Library personnel provides data for gifts and removals. Basically, members of the PSU staff and faculty are responsible for the safeguarding and proper care of the equipment provided them. Each employee is expected to take reasonable precautions to protect that property from unauthorized removal or use. Employees are also responsible for exercising reasonable care in operation and maintenance of University equipment. In each University department the Dean, Department Head, or Director is accountable and responsible for the property and for any changes in location of equipment.
Accountability includes responsibility for the care of departmental equipment.
The accountable department official is also responsible for the proper use of departmental equipment until relieved of that responsibility in writing. A person who is accountable for property must maintain current records of the location of all inventory carried on the fixed assets record for the department and subsequent additions or adjustments. Individuals must have the property assigned to them in their care and possession, or have evidence, in the form of a written receipt, that responsibility for the equipment has been transferred to another. A person responsible for property may be held financially liable for any missing items. The University encourages the practice of loan or transfer of equipment between departments.