Images, Part 2

I seldom use my Pinterest account for library related content (I have one generic "Library Stuff" board). I pin a lot of recipes and illustrations.

I follow a few libraries, mostly for reading suggestions:
Library Reads - a pannel of library staff pick the top 10 books released every month
Bookish - Pinterest account for a sort on Reader's Advisory, book review, book article blog

Most accounts I follow are for general library or book stuff and promoting reading:
Harper Collins Canada
Epic Reads
Delightful Children's Books (there are a lot of children's activity ideas as well)
Out of Print

There are a lot of great ideas for campaigns, displays, promotion and activities and some things that are just cute like...

From Heels and Pearls Tumblr

I don't know the original source or the author of the poem to give proper credit. I saw this pin and traced it back to the blog it came from and the blog didn't have any further information.

This leads me to a somewhat related mini rant about sourcing:

Google and Pinterest are not content creators and shouldn't be credited as sources. If there is an image of an awesome project (or poem) and it is sourced "Google Images" how is that going to help trace back to find the creator or any other useful information? Whoever created (or posted) that image so it could be found through Google or Pinterest is the source.

When I see an image on a blog and the source is "Pinterest":


Also, I try to pin so it links back to the right source so the creator gets credit and the pin traces back to usable information. That means not pinning from Google Images.

Pinterest used to have more information about this kind of thing on their Etiquette page, but they have since weeded out a lot of usable information from that page leaving only: