Flickr And Libraries

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Flickr and Libraries: Using a Photosharing Tool to Promote and Enhance Library Services Dr. Curtis R. Rogers Communications Director, SC State Library May 16, 2008

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PPT for 2008 LIBRIS Conference held in Florence SC, May 16th, 2008.

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Flickr and Libraries: Using a Photosharing Tool to Promote and Enhance

Library Services

Dr. Curtis R. RogersCommunications Director, SC

State LibraryMay 16, 2008

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What we’ll cover

• How to sign up with flickr (works with Yahoo account)

• Look at the social networking components and other functions of flickr

•See what libraries are doing in flickr

•[Discussion/Q&A] ask a question at ANY TIME!!!

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Free accounts• 100 MB per calendar

month• 3 sets• Views limited to 200

most recent images• Post any photos in up

to 10 group pools

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PRO accounts• Unlimited photo uploads (20MB per

photo)• Unlimited video uploads (90 seconds

max)• Unlimited storage• Unlimited bandwidth• Unlimited photosets• Archiving of high-resolution original

images• The ability to replace a photo• Post any of your photos or videos in up

to 60 group pools• Ad-free browsing and sharing • View count and referrer statistics

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Social Networking

Comment on images

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Groups

Discussions

Pools

Library image collections

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2449487322/

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Thank you!

Dr. Curtis R. RogersSC State [email protected]@yahoo.com

http://curtisrogers.blogspot.com/

803-734-8928