You don’t have to be a graphic designer to present your library statistics in a way that effectively communicates value. Learn quick and easy tips for visually displaying statistics that will enable you to tell a powerful story about your library, whether your data visualization aspirations consist of adding a few Excel charts to a board report or designing a complex infographic for your website.

Presented by: Linda Hofschire, Research Analyst, Library Research Service, Colorado State Library

This is an encore presentation from the 2015 Association for Rural & Small Libraries conference.

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Webinar Attachments

• View slides (pdf)
• View chat (xls) 
• View captions (txt)
• Learner Guide (doc) Use alone or with others to extend your learning.
• Infographic Templates (ppt) - Letter and Legal sized

Related Resources and Links

• Library Research Service
• School Libraries and School Achievement Infographic (pdf)
  
• Research Institute for Public Libraries

• Infographic Software:
  • Selection Guide
• Tips and Inspiration:
  • Librarian Design Share
  • Stephanie Evergreen
  • Flowing Data
  • Information is Beautiful
  • Storytelling with Data
• Software Tutorials:
  • LinkedIn Learning
  • Creative Live
• Icon/Image Sources:
  • IconArchive
  • openclipart
  • morgueFile
  • Pexels
  • Pixabay
  • Free Image Resources (collected by WebJunction)
    
• Symbol Font Sources:
  • Modern Pictograms
  • StateFace
  • WebHostingHub Glyphs
  • The Top 15 Free Symbol Fonts
• Fonts:
  • MyFonts
  • Adobe Fonts
  • dafont
• Colors/Palettes:
  • ColourLovers
  • Adobe Color
• Color Blindness: Compliant Color Use
• Chart Selection Guide: Tableau Whitepaper: Which Chart or Graph is Right for You?
• Shared in Chat:
  
  • 5 Sites to Find Color Themes
  • Online chart maker: Piktochart
  • Great place for icons: Noun Project
  • Publisher