Library of Congress on Flickr

Many of you may already be familiar with Flickr, a popular photo sharing website. Much to our benefit, the Library of Congress has launched a project to easily share its photos with us. According to Matt Raymond:

"If all goes according to plan, the project will help address at least two major challenges: how to ensure better and better access to our collections, and how to ensure that we have the best possible information about those collections for the benefit of researchers and posterity. In many senses, we are looking to enhance our metadata (one of those Web 2.0 buzzwords that 90 percent of our readers could probably explain better than me).

The project is beginning somewhat modestly, but we hope to learn a lot from it. Out of some 14 million prints, photographs and other visual materials at the Library of Congress, more than 3,000 photos from two of our most popular collections are being made available on our new Flickr page, to include only images for which no copyright restrictions are known to exist."

So be sure to take a look - you'll be surprised at all the wonderful images available.

Source: Resourceshelf