Photosharing

As with all the forms of social media we have been looking at, photosharing sites can also be a benefit to libraries. With the popularity of digital cameras on all our mobile devices, sites like Instagram and Flickr have taken off. It seems that if there is something worth (and sometimes not worth) taking a photo of, someone will be there to take it.

So how can a library benefit from photo sharing? Photosharing gives a library a FREE way to share the photos in their collections with the public. Photos that may otherwise be stored away and hardly seen by anyone. As the goal of The Commons – Flickr states “to show your hidden treasures in the world’s public photography archives”.

The other thing that seems to be common with social media sites is that they allow the library to interact with the clients.

Photosharing can also be used by a library to promote events, library services and new books.

So library workers, get snapping 🙂