I am a senior student at NEIU, and I come to this library at least twice a week to do research for my education classes. I am happy with everything the library offers to help students with their research, but none of the computers have Microsoft Word installed in them. Not having a word program is a disadvantage for the students at NEIU because we have to go a different building to start writing our papers. It would be helpful to able to research and write our papers at the same time and location.

Dave Green, Associate University Librarian for Collections and Information Services replies:

Hello, Alex. We are working to resolve this situation this year. The library’s goal is to keep the desktop computers on the 1st floor with the current configuration and add MS Office to other workstations. Most likely, the library will purchase a large number of netbooks with MS Office on them for student use in the library. In addition, we are looking at adding MS Office to some of the desktop computers on the 2nd and 3rd floors.