• Borrowers are must complete an agreement form stating that they are responsible for any loss or damage to a laptop or wireless NIC as well as any late fees.
• Wireless NICs are checked out separately from laptops.
• If a laptop is lost, a replacement fee of $1,500 as well as any damages will be assessed.
• If a wireless NIC is lost or damaged, a replacement fee of $50.00 will be assessed.
• If the laptop's peripherals are lost or damaged, a charge of $100.00 per item will be assessed.

• Use of the laptop's AC adapter and an electrical outlet is strongly recommended although laptop batteries may power the machine for a period of 1 to 2 hours.
• If you get a warning from the laptop that the battery is running out, immediately plug in the AC adapter to the laptop and to an electrical outlet. You may then continue working.

• Wireless access for Schreiner staff, students and faculty only is available 24 hours a day throughout the Library's public areas and via the campus wireless network.
• Student laptops do not allow dial-up access to the Internet.
• If you should see this error message -- "Unable to locate the server www.'sitename'.com. Please check the server name and try again." the laptop may have lost its network connection. 
  • Try a few other web sites to see if the same error message appears. 
  • If it does, restart the laptop and try again.
  • Moving to another spot may also improve the network access.

• To prevent loss, it is recommended that an Internet e-mail account be used to send work to a schreiner.edu account. It may then be printed from any PC.
  1. Open your Schreiner e-mail or other Internet e-mail account.
  2. Create a message and attach the saved file to the e-mail message
  3. Send the message to yourself and check that it has arrived before closing the e-mail account.
• If the file has not yet been saved, you may copy and paste it into the e-mail message body instead of attaching it.

• Basic instructions for laptop use are available online. Click link to view
• Problems with the network connection or with laptop hardware or software should be brought to the attention of the Library staff. At check-in time, please fill out a Problem Report form.
• For help with database selection and searching, ask at the Reference Desk.

Do not leave your laptop computer (or other valuables) unattended, even for a few seconds. 
Theft of laptops and peripherals can occur anywhere. Borrowers will be held responsible if the laptop is stolen.