The Need for Storytelling in Librarianship
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Data storytelling as a means for advocacy, social justice, and inclusion in libraries
Kate McDowell
Associate Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Dr. Kate McDowell focuses on social justice storytelling, data storytelling, and storytelling as information research. Her writing appears in Library Quarterly, College and Research Libraries, and JASIST. She leads the nationally-funded Data Storytelling Toolkit for Librarians project to equip libraries with narrative tools for data-informed advocacy. McDowell is an associate professor at the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA.
