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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 208

T7D_3. When you are preparing teaching materials, where do you go to get 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 teaching 40* 27** 13** 40* 0** 16** 14** 10** 6** 5** 11** 12** 3** 2** 0** 0* 30** 11**
Access online (includes Internet, web sites,  32 24 8 32 0 10 13 9 5 4 6 12 3 2 0 0 24 9
web sites, web searches, etc.) 80.5 88.9 62.6 80.5 0 64.6 90.7 91.4 85.7 80 50 100 90.9 100 100 0 80 82.1
Borrow from or use in campus library 8 5 3 8 0 4 2 2 1 2 4 0 1 1 0 0 5 3
20.3 18.2 24.9 20.3 0 23.6 17.6 18.8 14.3 40 33.3 0 18.2 50 0 0 18 26.7
Purchase from online bookstore 2 0 2 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
4.7 0 14.8 4.7 0 11.8 0 0 0 0 16.7 0 0 0 0 0 6.3 0
Access from course website 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
2.2 0 6.9 2.2 0 5.5 0 0 14.3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
Borrow from or use in other libraries 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
2.2 3.2 0 2.2 0 0 0 8.6 14.3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
Interlibrary loan, asking someone in your  0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
institutions 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
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
Purchase from physical book store 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
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
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
Meeting/Conferences 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
Department 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
Author 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
Publisher 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 Collection/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 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0
3.5 4.1 2.3 3.5 0 0 2.1 10.9 0 0 0 9.1 9.1 0 0 0 4.8 0
DK/Refused 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

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