Luna Insight at Pomona College
Digital Images for Teaching and Learning
The Luna Imaging Insight software program allows faculty, students and staff to manage, access, use, and present digital images across the Pomona campus. Using Insight, viewers experience images in a revolutionary way. Complete cataloguing data accompanies every image, allowing for in-depth searches of the collections. Using Insight, multiple images from different artists, places or periods, can be viewed side-by-side. Or, the end user can create their own collections of images by saving groups of images online.
Two Ways to View
There are two ways use existing Luna resources. One is through the LUNA browser client the other is through the Insight Java client. The LUNA browser client allows to view collections through their web browser. There is no need to install additional software. The other method of viewing collections is through the Insight Java Client. The Insight Java Client is a traditional client application that needs to be installed on a computer. There are differences in using each method. However, with each method you may accomplish the same task but in a different way. What method to use largely depends on personal preference. Please contact itg@pomona.edu if you have any detailed questions regarding the nuances of each viewing method.
The LUNA Browser Client
To view LUNA collections via your web browser go to: http://luna.pomona.edu. By default, by not logging in, you will only have access to the Pomona College Museum of Art.
More collections are available by logging in. You may use “luna” as both username and password if you are on campus and would like to see a larger list of collections.
With the LUNA browser client users may also choose to register their own accounts. If you choose to do so please send a note with your self-service LUNA login name to itg@pomona.edu to gain access to more collections.
“LUNA Insight at Pomona College” is a web site available for the download of clients, frequent support questions, HOWTOs, and help. The location of the site is: http://sax.pomona.edu/luna/
Comprehensive documentation on the LUNA Browser Client can be found here:http://www.lunaimaging.com/support/6_0/LUNA/en/LUNA.htm
Insight Java Cleint
The Insight Java client has been installed on most campus networked lab machines and most faculty and staff machines. If you do not currently have it, please contact itg@pomona.edu and we can arrange a time to install and properly configure the client. As of January of 2009 the most up to date Insight Java Client is version 6.0. Please contact itg@pomona.edu if you need your client upgraded.
You may also download the Java Clients here: http://sax.pomona.edu/luna/
See also: Creating Collections
insight image collections available to all pomona students and faculty
The AMICA Library, over 115,000 works of art from major museums
The AMICA Library contains works of art from the collections of prominent museums worldwide. Cultures and time periods range from contemporary art, Native American and Inuit art, to ancient Greek, Roman, and Egyptian works, along with Japanese and Chinese works.
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
The David Rumsey Collection focuses on 18th and 19th century North and South American cartographic materials.
Museum and Online Archives of California (MOAC)
Selected works from the permanent collections of eight California museums.
Pomona College features several locally-built and administered collections representing the work of its faculty members, departments, or programs:
- Sheila Pinkel (Art and Art History), History of Photography
- Miguel Tinker-Salas (History), Latin American Images archive
- Peggy Waller (Modern Languages), France, Revolution, Fashion
- Pomona College Geology Department
- Pomona College Museum of Art
Related Interest: Other digital image collections and resources
The Claremont Colleges Digital Library (CCDL) is an initiative launched in the Spring of 2006. Collections include Claremont Colleges Photo Archive, Francis Goya Paintings and Murals of Northern Ireland.The libraries subscribe to ARTStor, a searchable database of more than 300,000 digital images and associated catalog data.
