A presentation that was given at ALA MidWinter 2014 by Ed Sanchez and Rob Nunez from Marquette University. The presentation covers the journey Library IT has taken when experimenting with Digital Signage solutions.

1. Flexible and Low-cost Digital
Signage
or
… Perfection is a journey rather than a
destination
Ed Sanchez, Head of Information Technology
Rob Nunez, Emerging Technologies Librarian
Marquette University

2. Initial Request*:
• Welcome Screen
• Building Directory
* … via symon.com SDA 75 but no plans for touch

3. Items on Hand …
• 42” Plasma screen
• Peerless mobile rack

4. Challenges …
 No secured CPU
 No remote update of content on screen
 No Content Management System

5. Solutions …
 Next Unit of Computing (NUC) device
running Windows OS
 WiFi = mobility
 HTML 5
 www.digitalsignage.com

6. Results
Inspiration
Creation

7. Results continued…
Inspiration
Creation

8. HTML 5 caching

9. Chrome + Kiosk Mode + Refresh
Auto Refresh Plus

10. MS SharePoint as a CMS
+
http://sourceforge.net/projects/nusoap/

11. 3rd party solutions
 SCALA
 Digital Signage Wordpress Theme (on GitHub)
 Digitalsignage.com (http://git.digitalsignage.com)
 Tightrope
 Haivision (CoolSign)
 Axis TV

12. Thank you!
Questions?