This blog is in response to Week #3 - Sharing Images. This was my first hands-on experience of Flickr and it was interesting looking at the array of images that people have made available. I was surprised to find a wonderful photo of one of our previous head librarians, Mary King, taken by her grandson when looking for photos with the tag of Mandurah.
I liked the concept discussed in 'Online Photo Sharing in Plain English' of using sites like Flickr as a way of keeping your photos safe and also sharing your images with family, friends and the world if you allow it.
When it came to this week's exercise, I thought of searching for photos of libraries, and then thought about the 'first' library from history, the Alexandria Library. I did a search for the Alexandria Library, and then refined it with the library's correct name, Bibliotheca Alexandrina.
There are number of great photos of this stunning building - the problem was finding images that were not labelled 'all rights reserved', because as we learnt this week, one has to be careful when using images from the web, that you are not breaking copyright laws. The video on 'Creative Commons' was interesting to watch and this has made it easier to use other people's images, even thought they may still set some restrictions. I found an image labelled with 'some rights reserved' and then clicked directly into the photographer's site and found other images of the library I could share with you, to show you the new Bibliotheca Alexandria. The outside of the building is quite stunning, I'm not as impressed with the inside, let me know what you think.
If you would like to find out more about the original Alexandria Library or the new Bibliotheca Alexandria, I have also attached links to Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibliotheca_Alexandrina
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Alexandria
Addendum:
After numerous attempts to upload photos of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, with technical support (many thanks Bruce for all your efforts) I have to include the links rather than the photos, looks like its back to the drawing board for this lesson!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jkannenberg/4668322359/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jkannenberg/4668323029/in/photostream/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/keatl/2428820562/in/photostream/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/keatl/2428819018/in/photostream/
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ReplyDeleteHurray at last a blogger I can understand, loved the Alexandria Library. I'm so impressed I'm going to become a follower or is that a minion or is that a sycophant, the mind 'bloggles'.
ReplyDeleteJust wanted to thank you again for helping me sort out my blogger problem, all I have to do now is solve my wonky wiki. I,m hoping that after the meeting on Monday it will all become clearer, and I can continue onwards and upwards to Feverish Facebook.
ReplyDeleteI to love the Alexandria Library what a good idea!!
Great photo's, It is worth taking the time to look for the right picture and respecting the rights of the person who's photo it is, other wise people will stop sharing with the rest of us.
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