From mtang at snf.stanford.edu  Tue Nov 27 17:02:26 2001
From: mtang at snf.stanford.edu (Mary Tang)
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 17:02:26 -0800
Subject: Lab Cleanup Program
Message-ID: <3C0437A2.8B939EE3@snf.stanford.edu>

Greetings SNF Advisory Committee Members --

I would like to share with you some plans we have for the lab cleanup
program.  As I'm sure you and your students are aware, storage of
personal belongings in the lab is getting way out of hand.  Cassettes
are being squirreled away in the strangest places.  Belongings are
infringing on tabletop workspaces.  Many personal items and bins are
precariously balanced on high shelves.  Some of these personal effects
belong to people who are no longer here.  We do a lab cleanup annually
(we ask labmembers to relabel their possesions with the current date and
we physically remove items that are not updated) but with the increasing
user base, this is just simply not enough.  Besides, cleanroom space is
simply much too expensive to be taken up by items in long-term storage.

We've have a couple of labmember meetings where we've discussed this.
The Process staff have come up with plan, which is as follows:

1.  Limit storage in the lab to items that are being processed or are
used regularly in processing.  Storage of personal items will be limited
to assigned bins.  There will additionally be lots of shelves for
general (non-dedicated) temporary storage of work-in-progress.

2.  Set up extensive storage space conveniently outside the lab (in the
CAD room).  The doors will be keycarded so that only people with access
to the cleanroom will have access to this room.

We are asking that all labmembers remove all their personal belongings
from the lab on December 17.  Anyone working in the lab that week will
get special stickers for their personal effects, allowing them to work
until shutdown on Dec. 21.  Anything that is not labeled with special
stickers will be removed and placed in temporary storage outside the
lab.  Items that go unclaimed after a month will eventually be reclaimed
or recycled.

We need the week of Dec. 17 (and likely much of the shutdown) to
reorganize shelves and install bins.  When the lab starts up, we plan to
assign bins to labmembers as they begin work again.  (We've actually
gone through the lab and planned how the shelves and bins will be
arranged.  There should be enough to accomodate everyone, with spares
leftover.)

More details will be posted on the web (and sent out to labmembers)
later this week.

Why am I telling you this?  Well, no doubt there will be problems.
There are probably situations that we are unaware of or have not
foreseen.  We're trying to be fair, yet also remain flexible.  If you or
members of your research groups have issues with the the new lab storage
program, please let us know.

Thanks,

Mary


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Mary X. Tang, Ph.D.
National Nanofabrication Users' Network
Stanford Nanofabrication Facility
CIS Room 136, Mail Code 4070
Stanford, CA  94305
(650)723-9980
mtang at snf.stanford.edu