To be perfectly honest I didn’t find much to learn with this lesson, since I already looked at the help menu in Flickr and read up on tags after creating an account. Perhaps Thing 21 was to catch those people who jumped right into Flickr (and maybe created a Flickr account) without looking too deeply into what makes Flickr’s searches work. And that is tags (presumably).
Tagging your pictures allows you to organize your pictures with descriptive tags and to search for particular pictures because of their subject matter (hence, tags). In the bigger context of the Flickr community, tagging allows your pictures to get grouped with other similar pictures based on themes and location. The Flickr community is different from other photosharing websites because members can add tags, comments and descriptions to another’s pictures.
I wasn’t too impressed with the “10 Ways to Use Flickr in Your Library” article, except maybe for the idea of the virtual tour of the library. That would be a way to market the library (and let the VA residents who don’t know the library discover it). The idea of “highlighting new materials” seems like a waste of time, and doesn’t work too well with our procedure of sending new materials to fulfill holds….unless Collection Management or Cataloguing would take the pictures before sending them to all the libraries. My only concern with posting library pictures are any including customers. How would a parent feel knowing that we have a picture of their child posted on the internet for all to see? Flickr would be good for publicity, but not for the resulting headache of jumping through all the privacy hoops.
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