U Nebraska Omaha Library Installs Digital Display Wall
Students at the University
of Nebraska Omaha can now take
advantage of a 36-square-foot digital display wall that has been
installed in
the campus's C.C. & Mabel L. Criss Library.
AVI
Systems installed the Christie
LCD interactive digital
display wall recently to give students the opportunity to experiment,
play and
create. According to the library's patron services director, Joyce
Neujahr,
students have been using it to design video games, work on school
projects and "spray
paint" the wall using Graffiti Wall software.
The library has initiated Throwback Thursdays when
archival
university photos are shown and on Tuesdays streaming videos are
displayed on
the display wall, which is built on casters and can be moved around the
building.
"One week we had eagles with their eggs hatching, and
then the
mother feeding them," Neujahr said. "Another time we had newborn
puppies. That
sort of thing usually drives a lot of attention."
The university has also streamed video of the Hubble
Space
Telescope circling the Earth.
"That's been a popular use of the wall," she said, "the live
streaming event."
Neujahr said her interest in the display wall was
piqued when
she saw similar devices being used at North Carolina State University.
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