On January 16, 2008, the Library of Congress launched a pilot project on Flickr, the popular photosharing Web site. We invited the public to tag and describe two sets of approximately 3,000 historic photos at http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress.
The Flickr community welcomed us warmly. By asking people for help and by offering broad public opportunity for interaction with collections, the Library struck a chord that fits well with Web 2.0 communities. In the first 24 hours after launch, Flickr reported 1.1 million total views on our account, with 3.6 million views a week later. In mid-March we began to load an additional 50 photos each Friday, with the result that more than 4,000 photos are now in the account. Today, Library of Congress (LC) photos on Flickr are averaging approximately 500,000 views a month and have surpassed the 10 million mark in total views.
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