Flickr slideshow of a Middle School Bookfair-great way to promote!

I don’t like having to decide between which pictures to post and use for this assignment, so eventually I made it easier on myself and just picked them all.  I used the link provided by our professors: http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/ to create a slide show of all 10.   I currently work as a Children’s Department Manager at a Barnes & Noble, and not a library, I still think that this slide show would be a useful tool for both.  In our class readings for this week.

I remembered reading about a lot of libraries taking the pictures taken at different events; a specific example from Kroski’s Web 2.0 for Librarians and Information Professionals come from the ALA featuring images of volunteers and events.  The “Best Practices” area also recommended “Let[ting] everyone know how much fun the patrons are having over at your library.  Upload snapshots from game nights, book readings, and other special events.  Photo-sharing Web sites are fantastic marketing tools that offer you the chance to put the spotlight on your users” (Kroski 75).

Though my event did not happen within a library, it easily could have, or the book fair could have been in support of a local library.  Creating a small slide show with images of students, their families, and reptiles (large and small) would stir interest in a library’s website that featured it.  A librarian taking pictures could announce that images would be posted on Flickr, tagged with the name of the school,  while the event is going on.  Then, parents and students would want to see if their picture was posted, and others seeing the fun and large turnout from this night might be more likely to attend future book fairs in support of the library in the future.  If any parents or children had an issue to their image being posted they would contact the library site (or post-er of the pictures) and any images would be taken down.

Here’s my slide show! (be careful if you’re afraid of snakes!)

*note*

On this night I, as the Children’s Department Manager, had a camera and took pictures with the full permission of the school principal, and had no complaints from any parents or children.  The principal had forgotten his own camera and was very grateful when I burned him a cd of all the images I took.