I put Flickr to good use yesterday when I uploaded some photos and shared them with my work team. Baker & Taylor took photos of books that are being processed and housed off-site for Snoqualmie's opening day collection. I retrieved the photos from their ftp site, posted them on Flickr and sent a guest pass to members of the ODC team and other interested librarians. Here's one that caught my eye:
I signed up for a Flickr account a few weeks ago in preparation of Library 2.0 training. I was amazed at how easy it was to find great pictures like this one by searching for "orange flowers." Searching with tags helps to filter search results to retrieve only the most relevant items. Imagine if we could filter search results to this level of specificity in our library catalogs!
I am in awe of the generosity of the people who share and tag their photos so that others can find them.
See my previous blog post on the usefulness of mashups.
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