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Dimensions and use of the scholarly information environment.
Question 7S: Tables 318-436. 
Digital Library Federation.
Copyright, 2002, Council on Library and Information Resources.

Table 385

S7D_10. When you are doing your coursework, where do you go to get Manuscripts and other primary source documents?
Base Faculty Member Graduate Student Faculty / Graduate Student Under Graduate Student Public Private Liberal Arts Biological Sciences Physical Sciences Social Sciences Arts and Humanities Engineering Business Law Undecided Major Male Female
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q
Base - Use Manuscripts and other primary source  447 0** 192 192 255 194 91* 161 58* 48* 167* 101* 10* 37* 4** 21* 182 265
documents for coursework
Borrow from or use in campus library 365 0 153 153 212 152 72 141 43 38 141 90 7 26 3 17 154 211
81.6 0 79.7 79.7 83.1 78.3 78.7 87.4 74.2 79.2 84.3 88.9 69.4 70 70.8 81 84.5 79.7
L HLM
Access online (includes Internet, web sites,  147 0 61 61 86 62 27 58 26 18 43 24 5 17 2 12 60 87
web sites, web searches, etc.) 32.9 0 31.9 31.9 33.7 32 29.7 35.8 45.5 37.5 25.8 23.3 50 45 45.8 57.1 33.2 32.7
JK JK JK
Borrow from or use in other libraries 30 0 10 10 21 5 8 18 1 2 17 9 1 1 0 0 11 20
6.8 0 5 5 8.1 2.5 8.3 11.1 1.5 4.2 10.1 8.9 5.6 2.5 4.2 0 6 7.4
E E
Faculty 22 0 5 5 18 2 3 17 3 1 9 6 1 1 0 1 10 12
5 0 2.5 2.5 6.9 1.3 2.9 10.7 4.5 2.1 5.6 5.6 13.9 2.5 8.3 4.8 5.5 4.6
EF IM
Interlibrary loan, asking someone in your institutions  16 0 4 4 11 2 3 11 0 1 4 9 1 0 0 1 9 7
library to borrow the source for you 3.5 0 2.3 2.3 4.4 1 3.1 6.8 0 2.1 2.2 8.9 8.3 0 0 4.8 4.8 2.6
E HJ HM
Purchase from physical book store 13 0 3 3 10 4 2 7 0 1 6 4 0 2 0 0 4 9
3 0 1.5 1.5 4.1 2.1 2.1 4.6 0 2.1 3.4 4.4 2.8 5 0 0 2.2 3.5
H
Ask library to purchase source 3 0 2 2 1 2 0 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 1 2
0.7 0 1 1 0.4 1 0 0.7 0 0 1.1 1.1 0 0 0 0 0.6 0.7
Purchase from online bookstore 3 0 1 1 2 0 1 2 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 3 0
0.7 0 0.6 0.6 0.7 0 1.2 1.2 0 0 1.1 1.1 0 0 0 0 1.6 0
Personal holdings 3 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 1
0.6 0 0.2 0.2 0.9 0 0.3 1.4 0 0 0 2.2 2.8 0 0 0 0.8 0.4
HJ
Home 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0
0.3 0 0.6 0.6 0 0.6 0 0 0 0 0 1.1 0 0 0 0 0.6 0
Order from on demand document delivery service 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1
0.2 0 0 0 0.4 0 0 0.6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4.8 0 0.4
Colleagues 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0.1 0 0.2 0.2 0 0 0.3 0 0 0 0 0 2.8 0 0 0 0.2 0
HJK
Access book/journal/journal article elsewhere online 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
In class 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dorm room 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Access from course website 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Other 12 0 5 5 7 10 2 0 0 0 9 2 0 0 0 0 2 11
2.7 0 2.8 2.8 2.7 5 2.6 0 0 0 5.6 2.2 2.8 0 4.2 0 0.9 4
G H
DK/Refused 2 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
0.4 0 0 0 0.7 1 0 0 0 0 1.1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0

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