InfoComm International Audiovisual (AV) InfoComm Publications

InfoComm manuals and handbooks are written with strong participation from member experts working in the AV, IT, telecommunications and structured cabling fields. With these reference guides, you can be confident that you are tuned in to the best practices in the industry. They also serve as excellent professional gifts for clients or colleagues alike!

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NEW! - AV Setup Guide

Training New Employees? We're Here To Help!

InfoComm is pleased to release its newest book, the AV Setup Guide for Events, Meetings, Conferences, and Classrooms. Convenient half-sized format that's loaded with photos, this 96-page guide will save time, frustration, and errors from day one. Filled with simple step-by-step procedures and relevant topics (customer service, safety, basic troubleshooting, loading and unloading a truck, pipe and drape, striking a room, setting up audio and video, and an appendix of connectors) it's perfect for recently hired employees or someone new to the industry. Rental technicians, hotel, conference, corporate, and university AV staff, meeting planners, sales reps – it's a must-have for your office, toolbox, truck, or crash cart! (more)

Essentials of the AV Industry

Now available in print, the concise resource for AV systems technologies is drawn from InfoComm’s online course, Essentials of the AV Industry. "An outstanding training tool for anyone who needs to understand the essential elements of AV systems."

Containing the essential audio, video and systems guidelines on which AV solutions are based, this important reference is a companion to the online course of the same name. (more)

Filled with color charts and photos!

AV Installation Handbook: The Best Practices for Quality Audiovisual Systems

The contents represent years of industry experts' skill and knowledge as refined and documented for the curriculum of InfoComm Academy’s Installation School. The Handbook is designed to provide a step-by-step guide to proper technique, illustrated with color photos to help you on your way. It is a key feature of the exciting new AV Installation Resource Center now being offered as a comprehensive resources for companies and individuals as their one-stop reference and learning tool. (more)

The AV Design Reference Manual
Published by BICSI and InfoComm

InfoComm, representing the professional audiovisual industry, and BICSI, representing the information transport systems industry, have collaborated to create this in-depth, comprehensive reference manual for anyone involved in a building's infrastructure. Information, standards, documents, best practices and glossaries cover a range of topics in chapters about acoustics, electrical, HVAC, lighting, interior design, networking, transmission, audio, video components and more. The book can be purchased as a printed manual, as a CD, or as a combined package of manual and CD. (more)

Audiovisual Best Practices: The Design and Integration Process for the AV and Construction Industries

How do you plan for success when designing today's critical AV systems? Who are the players, what are their roles, and how should they interact? How should contractors, design consultants, architects, systems integrators and project managers work together to avoid confusion, tension and cost overruns?

AV Best Practices presents the answers to your AV design process questions, from the initial planning or program stages through the design, construction, system commissioning and finally, client training. You'll find a wealth of practical resources such as checklists, contract relationship charts, project scheduling decision factors, sample agreements, and much more! (more)

The Basics of Audio and Visual Systems Design Revised Edition
The ultimate resource to find the diverse set of physics, electronics, ergonomics and design that makes up the audiovisual industry.

The first edition, written by Ray Wadsworth, PE, and published by the National Audio-Visual Association (now InfoComm International) in 1983, has been revised to provide the latest generation of audiovisual professionals with an updated knowledge of the industry.

Written by industry experts, The Basics of Audio and Visual Systems Design: Revised Edition contains 12 sections: The Projected Image Format, Screen Size Versus Ceiling Height, Projection Screens, Projection Optics, Mirrors in Projection Systems, Measuring Light, Projection Technologies, the Audio in Audiovisual, the Video in Audiovisual, Technical Power and Ground Systems, Remote Control System and Videoconferencing. (more)