Guidelines for Equipment Check-Out

These guidelines have been prepared to help assure access to limited resources by as great a number of faculty, staff and students as possible. The nature of an "equipment pool" is to serve many briefly, rather than a few for long periods of time. If needs are long-term or requests repeated, individuals will be encouraged to seek permanent solutions for their needs.

General Guidelines

• The equipment pool's primary purpose is support of classroom instruction identifiable with a UW-Eau Claire course number.

• Other instructional activity, research, faculty/student collaboration, public service activities, and general work of University employees is also supported.

• Items are available to faculty, staff, and students.

• Due to high demand and limited numbers of items, use is restricted to short-term needs, usually 1-3 days. Longer uses may be approved on a case-by-case basis.

• Due to the limited number of some high demand, high expense items, students are required to have a faculty member verify use related to instruction or projects. Some items may be restricted to on-campus use only.

• Some items may have restricted use because of the regulations associated with the funding source. For example, items purchased with classroom modernization funds are restricted to in-classroom instructional use only.

• Some uses/clients may be charged for equipment pool items regulated by the LTS standard chargeback policies based on use category. For example, there is a fee for rentals by organizations supported by segregated fees.

• Commercial or non-university clients are encouraged to obtain items/services from local vendors.

Examples of common requests:

• Faculty work, classroom presentations
• Students for class presentations, projects, and other assignments
• Faculty research, student assistants
• Faculty/staff conferences or over-seas assignments
  
  Click here to see a list of the LTS pool equipment.