D-Lib MAGAZINE SELECTS DAVID RUMSEY MAPS AS FEATURED COLLECTION

VENICE, CA - April 20, 2000
The April issue of Digital Libraries Magazine, http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april00/04contents.html, has highlighted David Rumsey's collection of 18th and 19th century maps as its featured collection.

The collection, first released in March, includes atlases, globes, school geographies, maritime charts, and a variety of separate maps including pocket, wall, children's and manuscript. The online exhibition is an expanding cross section of very high-resolution images (currently over 2,300) designed to highlight the depth and breadth of the collection. This combination of primary source material and the latest in digital technology provides the viewers with a new way to directly interact with these valuable materials.

Rumsey's website, www.davidrumsey.com, is powered by the revolutionary Insight® software developed by Luna Imaging Inc. Users can create custom presentations and do side by side comparisons of images. The software also includes multiple zoom and pan capabilities for exploring even the most minute details of each of the maps.

The selection of the Rumsey Maps as a featured collection is its second in ten days. The prominent Internet search engine, Yahoo!, chose www.davidrumsey.com as one of its "Picks of the Week" for April 10th. Link to www.yahoo.com/picks/20000410.html. to read the review.

Based in Venice, CA, Luna Imaging, Inc. enables museums, libraries and archives to build and distribute high-quality visual collections in digital form and provides sophisticated software to manage, access and use image collections over the Internet.

The David Rumsey collection is one of the most extensive private map collections of its type. The website collection is expected to increase to 5,000 images by the year's end, growing to 10,000 the following year. With the appearance of www.davidrumsey.com, the collection is available to the general public for the first time.

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