00:24 From Diane Kizirian : Hi Anne Nice to see you! 12:00:47 From KATHLEEN ROBERTSON : I can see you—I’ve got active speaker view 12:01:33 From KATHLEEN ROBERTSON : Nope—only active speaker for me. But thanks 12:01:42 From Bryant Bao to All panelists : Bryant Bao from Santa Clara County Library 12:02:07 From Marcia Divack to All panelists : Hello, I am from the Fulton County Library System in Atlanta, Georgia 12:02:13 From Aaron Brown to All panelists : Hi -- I'm Aaron, a youth librarian from Fulton Co. Library in Atlanta. 12:02:30 From Marie Maltby : Hi, Marie Maltby, Vespasian Warner Public Library, Clinton, il Working from home still getting paid 12:02:34 From Heidi Lanz : I am working from home, but currently still paid 12:02:36 From Marcia Divack : Hello, I am from the Fulton County Library System in Atlanta, Georgia 12:02:39 From Emily Kazanecki : I'm also working from home, and being paid 12:02:42 From Jolie Hamer-Conroy : Thankfully I am getting paid and working from home 12:02:44 From Danielle Ellis to All panelists : Hello! I'm Danielle from Jackson County Library Services (OR). I am working from home but getting paid to be here 12:02:52 From Marcia Divack : I am working from home and getting paid 12:03:01 From KATHLEEN ROBERTSON : WFH, still paid thank goodness 12:03:03 From Diane Kizirian : This is a development 12:03:31 From Christy Eyre to All panelists : Hi- I'm from the Brookfield (IL) Library, lucky to be getting paid while at home. 12:04:14 From KATHLEEN ROBERTSON : i love pie 12:05:03 From Diane Kizirian : That's what I'm hoping for. 12:06:27 From KATHLEEN ROBERTSON : Not i 12:06:35 From Christy Eyre to All panelists : Looking for ideas for social media posts 12:06:43 From Bryant Bao : not yet, but hoping to get some ideas! 12:06:49 From Marcia Divack : We will likely do something virtually 12:07:00 From Jolie Hamer-Conroy : Sadly, with all that has happened, it has slipped my mind. I look forward to hearing some ideas! 12:07:00 From Diane Kizirian : I've been trying to plan a challenge virtually. 12:07:03 From Jennifer deSimas to All panelists : We invited a beekeeper to do a Zoom presentation 12:07:33 From Stephanie Vierow-Fields : svfields@spacescience.org :) 12:07:47 From Aaron Brown to All panelists : I thought about an electric vehicle expo where people could sign up to exhibit their electric cars to attendees. 12:08:05 From Stephanie Vierow-Fields : Our survey for SSA: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2DKBYG5 12:15:26 From Aaron Brown to All panelists : different culture 12:23:47 From Marie Maltby : My Library is doing that as well for both adults and children, for our summer reading program, 12:24:15 From Diane Kizirian : Thats a great idea I often do make and takes when we are open. I was trying to figure out how to get them distributed! 12:24:40 From Aaron Brown to All panelists : Yes, my library is doing online story times. 12:25:20 From Marie Maltby : through the children's schools , or maybe curb side eventually 12:25:45 From Marie Maltby : grocery store great idea! 12:26:38 From Aaron Brown to All panelists : Smart idea with curbside service. 12:26:49 From Aaron Brown to All panelists : Yeah! 12:28:19 From Diane Kizirian : we are all trying to get a larger demographic 12:28:28 From Heidi Lanz : I think every library in the world has a population we are not reaching...if we can learn ways to reach that we haven't , it has to be a win. 12:29:07 From Jennifer deSimas : We'd like to bring people together to share ideas, concerns, needs 12:30:11 From Aaron Brown to All panelists : www.civicdinners.com 12:30:39 From Diane Kizirian : Okay we did a pot luck dinner and most of the people that showed up weren't weekly patrons! 12:30:51 From Marcia Divack : We are definitely trying to get a handle on our users. We are both an urban library and a suburban library, with 34 libraries spread through out the Atlanta metro area and the libraries are used in different ways in different areas. 12:32:25 From Jennifer deSimas : clergy leaders 12:32:25 From Danielle Ellis : head of local homeless shelter 12:33:17 From KATHLEEN ROBERTSON : Go-getter parents 12:33:27 From Diane Kizirian : What about the town clerks? 12:33:29 From Danielle Ellis : HOA presidents? 12:33:41 From KATHLEEN ROBERTSON : also youth leaders! 12:34:05 From Alka Patel : 4-H 12:35:08 From Marcia Divack : school superindentent 12:36:16 From Diane Kizirian : we have been having issues with our recycling service in town! 12:36:25 From Marcia Divack : greenspaces and water 12:36:47 From Heidi Lanz : we are a little community with a landfill outside of town.,..large cities bring their landfull crud 12:36:59 From Danielle Ellis : we have trash along our park paths and rivers 12:37:07 From Heidi Lanz : landfill...not landfull (oops) 12:37:24 From KATHLEEN ROBERTSON : we’re a little community surrounded by commercial interests 12:37:31 From Aaron Brown to All panelists : There's a Frontline documentary on not all plastics can be recycled. 12:37:37 From Diane Kizirian : We have a transfer station and having dumpsters hauled off timely is an issue. Also a small town 12:38:01 From KATHLEEN ROBERTSON : Homeless people living along platte river leave garbage 12:38:13 From Marcia Divack : gentrification is a huge topic in Atlanta 12:38:20 From Diane Kizirian : Our biggest issue at Library is where to send old books 12:38:47 From Heidi Lanz : LOL on Twilight 12:38:49 From Jennifer deSimas : :D 12:38:53 From Emily Kazanecki to All panelists : Better World Books? 12:38:58 From Marcia Divack : Better World Books 12:39:08 From Emily Kazanecki to All panelists : You can send your old books to them 12:39:28 From Bryant Bao : Patrons would lose their minds if they saw us ripping books haha 12:39:39 From Jennifer deSimas : Can you sell old books on Amazon? 12:39:46 From Danielle Ellis : No free parking downtown 12:39:53 From Danielle Ellis : Bad bus routes 12:39:57 From Jennifer deSimas : no elevator 12:40:03 From Emily Kazanecki to All panelists : transportation and language barriers 12:40:05 From Marcia Divack : Parking is indeed a major issue 12:40:07 From Aaron Brown to All panelists : Jennifer; yes, try www.abebooks.com also. 12:40:13 From Alka Patel : Sometimes signage 12:40:15 From KATHLEEN ROBERTSON : barriers in the community— 12:40:32 From KATHLEEN ROBERTSON : Timing can be a barrier for working parents 12:40:38 From KATHLEEN ROBERTSON : language certainly a barrier 12:41:23 From Aaron Brown to All panelists : Good strategy! 12:42:10 From Heidi Lanz : I take books to a local low income after school program...great program to get books to kids that don't get to come to the library 12:43:36 From Diane Kizirian : With the children's books we have apatron that takes discards to leave in free take one box in dentist office,etc. 12:44:17 From Amanda Place : We send our discards to better world books and they go to prisons and other countries 12:44:41 From Amanda Place : little free libraries! 12:44:51 From Diane Kizirian : we have a few of those in town 12:45:42 From Anne Holland to All panelists : Whether people say no or yes to participating, follow it up with “is there anyone else I should talk to" 12:46:15 From KATHLEEN ROBERTSON : Capacity might be a barrier 12:46:18 From Marcia Divack : turn out tends to be low for non-children's programs, no matter what it is, so it is a great plan to have a children's first/during the dialogue 12:46:24 From KATHLEEN ROBERTSON : like scope capacity 12:46:54 From KATHLEEN ROBERTSON : Child care is a BRILLIANT suggestion 12:47:26 From Aaron Brown to All panelists : Really good idea... a coloring corner and toys or something. 12:47:26 From KATHLEEN ROBERTSON : welcoming kids is a good option too, thx 12:51:22 From Diane Kizirian : Thank you so much I got some great ideas! Stay well everyone! 12:51:23 From Meghan Collins : Thank you!! This was great. 12:51:31 From Aaron Brown to All panelists : Great presentation! 12:51:32 From KATHLEEN ROBERTSON : Thank you 12:51:33 From Heidi Lanz : What was your original goal in starting these dialogues? Environment only? 12:51:33 From Emily Kazanecki to All panelists : Thank you 12:51:41 From Marie Maltby : please send me what ever links that would be help ful for me to be able to reference this in my future 12:51:41 From Alka Patel : Thank you! 12:52:10 From Heidi Lanz : Fabulous! thanks for everything you do!! 12:52:28 From Heidi Lanz : Stay safe and well! 12:52:50 From Meghan Collins : Stay safe everyone! 12:52:51 From Stephanie Vierow-Fields : http://www.starnetlibraries.org/resources/community-dialogues/ 12:53:00 From KATHLEEN ROBERTSON to All panelists : I will come see you all in Boulder some time—some time after it’s possible again! Thank you!