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Dimensions and use of the scholarly information environment.
Question T7: Tables 190-308 
Digital Library Federation.
Copyright, 2002, Council on Library and Information Resources.

Table 285

T7D_14. When you are preparing teaching materials, where do you go to get Technical Reports?
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 Technical Reports for teaching 137 109* 28** 137 0** 58* 50* 29** 26** 27** 39** 12** 9* 21** 1** 0* 101* 36**
Access online (includes Internet, web sites,  94 76 18 94 0 38 34 22 17 18 28 8 6 17 1 0 69 25
web sites, web searches, etc.) 68.5 69.9 63.1 68.5 0 65.1 67.6 77 63.3 66.7 71.4 63.6 61.3 78.3 57.1 0 68.3 69.1
Borrow from or use in campus library 70 55 15 70 0 33 22 14 15 13 23 9 4 6 1 0 52 18
51.2 50.5 54 51.2 0 57.2 45.2 49.4 56.7 48.1 57.1 72.7 48.4 26.1 57.1 0 51.4 50.8
Personal Collection/Holdings 9 9 0 9 0 1 5 3 0 3 6 0 0 0 0 0 9 0
6.3 7.9 0 6.3 0 1.7 9.6 10.1 0 11.1 14.3 0 0 0 0 0 8.6 0
Access book/journal/journal article elsewhere online 5 3 2 5 0 2 3 1 0 1 2 0 1 2 0 0 5 0
3.9 2.9 7.8 3.9 0 3.2 5.1 3.3 0 3.7 4.8 0 6.5 8.7 0 0 5.3 0
Purchase from physical book store 5 5 0 5 0 1 3 1 1 1 2 0 0 1 0 0 2 3
3.6 4.6 0 3.6 0 2.1 5.8 3.1 3.3 3.7 4.8 0 3.2 4.3 0 0 2.2 7.7
Interlibrary loan, asking someone in your 4 4 0 4 0 1 1 2 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 3 2
 institutions library to borrow the source for you 3.3 4.1 0 3.3 0 2.3 2.3 7 3.3 7.4 0 9.1 3.2 0 14.3 0 2.6 5.3
Borrow from or use in other libraries 4 4 0 4 0 2 1 1 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 3 1
3 3.7 0.6 3 0 3.7 2.3 3.1 6.7 0 0 9.1 0 4.3 28.6 0 3.2 2.5
Colleagues 2 2 0 2 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
1.6 2 0 1.6 0 0.5 3.8 0 3.3 3.7 0 0 3.2 0 0 0 1 3.3
Publisher 2 2 0 2 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1
1.3 1.7 0 1.3 0 3.1 0 0 3.3 0 0 0 0 4.3 0 0 0.9 2.5
Order from on demand document delivery service 2 2 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1
1.1 1.4 0 1.1 0 1.6 1.2 0 0 0 0 0 6.5 4.3 0 0 0.6 2.6
Author 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0
1 1.3 0 1 0 0.3 2.5 0 0 0 0 0 3.2 4.3 14.3 0 1.4 0
Ask library to purchase source 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0
0.7 0.9 0 0.7 0 1.6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4.3 0 0 0.9 0
Meeting/Conferences 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
0.6 0.8 0 0.6 0 1.5 0 0 3.3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.9 0
Purchase from online bookstore 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
0.6 0.8 0 0.6 0 0 0 3.1 3.3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2.5
Department 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
0.6 0.8 0 0.6 0 1.5 0 0 3.3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2.5
Faculty 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0.2 0 1 0.2 0 0 0.6 0 0 0 0 0 3.2 0 0 0 0.3 0
Office 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
Home 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 5 2 3 5 0 3 1 1 3 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 3 2
3.6 1.6 11.3 3.6 0 5.9 1.2 3.1 10 0 0 9.1 12.9 0 0 0 3.1 4.9
DK/Refused 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
0.6 0.8 0 0.6 0 0 1.8 0 3.3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.9 0

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