Due to the need to reduce time for direct contact and to allow enough time for part time lab assistants to get the required equipment ready and sanitized, we require that language instructors submit the request for equipment form or make a phone call before they come to pick up the equipment. Please avoid drop-in visits to the equipment room. Please use the following procedure to arrange for checking out and returning equipment. This document applies to Fall 2020 and will be updated as circumstances change.
How to request and pick up Equipment
There are two ways for you to request and pick up equipment from us.
Approach 1: Submit Request in advance | Approach 2: Immediate Request (During Equipment Open Hours) |
Fill in therequest for equipment form.
| Fill in therequest for equipment form and then all 812-856 –0222 to let the lab assistants know you just filled in the form. |
You will receive confirmation as to availability of requested equipment and time of picking up the equipment through email within 24 hours of submitting the request. For requests submitted between 4PM Friday and Sunday midnight, confirmation email will be sent by noon of the following Monday. | Confirm with the lab assistant that the time you scheduled on the form is available. |
For any confirmed request, please show up during the confirmed time range. Please follow all Equipment Room protocols. | |
When you arrive at the equipment room (BH 661), the requested equipment will be ready for you on a table. The lab assistant on duty will confirm with you all the equipment you requested and enter it into the checkout sheet. Please bring your own bag to take the equipment with you. | |
How to Return Equipment
- Any weekday between 9 AM and 5PM, drop your equipment in BH 666. There will be post-it and pen in the room. Put your name and return time on the post-it and put the post-it note on the equipment you returned. (Your returned equipment will be self-quarantined for three days in the room and will be sanitized and put back to equipment shelf in the equipment room after the self-quarantine)
- Let lab assistant or staff on duty know that you have returned the equipment. (Check BH 661, BH 662 and BH 667)