Flickr Commons

Celebrating the Commons on Flickr, Part Deux

January 15, 2013 · 7 comments

in Guest Bloggers,Photographs,Projects,Research,Social Media

This is our second blog post celebrating the 5th anniversary of The Commons on Flickr which falls tomorrow, Wednesday 16 January. This means a 5th Birthday for the Library of Congress photostream. We’re not quite into the Terrible Twos on Flickr Commons ourselves yet here at the National Library of Ireland, but we’re certainly looking […]

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Celebrating The Commons on Flickr

January 11, 2013 · 10 comments

in Guest Bloggers,Photographs,Projects,Research,Social Media

Next Wednesday, 16 January, is the 5th anniversary of The Commons on Flickr. 56 libraries, archives, museums and galleries all over the world (including us) make up Flickr Commons. We all share our photographic collections online, and users help us to find out more about the photographs we look after, by commenting, adding notes and […]

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5.2 million reasons to do a stock check

October 5, 2012 · 1 comment

in Collections,Exhibitions,NLI Staff,Photographs,Projects

by Nora-Jane Thornton, National Photographic Archive When asked if I would like to relocate from our Manuscript Department to the National Photographic Archive in Meeting House Square in Temple Bar, I was excited by the prospect, and when I heard that the work would involve a thorough stock check of our photographic collections, I was […]

Tagged as: Ambrotypes, Barbara Bonini, British Library, Cellulose Acetate Film, Colette O'Flaherty, Conservation, Daguerreotypes, Elizabeth Kirwan, Flickr Commons, Glass Negatives, Glynis Pickett, Independent Newspapers (Ireland) Collection, Joanna Finegan, John Joly, Joly Colour Process, Keith Murphy, Lantern Slides, Library Management System, LMS, Maria O'Shea, Matthew Cains, National Photographic Archive, Negatives, Nitrate Film, Nitrocellulose Film, Nora-Jane Thornton, NPA, O'Carroll Collection, Photographs, Preservation, Safety Film, Stock Check, Taking Stock, Tintypes, Vinegar Syndrome, Virtua

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