This page is for requesting photos or images for things in or related to the British Library (see the project page GLAM/BL). If you find an image that can be uploaded with a suitable free licence on Commons, please add a link and mark the request as {{done}}.
The British Library has expressed a willingness to help with supplying some images of an appropriate resolution where possible. Do not hesitate to make requests direct to the Museum if images cannot be found elsewhere, but bear in mind that staff are new to Wikipedia and may be uncertain how to proceed. If you want to take and donate the picture yourself then thank you, but it would be wise to leave the tripod at home and most exhibits in the British Museum will not have photography allowed. Photographing items in the collection is strictly against policy for readers and images created by the British Library reprographics department will automatically have protection by contract, though images that have been provided by other staff may have no copyright applicable. Loading images into commons is best but another site like Flickr is OK as long as the license is attribution only. (Share alike is the only other acceptable addition to a donated picture).
Further guidance on taking photographs (where permitted) in museums, advice on behaviour and some of the issues with licensing is available at Museum photography.
It would be nice to have an image showing staff/scholars working on the International Dunhuang Project, for example a picture of visiting scholars at the British Library examining manuscripts or IDP staff digitising manuscripts. A photo of the late Prof. Ksenia Kepping looking at Tangut manuscripts at the BL would be a bonus as I want to write an article on her next. BabelStone (talk) 01:11, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I have been unable to locate any specific images taken from the Chinchen Collection though some general images of similar postage stamps are available. If the opportunity arose, then images of, say, the tramtickets or key forgery examples would provide a unique insight into the type of artefact in the collection. My understanding would be that Crown Copyright is irrelevant (as the stamps were a private initiative) but I would assume that only fair-use would be available for any images as there might be copyright held by the original designer or their estate. Fæ (talk) 13:52, 20 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
File:Perkins D cylinder Printing Press.jpg is up for deletion as it is under fair use grounds on Wikipedia when it is a replaceable image. I have uploaded File:Perkins D cylinder printing press in the British Library.jpg and will try to take an alternative shot on Tuesday, but if someone has (or can find) a slightly less blurry free image, now would be a good time to release it on Commons. Fæ (talk) 00:29, 24 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
