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Location

Ballroom

Document Type

Presentation

Start Date

13-5-2019 9:00 AM

End Date

13-5-2019 10:15 AM

Description

Stories—as well as language and words themselves—articulate value, identifying what is significant about our histories and our relationships. In this way, storytelling is a form of power, a way of organizing the world. Technical services work, in turn, does more than create, locate, or describe; it also contributes to an ongoing story libraries communicate to users, a story about how something came to be, a story about power dynamics, and a story of how something is connected to everything.

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May 13th, 9:00 AM May 13th, 10:15 AM

Opening Keynote: Storytelling & Power in Technical Services

Ballroom

Stories—as well as language and words themselves—articulate value, identifying what is significant about our histories and our relationships. In this way, storytelling is a form of power, a way of organizing the world. Technical services work, in turn, does more than create, locate, or describe; it also contributes to an ongoing story libraries communicate to users, a story about how something came to be, a story about power dynamics, and a story of how something is connected to everything.