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.

Collecting library research digitally and studying on-screen

People spend more time in their favorite environments. Such is the case with the notebook computer. By making it very easy to digitize selected research, KIC provides libraries with another direct connection to the students’ notebook computers. PDF files, the preferred output format for studying, provides students with the ability to electronically highlight, underline or strikethrough selected text.

KIC has many ways to store, send and print information.

• USB drive
• E-mail, FTP
• PDF and searchable PDF
• Audio Podcast
• Local or Network Printer

KIC even integrates with coin and copy card cost recovery systems
(e.g. Backboard, Pharos, OneCard, Debitech)