Laptop Loans

A small number of laptops are available at Alden Library's 2nd Floor Service Desk for 24-hour loan periods to OHIO students, faculty and staff.

Borrowing Guidelines

Please bring your Ohio University ID card to check out a laptop.
Laptops may be taken out of the building.
The loan period is 24 hours.
- Laptops can be renewed one time via your library account.
- To keep a laptop longer, you must bring the laptop to the Alden Library 2nd floor service desk to check it out again. We'll inspect the laptop and ask you to fill out a new borrower's agreement form.
Borrowers are responsible for the equipment during the loan period. If a laptop is not returned, it will be considered lost or stolen and the Ohio University Police Department will be contacted. The borrower will be liable for a replacement fee ($1,000.00).

Loaner laptops have the same software installed as Alden’s desktop PC’s.
You may install programs to the laptops, but any programs will be uninstalled automatically when the laptop is rebooted.
Save your work to your own storage device (such as a USB flash drive) or cloud storage (such as OneDrive).
Files saved to the laptop’s hard drive are automatically deleted when the laptop is restarted and cannot be recovered.