[Web4lib] wide screen monitors (Janet Fine)

Robert Malesko maleskonk at yahoo.com
Tue Aug 31 17:05:38 EDT 2010


Hi Janet,

Have you experimented with different screen resolution settings? If not, give it a whirl.

-Robert Malesko


> 8.30.10
>  
> Hi Everyone,
>  
> We are replacing most of our 15 inch monitors (most
> are  6 years olf)  with wide screen
> monitors.  Websites display very well--no need to
> scroll across the sites, but Millennium is another
> story.  I have increased the font size, so that is not
> a problem.  The problem is the way browse screens
> display--the lines of data are very narrow.  In fact
> the lines are so narrow that the "tails" are cut off the
> lower case letters:   j, q, y, g.  The
> narrow lines also makes for difficult reading of long lists
> of bib records such as works by James Patterson or
> Barney.  Our cataloging/acquisitions department is
> having a really hard time.  
>  
> Any recommendations or thoughts will be greatly
> appreciated--I know someone will come up with  a
> solution!
>  
> Kind regards, Janet 
>  
> Janet Fine 
> Department Head, Circulation and Computer Services 
> Great Neck Library 
> 159 Bayview Avenue 
> Great Neck, NY 11023 
> (516) 466-8055 ext. 205



      




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