[Web4lib] Digital Signage in Libraries

[Lawrence Milliken]

This is a very timely thread for me since my director and I were just
talking about this, oh, 20 min. ago.

We'd love to try this out, I just saw some "cheap" 30-something inch
LCD displays in the $500-700 range that we could afford.  That is a lot
better than the $2,000 quote we just got for a 5-line 4-color LED
display.

One question, though, is what kind of video card power is needed to
drive a LCD that big.  Let's say 37" at 1300x768?  

Even if I have to buy a new video card it sure looks like an affordable
way to leave the rolling whiteboard stand behind!

Best,

Larry



Larry Milliken
Reference Librarian 
Neumann College Library

>>> Jeff Wisniewski <jeffw+ at pitt.edu> 01/17/07 7:39 AM >>>
Hi Chris, We're currently putting together content for our LCD  
signage using Flash and running it using the free flash viewer.

Jeff

Jeff Wisniewski
Web Services Librarian
University Library System
271 Hillman Library
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
412-624-4050


On Jan 16, 2007, at 4:23 PM, Cox, Christopher N. wrote:

> We are fortunate to have acquired a number of plasma screens which
we
> will be putting throughout the library building for student current
> awareness, marketing, etc.  Many of the implementations I have seen
of
> this type of technology involve running a looped PowerPoint  
> presentation
> on the screen.  I was wondering:
>
> 1)  Does anyone run a digital signage system such as this using  
> software
> or another technology other than PowerPoint?
>
> 2)  If we use PowerPoint, we want to avoid having to update the
slides
> all that often.
>
> a)  Has anyone figured out how to embed Outlook calendars in  
> PowerPoint?
> We wanted to use this to display our instruction lab's calendar to
> students each day.
> b)  Also, has anyone figured out how to embed an RSS feed into
> PowerPoint?  We use a blog for news and would love to display our  
> latest
> news stories as well as weather, world and national news, etc.
>
> If anyone has done something really neat with this technology I'd
also
> love to hear it.  Happy to share what I hear with the list.
>
> Thanks,
> Chris.
>
>
> Christopher Cox
>
> Interim Director of Libraries
>
> Editor, Internet Reference Services Quarterly
>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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