Sharing images ...

Flickr

I have just looked at Flickr for the first time and this seems to be an easier way to view pictures from family and friends. One friend often sends me pictures attached to her emails and these take forever to save (so I can scan for viruses) and then open to look at.

Mosman Library appears to use flickr as a main form of advertisement for it's promotional events, new services and acquisitions. Sadly, when I typed in the name of my workplace there was very little there. However, there were some pictures of our old library's demolition uploaded by a work colleague.

There were even some pictures from members of the public. One picture "067" uploaded by Naku' on 26/10/09 comes with the comment:

"Study study study study
at the Chatswood Library
stuffy, hot, noisy".

Other interesting (and some scary) pictures were discovered when I typed in - dogs and wigs (or similar variations) when i was exploring non-library related pictures.

When looking at some flickr groups I came across a library related one called "Library interiors". One picture "Mortlock Library" which had been uploaded to the group pool that caught my eye was uploaded by dscreativ on 16th July 2010. It is of the Mortlock Library (one wing of the State Library of South Australia) and you can visit this by going to:

http://www.flickr.com/ and typing in groups. This opens up another search screen and if you click on the groups tab and then type in library interiors in the search field and then click on this group in the results list you can then type in Mortlock library to see these pictures.

I would have added a copy here but discovered just as I was about to that it was an "all rights reserved" picture. This is probably the easily forgotten detail about pictures on photo sharing sites like flickr. Anyone can see the pictures but unless you check out the fine print what you might assume anyone can copy could be wrong. For that reason I hesitate to use anything submitted by anyone else as the ramifications could be costly..

In fact after much searching there seems to be very few pictures that aren't "all rights reserved"!