Cubicles are also used but their arrangement varies between libraries. Where it is not feasible to put the child's station in a separate room all efforts are made to provide some separation of the child and adult stations to prevent unauthorized use by children or their unauthorized exposure to adult content. The computers in all libraries have color monitors and memory, speed and storage adequate for Internet multimedia use. The stations are equipped with sound boards but the internal speakers in each station are disconnected. Each station has a sound output jack.
Headphones are available for checkout.
Microphones and video cameras are not provided. Printing is available for a per page charge. When a user prints a document the computer gives them a job number which is used to request the printout at the reference desk. Since the maintenance of individual user accounts and passwords is probably beyond the expertise and budgets of most libraries, an electronic user login and authentication system is not integrated into this policy. However, library systems with the budget and expertise may decide to implement such an account system which may be tied into the patron's library account.