Category Archives: Local History

Building Community Through Photography

Posted on May 9, 2008 by Elizabeth Thomsen

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)

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Free Archives from Newspapers and Magazines

Posted on April 8, 2008 by Elizabeth Thomsen

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 … Continue reading →

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Library of Congress on Flickr (yet again…)

Posted on January 28, 2008 by Elizabeth Thomsen

Yesterday’s Brainiac column in the Boston Globe, “Everyone’s a historian now,” 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 … Continue reading →

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Library of Congress on Flickr (More)

Posted on January 24, 2008 by Elizabeth Thomsen

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 … Continue reading →

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Library of Congress on Flickr

Posted on January 18, 2008 by Elizabeth Thomsen

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 … Continue reading →

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CardCow : Postcards for Sale (and More…)

Posted on September 29, 2007 by Elizabeth Thomsen

CardCow.com sells vintage postcards and collectibles, worth checking out if you’re interested in adding to your library’s postcard collection. But even if you don’t plan to buy anything, this can be a very interesting site, useful for reference and worth … Continue reading →

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