Episode 1

Podsdale Episode 1: The Library Has Wings

Published on: 31st March, 2021

For Adult Services Coordinator Erin Riley and her colleagues at the Scottsdale library, “Innovation has been the watchword of the past year.”

From curbside service and online library card registrations to forming a new “virtual library” branch, Erin talks to Public Affairs Supervisor and Podsdale host Holly Walter about the library’s adaptation to the pandemic. 

Podsdale celebrates the city of Scottsdale's employees, highlights their stories and accomplishments, and shares city news they need to know. 

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Transcript
Holly Walter:

Hello and welcome!

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I am Public Affairs Supervisor Holly Walter, and I am

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thrilled to introduce you to Podsdale, Scottsdale's new

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employee podcast put together by the Office of Communication.

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Podsdale is going to be all about city news, interesting

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people, places, projects, and things happening throughout

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the city, but most of all, it is about you, the employee.

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So with that said, we do want you to be part of Podsdale,

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whether that's joining us for a future episode as a guest,

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sending us news to share, or even coming on as a co-host.

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Today, though, I have my colleague with me,

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Public Affairs Specialist, Stephanie Hirata.

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She will join us every episode for

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what we are calling our Fast Five.

Stephanie Hirata:

That's right.

Stephanie Hirata:

Thanks Holly.

Stephanie Hirata:

I'm Stephanie Hirata with Five Fast Things

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happening around the city that you need to know.

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We started the list at number five,

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employee gyms, they're open, that's right.

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The workout rooms at City Hall, North Corp Yard and

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other city facilities are now open to employees.

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Of course, we have rules in place to keep things safe,

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equipment will be sanitized and physical distancing is required.

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If you're looking for a good workout during your work week.

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Club Sar is another great option.

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It's open to the public and employees are welcome to sign up

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for an employee fitness pass, check City Point to learn more.

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Number four is all about becoming your own chef,

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want to eat healthier, but don't know where to start?

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How about four weeks on the A to Zs of making tasty food at home?

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You'll learn shortcuts and skillsets

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to plan, shop, prep, and cook.

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Sessions begin April 6th, visit City Point to sign up.

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The Pony Express at Appaloosa

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Library is in our number three spot.

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It's a library self-service model that allows the

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public to enter and use the branch with no library staff

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on the floor, simply by swiping their library card.

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Registration for this new self-service option started

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March 8th and Appaloosa became assessable to approved

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users on March 15th, visit Scottsdale library.org for more.

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At number two Earth Day,

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it's April 22nd, but in Scottsdale, we celebrate all month long.

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Scottsdale's green building program will host two webinars.

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We're planting 51 new trees throughout the city,

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and the library will host a great waste audit, so

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households can keep track of what they are disposing.

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We have a whole list of events and great

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programming happening the entire month.

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Go to ScottsdaleAZ.gov, search

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Sustainable Scottsdale to find out more.

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Our number one, fast five spot goes

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to Code Inspector, Jorge Espanoza.

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Jorge was recently at Stonegate Park.

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When he noticed a vehicle parked sideways in two handicapped

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spots and found an unresponsive female driver behind the wheel.

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Her doors were locked, so Jorge immediately called 9-1-1

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and used his jacket to shield the woman from the sun.

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Scottsdale Fire arrived to provide treatment

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and transport the woman to the hospital.

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If it hadn't been for Jorge's heroic actions, the

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outcome could have been much worse, Jorge, kudos to you.

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And that's our fast five for this episode of Podsdale.

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Got something for a future fast five?

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Tell us by emailing Communications@ScottsdaleAZ.gov.

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I'll turn it back over to you Holly!

Holly Walter:

Thank you, Stephanie, I look forward to

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having you on every episode to share our fast five with

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our listeners and by the way, listeners be sure that you're

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paying attention throughout the entire podcast because of

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whether it's our fast five or our interview we will have a

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trivia question at the end of every episode, and if you email

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Communications@ScottsdaleAZ.gov, with the correct answer, we

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are going to enter you into a drawing for a fabulous prize.

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I can't reveal what that prize is right

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now, but I can tell you it is fabulous.

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Okay.

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In our Podsdale guest today comes from the Library.

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We would like everyone to meet Erin Riley.

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She is our Library Adult Services Coordinator.

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She's been with the City of Scottsdale for about five years now.

Holly Walter:

Thank you, Erin, for joining us on the podcast.

Erin Riley:

Thanks Holly.

Erin Riley:

I'm happy to be here.

Holly Walter:

So to start things off, why don't

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you tell us a little bit about what you were doing

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prior to joining us here at the City of Scottsdale?

Erin Riley:

Well, uh, let's see.

Erin Riley:

That's a good question.

Erin Riley:

Right before I worked here, I worked in a

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tiny little post office inside a bike shop.

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But that's a side story, which we could go into another time.

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I did not actually take a traditional

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route to becoming a librarian.

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My background is in philosophy and

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law and while I was in law school

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getting my degree, I worked doing research

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for professors and worked in the library.

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And so when I went onto graduate school after law school,

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cause I'm a gigantic geek, I ended up working for the

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Dean of the law school doing library research and I, you

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know, kind of, really enjoyed that side of it a lot more.

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I had young children then an, working, you

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know, 90 billable hours a week in a law firm.

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Wasn't as appealing as it had been before I started law school.

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So I just got much more into the research and so I

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worked in public libraries and in academic libraries.

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And so when I saw that there was an opening here at

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Scottsdale, at the library, that I love to go to all

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the time I applied and was lucky enough to get a job.

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And I started as the 20 hour weekend

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anchor librarian at the Mustang branch.

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And I worked Friday, Saturdays and

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Sundays for about a year and a half.

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And then uh, got a full-time job.

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Uh, became a lead librarian at Civic Center.

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And then when the job for the Adult Services

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Coordinator opened up, I was lucky enough to

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be asked to interview and then get the job.

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So that was about, Oh, it was almost two years ago.

Erin Riley:

And that's how I got here.

Holly Walter:

Great.

Holly Walter:

Well, that, that does sound like an unusual path.

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We might have to revisit that job at some other point, but to

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move forward, let's talk about, particularly, what has happened

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within the last year with COVID-19 really that is caused,

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significant change within the library

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system, you've really had to be innovative.

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You've had to adapt to the pandemic everything from

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offering curbside service, you've developed online library

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card registrations, our branches were closed for a short

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while, but really that the library never stopped operating.

Holly Walter:

Correct?

Erin Riley:

That's right, Holly.

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We were able to keep our drive-throughs open even while

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all of our buildings were closed, which is really just

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a short period of time because some of them reopened.

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Closed, in March and reopened as quickly as June.

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But even while anything was closed, we were

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offering services through our drive-up windows

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and we added curbside, as you mentioned.

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And that's when we were able to start getting people library

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cards online and letting them renew online, so that they never

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really had to be without the library services and materials.

Holly Walter:

And you've also formed a virtual

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library branch there among other things to

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kick this off, what is a virtual library?

Erin Riley:

Well as you already know all of our physical

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library branches are named after horses except for Civic Center.

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Of course, we've got Mustang, Arabian and Appaloosa.

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And so our virtual branch, which you can find on our

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website, is called Pegasus because that's a horse, a mythical

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horse, but this is a real place that, that kind of collects

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all of the information on our website

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about our virtual programming and services.

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And this has been developed in the last six to eight months.

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It's something we had been working on anyway, but the necessity

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of having to really rethink our services because of COVID-19

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and think about more contactless delivery for our services,

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really, spurred us to get going with this

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and find a place on our website that we could

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collect all of this information for patrons.

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So there's information about how to get a library card online.

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There's information about how to renew your library card online.

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There's a lot of programming that you can link to.

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We have storytime programming and kids, crafts,

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and steam programming that's accessible.

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And then also our adult services programming that's available.

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It can be linked from that Pegasus branch, which you

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can get to from the very, the homepage of our website.

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We also though have links t, other research databases

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an, information about our digital library, which has,

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soared in circulation during the time of COVID.

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We have a lot of people who are avid, library users, who've

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never stepped foot in a physical branch because they can

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do everything they need from reserving to borrowing, to

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reading right online and that all those digital services

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include books and audio books, magazines, movies comic books.

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Anything you can stream, you can access with your library card.

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We actually have also started a series of

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completely virtual programs called books and more.

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And we have one that comes out of out of

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Civic Center Library, which is called Get Lit.

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And one that comes out of a Mustang Library called In The Stacks.

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And then we're going to have a new one coming

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out of Arabian Library called Turning The Page.

Holly Walter:

It's really an incredible variety of services and

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to, to take a look at this virtual library, and I love the name

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by the way, Pegasus, that ties in nicely with our branches,

Erin Riley:

Right?

Holly Walter:

Is it simply visiting the website?

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It is, you just go to our homepage and

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the first thing you'll see is Pegasus, the virtual

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library branch, and you can click on it and it

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just opens up all the services that are available.

Holly Walter:

And of course it's super easy for a

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city employee to sign up for a library card, you

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don't have to live in Scottsdale to do that, correct?

Erin Riley:

That's right, anyone in Maricopa

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County can get a library card and we do have.

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And now so all you have to do is go to our website,

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click on a library card services, open the application,

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upload a piece of postmarked mail with your name on

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it, and a utility bill that comes to your address.

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And you're in business and you can live anywhere

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in Maricopa County and get a card for free.

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And we do actually deliver people's library materials,

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right to their office or their workstation in the city.

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That's a service that we've been trying to do for

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Scottsdale employees since the pandemic started.

Holly Walter:

Great.

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And that's simply ScottsdaleLibrary.org

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to get yourself set up to do that.

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Let's, let's talk about your position in

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particular as our Adult services coordinator

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you've probably had to make a lot of changes,

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I imagine, with the pandemic in place.

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What, what do we offer though with

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Adult Services and what is that?

Erin Riley:

Well, our Adult Services

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are all of the programming from, uh, you

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know, on up so, um, our

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Youth

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Services Team was very

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quick off the

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block to get virtual storytimes

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and different kinds of

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programming taped and, ready for

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our youngest

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patrons.

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And it took

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us a little bit longer, I have

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to admit, to try to get some of our adult

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services Into virtual

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form.

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And one of the reasons is that we have a huge contingent

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of fabulous volunteers, who've done a lot of the work

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here at the library, we have a great staff, of course,

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who are fabulous, but they are really supplemented for

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a lot of our Adult Services Programming by volunteers.

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So all of our ESL programs had been taught by volunteers,

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and our computer literacy classes were taught by volunteers

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who had actually come over to us from the Via Linda

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Senior Center, where they'd been teaching computer classes

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for, I think almost 10 years, before they started here.

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So about a year before the pandemic,

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we transferred that program here,

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set up computers and set up a space and started registering

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for people for basic computer classes so that people could

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get you know, just the basic knowledge they need to use

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Word or do Excel or make photo books, really simple things.

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And those were among our most popular programs.

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And our volunteers, who were not

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allowed to work in the building have,

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been able to transfer their programs to work from home.

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And they're actually doing their

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volunteering mostly, right from their

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own homes.

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They're still

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because of the COVID precautions.

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We don't have City volunteers in city

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buildings yet.

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So they decided

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they really wanted to take the

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ball and run with it and keep that program

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going.

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So we use, uh,

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our teams, Microsoft Teams platform, and put

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the links to meetings

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in our online

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calendar.

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We register

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people and the last class

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we had had 55 people

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learning how to use Excel

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spreadsheets which I think

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is amazing because if I could avoid

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learning how to use an Excel spreadsheet, I would,

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do that.

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But there

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are enough people who wanted to do

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it, and we had a great volunteer teaching the

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class and people said

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they really loved it.

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We had a great response.

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So we're going to try to expand that program virtually.

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We've expanded and added some volunteers and had

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some of our old volunteers take on new roles.

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And we have staff who are working with

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volunteers kind of as

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chat monitoring, you know,

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wing people to help keep

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those programs running smoothly and

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make sure all of the questions for each class are

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answered.

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And it's just

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been a really great way to transform

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something that we were doing, that was going

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well, in to something that's going well in a

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new format.

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Some of our

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programs, as you can imagine, we

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were showing movies and we were having lectures

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and doing all kinds of book, discussion groups,

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we have had most of those

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things be able to move online.

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Our book discussion groups have moved online.

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We've started some new ones and continued

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old ones.

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And our staff

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members run those.

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And we've had really great response from

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patrons.

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And all of

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the things that we were doing that we'd really

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like to provide the public, we've really tried to find a way to

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continue to do them in this new format and in this new manner.

Holly Walter:

It's so good to hear

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that we are doing those things.

Holly Walter:

In particular, we have so many great volunteers at

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the library and the fact that we had to keep them

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home for so long was, you know, was difficult.

Holly Walter:

I, I I'm sure, but the fact that we can bring folks back,

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have them virtual and in particular, teach these literacy

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classes, cause I'm sure, that likely ties into many of the

Holly Walter:

other things that you're offering within adult programming.

Erin Riley:

Absolutely.

Holly Walter:

It's fantastic to hear.

Holly Walter:

Absolutely.

Holly Walter:

Well, we have some other

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things that we're

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developing, we've gotten some grants

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this year for doing citizen

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science programs, which is,

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crowdsourced, scientific research and we're going to be taking

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those programs online and

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making them virtual as well.

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And we're going to premiere some of

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that during April for, Earth Day

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and Arbor Day, which is a big deal in Scottsdale.

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And

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we've also gotten a

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grant

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to provide like just

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basic legal research information for patrons.

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And we are going to make that virtual as well and put that on

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our Pegasus branch so that it's a link people can go to and see

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videos and learn about what kind of information we have that they

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might need.

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So all of

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those things are, we've really taken a

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little time to rethink what we were planning to do,

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which was have programs, and have a lot of people in the

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library and visiting and circulating all our materials.

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And we really tried to make sure that

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we can still get people the information

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they need just in a

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manner that safe and secure.

Holly Walter:

Great.

Holly Walter:

It's such a wealth of resources.

Holly Walter:

And just to hear that we had 55 people

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attend a computer literacy class.

Holly Walter:

It sounds like during, this time it's an opportunity to

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really learn a new skill and you can do that, right at home.

Holly Walter:

Absolutely.

Holly Walter:

We have other

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resources on our Website as

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well.

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We have something that's called universal class, which

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gives people all kinds

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of classes ranging from, you know,

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French grammar, to crocheting, to abnormal psychology.

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And you can take those right on the

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website.

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They're taught by, skilled accredited

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professionals

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and you can get certificates of completion for some

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of the things that might improve your job skills.

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Or you can just take something for fun and learn

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a new skill while you're not getting out, you

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know, and mixing up and doing other social things.

Holly Walter:

Wow.

Holly Walter:

I'm going to have to check that out myself.

Holly Walter:

And it is to find this ScottsdaleLibrary.org.

Holly Walter:

Where you can, you can find any of this

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information on our adult services, programming

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and Pegasus and all the things that Erin has

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talked about.

Holly Walter:

But not, that

Holly Walter:

she's not busy enough

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already, but to add onto that, I

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know that I've, I've

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been fortunate to work with you and others

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from across the city on a Bloomberg Philanthropies

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training program, that's focused on some human

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centered design.

Holly Walter:

What we're

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looking at

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really is trying to

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find ways to reduce the number of non-emergency

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health-related calls that come into our 9-1-1 system and what

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we have learned through interviews with residents and others.

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We have found that in many of these calls are coming

Holly Walter:

in from seniors and their caregivers, because they are

Holly Walter:

socially isolated and they don't know where turn for help.

Holly Walter:

How was, how was that related to what you do, Erin

Holly Walter:

and what have you learned from that experience?

Erin Riley:

Well, I

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think the the whole

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project is really been eyeopening for

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me, not just in relation

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to the problem that

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we've been working on, which you just

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described, but with the

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ideas and the way we're

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looking at solving that problem.

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I think that

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looking at getting, input from

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citizens, which is something we've done

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and looking at a problem from the perspective of

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the people who are going to use our services rather

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than from staff who

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are providing services,

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has really been enlightening for me.

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And that really

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did help me apply some

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of that and solve some of the issues I had when I was

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looking at how to make

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our services virtual.

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And I've been able to share some of that

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information.

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You know,

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it library management

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meetings where so many of

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our team have been

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working on the same kind of problems.

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So when we were looking at trying to

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put together a website and a form.

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For people who wanted to sign up for a library

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card online, we're able to try to streamline

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it and think about it from the point of view of

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the user.

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Rather than,

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you know, what's going to be

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easiest for staff collecting that information.

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I think that that was really helpful.

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And I just really liked

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that idea of trying to remember that services

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are for

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citizens and that citizen input

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is really important as we

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go about constructing those services.

Holly Walter:

Absolutely, about listening to those needs and

Holly Walter:

thinking about how we can

Holly Walter:

offer whatever it is that patron needs.

Erin Riley:

That's right.

Holly Walter:

Do you have any parting words of wisdom

Holly Walter:

that you can pass along to our employees about the

Holly Walter:

library or its services or anything else you want to

Holly Walter:

add about the things we've already discussed Erin?

Holly Walter:

Well, I think if you haven't

Erin Riley:

been in a library for a while, you should really

Erin Riley:

take a look at our website and, you know, come into our open

Erin Riley:

buildings because libraries have changed from when we were all

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kids, there was a lot more going on and a lot more resources.

Erin Riley:

You can find so

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many things In the library

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that you couldn't even,

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you know, five or 10 years ago,

Erin Riley:

so I think that's definitely worth a look.

Erin Riley:

And I also think that as we're all looking at

Erin Riley:

ways to manage, as we get through COVID-19.

Erin Riley:

And as we restart things

Erin Riley:

afterward you know,

Erin Riley:

when I first thought about, you know, basically

Erin Riley:

my whole job was offering programs that people came to at the

Erin Riley:

library and I had to look at it and figure out how to make that

Erin Riley:

totally different and it can be done, I guess.

Erin Riley:

That's really, I encourage everybody to

Erin Riley:

really just not despair,

Erin Riley:

but really to look at what they

Erin Riley:

can do.

Erin Riley:

And they'll surprise

Erin Riley:

themselves.

Erin Riley:

I think we've all surprised ourselves here at the

Erin Riley:

library and the response has been really great.

Holly Walter:

And those are great parting words, and we are so

Holly Walter:

thankful that you could join us on the program today and take the

Holly Walter:

time to talk to us about what's happening over at the library.

Holly Walter:

And again, anyone who would like to learn more

Holly Walter:

about adult programming, about our virtual library

Holly Walter:

branch, Pegasus the city's

Holly Walter:

curbside service, any of the other thing that Erin

Holly Walter:

talked about today, just please go to ScottsdaleLibrary.org.

Holly Walter:

And thank you again, Erin for being on the show.

Erin Riley:

Thank you for having me.

Holly Walter:

That concludes our first episode of Podsdale,

Holly Walter:

but we can't sign off without our trivia question.

Holly Walter:

Remember, answered this trivia question correctly,

Holly Walter:

email Communications@ScottsdaleAZ.gov, and we

Holly Walter:

will put you in a drawing for a fabulous prize.

Holly Walter:

And we plan to announce that winner in our next episode

Holly Walter:

here goes, what's the name of our virtual library space?

Holly Walter:

Email communications@ScottsdaleAZ.gov with your answer.

Holly Walter:

Thank you for joining us.

Holly Walter:

I hope you had a great time.

Holly Walter:

I know I did.

Holly Walter:

And we will be back in two weeks,

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