Department of Biology

Room and Availability/Locking Schedule

Room		Unlocking		Locking		Security Check	Comments
Number	Name	Time	by Whom	Time	by Whom	Security Check	Comments
0101	Herbarium	Normally locked, with combination access; open by Biology Faculty/Staff for class labs				Occasional checks on weekends
0103	Animal Collection	Always locked
0105, 0105A	Dark Room	Always locked
0301	Earth Systems Lab	Always open
0606, 0610	Microsopy and Advanced Lab	Normally locked, with P-card access; open by Biology/Earth Systems Faculty/Staff for class labs				Occasional checks on weekends	Passage lock needed from 0301 to 0610 AND and combination lock needed from 0610 to 0606
1004, 1007, 1011, 1104, 1107, 1809, 1814, 1819, 1823	Teaching Labs	Normally locked, with P-card or combination-lock access; open by Biology Faculty/Staff for class labs				Occasional checks on weekends
1009, 1009A, 1009B	Biology Stockroom, Autoclave, Prep	Always locked, with P-card access; open by Biology Faculty/Staff for class labs				Occasional checks on weekends
1021, 1612, 1822, and 2021	Classrooms	Always open

Room		Unlocking		Locking		Security Check	Comments
Number	Name	Time	by Whom	Time	by Whom	Security Check	Comments
1601, 1602, 1615, 1507, 1509	Research Areas and Storage	Locked with key access				Occasional checks on evenings and weekends
3400-3409, 3509-3512	Greenhouse	Main entrance locked with P-card access; individual rooms of greenhouse usually unlocked				Occasional checks on evenings and weekends

Offices: Faculty and staff are responsible for locking and unlocking their offices.

Faculty Research Labs: Faculty often work with students on projects in various faculty research labs.

A faculty member may give lock combinations to student workers.
Students will follow policies set for each lab by a faculty member.
For wet labs (e.g., biology, chemistry), Security should check door locks between 5:00 and 6:00 pm, Monday through Friday), to be sure doors are locked. (Leaving wet labs open inadvertently is a safety issue, mandating periodic checks by Security.) Security also should perform period checks of wet labs through weekends.

Staff-based Areas: Staff are responsible for locking and unlocking areas in which they work (e.g., prep rooms, stockrooms).

created 24 September 2007 last revised 25 September 2007
For more information, please contact Henry M. Walker at (walker@cs.grinnell.edu)