Library of Congress Does flickr

You may have already been posting your own family or vacation photos to flickr. Perhaps you attended one of the NLC flickr training sessions in 2007. Well for those interested in historical photographs take a look at a new project by the Library of Congress. The Library of Congress is making 3,000 images from their most popular collections available on flickr in attempt to do two things; provide better access to their collections and to get better information about their holdings from the public via flickr tools such as tagging, notes and comments. Fabulous! At the Library Commission we will be adding our Carnegie Library photograph collection to flickr. Stay tuned for updates on this project. These are photos that are currently available in our physical archive, in Nebraska Memories, and on our web site, but flickr is one more point of access we can offer and has the added benefit of flickr community tools. Now anyone that runs across a photo can add a comment or tag the photo. We have discovered some Nebraska related images already up on flickr such as this Nebraska history flickr group. Do you know of any Nebraska libraries with historical photos on flickr? Are you planning on adding any of your historical photos to flickr? See what you can find from Nebraska in the Library of Congress collections or elsewere on flickr and use the tagging, note and comment tools to add to the collective knowledge about those images .