LRL

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The LRL (pronounced as "ell are ell" or "lurl") is a place you should come to know and love. It is a place where everybody will begin to know your name ("Norm!"). It is primarily staffed by volunteers who agree to staff the lab at some regular time for 2 hours a week. This volunteered time allows them 24/7 access to the lab. Sometimes it is closed for classes. User Services (formerly ITO) has begun staffing the LRL during regular business hours and some extended hours during finals week.

The LRL gives you free printing and access to many helpful applications. There is also a scanner and a projector. You can borrow headphones and buy disks (floppies or CD-RWs). There are copies of the DDC, Cutter tables, and LCSH along with some other books no one reads. There is also a mysterious copy machine which costs 7 cents a copy.

No food is allowed in the LRL. In reality, this can be a flexible point, and honestly the more people that I have seen people eating/drinking the LRL, the less there has been ants around. There is a shelf outside the door at which you SHOULD put your food, but basically that is where ants enjoy feeding. But the rule was not established to keep the ants out. The real issue was that spills on the equipment would require more frequent replacement of said equipment.

Another controversial LRL point is that it is always very cold. Sometimes people make it less cold, and thus habitable for humans. Do not do this!

Finally, recently some anonymous poster has continue to remind people that the LRL is for QUIET work, so quit your gabbing. This is another debatable point as the LRL is most helpful for group work (unlike library or CITES labs). Most agree that if you have a problem with volume or anything else in the LRL, asking people to be quieter politely is the most effective strategy.

The LRL's mascot is Karen Medina :) (jenny)

Also known as the LRSmell or LRHell (the LRL, that is. Not Karen).