Mappr and Trading Cards (Exercise #6)

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Originally uploaded by aahb21.

Though it seems to run a little slow, I was really intrigued with the Mappr program. My fiancé is obsessed with the Google Earth program. Mappr could enhance something like Google Earth by adding personal pictures as well as official maps and satellite pictures. It seems like it might have some really fun and interesting possibilities. If you had a particular kind of hobby or something, it would be interesting to see who else in the country has posted pictures on the hobby.

I was going to create a library trading card, but since several of the other blog participants have included pictures of their cats, I just couldn't resist including a picture of my cat. I had fun imagining making a whole line of cat trading cards. I can see though how trading cards of library staff at a library could be a good promotional kind of thing. You could post the trading cards around the library and the website to make the staff more visible.

Fabulous Flickr Fun (Exercise #5)

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Originally uploaded by aahb21.

I can't help breaking into alliteration from time to time. I was familiar with Flickr before and didn't find it terribly hard to use. In the past I used a website called Photobucket to post pictures. I like websites that let you post pictures because I always feel bad when I e-mail pictures to friends. I'm worried that it's too big of an attachment and whether or not they can open it up. Things like Flickr save you that problem.

I like the tag option. It's fun to see what kinds of pictures you can find on different tags. I wonder what a cataloger would think of these tags as a way to organize this information.

I posted a couple of pictures of my library (Strozier Library at Florida State University) on my Flickr account. Even though I don't think our building is terribly beautiful, it's one of the better pictures that I took, so that's why I'm including it.