Author Archives: Elizabeth Thomsen

Hiding Images on the Library Facebook Page

Here’s a simple tip for managing images on your library’s Facebook page. The most recent five images added to your Facebook account display in a row at the top of the page. It’s always the most recent five photos but … Continue reading

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Facebook Status Tagging

Facebook’s status tagging feature is a way to include links from one Facebook page to another. Here’s a status that has a tag in it: The words Massachusetts Library Snapshot Day are blue, and are a link to that project’s … Continue reading

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Two Sites that Turn Your Library Photos into Videos

Here are two sites that make it easy to turn a set of library photographs into a fast and fun video to post on YouTube or share on your library website. How about trying one of these for Massachusetts Library … Continue reading

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Google Tip: Sites with Images

Google has a handy filter that limits search results to sites with images, and displays a selection of the images for each site on the search results page. For many searches, I’m finding that turning this filter on makes it … Continue reading

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Flickr Accounts for Libraries

Flickr announced some revisions to their Community Guidelines today, the most important of which is to allow businesses, non-profits, and other organizations to have an account on Flickr. This is certainly good news for all the libraries who currently have … Continue reading

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Winter Photographs of Your Library

It’s January, and for much of the country that means snow! You may not like to shovel it or drive through it, but snow transforms the landscape, changes the appearance of our buildings, and can make for some beautiful photographs … Continue reading

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