Critical Data Storytelling for Libraries, an ESLN webinar

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How can libraries use data stories to build support and resilience? Drawing on her forthcoming book and the IMLS Data Storytelling Toolkit, Dr. Kate McDowell shares ethical, impactful approaches for crafting compelling narratives. Learn to reach diverse audiences, leverage powerful story structures, and build resilience in the face of funding cuts and censorship. This session supports library workers in any role in telling the stories of why libraries and other public information institutions matter. 

About the Presenter: Dr. Kate McDowell’s interdisciplinary work examines how storytelling plays a vital role in humanizing data analysis and communication. She focuses on storytelling as information research and how the history of library storytelling informs data storytelling. She leads the Data Storytelling Toolkit for Librarians project to equip libraries with narrative tools for data-informed advocacy, which has been used by over 5,000 librarians in over 50 countries so far. She won the ASIS&T Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award in 2022, and her new book is Critical Data Storytelling for Libraries: Crafting Ethical Narratives for Advocacy and Impact.

This session is sponsored by the Empire State Library Network (ESLN). CDLC members are also ESLN members. 

For more information and registration, visit the ESLN event page.  

Date:

Wednesday, November 19, 2025

Time:

10:00am - 11:00am

Categories:

  Continuing Education     ESLN Sponsored     Remote Event