KBS Computer Services is staffed by two full-time Information Technology professionals.  The central equipment hosts file and backup services for the servers and desktop computers on the network.  Server disks are backed up nightly and backup tapes are rotated to safe storage locations in other buildings.  Central services also include e-mail and network printer services.  Network printers include a 42-inch wide-format printer.

Common-use computers include 12 MSU Microlab computers managed remotely from the main campus, which make available for students and researchers such software as as SAS and Mathematica, which would be difficult to afford and manage otherwise.  These computers are located in a small classroom, in graduate student areas, the library, and the cafeteria.   A GIS workstation and other computers provide access to a variety of scanning devices.

A T-1 connection provides access to the Michnet backbone network, funded by a recent 5-yr program of improvements to computer and network facilities, which also included upgrading most of the wired network to gigabit ethernet, multimedia classroom facilities, graphics workroom equipment, network servers, and the installation of fiber optic cable and radio bridges to connect other parts of KBS to the network including the Pond Lab and LTER Site.

A GIS workroom, staffed part-time, provides researchers access to maps and other geo-referenced data at KBS. ArcView is available on library workstations.

Visiting scientists including graduate students have access to computers and the internet at a number of KBS locations, including the computer workrooms, graduate student offices, and KBS library.