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Michael
Hooker Microscopy
Facility
(MHMF.ORG) |
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Facility Use Policies *
General Usage Policies |
Charges | After hours user access
| File Storage Policies |
Network Access
Policies
The prime rule:
A responsible and courteous approach to the operation, cleaning & reserving of
resources and especially to other users of the facility is expected. The
booking calendars list
booked users' contact information to help with scheduling and coordinated
powering down of equipment.
General:
- Only users who have completed the introductory training for
the microscope(s) they wish to use from MHMF personnel may operate the equipment and book
time **
- Image processing workstations (Nomarski, Snell, Zernike, Young) may be used by
any user with an
MHMICROSCOPY account (no training is required)
- Users must use only their own Windows account on the
MHMICROSCOPY domain **
- Use of another user's account will result in being barred from the
facility as well as the borrowed account being disabled. **
- After hours access to the facility is available to trained users.
Please follow instructions on the
facility
access web page
- Entry doors are to be kept closed when no user is present in the
facility, especially at the end of the day and after hours
- Users must notify staff about viable pathogens or biohazards before
they are brought into the facility
- Do not move or rearrange carts/equipment! Cables,
connectors and equipment can be, and have been, damaged
- Do not adjust room thermostats without explicit permission from facility
personnel
- Users must not install software on facility computers. Please
let us know about software requirements
- Acknowledgement of the use of the Michael Hooker Microscopy Facility in
publications is expected
- Just as one lists granting agencies in publications, recognition of the
use of MHMF
equipment and resources funded by an anonymous private donor should be
included in publications.
Booking:
- Equipment may be reserved using the online
booking calendars
- Walk up use by qualified users is permitted. Please
enter yourself in the appropriate
booking calendar
immediately, so that others can know the resource is being used
- The on line
booking calendars
are the arbiter of who has the right to use a resource
- The last user that is, or even was, booked on the current
day is responsible for ensuring that the system is powered down
- Removing oneself on the current day from the booking page does not absolve
the responsibility of ensuring that the booked system is shut down. If
you are off site please call the facility (the current user or
facility personnel) to make sure equipment will
be powered down, or if necessary go to facility to ensure equipment
is off.
- Note that block bookings followed by cancellation, especially just to guarantee time, is
an inconvenience to other users. This practice will result
in being charged for booked time.
Finishing Up:
- Lower lens turret and clean up lenses only with lens
tissue (never Kim Wipes) and objective bodies before leaving.
- Log off computer workstations when finished. Usage
charges will continue to be incurred if you do not log off.
- Power down system appropriately and in consideration of
next confirmed user's arrival time.
- The last user that is booked, or was booked but cancelled, for
the day is responsible for ensuring that the system is powered down.
- Please notify staff of breakages or problems
- Failures, accidents, and even mistakes do happen.
Notifying facility personnel promptly expedites repairs.
- Make sure entire area is clean before leaving
- Glass items should be placed in biohazard boxes for glass, tissues should
be placed in trash bins
- Biohazards and other toxic waste must be properly disposed of
File Storage Policy:
- You alone are responsible for your image files.
Archives of user files are not made
- On workstations files older than 90 days are subject to immediate removal
(without further notice)
- On the file server (\\MINSKY or \\MARVIN) files older
than 24 months are subject to immediate removal (without further notice)
- See
http://mhmicroscopy.med.unc.edu/Policies/File_Storage.html for more
details
| * Please note that these rules may be
changed in the future. |
Last updated
07/24/2014 |
General Usage Policies |
Charges | After hours user access
| File Storage Policies |
Network Access
Policies
