Helping to Justify Academic Library Budgets Since 2004
Digital Library Systems Group
Mission
To create digital information technology for the advancement of study, research and scholarly productivity, copyright law compliant technology that:
History
In 2004, DLSG sold its first KIC, BSCAN ILL, and Opus systems. Ten years later, nearly 70% of students at US universities were served by DLSG digitization systems (90% by budget), and public libraries were beginning to investigate and learn the value of DLSG technologies. Then, in 2015, DLSG began developing the Digital Library Ecosystem. After five years and over a quarter of a million R&D professional hours invested, the Digital Library Ecosystem is ready, just in time to serve the study and research challenges caused by social distancing.
The Roles of the Librarian in the Digital Age
In the Digital Age, libraries and librarians have new and essential responsibilities. Instant access to Web search results makes it all too easy to disregard more vetted sources of information. Unlike Web-based information, the $100+ billion libraries have invested in collection development over decades and centuries is immutable and [mostly] factual. If only one in ten citizens are informed by [largely] unbiased information, these people can share their findings with friends and family members, perhaps reducing disagreements in our society to just those topics that are actually arguable.
Knowledge Imaging Centers
Self-serve Digitization Kiosks with MyDocs & KSS App, Composer, Auto-Citation,...
Bookeye 5
New
2020 Models
50% Faster
15-25% Lower Cost
V3 and V2 Models
Unlike Other CDL Systems, DLSG’s Directed Lending is HIGHLY TRANSFORMATIVE – it is fully integrated with DLSG’s KIC Study System and HotLinks Study/Research Tools
DLSG’s transformative and extended Controlled Digital Lending solution costs only under $5,000, can be installed in minutes and supports all your students and up to 10,000 copyrighted items. This solution’s QR code distribution system can be used immediately, while Single Sign-on support (SSO) requires a quick integration. And DLSG is offering free trails.
The most valuable of its transformative features for students is HotLinks Study Tool, which can take an entire textbook chapter as input and instantly provides access to the full text of the most relevant Open Educational Resources (OER) from 1,000 high quality titles, over half a million pages.
For Scholars and Researchers, HotLinks Research Tool provides a revolutionary search-match system that takes up to 100 pages of personal research as input and instantly matches it with billions of pages of scholarly content in the print collections of your library and the libraries of other Digital Stacks Project members. HotLinks instantly finds 100 matches representing the most relevant content from billions of pages. Researchers are able to find valuable content that they would never find with standard search systems.
HotLinks Research Tool results can be viewed as ‘sample’ pages from the entire volume that promote copyrighted content that might otherwise remain unknown. For better compliance with the Fair Use section of copyright law, the library can enable the ability for researchers to purchase the full content.
Give Your Students Instant Access
to 1,000 Open Educational Resource Titles
Give Your Researchers Instant Access
to Billions of pages of Relevant
Content
KIC Self-serve Digitization Kiosks (digitize for Controlled Digital Lending / DRM)
In addition to supporting new high-speed whole book digitization options that allow the thousands of existing KIC systems in US and Canadian academic and research libraries to digitize up to four whole books per hour with bookmarks and other ADA features, KIC systems provide powerful digital age services such as the ability to reorganize study and research materials, semi-automatically and automatically add citations, and order printed books.
Offer your students and faculty KIC and its powerful, digital age features that from a superhighway between your highly valuable print collections and the digital world. Composer by KIC is one of many powerful features that are free with any KIC station under active maintenance.
Select Clips
Compose Page
Once pages are scanned, KIC automatically selects photos, charts, and paragraphs. Users can simply touch and drag to select an area, or just touch a photo, chart or paragraph and drag it to the digital clipboard.
Move clips individually from the clipboard to existing pages, or start a new blank page. Then design your layout by arranging, rescaling, rotating clips, and/or adding annotations, frames and clipart.
Save & Send
Shrink, enlarge, and rotate clips to create any layout. Undo changes, remove clips, until your creation is complete. It's digital desktop publishing, easy as 1-2-3, at your fingertips!
Use KIC's huge touch screen to easily arrange, rescale rotate clips, and/or annotations, frames, and clipart.
Then save your results in a variety of file formats and send to USB, email, smart device, or cloud.
POD for gifts, family history...
Bring new patrons to your library with Print On Demand Made Easy
Make a Family Recipe Book
Create a Book of Your Children's Art & Schoolwork
School Children Can Create Their Own Books Too!
What Kind of Book Do You Want to Make Today?
Scan ISBN on Back of Book
and Select Citation Format
APA
MLA
Chicago
IEEE
AMA
Include Digital Citation on all clips
Touch & Drag Citation to Page
Create Complete
Citation List
Auto-create
POD for Scholarly Publishing
& Course Materials, Digital Or Print
POD is Print on Demand, and it's never been easier
Print Bound Copies of Your Thesis
KIC's POD (Print on Demand) feature is a self-serve alternative to the usual thesis printing/binding vendors, using existing KIC systems offered by the university library.
"I can't believe how easy it was to order beautifully printed and bound copies of my thesis right from the KIC systems in our library"
Create Course Materials with Excerpts from Many Sources
With Kic in your library, instructors are no longer restricted to a single
text book. They can freely assign many excerpts from many books
without adding to
the students already high cost of text books.
" I selected excerpts from twelve books and
created the text book i
use for my Civil War class."
KIC Self-Service Scan, Copy, Fax
so much more than copier replacement
KIC Study System - Part of MyDocs with Controlled Digital Lending (DRM)
KIC Study System dramatically improves study efficiency and effectiveness with 9 study tools and methods, including ReadAlong Audio, computer-assisted skim/review, custom flashcards, study progress monitoring, instant access to Open Educational Resources and scholarly content via HotLinks Research & Study Tools.
Open Educational Resources (OER) for High
School and Lower Division
College Students
Use KSS instantly and free with the following OER
Run MyDocs app on your tablet or phone,
and press the button below to
access OER
"My professor just told us about KSS and how to get the OER textbook he assigned. KSS is a great way to study."
KSS for High School Students
Distance learning has disrupted study time as much as it has disrupted teaching. KIC Study System's graphical study progress tracking can be a great study coach. It also provides a powerful alternative to collaborative study - instant access to alternate treatments of a topic.
When a student is having trouble understanding some material, a mouse-click or touch screen swipe provides instant access to high-quality OER content on the same topic.
"I've skimmed and read my history twice. Time for biology."
"This SKIM is great for studying when i'm stuck somewhere with just my phone."
HotLinks Study Tool
Students scan textbook chapters and course materials, send to MyDocs app on their tablet, phone or PC, and study with KSS.
At any time while studying their materials, they can activate HotLinks and swipe their screen and get instant access to high quality OER content that matches their current study topic, exposing them to alternate treatments of whatever they are studying. This can be an effective alternative to collaborative study during COVID.
Scan and send to MyDocs
KIC Study System
HotLinks Study Tool
Use any KIC station to scan course material, textbook chapters, and other study material quickly and efficiently.
Open resulting PDF in KIC Study System to skim, hear the material read around, and make, study and test flashcards.
Swipe to see other sources in OER libraries to read addition treatments and expand your understanding of the study material.
HotLinks Research Tool
Scan or import research material as input to HotLinks. Your source material can be any length - just a few pages or 100 pages. Hotlinks is far better than keyword search. It characterizes the source material as whole, compares them with a billion pages of scholarly content, and returns the 100 best matches in seconds.
HotLinks offsets untold hours of administrative load and allows researchers to see the closest matches to their source material with simple repeated swipes across their touch screens, revealing consecutive search-matches.
KIC Study System (KSS)
Dramatically improve long-term retention and overall study effectiveness using nine study methods derived from powerful digital-age study technologies such as ReadAlong Audio, SKIM, custom Flashcards, and HotLinks Study Tools
Manage study effectively using detailed graphical study progress statistics. Study anywhere, any time. KSS is highly effective on smartphones and needs only intermittent internet access.
No Internet? No problem.
MyDocs only uses the internet occasionally, to get new study material and synchronize between your devices. Note that MyDocs checks for digital rights compliance when internet connection is re-established
KSS is even effective on the small screens of smartphones.
The Digital Stacks Ecosystem with Controlled Digital Lending (DRM)
HotLinks Research & Study Tools provide compelling reasons to digitize and KAT Stacks’ virtual reality browsing facility offers 24/7 virtual access to your stacks. Thousands of existing KIC systems in academic and research libraries across the US and Canada support newly released high-speed whole book digitization options that allow up to four whole books to be digitized in an hour with bookmarks and other ADA features. New, highly transformative Controlled Digital Lending (CDL) technologies for local and interlibrary lending interconnect digitized library print collections in ways never before thought possible, allowing thousands of libraries to share in the digitization effort, reducing the cost to about 1% of existing academic and research library budgets.
Virtual Stacks
exactly matches
physical stacks layout
No Internet? No problem.
MyDocs only uses the internet occasionally, to get
new study material
and
synchronize between your devices.
Note that MyDocs checks for digital rights compliance
when internet connection is re-established
Note: checkout status of print copies is retrieved from your library's ILS via SIP2
HotLinks Research & Study Tools
HotLinks does what search engines can’t - in addition to typed or
touch-selected search terms, HotLinks
takes entire textbook chapters and/or dozens of
pages of
research as input, finding the best matched content,
instantly from billions of source
pages.
Use MyDoc's SKIM and ReadAlong Audio features as well.
Controlled Digital Lending (CDL) for Libraries
DSE Content Servers & the free MyDocs app for tablets, PCs and Phones together achieve the seemingly impossible: make library print collections highly accessible digitally while protecting authors’ and publishers’ rights. DLSG’s CDL provides extremely powerful and transformative new ways for students, scholars and researchers to instantly access print collections along with new ways to sell scholarly content. Time limits are enforced by an encrypted PDF reader app for iOS, Android and Windows, with only occasional Internet access needed.
Distance Learning eSeminars
Essential Learning Assistance that Libraries
Can Provide Now for as Little as $5,000
Including superior study and research tools, digitization of
a book in 10 minutes with bookmarks,
covers and spine, Controlled Digital Lending (CDL), and virtual browsing of library print
collections
DLSG eSeminar Hosts
Library Services that can be provided to distance learners
These can be provided to distance learners quite cost-effectively
Digital Course Materials
Course Materials Reserves Support - Copyright Compliant Digital Content Lending
OER (Open Educational Resources)
ILL & Digital Document Delivery
Study Assistance, Including Remote Access to the Stacks
KIC Study System
Hotlinks Study Tool
KAT Stacks
DLSG News and Events
"We added a new face-up Knowledge Imaging Center (KIC) scanner and a color copier/printer in the 2nd floor Loewinger Lounge. "
Buy individually or all together
The Digital Stacks Ecosystem
“We are very impressed with DLSG. We called for service and were told that the tech was already outside the library” - University of Alaska Anchorage"
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