ALISE Data Storytelling Webinar
Friday, August 17, 2018, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM PDT
Category: Other Events
(ALISE Webinars typically run for an hour, which consists of 45-50 minutes of presentation, and 10 minutes Q&A) Data Storytelling: Narrative Strategies and StructuresPresenter Name: Kate McDowell
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Presentation Description: Despite collecting a tremendous amount of data on activities related to their collections, services, and spaces, information professionals frequently struggle to find the right data to tell the right stories to the right stakeholders at the right time. This can be particularly challenging when there is a mismatch between what external stakeholders value (for example, the number of volumes held), which may not align with what the library understands to be meaningful (for example, the number of titles held). Narrative strategies help us find the story in data; narrative structures help our organizations craft effective stories. This workshop combines lecture with brief activities designed to introduce the fundamentals of storytelling thinking for information professionals. Attendees will learn strategies for applying principles of storytelling to workplace communications and explore ways that these principles can be used to develop meaningful stories that help solve problems. Participants will explore successful story structures for data stories and learn how to effectively learn and remember their stories. Libraries have a tradition of over 130 years of storytelling to help engage users with our collections and services, particularly in youth services. These data storytelling approaches distill wisdom from that tradition in ways that are relevant to all information professionals. |