Locations

CLICC laptop lending locations are located throughout the UCLA campus. With the exception of College Library and the Charles E. Young Research Library, you'll find most of the stations near the respective library's circulation desk.

How to find the College Library Laptop Lending Location

1. Enter the Powell Library Building through the main doors
2. Take the stairs going up on your right side going up to the Reading Room (not the stairs going down)
3. When you enter the doors, make an immediate right into the corner, where you'll find the lending station behind a glass window/door.

How to find the Charles E. Young Research Library Laptop Lending Location

1. Enter the Research Library through the main doors
2. Proceed toward the reference area
3. Laptop lending is to the left of the reference area

How to find the Music Library Laptop Lending Location

1. Enter Schoenberg from Portola Plaza and make a right
2. Enter the first door to your right, and you will be in the Music Library
3. The Music Laptop Lending Desk is next to the Circulation Desk

How to find the SEL/EMS Laptop Lending Location

1. Enter the Math Sciences building through the tunnel from the North side (across from Moore nd Kerckhoff), make a left and walk down the hall until you reach an elevator OR enter Boelter and use the NE elevator
2. Take the elevator up to the 8th floor
3. Make a right out of the elevator into the library
4. The laptop lending kiosk will be at the front counter

How to find the Biomedical Library Laptop Lending Location

1. From the Court of Sciences, walk south to the Life Sciences Building
2. Enter Life Sciences, and go straight down the hall
3. Go through the double doors, into the passageway into Factor
4. Make a left once in Factor
5. On the left side you will see an entrance into the stairwell
6. Take the stairs down to the lowest level
7. When you exit the staircase, make a right and you will be at the Biomedical Library
8. Enter, and the laptop lending kiosk will be at the front counter

How to find the SEL/Geology Laptop Lending Station

1. Enter the Geology Building
2. Walk up the two flights of stairs
3. Take the door on the left and walk down the hall
4. Enter the Geology Library which will be on your left side
5. The laptop lending kiosk will be at the front desk

How to find the SEL/Chemistry Laptop Lending Location

1. Enter the Geology Building
2. Walk up the two flights of stairs
3. Take the door on the right and walk down the hall
4. Enter the Geology Library which will be on your left side
5. The laptop lending kiosk will be at the front desk

How To Check Out

Approach the touch-screen kiosk and follow the instructions on the screen. You do NOT need to show your BruinCard, but you will need to remember your UCLA logon and password to complete the checkout process. The CLICC consultant or staff will bring a laptop bag, check the battery and accessories, scan the laptop, and tell you when your laptop is due.

Laptops are checked out for a period of four hours. If there are less than four hours until we close, it will be due at closing time (see the schedule on the left for today's hours).

Renewals

You may renew your laptop ONLY after the third hour of your checkout (e.g. if you checked it out at 1:30 p.m. you can start to renew it at 4:30 p.m.), and there are three ways to renew: on the laptop bag's tag you'll find the Web address (://my.clicc.ucla.edu) and Helpdesk phone number (310.825.7557) for laptop renewals, or you can come to the laptop lending station and renew in person.

In addition to allowing you to renew your laptop, myCLICC can also tell you when your laptop is due, or if it's already overdue (busted...).

You can only renew laptops when there are enough laptops for other people. Otherwise you will have to come in by the time your laptop is due, return it, and wait for another laptop to be available for you. You cannot renew if the laptop is already late; you must bring it back along with the bag and accessories to the lending station.

Returning Your Laptop

Please return your laptop on time (see Laptop Fines? to learn what happens when you return a laptop late) and with all accessories in the bag. An inventory will be made of all accessories, and the screen will be checked to see if it's okay. If something is missing or damages were incurred, it will be noted and you may be fined. Also, if you noticed a problem with your laptop, such as an application not working or the mouse not responding, please let the CLICC consultant or staff know so we can work on fixing it.

Remember to return your laptop to the same lending station you used to check it out; other lending stations will NOT accept your laptop unless the original lending station is already closed.

Late Laptop Fines

From 1999 to 2003, CLICC checked out laptops without an effective enforcement mechanism to ensure that students returned their laptops so others could use them. Over time, we had more and more of a problem getting students to bring their laptops back, especially at closing time. CLICC staff would have to spend hours sometimes trying to chase down students who hadn't returned laptops, involving the Community Service Officers and sometimes the police. The fines are meant to provide an incentive to return laptops on time. Also consider that UCLA has an undergraduate population of around thirty five thousand. There are nearly two hundred laptops available to check out. Especially during midterms and finals weeks, the laptops are in high demand and we owe it to all students to get a fair chance to use a laptop.

As of January, 2004, students who return laptops after their due times are subject to fines. The fines are in response to students who have repeatedly returned laptops late without regard to other students waiting to use them. Laptop fines are:

• $10 for the first thirty minutes late
• $5 for each successive thirty minutes late
• $50/hour for keeping the laptop out past closing time

Maximum fine is $2000 (the approximate replacement value of the laptop). Laptop fines are billed to your BAR account and show up a couple of days after the infraction.

How We Inform You

We do a number of things to ensure that anyone checking out a laptop would have several opportunities to know our policies.

1. Consultant Information The consultant on duty will typically point out to the student when the laptop is due — this information is on the kiosk when the laptop is checked out. Since consultants are people and not robots, there may be a time when the consultants forget to say the words out loud, or mumble, or the student doesn't hear.
2. Posted Signs There are signs posted at each lending desk.
3. Background Image The background image on each laptop has three notes to remind students that they have a four hour time limit, that there will be fines for late laptops, and that the laptop must be returned before closing time. There are three mentions of myCLICC (http://my.clicc.ucla.edu) where each student can see their personalized information including: exactly when the laptop is due, a feature to renew the laptop online, and a link to more detailed information about hours and laptop lending policies. On the desktop of each laptop is also a shortcut to myCLICC for students' convenience.
4. CLICC Web Site The CLICC Web site (http://www.clicc.ucla.edu), which you are currently reading, is the default web site that appears each time a Web browser is launched from a CLICC laptop, and has detailed information about laptop checkout rules and late laptop fine information.

Grace Period

After the four-hour lending period, there is a twenty-minute grace period to allow for any delays such as waiting in line to return a laptop. The 20 minute grace period still counts towards the late fee, but fines are not imposed until the twenty first minute. For example, if your laptop was due at 3 p.m. and you bring it back at 3:45 p.m., the laptop is 45 minutes late and you'll be fined $15.

If you return a laptop after closing, there is a $50 dollar fine per hour, but there is also a grace period of twenty minutes where fines are not imposed. You will be charged for a full hour for keeping a laptop a portion of that hour. For example, if you are running late and return a laptop nineteen minutes after the closing of a laptop lending location you will not incur a late fine. But if you were running late and returned a laptop twenty one minutes late you will incur a late fine for a full hour ($50). If you were to keep the laptop sixty one minutes after closing than you would be charged $100 dollars.

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