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You may have seen it in the news a few weeks ago.

The Library of Congress announced that it had uploaded some 3,000 of its old photographs to the popular online photo-sharing service Flickr. Flickr users were asked to “tag, comment and make notes on the images, just like any other Flickr photo, which will benefit not only the community but the collections themselves.”

In other words, the Library of Congress was asking for public help in filling the gaps on photos that were missing key information - such as location, date and who or what was pictured. It’s an example of a phenomenon known as “crowdsourcing,” where an institution outsources a task to the public or a large group of strangers willing to work for free.

Even before the Library of Congress placed its photos on Flickr in January, Beebe Library was uploading its own collection of Wakefield historic images to the library’s Flickr page.
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