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Published June 30, 2022 | Version v1
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Digital Storytelling Practices for Specialists in Information Affairs

  • 1. Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts, Ukraine

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One of the directions of the Strategy for the development of librarianship until 2025 is the development of effective communications, which requires the use of modern methods of communication. Storytelling as one of the methods of presenting information has been used for more than a decade in marketing, advertising, copywriting, pedagogy, and journalism.

The purpose of the study is to outline the use of digital storytelling as a new form of communication with users and analysis of the implementation of the optional component “Digital storytelling” in the training program for information professionals.

Realization of the purpose provides performance of such tasks: the analysis of scientific publications on a research theme; acquaintance with the experience of using digital storytelling in the information specialists’ activities, presentation of implementing a selective educational component in the educational process and the formation of competencies corresponding to the professional activities of information specialists.

The research methodology of the study is based on general scientific and special methods. In particular, general scientific principles of systematic and comprehensive cognition and the unity of theory and practice are used. Methods of analysis, synthesis and generalization, content analysis, observation and forecasting are used.

The scientific novelty of the study is to substantiate the feasibility of using digital storytelling methods in libraries, which became the basis for the introduction of the discipline “Digital storytelling” for students majoring in “Information, Archival and Library Affairs” at the Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts.

Conclusions. The importance of libraries’ effective communication and the use of innovative methods of working with users has been emphasized, in particular, the use of storytelling has been suggested. The application of digital storytelling for the realization of the communication function of libraries in the conditions of virtualization of library space has been investigated.

The experience of introduction of the discipline “Digital storytelling” in the educational process is presented, the competencies formed by the discipline are outlined, and their correspondence to the professional activity of information specialists is analyzed.

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