Business Office

Inventory Services
209 Darland Administration Building

UMD Inventory Services is responsible for locating, identifying, and marking all capital equipment items on the Duluth campus. The current capitalization level is $2,500. Other responsibilities include:

• Updating the Property Accounting Management System (PAMS)
• Assisting in the proper disposition of equipment such as scrapping or the sale of items conducting equipment audits to compy with federal guidelines
• Maintaining files of university property being used off campus

Inventory Services must be notified of all transfers, sales, trade-ins, donations or disposal of all capital equipment items with or without University numbers.

Items such as computers, monitors, TVs and VCRs, copy machines, stereos, telephones and FAX machines, electronic laboratory and test eqmipment contain circuit boards, mercury switches, relays and tubes which are manufactured with materials considered to be hazardous and cannot be disposed of in general trash.