How do I check out a laptop from the library?
Answer
Long-term checkout
***New pilot program for 2025–2026!*** If you need a laptop for the entire semester, you can apply to enter our Student Laptop Loan Program. Applications for Fall 2025 will be accepted from August 25 through September 1, 2025. After the application period closes, fifty (50) students will be chosen by lottery to receive a laptop for the semester.
Short-term checkout
Laptops Anytime Kiosk – Sterne or Lister Hill
- MacBook and Windows laptops.
- Must be used within the library.
- Check out for 4 hours.
HUB Desk – Sterne or Lister Hill
- Windows laptops.
- Check out for 7 days.
Sterne Library LibLab
- Windows laptops: Dell XPS 17.
- With advanced graphics card for media editing.
- Available for checkout only when the LibLab is open.
- Check out for 7 days.
Laptop borrowing is limited to current UAB students, faculty, and staff. To check out a laptop, you will need your UAB ONE Card. To log in, you will need a working BlazerID and Password.
Laptops are available on a first-come, first-served basis. You can't put a laptop on hold.