Cardiff Temporary Library by Ben Bore or Rhys Wynne (as he signs his blog)
I have never really used flickr before this. When my yahoo photos account was closed because yahoo wanted the users to move to flickr, I switched all my photos to picasa. I use picasa for my personal photos and I love the map feature and ability to send links to friends and family. I don’t think I would want to share my personal photographs with the entire world but I think this falls back to my desire to keep my private life off the internet.
In my former library, flickr was used as a place to post old program posters, which seemed a little odd since the posters only had month and day and not the year so people might show up expecting a program that occurred years earlier. Clemens and Alcuin libraries of the College of St. Benedict and St. John's University bookcase with links to the catalog for availability is a great way for browsers to find available books without having to go to the library. Flickr would also be a great place to showcase past programs with photos of the event. It is also a good source for ideas for future programming by looking at what other libraries have done. The Library of Congress collection of historic photographs is a really great resource for old pictures. I enjoyed looking at the old photos of Coney Island.
I took the magical tour of flickr. It seems like most other photo sharing/storage sites as it is easy to upload photos through the web, a batch uploader, etc. One feature that would be nice if I took a lot of pictures with my cell phone is the upload by e-mailing to flickr. The interestingness browser is a good place to start finding a picture to blog about. I’m just not so sure about the whole interestingness of all the photos shown for each month. But I guess everyone has different ideas of what is an interesting photo. One photo I found in the interestingness was of a wind farm. I decided to follow the windfarm tag and see where it took me. I saw a lot of interesting photos. And a lot of not so interesting photos. I tried the sort by most interesting but I’m not entirely sure how it sorts by most interesting because the ones I saw were not the most interesting. Perhaps, they really sort by most popular or most comments or something like that.
In my former library, flickr was used as a place to post old program posters, which seemed a little odd since the posters only had month and day and not the year so people might show up expecting a program that occurred years earlier. Clemens and Alcuin libraries of the College of St. Benedict and St. John's University bookcase with links to the catalog for availability is a great way for browsers to find available books without having to go to the library. Flickr would also be a great place to showcase past programs with photos of the event. It is also a good source for ideas for future programming by looking at what other libraries have done. The Library of Congress collection of historic photographs is a really great resource for old pictures. I enjoyed looking at the old photos of Coney Island.
I took the magical tour of flickr. It seems like most other photo sharing/storage sites as it is easy to upload photos through the web, a batch uploader, etc. One feature that would be nice if I took a lot of pictures with my cell phone is the upload by e-mailing to flickr. The interestingness browser is a good place to start finding a picture to blog about. I’m just not so sure about the whole interestingness of all the photos shown for each month. But I guess everyone has different ideas of what is an interesting photo. One photo I found in the interestingness was of a wind farm. I decided to follow the windfarm tag and see where it took me. I saw a lot of interesting photos. And a lot of not so interesting photos. I tried the sort by most interesting but I’m not entirely sure how it sorts by most interesting because the ones I saw were not the most interesting. Perhaps, they really sort by most popular or most comments or something like that.
I decided to search for library signs on flickr. And there were some great signs. The picture I found that I am going to put in my blog is of the temporary library in Cardiff, Wales. [I attempted to add the picture but I can't tell if it is actually in the post or not because it doesn't show up in the preview. It didn't show up so I am going to try to add the copy of the picture I saved.] It’s not a sign but what a great idea for a library exterior. Ben Bore or Rhys Wynne as he signs his blog, the photographer, had a link to his blog post that pointed out the lack of Welsh authors and titles in the mural. I had noticed that the authors were popular ones in this country like Patricia Cornwell, Dan Brown, David Baldacci, etc… The lack of Welsh books didn't register until I read the blog post.
Wow, I guess I had more to say about flickr than I thought I did.
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