Flickr and Irish Libraries

It's been a few weeks since my last post -- I spent time in western North Carolina at Warren Wilson College attending a Celtic week -- Celtic music all week long, from songs in Scottish Gaelic taught by the incomparable folklorist Margaret Bennett to marvelous concerts by the instructors. Then I come back to the library and promptly decide to try to die with a Cold. If I blogged I felt it would sound grumpy or whiney, pertaining to how I felt at the moment.

On to cool Web 2.0 stuff now. I have an account on Flickr! And a few pictures there. Two are from western NC -- no Celtic stuff, but a photo of Peter Cottontail, who cheerfully posed for me for 5 or 6 photos, and then there's a mountain scene there. This is eastern Buncombe County, and you're getting away from the Blue Ridge and into the Black mountains, the tallest of which is Mount Mitchell. Climb Mt. Mitchell and that's as high as you can go east of the Mississippi.

Back to Flickr. This is way cool. Since I have the theme of the Celtic world uniting this blog, I was pleased that Julie G pointed us towards library photos, and I found a lovely bouquet of Irish libraries on Flickr. I was quite fascinated with their exterior architecture. The interiors are pretty much your basic library look, except some of their stacks shelves seem to be on wheels in one or two photos. You can also learn the location of the libraries through Mappr, which I plan to explore further since I can spend hours pouring over maps (apparently an inherited trait from my dad, or so my mom told me. She didn't share the passion.)

Here's the url to the Irish libraires: http://www.flickr.com/groups/irishlibraries/