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For decades, more than 47,000 original documents and artifacts related to the life and times of Abraham Lincoln were housed underneath the Old State Capitol in downtown Springfield, Ill., where they were inaccessible to all but a few researchers and scholars. With the completion of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in 2005, the general public can now view many of these items for the first time. In addition, multimedia presentations, seminars, web casts, and satellite broadcasts can be made from the Lincoln Presidential Library to students and other participants all over the world....

Security On the Minds of AV Pros and Clients 

Security may have become an obsession since September 2001, but it has also become even more of a bread-and-butter business for pro AV. Clients are not only building more dedicated security and surveillance systems, but they are also thinking about security when doing all sorts of other things. Security can have a range of levels. For individual users, a heightened security consciousness may mean buying LCD displays with narrower angles of view instead of the wider viewing angles touted so strongly by manufacturers in the past. ...

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InfoComm Redux  

By Mark Johnson and Trevor Boyer

When I think of InfoComm, a snippet of an old Doobie Brothers song comes to mind: "It keeps you runnin'…" This is a big show, with much territory to cover. While not as large as NAB or CES, InfoComm has steadily grown to a size that only a limited number...

The Buzz: Install of the Month 

By Trevor Boyer

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Picture This: Integration
at InfoComm 

By Jeff Sauer

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The Buzz: Install of the Month 

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The Buzz:
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Installation Profile: OR AV
University Hospital UAB 

By Stephen Porter

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