EmergenciesGeneral Building Information
Cambridge Police, and Fire and Rescue Squads are at 911. Harvard Police: 5-1212. IN CASE OF FIRE, the fire alarms are to the left and right of the elevators, by the back stairways. If you are in the building when the alarm sounds (and there is no doubt when the alarm sounds, we assure you), leave your office or classroom quickly, close the door behind you, and use the rear stairways to leave the building, exiting through the fire doors, and congregating on the lawn alongside Divinity Ave. so that we can keep the front entrance area clear for the Fire Department. IT IS UNSAFE TO USE THE ELEVATORS IF THERE IS A FIRE.
The Social Relations/Sociology Library (495-3838) serves both Psychology and Sociology. The library is open from 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Friday, and 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Saturday. Librarian Richard Kaufman is the librarian. He can be reached at 5-3838.
Please come to WJH Building Operations (aka the Center Office), located in Room 12 (basement), for all key transactions, or to have your ID card programmed for after hours access. Written authorization from the appropriate sponsoring professor or department administrator is required for keyed or electronic access to to the building and any rooms or labs within. All students, part-time staff and post docs must pay a deposit per key, which will be refunded when keys are returned to the the Center Office. Hours for key transactions are from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Please use the Key Request Form , and bring the completed form, signed by your department sponsor, (faculty advisor or department administrator) to the Center Office. If your department sponsor is unavailable to sign the form, please ask s/he to send an email to Bill Santoro authorizing the key request.
The WJH Café, in the basement (Room 3) is a comfortable place to eat and talk. The café is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Vending machines provide a variety of sandwiches, salads, soup, pastries, fruit, beverages, yogurt, and other snacks. There is a single-serving fresh coffee machine in the café that uses a special grind of coffees & teas in a filtered K-cup package specially designed for the Keurig brewing machine. There’s another coffee machine in the 2nd floor lounge. There are also Coke machines located on the 3rd & 5th floors. The vending machines take cash, coins, or Crimson Cash cards.
There are four public use copiers at WJH. One heavy duty copier in Room 22 (basement), a smaller copier in the 14th floor lounge (room 1450), one in the Social Relations Library. (1st floor), and another small one in Room 13 (basement). These machines are equipped with Crimson Cash card readers only, and are 6¢ per copy. For information on Crimson Cash options, go to http://www.cash.harvard.edu. There are a number of copy shops in Harvard Square that will also do your copying and are a good alternative. Some of them will pick up and deliver bulk copying. For a handy link to Harvard Square businesses go to http://www.harvardsquare.com.
Postage scales, charts, and other mailing information are available in room 13. Outgoing U.S. mail is picked up Monday through Friday at approximately 5 p.m. from the letterbox outside the mailroom on the first floor, Room 106. (across from the loading dock doors) The mail crew can be reached at 5-3808 Mon.-Fri. 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. You can send email to: mailroom@wjh. If you have problems, this is a better option, since the Center Office is automatically copied on all email sent to this address. Outgoing University mail is collected from the boxes on each floor in the early morning, and from the tote outside the mailroom around 10 a.m. HU Mail Services deliver incoming mail once a day, in the late morning, to each floor. Packages are delivered into your office on the afternoon they arrive. There is a Federal Express dropoff box outside the library on the 1st floor, from which outgoing packages are picked up at 7:00 p.m. every weekday.
Please note that according to strict USPS regulations, outgoing mail or packages that weigh 16 ounces or more may not be dropped in the letter box, nor left for pickup in the bin below the USPS letter box. They must be personally hand-delivered to a member of the mail crew ("a known mailer", in official USPS lingo), or they will be rejected by the Post Office, and sent back to WJH. Visit the USPS website for further info regarding the U.S. mails at http://www.usps.com. Any suspicious looking mail or packages should not be opened, and should be reported to the Center Office (5-3801), or HUPD (5-1212).
Although each department in WJH has its own fax machine for internal administrative use, there is also a general-use fax machine available to all building occupants in Room 13 (basement). The fax number is 5-3728. Faxes can be received by anyone with a WJH address. Sending is free to on-campus Centrex lines and (800) numbers only. A Personal Authorization Code--linked to a University account that can be charged--is required to send a fax off-campus. Check with your department's administrative office to see if you are eligible for such an account. Incoming faxes are delivered to your office with the morning mail, and later in the day with the afternoon package delivery. If you can't wait, you can check the boxes (alphabetized) next to the machine for your fax.
Bins for bottles and cans are located in the cafeteria, and in the kitchenettes on all floors. Please empty and rinse all containers! We can accept clear and colored glass bottles, metal cans and foils, and clear and colored plastic bottles (#1 PET and #2 HDPE only). No drinking glasses, windows, mirrors, paint and aerosol cans, plastic bags or other plastic items, please. Cans can also be deposited near the Coke machines on the 3rd and 13th floors. A bin for recycling used batteries is located in Room 13. Desktop paper recycling boxes are available from the Building Operations Office.
When your box is full, please empty it into the large mixed paper-recycling bin on your floor. Mixed paper bins, for recycling of white and colored papers, newspapers, phone books, soft cover periodicals, directories and junk mail, are located near the mailboxes on each floor. Please do not recycle any papers or wrappings that have been used for food preparation or containment. Corrugated cardboard boxes can be left outside your office at the end of the day for collection. Please mark them "recycle."
Parking hangtags for the current parking year (September 1st to August 31st) have been issued to eligible faculty and staff and if you have one it should be on your car. The Parking Office and the Harvard Police is particularly diligent in ticketing, towing, or booting unauthorized vehicles from the lot behind the building. The Center Office sells a limited number of one-day WMJS lot visitor permits for guest lecturers, and other ad hoc visitors. Advance reservations are strongly advised, as we cannot sell over our daily quota. (3 to 4 permits per day) We do not sell WMJS lot permits for building occupants’ use except under extraordinary circumstances. For non-WMJS lot parking, visitor permits may be obtained (on a space-available basis) directly from the Parking Office--either on-line or at their offices at 46 Blackstone St. Call them at 5-3772 for further information, or look up their website at http://www.commuterchoice.harvard.edu/. New applications for the WMJS lot must be processed by Bill Santoro in the Center Office (5-3801).
The WMJS lot is generally restricted to holders of annual permits and certain, authorized labs that conduct human research studies. Visit the Harvard Parking Services website at http://www.uos.harvard.edu/transportation/onl.shtml for further information. Permits are required day or night, including weekends, holidays, and during semester breaks. The lots are monitored 24/7. You should know that ticketing and towing is done either by request of the Building Operations Office, (if we notice unauthorized parkers in the lot), or by the HUPD and Parking Office monitors--who have no particular schedule, and do not inform us in advance if they are planning to tag and tow. Redeeming your car from the towing company, far from public transportation, costs about $60 or more, and is a considerable nuisance.
To put in a request for telephone service, occupants must first set up an account with the financial unit of their respective departments. Members of the Psychology Dept should contact Richard Hungerford, in the Psychology Business Office, 240 WJH (6-9713). In the Sociology Dept., Suzanne Washington, 668 WJH (5-3507) is the department contact. For the Anthropology Dept., please contact Monica Munson, 52A Peabody Museum (5-5837). The requests will then be forwarded to Bill Santoro, who coordinates installations, and processes requisitions with UIS Telecommunications. Bill will be happy to answer any questions you have regarding telephone options and rates. More information is available from UIS Telecommunications at http://uis.harvard.edu/departmental_telecom/faculty_staff_phones/lines_features.php
A wallet or purse in an unlocked office or desk is an easy target. Sneak thieves check likely hiding places--desks, file cabinets, behind doors--first, so please lock your office if you leave, even if just for a trip down the hall to check the mail. Carry your office key! At night, if you must keep expensive portable items in your office, lock them inside a cabinet or desk drawer. The Building Operations Office can provide you with a copy of the key. The University does not carry theft insurance for personal property; insurance is available, at a fee, for computers and other equipment. Call the insurance office, 5-7970, for details.
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