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Dimensions and use of the scholarly information environment.
Question 8R: Tables 181-188. 
Digital Library Federation.
Copyright, 2002, Council on Library and Information Resources.

Table 181

R8a1. What percent of the information that you use for your research comes from
      your institution's physical or virtual library?
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 - Responsibility is research 1563 811 752 1563 0** 699 593 271 269 320 491 239 79 148 18 0* 1023 540
25% or less 229 154 75 229 0 73 92 64 27 72 55 34 11 27 4 0 164 65
14.7 19 10 14.7 0 10.5 15.5 23.7 10.1 22.5 11.1 14.1 13.6 18.2 24.3 0 16 12.1
B E EF HJKL HJ HJKL
26% - 50% 319 191 128 319 0 141 104 75 46 69 100 54 17 30 4 0 215 104
20.4 23.5 17.1 20.4 0 20.1 17.5 27.7 17 21.6 20.3 22.5 22.1 20.1 22.3 0 21 19.3
B EF
51% - 75% 314 175 139 314 0 136 129 48 58 54 115 44 14 27 2 0 215 98
20.1 21.6 18.4 20.1 0 19.5 21.8 17.8 21.6 16.9 23.4 18.3 18 18.2 11.7 0 21.1 18.2
N N
76% - 100% 695 287 408 695 0 348 267 79 138 123 222 105 36 63 7 0 425 270
44.5 35.4 54.3 44.5 0 49.8 45.1 29.3 51.3 38.4 45.2 44.1 45.6 42.8 41.7 0 41.5 50
A G G I P
Don't Know 6 4 1 6 0 1 1 4 0 2 0 2 1 1 0 0 4 2
0.4 0.5 0.2 0.4 0 0.2 0.1 1.5 0 0.6 0 0.9 0.7 0.6 0 0 0.4 0.3
EF HJ
Median 73.07 59.96 76.92 73.07 0 74.91 73.51 49.16 75.56 67.64 72.6 71.62 70.77 69.5 59.17 0 72.06 75.1
EF IJ J IJ HIJKM HIJK HIJKM P
Mean 64.99 59.34 71.06 64.99 0 68.83 65.48 53.85 70.19 59.31 67.05 64.48 64.73 62.53 58.98 0 63.07 68.62
A FG G IKLMN IN I I P
Standard Deviation 28.33 28.93 26.38 28.33 0 26.71 28.28 29.77 26.62 30.65 27.18 27.66 27.35 28.91 33.56 0 28.43 27.81
Standard Error 0.7 1.01 0.93 0.7 0 1 1.1 1.86 1.52 1.72 1.68 1.9 1.66 2.3 3.31 0 0.85 1.24

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