I wholeheartedly agree that stories are incredibly powerful. so this module was super interesting. Libraries play such an important role for not only being a place to find stories but make and share them. I liked the little exercise of what you see as a little kid during the summer at the beginning of lecture and i want to do it with a group now. I saw the old above ground swimming pool and rickety swing set in my childhood backyard. Stories can take so many forms and i think libraries need to support them all whether it be through programing or collection development.<\/p>\n
I got fascinated with human libraries and decided to do my inspiration report on a human library project. I think it is such an incredible way to foster connection in the library and share stories that might not have been told.<\/p>\n
I was also glad to see StoryCorps as a resource with this module. I follow StoryCorps’ social media and always get captured by the videos. Somehow I did not know that they partnered with public libraries so it was cool to see that.<\/p>\n
Using emojis to tell stories was such a fun idea. You can tell so much with just a few of them. I could definitely see a teen group having a blast with a emoji story activity.<\/p>\n
References<\/strong><\/p>\n Arne-Skidmore, E. (2021, April 8). New study on the impact of the Human Library<\/i>. The Human Library Organization. https:\/\/humanlibrary.org\/new-study-on-the-impact-of-the-human-library\/<\/p>\n Dowling, B. (2013, April 26). The human library: Sharing the community with itself – public libraries online. Public Libraries Online – A Publication of the Public Library Association<\/i>. http:\/\/publiclibrariesonline.org\/2013\/04\/human_librar\/<\/p>\n Sharing People\u2019s Stories: StoryCorp Partners With Public Libraries<\/i>. (n.d.). Retrieved August 8, 2026, from https:\/\/americanlibrariesmagazine.org\/blogs\/the-scoop\/sharing-peoples-stories\/<\/p>\n Stephens, M. (2025). Wholehearted librarianship<\/i>. ALA Editions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I wholeheartedly agree that stories are incredibly powerful. so this module was super interesting. Libraries play such an important role for not only being a place to find stories but make and share them. I liked the little exercise of what you see as a little kid during the summer at the beginning of lecture … Continue reading Reflection: The Power of Stories<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":864,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/thethespianlibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/thethespianlibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/thethespianlibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/thethespianlibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/864"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/thethespianlibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/thethespianlibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51,"href":"https:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/thethespianlibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/thethespianlibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/thethespianlibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/thethespianlibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}