Reserve a PC & Policies

At the Abington Community Library

Reserve a PC
Click on this link to reserve a PC at the Abington Community Library or another library in the Lackawanna County Library System. PLEASE NOTE: Reservations for PCs are held only five minutes past the appointed time.

Abington Community Library PC USER GUIDELINES

If no one else is waiting for the computer, five minutes before your session ends, you will receive automatic offers for up to two half-hour extensions.
You may request the use of a computer up to three times in one business day. - You will receive a warning (indicated by a large window with a blue exclamation mark) that your session is ending 15 and 5 minutes before the computer automatically terminates your session. Please plan your work accordingly.
Abington Community Library is not responsible for work or time lost due to system or computer failure/malfunction.
The computers at this library are not equipped with CD burners. You must save your work to a disk or flash drive, or e-mail it to an e-mail address. DO NOT SAVE YOUR WORK TO THE HARD DRIVE! All work saved to our hard drives is erased by periodic computer re-boots throughout the business day.

Printing

When you print, a window will appear telling you how much the print job will cost ($.15/page). When you click on OK, another window will appear. Please write down the job number from this screen. It is your responsibility to track which jobs you want printed and to take note of the number of pages that will be printed. If you are uncertain about how to print or how to print a limited number of pages, please contact a staff member.
A print job will be held two hours from the time it is sent to the print console. After one hour, your job will disappear from our print console.
When you are ready to pick up your print jobs, please go to the Circulation Desk. A staff member will print your jobs after you have paid for each job you request printed. You are not required to pay for print jobs you send to the print console; however, once you have paid for your job(s), and a staff member has printed your jobs, the library cannot refund any portion of the print fee.

Lackawanna County Library System
Abington Community Library Wi-Fi Policy
Wi-Fi service at the Abington Community Library is maintained courtesy of Adelphia Communications, the Lackawanna County Library System, and this library. Please note the following when using this service:

Due to the diversity of mobile computing equipment used by our patrons, library staff cannot assist you with connecting to or using our Wi-Fi Service. We would, however, be happy to help you with library resources such as Power Library, the Lackawanna County Library System Catalog (Ibistro), and other databases purchased by the library.
You cannot print to library printers via our Wi-Fi Service.
You must use headphones when listening to audio files in the library.
The Lackawanna County Library System and its member libraries are not responsible for any damage or losses, including theft, which may result, directly or indirectly, from using the Wi-Fi Service nor are we responsible for any content viewed via the Internet.
If you are using your computer in a manner that is inconsiderate of others, a staff member may ask you to end your session.
This service is not secure. We strongly recommend that you run and maintain an anti-virus program and a personal firewall. If your computer uses the Windows operating system, we recommend that you stay current with security patches and updates available from the Microsoft web site. Library staff members cannot assist you with installing software or updates and are not responsible for any damage that may result from installing software or updates.

Lackawanna County Removable Media Policy

Floppy Diskette:
Insert media and access patron's own word processing, spreadsheet, and other documents: Yes
Save documents to media: Yes
Execute programs from media: No
Look at photos: n/a
Watch video: n/a
Listen to music file: n/a

Thumb/USB Drive:
Insert media and access patron's own word processing, spreadsheet, and other documents: Yes
Save documents to media: Yes
Execute programs from media: No
Look at photos: Yes if patron uses already-installed software.
Watch video: Yes if paton uses already-installed software.
Listen to music file: Yes if patron uses already-installed software.

CD-ROM/DVD-ROM:
Insert media and access patron's own word processing, spreadsheet, and other documents: Yes
Save documents to media: No
Execute programs from media: No
Look at photos: Yes if patron uses already-installed software.
Watch video: Yes if patron uses already-installed software.
Listen to music file: Yes if tpatron uses already-installed software.