Fostering Community through Digital Storytelling: A Guide for Academic Libraries [Paperback]

Digital stories are brief multi-modal digital videos, which libraries can use to engage their staff members with one another, to market library services and collections, to attract donors, and most importantly, to engage students and faculty with the library. Fields and Diaz address the how-tos of creating digital stories, as well as the challenges of building a digital storytelling program and creating partnerships across campus. Of primary interest to academic librarians and instructional technology staff.

Anne M. Fieldsis Education Librarian at Ohio State University.

Karen R. Diazis an Instruction Librarian at the Ohio State University Libraries, Columbus. Previous positions include web librarian, reference librarian, and online coordinator. She also co-authored, with Nancy O'Hanlon,IssueWeb: A Guide and Sourcebook for Researching Controversial Issues on the Web.

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

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 Digitalƒ#