Note: Use of Insight and the DL Cross-Collection Search is restricted to the Yale campus. For Yale-authorized off-campus access, use the Proxy Server or Yale VPN.
Click here to request a user name and password to access Insight.
New: Compare the features of Insight 5.5 and the Digital Library Cross-Collection Search
New: Multimedia Formats Supported In Insight
New: Exporting Content from Insight and the DL (Draft!)
New: A Guide to Searching Insight & the DL (Draft!)
Insight and the Digital Library Cross-Collection Search are two applications used by the Yale Library to make available some of our digital collections. For information on all Library Digital Collections, see the Digital Collections page.
Insight
The Yale Library is implementing Insight, software developed by Luna Imaging, Inc., for the creation of a suite of image databases, for image management, and presentation. Installing Insight
New! Personal Insight is now available! Personal Insight is a tool to help organize and present personal digital collections. Collections created in Personal Insight can be used in cross-collection searches with other Insight collections. For more information on Personal Insight please contact Web, Workstation & Digital Consulting Services.
Users of Personal Insight should refer to Guidelines for using the Library Core for help indexing/cataloging personal collections.
The current release of Insight is version 5.5.
Collections currently available via the Insight Client include:
- Beinecke Digital Collection
- Arts Library Visual Resources Collection
- Yale University Art Gallery Collection
- Athanasius Kircher Collection
- Burgert Brothers Collection
- Catena-Historic Gardens and Landscape Collection
- The AMICO Library
- David Rumsey Map Collection
- Farber Gravestone Collection
- MoMA Digital Design Collection
- Japanese Historical Map Collection
You may continue to use the Insight 4.0/5.0 client, but check What's new in Insight 5.5? for important upgrade information.
Insight Documentation
- Insight Documentation from other institutions
- What's new in Insight 5.5?
- Insight FAQ
- Insight Client (Features and System Requirements)
- Installing Insight
- Insight 5.5 Documentation
- Insight Quick Guide (pdf)
- Displaying an Insight Group outside of Insight
Digital Library Cross-Collection Search (DL/XC)
The Digital Library is a web-based image management and viewer application developed by the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library to support their digital collections.
Many Library digitial images collections are available for cross-collection searching using DL/XC including:
- Arts Library Visual Resources Collection
- Beinecke Digital Collection
- Lewis Walpole Library Digital Collection
- Art of the Book Collection
- Beinecke Photonegatives
- Beinecke Marinetti Libroni
Go to the Digital Library Cross-Collection Search.
DL/XC Documentation
Staff who have helped a student with a problem related to Insight or the Digital Library Cross Collection Search, or have experienced problems themselves using either, are asked to supply information about the problem using this form.
Other useful information
Configuring the Proxy Server
ITS Virtual
Private Network (VPN)
Microsoft's Photo Album Add-in Program (Useful tool to import a folder of images
into Powerpoint.)
YUL Digital Conversion Facility
(A Library staff imaging laboratory in Room 5 (basement) of Sterling Memorial Library.)
Digital Collection Management System Requirements Document