Thing 4 - Picture Sharing

I already have a personal account on several of the common picture sharing sites, including Flickr, Photobucket and Shutterfly and am very familiar with navigating these sites and using them. So for this exercise of learning about picturing sharing sites, I chose to go to some of the links to various library photo sharing sites to look at it from a professional angle. Across the board, I will say that I am impressed at all of the libraries for venturing into this world. However, some of them definitely do it better than others. The one that I was most impressed with was the Alexandrian Public Library in Mount Vernon, IN. They seemed to have photos of every event in their library, big and small, and the photos were all organized into clearly labeled albums/sets. By contrast, the Marathon library photos were also well organized, however there were much fewer of them, and they definitely did not seem to represent all of the events or photographable moments at that library. So while that library seems to be trying to enter into the photo sharing world,they clearly need to better integrate either photo taking or photo sharing as part of their regular tasks.