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What stories does your library need to tell? Help us build the Data Storytelling Toolkit for Librarians, please take our survey! tinyurl.com/8skdcua8

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DSTL Core Design Team application will be closed by midnight! Please fill the form if you would like to join!

Thank you, librarians, for taking the survey! If you haven’t yet, please share your thoughts and experiences with library data storytelling here: tinyurl.com/8skdcua8 #communitycollegelibrary #publiclibrary

You can read a micro-recap of our fall 2022 project launch in a new blog post: storytellingscholar.blogspot.com/2022/11/data-s…

The Data Storytelling Toolkit for Librarians will be at ALA this summer, proposal accepted! 🎉

It's great when your board supports your work and you have the data stories to back it up. But what do you do when they are negative or polarized by disinformation? What tone and tactics do you use? Ideas welcome!

DSTL will be at ALA! Come learn how to turn your data into stories that connect information and emotion. americanlibraryassociation.informz.net/informzdataser…

Registration is live for the Data Storytelling Toolkit for Libraries focus groups! Links/dates in QR codes below. Thank you to all who have participated so far, from 26 states and 5 countries!

You still have time to sign up for storytelling focus groups! And if you'd like to stay in touch, we're posting on Linked In given the changes to this platform (kate-mcdowell-86130122) uiucdstl.wixsite.com/uiucdstl/focus… A . .

Introducing, testing and discussing the Data Storytelling Toolkit for Libraries--thank you IMLS ! Free webinar 7/17 1pmET, Registration link: forms.gle/qV6ywzTBefH5Qc…

Our library data storytelling work is top of the University of Illinois news today! news.illinois.edu/view/6367/1919…

Thanks to all who came to Introducing the Data Storytelling Toolkit for Libraries! Because of a recording issue, we'll be holding a second webinar August 12--registration is open! forms.gle/va3TaQKwxXzhr2…

This is our project, featured by IMLS yesterday! Check out the wonderful image!

Many thanks to iSchools for featuring our team's new grant today! ischools.org/post/mcdowell-…

This fall, #iSchoolUI Associate Professor Kate McDowell (she/her) will present three keynotes, in which she will discuss how data storytelling can be used to strengthen institutions and promote data literacy. ▶️ bit.ly/4gmdh1f

Free talks for librarians in Illinois on January 13 and Michigan January 19! Communicating the impact of libraries with data is crucial to the life of local democracy.

Although our project was impacted by IMLS funding issues, we carry on, and Dr. Kate McDowell has a new book coming out this fall! alastore.ala.org/critdatst