Oregon State University Joins Flickr Commons
By way of The Wired Campus from The Chronicle of Higher Education: Oregon State U. Releases Photo Collections to Flickr Commons.
Go Beavs!
What I found most interesting from this article – beyond the fact that OSU is the first University to join The Commons – is a quote from OSU Archives Librarian Tiah Edmunson-Morton:
“These same images sat in our own Flickr account—and people looked at them sort of, but nobody commented on them and nobody tagged them,” said Ms. Edmunson-Morton. “When we launched into the Commons, it was literally shocking: Our first week, we had 15,000 image views. And we hadn’t that many in our other Flickr account, total.” Oregon State’s non-Commons account had been open for seven months.”
You can see the pictures from OSU Archives on flickr at Oregon State University Archives.
Photo credit: Forest Service truck at Oakridge Civillian Conservation Camp F25, Co. 943, Willamette National Forest from flickr user Oregon State University Archives. This photo has no known copyright restrictions.
