National Library Flickr photos
The National Library has a good collection of photos on Flickr. The image at left is a screenshot from their Edmund Hillary collection.
Flickr automatically provides RSS feeds too, so it’s easy to subscribe to the National Library’s photo feed and keep up with what’s being added. Below is a screenshot from my feedreader, NetNewsWire, showing one image, along with its description. Following photos in a newsreader like this, is very similar to reading email.
They have almost 400 photos online at the moment, and seem to be adding more regularly.
Flickr offers so much more than just displaying photos. Users can add comments and notes, tag photos, click through to other photos added on the same date, see events placed on a map, add favourites and so on.
They even provide a graph showing how many visitors they’ve had. Good job, National Library!
The Library say:
The purpose of the National Library is to enrich the cultural and economic life of New Zealand and its interchange with other nations.
We are posting a small selection of our collection images onto Flickr as a pilot. We hope to see that this helps people discover new material.
Has your community organisation experimented with Flickr yet? It offers many possibilities for increasing interaction with your members and the general public. How about giving it a try. We’d love to see your feedback here.
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February 19, 2008 2 Comments
