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Lab Hours (Fall/Winter)

James Dunn Hall

Monday	08:00 am - 11:00 pm
Tuesday	08:00 am - 11:00 pm
Wednesday	08:00 am - 11:00 pm
Thursday	08:00 am - 11:00 pm
Friday	08:00 am - 09:00 pm
Saturday	12:00 pm - 05:00 pm
Sunday	12:00 pm - 11:00 pm

Brian Mulroney Hall

Monday	10:00 am - 7:00 pm
Tuesday	10:00 am - 7:00 pm
Wednesday	10:00 am - 7:00 pm
Thursday	10:00 am - 7:00 pm
Friday	10:00 am - 7:00 pm

Intersession and Summer Session Hours 

James Dunn Hall

Mon–Fri	08:00 am to 6:00 pm
Saturday	12:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Sunday	12:00 pm to 7:00 pm

Brian Mulroney Hall – Closed

Lab Policies

1. No person or persons shall use the computing facilities of the University without due authorization.
2. You must not use computing resources allocated to another person or group.
3. You must not by any willful or deliberate act jeopardize the integrity of computing equipment, networks, programs, or other stored information.
4. You are expected to treat as privileged any information not provided or created by you which may become available to you through your use of these resources; you must not copy, modify, disassemble or use any part of such information without permission of the appropriate person or body.
5. St. Thomas University is the owner and operator of these facilities. When there is evidence of problems, authorized personnel may examine files and systems in order to identify the cause.
6. Improper use of IT Services may result in withdrawal of access privileges or other penalties. The following (but not limited to the following) may be considered improper: 
1. Use of another's login id
2. Frivolous use of any workstation, computer or network, e.g., playing games.
3. Inspection of data or functions which are neither allotted to you, nor specified as public
4. Inspection of data which have to do with utilization, authorization or security
5. Modification of data which are not specifically created or assigned to you
6. Interference with other persons accessing the systems, networks or equipment
7. Destruction of data or property which is not owned by you
8. Attempting to gain access to another's resources, programs, or data
9. Use of another's programs or data without their permission
10. Sending obscene or vulgar messages or pictures (A message is considered to be obscene or vulgar if it is perceived as such by the recipient)
11. Abusive or destructive use of hardware or public software
12. Use of facilities for personal or corporate gain (Examples of such use include the sale of computer programs or results developed under an internal login id.)
13. Improper use of facilities in accordance with and prioritized by University Policy
7. You are expected to:
1. Be responsible for the use of your login id. You should make appropriate use of security features and take precautions against others obtaining access to your computing resources. You are responsible for any fees incurred by its use.
2. Refrain from engaging in deliberately wasteful practices such as: unnecessary holding of workstations or telecommunications lines producing unnecessarily large printer listings, performing unnecessary computations, creating and retaining unnecessarily large files and unnecessary holding of peripheral equipment.
3. utilize efficient and effective techniques for program execution.

Our Policy on Food and Drink in the Lab.

Why is food and drink forbidden in the lab? Well there are a number of reasons for this. It is our responsibility as well as yours to create a safe and clean environment to work in. The computer labs are for academic use and should facilitate this purpose. Even with this policy in place we have found in the past, old food and garbage behind and around the computers. Also, drinks have been spilled and bottles full of juice have been dropped and broken on the ground. 

All of these things not only lower the quality of the atmosphere in the lab, but are also hazards to the students who use them. Paper and liquid on the floor are established slip hazards and paper in and around the computers are fire hazards. 

When keyboards and other computer hardware are broken because of spills, it is one less computer for you to use, and it is up to IT Services to replace them, not the student who did the actual spilling. 

The food and drink policy exists not only to protect ourselves but to protect you, and to offer students a safe, clean and pleasant atmosphere to work in. Drinks and other food items may be placed in your bags or left on the table in front of the help desk. All we ask is that you keep them away from the computer hardware, thus preserving the quality of the St. Thomas computer labs. 

Lab Bookings

Please ensure the following when booking the lab for a class:

1. Please check the availability of the computer labs under Computer Lab Bookings. This will take you to  lab booking schedules, where you can see which times are available.  
2. Once you have found a free time slot, please e-mail your request to Tom Cote cotetom@stu.ca.
3. Please inform us of your lab request at least 2 days in advance. Also include your name, the course number, the day and time you would like to reserve the lab for, and how long you will need it.
4. The lab should be booked for no more than 3 hours in a row.
5. The lab can only be booked with a minimum of two (2) days advance warning, requesting.
6. The Faculty member must him/herself ascertain the requested time slot is not in conflict with a pre-existing time slot.
7. If an overhead projector is required. The faculty member must book an overheard projection unit through Tom Cote cotetom@stu.ca.
8. The faculty member must state whether any other thing is required, and make arrangements to provide it, or fair warning in advance to have it provided for.
9. The faculty member shall come in as much as 15 minutes earlier than his or her class, to arrange the setup of the lab (i.e. the projector unit or any other special requirement).

PLEASE NOTE: Failure to comply with these requirements, may result in a missed opportunity to have the lab reserved for the requested time slot.

Lab Notices

Do yourself a favor and Save your work regularly 

Did you know that holding the "CTRL" key and typing "S" after every few sentences will save your document quickly, and it becomes second nature after a while. Also saving your work twice or more, under two names and/or in two different places will ensure that you always have a backup copy of your file in case something should happen to one. AND if you use a diskette and work here as well as at home, you should use more than one disk while keeping a copy on the hard drive at home, just in case!