Photo Sharing

The exercise this week was great. I didn't realize at all that the Library of Congress had a Flicker site. I sent this on to my brother who is a HUGE sports history buff. He thought it was really "cool". Uploading and sharing the pictures is really easy. I use Photobucket and Kodak Gallery to share pictures and videos of my son. It is easy once you figure out how it works. Of course I can't get the grandparents to understand they can go to the library to look at the pictures. They would rather wait to get the videos and pictures in the mail from us. The rest of the family loves them but a lot of businesses block the pictures.

Libraries can really utilize this technology to establish the friendly face. Have staff directories with faces. Of course several people mentioned stalking. So there may be concerns there. But if someone works in the public setting then there is always the chance someone will grow obsessed with them. I think what LC has done with flicker really shows how this technology could be harnessed to make Archives better. I wish now that I had this technology back when I was still a single librarian in the hospital. I could have used this to digitize our Archives.