It can be said that the digital age began in the 1980s. However, it wasn’t until the Web began providing good answers to myriad questions, easily and virtually instantly that the perceived value of library print collections began to decline. Today, the value locked in academic library print collections can be unleashed with HotLinks, the Digital Stacks Project and the many millions of already digitized scholarly items.
Library Building
Library Building
Other high-Use Items
Actively Used Special Collections
Offsite Storage Facility
Benefits:
Virtually all content, copyrighted and free, is accessible digitally, instantly, while inside the library via HotLinks. Outside the library, students and researchers can easily purchase the content they found using hotlinks, thus increasing publisher revenue by pushing the cost to the patrons who want access outside the library and will buy only what they want. The result: the library spends less and provides Substantially more value, patrons with a budget, purchase what they choose to, while patrons without a budget have free access while in the library (the fundamental reason libraries exist), and publishers support the new model because HotLinks promotes more sales.
A large percentage of eReserves can be switched to self-service by placing a KIC digitization kiosk next to reserves bookcases. The same can be done for high-use items, including reference materials, allowing for unlimited copies of excerpts of no more than 10% of each volume to be scanned during each user visit, in compliance with copyright law. Self-service reserves are also a solid benefit.
Books that are rarely accessed are moved to storage. The remaining actively accessed books are placed near high speed self-service digitization kiosks allowing for unlimited digital copies with no digital rights costs.
Much more study/collaborate & research space is needed to support the substantial increase in value the library provides to its patrons while they are in the library.
Whether in the stacks, in a high-use self-serve digitization area or in storage, KAT Stacks makes it easy to find items. KAT Stacks Provides a visual ‘virtual reality’ browsing experience with the option to browse all books in one complete collection, including special collections, offsite storage and high use bookshelves in self-service digitization areas.
It can be said that the digital age began in the 1980s. However, it wasn’t until the Web began providing good answers to myriad questions, easily and virtually instantly that the perceived value of library print collections began to decline. Today, the value locked in academic library print collections can be unleashed with HotLinks, the Digital Stacks Project and the many millions of already digitized scholarly items.
Library Building
Library Building
Other high-Use Items
Actively Used Special Collections
Offsite Storage Facility
Benefits:
Virtually all content, copyrighted and free, is accessible digitally, instantly, while inside the library via HotLinks. Outside the library, students and researchers can easily purchase the content they found using hotlinks, thus increasing publisher revenue by pushing the cost to the patrons who want access outside the library and will buy only what they want. The result: the library spends less and provides Substantially more value, patrons with a budget, purchase what they choose to, while patrons without a budget have free access while in the library (the fundamental reason libraries exist), and publishers support the new model because HotLinks promotes more sales.
A large percentage of eReserves can be switched to self-service by placing a KIC digitization kiosk next to reserves bookcases. The same can be done for high-use items, including reference materials, allowing for unlimited copies of excerpts of no more than 10% of each volume to be scanned during each user visit, in compliance with copyright law. Self-service reserves are also a solid benefit.
Books that are rarely accessed are moved to storage. The remaining actively accessed books are placed near high speed self-service digitization kiosks allowing for unlimited digital copies with no digital rights costs.
Much more study/collaborate & research space is needed to support the substantial increase in value the library provides to its patrons while they are in the library.
Whether in the stacks, in a high-use self-serve digitization area or in storage, KAT Stacks makes it easy to find items. KAT Stacks Provides a visual ‘virtual reality’ browsing experience with the option to browse all books in one complete collection, including special collections, offsite storage and high use bookshelves in self-service digitization areas.
It can be said that the digital age began in the 1980s. However, it wasn’t until the Web began providing good answers to myriad questions, easily and virtually instantly that the perceived value of library print collections began to decline. Today, the value locked in academic library print collections can be unleashed with HotLinks, the Digital Stacks Project and the many millions of already digitized scholarly items.
Library Building
Library Building
Other high-Use Items
Actively Used Special Collections
Offsite Storage Facility
Benefits:
Virtually all content, copyrighted and free, is accessible digitally, instantly, while inside the library via HotLinks. Outside the library, students and researchers can easily purchase the content they found using hotlinks, thus increasing publisher revenue by pushing the cost to the patrons who want access outside the library and will buy only what they want. The result: the library spends less and provides Substantially more value, patrons with a budget, purchase what they choose to, while patrons without a budget have free access while in the library (the fundamental reason libraries exist), and publishers support the new model because HotLinks promotes more sales.
A large percentage of eReserves can be switched to self-service by placing a KIC digitization kiosk next to reserves bookcases. The same can be done for high-use items, including reference materials, allowing for unlimited copies of excerpts of no more than 10% of each volume to be scanned during each user visit, in compliance with copyright law. Self-service reserves are also a solid benefit.
Books that are rarely accessed are moved to storage. The remaining actively accessed books are placed near high speed self-service digitization kiosks allowing for unlimited digital copies with no digital rights costs.
Much more study/collaborate & research space is needed to support the substantial increase in value the library provides to its patrons while they are in the library.
Whether in the stacks, in a high-use self-serve digitization area or in storage, KAT Stacks makes it easy to find items. KAT Stacks Provides a visual ‘virtual reality’ browsing experience with the option to browse all books in one complete collection, including special collections, offsite storage and high use bookshelves in self-service digitization areas.
It can be said that the digital age began in the 1980s. However, it wasn’t until the Web began providing good answers to myriad questions, easily and virtually instantly that the perceived value of library print collections began to decline. Today, the value locked in academic library print collections can be unleashed with HotLinks, the Digital Stacks Project and the many millions of already digitized scholarly items.
Library Building
Library Building
Other high-Use Items
Benefits:
Virtually all content, copyrighted and free, is accessible digitally, instantly, while inside the library via HotLinks. Outside the library, students and researchers can easily purchase the content they found using hotlinks, thus increasing publisher revenue by pushing the cost to the patrons who want access outside the library and will buy only what they want. The result: the library spends less and provides Substantially more value, patrons with a budget, purchase what they choose to, while patrons without a budget have free access while in the library (the fundamental reason libraries exist), and publishers support the new model because HotLinks promotes more sales.
A large percentage of eReserves can be switched to self-service by placing a KIC digitization kiosk next to reserves bookcases. The same can be done for high-use items, including reference materials, allowing for unlimited copies of excerpts of no more than 10% of each volume to be scanned during each user visit, in compliance with copyright law. Self-service reserves are also a solid benefit.
Books that are rarely accessed are moved to storage. The remaining actively accessed books are placed near high speed self-service digitization kiosks allowing for unlimited digital copies with no digital rights costs.
Much more study/collaborate & research space is needed to support the substantial increase in value the library provides to its patrons while they are in the library.
Whether in the stacks, in a high-use self-serve digitization area or in storage, KAT Stacks makes it easy to find items. KAT Stacks Provides a visual ‘virtual reality’ browsing experience with the option to browse all books in one complete collection, including special collections, offsite storage and high use bookshelves in self-service digitization areas.
