of here center but the library i miss janet and i miss linda and we're here to bring you all the information from our public library into your home yes you know we are in it may it is i know it is and i remember it being honest to god your own bangs know ok well don't you know i gotta tell my daughter that what's this morning these were really bothering me so i took like those little girl little scissors you know for your nails it was like a manicure kit and i'm not like this now i'm going to be like this the whole time so you understand number one my daughter did that angela did you cut your hair no it was like right before school pictures says she come back to us and she had this real short it was about this much like little always had the orange i see and are getting right of it and they're going to have some kind of weird flavored sprite instead oh ok really yeah so but see i always thought but isn't that their only like for the session in for the next one i think is more interesting things now this is this was written in february an article feb twentieth and it was written by a man they named  yeah i like this the title is this is crazy the majority of people use the libraries that's the title of this i love this article was so interesting  because i don't know if you've ever gotten this question i've got this question where you have to not defend a library but advocate for library oh yeah you know and that's the position that we play in the role that we play in people's lives and in our community and in schools so he said people are you guys libraries are still around he said people ask me while making small talk at dinner parties yes yes they are more than half of the people in the united states go to the library even if you don't it's almost certain that your friends or family do said here's a situation where many people's common sense does not match the facts well why wouldn't library still be around people use library spar more than any other government agency and i know that one time and you showed me that sheet recently and i said we'd already done it with the starbucks there's a lot more libraries of starbucks at least today you know the wait rate they're growing so let's briefly examine some of the common sense reasons people give for the demise of libraries and all of these you've heard them all ok we're just going to remind everybody out there that these because at the internet can't we find everything that we need on the internet right well and they would say for many libraries in the world wide web cannot co exist after all information is accessible online why would people ever leave their here's i love i love his answers so these are good comebacks if you're ever you know in the situation first of all not everything is available online he said i actually he wrote about this back in two thousand and eight this is not news to those of us who regularly help people with research though i do understand that a google search is good enough for many basic queries but so that's funny he also said second not everyone has access to computers and dork an can afford to connect that's the point and now it's becoming more and more common and kids today have devices up the ying yang i mean you've got not everywhere though not everywhere right exactly that's the point  so he goes this is commonly known as the digital divide it but it's reality is more complicated in that as access to the web becomes for pervasive only as of september of two thousand and sixteen thirteen percent of americans don't use the internet and the problem of access shifts to a problem of digital literacy so but but that's thirteen percent just thirteen percent i feel like that's a low percentage you know i'm you know that's a low percentage i would because the statistics i'm going to tell you next time i find that i mean i don't think that's bad and i think that's changing you know when you don't use internet yeah yeah but don't use the internet don't because of different reasons they don't understand like the digital literacy it could be like you know you know i know there's a lot of really hit grandmothers and great there but not everybody but not everybody has in it really cares about it so good for you come to the library all right and also the world wide web burst on to the scene in the ninety's and said technically really one nine hundred ninety three and contrary to the common sense view during that time library use has actually gone way up even since the internet was introduced he said between one thousand nine hundred two thousand and thirteen library visits had gone up by a whopping sixty six per cent because of the unit access i would get the free internet the free y fi or whatever we have perhaps you know yeah i'm sure that helped them get and then the last this is so funny ok the other one is that he said that he gets the death of reading like nobody's reading anymore the death of reading yeah to death that we would be here thanks and go home read a book i know since and save it by numerous newspaper articles and outreach efforts on national and local levels asserting otherwise many people still consider libraries to be nothing more than containers for books and that is true you know like think about it the average person maybe even in our sometimes when you close doors and the blocks off the access and whatever you are in the moat i won't go there all right no new taxes everyone hates taxes but some people more so some of those same people also have a does distaste for government spending of any kind including libraries for them the demise of libraries isn't it an innate result of the radical cuts that they feel are necessary to bring forth the type of societal balance they envision so these people are thinking you know what we need to we need to balance the budget things need to be cut by a library that they don't that we don't need need us and that and they hint of you know not getting any funding in the funding going down it just sends shivers up my spine because it would be a great loss to all communities all over the world if anything happened to libraries so that he said i have the mind to add facts to sense with the hope of making our common knowledge than honest with the truth i like it he said that libraries are not a dying institution and he shrugs and he quotes benjamin franklin founder of the country's first subscription library that said so convenient a thing to be a responsible creature since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do well there you libraries do that are very different then a musty selling book i feel like everything that we do is different than the smelling book exactly constantly even when we think that we have a slow month it's not a slow month and th it's just in our mind because we're usually going everywhere everywhere and if you're not going everywhere for one hour we're like oh it was a quiet take a head that is star wars the rights of huge thing it's been huge and i feel like it just keeps getting bigger and bigger and bigger with all these new movies that are coming out and you know yesterday you can't do our big star wars party that i plan on having on today so we're going to do it this coming weekend so hopefully will air in time if not we had a lot of fun sorry you missed it the type of things that we do on a regular basis for having a big star wars party so we're going to have some trivia some type of a star wars theme snack that we're going to come up with and we'll be showing somehow connect to the story and this one came out right around the time that road one was released ms one's called catalyst a rogue one novel so we have this available at the library the end of the clone wars is in sight but beyond hope's horizon the darkest of stars  the room and she came out at one point and was grabbing a couple books and i was like how's the movie go inger they enjoying it and she said as soon as they mentioned that they were going to be seeing you know rogue one when they mentioned it to the friends that they were bringing she said they just like bounded out of their seats they were so excited to come and see that and and apparently she was a huge star wars fan too so she had a you had like i said her star wars shirt on and i had no idea when i left i think it was still going on because a yeah i don't think i saw them come out of the room i think they were still in there but having said all of that i had no idea about may the fourth be with you yeah  it i tried watching and i fell asleep however with that being said disney own star wars so there's a lot of star wars things and disney and i am a little bit of a disney fan and yeah just t bit last time having wanting the girls to read this in april so that we could talk about it may all the money in the world because we just had that whole financial literacy exhibition  in our lobby so we were pulling out theme related things and actually in this a good time to do is we tried doing the girls book groups on saturday mornings and it was so so you know some days be good some days you know it just felt like saturdays were tough you know no matter how late i made it and you can do it early to do late and just you know and now with spring sports we're going to see what happened so i'm going to take and i took another look at this in switching it  the make or mondays nor you know whatever the other things that have been going on the junior achievement so i'm hoping to pull another group in of between girls book club from mcmurry yeah so when days it's only once a month at four o'clock you know right after school come down bring a snack and hang and we'll talk all the money in the world is hysterical i talked about it last time because it makes me think of what would you do what would you do if you'd won if you'd win the lottery because this is about a boy you know that just wishes until one day catches a leprechaun and by missed it by mistake and he gets his magic wish and all the sudden he wished for all the money in the world and it's actually piled high in his backyard where he goes from there and we did talk like some of those funny movies like brewster's millions did you ever see that one  brewster's millions where i know it's a little off topic but he gets our he's able going to inherit all this money but there's a catch yes suspended all within a certain amount of time and you know and it's hysterical because he just is like frivolous about a just like all over the place spending it and it's hysterical and then trying to spend it and then i would say i'm getting a statement going oh you just aren't a million dollars in interest and he's like runs out and has this you know it's pretty silly that's what this is like only on a kid's level so fun but i don't join the sounds like a good idea yeah cool cool you know what i think it is probably a good idea for those of the kids think that money is is the answer right and you find out to do all the special programs in the evenings and she is doing a mother's day one it's called mother's day gift and she does the program where she asks that fathers or another you know adult bring them that they can make something for their mom right like a low they wanted to be a surprise so if you can do that sign up she's got a nice sign up so far mother's day gift it's going to be thursday may eleventh at six thirty another adult or our father whatever is actually requested but we'd rather it would be that whatever works we'd rather than be there than not be there right and so cute idea though and their kids really get excited about doing that for their mom so ok now this is an extreme my dad will tell you this is an extremely like expensive store where my stepmother likes to shop in california and i have a feeling that the way she justified buying this was because after she wore it for something which when you see it i can imagine she wore for some pictures or something but anyway she decided it would be nice to pass on to me so it's been awesome it was very thoughtful so yeah it makes always makes my dad happy so in my nice blended family my stepmother gave me this when i was in california i almost want you to close your eyes but you don't wanna take me awhile to figure it out but i want you to look at it and see if you at first i couldn't they i was like how i had to look at it and then i really understood and i and i told her i'd send her ok how does it go goes like this i think that's ok as a poncho or a mask it's book glittery yeah and look at the reading glasses yes i hear it's got your reading glasses and then look like i'm a walking library yeah that's beautiful so until we talk about why we're wearing this one just came in and i grabbed it because i want to read to lucas because it's about moms that has examined front yeah so i don't want to get checked out so i brought this one's called some moms and it says some moms are if it was fun looking for mother ordering new mother's day and you know what sometimes you know the holidays coming up and you think boy we need more books in that holiday and then when you think of it it's not too late to order them you can order them anytime but it's too late to get them ordered yeah and get them out this was a cute when they came out the greatest mother's day of all said talking about you know specifically mothers and yeah the day that brought a couple more cases to show quickly oh i want to show you my favorite book as my favorite childhood book but it has to do with mother are you my mother lucas is into that one right now this was always i don't know why it's always been my favorite cute and go you know is that you know is that is mother and my kindergarten teacher read that to us and can regard orientation when you go to like ten to ride the bus and all that side she read that she did so that's going back a couple  years and i remember so it stuck with me yeah first time i had heard it there are some really really cool more and more books regarding new stepmother and adoptions oh nice my new mom and me you know because all moms are special and there's women that come into you know families lives for sure that take on the role and we're quick we and then one more because we only have enough time for yours this is cute it brings in the dads too so we can use and i love it with our books mom dad our books and me fall and that's cute reading is all around us and not all of it is in books kid yeah and second thursday of the month so next month we're going to doing nature cats ok but this one the kids come tonight they're all going to get their three little we're doing jim henson splash and bubbles which is a new i know they're all going at their own free bubbles so i thought we could blow bubbles  let's do because bubbles are happy doesn't like bubbles every child in america they could be crying and whatever and not comfortable and bring out the bubbles life actually when i was the one library storytime of a different library