Flickr

Thanks to the initiative of Michele, our Electronic Services Librarian here at Redwood City Public, our library recently created a photostream on Flickr and added a very nice-looking dynamic link to it from our website. I've posted several photos there which I took at recent library events such as our recent Harry Potter book release party and our Summer Reading Club grand finale event, Bookstock 3. Here's one of my favorite photos from the latter event:


Caption: "This young lady is delighted with the beautiful face painting provided by Project Read volunteer Karen"

One reason I find Flickr and our library's presence there exciting is that it takes our library's online presence beyond the borders of our own website and server, and puts us "out there" into the greater community of the World Wide Web. Call it a form of "virtual outreach," if you will. Something interesting happened when we went live on Flickr: a few members of our community immediately found us and began commenting on our photos and posting their own photos of our library. How cool is that?

Please take a moment to visit our Flickr space.