Copying allocations
(see also Copying Procedures)
Faculty receive an allocation of up to 10 copies per student for a lecture/discussion type class where there are GSIs. Faculty receive an allocation of up to 50 copies per student for a seminar or small lecture without GSIs.
For most faculty and emeriti, the copier is not programmed to stop once you reach your allocation. If you are concerned about how many copies you have used at any given time, the copier will show how many copies you have made – please check with the Office Services Coordinator at the front desk if you have any questions. You will be charged 5 cents per copy for copies made in excess of your limit.
GSIs receive an allocation of up to 15 copies per student, e.g. a GSI who teaches 3 sections with 25 students per section would receive an allocation of 1125 copies. GSIs who are teaching a course other than a discussion section would have the same instructional allocation as regular faculty based on the type of course and number of students enrolled.
Copying can be dropped off at the front desk. Please allow at least 2 working days for standard jobs turned in mid-term. For large jobs and/or jobs turned in the first and last weeks of class, it may take more time. Due to copyright guidelines, we limit copying of books to a maximum of 1 chapter or 10%, whichever is less.
Please take care with your copier code. If you give your code to someone else to use, you are responsible for those copies. Copies made in excess of your allocation are charged at 5 cents per copy. Please see the Office Services Coordinator at the front desk if you have questions about your copy code, or if you need an additional code.
If you would like us to program the copier to stop at any given number of copies, we can do so, but we do not generally program the copier to shut off at any point for our regular faculty. (We do program it to stop when GSIs reach their limit).
If you need copies made for departmental administrative duties (promotions, searches, etc.) please tell whoever is doing the copying that this should be charged to the department -- not to your instructional/research copying account. We need to know this BEFORE the copying is done. (Most copying is given to our temps to do and their default instructions are that any copying that comes from you gets put on your code).
Excess copies will be charged at the end of Winter term each year, unless you request a term-by-term accounting. .
Many faculty have discretionary University accounts to which we charge any excess copies. If you would NOT like your excess copies charged to your discretionary account, please let our Business Manager know. If you do not have discretionary funds at your disposal, please pay for excess copies by check, payable to: University of Michigan.
To provide materials for your students without using up your copying allocation, please consider using:
The library's electronic reserves:
http://www.lib.umich.edu/reserves/index.html
CourseTools:
http://coursetools.ummu.umich.eud/
Scanning: The main copier has black and white scanning capabilities; please see the Office Services Coordinator at the front desk if you would like to be added to the copier to use this feature.
* All Departmental policies and procedures are subject to possible change as University and LSA policies change.
Whether it be our main office computers, copier, fax machine, shredder, phones, etc., University-owned equipment is to be used only for University of Michigan business.
Updated 9/2007