Comments on: Reference Question of the Week - 9/9/07 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2007/09/15/reference-question-of-the-week-9907 or, The Hitchhiker's Guide to Fear and Loathing at a Public Library Reference Desk Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:06:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Brian Herzog http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2007/09/15/reference-question-of-the-week-9907#comment-29562 Brian Herzog Wed, 19 Sep 2007 13:15:08 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=189#comment-29562 Wow, spss - I haven't used that since undergrad, and I think I'd be hard-pressed to help anyone with it now. Academic libraries have probably far more installed software than public libraries, but we <em>definitely</em> need to be able to help people with whatever is on our public computers. Web-based software is a bit more hit or miss, but stll: if we can't help the patron, then who will? And if we're not helping patrons, then what are we doing? Wow, spss - I haven’t used that since undergrad, and I think I’d be hard-pressed to help anyone with it now.

Academic libraries have probably far more installed software than public libraries, but we definitely need to be able to help people with whatever is on our public computers. Web-based software is a bit more hit or miss, but stll: if we can’t help the patron, then who will? And if we’re not helping patrons, then what are we doing?

]]> By: Kate http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2007/09/15/reference-question-of-the-week-9907#comment-29485 Kate Tue, 18 Sep 2007 14:23:12 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=189#comment-29485 I helped someone this morning with SPSS. Thank goodness she only had one data set and just needed to find mean, median, mode, standard deviation, and range. We monkeyed around a little and figured it out. I get a lot of tech questions. You gotta be ready for anything. :) I helped someone this morning with SPSS. Thank goodness she only had one data set and just needed to find mean, median, mode, standard deviation, and range. We monkeyed around a little and figured it out. I get a lot of tech questions. You gotta be ready for anything. :)

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