ASHEBORO – Users of the Asheboro Public Library’s public
computers now can take their work anywhere in the building and go online with
free WIFI as the library begins lending laptops for in-house use.
Anyone with a library card in good standing or a student ID
through the REAL2 program, and who is eligible under the library’s Internet use
policy, can check out one of 10 laptops for the day, or for a set period of
time if all the computers are in use and there’s a waiting list.
“In-house checkout of laptops will enable people to
customize their library experience,” says Library Director Ross Holt.
Need a space to spread out documents while you’re online?
Check out a laptop and take it to a study table.
Need a quiet place to study or write? Nestle at a café table
by the window.
Need to do some work while watching your kids in the
Children’s Room? Take along a computer.
Need to work in a small group? Take computers to a diner
booth or a conference room.
Ordinarily use your phone or tablet with the library’s WIFI
but have work that requires more intensive computer use? Borrow a laptop.
“The library offers all types of spaces for people to use.
Now we’re enhancing the ways that people can use those spaces,” Holt says.
The laptops provide everything the library’s desktop
computers offer, including Internet access, productivity programs like Word,
Excel and Powerpoint, and even wireless printing.
If laptop lending at the Asheboro library proves a success,
Holt says, it can be expanded to the six other branches of the Randolph County
Public Library.
It’s also a test run for potential checkout of laptops to
take home, Holt says. The library already loans mobile WIFI hotspots for use
outside the library.
Laptops are available to anyone 16 and older who has agreed
to the library’s Internet use policy, and those age 11-15 whose parents have
authorized their use of the Internet at the library.
The Asheboro library is located at 201 Worth Street. For
further information, call 336-318-6801.
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