From our earliest beginnings with our customer service locations in the basement of the Medical Sciences building and a back corner of the School of Nursing, to our remote production facilities in South San Francisco, Documents, Media & Mail Services has witnessed first hand the evolution of printed communications from basic printing & copying through today's digital computer technology, as well as the growth of its mail distribution area from a single campus medical center to multiple medical & research campuses across the city of San Francisco.

Through it all, we have remained focused on our purpose to support the needs and enhance the mission of the University.

The University of California, San Francisco, is a public university dedicated to saving lives and improving health. Its mission is to pursue and sustain unequaled excellence in teaching, research, patient care, and public service.

We are a full-service print, copy, and mail facility managed and operated by dedicated UCSF employees. Our purpose is to support the needs and enhance the mission of the University.

As an enterprise, the University of California, San Francisco has a responsibility to communicate and distribute health-science research findings, scholarly work, community service initiatives, and materials that recruit and retain students, faculty and staff -- not to mention the host of information necessary to ensure smooth internal operations.

Documents, Media & Mail exists solely to support these communications functions of the University.