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General Information
Multnomah County Library provides its customers with about 700 computers at its 19 neighborhood locations. These computers are equipped with privacy screens and allow customers to download data to standard flash drive. You may use your own flash drives or purchase one at the library for $5.00. Printing costs 10 cents per page.
Please read our Acceptable Use of the Internet and Library Computers policy.
All library computers offer
- Catalog access - Search the more than two million items in the library's collection
Many library computers offer
- Internet access
- (read about filtering options)
- Use e-mail
- Microsoft Office 2007 software
- Database access
- Find articles, biographies, quotes, poems and much more
Laptops to borrow
All libraries currently have laptops that can be borrowed with your Multnomah County Library card and used within the library for two hours. Cardholders ages 18 and older who have a library account in good standing and photo identification may borrow laptops. Laptops are available on a first-come, first-served basis. They cannot be reserved ahead of time.
The Community Chromebooks program, funded by the Mt. Hood Cable Regulatory Commission with funds provided by Comcast, provides about 175 laptops across the system.
Computers for children
Every library has computers reserved for children. These computers direct children to the library's Kids section and offer educational, entertaining software titles that teach reading, math and other skills. Unless a parent or guardian designates otherwise, kids 12 and younger have filtered Internet access and teens have unfiltered Internet access; learn more.
Adaptive technology
The library offers at least one adaptive technology computer at most libraries. In addition to the services on regular library computers, these computers have ZoomText (screen magnification software), JAWS for Windows (screen-reading software), QuickLaunch (hotkey software that launches ZoomText and JAWS) and headphones.