What do you use for patron scan stations?

[Susan Hansen]

Rochester Public Library (MN) has the ST Imaging book center scanner.
We've had it for several years and love it!  We've had patrons copying
their court files, textbook questions, photos, old diaries,  immigration
documents. We have a volunteer come twice a week to scan our city
directories and old library documents for us to archive.  The one pass
scanning as well as copying to the edge is great. We lend patrons a
flashdrive to save the documents which they can take to any of our
internet stations to upload.  We use it as a color photocopier since we
only have a black and white copier. We do not have email or fax enabled
on it.  Our monitor is on a stand hooked onto the scanner box. Photo
here:
 
http://www.rochesterpubliclibrary.org/info/scanners.html#scanner
 
The OCR conversion is slow and we don't do many pages at one time as it
seems to crash the system. But it does seem to do fairly accurate
conversion.
 
We do not charge for using the system.  I don't see as many people
using the print from flashdrive feature.  The times we've tried, the
patrons have Office 2010 and the scanner only can read Office 2007
files.
 
Biggest trouble we had was originally connecting to our Pharos print
station but ST Imagining worked with us and the other two vendors
involved to get it resolved.  I'm not as happy with the quality of the
scanned photos, but we don't really bump the resolution up to the max.
It also doesn't have any descreening for newspaper articles so those
aren't as crisp.


 
 
Susan K. Hansen,
Librarian/webmaster | Rochester Public Library
101 2nd Street SE |Rochester MN  55904-3776

susan at rochester.lib.mn.us
www.rochesterpubliclibrary.org
office phone: 507.328.2370 | fax: 507.328.2384
 
First-Class City, First-Class Service
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From: Thomas Edelblute <TEdelblute at ANAHEIM.NET>
To:<WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU>
Date: 3/6/2013 7:03 PM
Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] What do you use for patron scan stations?

This is on my wish list for future purposes in our library.
 
http://www.stimaging.com/products/st-bookscan-center
 

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Subject: [WEB4LIB] What do you use for patron scan stations?

 

Eastern Washington University is currently evaluating options for
self-service scanners with touch screens that would be available for our
patrons to use. One needed function is the ability to scan to email,
file storage, PDF, OCR/Word, JPG, or a print queue. 

 

We’re very interested in knowing what other OCA libraries are using and
what you do and do not like about them. Please feel free to reply to me
directly unless others on the list indicate they also would like this
information.

 

Thanks,

Doris

 

Doris Munson

Systems/Reference Librarian

Eastern Washington University

dmunson at ewu.edu

509-359-6395

 

 

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