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The
Knowledge Imaging Center is a complete
walk-up color digitization system for scanning
excerpts from books and other materials.
• Ultra-fast color, grayscale & B&W walk-up
scanning to USB Flash Drives (e.g. Jump Drives),
Email/KIC Sync transfer and your existing printers.
• 17 inch by 24 inch scan area – scans two
sides
to a large open book at once, flattens and splits
the image into two.
• Copy card & coin operation, stand-alone
and
connected to your registrar info.
• Integrates with and augments ILL and eReserve
products (e.g. Ariel, ILLiad, Blackboard and O.K.I.).
KIC makes it easy to enhance the quality of reports
and papers with crystal clear color and black and white
excerpts from books, magazines and journals. In addition,
as a UDSA compliant digitization system, conveniently
located amongst the stacks, it can be used as an ad
hoc digitization station by your Preservation, Archive
and Interlibrary Loan departments.
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Knowledge
Imaging Center kiosks are designed from
the ground up for university libraries.
The centerpiece of the kiosk, a color book
scanner, is made to handle virtually any
size books as well as flat material from
postage stamp size up to 17 x 24 inches
in black and white or full color. KIC kiosks
output to paper and USB Flash Drives (e.g.
Jump Drives), and can transfer across the
Internet directly to the student’s
PC. In addition, a university’s KIC
kiosk network retains each user’s
images scanned from the first day of classes
through final exams. Its speed, ease of
use and UDSA compatibility, maximizes its
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KIC
APPLICATIONS
Reports
and Papers
Today, most students use
computers to create their reports and papers.
Without an easy way to digitize excerpts
from books and magazines, they must print
their papers with space reserved for excerpted
text, photos, graphs and charts, copy the
excerpts, clip and paste or tape, then finally
copy the resulting document.
Some university libraries
have small, ‘personal’ flatbed
scanners attached to a few of their computers.
However, as long as the capture of text,
photos, charts and graphs from your collection
is cumbersome and inconvenient, digitization
will not be considered an everyday tool
that enhances the value of library resources.
KIC is the most cost-effective way to provide
students and faculty with high quality,
high speed scanning of excerpts from books
and large materials. Virtually any digitization
need is handled easily by KIC kiosks.
Lecture
Notes
Lecture notes are a student’s
best record of their university academic
experience. It can be useful, even necessary
to retain these notes for subsequent related
courses and after graduation as well. However,
the notes are usually spread between loose
leaf paper, bound notebooks and lab books.
KIC offers a simple way to organize students’
lecture notes – students can scan
their notes throughout the term, printing
to paper, writing to a USB Flash Drives
(e.g. Jump Drives) and transferring to their
PC as desired.
Course
Curriculum Materials
Use KIC kiosks as an additional
distribution point for course curriculum
materials – by USB Flash Drives (e.g.
Jump Drives), print or Internet transfer
to student PCs – and these materials
can be included on the Term Encapsulation
USB Jump drive. As the main distribution
point, students can collect their course
curriculum materials any time during the
library’s extended hours. As a secondary
distribution point, if a student misplaces
his or her course curriculum materials,
they can easily be retrieved.
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