There is an IT Device Lending Machine located at both cities’ campuses. In Joensuu you can find one in the UEF library and in Kuopio you can find one in Oppari and in the UEF library. A Lending Machine contains laptops available for short-term loans. Maximum lending time is four (4) hours.
You may check out an an item from the Lending Machine by registering as a user first via the Lending Machine’s interface.
Read detailed instructions below.
User Manual
You can check out a device for maximum four (4) hours at a time and maximum three (3) times a day. The device must be returned 15 minutes before the facilities close: make sure to check Oppari's/library's opening hours.
You have to register as a user with the Lending Machine's interface when checking out an item for the first time. By checking out an item, you accept the Terms of Service (presented below).
- Press “Is this your first time?”.
- Enter your phone number (in the international format, e.g. +358..).
- Enter your username as username@uef.fi and your password.
- Scan the card you'd like to activate at the card reader below the display.
- You will receive a PIN-code to your phone that you will need to use whlile checking at item out. Save the PIN-code!
- Press the device you want to check out.
- Scan your library card at the card reader below the Lending Machine's display.
- Enter your PIN-code (if you don’t have a PIN-code, you can ask for a new one).
- Take the IT device out of the locker when its door opens, remember to shut the locker door!
- Choose the device you want to check in.
- Scan your activated library card at the card reader below the display.
- Choose “Check in item” or, if necessary, “Leave reclamation and check in item”.
- Attach the device to its power cord and the network cable and shut the locker door.
- Connect to a wireless network (preferrably, Eduroam, UEF-Open for web browsing only).
- Log onto the computer with your username@uef.fi.
- Shut down the computer after using it, so that your data will get wiped out from its hard drive.
- Don’t save any files on the computer's hard drive, but rather use Onedrive and other cloud storage solutions, as the data cannot be restored from the computer hard drive after you check it back in.
You accept these Terms of Use when checking out a device:
- You can check out a device for max. four (4) hours at a time and max. three (3) times a day.
- If you encounter faults in the operation of a device, check the device in by choosing the “Leave reclamation and check in item” option.
- You will receive an email notification 30 minutes before the lending time ends.
- If you fail to check the device in before the lending time ends, the UEF will enforce the following measures:
– your user account will be disabled.
– there will be a charge of 100 € per every 24 hours of non-return.
- The borrower is fully responsible for the device for the time of the checkout. The borrower will be accountable for the repairs of the device or charged the device's full purchase price (incl. taxes) if the device is broken or never checked backed in.
- The Digital Services of University of Eastern Finland is in charge of the administration of the devices. You may ask for help at the IT Servicedesk and Oppari.
