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Flickr Teams with Library of Congress
February 14, 2008 12:51 PM | GeneralMollie Pherson, LSTA Project Librarian
Every day, I walk past my stack of Newsweek magazines sitting on my computer desk waiting to be read. Yesterday, I decided to pick one up and browse through the articles. While looking at the Popularity Index section in the front of the magazine, a title really caught my eye: "The Way We Lived," an article discussing how Flickr.com and the Library of Congress are teaming up to find out more information about historical photos. Because it was only a snippet and the article wasn't in the magazine, I did some searching and was able to find the article. How Cool! I mean, the Library of Congress, the nation's oldest federal cultural institution, teaming up with Flickr, a Web 2.0 photo management application, is truly amazing! The two super powers created "Flickr Commons," a space full of 3,115 Library of Congress archival photographs where Flickr users can tag the images and hopefully provide more information about the photos. Very interesting! Collaboration is key in the library field, and regardless of the type or size of your organization, it's important to be aware of the give-and-take relationships you can create to help serve your goals.
