# 9: Photos - Discover Flickr

Within the past year, Flickr has become the fastest growing photo sharing site on the web and is known as one of the first websites to use keyword “tags” to create associations and connections between photos and users of the site.

Watch Online Photo Sharing in Plain English (2:50) - from Common Craft




To learn more about Flickr, you can take the Flickr Tour (6 steps)

As you know (or should know) not all Google Images are copyright-friendly. You do not have the rights to use all visuals found there. That is also true with Flickr photos in the overall collection. But Flickr have arranged separate collections based on the copyright-friendly Creative Commons lisences. The photos found here can be downloaded and used by you, a visitor to the site. Here is some help in downloading photos from the site

Discovery Exercise:

1. Take a good look at Flickr and discover what this site has to offer. Find out

• How tags work,
• What groups are
• What things that people and other libraries are using Flickr for.
• View Popular tags
• View Interesting photos - Last 7 days
• Search for pictures with the tag NBAMHI or #nbamhi.
• Sign in with your Facebook or Google account & Create a Flickr account yourself and upload pictures from the 2011 workshop.

2. Visit the Flickr Creative Commons site and explore what kinds of photos you could you use for your library or classroom. Do a search using keyword, save a photo to your hard drive (in My Pictures is best).

Use for or by Medical Libraries (examples):

• EAHIL2009 Photo Group: http://www.flickr.com/groups/eahil2009/
• MLA09 Photo Group: http://www.flickr.com/groups/mla2009/
• Medical Imaging Group: http://www.flickr.com/groups/medimg/