If you’re reading this blog post, you’re on our website. Did you notice the small photo with the URL www.flickr.com above it? If you click on that photo, you’ll enter the world of Flickr, much more than just a photo album. It’s a place where the Library is posting all their photos, so you can view them at any time. But it is also a community of photo sharing folks. You can post your photos on flickr and make them public for anyone to view or private, and share them with your chosen friends by invitation only. You can write descriptions of your photos and invite people to post their comments, just like you can comment on this blog.

Even the Library of Congress is posting pictures on Flickr! They have a page on Flickr called the Commons where you can look at photos from a collection called 1930’s and 1940’s in color and another collection called News in the 1910’s. There are thousands of photos in each collection and they would love to get your comments.