Two years later, in 2002, the school hired its first full professor (Bill Aspray) and conferred its first degrees (22 students).

In 2005, the Department of Computer Science joined the school in Bloomington, significantly changing the research and course offerings of the five-year-old organization.

Raj Acharya, the founding director and head of the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Penn State University, replaced Schnabel in 2016.

Administrators from both schools claimed that the closeness of the subject matter studied in Library and Information Science and Informatics made the union practical and would offer students and faculty a greater breadth.

The building contains five research labs and 19 conference rooms,[7] and also houses faculty offices and serves as the meeting place for most Luddy classes.