[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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