Flickr

You probably know that Flickr is a site for sharing photographs, and a great resource for finding photographs of nearly anything you can imagine, or a patron could need. But Flickr is also an excellent consumer resource for anyone interested in buying a new digital camera, or in improving their technical skills with the [...]

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Here’s a fun little Flickr toy to play around with. You enter a short piece of text, and get it back spelled out in photographs, like this example:
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Libraries using Flickr to share photographs sometimes wonder about Flickr’s system of contacts. What are the benefits of making someone your contact? What should you do if someone makes you a contact? Do you need to reciprocate?
Flickr members name each other as contacts to make it easier to see each other’s new [...]

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When you add descriptions to your library images on Flickr, you can include links to your library website or other useful information. For example, the image in this post is a photograph of “The Reader” sculpture by Carolyn Wirth in front of the Melrose Public Library. If you click on the image here [...]

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Library Postcards
Flickr is primarily a site for sharing photographs, but there are lots of scanned historical images there as well. Old postcards are particularly popular, maybe because they are readily available, inexpensive, usually have identifying information, are small in size and easy to scan.
The other great thing about postcards is that they [...]

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A few weeks ago, I wrote a post called Picnik: Easy Photo Editing Online about the online photoediting site Picnik. But I have to write about it again because I keep discovering new features every time I use it.
The big news of the past week was adding Facebook support — which brought over 100,000 [...]

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Flickr badges are an easy way to add Flickr images to your website. Once you’ve added the right snippet of code to your pages, they will display new or random assortments of pictures from your library’s Flickr account. This can be a really easy way to keep your pages looking fresh and interesting, [...]

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If you’re using WordPress for your blog, you’re no doubt familiar with the default theme, Kubrick, with the big blue box header:

Blog Header Generator — If you’d like to keep that theme but use one of your own photographs as a background, try this easy tool from fd’s Flickr Toys collection. You can upload [...]

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Palette Generator — “Automagically create a harmonious color palette from a photograph”
Choosing a palette of colors for your website or for a particular web project is a difficult task for many of us, but here’s something that can really help. Just select a photograph from your Flickr account, your PC, or any webpage, click [...]

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There’s nothing that enhances your library website more than photographs, and whether you’re taking them yourself with a digital camera, hiring a professional or using volunteers, or finding great shots on Flickr, you should have plenty to choose from.
But to make photographs look their best on your pages, a little editing can make a big [...]

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If your library is a member of Flickr, consider taking pictures of all your displays and posting them. It’s an easy way to get a record of what you’ve done, and these are nice content to share with other libraries. Be sure to use the title, description and comments to give some information [...]

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There’s nothing like some well-chosen photographs to add visual interest to your website, and, thanks to Flickr, you have an almost limitless assortment to choose from. If you need pictures of blooming flowers for a gardening booklist, or of the Pyramids for a pathfinder on Ancient Egypt, or of dogs and cats for [...]

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The Motivator, one of many fun and useful tools available from fd’s flickr toys, makes it easy to create digital versions of those motivational posters with the black borders and inspiring words.
The example posted here is one of a series of posters made for National Library Week by students at the [...]

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