Facilities, Building Information & Room Scheduling

Facilities, Building Information & Room Scheduling 

The School of Information has faculty, staff, and students located in five locations on central campus.  Our main spaces housing the Office of the Dean, faculty, doctoral students, and some staff is North Quad.  In addition, we have faculty and staff located at The Loft, and many staff located at The Collegian, The Engagement Center, and at 309 Maynard.  Below is a link about our spaces and how to enter our North Quad building.

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Door Automatic Locking and Unlocking Schedule 

Faculty should be aware that North Quad has an automatic door and elevator locking and unlocking schedule.  If you teach in the morning or in the late afternoon or evening you will need both your MCard and key to (re)enter the building.

Door and Elevator Weekday Unlock Schedule

• External Doors

• 7:00 am - 10:00 pm

South Tower Elevators to 3rd and 4th Floors

• 7:30 am - 5:30 pm

Stairwell Doors to 3rd and 4th Floors

• 7:30 am - 5:30 pm

UMSI Classrooms (1255, 1265, 2185, 2245, 2255)

• 7:00 am - 10:00 pm (Locked in the summer unless courses or events are held in these rooms)

UMSI Meeting Rooms and Student Lounge (on 1st Floor)

• These doors are always locked by default.  Your MCard will unlock any of these rooms that are available for them to reserve or use.

UMSI Specialty Labs (1275, 1285, 1287)

• These doors are always locked by default

UMSI Server Room (7th floor)

• This door is always locked by default

NOTE: All of these doors are locked by default for all hours of the weekend, holidays, and UM season days.

Offices, Lounges, and Lunch Rooms

Office Space

All faculty are assigned office space. Other space allocations are at the discretion of the Associate Dean for Research and Innovation. For part-time lecturers, various rooms at UMSI can be reserved to use during your office hours.

You may find more information at the facilities web page about facilities, room décor, Room Scheduling Policies and Procedures, maps, transportation, phones and other office equipment, ergonomics and the UMSI satellite buildings.

Lounges/Lunch Rooms

The lounges near the 3rd and 4th floor elevator lobbies are both open for all faculty, staff, doctoral students, postdocs, and visitors. Mixing between members of these different groups is encouraged. These are also good places to use as a hoteling workspace for staff members who don’t have an office in North Quad.

Keys, Mailboxes, MCards

Mailboxes

UMSI Faculty mailboxes are located in the lounge on the floor where the faculty office is located under the room number if the faculty member has an office at NQ or under the faculty member's name if they do not have a dedicated or shared office. The mailbox is for USPS and campus mail as well as a place for students to drop off assignments. 

Keys

An office key will be provided at no cost. Upon completion of employment, the key must be returned to our facilities office. Card readers are on exterior doors, elevators, and classrooms. Use the MCard with card readers, particularly in the evening. Lecturers (who don't have an office) can still get a key that will open conference rooms and the copy rooms on levels 3 and 4 of North Quad.

MCards

If you are new to the University, you will need to obtain an MCard. This card provides you with discounts on campus as well as access to North Quad (NQ) during locked hours, University of Michigan School of Information (UMSI) classrooms in NQ, and other meeting rooms that are on a key card access system. If your MCard has expired but you are still employed at the University, you can take your MCard card to one of the MCard locations found on their website.

Whom to contact for help?

Facilities is available to help with facility related maintenance and room furniture needs. Please submit a JIRA ticket through https://help.si.umich.edu or email si-facilities@umich.edu.

Debbie Pipkin is the Facilities Manager and can be reached at dhess@umich.edu.  She is also located in 3411 North Quad and her Cell 734.368.6452 and Office numbers are 734.764.5704