6. Exploring Flickr. Exercise option 'a'.

I have been reading some of the background information about Flickr and the enthusiastic comments from librarians about how useful a tool it can be for advertising and recording events in the library, communicating with other libraries and providing the opportunity for customers to use Flickr themselves.
I chose not to open my own account because I am one of the few people who does not yet own a digital camera. Having searched in Flickr under the term 'Books,' I found this lovely photo', taken by someone called Bluemarla.She calls it 'Rainbow books.'She's organised her own library by placing books of the same colour together. I didn't ask permission to publish it on my blog but at the end of the URL were the letters 'gif'. I seem to remember reading somewhere that this meant you are allowed to copy the image.
At first I had to think about the old joke where a man comes into the library and asks for,'that new book, you know the one with the red cover.' Colour coding like this wouldn't work on a large scale.It is working for the' 4you' collection, I know. What is really good is the possibility with Flickr to add comments to your photo's and Bluemarla has illuminated some of the books which are particularly interesting.