OK – this one is killing several birds with one stone .. or if you live in my slightly-addicted world at the moment, several smug green chuckling pigs with one Angry Bird.

This week I:

• want to play in the October “Tell us a story ” challenge. A mob of Australian librarians who like to learn. Four digital stories each in October. A hashtag – #octshowntell
• am making little videos, with four people who I think are leaders in “hacking the library”, for a presentation next month
• am covering multimedia for information services with my class and want to walk the talk and use multimedia to teach multimedia
• am focusing on Flickr with my students as an example of a worldwide multimedia repository and to give them experience with uploading images, thinking about re-use licensing and to learn how to embed media in another source.

The very generous, very clever Paul Hagon, from the National Library of Australia, cheerfully agreed to let me make a little movie of him talking about one of his projects…. as well as taking a further 20 or so minutes of footage for my presentation.

Paul is retro-geo-coding images from the National Library of Australia and exposing the data on Flickr. There is also a project that is shaping up to let anyone with a smartphone get images and more library-curated information about the spot they are standing on in Australia. In this little move below, Paul talks about the project, how and why the National Library of Australia has used Flickr, possible disadvantages and public reaction to the service.

Thank you Paul – both for giving up part of a Sunday afternoon and for continuing to show how creativity, curiousity and technical skill can inspire people in information services to provide better services for our users.

Paul Hagon talks about the National Library of Australia’s collections and Flickr