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JP Lilley continues to bring communication and presentation products to their clients that fit the time and the place. We have adjusted to the workspace for over 90 years. Now today we are working with our customers through the COVID-19 pandemic. Workers have spread out from their previous workspace and they are in a number of different scenarios. Working from many different places like never before. Now do you find that the laptop camera, audio and microphone are very poor quality or do not exist on the tablet you've been assigned? JP Lilley is open and ready to assist you in getting your employees set up in whatever space they are working from. Let us help you look and sound great to your meeting participants. We provide solutions for communication products from companies like Crest...

Are you a Microsoft Lync 2013 user looking to deploy meeting spaces within your company? Then meet Crestron RL ...   What is Crestron RL™? Crestron RL is a comprehensive group collaboration solution that combines Crestron hardware with Microsoft® Lync® software. The Crestron RL solution is based on Microsoft Lync 2013, a popular and powerful server-based application that many companies already use on a daily basis. This full-featured unified communication system enables video, voice, interactive content sharing, presence, and chat from one touch screen interface. Easy to Use With just one touch of a button, anyone can walk into a conference room and instantly start a collaboration session. Share your desktop with local and remote participants; view and annotate over PowerPoint® remotely or locally using the supplied 65" touch display. Use the interactive whiteboard to share ideas without the smelly markers. Remote participants can join via Lync on their desktop, and...

Karambelas Media and Communication CenterWilkes University's newest facility, the Karambelas Media and Communication Center, officially opened with a dedication ceremony on Aug. 31. The $4 million, 14,000-square-foot center will house the communication studies program, consolidating all scholarship and activities into one modern facility where students can collaborate across media disciplines.The 14,000-square-foot center is located at 141 South Main St., continuing to expand Wilkes' presence in downtown Wilkes-Barre. It brings the communication studies departments' co-curricular activities under one roof. These include WCLH Radio, Wilkes Now Television, The Beacon student newspaper, the student-run public relations agency Zebra Communications and the speech and debate team. The facility i...

Messiah College Winding Hill campus located in Mechanicsburg Pennsylvania, just a few miles away from the state capital Harrisburg and Messiah's main campus is a newly renovated, state-of-the-art 32,000 square-foot educational center. Architect on the project was Crabtree, Rohrbaugh & Associates with an office located in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. Master of Occupational Therapy FacilitiesStudents in Messiah's master of occupational therapy program will have the opportunity to complete their course and lab work in a technologically advanced learning environment which includes the recent addition of an AV enriched cadaver lab and overflow room.This unique teaching environment was challenged with providing a modern state-of-the-art experience for the students and the professor meeting t...

October 29, 2017 Messiah College Main campus located in Mechanicsburg Pennsylvania, just a few miles away from the state capital Harrisburg. Located on the main campus is Frey Hall which was initially completed in 1991, Frey Hall houses classrooms, a large lecture hall, art studios, computer labs, engineering and physics labs, and faculty offices. A new 18,442 square-foot addition, which began in April 2014, was completed in early February 2017. Architect for the project was Greenfield Architects which is located in Lancaster Pennsylvania.  Ralph S. Larsen Finance Lab To prepare students for exciting careers in finance, the Ralph S. Larsen Finance Lab will equip students with state-of-the-art technology and market data in a Wall Street trading floor atmosphere. Students will become pr...