What is the Gates Lab?

 
The Lab, located on the first floor of the Main Library next to Entertainment Express, was funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to provide computer access to the general public. It can be scheduled for training, free of charge, by local area groups. 

If not otherwise scheduled, the lab is open to the public during regular library hours.  

The Library also uses the Lab to provide free basic computer classes.

What's In the Lab?

• 10 Networked Gateway PCs
   
• 1 Networked Instructor PC
   
• 1 Networked HP Printer
   
• 1 LCD Projector
   
• Software: Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player, and Microsoft Office 2003 (Word, Excel, Access, Publisher, PowerPoint).

How Do I Schedule the Lab?

 
Call Glenna Rhodes at
(208)384-4442
E-mail: askalibrarian@cityofboise.org

If no one is available to take your call, or you are sending an email, please leave your name, number, organization, and time you would be interested in scheduling the lab. Please note that the lab is only available during normal library hours.

Use of the room is available at no charge and, in return, no admission may be charged to students or participants.  Groups using the lab must provide their own instructor.  Please read the Purpose and Use of the Gates Computer Training Lab to see that all conditions apply.

Last Updated: 04/09/2008