The Knowledge Imaging Center is a complete
walk-up color digitization scanning system for
excerpts from books and other materials, up to
24 x 17 inches.
Select from three modes of output:

· Paper copies
· Images on CD
· Image transferal via the Internet directly to user’s PC

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 Preservationist and Interlibrary Loan departments. 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 CD, 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 maximize its versatility.

KIC APPLICATIONS

Reports and Papers

Using a KIC kiosk will enrich your students’ reports and papers, promoting a greater pride in the work they do at your library. Your students will learn how to produce reports with a quality that will be expected of them in their career.

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.

Course Curriculum Materials

Use KIC kiosks as an additional distribution point for course curriculum materials – by CD, print or Internet transfer to student PCs – and these materials can be included on the Term Encapsulation CDs.

The Complete Term Encapsulation CD

Imagine your graduating students taking with them an encapsulation of each term they completed at your university – a four year degree on as few as eight CDs, beautifully printed in full color with the university’s logo, the term, the year, the student’s name and the courses taken.

Charging Patrons to use KIC

Not all universities charge for photocopies, but most universities must contend with non-student patrons. KIC supports student card readers and can be configured to charge
for some or all patrons.

Interlibrary Loan

As a UDSA compliant digitization system, KIC can be used for interlibrary loan scanning. Prior to scanning the requested material, KIC scans the request sheet and captures all the information necessary to send the image to the requestor via Ariel or Iliad.

Digitization Projects for Preservation and Access

Your preservation department wasn’t created for occasional scanning. It is important that its systems not only produce the desired quality of output, but also that they are efficient. A KIC kiosk can not only produce high quality color output efficiently, but its likely to be located in the stacks, near some of the volumes that are both in use and targeted for preservation.