Fostering Community through Digital Storytelling A Guide for Academic Libraries

Subjects:

• Library & Information Science » Management & Administration -- General

Reviews:

• "The authors provide the theory and philosophy behind digital storytelling and also useful practical applications of the process. They suggest the video be 3-5 minutes in length. This will require succinct storytelling, poignant video images and appropriate music if desired. The hope is to engage and inspire, not bore the audience. Other ideas come from using stories from your faculty, using digital storytelling in the classroom as an assignment or to stimulate conversation meeting students' unique and diverse learning styles."
  —Colorado Association of Libraries 00/00/00
• "Focusing on academic libraries, Anne M. Fields and Karen R. Diaz address the use of digital video to reach out to patrons. Other libraries can also benefit from the knowledge and experience presented in these seven chapters. . . . The index enables the work to be used as a reference work, while the writing style encourages cover-to-cover reading for the first-time user. Addressing new and previous technologies used for social networking and community building, Fostering Community Through Digital Storytelling enables the librarian to reach out to patrons and understand this need to reach patrons through what one might view to be the impersonal technologies of today."
  —ARBA 3/1/2009

Table of Contents:

• Acknowledgments
  Preface
  Introduction
  Chapter 1: What Are Stories, and Why Do We Tell Them?
  Chapter 2: What is a Digital Story?
  Chapter 3: Social Networking and Its Relationship to Digital Storytelling
  Chapter 4: Social Technologies, Stories, and Higher Education
  Chapter 5: Social Technologies, Stories, and Libraries
  Chapter 6: Campus Digital Storytelling: Partnerships and Programs
  Chapter 7: Fostering Community through Digital Storytelling
  Appendix: Web Resources
  Index

PDF Catalogs:

LU Academic Library Spring 2008.pdf