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	<title>Elizabeth B. Thomsen &#187; Local History</title>
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		<title>Illustrated Newspapers on Flickr</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:47:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Illustrated Newspaper Supplements &#8212; The Library of Congress has added a great new set to their Flickr Commons account: cover pages from the New York Tribune illustrated supplements, beginning with the year 1909.  These images are from the Chronicling America website, and each image on Flickr has a link to the image page on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DCPL Then and Now Photo Contest</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 16:27:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Thomsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The DC Public Library is using Flickr to run an interesting photography contest.  Photographers choose any of the historic photographs from the DCPL Flickr Commons collection, take a new photograph of the same location, and upload it to the DC Then and Now group which the library set up for the contest.  Participants [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Make Your Own Trading Cards</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 04:48:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Thomsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Teacher Karen Bosch has an interesting post about how her students made their own National Park Trading Cards using the online Trading Card Maker.  Looks like a nice project, a good way to teach the kids to gather and organize information into a concise, defined structure.  The trading card format makes it easy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boston Public Library on Flickr</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 12:05:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Thomsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Boston Public Library is sharing several collections of artistic and historic images to Flickr, including local brewery posters, rare books, manuscripts, postcards, photographs and much more.  
Two collections are of particular interest for local interest to NOBLE libraries.  The Tichnor Brothers postcards of New England includes over 1,800 Massachusetts images, including many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Building Community Through Photography</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 23:28:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Thomsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I did a presentation on this topic at the Massachusetts Library Association conference in Falmouth this morning, and posted the PowerPoint on Slideshare:
Building Community Through Photography
View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: flickr libraries)


Links don&#8217;t work very well in Slideshare, so here is a list of all the links from this presentation:
Migrant Mother

[page 3] [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free Archives from Newspapers and Magazines</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 04:26:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Thomsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More and more newspapers and magazines are making deep archives freely available on the web, dropping requirements for print subscriptions and registration,  making it easy to find the full-text of many well-known and respected publications available online. Richard Pérez-Peña wrote an interesting article called Dusting Off the Archives for the Web for the New [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Library of Congress on Flickr (yet again&#8230;)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:24:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Thomsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday&#8217;s Brainiac column in the Boston Globe, &#8220;Everyone&#8217;s a historian now,&#8221; is about the Library of Congress images on Flickr.  Columnist Joshua Glenn admits that asking the crowd to provide identification and information about these pictures makes him nervous, but notes that &#8220;so far, so good&#8221; and he gives examples of information already provided [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Library of Congress on Flickr (More)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:35:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Thomsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Library of Congress collections on Flickr have gotten a lot of attention and activity since its launch on January 16.  Flickr reported on their blog that in the first twenty-four hours after the launch, users added about 19,000 tags and just over 500 comments.   The Library of Congress reported on their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Library of Congress on Flickr</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 12:34:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Thomsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Library of Congress and Flickr have a new pilot project called The Commons.  Photographs from two of the American Memory collections, 1930s-40s in Color and News in the 1910s, a total of over 3,000 images.  
The first set consists of photographs taken for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) and later the Office [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CardCow : Postcards for Sale (and More&#8230;)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Sep 2007 20:47:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Thomsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CardCow.com sells vintage postcards and collectibles, worth checking out if you&#8217;re interested in adding to your library&#8217;s postcard collection.  But even if you don&#8217;t plan to buy anything, this can be a very interesting site, useful for reference and worth sharing with your users.  They have a lot of postcards for sale, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Smithsonian&#8217;s Database of Outdoor Sculpture (and more&#8230;)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Sep 2007 18:14:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Thomsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a photograph I took of a sculpture of Nathaniel Hawthorne in Salem.  When I added it to Flickr, I wanted to credit the sculptor, but I didn&#8217;t know his name. I decided to try looking this up in SIRIS, a database that I had heard about but had never tried, and I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Library Postcards on Flickr</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2007 01:17:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Thomsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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