A Year in the Library April 9, 2007
Posted by Minerva in Flickr, Web2.0, libraries.trackback
Now you have a reason to do a bit of sprucing up at your library. Libraryman Michael Porter has started the 365 Library Days Project on Flickr. The commitment is to upload 365 images over the course of one year from “in, around or about the library you work in, for and/or with.” Tag these images 365libs and they become part of that Flickr group. Also be sure to use a common tag to identify your own library so that these pictures can be grouped for your own use.
It will be interesting to see over the course of a year how some libraries resemble one another, and how some libraries differ from day to day. Maybe it will give you some ideas for new events and services. (“You mean that’s all we do in a year!”) Then there are other benefits, as Porter describes:
Just imagine what a valuable historic document you could create for your library with this project! And while you’re at it, at the end of your year commitment, you could contact your local newspaper and tell them about the project, where they could do a story and print selected pictures that you took over the year. Such a substantive advocacy project! It would demonstrate in very real ways, ways that get lost to many people in your community, that you and your library are doing important work every day of the year!
Just make sure your photo album contains more than pictures of sleeping students and incorrigible children running all over the place.
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