The Flickr tutorial was pretty interesting. It didn't take me long to find the coolest picture ever.
www.flickr.com/photos/whitebeard/2755443134/in/pool-librariesandlibrarians
The benefits of Flickr are obvious. It gives libraries a cost effective means of marketing and advertising. I personally always like to visit the websites of other libraries to see what types of programming and events they have, and pictures give a better idea of what is going on.
We don't have that much programming going on in our library (except for story times) but we do take pictures when we can. Usually only the local newspaper gets to publish these photos (our library currently does not publish a newsletter), and newspaper photos are not always the best (especially in a small rural town).
As mentioned in the article for this module, there are so many laws governing the use of images today and many people have no idea that they exist. According to the article, when using sites such as Flickr, one must be careful to not violate the rights of any individual by posting his or her photograph without permission.
So on the one hand, Flickr is great, and on the other hand Flickr is not so great.
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