Flickr

My first foray into flickr was when our library hosted the NSW Biggest Book Club in 2007. As decided in the Readers Advisory Working Group any pics taken on the day would be placed on flickr with the tags: readers day and read @ your library. Luckily the process was relatively simple and I was able to add the pics without too much fuss.

I think what other libraries are doing with flickr are great I particularly like the photographic competitions for teens at Lansing Public Library. Its a great idea to interest teenagers and I wish our library can do something similar. This sort of project reminds me of another great program, I think it was from the Helene Blowers workshop where a library or groups of libraries ran a video comp for teens to make a video about libraries. The winning entry was showcased on MTV, which must have been a great media opportunity for the libraries involved.

Did anyone else remember Helene Blowers mentioning this?

As part of the 'explore' activity I jumped onto flickr and started looking around for an interesting picture to discuss, but there's so many fantastic pictures, finally I settle on this gorgeous mosiac, which was created from the author's favourite pics. I think this is a stunning tapestry of other artists works.

What I love about this is the arrangement of colours, the diversity of subjects, the simplicity of a form shot from a different perspective.

I located this picture by doing a search under the word ''Flickr''. I was curious as to what pictures would have this tag, and this was one of them. Wonderful isn't it, I wish it was available as a poster I would definitely purchase it. Another reason why I picked this is that there's so much there to view that it would take more than one sitting to truly appreciate the beauty of it.

I've noticed that tags have become increasing more popular with social websites, particularly those with huge virtual communities. I think tags are great, even though there is a commonly acknowledged problem with the semantics of tags, they are needed to help drill down to a subject/content, and the benefits are that, more than one tag can be applied to an item. Allowing more chance for the content/subject to be accessed.

Well I'm off to upload pictures of my library with the tags: nswpln2008.