[OPLINTECH] Flat Screen TV/Monitor Systems for Publicity

[James Guilford]

We are using just this sort of arrangement. A large, flat-panel unit 
sits on a shelf behind the Circulation Desk where patrons are most 
likely to have a little time to see a slide or two.

To keep it simple and save some cost, we use a home-grown system 
utilizing PowerPoint to create and run a show of slides with various 
announcements and a standard PC stowed in a cabinet drives the screen. 
Slides stay on the screen for around five seconds before transitioning 
to the next slide.

A bit of advice: The folks who purchased the large screen (using donated 
funds) bought a plasma unit. Don't do that. Though they have improved, 
plasma screens are still subject to image burn-in and it only took a 
couple of days for our screen to show it! Purchase an LCD screen and 
you'll be safer.

-- J. Guilford

Susan Allen wrote:
>
> If anyone out there on this list is using large flat screen TVs or 
> monitors to display information about programs at your library, I 
> would love to talk to you. Our community relations department would 
> like to set one up to use at a couple of our libraries and we are 
> looking at options. I am aware of the Potomac electronic messaging 
> system, and would like to hear from anyone who has set something like 
> this up using PowerPoint, or the Potomac system, or any other method. 
> If you’ve set one up could you please shoot me an email?
>
> Thanks! ~ Susan
>
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> Susan Allen
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> Director of Technology Services
>
> Worthington Libraries
>
> 820 High St., Worthington, OH 43085
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> 614-807-2614
>
> http://www.worthingtonlibraries.org
>
> http://www.worthingtonmemory.org
>

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James Guilford, I.T. Manager
Westlake Porter Public Library

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