Digital Asset Library (DIAL)

University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries' Collections

Aerial Photographs of Colorado
(custom map search)

Aerial photographs dramatically portray the changing landscape of Colorado: a mountain valley can be seen where there is now a reservoir; changes in the vegetation and ground cover can be traced over the years, and the growth of towns and cities documented. This collection provides access to almost 1,700 digitized aerial photographs of Colorado taken by the U.S. Forest Service in the years from 1938 to 1947. This collection can be searched through the standard search interface or through a customized map search interface.

Ben Gray Lumpkin Digital Folk Music Collection

The Ben Gray Lumpkin Collection is an archive of the folk songs that were collected and recorded by Ben Gray Lumpkin while he was a professor of English at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He traveled throughout Colorado, recording the songs that were remembered and sung by people who were living in Colorado between 1950 and 1970. The original collection contains approximately 2,000 performances by 192 individuals. This Digital Audio Folk Song Collection provides a sampling of the recorded songs contained in the Ben Gray Lumpkin Collection.

Building Colorado Story by Story: The Sanborn Fire Insurance Map Collection
(custom map search)

Building Colorado Story by Story: The Sanborn Fire Insurance Map Collection is a digital collection of Sanborn fire insurance maps of cities across Colorado. The collection contains 346 maps of 79 principal cities in 52 counties covering the years 1883-1922. This collection can be searched through the standard search interface or through a customized map search interface.

Colorado Architecture Collection

The Colorado Architecture Collection includes several thousand images of over 300 Colorado sites and structures, including those which are significant because they have received awards from professional design and planning associations or because they appear on state and national registers of historic places. These images have a basis in Colorado's architectural history, landscape ecology, urban design, and land use planning, and are also included as part of a larger image collection called the Architecture and Planning Collection. The majority of images were taken by students of the CU College of Architecture and Planning in conjunction with college courses, while other images were provided by college faculty and staff, as well as private donors.

University of Colorado Digital Sheet Music Collection

The University of Colorado at Boulder Music Library has a large sheet music collection with approximately 150,000 items including examples from the late 18th through the 20th centuries. This collection provides access to digital versions of some of the categories of sheet music within our physical collections, a new avenue to this interesting genre. The sheet music digitized and presented here was originally published between 1890 and 1922.

Millennium Media in Chinook

Many of the Libraries' catalog records have been enhanced with digital images and tables of contents to provide greater access to the Libraries' valuable materials. Try searching Chinook catalog for an item from the Publisher's Bindings Collection, such as Fortunes of War, or peruse a table of contents from the Women Poets of the Romantic Period Collection by searching for the poem True Magicians.

Insight Support and Documentation
Luna Imaging, Inc.

Consult online help for specific questions or view the guided tour.

UC Digital Image Collections: Luna Insight Software Quick Guide
California Digital Libraries (CDL)

This two page pdf describes how to search, open an image in the Image Workspace, create groups and presentations, and export images. It also describes the differences between BrowserInsight and the JVA client.

RUL Luna Insight JVA Client and Browser Support Page
Rutgers University

This site includes extensive guides and documentation on all aspects of the Insight software under the sections entitled “Browser 5.0 and JVA Client 5.0 Comparisons”, “How would I …”, and “Guides”.

Insight User Guides
Brown University

This site offers five user guides that cover system overview, searching, creating groups and presentations, and exporting images.

Quick Guide for Using Insight
Stanford University

This pdf gives directions for creating presentations and study sets.

Virginia Tech's Luna Insight Digital Image Database
Virginia Tech

This site presents three useful guides: Accessing the Database & Collections Browse, Search & Export/Print Images, Exporting an Insight Presentation into HTML or PowerPoint.

Luna Insight Tutorial
Washington University in St. Louis

This tutorial gives guidance on Insight’s searching, image manipulation, and presentation tools.