photo originally by akseabird
The above photo is a tool called the Bookeye Book Scanner and the one pictured here is installed in the library of the University of Alaska at Anchorage for the students to scan documents and books as PDF, JPG, TIFF or PNG and then choose whether to save it to a USB drive, burn into a CD, ftp them, save them on a network drive or email it to themselves. And of course, you can just print it out. It’s interesting to note that the library at the University of Alaska only provided usage stats on how the scanner is been used. Hmmm … maybe this is the next step in the provision of reprographic services to the public. The only worry, I guess, would be how are we going to enforce the Copyright Act.
(via librarian.net)
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The actual name of this product is the Knowledge Imaging Center (KIC-II). It utilizes a Bookeye book scanner as its centerpiece. The KIC-II is a public walk-up scanning system that provides “digitization-on-demand” by patrons. Videos of it in use can be viewed on the website http://www.dlsg.net. Just go to the site, click on the KIC-II product page and scroll down toward the middle of the page. A downloadable brochure is also available on that page. For more information about the KIC-II system call Mark Surkis, 561-886-2992; Digital Library Systems Group at Image Access, Inc.
@Mark Surkis: Thanks for dropping by and providing a little more information on the Knowledge Imaging Center. It is definitely a very interesting system.