Learning by dmcordell http://www.ickr.com/photos/dmcordell/6257184215/ A Way of 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 http://www.ickr.com/photos/dmcordell/4304372680/

SELECTING

The Lyric Ballad by dmcordell http://www.ickr.com/photos/dmcordell/3336581900/

The Future is Now by dmcordell http://www.ickr.com/photos/dmcordell/4735227875/

Photo archives, The Free Library of Philadelphia by dmcordell http://www.ickr.com/photos/dmcordell/4319907649/

Computer: Aerial Dead Reckoning by dmcordell http://www.ickr.com/photos/dmcordell/5349715756/

Learning by dmcordell http://www.ickr.com/photos/dmcordell/4538691046/

REFLECTING

Information puzzle by dmcordell http://www.ickr.com/photos/dmcordell/6257900211/

Veterans Day Tribute by dmcordell http://www.ickr.com/photos/dmcordell/4104990874/

Conversation by dmcordell http://www.ickr.com/photos/dmcordell/5868802891/

GIVING THEM ORDER

They warned me! by dmcordell http://www.ickr.com/photos/dmcordell/3341506111/

Shelving by dmcordell http://www.ickr.com/photos/dmcordell/3291934742/

The Gallery by dmcordell http://www.ickr.com/photos/dmcordell/3288888215/

Some Flickr options by dmcordell http://www.ickr.com/photos/dmcordell/5283671735/

MAKING SENSE OF THEM

Learning by dmcordell http://www.ickr.com/photos/dmcordell/4618997470/

Almost home by dmcordell http://www.ickr.com/photos/dmcordell/4027424190/

Trail map by dmcordell http://www.ickr.com/photos/dmcordell/5375586917/

IN THE LIBRARY...

Connect Family party by dmcordell http://www.ickr.com/photos/dmcordell/4584229253/#/

Create Wayside School Yearbook by dmcordell http://www.ickr.com/photos/dmcordell/4813448752/

Display Fresh Art by dmcordell http://www.ickr.com/photos/dmcordell/5871288708/Display case by dmcordell http://www.ickr.com/photos/dmcordell/5786548110/

Archive Honey by dmcordell http://www.ickr.com/photos/dmcordell/4812844507/

Locate and Retrieve Hidden Meanings by dmcordell http://www.ickr.com/photos/dmcordell/4964219378/

THREE STORIES...

Story 1: The Civil War LettersAuthor Nancy Wilson autographs Shouts & Whispers by dmcordell http://www.ickr.com/photos/dmcordell/6122042810/

Story 2: The Balthazard FamilyThe Balthazard Family c. 1900 by dmcordell http://www.ickr.com/photos/dmcordell/4596049467/

Story 3: What the Waiter Remembered Our server at Canoe by dmcordell http://www.ickr.com/photos/dmcordell/6180321390/

"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 http://www.ickr.com/photos/dmcordell/6265958737/

Diane CordellWhat Im Thinking: http://dmcordell.blogspot.com/What Im Tweeting: http://twitter.com/dmcordellMy Photos: http://www.ickr.com/dmcordell/http://www.ickr.com/dmcordell/My Slidedecks http://www.slideshare.net/diane/presentations