Kate McDowell
@katemcdowell23.bsky.social
Data Storytelling for Libraries. DSTL https://uiucdstl.wixsite.com/uiucdstl
Storytelling as information research; data storytelling; social justice storytelling; and what library storytelling can teach information science about data storytelling.
Storytelling as information research; data storytelling; social justice storytelling; and what library storytelling can teach information science about data storytelling.
Reposted by Kate McDowell
FYI, I collected links to what the IMLS funds in most of each of the US states and they're in here so you can know on a state and sometimes even local level what is going to be severely impacted very very soon.
DOGE has just completely gutted the IMLS, firing all staff, closing down their email addresses, and leaving any funding for 2025 in question.
bookriot.com/imls-gutted/
bookriot.com/imls-gutted/
The Institute for Museum and Library Services Was Just Gutted
DOGE fired all IMLS employees and closed down their emails. It is assumed all funding for 2025 coming from the federal agency will not be happening.
bookriot.com
March 31, 2025 at 9:22 PM
FYI, I collected links to what the IMLS funds in most of each of the US states and they're in here so you can know on a state and sometimes even local level what is going to be severely impacted very very soon.
Reposted by Kate McDowell
MORE: Senators Jack Reed, Lisa Murkowski, Kirsten Gillibrand, & Susan Collins all joined the letter to the interim director of IMLS.
Library advocates are making their voices heard.
Congress is listening.
ALA applauds this bipartisan action. Read our full statement: www.ala.org/news/2025/03...
Library advocates are making their voices heard.
Congress is listening.
ALA applauds this bipartisan action. Read our full statement: www.ala.org/news/2025/03...
March 26, 2025 at 11:27 PM
MORE: Senators Jack Reed, Lisa Murkowski, Kirsten Gillibrand, & Susan Collins all joined the letter to the interim director of IMLS.
Library advocates are making their voices heard.
Congress is listening.
ALA applauds this bipartisan action. Read our full statement: www.ala.org/news/2025/03...
Library advocates are making their voices heard.
Congress is listening.
ALA applauds this bipartisan action. Read our full statement: www.ala.org/news/2025/03...
Petitions can't hurt. sign.moveon.org/petitions/te...
Tell Congress: Resist Trump and MAGA's Project 2025 every step of the way
We will resist Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans every day, starting now.
We know what we’re up against. Trump and MAGA Republicans have already shown us their playbook. And Project 2025—their “180-d...
sign.moveon.org
February 6, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Petitions can't hurt. sign.moveon.org/petitions/te...
Do a dissertation on AI if you must, but don’t come to a storytelling expert and start explaining what you assume data storytelling is without even having read her work. First of a wave of students who believe that because it’s AI, I am going to care? Hope not. And they did not know what “LLM” was…
February 4, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Do a dissertation on AI if you must, but don’t come to a storytelling expert and start explaining what you assume data storytelling is without even having read her work. First of a wave of students who believe that because it’s AI, I am going to care? Hope not. And they did not know what “LLM” was…
My friends in the federal government strive against the odds to provide information that is accurate, mostly through libraries as institutions. How about you?
What do your friends & family in the federal govt do?
Mine:
* Treat veterans' brain injuries
* Inspect meat for parasites
* Ensure hospitals & nursing homes are safe
* Fund scientists working on cancer cures
This isn't obscure or wasteful stuff. It is fundamental to life as we know it in the US.
Mine:
* Treat veterans' brain injuries
* Inspect meat for parasites
* Ensure hospitals & nursing homes are safe
* Fund scientists working on cancer cures
This isn't obscure or wasteful stuff. It is fundamental to life as we know it in the US.
Government employees are your neighbors, your friends, and loved ones. They do the work of the Federal Government so that we can enjoy beautiful National Parks, feel safe due to efforts in the US and abroad, eat safe food, and a million other things we don’t even think about in our daily lives.
February 3, 2025 at 11:37 PM
My friends in the federal government strive against the odds to provide information that is accurate, mostly through libraries as institutions. How about you?
Please contact your Congress people today. Ask them to use every possible means to stop the president from freezing all federal public grants.
You can specifically ask all of them to use every lever, procedural or otherwise, to protest the freezing of funds.
You can specifically ask all of them to use every lever, procedural or otherwise, to protest the freezing of funds.
January 28, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Please contact your Congress people today. Ask them to use every possible means to stop the president from freezing all federal public grants.
You can specifically ask all of them to use every lever, procedural or otherwise, to protest the freezing of funds.
You can specifically ask all of them to use every lever, procedural or otherwise, to protest the freezing of funds.
Highly recommend this podcast: www.fascismbarometer.org
The Fascism Barometer | Podcast and Learning Hub hosted by Ejeris Dixon
www.fascismbarometer.org
January 21, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Highly recommend this podcast: www.fascismbarometer.org
“The center holds so they say / It never held too well for me / I won't stop short for common ground / That vilifies the trodden down / I won't stop / The center held the bonded slave / For the sake of industry / The center held the bloody hand” —Indigo Girls
January 19, 2025 at 5:42 PM
“The center holds so they say / It never held too well for me / I won't stop short for common ground / That vilifies the trodden down / I won't stop / The center held the bonded slave / For the sake of industry / The center held the bloody hand” —Indigo Girls
National library advocates know what’s going on, book banning and misinformation campaigns are just the start. Sustaining US federal, state, and local library funding will take every citizen speaking up.
January 15, 2025 at 4:53 PM
National library advocates know what’s going on, book banning and misinformation campaigns are just the start. Sustaining US federal, state, and local library funding will take every citizen speaking up.
Reposted by Kate McDowell
We're down to the wire here, but the UW Center for an Informed Public is taking applications for (2) postdoctoral scholars. Review starts very soon. For more info about these positions, including qualifications & instructions for applying:
Read more: lnkd.in/g6q_spek
Job posting: lnkd.in/gJ7x5Zwk
Read more: lnkd.in/g6q_spek
Job posting: lnkd.in/gJ7x5Zwk
January 15, 2025 at 4:16 PM
We're down to the wire here, but the UW Center for an Informed Public is taking applications for (2) postdoctoral scholars. Review starts very soon. For more info about these positions, including qualifications & instructions for applying:
Read more: lnkd.in/g6q_spek
Job posting: lnkd.in/gJ7x5Zwk
Read more: lnkd.in/g6q_spek
Job posting: lnkd.in/gJ7x5Zwk
Data storytelling for libraries fuels the functioning of local democracy. If you are in Illinois or Michigan and belong to the state library organizations, there are free talks for you on January 13 and 19th!
January 6, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Data storytelling for libraries fuels the functioning of local democracy. If you are in Illinois or Michigan and belong to the state library organizations, there are free talks for you on January 13 and 19th!
Seven students signed up for the library impact stories research opportunity in spring! It will be great to have a team to do more testing and development of the DSTL: Data Storytelling Toolkit for Libraries uiucdstl.wixsite.com/uiucdstl
November 12, 2024 at 4:00 AM
Seven students signed up for the library impact stories research opportunity in spring! It will be great to have a team to do more testing and development of the DSTL: Data Storytelling Toolkit for Libraries uiucdstl.wixsite.com/uiucdstl