Social media: here's why

Do you find yourself having to convince your colleagues or those in management of the benefits of social media in your library? Then this blog post is the one to use as ammunition. It's a guest post by Michelle Springer on the Library of Congress blog, in which she talks about the success of the Library of Congress Flickr project.

"The Commons loudly invited people to “help describe the world’s public photo collections,” she says. "Over a thousand records in the Prints and Photographs online catalog have been enhanced with information from the Flickr Commons community. More accurate and detailed information in our catalog, with links to interesting histories, makes the pictures not only easier to find but easier to understand. The interactions with our photos are remarkably varied-ranging from the practical (corrected spellings and dates) to the imaginative."

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