Flickr

Flickr is the first of the 23 Things that I have positively enjoyed. It's easy to browse and as my special interest is children's literature, I decided to look at children's book illustration. There are some beautiful images here - the one above is from a collection of images called Golden Legacy: Original Art From 65 Years of Golden Books and posted by spike55151. This was an exhibition mounted by the National Center for Children's Illustrated Literature presenting a public showing of original illustrations from the American picturebook series, Little Golden Books, which was launched in 1942. Master's students in the Faculty of Education studying children's literature might well find it useful and interesting to be able to access a wide range of illustrations, although the bibliographic details of the books from which the illustrations come are often incomplete, if they are suppied at all, which would limit the usefulness of the images.

I can see that more generally that images from Flickr could be used in all sorts of ways to make library guides, handouts, posters etc. more appealing and attractive. People might even read them then...