I found this image on Flickr, posted by Flickr user pinksnapper , of the library I grew up using in my hometown of Northampton Massachusetts. It looks alot like it did when I was little, although there were no gateposts by the driveway then. The entrance to the "children's room" is on the right-hand side of the photo near the driveway...I remember winning a summer reading award contest there. It was a big deal when I was old enough to use the main library and go in the front entrance...and in high school, I had to have my parents' permission to take D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover out of "the cage", a locked part of the stacks. I wonder if "the cage" still exists?!
Flickr seems like a lot of fun to use. I'm not a photographer and don't really like taking pictures, but I like to look at other people's photos. And I like the multiple ways of tagging, or indexing, in Flickr; there is the potential here to get lost here floating from one set of photos into another. This session took me alot longer than 20 minutes to complete...I'm going on an hour here, with exploring Flickr, listening to the podcast with Pam, figuring out how to upload a photo and now blogging. I am, however, enjoying myself and will undoubtedly come back to Flickr again.
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