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Please enjoy your visit to the Boston Public Library. We are happy to have you take photographs of our buildings for your enjoyment but ask you to observe the following.

1. Please do not use flash equipment.

2. Please do not use equipment of such nature as to obstruct passageways or cause disturbances to Library users.

3. Photographs, videotapes, or audiotapes of members of the public, members of the Library staff on duty, programs, or materials in the the Library's collections are prohibited.

4. Library buildings may not be used as setting for a creative film or videotape, or as a background for fashion models or advertisements, or for any photographs, videotapes, or audiotapes which will be used for commercial purposes.