The San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection is one of the major collections we have to offer here on the 6th Floor of the Main Library. Lucky for you, the collection is also very much online. We're talking 39,560 images accessible right from your home! While that's only a small percent of the 2 million photographs currently in the collection, there is a constant effort to get more digitized.
SJSU student, Emily Foster recently interviewed curator Christina Moretta about the Historical Photo Collection and how access to the library's digital collections is being increased.
Emily Foster is a student at San Jose State University and created this video for Robert Boyd's LIBR 204 class.
What an excellent piece about one of the coolest collections in the library!
ReplyDeleteI looked through a few of the collections on the Flickr Commons page and noticed that each photo seems to be embedded with a link to the copyright section of its owner institution's website. That strikes me as a simple and effective way to manage the rights to photo collections while allowing much broader access.
Keep up the good work! This is a terrific blog for a terrific department.
Hey, thanks!
ReplyDeleteWe're doing the best we can as "newbies". We're not as O.G. as the SFPL Patent and Trademark Center Blog! :)
I'm going to post a link to the Flickr page tomorrow. Christina is awesome!