Reserve a Computer

Reserve a Computer

All 79 Chicago Public Library locations offer computers with free Internet access. Reservations for a 1 hour session may be made online using the Library’s online reservation system. Express Internet computers are also available, without reservations, in all libraries for quick email or Internet searching. Use of Express Internet computers is limited to 15 minutes. All Internet sessions time out automatically at the end of a session.

Reservations: To reserve time on a CPL 1 hour Internet computer, patrons may sign up remotely online at http://www.chicagopubliclibrary.org/pcres/reserve.pl  or visit any CPL location and use the designated PC Reservation Station. A valid Library Card (in good standing) is required. Library Card rights and responsibilities are not transferrable. Reservations may be made for the same day and/or in advance for the following two days. Once you make your reservation, you will be given a receipt onscreen with the assigned computer number and the assigned time so you know which computer to use.

Sessions: To ensure access to as many users as possible, patrons are allowed a maximum of two sessions per person, per day. Sessions include 1 hour Internet computers, Express Internet computers and the Library’s word processing computers (located at Harold Washington, Woodson, and Sulzer only). 

Be on Time: Please be aware that the reservation system gives you only a ten-minute grace period for your assigned session. If you are more than ten minutes late, or do not show up at all, your reservation is cancelled and you will forfeit that reservation. If you are not able to keep your reservation, you should cancel it in the system so that you don’t lose one of your two sessions for the day.