I admit, I am addicted to Flickr. It's so easy to find pictures about anything and everything. The organizational features of tags, sets and collections allow you to sort your images as finely as you'd like. The community aspect of Flickr is awesome, there are tons of groups you can join to share your pictures with people who share your interests. The photo editing application attached to Flickr, Picnik, is pretty good for quick and dirty editing of images. It's quite easy to use but can be slow to load even on the fast internet connections.
I have two Flickr accounts. One thing I don't like about Yahoo/Flickr is that you can't have two Flickr usernames registered under one Yahoo account. Because I didn't want to add my work pictures to my personal Flickr, I had to create a whole new Yahoo account to keep my pictures separate. This is actually one of the things I like best about Blogger, you can have multiple blogs under one Google username. So I don't have to log out and back in to manage all of my posts and settings. And I made a LOLcat at
BigHugeLabs for everyone to enjoy ;) Featuring my darlings, Lizzie and Mr. Darcy.
We visited in October to check out their RFID system. The trip was actually super informative. It's always interesting to see how other libraries work. It turns out a lot of the things I do in my position are actually handled by their Collection Services department. The most intersting thing about the trip, for me, was to discover that their library actually used Gmail as their email client. If only we could use Gmail! Document sharing, labels, easy searching, and it's free! Anyway, I've created a special set from this visit and added tags to all of the pictures. You can also see a slideshow of some of these images without even leaving this blog, just check out the gadget to the right.
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