4. Empathy Meaningful
ContextMemorable
Reflective
Reassess and
reconstruct
Building Blocks for Using
Stories
• Touchstone ideas
• Moon (2010) - they are an
attractive carrier of
information
• McDrury & Alterio (2003) -
helps the listener to re-
assess and reconstruct
their world view
• An agent for change –
promotes change in the
mind
Grass roots type of impact
Great if you actually want to find out what impact there is at all in what you do!
In Cambridge a current strategic focus is to refer to all libraries ALL the time as ‘Cambridge Libraries’ or ‘the library community’ – The stories or narrative that are sued to consistently sell that impactful statement are many an varied – for example – did you know that Cambridge libraries teach more than 5000 students hours a year, or did you know that Cambridge Libraries are using Alma, etc etc. Stories deliberately used as a ploy to consistently embed the impact you want.
Eg Twitter – consistent strategy for ARLG. I will re-tweet and occasionally comment on about 10 tweets every morning.