Library Technology Guides

A recent buyer's guide article, "The Thin Crowd," in Entrepreneur (November 1999, pp. 70-72) laments the fact that LCD monitors are still priced at more than $1,000. The article cites as the reason for the high prices that all LCD monitors are manufactured in Japan and Korea, and that demand far exceeds the supply. That is expected to change by the third quarter of 2000, when several new factories are sched-uled to open in more cost-efficient Taiwan. When full production is achieved, prices for LCD monitors are expected to drop in half. Libraries considering the purchase of LCD monit-ors should consider delaying their purchases until the drop in prices occurs.