LookSmart & RLG Partner to Bring Trove.net Images to Wider Audience

RLG, a not-for-profit organization of research libraries, archives, and museums has partnered with LookSmart®, an online media and technology company specializing in vertical search, to give LookSmart's FindArticles.com users immediate access to over 209,000 rare and unusual images from RLG's Trove.net database. Trove.net contains works from major international collections -- renowned universities, national libraries, other research libraries, museums, and archives. All can be licensed for use.

(PRWEB) November 11, 2005 -- RLG, a not-for-profit organization of over 150 research libraries, archives, and museums announced today a partnership with LookSmart® (Nasdaq: LOOK, ASX: LOK), an online media and technology company specializing in vertical search. The partnership will bring RLG's Trove.net, a database containing over 209,000 rare and unusual images, to LookSmart's users through FindArticles -- LookSmart's dynamic search vehicle for free and premium content on the web.

Trove.net contains works from 300 BCE to the present and includes a variety of images from leading cultural heritage collections. The works represented range from papyrus fragments from ancient Greece, to Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales," to vintage advertising labels, to 20th-century architectural photos. These images can be licensed for use by individuals and businesses.

James Michalko, president of RLG, says, “This is an exciting partnership. Our member institutions want their image collections to be used by the broadest possible audience. LookSmart has a loyal, growing audience of information seekers -- just who we want to reach.”

RLG's Trove.net contains works from major international collections -- national libraries and renowned universities -- as well as images from many other museums, libraries, and archives.

Find these high-quality Trove.net images while searching for credible sources on FindArticles.com. Search on words such as "baseball" or "John Kennedy" and see the search results, including a thumbnail from Trove.net. Then click directly to that image, to learn more about it, or click to continue searching on images.

Says Debby Richman, senior vice president of consumer products for LookSmart, "We are very excited by this partnership with RLG. We picked Trove.net images because they provide the depth and range of essential content that our users need."

About RLG

Based in Mountain View, California, RLG (http://www.rlg.org) is an international not-for-profit organization of over 150 research libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural memory institutions. Founded and incorporated in 1975 by The New York Public Library and Columbia, Harvard, and Yale universities, RLG provides solutions to the challenges presented by information access and management in the digital era.

For information, call Ricky Erway at 1-650-691-2228 or visit http://wwww.rlg.org.

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