Web Guidelines: MIT Libraries

Staff Photos

Staff may submit personal photos to be displayed as thumbnail-sized images on the Libraries' public web site staff directory.

This is a completely voluntary program, but there are rules to follow:

Technical and content standards:

• color
• either a "head shot" or from the waist up
• reasonable contrast
• professional/work appropriate photos only, e.g., no avatars, pets, or
  other non-realistic representations
• Note: Photos will be cropped and/or resized to approximately 88x117 pixels

(See a sample of a page with photos.)

Rights:

To participate you must agree to grant the MIT Libraries the right to use the photo as detailed in MIT's release form (pdf).

You are not required to actually sign and submit this form when you submit a photo, but we assume that by submitting a photo for the purposes specified above you are in fact agreeing to the terms of this agreement.

How to participate:

Please send your photo as an attachment to Marion Leeds Carroll.

Other web pages, e.g., subject guides and course pages, will eventually be revised to make it easy to include photos with the contact/author information on those pages.

To use your photo on another page:

Browse to

http://libraries.mit.edu/about/staff/photos/

The photos are named by Athena username. Choose your photo, and

• download it, place it in your own folder, and link to it from your page , or
• Much easier! - simply link to the image in staff/photos/ from your new page.