[Web4lib] Lobby display monitors - Recommendations?

Bob Rasmussen ras at anzio.com
Thu Oct 15 10:53:01 EDT 2009


Use the search term "digital signage". This will likely bring up whole 
systems, not just monitors. You need a way to deliver content easily, for 
instance.

At one library show Bayscan Technologies was demonstrating some of this.

On Thu, 15 Oct 2009, Brian Myers wrote:

> We are beginning to look at flat screen lobby displays, and hope to
> purchase as many as three (two for our first floor and a third for our
> 2nd floor Youth Services area).
> 
> I would very much appreciate it if you could share your suggestions and
> recommendations. What are you using and how are you integrating it with
> your network? 
> 
> Ideally we would like to leverage existing web content (calendar,
> librarian and patron book reviews, program announcements) and possibly
> customize this content depending upon the location of the display
> monitor within the building (so that, for example, the youth monitor
> displays just youth-related content).  
> 
> I'd particularly appreciate your recommendations with respect to
> specific equipment and network integration. 
> 
> 
> Brian W. Myers
> Reference Librarian and Web Manager
> Wilmette Public Library
> http://www.wilmettelibrary.info
> 
> imagine > invent > program > share 
>  
> 
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