Attention Teachers

Take a field trip to the Library! We welcome all public, private and parochial schools for a visit. Contact the Head of Children’s Services to schedule a visit.

Online Databases

The Library has several online resources that can help your students. All are available at the Library and most databases can also be used off-site (school, home, etc.) with an APLD Library card. Full List of Library Databases

*Parents and Teachers, want to learn or continue some lifelong learning for free? APLD subscribes to:
Gale Courses – Create an account with your APLD Library card and choose from over 360 six-week courses.
LinkedIn Learning – On-demand learning solutions designed to help you gain new skills and advance your career. Learn from industry leaders, all in one place by choosing from over 5,000 video tutorials covering business, creative, and technology topics and reinforce your new knowledge with quizzes, exercises and coding practice.

Computers Available in the Library

The Library has computers to offer students. These are filtered computers exclusively reserved for children through fifth grade.

Computers can be accessed with a child’s library card (in good standing) or with a temporary guest pass, available from the Childrens Services desk.

Computers have access to:

  • Internet
  • Microsoft Office 2016 (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Publisher)
  • Blender
  • Audacity
  • Scratch
  • Google SketchUp
  • Gimp
  • TinkerCAD

Printing is available from all computers.

WiFi Available in the Library

There is free WiFi available throughout the Library. Connect any device that offers a wireless connection. Simply look for our open network called APLD and connect, no library card needed. The WiFi is only available during library hours.

Wireless Printing

The Library offers wireless printing from any device with Internet access. From a computer, click to submit your print jobs to our coin operated printers. Select the file to be printed, select the number of copies you’d like, choose the black or color printer, select single sided or double sided and if you want to print all the pages or a range of pages. If you have more than one file you need to print, return to the top of the page and select another file to print and repeat the steps above. Once you have all the jobs ready, enter your name or library card number to identify your print jobs. Enter your email address or cell phone number to receive a confirmation message when your job(s) has been processed. Click submit and within 45 seconds the jobs show up on the print release stations in the Library.

Accessing Your Print Job

Walk over to one of the 2 coin operated print release stations in the Library, enter the name or your library card number you used above, select your print job, enter the appropriate money and take your prints. Printing in black only is $.10 per page and color printing is $0.50 per page.

Need to print from your phone or tablet? No problem!

Android and Apple both offer an App called Public Print Locations.

Apple App Store

Google Play Store