For months, nay years, I’ve been running around talking about how a library website should have all the earmarks of a branch library: materials, librarians, reference service, and programming. I finally got a chance to put my money where my mouth is.

This is Children’s Book Week and to celebrate I invited our staff to pose for photos with their favorite kids books. Then, in flickr, I added all the photos to our Manchester City Library flickr pool and then created a badge on the website for all photos in that pool and tagged with ‘cbw’ will show in the badge.

A blog post invites patrons with a flickr account to take a photo, add it to the group, and tag it appropriately in order to be part of the children’s book parade on our website. No one has done so yet, but I’m extremely hopeful… I don’t see why you would have to be a resident of Manchester so please, if you’re moved, join in!

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