Storytelling can be the key to forming emotional attachments to a library.
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KnowingThe Power of Storytelling as a Connector in Libraries Diane
M. Cordell
"Stories are a way of knowing.[The] process ofselecting
constitutive details of experience,reecting on them,giving them
order,and thereby making sense of them...makes telling storiesa
meaning-making experience." -I.E. Seidman (Interviewing as
Qualitative Research) Gray Day, Red Yarn by dmcordell
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SELECTING
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The Future is Now by dmcordell
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Photo archives, The Free Library of Philadelphia by dmcordell
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Computer: Aerial Dead Reckoning by dmcordell
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REFLECTING
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Conversation by dmcordell
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GIVING THEM ORDER
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Shelving by dmcordell
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The Gallery by dmcordell
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MAKING SENSE OF THEM
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Almost home by dmcordell
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IN THE LIBRARY...
Connect Family party by dmcordell
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Create Wayside School Yearbook by dmcordell
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Display Fresh Art by dmcordell
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Archive Honey by dmcordell
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Locate and Retrieve Hidden Meanings by dmcordell
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THREE STORIES...
Story 1: The Civil War LettersAuthor Nancy Wilson autographs
Shouts & Whispers by dmcordell
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Story 2: The Balthazard FamilyThe Balthazard Family c. 1900 by
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Story 3: What the Waiter Remembered Our server at Canoe by
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"Storytelling is among the oldest formsof
communication.Storytelling is the commonalityof all human beings,
in all places, in all times." -Rives Collins
Create...Curate... Celebrate The Journey Through the School of
Awesomeness by dmcordell
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