Friday, February 8, 2008

Thing 4, Flickr time

I had used Flickr a little bit in the past, but I hadn't blogged photos before. The collection at my library has grown considerable over the last year, and I wanted to document the progress. I created a Flickr slideshow, and I e-mailed the link to the faculty on my campus and to the librarians within our system. I paired the link with a copy of the form faculty members can use to request resources.

As a member of a team with 13 librarians spread throughout 5 different states, Flickr has been a nice way for us to share photos of our campuses, libraries, displays, and activities.

I'm hestitant to share many photos on Flickr because of privacy and copyright. I guess I could keep the photos as private, but then I may as well just keep them on my home computer or on a CD. Also, if I were to post pictures of students, could there be problems because they hadn't signed release forms to allow their images to be used online?

I was pleased that when I blogged about two of my Flickr photos, they uploaded with credits to the Flickr user.

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