Dear microscopists, the FILM recharges for the second quarter of 2010 are being finalised, the journals will be done by the finance administrators of the various faculties in the next days. No action from you is required, but if you want to have an overview of your usage and charges, you can easily see all this information and get summaries on the Sharepoint / FILM website. For usage instructions, see FILM website / GUIDELINES / CHARGES / SHAREPOINT INSTRUCTIONS. If you are having problems, please let me know. On this occasion, a reminder: While most of you are very reliable users (thank you!!), there are a few individual users who don't always stick to the rules, e.g. not notifying other users when they change bookings at short-notice, staying longer without updating the booking, not showing up for the booked session etc. If you are one of them, please change your behaviour in the future: First, it can be a serious problem for other users if the microscope is booked and not used while they are struggling to get on it. Second, it's not fair to other users, the more people use the microscopes, the cheaper it is for everyone, unpaid usage drives up the costs for everybody else. Third, if you try to save on charges, that's pointless anyway, because all booking changes and microscope usage are logged, and for recharging I go through the logs and adjust the booking to the actual usage, or change it back to the original booking if it has been changed without notification. However, this is very time consuming, so please make sure you follow the rules more reliably in the future. You can find the latest version of the rules in the FILM USER GUIDELINES on our website. Thanks for your cooperation, good imaging, Martin Links: * https://sharepoint.ic.ac.uk/FoM/NHLI/Facilities/FILM/default.aspx * http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/imagingfacility/facility_guidelines/charges/charg... * http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/imagingfacility/facility_guidelines -- Martin Spitaler, PhD FILM - Facility for Imaging by Light Microscopy - Facility Manager - Sir Alexander Fleming Building, desk 401 Imperial College London / South Kensington Exhibition Road London SW7 2AZ UK Tel. +44-(0)20-759-42023 E-mail m.spitaler@imperial.ac.uk Website: http://imperial.ac.uk/imagingfacility