Digital Stacks Project - A wonderful opportunity to do something good, actually exceptional, while students are off-campus
Eight compelling arguments for US academic libraries to digitize monographs while students are off-campus:
- The Digital Millennium Copyright Act allows a library to maintain up to four digital copies of each monograph that it possesses.
- It is now possible and affordable due to new NAND SSD storage technology, DSE Content Servers, new KIC features for capturing whole books and KAT Stacks’ visual representation of bookshelves that shows which books have not been digitized, and other 1,000 site project management features.
- Each of the thousands of KIC high-speed systems in a thousand US academic libraries can digitize two to three books per hour, with structural metadata.
- While students are off-campus due to Coronavirus and for summer break, millions of US academic library staff hours can be dedicated to the project.
- Cost per library starts at $4,999 to enhance one KIC and for a server to hold one digital copy of up to 10,000 books in the library, plus staff hours.
- The new research tool (outlined in this Executive Summary) allows researchers and students to derive tremendous value from digitized monographs.
- Google Scholar and the ‘Million Book’ digitization project showed that high-speed digitization for content has great value that is separate from the precise and tedious digital preservation of special collections items.
- The Internet Archive digitization project, at 1.4 million books and counting, showed that such a project can be done even by small organizations.
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (©-Law) allows libraries to hold four digital copies of each book in their print collections, one for use by their patrons as a digital alternative to the printed version, and three more for interlibrary lending. DSE Content Servers allow libraries take advantage of the law, with features like:
- Provide massive high-speed storage at low cost
- Prohibit simultaneous access to any specific content by more than one user, at the page level!
- Prohibit access to the one digital copy for local use by users when outside the library without formal check-out of the material
- Perform ILL requests to DSE Content Servers at other libraries for specific content for each patron on their behalf
- Support the new research tool that takes multi-page documents as input and provides up to 100 instant search-match results to a billion or more copyright protected pages in DSE Content Servers.
This project has three phases:
Requirements & Costs
Covers & Spines option for KIC | $ | 999 each |
Full Book with Structural MD | $ | 999 each |
DSE Content Server(1)
(Capacity: 10,000 digital books)
|
$ | 3,999 each |
Coronavirus pricing - all three for:
(limit one per institution)
|
$ | 4,999 each |
Research Tools for Students & Faculty
1) a full content match function; 2) a ReadAlong Audio, skim, active highlighting and organizing app with personal
network (phone, tablet & PC) and digital rights management; 3) cloud servers for non-copyrighted content; and 4) DSE Content Servers for copyrighted materials that must be located in the library. Researchers input one to one hundred or more pages of material from one or more sources. In a split second, the full content match function can compare the full input content with a billion pages and identify the hundred most highly correlated pages that include the main search term. The ‘billion’ pages searched include pre- and ex-copyright materials such as government-funded research and informative content, open access journal articles and open educational resources and copyrighted content. The copyrighted content can only be accessed while the researcher is in the library - DSE Content Servers that are located on library premises ensure compliance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
Why wasn’t this available until now?
Why wasn’t it done by the big publishers, or OCLC or the google Scholar group?
- This research tool relies partly on digitization machines, and DLSG has designed, developed and maintains more than 90% of the digitization systems in US academic libraries today for self-serve, interlibrary lending & digitization projects and archival, and these systems are in 90% of academic libraries (by budget).
- This research tool’s technologies are highly sophisticated and completely different from the research technologies in use today, and the publishers and OCLC do not have the software development capabilities of DLSG.
- The publishers, OCLC and google are heavily invested in their respective business and service models.
- Web servers can not allow access to more than 10% of copyrighted monographs, and coming into possession of full journal articles can take days, while this research tool provides instant access to full content while the researcher is in the library, a perfect fit with DLSG’s existing business and service models.
- This research tool takes as input, multiple pages of print and/or digital content, and DLSG alone has digitization technologies
- DLSG’s thousands of KICs in a thousand academic libraries now have the ability to digitize a 400 page monograph with standard & structural metadata in 30 minutes
Where is it used?
AT THE LIBRARY
IN THE CLASSROOM
OTHER
Requirements & Costs
The research tool requires at least one KIC scanning
kiosk with the KSS option. To access copyrighted
content, at least one DSE Content Server
(CSV) can be added
KIC Study System – a highly effective App for Existing Textbooks & Course Materials
screen enabled smartphones and tablets to substantially increase study speed while simultaneously increasing long-term retention. KSS capabilities include the following:
- Instant access to alternate treatments of the same study topics, including Open Educational Resources and, while in the library, monograph content as well
- Capture of printed textbook content into KSS, a few chapters at a time (at the library)
- ReadAlong Audio - tracks study progress
- Digital highlighting - instantly turns highlights into Q&A for frequent self-testing
- Instant speed-reading without training, with progress tracking
- Graphical study progress reporting
- Surprisingly effective on the small screens of smartphones
- Study anywhere, on phone, tablet or PC – highlighting/flashcards and study progress follow the student from phone to tablet to PC
- Internet not required, except to synchronize the student’s personal network
(phone, tablet & PC)
Why wasn’t this available until now?
Why wasn’t it done by the big publishers or the existing educational software companies?
Typical eLearning companies have a different focus. They combine automated testing with standard content viewers, and do not apply much creativity to enhance the actual learning process. Also, many eLearning products are designed to work with minimal or no involvement from instructors.
Why DLSG?
Take a look at the past 16 years that DLSG has been serving academic libraries and decide for yourself whether DLSG is more innovative than all other library technology providers combined AND has far better prices (better value) than non-profit organizations.
Where is it used?
AT THE LIBRARY
IN THE CLASSROOM
OTHER
Requirements & Costs
KIC Study System requires at least one KIC scanning kiosk
with the KSS option. The KSS option is free for the first
year after purchasing KIC, and is $500 per year thereafter
if most patron use copiers have been replaced with
KICs,
or $1,000 per year if not.
Digitize, Compose with Auto-Citation, ...
Academic libraries have been missing a very important service that has just become available: the ability for students, faculty and researchers to combine materials from multiple sources from the library’s collections and, using a large 24 inch touch screen, edit, rearrange and otherwise compose the materials, then create PDFs or KSS packets for use with KIC Study System. KIC Composer automatically zones text into individual paragraphs that the user can move around and swipe to and from Composer’s visual clipboard along with pictures, diagrams, graphs. When a user is composing content from multiple sources and a paragraph, picture, diagram or graph is moved from one source to another, Composer’s auto-citation feature visually tags the clip of content with a reference to the source on an automatically created sources page. Users can also bring their own materials into the library, combine them with content from the library’s collections and compose, etc.
Why DLSG?
Take a look at the past 16 years that DLSG has been serving academic libraries and decide for yourself whether DLSG is more innovative than all other library technology providers combined AND has far better prices (better value) than non-profit organizations.
Where is it used?
AT THE LIBRARY
IN THE CLASSROOM
OTHER
Requirements & Costs
Every KIC scanning kiosk includes KIC Composer with a basic Auto-citation feature at no additional cost. The Advanced Auto-citation
option is an extra $500 and is highly recommended. It allows users
to capture content from multiple sources and move and rearrange
individual snippets (e.g. paragraphs, tables, graphs and diagrams)
while a citation source tag is automatically placed
just below and to the
right of the snippet.
It’s like having Google Street View for your library’s print collections. Users simply swipe to browse an aisle, zoom to see a shelf, and touch any book to see its bibliography and its location in your library. Your library’s print collections have never been so accessible!
Why is it valuable for your library
that no one wants to talk about. Just as restaurants publish images of their dining areas and their menu items online, with the introduction of KAT Stacks View, libraries can now make images of their stacks and bibliographic records available visually online as well.
It’s easy and fun to browse the stacks on any smart device just by swiping the screen left or right. Now your library website visitors can have a novel and engaging way of “visiting” your library virtually that makes it easy for them to find books of interest that bring them into your actual library.
Where is it used?
AT THE LIBRARY
IN THE CLASSROOM
OTHER
Requirements & Costs
KAT Stacks has a $5,000 setup fee plus $5,000 annual service fee plus $0.02 per page per year.
Setup requires 30-60 days, and requirements include a current MARC records file, access to your ILS
system via Standard Interchange Protocol (SIP2), a link from your library’s Website to your KAT Stacks
system in the cloud, a requirement to
take part in digitizing covers,
spines and TOCs including
at least one Spine & Cover Capture option
- Support for a Research Tool that takes multiple printed and digital pages as input and provides instant access to the 100 most highly correlated content from billions of digital pages of monographs held by a thousand academic libraries (see Digital Stacks Project) – researchers simply swipe or scroll tablet or PC screen to the right or left, significantly improving effectiveness.
- Support for a unique and powerful study system – Students scan a textbook chapter into KIC (or input it digitally), then access alternate treatments of study topics by simply swiping or scrolling their phone, tablet or PC screen to the right or left - sources for alternate treatments include nearly 100,000 pages of OER content and/or digitized monographs held by a thousand academic libraries (see Digital Stacks Project).
- Language translation – KIC can translate text to and from 70 different languages.
- KIC Study System, with 8 study methods, including fast computer-assisted preview, ReadAlong Audio, custom flashcards and real-time graphical study progress information –highly valuable for distance learning due to Corona virus.
- Composer with Auto-Citation – allows students, faculty & Researchers to input class notes, course materials and research, add content from the stacks, then reorganize paragraphs, pictures, diagrams and tables with a finger on KIC’s big 24 inch screen; and use its visual clipboard to create entirely new pages, all while KIC ensures that each piece of content is tagged and connected with bibliographic information that it automatically retrieved from the book’s ISBN barcode.
- A superior copier-replacement option, including optimized support for printing via Pharos, Papercut, Envisionware, Comprise and WEPA (target release date: August 1, 2020).
here are three additional reasons:
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Overuse of one or more KICs.
- B&W paper copies typically cost 15 cents each, and digital images are color and support audio,
language translation, and more. KIC systems are more than justified at 2,000 pages per month. - To avoid waiting lines.
- To stay within usage norms - 87% of KICs are digitizing fewer than 5,000 pages per month.
- Scanner usage ratings -- KIC Click Minis are rated for 400,000 lifetime scans.
- B&W paper copies typically cost 15 cents each, and digital images are color and support audio,
- A broader product line, including smaller products with lower duty cycles at lower prices (e.g. KIC Click Mini & KIC Click Mini Slim)
- The Digital Stacks Project – 1,000 academic libraries digitizing 5,000 books each at a rate of 2 books per staff hour.
Where is it used?
AT THE LIBRARY
IN THE CLASSROOM
OTHER
Requirements & Costs
and composed by students and faculty.
KIC Model / Options | Cost |
---|---|
KIC Bookeye 4 A2 with V-cradle | $18,951 (1) |
KIC Bookeye 4 A3 with V-cradle | $13,999 (2) |
KIC Click Mini | $5,499 - 6,499 (3) |
SmartDock | $699 (3) |
ADF Scanner | $699 (3) |
Advanced Auto-citation | $499 (3) |
Language Translation | $20/million chars |
Fleet Manager | $149/yr |
Reservation Service | $149/yr |
COVID-19 Response Mitigation Help – Short-term rental of BSCAN ILL Systems
- For students that have suddenly been thrust into remote learning, it is enough of a challenge that they should not also have to do without the study materials they are accustomed to getting at the library
- For faculty that use non-digital course materials and need to get digital versions to their students
- For researchers who are unable to make their usual visits to the library to digitize content from the library’s journal and monograph print collections
select the green button bellow.
Where is it used?
AT THE LIBRARY
Distance
Learning
Time
STUDENTS
FACULTY & RESEARCHERS
Requirements & Costs
KIC Bookeye 3 V2 | KIC Bookeye 3 v3 | KIC Click Mini | |
---|---|---|---|
Rental Base Fee | $ 6,000 | $ 4,500 | $ 2,500 |
Monthly fee (Note: 3 months minimum) | $ 600 | $ 450 | $ 250 |
Shipping & Handling 2 ways | $ 700 | $ 700 | $ 600 |
Total for 3 Months | $ 8,500 | $ 6,550 | $ 3,850 |
Each Additional Month (unlimited) | $ 600 | $ 450 | $ 250 |
KIC (with Composer, KSS & support for HotLinks) | $ 23,999 | $ 17,999 | $ 7,499 |
Bundle Discount | $ (4,000) | $ (3,000) | $ - |
Institutional Discounts | $ (2,000) | $ (1,500) | $ (750) |
Rental Fee Credit | $ (6,000) | $ (4,500) | $ (2,500) |
Return Shipping Credit | $ (350) | $ (350) | $ (300) |
Total System Price | $ 11,649 | $ 8,649 | $ 3,949 |
Maintenance (1st year) | $ 2,160 | $ 1,620 | $ 1,215 |