Critical Data Storytelling for Libraries: Crafting Ethical Narratives for Advocacy and Impact
Abstract
In Critical Data Storytelling for Libraries: Crafting Ethical Narratives for Advocacy and Impact,
Kate McDowell offers a timely and necessary examination of how library workers conceptualize,
interpret, and communicate data. Framed explicitly for practitioners, McDowell writes,
“In this book, I adapt my data storytelling instruction for the audience of information professionals”
(p. xvi), later expanding that audience to include, “library data analysts, librarians,
advocates for libraries, or anyone tasked with gathering, making sense of
Kate McDowell offers a timely and necessary examination of how library workers conceptualize,
interpret, and communicate data. Framed explicitly for practitioners, McDowell writes,
“In this book, I adapt my data storytelling instruction for the audience of information professionals”
(p. xvi), later expanding that audience to include, “library data analysts, librarians,
advocates for libraries, or anyone tasked with gathering, making sense of
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