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. 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 versatility.

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.