NCompass Live: How to Start & Sustain a Health & Fitness Literacy Program in Your Library

[snorts] Good morning and welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. I am your host Christa Porter here at the Nebraska Library Commission. Uh Encompass Live is the commission's weekly webinar series where we cover a variety of topics that may be of interest to libraries. We broadcast the show live every Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. Central time. But if you're unable to join us on Wednesdays, that's fine. We do record the show as we are doing today. and it will be available for you to watch later at your convenience. And I will show you at the end of today's show where you can access all of our show recordings. Both the live show and the recordings are free [clears throat] and open to anyone to watch. So, please do share uh with your friends, family, neighbors, colleagues, uh anyone you think might be interested in any of the topics we have on Encompass Live. Uh for those of you who are not from Nebraska, the Nebraska Library Commission is the state agency for libraries. So similar to your uh whatever state library. Uh so we provide uh training and consulting and databases and grants and um resources to all types of libraries in the state. So you will find shows on encompass live for all types of libraries uh public, academic, K12, corrections, museums, historical societies. Uh really uh the only criteria is that it's something to do with libraries. We [clears throat] have Nebraska Library Commission staff that sometimes come on and do presentations for us uh about uh programs or services that we're offering through the library commission, but we also have guest speakers that we bring in and that is what we have this morning. Uh joining us is Nicole Miller. Good morning Nicole. >> Good morning. [clears throat] and she is uh joining us from the uh Canon Falls, Minnesota um library and she's going to talk to us about um health and physical literacy program and doing that on at your library. Um there's lots of literacy programs that libraries do and this one has got kind of a different kind of uh twist to it. Um but it is something a lot of libraries are doing getting people active. So excuse me, sorry, got a frog in my throat. I'm going to hand it over to you Nicole to tell us all about how you've been doing this at your library. >> All right. Thank you. Um so, um welcome to this webinar and I hope you learn a lot. Um this is also the first webinar I've ever done. So, please please be compassionate with me. Okay. So, I'll go ahead and see if I can go over to my next slide. There we go. Okay. I'm going to tell you a little bit about me and my library. I'm the library director here at the Canon Falls Library in Canop Falls, Minnesota. We're about 30 minutes south of St. Paul and I have about 3,000 total registered users and my population service area is about 8,000 people and we have about 36,000 visitors annually. Um, so that's my library, that's my community. I have been a librarian since 2012. I and I have my MLS. I've been a group fitness instructor through AFA since 2019. And currently I'm working on my my reertification with through a different organization, ACE. Um, and I'll get into that a little bit more later because there are multiple organizations through which you can get your certifications. I'm also a professional gymnastics coach. I did that long before I was a gy a librarian. And so I've been a USA gymnastics professional member since the 90s. So, um, I love fitness. I love moving my body. I love teaching people about their bodies. And I believe that libraries are about literacy in all their forms. So we talk about book literacy, textual literacy a lot and digital literacy. And so I'm thinking about it. My approach is to expand to physical and health literacy to help our communities really understand their bodies and where to look for information about their bodies and who are reliable sources and where they can get reliable s um information. And because we're we're librarians, we're trusted resources. So, I want to help you to understand all of that so that you can help everybody. Um, oh, and I also forgot. I've been on the Let's Move in Libraries Advisory Board since 2018, and that is really what got me started in this whole um, health and physical literacy trajectory in my library because I thought that was pretty cool. And I'm kind of addicted to fitness and health. >> That's with Lstra, correct? >> Yes. >> He's been on the show before a few times. Yeah. He's done some presentations for us. >> Yeah. He's pretty cool. >> Yeah. Doing great work with that. Yes. Getting people up and about. Yeah. >> Yeah. And I really loved what he was doing. So, I was like, I think I'm I'm gonna get on this. So, okay. I'm going to go to the next slide and I'm going to define health literacy and physical literacy since I already talked about it. So, health literacy is the ability to access, understand, and use information and services to promote and maintain good health. The result of having good health literacy is that people with higher health literacy skills are more likely to make informed health decisions, which can lead to better health and longer life. So when we're helping people with their literacy, we're helping their health. Physical literacy is the physical competence, confidence, and motivation to be active for life. When people have that physical literacy, they have high uh they're more likely to be physically active, have better health outcomes, and are able to maintain physical activity habits throughout their lives. So, as you can see, these go hand in hand. And when we're um when we have a good solid approach, then we have patrons who are coming in to the library and they have better health. They're more active. They're not going into assisted living as as soon. They're not falling as much or if they are falling, they're recovering more quickly or they're not really getting hurt. So um there are the definitions and I am going to provide Crystal with the slides and I have links in on every single slide for information. So >> yes I should have mentioned that yes the slides will be available with the recording afterwards. So don't don't worry about trying to scribble all the write all this down. [laughter] >> Um just you know sit back you take some notes if you want to but you don't have to write all this down. You will have um these slides um tomorrow. >> Yeah, exactly. go back and read over. >> Yeah. So, yeah, please don't worry about that. Um, okay. So, next I have my learning objectives because at heart I'm a teacher. So, what I would like you to come away from this webinar is to know your population and their particular needs. Every community is different and the people who are coming to you to with their health and literacy and physical literacy needs might be a little different than the people who are coming to me in my library. So I really implore that you get to know your your patrons. You already know them anyway. Uh my second objective is um to help you know where you can get trained in applicable fitness and health modalities because it is cheaper for you to get the training than to pay somebody else to come in and do it um by a lot. My third objective is to help you know um or to help you use your own librarian skills because we're librarians to teach people where to go for information and how to evaluate that information. That's also digital literacy. So see how it all blends in together. >> It's all connected. >> Yes, it all is connected. Okay. So, this I'm I I figured I should kind of get into where where it started. This particular slide um is pretty much where I got started. Back in 2018 when I started this, I had um I had gone to the Move Your Way library or sorry website. Um, and the the recommendation for years for physical activity has been at least 150 minutes per week of moderate intensity aerobic activity and at least two week days per week of muscle strengthening activity. Um, you and I thought, yeah, that's really good. And then I looked at all of the data that the CDC was putting out and the the older people get, the less physical activity they're getting in particular. >> Um, and the data is changing. I I'm not really able to find really um good data right now for the the current crop, but back in 2018, it was [sighs] it it was pretty sad, and it it still is. So, I decided to look around and do a community scan of Canon Falls and find out what is needed in my community. And there was nothing in my town where people could try out different exercise modalities. And there was nothing that was affordable for people who are on a who on a lower income or fixed income. And that is the particular um demographic that has the the the greatest trouble with getting enough physical activity. So [snorts] that was really where it started. And I I tried out first with walking groups and that had limited success because, you know, you're walking outside, you don't know what the weather's going to be like. Um the the timing was kind of off. This has evolved over time. And I um I made handouts for people that for every season of what kind of activity you can do that counts as physical activity. and that's not exercise. That went over really well. I'll I'll send that out to you, too, so that you can put those out if you want to. >> And then in 2019, that's when I got um certified in group fitness instruction. And it's like I think $400 for a two-year certification, >> which is really, really doable. And then I started out classes once a week on Fridays. I called it fit Fridays at that point and the the point was to do it at lunchtime a halfhour class like for every six weeks we'd try out a different modality of exercise and then over time it evolved into four days a week and Monday Thursday I do resistance training with resistance bands. Tuesday I do chair yoga so that people are working on their balance and Thursdays I do something called walk to the rhythm which is um it's it's like walking in place to music and we talk and it that's a moderate intensity every class is 30 minutes that because that is meeting helping to meet these physical activity require or recommendations not requirements And it's also getting people in the door. It's also helping people with building community, which is a big need in the country right now. And people are making friendships, making friends. It's um helping people socialize. There are so many different positive aspects from these classes. And through trial and error, this is what has h what's happened. and I've kind of ended up specializing in older adults because that's who really wants to come to my classes. So remember, your community is going to be different from mine and you might end up having a completely different demographic than I have and just go with it. So next um yeah so that goes into what is your target population and what are their health and fitness needs. My particular population who are coming to my class are older adults. They're generally women in their 60s and 70s sometimes in their 80s. And um then I really do educa try to educate them on getting enough activity in their physical activity in their lives. Um and like letting them know that walking, heavy housework, yard work, DIY projects around the house, um moderate intensity cardio and resistance training all count. Everything counts. playing with your kids or your grandkids in the yard, that counts. So, um that is lowering the bar for people to help them understand that physically they don't have to go do a workout that they might not enjoy, but just moving is is helpful because people aren't getting enough movement. And when you break down that 150 minutes of activity per week, that's about um if you go five days a week, it's 30 to 35 minutes. That's why my classes are about 30 to 35 minutes. >> That's much less intimidating than two and a half hours when you say it's actually [laughter] >> Yeah. >> Yeah. Exactly. And so I really break it down for people so that they understand and they're not intimidated by it. And you know that's all that health and physical literacy like let's break it break it down for people. >> Um and then I also talk to them about how the exercise affects their bodies. Like when they complain about when I make them jump I say but this is helping your bone density. It's helping your bones get stronger. If you have osteoporosis, this can help reduce or reverse the osteoporosis. If you have osteopenia, the resistance training will reverse the osteopenia. And walking, getting cardiovascular exercise, that's going to strengthen your heart. So, um it just talking to people about h how [snorts] and why activity is important, but also it's not just activity. remember that I'm talk I'm focusing mostly on the physical activity but it so much more and I do incorporate more um and to meet their health literacy needs I want to feel help them feel confident about where to look for reliable information sometimes I'll print out studies um or abstracts of studies and I'll just talk to them about this is a a a relevant study that has come out recently about food nutrition and I'll even talk to them about well you and you know that they had a very small sample size so we are going to want to wait for more information about this before we can really trust everything that that this is saying because you know that it's also hitting the news um if there's a meta analysis I'll tell them this metaanalysis is the gold standard a about this particular health topic and so is this is giving us really good reliable information. So that is helping them with their health literacy needs because it then if they're turning on the news or reading the news and they're getting some kind of news about health but the s the sample size from this latest study is small. they they need to understand how how to use their discernment about these studies. >> And um I also really recommend when they need to go to the doctor because they'll come to me and say, "Oh yeah, this really aches." And and I tell them, "Okay, you know, that sounds like a medical issue. You need to talk to your doctor or this is a movement issue. I really think you should go to a physical therapist because physical therapists are masters at movement. They're experts in movement. Whenever they ask me anything about diet, you know, you really should go see a registered dietitian for that. I'm that I can't answer that question because I don't know your specific health needs. This just this goes along with a lot of the kind of questions that we get as librarians in libraries of legal questions, more intense medical questions. Um I you know the caveat I am not a lawyer. I cannot help you with your you answer these legal questions. I am not a medical doctor. I cannot I cannot give you that kind of advice. You need to go to the actual professional. Yeah. >> Yes. Exactly. And I mean as far as particular movements, Yep. I am an expert. Like if you really want to know how to do a perfect handstand, I'm your person. [laughter] And if you want to learn how to get good scores at meets, I can help you. But it's not going to help the [laughter] my older adults coming into the library. So, okay. And then now we're going to move on to relevance fitness certifications. There are some specialized ones. And the I have links on all of these. Chair One Fitness is um it's all chair based. So if you have a lot of older adults or if you have people who are um have who really struggle with mobility, this is a really good um specialization. And it's it's basically it's chair aerobics basically [snorts] and it's fun. Um, and when I had gotten that that certification, it had to be in person, but then since co now you can do the majority of certifications online. Jerry Fit is one that um, Noah Lenra recommends through Let's Move in Libraries. That again is one that's more chair-based for older adults who have who are mobility challenged. And that also uses if I recall correctly um dumbbells, lowweight dumbbells and for resistance training. Uh if you are feel like yoga is your thing and your population would really like to do yoga, yoga and renew teacher training is a really good quality one. And um I've actually been working on getting that that certification for a while. I really really like the quality of the information that they're providing. There are some that are kind of iffy, but I I do believe that Yoga Renew is a good quality one. And it is also um in the past couple of years, I think it was last year, they started working with ACE, the American Council on Exercise to be a subcertification for um yoga under that. and I'm getting reertified under ACE. So, for more generalized um certifications, and I really kind of prefer this, the more generalized certifications because I figure since we're overall a health and fitness literacy program, we're generalists and we want to help. We want to send people to specialists. So then I really highly recommend that as many people in your library have CPR, AED, and first aid training no matter what. You never know when somebody's going to have a medical episode. >> And it helps to be able to quickly do that evaluation while somebody's calling 911. Um, and then as far as the group fitness or personal trainer, these four that I've listed are all pretty solid. I currently have um mine through Apha. I can't remember what the acronym stands for. I'm sorry. I'm terrible about remembering what acronyms stand for. Um I and Apha is associated with NASM. NASM does more personal training. um certification. Apha is more of the group fitness and um ACE does both. And then Nidita um they're actually out of Minnesota. I haven't um really looked into any of their the course any of their courses. Um but they seem pretty solid and I had put that in because when I did this presentation in Minnesota, I figured if any librarians in Minnesota wanted to do that one, they could. Um, >> Epha is I think this is it. Athletics and Fitness Association of America. >> Yeah, that's it. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. And um >> those are links to all those pages anyways, right? >> Yes, there are. And then you can look at the prices of what you want to do. Look at that the requirements, what they're going to teach you with those certifications. Um, I opted for group fitness because that's more of a generalist and it's about half the price of personal trainer. And so then if I have only one person show up for class, I'm like, "Nope, sorry. That that's personal training. I'm not certified for that. So go find a book." >> You know, it's a good time to check out some books. >> This program does increase circulation, too. So, that's a nice bonus. Um, oh, and then there was a a caveat about all of them that I really wanted to to point out. Every single one of these offers um some kind of a certification to be a nutrition coach. And that's something that I really would recommend that you you stay away from because that then is becoming a pseudo specialist in something that could cause harm. Because I do see in online forums and whatnot that there are people who are are personal trainers who have these these nutrition certifications, but they're giving inaccurate nutrition information or they're giving information that um is very generalized that is that does not take into account that everybody has specific nutrition needs. And that's and for example, if somebody has one kidney like I do, they have to watch their protein intake. And actually letting you know the recommendation is one gram per kilogram [snorts] of body weight. So if you see one gram per pound, that's way too much protein. That's not what we should be getting. This is information to know that >> it makes a big difference. And if you have any kidney trouble, you don't want too much protein. So, um that's why I always say just, you know, go see a registered dietitian. Don't don't take any kind of recommend health um nutrition recommendations from a fitness professional of any shape or form. And so, I really really really recommend that strongly for you. Um okay. So then uh the next slide I am talking about getting amassing your resources. Um there you can join the NA network of national library of medicine and NLM that's free. They have a lot of different trainings. Um they even have um classes and workshops on that are all online that you can get for how to help your patrons assess health information. >> Uh and they even have certifications for that. They have um book clubs on specific health books and I think that is really darn cool. So that's a really good resource for you and you get an email from them few times a week. Um you can also get the move your way guidelines from the US Department of Health and Human Services. There is a rather large PDF of like indepth of the research that they did and all of the recommendations that they have that was published back in 2018. they haven't updated it. And so we'll use that latest that they have. Uh this is one of my big things. Become acquainted with the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. It's called eatright.org. And that will also explain to you the diff difference between a nutritionist and a dietician. how in some states in the US there are um there like the there are different requirements to be called a dietician and a nutritionist. Some states you can just call yourself a nutritionist and and there you go. Other states you do have to pay for certain kinds of certifications and and um continuing education. For to be a registered dietitian you have to get a degree in it. You have to uh like a therapist, you have to do a certain number of internship hours. You have to take sit for an exam to qualify for certification. And then they have continuing education hours. So, a registered dietician receives years more nutrition information, nutrition um study >> than a doctor does, than a medical doctor does. I I found out medical doctors only get maybe a couple of days of nutrition >> in all of their their work. So, always always talk to a dietitian. Um, >> specialists, that's what they're there for. That's what they've gotten their special focus on. Yeah. >> Exactly. Yeah. So, knowing our scope of practice and um there's also the consumer health information specialization, which is CHIS. um that [laughter] it's funny because that one it costs like a $100, but they'll wave it for you. [laughter] It's kind of funny. But that is is also it's like a I think like a five or six part class where you learn a lot about health and physical literacy and the resources so that you can then help your patrons find everything. Um I love this website examine. It's a database which had um I get their weekly newsletters that come every Monday and they take all of the latest studies about nutrition and health and they put them all together in this database and then they will they'll show the abstract and then they actually look at it and then they'll do a little blurb on well you know this has a small sample size. This is a metaanalysis. Th This is pretty good. You can get a subscription to this database for your library. It is pretty cheap. It's like I I want to say maybe 10 cents per hundred people in your population, something like that. It's it's doable. Um but the the newsletter is free. [laughter] So, um, but if you sign up for it and you really like it, then you can I suggest you go ahead and look into getting that database available for people in your library for for your your community to research for themselves. And then if you're not acquainted with Medline Plus and PubMed, get acquainted. I love them. Um, one of them I always get them confused. Um, I think it's PubMed that publishes the the research like you get to read the studies and about anything health related. I've gone to doctors and said, "Yeah, I I'm a librarian and I know PubMed." And because if I say, "Well, I like to do my research." Then they they cringe and then I say, "Oh, but I know PubMed." And then they smile [laughter] and say, "All right, I know I can trust you. You know what you're talking about. All right." And they've even said, "Oh, okay. You know what? Go do more research on there and then let me know what you think." >> So that that is very reliable. And then Medline Plus, I believe, is the one, and I could have them backwards. Um, that's the one that's that's more for for lay folk. That's just it. It's written for the regular person to read about regular health issues and they're all from the National Institutes of Health. >> And there are actually more uh websites like they've got one on that is about alternative medicine. They have one that is on um different medications and um if drug interactions and whatnot. Uh there there really is a lot. I wrote an article about that for our newspaper last year. Um I'll have to see if I can find it. Maybe I can send that to you too. Um yeah, and you are correct. Yeah, Medline Plus is definitely for you know the lay person, not for the medical professionals. And PubMed would be a much more um [snorts] advanced. Yeah. >> Yeah. Yeah. My my note for myself is PubMed is for the nerds who like to read the studies. [laughter] That's a good description. Yes. >> Thanks. [laughter and gasps] >> Okay. And then my the next thing I wanted to talk about is really think about your message. Um I I really want to stay in the spirit of equity of access. So I stay weight and health neutral in all of my messaging. Um and the health and wellness community has a lot of biases and particularly fat bias even though there is strong evidence that your BMI which is completely >> that's a whole another horrible that's another discussion. Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Not not something anyone should be looking at and paying any attention to. >> Exactly. Yeah. Um, so there is a lot of evidence that your weight has very little to do with your health >> and that there are a lot of skinny people, it's called skinny fat, who are just very unhealthy, but there are a lot of people in larger bodies who are extremely healthy. So, I really really strive to remain very neutral about that. Um, and I stick to evidence-based information with my community and um, the the information the the sources that I look for, I try to really be as inclusive as possible and educate people about movement. I want to educate them about just like movement. F like you're you're going to do have your knee range of motion. If you um go beyond 60° in like if you're squatting and your degree angle is beyond 60° that's actually healthier for your knees if you squat to only 30 to 60 degree angle which is a very very mini squat. So, you know, when you have people who have knee problems, suggesting that they go a little bit deeper is healthier healthier for them. >> Um, yes. So, and then, uh, some of these places that I've gotten good information have been a newsletter from Reagan Chastain. It's called weight and healthcare. I think I might have forgotten to put that in. So, you might want to write that one down. Another one you might want to write down is the fat doctor. This is a doctor in the UK who um recently published a book and uh sends out newsletters and also talks about um it really is very size inclusive and and breaks down the research on weight. I do did provide the link for health at every size and intuitive eating. Um again remembering my scope of practice is I'm not a registered dietitian but I will suggest that people look at health at every size and intuitive eating because they help it helps people be more aware of their bodies. Um, intuitive eating is actually very strongly evidence-based and they have 10 principles and it helps you feel sated without worrying about your your body. Um, and health at every size is really just re showing how you can be healthy at whatever size you are. A couple of other books that I recommend are The Wellness Trap and The Anti-Diet by Christy Harrison. She has um two podcasts. I listened to them for a while. They're fabulous. And she talks about the whole history about fat phobia and everything. There are many more books, too, but those are a few that I recommend to help you with your messaging. And then um so you've decided that you want to get start glasses. You want to have them. Think about your equipment. Have a good quality Bluetooth speaker. I have happened to have a little Bose speaker. Um I have subscription a subs subscription to the power music app. It cost me about $100 a year and everything is um the the copyright is specifically for fitness classes. So I can play it in public because I really want to follow copyright laws because I'm a librarian. >> Yep. That's something we're all very much aware of, I think. Yeah. And it's good to know that there is a place to get that. Yeah. [snorts] >> Yes. And there's also Yes. Music. Yes. With an exclamation point. Um, and they're both great. I just happen to prefer power music. Make sure you have good chairs because you might be doing some kind of fitness classes with chairs. Um, and then I have fitness or sorry, resistance bands like the kinds of that physical therapists use. Uh, the like the one that the the pink one that the lady in the white picture >> is holding. What I ended up doing was I bought rolls of them, long rolls, and I cut them because that was more cost effective. The storage is very minimal for that. It takes a shelf on a cabinet and I can teach 20 people with them and I have various different um strengths of the rolls and I'll tell the people, "Yep, you like for this one, if your should if this particular exercise is using our shoulders and you have shoulder issues, you might want to just stick with the yellow. If you're feeling stronger today, go with the red." And you know, for legs, we're doing black today because that's the heavy one. And I want to make sure that your legs are strong because that way your your your quad muscles are stronger which will make your femur stronger. So if you fall you won't break your femur because the mortality risk a broken femur is very high. Another thing you might possibly be interested in would be some yoga blocks or yoga mats. You can get those very inexpensively at wholesale suppliers um even um even from Amazon. And um I have also used YouTube to record classes during uh during COVID. I recorded a bunch of classes so that people could do them from home. I've had a few of my own medical issues. I've had a few surgeries in the past few years. And so I filmed a an up-to-date class, threw it on our the library's YouTube channel. And um then while I was recovering from the surgery, people would come into the library. We've got a giant TV in our meeting room and we pulled up the the video and then everybody could do class with me. And the last time they said, "You know, that one got really boring. You kept saying the same thing every single time." So, they enjoy it. And with the the chair yoga, they really really loved my cats because I record them at home. So that for that I would would just recommend that you have you could a a good phone or uh a good iPad and some kind of stand that you can mount it from. Okay. And then partnerships that I feel that this is very important. your community is probably going to be different from my community. So think outside the box. Think of who the experts are around you so that you can really make use of the partnerships that are around you. Um I have worked personally with um our emergency services to do um falls prevention and safety because um falls prevention week is the week of September 22nd and it's been during that week that I have um gone with Sulo to the community center and here at the library no the senior center and here at the library and we've done talks about the risks of falling. He has talked about um when um ambulance department makes answers calls about people falling like the the the things that they have seen that have caused people to fall just in general because you know HIPPA and um then I when I get a chance and I have access to mats that I can pull around then I teach people how to fall safely because there isn't there's a skill to it And right now I am working on getting a grant to buy some good quality mats so that that and find a place that I could store them so that for the month of September I would be able to do a once weekly class where people would be able to practice falling. Oh, this is something I I discovered a couple weeks ago in Georgia in Atlanta. I noticed there are a bunch of people in in Georgia here. There's something called the fall safety uh is the fall safe falling safely class. I found it on Facebook. They are doing some fabulous work and they are working on a curriculum to certify people. So that is super cool. So if that's something that you might be interested in, falling is fun when you know how to do it safely. [laughter] Um, another good partnership is if you have a doctor who is willing and able to come to your library and just sit and talk to people about different health topics just to educate them. That would be fabulous. I we have a Mayo Clinic here in town, but Mayo is actually really really difficult to work with. Um, I'm trying to work work on a recently retired doctor to come in and do talks, but I think he retired a little too recently and he doesn't miss it enough. So, um, hopefully I can get him to come in and just talk to people. I had um I did hire a uh registered dietitian to come in and do a three-part series of workshops talking about nutrition and how it affects your body. And she was fabulous. She's a professor and and actually department head at St. John's University. And [sighs] uh Emily Hying Um she's the nutrition prof. So if you wanted to look her up, she is she is willing to work with other libraries. She's uh her website is thenutritionprof.com. Uh she came in, she asked people, "What do you want to learn more about?" She would prepare a lesson plan for the next class, come in, answer everybody's questions. It also became very very clear that the nutrition is very nuanced and that it's really hard to a to answer a generalized question and make sure that somebody is getting adequate nutrition for and their own needs are being met. So yeah, find a registered nutrition that's near you or if you wanted to talk to Emily, that's her website. I'll I'll um I'll have to add a couple slides. Um, and physical therapists, if you can get a physical therapist to come in and talk about movement patterns and why it's important to just even go maybe go talk to a physical therapist if you you're having issues with with pain in certain areas, those exercises are very very helpful in recovery. And if somebody's going if somebody's injured and they only go to physical therapy once or twice, really they they don't have a reason to to complain if they still hurt because physical therapy helps. Um for mental health, uh find mental health specialists. You can work with your um local NAMI group, um National Association for Mental Illness for Mental Health Programming. We we had NAMI Minnesota here a couple weeks ago and we we have them coming fairly regularly. There's also Lutheran Social Services that have been coming and doing some work for us to talk about mental health and different kinds of challenges for with different mental not necessarily illnesses but different kinds of mental health challenges. And then I would say talk to your local public health department to see if they have anybody who would be willing and able to come and talk about a certain kind of health topic. Um possible topics would be discussions about vaccinations or dental care. So, um I do know that they they really care about those things and they really want to inform people. And right now we're kind of facing here in the States, we're facing a crisis of of people deciding not to vaccinate and that is a huge public health concern. >> Yeah. Major problem. >> Yes. And then here is my last slide. Um, oh, I completely forgot about that one, but I gave that information anyway. So, yeah. [laughter] So, that's everything I have for you. And now I'm open for questions. This I I have my contact information if you want to learn >> ask me any other things or contact me for anything. >> But yes, I'm >> Yeah, definitely. Um yes, if anyone does have any questions, we still have um about 10 15 minutes left in the hour that um we can have questions or discussion. Um if you all have any questions, type into the question section. It's the uh speech bubble with a question mark on it at the top of your go to webinar interface. If you click on that, it will open up where you can enter your question. I'm monitoring that here on my computer. Um or if you want to share if you've done any of these kind of um programs at your library, we'd love to hear about that, too. um what have uh you done? Um so do go ahead and get your questions in there. We do have a question about um funding uh funding for um buying the equipment and you know the the what you the bands and the weights and whatnot. Um how is how is that uh handled? I take that out of my program's budget and [snorts] it really like the bands it they only cost maybe a couple hundred dollar for all of them >> for the whole roll. Like you said you got a roll you said that you then like cut for >> Yeah. I got five rolls and all five of the boxes I think was a couple hundred dollar and Yeah, it's not bad. and yoga mats and yoga blocks. Again, I was able to get I think about 10 of each for total of a couple hundred. >> So, that's something that I would even spread out. And the um I coded I always code my my continuing education and my reertification under travel and training. But [snorts] then again, like if you have a friends group, you can ask your friends group. >> Oh, sure. Oh yeah, there's lots of um options for this these kind of things. Um friends group asking for donations. Uh libraries are always getting creative with that. Um they just curious like how much was were these things costing? They can kind of figure out and see. >> Um so the certifications those are things that your So your library is paying for is covering the cost of your certifications that you're then using in these programs. You you're not having to do that personally, >> right? Yeah. because I'm I'm not using the the information to go teach to Moonlight. [laughter] >> I'm using it specifically for the library. So just like if when I attended PLA, the library paid for that. >> So it's >> Yeah, >> I I look at it the same way, >> right? Professional well professional development, lifelong learning for us is just as important it is for other um people. And you need the training to do the work to do your job if this is a program. Definitely. Um I know some uh some libraries and boards administration may be a little like uh why are you getting this personal certification? Why should we care? And that's the reason. It's because it's for this I'm doing it for my job not doing it for me personally. Um if I was and it is something you can do. I mean you're talking about doing this with having you do as the library staff doing it. Um, I know some libraries do bring in outside presenters, outside yoga teachers or chair exercise people and that would be totally different. That would be like funding um to pay a presenter, pay a speaker to come in for a special event, >> right? Yeah. And I did the math. It's um if I have somebody come in once a month or once a week, sorry, to teach a class, they're usually going to be charging like $50 to $100 per visit. >> And that would be if it if it's $100 per visit for 52 weeks in a year, that's $5,200. That's beyond my program's budget. Mhm. >> And for me to get the certification and it costs me it cost the library um $300 for the two-year certification and then maybe $200 a year for um reertifications and um continuing education. It's a big savings. >> That's not bad. Yeah, that's a huge difference. Definitely if you have the staff that can take it on and do it [snorts] um themselves, that is definitely the definitely the way to go. >> Yeah. >> Um all right. Um other questions? Type into that question section there. I want to make sure I get everyone's questions answered. Uh do I have anything over here? No. Okay. Cool. Cool. Oh, someone just says saying we have done um we've been successful with that with doing um uh yoga classes in the library. They seem to be very popular. Um and they might start expanding into other um uh types of exercise. Yeah, yoga does seem to be a big a uh trending lately. >> Yeah. Um, I think the the the low impact of it, especially with uh a lot of us uh getting older and not being able to do, like you said, having bad knees or something. I know that's um I have a bad one, a bad knee, and I'm desperately trying to do things that are not running, not jumping as much. Uh >> Yeah. [snorts] >> And I think that's become very popular. Yeah. >> Yeah. And I I teach um I call it chair yoga and then it's kind of evolved into chair assisted yoga because I have a few people who come regularly and they just do the regular yoga flows without any kind of assistance. But then I have other people who need help help with the balance. So >> yeah, >> they can do like mountain pose standing or sitting. they can do. I I make modifications to everything which any good teacher should be doing. >> Yeah. >> Um and so that >> most people should be able to do the classes. >> Um someone does ask and I'm not sure if you had mentioned earlier or not. I don't recall. Um how many classes are you doing like in a week or a month? We're doing four a week. >> Um, but like this week we have book sale in the meeting room all week long. So I no classes this week, no classes next week and then I completely forgot there's a week between [laughter] another week between um yeah before Labor Day. So, we aren't going to have any classes for three weeks and that that's my recuperation time [laughter] and there like we'll take a week off every now and then. And everybody's totally fine with that. >> But usually you said it's like four four a week. >> Yeah. >> So, not not too long. >> Yeah. It's 30 minutes. I get a chance to move so [laughter] >> it's good for you as well as the teacher as the instructor. Yeah. Exactly. All right. >> Oh, and you don't have to do it that often. You can just do a class once a week. >> Well, like you said earlier, it's going to depend on your community, too. Um how much how much they are um involved in in in uh what kind of response you get. That's what I was trying to say. Yeah. To it. And yours might be less, your might be more. Yeah. >> Yeah. My my people kept asking for more. And I mean they they ask me for Wednesdays and I say I can't do Wednesdays. >> I'm on desk on Wednesdays. >> It's just not going to be a thing. Yeah. And it's okay. Um >> Oh, interesting. Uh this another comment here. Um our library had a local clinic visit to teach us stretching exercises and free spinal exams. >> Oh, nice. >> Yeah, this was very successful and I think yoga would attract patrons in our small community. Yeah, this is one of our smaller libraries here. Yeah, absolutely. Um >> yeah. >> Yeah, try something like that if if you And that's that's actually an interesting idea there there that this librarian says before you're sure your community is really into this um and you put in all the work of you getting certified and you creating this program, bring in someone else for like a one time, >> you know, do a one shot uh uh and uh see is it popular? Do people respond? we get a lot and then maybe this is something we need to develop ourselves. >> Yeah. Oh, and I I forgot that I had even done a survey before I even started to find out if people were interested. >> Oh, sure. Yeah. >> Yeah. Yeah. Don't spend the money before you know that you that there's a want and a need for it. >> But but I also provided um resources so that you can do other things without have getting the certifications. Oh yeah, there's lots you can do without, you know, just to get started with it. Yeah, that you don't have to go all the way through getting those certifications and things, but as it gets bigger, you're definitely going to want that because you're going to have a lot [sighs and gasps] a lot more questions and things that you're going to need to be able to answer up to a point as we all know. >> Yes. >> Um, but definitely. Yeah. >> Yeah. >> All right. We just are a little after 11 o'clock here and [clears throat] I do want to be respectful of people's time as much as we can. Um, anybody have any uh desperate last minute questions you want to ask of Nicole or anything you want to share about what you're doing at your library? Type in that question section there. Um, thank you so much Nicole. This was uh great information. Lots of uh fun things to do and I think like you said very important. Uh we are all getting older and everyone and my parents and us need to just be moving better [laughter] and it is did um I know I was better at it precoid yes that kind of I don't know broke something [laughter] uh and trying to get back up on that horse again and it helps having something like this just to remind me yes you can do it there are there is you know in the library absolutely like you said litery is literacy and there's all types of literacy and that we can be helping with. [snorts] >> Yeah. I I really really do try to let remind people that li the library is about literacy in all its forms and I've gotten my library board and my staff on board with that. >> So that's what we say to people. We're we're about literacy in all its forms. All sorts of type. Yep. Having that buy in and support is also very important. >> Yeah. >> All right. We have some thank yous coming in. Thank you presenters. Uh great info. I'm going to take this back to my library. >> Cool. >> Exactly what we like to hear. All right. So, thank you Nicole. Thank you everybody. There is her contact info. As I said, the slides will be available afterwards of the recording as well. Um so I'm gonna pull presenter control to my screen here and do my wrapup. There we go. All right. So, thank you, Nicole. Yeah, send me your slides and any other um I think you're mentioning other uh resources that you want to share as well. Um send that to me. Um the recording will be available by the end of the day tomorrow as long as Goto Webinar and uh YouTube uh cooperate with me. That's where I post our recordings. Uh this is our uh main show page. If you just search encompass live, the name of our show on your search engine of choice, you'll come up with this page as well as our archive page. These are upcoming shows, but underneath there's a link to our show archives, most recent one at the top of the page. 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And uh, next week she's going to be talking about our new WordPress multi-sight option here in Nebraska. Uh, we are changing. We have offered um Nebraska here at the Nebraska Library Commission, we have offered free websites to public libraries for [snorts] 10 or 12 years now. uh I can't remember how long ago, but um we are switching up how it works, how the program works, and we have a new multi-sight option. So, if you're interested in that, um please do join us next week to learn about all that's happening with our Nebraska libraries on the web service that we offer and what your options will be as a Nebraska library. Um, and you can see we've got our other shows starting to fill in here in the fall. So, keep an eye on here as I get more dates confirmed and things coming in for September and October. All right, so thank you everybody for being here. Thank you Nicole for sharing all this great um information. Hopefully we all get a lot more active in our libraries. Thank >> you. >> All right, thanks a lot everybody. Bye bye. >> Bye.