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To Reserve an Internet/Wordprocessing Computer:
From our website (www.madisonpubliclibrary.org) Or from the Linkcat Library Catalog machines (choose Start, Programs, Explorer)
Click on
Reserve a Computer Now
Then, the screen looks like this:
Click on the ‘reserve a computer’ button
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This screen appears:
Type your FULL library card number in the top box, the last four digits of your phone number in the lower box, then click submit. (If this doesn’t work, check with staff to see what phone number we have in our database. If you don’t have a phone number, or haven’t given us one, type 9999 in the box for the last four digits of phone number.)
If successful, this screen appears:
Choose ‘Madison PL—Central’ from the drop down menu.
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This screen appears:
Choose ‘Search by Applications’
This screen appears:
Click ‘Search.’
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Screen looks like this:
Click the word ‘available’ next to the time you want. This ‘Reservation Receipt’ screen tells you which machine you’re on:
If you want an hour session, click ‘Back to Search Results’ on the gray bar, then click the time right before or right after the reservation you just made. If it’s possible to get an entire hour, a new ‘Reservation Receipt’ screen will show a one hour time slot.
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To see all the reservations you’ve made, click ‘My Reservations’ on the black bar at the very top of the screen: (You can check your reservations anytime in this process once you’ve entered your card number and phone number digits.)
When you are done making reservations or checking on them, click ‘Logout.’