Computer Resource Center

The Computer Resource Center is located on the second-floor of the Orlando Public Library. The public area consists of fifty-two Dell/HP multimedia capable computers from which patrons can access numerous software applications and the Internet. There are two assistive services computers which have Window-Eyes, JAWS, Magic, Connect Outloud and OpenBook. The public computers all have CD-RW/ floppy-disk drives. The department services include Printing, Faxing, Photo Copier and Scanning. Available are two Ellis computers. There are three classrooms, two with PCs and one with Mac computers. Each classroom is equipped with eight computers which are used for public computer training.

Several of the software applications available include:

• Audacity for editing digital audio
• Adobe Reader
• GanttProject
• Google Earth
• Google SketchUp
• GIMP for editing digital images
• Internet Explorer
• Juice
• Microsoft Word 2002*
• Microsoft Excel 2002*
• Microsoft PowerPoint 2002*
• Microsoft Access 2002*
• Microsoft Publisher 2002*
• Mozilla Firefox
• Photoshop
• Phun
• Scratch
• Scribus
• Windows Media Player
• WINK

Mac Computer Classes:

• GarageBand
• iMovie
• iPhoto
• iWeb
• Keynote
• Numbers
• Pages

*Spanish version also available for the Office Applications.

See individual branch locations for information about computers.