"A Day in the Life...;" Post-holiday display ideas for youth areas; "Intergenerational Programming"

News December 14, 2007 (mp3 file: 4.8 MB, 5:08 min.)
"A Day in the Life...;" Post-holiday display ideas for youth areas; "Intergenerational Programming"

This morning as I was showing some examples to the participants in our Computerside Chat on flickr and photo sharing I thought it might be fun for us to take a page—so to speak-- from Allen County’s “Day in the Life of Allen County, Indiana” book—or, website, actually—and do our own “Day in the Life of SW Iowa Libraries.” I often hear librarians say that people don’t know all that librarians do, and this would be a chance for us to show them. We could all take photos during our day and post them on flickr, where they could all be gathered in the photo pool for a group I’ve created there. It would be good PR for libraries, and give us a chance to work with flickr and see what’s possible.

We also took a look at some third-party tools that you can use with your photos on flickr—there are more of them all the time. You can create items like monthly calendars, posters, collages, magazine covers (wouldn’t that be great for an annual report cover) and trading cards (wouldn’t that be fun for the kids or teens to do, or the library to do; have kids gather all the trading cards you create….) There are so many more possibilities, but “A Day in the Life…” would be good start. I’ll let you know when a date is decided, sometime after the holidays, but get your cameras and your happy smiles ready! --Karen

Links from today's podcast:

• Flickr
• Flagrant Disregard's Flickr Toys
  
• A Day in Allen County, Indiana 2007
  
• SWILSA Youth Services webpage

Book reviewed by Marcia:
Intergenerational programming: a how-to-do-it manual for librarians, by Rhea Joyce Rubin, Neal-Schumann, c1993.