WORK STATION SPECS FOR MEDIA RICH LIBRARY

Well, we WANT to be a media rich library. Right now, we're a fancy storage closet and I'm the very cruel new cleaning tornado.

Upon arrival last month, I quickly learned that

Nothing here has ever been weeded
Nothing has ever been turned down.
There is not and has never been a single digital asset.

So, I'm here to clean out the collection and create a digital-friendly workspace with a half dozen workstations.

Please, if anyone has ideas or a link to ideas on specs for library work stations in 2012--no storage (other than flashdrives or cloud), share!

Anyone?

Tags: computers, hardware, specifications, specs, workstations

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Permalink Reply by Christine Sitter on January 25, 2012 at 3:07pm

As a fellow tornado, I'm taking it easy. It's my first year here and I don't want to step on any toes. I literally had a teacher ask for a certain filmstrip reel and projector this afternoon. Slowly and carefully I explained that I can find the clip and show it in his classroom if he would just send the title or subject/content area of the film.

We've got two centered workstations in the library, groups of six. Make sure there's enough room for any textbooks/notebook needed, and portable keyboards help, too.

One step at a time.