Tuesday, 22 March 2011

Use of Flickr in Libraries

Flickr is a photo storage site.  Libraries, local museums and historical societies could use Flickr as a storage device and also a promotional tool.

Albums could be set up for various activites, events and historical images.

[http://www.flickr.com/photos/beebe_library/3808436641/]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/beebe_library/3808436641

I have spent some time searching for an image and have found it very frustrating not to have been able to locate one that is free to use.  The above link shows a young girl holding a craft item that she has made during a holiday programme.  The links to the instructions for uploading an image using flickr seem to be out of date as when I tried to  follow these demos/instructions I was looking at different screens to the ones depicted in the 'lessons'.  I found it very frustrating to use and wonder if it would be of much use other than as a strorage device for your own images to which you would have full access.

2 comments:

  1. I found it frustrating trying to locate an image that I could upload that wasn't covered by copyright. In the end I just added a link.

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