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.
