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AIIM/ON DEMAND CONFERENCE & EXPO, PHILADELPHIA, MARCH 31, 2009, BOOTH #509 - Digitization of records and documents is nothing new; however, the ability to streamline and improve access to information has taken on an entirely new sense of urgency in today’s economy.

Kirtas Technologies, the pioneer in high-speed, nondestructive mass digitization, today announced the availability of two new products enabling the transition to digital more efficiently and with the ability to safeguard newly digitized information.

SkyView is the latest and most versatile innovation from Kirtas for oversized materials and more. Together with RapidRedact redaction software, organizations can now not only digitize documents, but also eliminate the risk of sharing newly digitized content by removing personal and confidential information that may be contained within it.

FOSE 2009, WASHINGTON, D.C., MARCH 10, 2009, BOOTH #2417 – Increasing access to their materials for scholars and educators around the world, is one of the main reasons libraries across the country cite for digitizing their collections.

But what about improving access to information for your own students, on your own campus? What if a student is unable to read the book in the format that it is currently in, or simply learns best by listening?

Kirtas Technologies is known around the world for its automatic page turning (APT) systems. The company helps universities, libraries, and other organizations convert old, rare and fragile books and documents into digital content.

The University of California, Merced (UC Merced) is using their APT system to take those digitized files one step further and create new media for its students with disabilities.

TOOLS OF CHANGE CONFERENCE, NEW YORK CITY, FEBRUARY 10, 2009 – Since 2001, Kirtas Technologies has worked with the world’s most renowned libraries to bring rare, out-of-copyright books into the digital age, making centuries-worth of books available to the world.

Today, Kirtas announces a partnership with the University of Pennsylvania Libraries to make over 200,000 titles available to the public in a unique way.

Using existing information drawn from Penn’s catalog records, Kirtas is able to offer out-of-copyright books for sale through its own retail site, www.kirtasbooks.com. What makes this initiative unique is that the books can be offered for sale before they are ever digitized, so there is no up-front printing, production or storage cost.