1. A method of browsing and displaying items from a collection comprising steps of: storing information about each of plurality of items in a collection, said information being stored in machine-readable storage media; selecting a group of the items for display; assigning one of a plurality of image sizes to each of the items of the group; and displaying images that are representative of each of the items of the group on a display screen using the assigned image sizes, wherein a display area of the display screen is divided into a plurality of rectangles and each of the items selected for display occupies one or more of the rectangles, and wherein a particular position on the display screen that is occupied by a particular one of the items of the group is selected randomly and further wherein each item of the group selected for display is randomly assigned a position in the display area from among positions that are not already occupied.