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A lectern is usually attached to a stand or affixed to some other form of support. To facilitate eye contact and improve posture when facing an audience, lecterns may have adjustable height and slant. People reading from a lectern, called lectors, generally do so while standing.
A height-adjustable desk or sit-stand desk can be adjusted to both sitting and standing positions; this is purported to be healthier than the sit-only desk. Sit-stand desks may be effective at reducing sitting time during the work day between 30 minutes and two hours per working day but the evidence is low quality. [6]
The antique is basically a lectern fitted with the conveniences needed to make writing easy, such as room for paper and writing implements. In a sense, it is a specialised and rarer form of standing desk. The term is sometimes used for large standing desks.
In 1987, President Ronald Reagan used a Blue Goose lectern to give the "Tear down this wall!" speech in West Berlin. Described by Politico as "bulky" and "formal", [4] and named by the United States Secret Service after the color of its top and its gooseneck microphone, [5] the bullet-resistant [2] or bullet-proof [5] Blue Goose lecterns are boxy, with a dark blue desk section and dark panels ...
A rehal [a] (Urdu: رحل, Hindi: रिहल, Bengali: রেহাল, Arabic: رَحْل) [1] or rahle Turkish: rahle) or tawla (Arabic: طاولة), is an X-shaped, foldable book rest or lectern used to hold religious scriptures for reverent display, as well as during reading or recitation. It is designed to collapse into a flat form for ...
The other speaker's stand, usually on the right (as viewed by the congregation), is known as the lectern. The word lectern comes from the Latin word "lectus" past participle of legere, meaning "to read", because the lectern primarily functions as a reading stand. It is typically used by lay people to read the scripture lessons (except for the ...