Now you can work on your computer at home or any other location and print out your work on the state of the art printers at the Brookfield Public Library without even being there. You can print from anywhere if you can connect to the Internet.

The Brookfield Public Library is a wireless hot spot. To print from remote locations, or from a laptop inside the library, you just visit the library’s web site www.brookfieldpubliclibrary.info and follow the directions at the Printer-On section in the upper right hand corner of the library’s home page.

Print jobs cost 10 cents a page for black and white printing and 20 cents a page for color printing. Print jobs remains in the print queue for five hours. You pay when you come to the library to pick up your printing.

That’s just one example of the increasingly tech savvy capabilities at the library.

The library recently purchased four new Dell laptops that can be checked out and used at the library. The laptops complement the five desktop computer work stations the library had had for some time.

Since the library is a wireless hot spot the users can surf the Internet on the library’s laptops or bring their own wireless capable laptops to the library and be connected.

The laptops have proved popular and have cut waiting times for users wanting to use a computer at the library.

“We have an increasingly tech savvy user community,” said Rana Salzmann, the library’s reference and technical services director.

Patrons can also instant message questions to the library’s reference librarians.

The library offers regular classes in computer skills and the Internet to help users who are just getting familiar with the technology.

Board member rises
in regional system

Library board member Margaret “Peg” Blasage was elected vice president of the Metropolitan Library System, a group of libraries in the Chicago area.

Circulation assistant Greg Molinari was awarded a plaque at the July library board meeting honoring him for his 10 years of service to the library.

The library will celebrate legendary film director Alfred Hitchcock’s 106th birthday on Monday Aug. 13 at 6:30 p.m. with a free screening of Hitchcock’s 1943 suspense thriller “Shadow of a Doubt” starring Teresa Wright and Joseph Cotton.

This classic is rumored to be Hitchcock’s personal favorite.