Finding Free Images to Use in Your Library
Last Modified: 08 April 2015
These are all resources that provide access to copyright/royalty free images:
- http://search.creativecommons.org/
- Compfight
- Flickr Creative Commons
- Free Digital Photos.net
- Library of Congress on Flickr
- http://www.loc.gov/pictures/
- U.S. Government Photos and Images
- Wikimedia Commons
- From Rapid E-Learning Blog, Here's How to Find Free Stock Photos & Clip Art for PowerPoint
- http://www.123rf.com/
- Liam's Pictures from Old Books for something different: http://www.fromoldbooks.org/
- http://www.morguefile.com/
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
- The best free stock image resources on the Web
- http://www.bing.com/images?FORM=HDRSC2
- http://www.smashingmagazine.com/tag/freebies/
- http://www.gettyimages.com/creativeimages/royaltyfree
- https://images.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl
- http://pixabay.com/en/
- Buffer blog post on image sources: https://blog.bufferapp.com/free-image-sources-list
- http://deathtothestockphoto.com/
- From Alaska State Library, http://lam.alaska.gov/freemultimedia
- http://www.gratisography.com/
- http://picjumbo.com/
- http://unsplash.com/
- http://littlevisuals.co/
- https://openclipart.org/
- Whoa! Check Out These 78 Free Sources of Images For Your Library on Making It Happen
- https://www.wylio.com/
- Free Stock Photos that Don't Suck
- On Library Market, http://www.librarymarket.com/services/dropbox Formerly known as "The Library Facebook Images Dropbox," this is a collection of images to help libraries increase social media engagement with patrons.
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