VIII.8 L&S Department SwapList

As a result of concerns expressed by the Classified Staff Issues Committee (CSIC) a few years ago about the limited ability of some departments to purchase new furniture or computer equipment for their staff, the College initiated an email listserv for departments within the College to facilitate the transfer of used furniture and computer equipment to other departments within the College. The primary intent of the computer equipment portion of this exchange is to provide a mechanism for departments that have the means to purchase new equipment to give their used equipment to a department that does not have the means to purchase new equipment. The important thing here is that the transferred machine needs to be able to run Windows XP. Computers that do not meet minimum hardware requirements and/or non-working machines should be sent directly to UW SWAP. The hardware requirements for Windows XP can be found at:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/upgrading/sysreqs.mspx .

This equipment/furniture transfer process is for business use only. The equipment and furniture cannot be transferred for personal use.

To participate: If your department has computer equipment or furniture that is being upgraded and/or is no longer being used, send the descriptive information in an email to Zoua Vang (zvang1@ls.admin.wisc.edu) in L&S Administration. She will review the request and forward it on to the email listserv.

To join the email listserv, send an email to the following address. Do not include a subject or message.

join-ls-deptswap@lists.wisc.edu

To leave the email list serve you will need to send an email to the following address with no subject or message:

leave-ls-deptswap@lists.wisc.edu

It will be up to the two departments to work out the specific arrangements. Please note that if the original purchase price of the furniture or equipment is in excess of $5000, you must contact Zoua Vang at 2-1197 for special instructions.

When submitting information to share with the list, please include the following information in your message to Zoua:

CONTACT INFORMATION:

Your name
Department
Phone number
Email address

FURNITURE:

Type (eg. desk, wood chair, computer chair, 2-drawer file cabinet) Dimensions
Type of material and color (eg. metal/putty, wood/oak)

COMPUTER EQUIPMENT:

Brand/model (eg. Dell gx110)
Approximate age of the computer
type of processor (eg. Pentium III)
Amount of ram/memory (eg. 128MB)
Size of hard drive (eg. 10 gb)
Monitor size & brand (eg. 17" Dell)
Printer brand, model & type (eg. hp laser jet)

Added 20 August 2009 by emk