Tag: Modern

We have a modern team site collection and want to add a library that stores our corporate images, such as event images, social images, and more.

Now we have two main templates on our modern team website that we can use:

1. document library

2. image library

Based on my search, I found that both offer similar functions:

1. allow us to have minor / major & permit.

2. Both offer the following list views:

3. Both templates work with these modern Web Parts:

   • Document Library Web Part

4. In both cases, a slider is displayed when you click on an image

but I found the following main differences.

document library

1. For example, when we create a new modern team or a modern communication site, we get all the built-in libraries as document libraries

2. On modern communication sites we can not add a picture library. So I can say that the image library is somehow obsolete (at least compared to document libraries)

image library

1. The main features are that it offers some content types and columns that are of benefit to images, such as "image size", "height" and "width", which indicate the size of the images:

You are not sure if you should use a picture or document library? Based on my research, Picture Libraries provides a ready-made content type for images, but document libraries appear to be used more often considering that modern communication pages (by default) offer no option for adding picture libraries. Finally, I want to avoid adding a document library and add the image content types to them. I'm trying to compare the built-in image and document libraries.

Thanks in advance for any help.