Hi Everyone,
I love pictures and am quite a visual person, so loved this week's topic. I was inspired by everyone's arty looking blogs so decided to jazz mine up a bit. I uploaded a picture I created last year of myself as a Simpsons character (Dom will remember this well -- it was quite a craze among SCA staff!) So this is me: Kate Simpson.
Back on topic, I use Flickr a lot and could lose myself in it for hours if I allowed myself. I use the Creative Commons limit to find images to include in PowerPoint presentations, and recently used it to find a profile picture for my LibGuides account.
One thing that really annoys me about Flickr, however, is the random way people assign tags to their own photos. Sometimes the tags bear a tenuous relation to their subject, which makes it difficult to get relevant results! (I guess this is the 'control freak' librarian coming out in me). It is still fun browsing photos even if they aren't relevant, however.
Mashups look very cool. I think the library could use mashups in a number of ingenious ways. For instance, you could combine images of the library and its contents with Google Maps to give library users a virtual tour of the campus (I actually stole this idea from an article I read a few months ago -- I can't remember the author unfortunately... I guess that constitutes plagiarism...)
Anyway, I think it's great that people can legally share, reuse and remix creative material. It makes for a more interesting cyberworld.
Cheers,
Kate
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Yes, tags. People rave about them but give me a well crafted catalogue with well thought out subject headings any day! And that's the cataloguer in me talking. Julanne
I was going to comment on your Simpsons avatar but thought the RSS post wasn't relevent. Yay! Go the Simpsons pictures!
I like your (borrowed!) thinking about using iomages of the library and mashing them with maps. You could take this a step further and incorporate these images into a podcasts (for example the Fisher library podcast tour), so people can view these images on their ipods, while they take the physical tour.
Good idea Astrosloth!
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