Flickr and other photo sharing tools are awesome in allowing one to share photos and send them to others. Having always relied on the traditional backup means, I had not thought of Flickr as an additional means to storing and safeguarding photos. Tagging photos is a much more effective way to ensure you are able to find a particular photo in the future.
Libraries are able to use photos in a variety of ways as long as care is taken to get permission of individuals captured in photos. A library could create a virtual tour or it could also use photos in a presentation teaching a particular library or computer skill. Libraries can push out favorable publicity for any number of functions it holds from a children's story time to an event for seniors to a ground-breaking of a new library. Photos can, of course, convey a lot more easily many things text can not: the joy of a child's discovery of a book, the look and feel of the resources available in a particular location, and fun that a teenager might be having at a library event. With some guidance any volunteer or staff member could help take photos and share them online. How wonderful for library management or a member of the library's friends group to see pictures of an event they might otherwise not have been able to attend.
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