Multimedia monitors

[Lewis Cartee]

We are buying 75 public multimedia workstations for accessing the 
library catalog and the Internet.  Speakers on the workstations 
will be disruptive to other library users, so we're looking at 
providing headphones to be checked out from the Circulation Desk.  

Does anyone have experience doing this?  Has it worked well?

We're concerned about letting users go to the back of the 
workstations to plug the headphones in themselves.  ViewSonic 
manufactures monitors with a headphones jack.  Has anyone used this 
approach?  What other options are there for bringing a headphones 
jack to the front of the workstation?

Any information is most welcome.  TIA.


Lewis Cartee
Systems Department