General Session: Library Storytelling with Data: Argument, Evidence, and Emotion

26 Jul 2023
8:30 am - 10:00 am

General Session: Library Storytelling with Data: Argument, Evidence, and Emotion

Learn how to bring data stories to life for library advocacy. Participants will learn about ongoing research identifying classic library stories told to persuade decision-makers as part of the Data Storytelling Toolkit for Librarians grant (IMLS). Tools every library can use include:

  • Five classic advocacy arguments
  • Evidence and forms of data for those arguments
  • Narrative strategies that draw from classic story structures
  • Tone and tactics for emotionally engaging storytelling to different audiences, including positive, negative, mixed, and polarized by misinformed/disinforming audience members.