Book
McDowell, Kate. Critical Data Storytelling for Libraries: Crafting Ethical Narratives for Advocacy and Impact. Chicago: ALA Edition, 2025.

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., Chicago: 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.   (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.