Friday, July 11, 2008
Flickr
It isn't hard to find yourself spending more time than you should searching for photos on different subjects. After looking at photos from favorite vacation spots I pulled up lots of pictures of the small town library of my youth that the library posted on Flickr. They had pictures of renovations, programs, material displays, the children's area, the teen "portal" (very cool), volunteer luncheon, even pictures of staff at the Checkout desk. It would be great to have a link from our homepage to Flickr and tags on the pictures that lead back to our homepage. Great way to keep the community informed and enthused about a renovation project. I think people would love to see pictures of the daily progress inside EDG when it is closed and we are replacing the carpet. Pictures of great programs might encourage people to attend future programs. The pictures on our Programming Blog are terrific and do more than any description to showcase the fun to be had at the library. How about pictures of adults, teens, children, politicians, community leaders, holding their favorite book? They might not want to take the time to write a review but would be willing to have a photo taken and shared. Those that wanted could post their picture and tag us and we could tag them.
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3 comments:
OMGoodness, the patron-with-a-book photo idea is priceless! You're so write, asking someone to write a review sounds like assigning homework. But a picture would just be like our own special "READ" posters. Yes, we should totally do that...who do we talk to about that?
I second the motion to start our own "READ" posters on Flickr. What a fabuous idea! Actually, I think staff should have pictures, too, a visual Staff Recommends. Let's do it!
Haven't viewed my blog in a while-thanks for your comments orangerful and ratherbereading! There are a lot of great RA ideas using 2.0 out there. LRP Committee will have to talk about using Web 2.0--there are so many great ideas in these blogs---and this should certainly be one of them.
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