Events

  • AASLH Annual Meeting

    September 10-11, 2008
    Rochester Convention Center
    Rochester, NY

  • Frankfurt Book Fair

    Frankfurter Buchmesse
    October 15 - October 19, 2008
    Frankfurt, Germany

  • GITEX

    October 19-23, 2008
    UAE
    Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre

  • GTEC 2008

    October 28-29, 2008
    Ottawa
    Westin Hotel
    Ristech Booth 1012

  • IMS Online

    December 2008
    London, UK

Libraries

The Current Situation

In the United States alone, there are more than 117,000 libraries in the United States. In addition to the almost 10,000 public libraries, there are also thousands of libraries in schools, colleges and universities, hospitals, law firms, businesses, the armed forces and more. In Europe the number may be even greater. And nearly all face the same challenges:

  • 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 Proposition

The delivery of new and innovative services through digitization projects is transforming the old brick-and-mortar library model to a new virtual 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.

Is a Kirtas solution right for you?

Ask yourself these questions.

  1. How are you currently digitizing books and bound books?
  2. What are the specific goals of your digitization projects? (Access, preservation, revenue?)
  3. What is the maximum size of the books to be scanned?
  4. What resolution do you need?
  5. What type of output format will you need? (TIFF, JPEG, PDF, OCR)
  6. What is your timeline and budget?

Contact Kirtas. And have a pleasant and enlightening conversation with people who are the world leaders in providing answers that will fit your needs.

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? Find out. Contact Kirtas today.


The Copyright Issue

  • What About Copyright?

    A number of publishers, authors and organizations, such as the American Library Association, oppose digitization of copyrighted materials without “proper” compensation.

  • Additionally, there are many so called “orphan works” for which the copyright cannot be determined and for which public access cannot therefore be given.

  • Kirtas has been successful in overcoming the copyright obstacle by focusing on unique or special collections, older books no longer covered by copyright, local history, and proprietary genealogy information.