Stacks View
Your Library's Greatest Assets are Finally in the Spotlight
in the Digital World that Students Understand
Knowledge Access Tool, the Best Way to Promote the Stacks to Students
For a dozen years, this shrinking student appreciation of the immense value in their institution's library's print collections has been a big problem that no one wants to talk about. Efforts to ameliorate this problem include brief mentions in freshmen orientation packets and research projects assigned by some faculty members, but the most common and most effective methods used to get the digital generation to try something different is to use lots of visuals. Just as restaurants publish images of their dining areas and their menu items online, with the introduction of KIC Stacks View, libraries can now make images of their stacks and bibliographic records available visually online as well.
Stack View Screen
Search Screen
Shelf View Screen
Bibliography View Screen
Course ID: QMB4061
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
- A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words...
- ... Sometimes Thousands of Words
- Without Imagery of Your Stacks...
- A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words...
- ... Sometimes Thousands of Words
- Without Imagery of Your Stacks...
Bibliography Search
Promote Your Print Collections as the Key to a More Balanced and a Deeper Education
Search Screen
Bibliography View Screen
KIC Reservation System
Reserve Time on KIC Scan Stations and Avoid the Wait
Scroll Through Your Library’s KIC Stations to See Which Stations are Available
...or Make a Reservation Beforehand So You Won't Have to Wait in Line
KIC book scanning stations just got easier than ever to use with your library's customized version of the KIC Reservation System. The ability to reserve a KIC station an hour, day or week in advance is now at your patrons students fingertips. KIC Reservation is part of the Knowledge Access Tool (KAT), and it's a welcome convenience that patrons students, patrons students and faculty will enjoy!
Patrons Students can simply download the KAT application for your university library to see it all on a cell phone or tablet using any web browser. Scroll through KIC stations and touch the RESERVE button to reserve your time slot. The KIC reservation screen is accessible from just about any KAT stacks screen.
KIC Station View Screen
KIC Station Reservation Screen
Faculty Reading Lists
Get students to habitually see your stacks by publishing faculty-recommended book lists on KAT.
Professor Patterson distributes the required reading for his course to students electronically. His book selections are in the library and viewable from KAT Stacks View.
Students can verify the location of the books selected and reserve a scanning station in their library to scan excerpts for their course work, all within the KIC Stacks View application.
QMB4061 Recommended Reading
Search Bibliographic Database on Any KIC System
Bibliography View Screen
Just about every PC, tablet and smart phone provides access to Google, Wikipedia, etc. Your stacks should be just as accessible!
KIC systems can also be configured with KAT, so even students who don't have a smart phone or tablet can search your stacks from any KIC system your library owns.
KIC & KAT Go Hand-in-Hand
Use the popularity of KIC to promote usage of KAT,
which is turn will improve student awareness of the stacks.
KIC Station View Screen
KIC Station Reservation Screen
Bibliography View Screen
How DLSG Captures Your Library's Stacks View
Book covers are uploaded.
Are your library's print collections
getting enough use to justify their cost?
The cost of books and journals certainly hasn't fallen in the past 20 years, and it is likely that the majority of their content remains unavailable on the web, yet students typically don't know this important fact about your print collections.
Before you move too many volumes offsite, let KAT Stacks View help promote increased use of your print collections.
KAT Equipment Requirements
KAT is Cloud-based, so no servers or other onsite computers are necessary. KAT can be accessed by any PC, tablet or smart device that has access to the Web.
Microsoft Azure
Total Up-Time: 99.9936%
Total Number of Servers: 11,000,000
When a WiFi-connected smartphone is used in the stacks to provide assistance in locating materials, to get instant access to bibliographic records, to search for related materials once a volume has been found, and to locate a KIC system for digitizing content, the WiFi bandwidth used will typically be in short bursts of one megabyte per second.
| KAT Activity | Average Download Bytes per Scan | Recommended Min. WiFi Bandwidth |
|---|---|---|
| KIC Reservation Screens | 0.2 megabytes | 0.2 megabytes per second, intermittent |
| KAT Search Screen & Bibliographic Screens | 0.1 megabytes | 0.1 megabytes per second, intermittent |
| KAT Stacks View & KAT Shelf View | 1.0 megabytes | 1 megabyte per second, intermittent |
Considering moving a large portion
of your collections off-Site?
Most libraries have a lot of volumes that haven't been checked out in a long time, and libraries certainly can increase their relevance in the digital age by adding collaboration and study spaces.So it is rather compelling to cull books from the library.
The main argument against culling/moving books off-site is the unknown, but potentially great value that your unabridged collection can have in inciting the very uncommon, but equally special epiphany that a researcher can have while browsing the stacks and perusing the very books that are targeted for culling. The current head of the IMF in Beijing and professor of economics at Harvard University, choose to study
economics at Harvard because of its immense collection of books on economics. It's a difficult argument to ignore. However, relevance in the digital age is not easily pursued without compromises.
If your need to repurpose a lot of stacks space outweighs the value of keeping your full collection browsable, then before you proceed with the culling, let DLSG photograph your entire collection as it is today and make it browsable with KAT stacks view. Students abd researchers can browse your complete collection virtually, instantly see any book's bibliography by touching its spine, and with another touch, read books that have been digitized.
To Cull, or Not to Cull
