Photos exercise:
I edited my first blog posting to include a photo I took last weekend.

I have tried Flickr and Picassa so did exercise 1 (library photo postings). Here are my comments on some of the sites:

Copenhagen Public Library devoted the first several pages to interior shots of the library; a couple of them needed rotation. Overall, it was not very intriguing. Later pages have events and people and it seems they should have come first, or direct access provided in a more obvious way.

Waterloo Ontario had old postcards and interiors of libraries – interesting, but not tied to that library.

I was underwhelmed by the several that I visited. If this is supposed to be a marketing tool, then it should specifically promote the library and entice people to visit, physically or virtually. For example, if the images were from specific events at the library, that would be better than pictures of library spaces and computers.

One of my personal favorite websites with photos is wunderground.com with great weather pictures. And visitors to the site can vote / rate the photos. The photos tie directly to the main focus of the website, and those who don’t photo can “participate” by rating. This is more controlled that a photobucket approach. Maybe a library could solicit patons' photos of library events and then ask for votes to select the favorite activity.