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LSE: a history in pictures
The LSE Archives have just launched a Flickr site (http://www.flickr.com/photos/lselibrary/) and joined Flickr Commons (http://www.flickr.com/commons).
The site was created as part of our LSE: a history in pictures project and it features various highlights from our image collections, but in particular, we are trying to use the site to create a photographic history of the London School of Economics. The last few years have seen an increasing interest in the history of the School both internally, from the LSE community, and externally, for example from family historians and media researchers. Our 'history in pictures', funded by LSE alumni, brings together historic images of LSE - its people, places and events - from a number of different collections and makes them available online in an easily searchable and browsable format. We currently have over 500 LSE photos on the site, and are aiming to add at least another 500 before the end of April 2010.
The site went live at the end of last week. Flickr users have already notched up over 45,000 hits, and have started adding notes, comments and tags to the images. But as well as making the photographs available to a wider audience, we're also hoping that LSE staff, students and alumni will use the interactive facilities of Flickr to share memories and experiences relating to the images on display, and thus actively contribute to the information contained in the School’s ‘official’ archives. In particular we are looking to add to the non-official history of LSE. We formally launched the site within LSE earlier this week, and we'll be actively promoting it to the School community over the next few months, so it will be interesting to see what sort of a reaction we get. There'll be further updates over the coming months.
There is more information and background over on our blog Out of the Box.
We'd be interested in any comments as we are looking to develop the site and the project as we go along.
The site was created as part of our LSE: a history in pictures project and it features various highlights from our image collections, but in particular, we are trying to use the site to create a photographic history of the London School of Economics. The last few years have seen an increasing interest in the history of the School both internally, from the LSE community, and externally, for example from family historians and media researchers. Our 'history in pictures', funded by LSE alumni, brings together historic images of LSE - its people, places and events - from a number of different collections and makes them available online in an easily searchable and browsable format. We currently have over 500 LSE photos on the site, and are aiming to add at least another 500 before the end of April 2010.
The site went live at the end of last week. Flickr users have already notched up over 45,000 hits, and have started adding notes, comments and tags to the images. But as well as making the photographs available to a wider audience, we're also hoping that LSE staff, students and alumni will use the interactive facilities of Flickr to share memories and experiences relating to the images on display, and thus actively contribute to the information contained in the School’s ‘official’ archives. In particular we are looking to add to the non-official history of LSE. We formally launched the site within LSE earlier this week, and we'll be actively promoting it to the School community over the next few months, so it will be interesting to see what sort of a reaction we get. There'll be further updates over the coming months.
There is more information and background over on our blog Out of the Box.
We'd be interested in any comments as we are looking to develop the site and the project as we go along.
Tags: Flickr, LSE, Photographs
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Comment by Sue Donnelly on November 15, 2009 at 6:22pm - Registering for Flickr Commons is pretty straightforward - as Amanda said it is just a form - however we have had to pretty persistent to get through to approval and going live - it seemed as if everytime we got in touch it was a different person and we had to start the explanations all over again. So as so often the technology is fine but people aren't working at the same speed.
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Comment by Amanda Hill on November 14, 2009 at 1:39pm - Registering for Flickr Commons is fairly straightforward: there's a form to fill in on the Flickr site. I believe it takes a while to get approval though. I've just registered Deseronto Archives today - so I'll let you know how long it takes!
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Comment by Alexandra Eveleigh on November 13, 2009 at 7:54pm - Sue, could you tell us a little more about the experience of joining the Commons? I guess this is something a lot of forum members may be considering, but are maybe not sure what the process involves.
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