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Training Center Rules

1. Technology Training Center computers are available to all customers with a valid Detroit Public Library card.
   
2. A parent, guardian, or other responsible person must accompany users under age eight.
   
3. Access to the Technology Training Center will be available during the posted center hours, which are: Tues & Wed: Noon - 7:45pm Thu, Fri, Sat: 10:00 - 5:45pm.
   
4. Computers are available in the Technology Training Center on a first-come, first-serve basis for the current day only. Accessing a computer requires logging-on with your last name and library card number.
   
5. Computer sessions are limited to one hour. Limited additional computer time is available by request at the desk.
   
6. The Library does not provide E-mail accounts and access to on-line chat groups is not supported.
   
7. Eating or drinking is not allowed in the lab.
   
8. Detroit Public Library staff members may require Internet users to refrain from displaying images that may be offensive to others. If library customers are observed viewing explicit sexual images on an Internet computer, anyone offended by the images should inform a library staff member who will ask the customer to stop or move to another computer, if possible.
   
9. Child pornography: It is Illegal to download, access, view, print or save child pornography.
   
10. Computer equipment and/or software may not be altered or damaged in any way. Personal software may not be installed or run on a library computer. Personal laptop computers may not be connected to the library’s network (WiFi is available in the Sociology and Economics Department).
    
11. Printing is available at a cost of ten cents per page and requires use of a DPL Print/Copy card to pay for and release prints from the print station computer.
    
12. Leaving a driver’s license or other suitable piece of identification may be required in order to use a reference book during a computer session in the lab. Headphones may be used, but must be supplied by the customer.
    
13. Customers may not store information on any computer's (C:) drive. Instead files may be stored in the user’s flash drive, e-mail account or Detroit Public Library’s patron storage account.
    
14. Due to spatial limitations, a limit of no more than two persons per workstation may be imposed.

The Detroit Public Library affirms intellectual freedom, equity of access, individual responsibility, confidentiality of information about users and their use of all library resources including electronic resources and the safeguarding of First Amendment rights.