Library of Congress Rocks Flickr

Museum 2.0 writes. “About a month ago, the Library of Congress put two sets of photographs (about 3000 images total) up on Flickr. Flickr is a photo-sharing site (learn more here). They didn’t put them up the way you or I put up photos of the family hoe-down; they worked with Flickr for about six months as part of Flickr Commons, a hopefully growing initiative to connect public image collections with this hugely popular photo-sharing and tagging site. Plenty have blogged about the initiative, but what I’m most interested in are the results, and what it means for the way we share collections with visitors both online and onsite.”

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