Libraries
The Current Situation
There are more than 1 million libraries worldwide. In addition to national and public libraries, there are also thousands of libraries in schools, colleges and universities, hospitals, law firms, businesses, the armed forces and more. Those libraries collectively house more than 16 billion volumes. All these libraries are facing similar issues:
- Operating costs are rising
- Governmental funding has decreased severely
- Facilities are straining to balance the demands of an ever-increasing workload with a fixed and sometimes shrinking personnel base.
- And despite low salaries, staff costs are typically about 50% of most budgets.
- Books have even been known to be destroyed due to lack of storage space
The Kirtas Value Propo
sition
The delivery of new and innovative services through digitization projects is transforming the old brick-and-mortar library model to a new digital model.
The new digital approach enables libraries to offer more value, ranging from remote access to online catalogs, indexing and abstracting tools, and full-text resources deliverable right to the user's desktop.
Kirtas' high speed digitization technology offers compelling access, preservation and cost-cutting advantages to libraries.
Our services and equipment have been used by organizations ranging from Yale University to the British Library.
Why have leading institutions in the field made the choice for Kirtas? Contact Kirtas and find out today.
