Adding Links to Flickr

When you add descriptions to your library images on Flickr, you can include links to your library website or other useful information. For example, the image in this post is a photograph of “The Reader” sculpture by Carolyn Wirth in front of the Melrose Public Library. If you click on the image here to go to the photo on Flickr, you’ll see that the description includes a link to the library’s website, and the artist’s website, and to another website with pictures of the artist’s work.

Not every individual image needs this many links, but adding links to Flickr can be a good way lead users to your library website, or to other related information. You can add links anywhere in Flickr that you can enter text: in your profile, in the descriptions of images, sets and collections, and even in comments you post on other people’s images.

To add links, you just type in the HTML for a link, like this:

<a href=”http://www.melrosepubliclibrary.org”>Melrose Public Libary</a>