Leading institutions and industry specialists agree: Insight represents the best in class for delivering high quality images with powerful software features. Here are some of the reasons we've heard from our customers when asked, "Why did you choose Insight?"

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• Insight supports searching across collections that have different metadata fields
• Insight supports complex relational database structures
• Insight supports mixed media - images, audio, video, 3D images, multi-page documents
• Insight can use existing descriptive data captured in another program or provides data entry templates to catalog directly into Insight
• Insight can fit into any technical environment (UNIX, Windows, Oracle, SQL Server, etc.)
• Insight supports both large and small collections with price points that provide easy growth paths
• Insight excels at supporting consortial projects where mixed metadata, mixed media, mixed technical environments, and physically distributed media and software are the norm

• Using digital images in Insight increases student involvement
• Creating digital presentations in Insight allows faculty to go beyond what's possible with a slide - show multiple images side-by-side, show details of images with super zooming, linking images to external support websites, adding notes and commentary and more
• Creating presentations in Insight saves a great deal of time each semester by simply editing and reusing existing presentations as opposed to starting from scratch from semester to semester, lecture to lecture
• Class time is more productive since students have access to the images and presentations both before and after lecture
• Faculty can easily collaborate with students via shared class folders and image groups
• Insight can integrate with faculty websites and course support software like Blackboard and WebCT
• Students can perform advanced assignments outside of class, drawing from large reserves of digital images for individual projects
• With digital images, quality is not predetermined by slide projectors or displays. 35mm slides have become the standard for teaching because the only device to show them is the slide projector. Since Insight provides the ability to deliver & zoom at high resolutions, images of any size - created from 4x5 transparencies or direct digital capture - are just as practical and easy to use as a slide. There is no longer a ceiling on image quality with Insight
• Insight's cross collection searching functionality allows institutions to collaborate with each other without sacrificing collection specificity or security. Insight interoperates with library cataloging systems, elearning tools, and web course content

• Insight's interface design is based upon years of research, experience, and collaboration on how people actually use reproductions in research and teaching
• Insight has completely reproduced the act of working directly with reproductions. Users can view multiple images on their screen, and arrange them in any order, and place them in any position
• Luna believes in the primacy of the data and media content. Insight's design ethic is to maximize the use of working screen real estate. When using Insight, images are always in focus
• Details not visible to the naked eye become clearly distinguishable

• Luna has over a decade of experience building collections from the ground up
• Luna was founded by and employs leaders in the field who understand the special challenges of digital images and descriptive metadata as it relates to the richness of cataloging and resource discovery in a networked world
• Luna provides superior hands-on support; our long-term success is based on our customer's success.
• Luna listens to its users: virtually all of our best and most important features come from the proposed directions and revisions of our clients.

• Insight's cross collection searching allows institutions to quickly and easily build a comprehensive body of digital content by accessing remote collections of other Insight customers
• Collections within Insight can gain instant visibility and viability for use within the Insight user community
• Luna's annual user group meetings provide a unique and powerful forum of exchange between leading institutions and experts in the field of networked resources for research and teaching

• Multiple departments share the same digital resources for multiple purposes (library, teaching, research, publications, rights & reproductions, etc.)
• By using the network of Insight shared collections and Insight subscription collections such as the AMICA Library, institutions can recognize significant cost saving by not having to digitize the materials or acquire rights to the material on their own.
• Insight is becoming the dominant platform for viewing and teaching with images in higher education. Institutions can recognize a significant cost savings by requiring faculty and students to learn to use one consistent software interface
• Insight can make use of existing text resources so that institutions can make use of the significant investment made in legacy software and previous data entry efforts
• Insight can integrate into existing technology environments so that institutions can minimize the software/hardware expenses
• Insight can interoperate with other applications to seamlessly fit into existing application environments
• Insight dramatically reduces the time and labor for all constituencies involved in image use, from faculty time spent hunting for prints and slides and lecture presentations, to the administrative demands of central collections and exact replacement of slides after use

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