The College of Information Studies provides staff and students with access to an exceptional support environment through college facilities, co-located laboratories, affiliations with other campus research units, and through the campus Office of Information Technology.

Newly renovated research facilities within the College include both group and individual research space,  two project rooms equipped with computers and projectors, a student lab with Windows and Apple computers, an electronic white board, and other support equipment, Web and intranet services, a usability laboratory for conducting user studies, and a technical support staff.  The co-located Center for Information Policy and  E-Government (CIPEG) and Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory (HCIL), are equipped with specialized technology such as a Tobii 2150 eye tracker, 3-D printer, and very high-resolution monitors.

The University of Maryland campus has unparalleled access to high speed network connectivity to the Mid Atlantic Crossroads (MAX)  and the Internet2 enables extensive collaborations.  Proximity to MAX provides access to a variety of regional and national research networks including Abilene, VBNS, ATDnet, and NISN.  Dedicated space for project-specific storage and computing is also available in central machine room facility.  Video-conferencing facilities are also available.

The College of Information Studies collaborates closely with the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS), where current research equipment includes more than 300 Sun/Sparc workstations and servers, several hundred PCs (running Linux, NT and/or Windows) and some Apple Macintoshes.  The research facilities of the UMIACS Computational Linguistics and Information Processing (CLIP) laboratory include approximately 6TB of centralized storage and more than 30 Solaris, Linux, and Windows workstations and servers.  The UMIACS Language and Media Processing (LAMP) laboratory provides facilities for video digitizing, recording, editing, and playback, page scanners, film output devices, video cameras, video servers, a patterned light range sensor, and optical tables.  The UMIACS Laboratory for Parallel Processing and Distributed Computing has the following equipment: a 24-node IBM supercomputer and archiving system with 5TB of disk storage and a tape subsystem that can hold over 18 TB of data, a 64-processor Linux-based cluster interconnected by Gigabit Ethernet, a 24-processor SUN Fire 6800, coupled with an array of 50 PCs and gigabit networking.