One Small Step from StoryCorps: Opportunity for Libraries
One Small Step (OSS) is a program that makes it easier to talk to and understand your neighbors, even ones that you might not agree with. OSS provides participants opportunities to share their experiences in many ways while also creating space for people to exercise their curiosity about their neighbors. Meaningful interactions and experiences across difference helps build understanding and respect among community members.
StoryCorps invites library staff to join a special year-long program that will help strengthen connections and understanding in their communities. As part of a select group of ten librarians, you’ll work with StoryCorps to develop and test a range of flexible One Small Step-style programming – from simple self-guided activities to more structured group experiences. These might include community message boards, listening stations, reflection cards, facilitated discussions, or other programming. Programs can be adapted to any library’s capacity and community needs.
In this hourlong webinar, StoryCorps and OSS coordinators will tell our libraries about the OSS year-long community of practice for libraries, invite us to participate, and answer our questions about what this might look like in our local context.
More information about the OSS year-long program for libraries including the application info can be found at this Google Doc. Bring your questions to the webinar or email Cristy Moran, Adult Library Services Senior Consultant, at moran_c@cde.state.co.us
StoryCorps is committed to the idea that everyone has an important story to tell and that everyone’s story matters. Our mission: to help us believe in each other by illuminating the humanity and possibility in us all — one story at a time. Since our founding in 2003, we’ve helped nearly 700,000 people across the country have meaningful conversations about their lives. These recordings are collected in the U.S. Library of Congress and in our online archive which is now the largest single collection of human voices ever gathered.