The Department houses a wide range of modern facilities for analyzing physical and chemical properties of geologic materials, for modeling of geologic processes, and for field observations and measurements. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is a major research university with one of the best libraries in the country. The Geology Library has an outstanding collection, including maps and multimedia material. Approximately 130 workstations and personal computers are supported by the department and individual professors. All are networked within the department and connected to the university network backbone and the Internet.
All machines are new within the last two years.
An additional 13 new Macintosh computers are reserved for undergraduate classes but may be available for after class general use. For teaching use, the department has a notebook computer and portable computer projector system. In addition, most of the lecture halls on campus contain built-in multimedia units and computers with network connections. Departmental printers are accessible from all computers. In addition, the department has color flatbed scanners, a slide scanner and a slide maker.