{"id":339423,"date":"2025-08-12T21:09:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T21:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/339423\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T21:09:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T21:09:11","slug":"it-upgrade-to-boost-leeds-library-computer-speeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/339423\/","title":{"rendered":"IT upgrade to boost Leeds library computer speeds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><strong>By Don Mort<\/strong>, local democracy reporter<\/p>\n<p>New IT systems will be installed in the city\u2019s libraries after it took frustrated computer users up to 20 minutes to log on.<\/p>\n<p>Leeds City Council said a new internet operating system should address long delays booting up PCs and getting documents to print.<\/p>\n<p>A survey of library users found just 33 per cent thought internet and computer processing speeds were fast enough.<\/p>\n<p>The council is planning to replace Windows 10, used on its public access computers in libraries and community\u00a0hubs, with Chrome OS.<\/p>\n<p>The move could save the council \u00a365,000 a year in Windows licence costs.<\/p>\n<p>A council report said: \u201cFor many years the general performance of the public access computers with Windows as the operating system has been very poor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStaff regularly report significant customer frustration and often report increased stress levels as a result.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A faster booking system called MyPC would also replace the current one, Netloan, saving a further \u00a310,000 per year.<\/p>\n<p>Ninety per cent of people who took part in the survey said PCs in libraries were important for access to services and information.<\/p>\n<p>Users were \u201coverwhelmingly\u00a0positive\u201d about the new operating system after it was trialled at the Dewsbury Road and Leeds Central libraries.<\/p>\n<p>The report said: \u201cDuring the pilot, using Chrome OS has taken a 10-20 minute log on time down to being more or less instant to ten seconds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Library customers reported a similar speed-up of printing times.<\/p>\n<p>The report said: \u201cSince the installation of Chrome OS and the rollout of the new print provision, there has been a significant improvement to the speed of print jobs for customers.\u201d`<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Don Mort, local democracy reporter New IT systems will be installed in the city\u2019s libraries after it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-339423","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-leeds","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115017846923591737","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}