Students have unlimited book checkout privileges and access to on-line bibliographical search services. The American University is a member of the Washington Research Library Consortium , enrollment in a degree program provides students with borrowing privileges and on-site use at 6 other college and university libraries in the Washington metropolitan area. The William Caudill Memorial Library, housed in the development, contains source materials on anthropology that complement the university's extensive library holdings in basic anthropology. The American University serves student computer needs on a variety of levels. IBM mainframe support provides through a series of interactive devices.
Personal access is available for E-mail service and to the internet.
A variety of micro-computer laboratories are maintained across the campus, including a special social sciences lab in Hurst Hall. Finally, the entire campus is now being networked through the EagleNet system. Specific micro-computers have been set aside in the Department of Anthropology for graduate student use.