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9 Save 50 percent! on print, ebook, or bundle Organizational Storytelling for Librarians: Using Stories for Effective Leadership Kate Marek Purchase from the ALA Store Use coupon code KMWJ12 Use coupon code KMWJ12. Offer expires January 17 th, 2012

10 Today s Presenters Kate Marek Professor, Dominican University Graduate School of Library and Information Science Chris Rippel Head of Continuing Education, Central Kansas Library System

11 Organizational Storytelling for Librarians Dr. Kate Marek WbJ WebJunction Webinar Wbi January 10, 2012

12 Organizational Narrative /Organizational Storytelling

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14 Sharing Stories Knowledge Management Leadership: Sharing Vision; i Advocacy; Making connections with people through sharing ideas and values Organizational narrative Building community Using stories to teach

15 Communicating vision and values Using stories to navigate change Using stories to build community Telling stories through buildings Developing the skill set

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20 Facilitating Change

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23 Leadership

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25 Six Stories You Need to Know How to Tell (Simmons) Who I am stories Why I am here stories The Vision Teaching stories Values-in-action stories I Know what you are thinking stories

26 The Organization

27 The Sacred Bundle

28 The Sacred Bundle What are 4-5 key events in your library s history? Who are your library s heroes? What key values or characteristics of your library are highlighted in your stories? What physical artifacts might you include in your sacred bundle? What crisis events or stories are in your sacred bundle?

29 Building Community

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31 The Skill Set

32 Beware the well told story Beware the well-told story Stephen Denning

33 Developing the Skill Set Be authentic Be accurate, but think in terms of a painting rather than a photograph Be yourself Consider your audience and consider your goals Be brief; Be careful of TMI! Be consistent and on point Listen Practice

34 Story Triggers

35 Images, Memories, Taking Notes, Listening

36 A time you shined A time you blew it A mentor A book, movie, or current event Just tell them what happened!

37 Try It! Take a moment to think of a Who I am and/or a Why I am here story. Take a moment to think of events and items that should go into your library s sacred bundle. Consider ways to gather and share stories from within your community. Think of a story from your community that you could share with decision makers to advocate for support or funding.

38 Thank you!

39 Webinar Document 1: Librarian stories Webinar Document 2: How to tell library stories Jamie LaRue Jamie LaRue, Director of Douglas County (Colorado) Libraries Robert McKee, author of Story: Substance, Structure, Style and Principles of Screenwriting w.flickr.com/photos/thin nkingdigital/ / Robert McKee Inciting incident > imbalance > protagonist restores balance Patrons main protagonist because they face inciting incident and imbalance Libraries and library staff secondary characters helping restoring balance Understanding of inciting incident = Significance of library's help Two kinds of library stories: with endings, endings unknown

40 Questions and Discussion

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