Selected Book Chapters
+McDowell, Kate. “Storytelling as/in Misinformation.” In Governing Everyday Knowledge Commons, Melissa Ocepek and Madelyn Sanfilippo eds., Cambridge University Press, 2025.
+McDowell, Kate. “Storytelling, Young Adults, and Three Paradoxes.” In Transforming Young Adult Services, Second edition, Anthony Bernier ed., ALA Editions, 2019.

Selected Journal Articles
(* peer reviewed, + invited)
​2025
Lo Duca, A. and McDowell, K. “Transforming data visualization into data storytelling: The S-DIKW framework.” (2025, March 19). Information Matters, Vol. 5, Issue 3.
2024
*Lo Duca, A. and McDowell, K. “Using the S-DIKW Framework to Transform Data Visualization into Data Storytelling,” Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, online early publication December 24.
*+McDowell, K. “Library Data Storytelling: Obstacles and Paths Forward.” Public Library Quarterly 43:2 (2024) 202–222.
 *McDowell, K. and Turk, M. “Teaching Data Storytelling as Data Literacy.” Information and Learning Sciences, Vol. 125 No. 5/6, pp. 321-345. 
2023   
McDowell, K. (August 10). Library Data Storytelling: Obstacles and Paths Forward." Public Library Quarterly, open access, print date TBA.
McDowell, K.   (June 29). Data Storytelling for Libraries. Library Journal, open access.
McDowell, K. (April 6). “Storytelling dynamics and misinformation: The bad S-DIKW framework.” Information Matters, Vol. 3, Issue 4.
*Brooks, Ian; D’Agostino, Marcelo; Marti, Myrna; McDowell, Kate; Mejia, Felipe; Betancourt-Cravioto, Miguel; et al. “An anti-infodemic virtual center for the Americas.” Rev Panam Salud Publica (March 10, 2023).
 *McDowell, Kate. “Book Stories: 20 Years of Library Book Plate Celebrations.” College and Research Libraries (January 2023).
2022   
*McDowell, Kate, and Nicole A. Cooke. “Social Justice Storytelling: A Pedagogical Imperative.” The Library Quarterly 92 (4) (2022): 355-78 (October 2022).
2021   
​*McDowell, Kate. “Storytelling Wisdom: Story, information, and DIKW.” Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (March 16, 2021).
+McDowell, K. “Storytelling as information part 1: The S-DIKW framework.” Information Matters (October 19, 2021).
+McDowell, Kate. “Storytelling as information part 2: Future S-DIKW research.” Information Matters (October 19, 2021).
2019   
*McDowell, Kate. “Teaching ‘between:’ Reflections on learning inter-organizational collaboration.” Education for Information 35:2 (June 10, 2019): 149-153.
2018   
*McDowell, Kate. “Storytelling: Practice and Process as Non-Textual Pedagogy.” Education for Information 34:1 (January 2018): 15-19.
McDowell, Kate. “Paradoxes of Storytelling in Librarianship.” Journal of New Librarianship (2018): 32-37.
2009   
+*McDowell, Kate. “Surveying the Field: The Research Model of Women in Librarianship, 1882-1898.” Library Quarterly 79, no. 3 (July 2009): 279-300.
2008   
*McDowell, Kate. “Distance and Presence: A Case Study of Performance in Two Online Storytelling Courses.” Storytelling, Self, Society 4, no. 2 (September 2008): 214-234.