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To access databases from home the username is LHS2 for ABC CLIO and ledyard for others, you know the password.  Email library@ledyard.net if you need help.  

START HERE SEARCHING FOR IMAGES: 

Creative Commons - http://search.creativecommons.org/

THREE THINGS TO REMEMBER!

1. Using photos that others took without their permission is copyright infringement, unless they're in the public domain. Since 1989, intellectual property does not have to have the copyright symbol to be protected.
2. Usually if it's an educational use, there are no fees
3. Simply use photos whose creator has released it to the public domain.

Here's some sites to try:

• Stock.xchng nearly 400,000 photos, categorized
• Flickr check the Commons and look for Creative Commons note
• Dreamstime 11 million photos - some carry a fee, others are free
• Bigstock  4 million photos & illustrations - fees attached
• More sources for Creative Commons list of MORE sites 
• Sumo Paint Full-featured photo-editing & painting application Image Editor Includes layering PicLits Refrigerator poetry meets beautiful imagery.
• Tin Eye Discover the provenance of a photo or image, using a reverse search engine to find exact or altered
• World Digital Library