The Library of Congress has just released a report on its initial months of experience in making a portfolio of photographs available to the public via the Flickr photo-sharing service. This is a fascinating project that helps to illuminate the ways in which interactions between cultural memory organizations and audiences around collections are changing in the digital environment, and I think that the report will be of interest to many CNI-announce readers. Both a summary and full report, along with other material on the project, are available at:

Introduction - Photographs on Flickr from the Library of Congress Collections - Research Guides at Library of Congress

This guide provides information about the Prints & Photographs Division's partnership with Flickr, which started in 2008.

My thanks to Caroline Arms for the pointer to this work.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI