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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 393

S7E_11. Where do you prefer to get course-related Proprietary software or application?
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 Proprietary software or application for coursework 314 0** 140 140 174 144 76* 94* 43* 47* 86* 53* 24* 45* 3** 13* 178 136
Access online (includes Internet, web sites,  146 0 63 63 83 63 37 45 16 28 41 24 9 19 2 8 93 53
web sites, web searches, etc.) 46.4 0 45 45 47.5 43.8 48.7 48.4 36.7 59.6 47.8 44.7 35.7 41.7 55.6 61.5 52.2 38.7
HL Q
Borrow from or use in campus library 83 0 29 29 54 37 17 29 11 8 23 21 5 11 1 3 32 52
26.5 0 20.8 20.8 31.1 25.9 21.9 31.2 26.5 17 26.1 40.4 21.4 25 22.2 23.1 17.7 38
IL P
Purchase from physical book store 20 0 12 12 8 9 8 3 2 1 6 2 3 6 0 0 18 3
6.4 0 8.8 8.8 4.5 6.5 10.5 2.8 4.1 2.1 6.5 4.3 14.3 12.5 11.1 0 9.8 1.8
HIK Q
Faculty 19 0 10 10 9 9 3 7 4 2 8 0 1 3 0 1 11 7
5.9 0 7.2 7.2 4.9 5.9 4.4 7.1 10.2 4.3 8.7 0 3.6 6.2 0 7.7 6.3 5.4
K
Colleagues 5 0 1 1 4 1 0 4 1 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 3 2
1.6 0 0.8 0.8 2.2 0.8 0 4 2 0 4.3 0 1.2 0 0 0 1.7 1.4
Home 3 0 2 2 1 3 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 3
1 0 1.3 1.3 0.6 2.1 0 0 0 0 2.2 2.1 0 0 0 0 0 2.2
Borrow from or use in other libraries 2 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
0.7 0 0.2 0.2 1.1 1.5 0 0 0 0 2.2 0 1.2 0 0 0 0.2 1.4
Personal holdings 2 0 2 2 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
0.7 0 1.3 1.3 0.2 0.9 1.2 0 2 2.1 0 0 1.2 0 0 0 0.6 0.9
Ask library to purchase source 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
0.4 0 0.2 0.2 0.5 0.6 0.4 0 2 0 0 0 1.2 0 0 0 0.7 0
In class 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
0.2 0 0 0 0.3 0.2 0.4 0 0 0 0 0 2.4 0 0 0 0.2 0.2
Purchase from online bookstore 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 0.4 0 0 0 0 0 1.2 0 0 0 0.2 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
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
Interlibrary loan, asking someone in your institutions 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
 library to borrow the source for you 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
Order from on demand document delivery service 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 21 0 17 17 4 10 8 3 5 5 0 2 4 5 0 0 12 9
6.8 0 12.1 12.1 2.5 6.9 10.7 3.4 12.2 10.6 0 4.3 15.5 10.4 11.1 0 6.6 7
D D J J JK J
DK/Refused 11 0 3 3 8 7 1 3 2 2 2 2 0 2 0 1 7 4
3.5 0 2.1 2.1 4.7 4.8 1.5 3.1 4.1 4.3 2.2 4.3 1.2 4.2 0 7.7 3.9 2.9

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