DSI Success Stories - Streaming Stories Beyond the Divide

Digital Storytelling Institute to present first annual Digi awards; explore content distribution

Two South Los Angeles kids wander into a community library. Nine-year old Darrell and his little sister Dominique return often, adopting the library as a second home. One day, in a fit of rage, Darrell breaks one of the library’s records and disappears…

This story could have ended here. But thanks to the Digital Storytelling Institute, the Southern California Library was able to capture this story on video and can now stream it to a wide audience; not only spotlighting the organization, but also creating an artistic expression of what a library can be to its community.