Our library has an Instagram profile, and I think it's a good way to present new and propably surprising angles on our services to all of our 409 followers :-)
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| Presentation of e-books in the pedestrian street. |
I am familiar with Instagram, even have my own sleeping account, so I'm going to have a closer look at Flickr.
I agree that the fact that you have to open a Yahoo-account and give a telephone number seems an unnecessary hurdle to using the service.
I didn't try the app, but the website feels rather heavy to work with. To me it feels more like a semi-professional photo database than a social media. I would go there to find photos for a purpose, not just to pass time like on Instagram.
As tools for libraries who want to engage with their user, I can't decide one is better than the other. But I think it's important that libraries are present on the visual, social media - often pictures tell our stories much better and faster. And if the photoes are good and creative enough, they wake peoples' curiousity and that's what we need.
I found a couple of creative common photos of The Royal Library in Copenhagen, the building is called the black diamond.
Good point. When it comes to libraries, a picture definitely paints a thousand words. Particularly when it comes to showing that we aren't just about books #rudai23
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