Flickr is a way to share photos to the world. With Flickr, libraries can share photos of programming events, demonstrations of services, interiors and exteriors of libraries, and much more. Flickr, while simple to use, offers some very sophisticated services such as posting photos to blogs, RSS feeds, bloging the photos taken with a cameraphone, and much more! According to the web site, Basically, Flickr is what butters the borders between your photos to the people you want to see them. And basic accounts are free!
It is important that South Carolina's libraries keep up with the available technologies and innovations available to them to attract new customers, said Dr. Curtis R. Rogers, Director of the Division of Statewide Services. We need to be able to attract the many teens and other like minded technology-driven customers and further develop our services surrounding their needs.If we don't keep up and attract new customers, we get left behind.
The South Carolina State Library will host a daylong Technology Institute to share with libraries the many new technological innovations available to libraries on September 13, 2006 in Columbia.We hope that many public library staffs will attend and learn about these exciting tools that are more and more becoming a part of our trade.It is important that library administrators keep up with these innovations so they can attract new customers and the ever hard to reach teen population.
The South Carolina State Library's Flickr account is accessible at http://www.flickr.com/photos/scsl/
