Photo sharing is one of those Web 2.0 technologies that I had not investigated before this course. I have viewed photos of family and friends on Flickr but had not set up my own account or thought about any professional uses. Reading about the Library of Congress project was quite interesting. There does seem to be a lot of potential for going beyond posting images on static web pages. The added value of social tagging holds quite a bit of promise, something I learned in Week 4 with social bookmarking.
At this point, we do not have any plans at our library to use photo sharing. But perhaps in the future we could take some of our unique historical materials, such as our Selected Bibliographies of North Carolina Health Professionals, and link them to images or photos in a shared public space. I imagine that would greatly enhance access beyond just posting them to our web pages
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