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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 337

S7E_3. Where do you prefer to get course-related e-books?
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 e-books for coursework 131 0** 46* 46* 85* 54* 34** 43* 18** 15** 45** 22** 7** 12** 1** 10* 58* 73*
Access online (includes Internet, web sites,  81 0 23 23 57 24 27 30 11 8 26 16 5 7 1 6 33 48
web sites, web searches, etc.) 61.4 0 50.8 50.8 67.1 44.2 78.1 69.5 61.9 53.3 58.3 70 66.7 61.5 87.5 60 56.5 65.3
E
Borrow from or use in campus library 39 0 17 17 22 22 7 11 6 6 13 4 2 4 0 3 21 18
29.7 0 36.9 36.9 25.8 40.1 19 25.3 33.3 40 29.2 20 33.3 30.8 12.5 30 36.6 24.2
Purchase from online bookstore 3 0 3 3 0 2 1 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
2.2 0 6.3 6.3 0 3.5 2.9 0 0 6.7 4.2 0 0 0 0 0 4.9 0
D D
Purchase from physical book store 2 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 2
1.5 0 0 0 2.3 3.6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7.7 0 10 0 2.6
Home 2 0 2 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
1.4 0 4.1 4.1 0 3.5 0 0 0 0 4.2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2.6
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
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
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
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
Borrow from or use in other libraries 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
Faculty 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
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
In class 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
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
Personal holdings 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 2 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
1.4 0 0 0 2.2 3.5 0 0 0 0 4.2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2.6
DK/Refused 3 0 1 1 2 1 0 2 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 2
2.4 0 1.9 1.9 2.6 1.6 0 5.2 4.8 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 1.9 2.7

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