Studio Foundation Cage Equipment Checkout Policies

Before borrowing from the Cage, you should first be aware of our policies. Improperly following our policies and conditions may result in you losing your ability to use the Cage facilities and equipment!

1. To check equipment in or out of the Cage, you must present your valid MassArt ID with a current semester sticker.
2. If you do not have a class in Studio Foundation you cannot use the SF Cage facilities or equipment.
3. Your equipment checkout is always automatically scheduled to be returned on the following business day by 1:30pm; an extension of an additional day may be requested at time of checkout and in most cases granted, depending on equipment availability (i.e., two business days, by 1:30pm).
4. You are allowed to checkout a maximum of three separate items simultaneously.
5. If you damage or lose equipment you will be liable for its repair or replacement. The SF Cage monitors will not check out damaged equipment to you.
6. Due to the high demand for our equipment the SF Cage does not allow equipment to be returned late:
   1. We understand that circumstances can sometimes be beyond your control. For this reason we will excuse one (and only one) late return.
   2. Should you return something late a second time, a permanent hold is automatically placed on your SF Cage account in WebCheckOut. This means you have permanently lost your checkout privileges in the SF Cage. This hold affects only your ability to check out equipment from the Studio Foundation Cage and applies nowhere else on campus.
   3. Any resource that is three or more days overdue will incur an automatic loss of your checkout privileges in the SF Cage.
7. A one-day checkout can be renewed once, for one additional business day (by 1:30pm the following business day). If it was initially borrowed over the weekend, or borrowed for longer than one day, it cannot be renewed.
8. Do not call or e-mail the cage to renew equipment—you must physically bring the equipment in before it can be checked out again.
9. Reserving equipment is highly encouraged; this is the best way to make sure that the equipment you are requesting will be available at the time that you need it! Reservation requests can be made via email or telephone, but they must be verified by the monitor in order for the reservation to be guaranteed–this request can only be granted once it has been verified.
10. All reservations expire after 30 minutes from the scheduled pickup time. Reservations cannot be guaranteed once they expire.
11. Animation Stands can be reserved for a total of three hours at a time. A patron’s reservation is always prioritized; any student using the stand without a reservation may be bumped.
12. Students are permitted to checkout equipment over Thanksgiving and Spring Break, but all equipment checked out over these breaks must be returned on the first business day following the break by 1:30PM.
13. Students are not allowed access to faculty-only equipment unless granted special permission by faculty or staff.

Questions?

If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to email us at sfcage@massart.edu, or call the Studio Foundation Cage Helpline at (617) 879 7021.

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