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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 434

S7D_17. When you are doing your coursework, where do you go to get News?
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 News for coursework 445 0** 148 148 296 183 94* 168 44* 35* 162* 84* 12* 71* 6* 31* 206 239
Access online (includes Internet, web sites,  314 0 108 108 206 128 69 117 30 27 117 49 8 58 5 20 151 163
web sites, web searches, etc.) 70.5 0 72.5 72.5 69.5 69.7 73.3 69.8 68 77.1 72.1 58.7 65.1 81.6 83.3 64.5 73.1 68.2
KL K
Borrow from or use in campus library 207 0 55 55 153 70 43 94 17 11 83 49 6 22 1 18 88 119
46.6 0 36.8 36.8 51.6 38.3 46.3 55.9 38 31.4 51.2 58.7 48.8 31.6 22.2 58.1 42.9 49.9
BC E MN HIMN N
Faculty 11 0 2 2 9 4 2 5 1 1 6 2 1 0 0 1 3 8
2.5 0 1.6 1.6 3 2.3 2.3 2.9 2 2.9 3.5 2.7 4.7 0 0 3.2 1.5 3.4
M
Borrow from or use in other libraries 10 0 4 4 6 5 1 4 3 1 2 3 0 1 0 0 6 4
2.3 0 2.8 2.8 2.1 2.8 1.2 2.3 6 2.9 1.2 4 2.3 1.3 2.8 0 3 1.7
Purchase from physical book store 10 0 1 1 10 2 2 6 3 1 2 1 0 1 1 2 7 3
2.3 0 0.3 0.3 3.2 1.1 2.5 3.4 6 2.9 1.2 1.3 0 1.3 8.3 6.5 3.4 1.3
JKLM
Interlibrary loan, asking someone in your institutions 6 0 2 2 4 3 1 2 1 0 4 1 0 0 0 0 3 3
 library to borrow the source for you 1.3 0 1.3 1.3 1.3 1.5 1.2 1.1 2 0 2.3 1.3 0 0 0 0 1.3 1.3
Dorm room 5 0 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 1 2 1 0 1 0 0 5 0
1.1 0 0 0 1.7 0 0 2.9 0 2.9 1.2 1.3 0 1.3 0 0 2.4 0
E Q
In class 3 0 1 1 2 3 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 2 1
0.6 0 0.6 0.6 0.6 1.5 0 0 0 0 1.2 0 0 1.3 0 0 0.9 0.4
Home 2 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
0.5 0 0.2 0.2 0.6 1 0.3 0 0 0 1.2 0 2.3 0 0 0 1.1 0
KM
Personal holdings 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1
0.3 0 0.9 0.9 0 0 1.5 0 0 0 0 1.3 2.3 0 0 0 0 0.6
JM
Purchase from online bookstore 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0
0.3 0 0 0 0.4 0.2 0 0.6 0 0 0 0 2.3 0 0 3.2 0.5 0.1
JKM
Access from course website 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0
0.2 0 0.6 0.6 0 0.5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.3 0 0 0.5 0
Colleagues 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
Ask library to purchase source 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
Other 31 0 14 14 17 12 10 9 7 1 6 6 1 8 1 2 15 16
7 0 9.6 9.6 5.7 6.8 10.3 5.4 16 2.9 3.5 6.7 7 11.8 11.1 6.5 7.4 6.7
J J J
DK/Refused 6 0 2 2 4 5 0 1 1 2 0 1 0 2 0 0 4 2
1.4 0 1.5 1.5 1.3 2.8 0 0.6 2 5.7 0 1.3 2.3 2.6 0 0 2.1 0.8
J J

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