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Dimensions and use of the scholarly information environment.
Question 8T: Tables 309-316. 
Digital Library Federation.
Copyright, 2002, Council on Library and Information Resources.

Table 309

T8A1. What percent of the information that you use for your teaching 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 teaching 1299 920 379 1299 0** 518 461 319 206 282 344 258 50 152 8* 0* 912 387
25% or less 371 292 79 371 0 162 109 100 45 103 81 56 17 67 3 0 270 101
28.6 31.8 20.8 28.6 0 31.2 23.7 31.4 21.8 36.5 23.5 21.7 33.1 44.2 38.3 0 29.6 26.1
B F F HJK HJK HJKL HJK
26% - 50% 308 242 67 308 0 116 106 86 49 53 103 56 10 35 2 0 215 94
23.7 26.3 17.6 23.7 0 22.4 23 27 23.9 18.8 30.1 21.7 19.2 23.3 21.3 0 23.5 24.2
B IL
51% - 75% 183 132 51 183 0 65 66 51 30 35 43 53 6 15 1 0 133 50
14.1 14.3 13.5 14.1 0 12.6 14.4 16.1 14.5 12.4 12.6 20.4 12.2 9.8 12.8 0 14.6 12.8
IJLM
76% - 100% 427 247 180 427 0 171 177 79 81 90 113 91 17 33 2 0 288 139
32.9 26.8 47.5 32.9 0 33.1 38.3 24.6 39.3 31.9 32.8 35.2 33.7 22.1 25.5 0 31.6 35.8
A G G M M M M M
Don't Know/Refused 10 7 3 10 0 4 3 3 1 1 4 2 1 1 0 0 6 4
0.8 0.8 0.7 0.8 0 0.8 0.6 0.9 0.4 0.4 1.1 0.9 1.7 0.6 2.1 0 0.6 1
Median 47.87 43.96 72.5 47.87 0 46.62 55.65 43.09 55.94 43.54 47.41 58.75 47.25 35 33.33 0 47.16 49.39
A IJ IJ HIJKM IJ HIJKM P
Mean 53.65 49.69 63.26 53.65 0 53 57.85 48.61 58.28 50.41 54.81 58.81 52.29 42.85 46.26 0 52.94 55.33
A EG IMN M M ILMN M
Standard Deviation 32.15 30.8 33.35 32.15 0 33.1 32.07 29.92 31.07 34.32 31.13 29.97 33.33 31.86 37.13 0 32.12 32.2
Standard Error 0.89 1 1.76 0.89 0 1.43 1.51 1.71 2.04 2.05 2.31 1.98 2.56 2.5 5.47 0 1.04 1.71

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