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North Portland Computer Lab Instructions
Making a reservation
- Reservations are required and accepted up to one week in advance. Sign up at North Portland Branch Library or call 503.988.4810.
- You may reserve a computer for one-hour blocks of time. You are allowed two hours per day and up to six hours per week.
- If you visit the lab without a reservation, the lab monitor may allow you to use a vacant computer. If all the machines are in use, you may reserve a machine for a later time.
Getting started
- Check in with a lab monitor. The lab monitor will ask for a valid Multnomah County Library card or other identification and assign you to a computer.
- If you do not check in within 15 minutes of your reserved time, your computer may be assigned to another person.
Tip: Don't have a library card? Find out how to get one.
Using a computer
- Lab monitors are available to help you. They can assist you to the extent that time and other customer needs allow.
- You may use all the programs installed on the computers, but you may not download or install new software onto the machines.
- Printing with the lab's color laser printer costs 50¢ per page for color, 10¢ per page for black-only prints.
- You may use your own storage diskettes or purchase one from the library for 50¢.
Leaving the lab
- Save your work to a disk or a personal account. Do not save your work to the lab computer. The hard drives in the lab are purged daily. Your work will not be there the next time you come in!
- Leave promptly when your time ends.
- Close all open programs.
- Sign out with a lab monitor.