Once upon a time in the academic library : storytelling skills for librarians
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Once upon a time in the academic library : storytelling skills for librarians
ACRL, 2022
- pbk.
Available at 1 libraries
Description and Table of Contents
Description
It could be argued that to tell stories is to be human. Storytelling evolved alongside us to provide entertainment via literature, plays, and visual arts. It helps shape society through parables, moral tales, and religion. Storytelling plays a role in business, law, medicine, and education in modern society.
Academic librarians can apply storytelling in the same way that teachers, entertainers, lawyers, and businesspeople have done for centuries, as education within information literacy instruction and as communication in the areas of reference, outreach, management, assessment, and more. Once Upon a Time in the Academic Library explores applications of storytelling across academic librarianship in three sections:
The Information Literacy Classroom
The Stacks
Physical and Virtual Library Spaces
A thorough introduction discusses the historical and theoretical roots of storytelling, as well as the mechanics and social justice applications. Chapter authors demonstrate using storytelling to share diverse viewpoints that connect with their users, and each chapter contains practical examples of how storytelling can be used within the library and cultural considerations for the audience. The first section focuses on storytelling as a pedagogical tool; the others include examples of how storytelling has been used as a communication method in sharing and developing collections, at service points, and in online spaces. Once Upon a Time in the Academic Library can provide ideas and inspiration for incorporating storytelling into your teaching and communication, and inspire you to invent new ways of using it in your work.
Table of Contents
Introduction: The Roots of Storytelling in History, Theory, and Librarianship
Maria Barefoot, Elin Woods, and Sara Parme
Tales from the Information Literacy Classroom
Chapter 1. A Tale of Five Case Studies: Reflections on Piloting a Case-Based, Problem-Based Learning Curriculum in English Composition
Katie Strand, Rachel Wishkoski, Alex Sundt, and Deanna Allred
Chapter 2. Shooting for the Stars: Using a Story Ripped from the Astronomy Headlines with First-Year Students
Kathryn Yelinek
Chapter 3. Encouraging Connections: Using Personal Storytelling in the Information Literacy Classroom
Allyson Wind and Megan Smith
Chapter 4. The Moral of the Story Is... Appealing to Student Values in the Classroom
Gerald R. Natal
Chapter 5. Revealing the Means of (Information) Production: Collaborative Storytelling to Demystify Scholarship
Dunstan McNutt
Tales from the Stacks
Chapter 6. The Depository is Large. It Contains Multitudes
L. E. Eames
Chapter 7. Call and Response: Delicate Conversations in Collection Development
Alexis L. Pavenick
Chapter 8. Choose Your Own Path: Using Primary Sources and Oral History Interviews to Promote Life Experiences Found in Special Collections and University Archives
Harrison Wick
Tales from Physical and Virtual Library Spaces
Chapter 9. Let's Tell a Story: Narrative, Constructivism, and Accessibility
Anders Tobiason
Chapter 10. Using Existing Fandoms to Create Your Own Library Stories: How a Harry Potter-inspired Murder Mystery Introduced First-Year Students to the Library
Holly Jackson
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