Technology
Our libraries offer technologies and classes so that customers can work, look for jobs and/or increase their ability to digitally connect with the world around them.
Borrowing Devices
If you have a library card, you may borrow:
- A Wi-Fi to Go hotspot for 3 weeks
- Kindle readers pre-loaded with popular books
- Laptops for use while in the Main Library
Hardware in Our Buildings
Main Library, Hillsborough
- 1 Epson scanner (slides and negatives)
- 5 Windows laptops
- 10 iPads for use by children
- 19 Windows desktops
- Magnifiers and assistive listening devices
Carrboro Branch: McDougle Middle School in Carrboro
- 6 Windows desktops
- 8 Macs
- Magnifiers and assistive listening devices
Cybrary: Century Center in Carrboro
- 2 Express computers (30-minute sessions)
- 7 Windows desktops
- Magnifiers and assistive listening devices
Software on Public Desktops in Our Buildings
- Ancestry.com (library edition)
- Microsoft Office 2010
- Access
- Excel
- PowerPoint
- Word
- Windows 7
Services & Equipment in Our Buildings
- Accessible technology for those who are hearing and visually impaired
- Faxing (Main Library and Cybrary)
- $1 per page to send
- $0.50 per page to receive
- Free computer instruction
- Computer Workshop Series: many Saturdays at 10 a.m. (Cybrary). Check our calendar to confirm class schedule.
- Free Wi-Fi
- Main: Orange_Public_WiFi; no password
- Cybrary: tocwireless.net; no password
- Carrboro Branch Library: CHCCS_Guest; inquire at desk for password
- Photocopying
- $0.15 black and white (legal and ledger size)
- Printing services
- Black and White: $0.15
- Color: $0.25
- Web-based printing.
- Public computers with internet access
- Scanning (Main Library and Cybrary)