British Library Releases Millions of Images for Public Use on Flickr

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The British Library has continued to release images from its digitized collection, now bordering over one million images on public image-sharing platform Flickr, reports Quartz. Since 2013, the institution’s “Mechanical Curator” has been randomly selecting images or other pages from over 65,000 public-domain books from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries.

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Cite: Eric Oh. "British Library Releases Millions of Images for Public Use on Flickr" 08 May 2016. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/786826/british-library-releases-millions-of-image-for-public-use-on-flickr> ISSN 0719-8884

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