[Web4lib] RE: Flickr

[Amy Rudersdorf]

Hi Ray:

I did a presentation at Computers in Libraries in April about the 
experience I've had with Flickr and the Special Collections materials 
we've posted to our site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ncsu_scrc/

We've been up and running now for about 6 months, and while we only have 
45 images up, we've had over 1,000 hits to our little site and about 10% 
of those hits push through to our digital collections pages on our 
library website. Again, these aren't staggering numbers, but they are 
just one more way for us to get the word (image?) out about our 
collections to a population that might not be familiar with library 
collections databases, but IS familiar with sites like flickr, facebook, 
and myspace.

I've also had several communications with users who have left comments, 
and in a few cases, have updated records based on user input.

The overhead has been pretty low and the payoff pretty good, actually.

Cheers,
Amy

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Amy Rudersdorf
Digital Technologies Librarian
Special Collections Research Center
North Carolina State University

email: amy_rudersdorf at ncsu.edu
phone: 919.513.1188
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