STAR/Media is a ready-to-use application for the management of all kinds of visual collections, including traditional and digitized photographs, audio, film and film strips, CDs, DVDs, and slide collections used in teaching and other types of presentations. It tracks and classifies items in the collection by style, period, topic and a variety of user-defined controlled vocabulary; and it keeps track of requests and rights and permissions, as well as logging permissions granted.

STAR/Media provides precise web-based access to the image descriptions and links to the associated images, for which thumbnails can be displayed in multiple resolutions, with dates and date ranges for both the image or photograph and the object of the image.