This is a fun week, working with pictures and being able to share them with friends using Flickr or Facebook is very easy. Handling pictures used to be complicated in the past because you will have to worry about size, quality, resolution, etc. Now the image sharing services can take care of these issues for us.
Image sharing may be used at my library in the historical collections. We have a Historical Research center and our archives include a wealth of information. Photo sharing can help fill in the gaps when the information is missing.
I like the project the Library of Congress is doing with Flickr and I believe that is probably one of the main applications in a library, although I am sure museums can also benefit from using Flickr for the same reasons listed above.
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