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Faculty Quick Guide to IT at Stanford

Support within your reach

Your School or Department IT Support Group
Each of Stanford’s seven schools and many of its auxiliaries and centers have a team that supports IT locally. If you don’t know who or where they are, ask a colleague or your department administrator — or ask University IT.
Local Network Administrators (LNA)
Your LNA acts as the contact person for network configuration and troubleshooting.
Find your LNA
University IT Contract Support
Many departments contract with University IT for desktop computing assistance.
About Contracted Desktop Support
Academic Technology Specialists
Some departments have staff who provide discipline-specific technology assistance in support of teaching and research.
About Academic Technology Specialists

Essential IT information and resources

Technology for instruction

Technology for research

Library Information and Resources
Research Computing Services
Stanford Research Computing Center
Including IT Costs in Research Grants
Disk Space (AFS Distributed File System)
In addition to your default Shared Computing Resources disk space, University IT offers online disk space for academic and unfunded research use. Faculty can apply for an allocation of space by completing the application form.
Custom Storage
Shared Computing Resources
SULinux
Software Acquisitions

Technology outside the classroom, lab, or office