Using the internet to record some of your life and places of interest to you for posterity is the way of the future. According to the Online Photosharing in Plain English video from Commoncraft, it is better than the traditional method of printing photos and placing in photo albums. Tagging of digital photos makes them easy to search for and locate compared to the good old fashioned photo album from the shelf! Just as I had gotten used to downloading my SD Card photos into folders on my computer and creating hard copy backups on CD, life changes again!
Venturing on to Flickr as suggested, I searched for Mosman Library and was pleasantly surprised at how simple it is find photos of interest. I also searched for my public library in, "Rockhampton" a
nd discovered some interesting photos of the original public library, the "School of Arts" as well as some of our newly built library. Very impressive!The Creative Commons project sounds very interesting and wonderful for its enabling access to rare photos from around the world and for the collaborative efforts that ensure its survival.
My favourite photo (shown at left) from Flickr is of the La Trobe Reading Room in the State Library of Victoria. I visited this amazing place last year on holiday in Melbourne and I thought to myself, this is a "real library"! It had a real sense of nostalgia and presence with the beautiful domed ceiling and old books lining the walls, along with the leather topped desks! I like this photo because of the angle. It gives an interesting perspective of the room from the desk level looking up!
(photo taken by Muhammadldris)
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