Thing 5

Image generators sure are fun. Anyone who works with images at the library can put them to good use. I'm not sure of the trading card idea as I see it getting quickly out of hand ("I'll trade you five Phil Eskews for one Burl Cooper," or a series called Superstars of the PCC.) The limitation is that the templates aren't always what you might desire but if Photoshop is unavailable it's a quick and dirty method to create functional design.

Statue of Henry Clay ©mightyquinnwky

Thing 4:Flickr

FLICKR certainly does fill one with ideas and despair all at once. Like, with the world being flooded with digital images who is going to look at all these pictures? It's the same feeling I get in major art museums: One great painting deserves all my attention for as long as I can give it, a hundred great paintings just wears me out. More importantly, FLICKR seems like a waystation instead of a destination. By this I mean that in 5 or 10 years we'll be accomplishing the same thing but in a different manner (although, I suppose learning the steps it takes to get there is useful). That said, it's a great resource and just the thing we need to know to help our patrons, not to mention using as a tool to maintain contact and inform others in our community. The ways other libraries are using FLICKR are interesting but I'm not sure I'd have the patience to search out books this way.

Autumn fog