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Fall - Spring Hours
Monday - Thursday: 8:00am* to 10:45pm
Friday: 8am to 7:45pm
Saturday: 10am to 10:45pm
Sunday: 12pm to 7:45pm

* Phone support begins at 7:30am

Emergency support is available by calling 5-Help at any time.


About Us:

The Information Commons is the main technical support help desk for Faculty, Staff and Students at the Columbia University Medical Center campus. We are located on the 2nd floor of the Health Sciences Library and provide free first level troubleshooting for accounts, programs and systems at CUMC.

The Information Commons acts as a centralized point of contact for CUMC technical support and resources. We work closely with CUbhis groups and other IT departments at Columbia and NYPH to help provide prompt resolution of technical issues.

Contact Us:

After hours emergency support is available by calling 5-Help. When calling after hours please be sure to follow voicemail instructions carefully.

Accomplishments:

Since the Information Commons was formed in 2004, we have:

  • Provided consistent, customer-service oriented technical support for over 6000 faculty, staff and students 7 days a week
  • Researched and implemented solutions such as Online Service Requests and CUbhis eSupport
  • Streamlined the IP registration and UNI, Domain and Oracle Calendar account creation processes to provide a 1 to 2 business day turnaround time
  • Consolidated password reset support for UNI, Domain Account, IDX, Stockamp and AP/CAR logons so customers can call 5-Help and have issues resolved immediately
  • Ensured that all the Information Commons staff members are Help Desk Analyst certified
  • Provided courtesy calls to customers informing them when an incident reported to the help desk has been closed by higher-level technical groups in order to ensure satisfactory resolution and tracking of all issues
  • Solicited and tracked customer feedback via the Help Desk and eSupport surveys to assist in improving IT support at Columbia

Looking Forward:

The Information Commons help desk continually seeks out ways to improve customer satisfaction and bring new and advantageous technology resources to CUMC. Upcoming projects include:

  • An expanded selection of online tutorials to support the variety of programs used at CUMC
  • Downloadable audio files and online multimedia presentations for computer training, so anyone interested in improving their computer skills can learn at their convenience


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Last updated 2/21/08

 
 
 
 
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