We are in the process of designing an electronic variable message guiding
system for the Norfolk and Norwich Millennium Library.
The signs are intended to enable users to search the library database and
then to see the location of that stock on a map of the library. The signs
are also intended to display information about events in the building. The
system is expected to operate from 4 databases: a calandar of events; a GIS
floor plan; the library housekeeping database and a database linking the
other databases.
>From the research carried out to date it appears that this type of signing
and guiding has not yet been developed in the UK, alkthough there is a
similar system in the Pompidou Centre in Paris.
Is anyone else working on this type of guiding and signage, please? If so,
it would hbe helpful to swap notes and compare specifications.
NB: I am acting as a consultant to the Norfolk and Norwich Millennium
Company on this project, and through them to the County Council's Library
and Information Service.
Hilary Hammond
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Hilary Hammond
Hilary Hammond - Cultural Consultancy
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phone and fax 01379 687716
mobile 07887 522397
Meadow Cottage,
High Road,
Bressingham,
Diss,
Norfolk, IP22 2AT
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