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Dimensions and use of the scholarly information environment.
Question 7R [part 2]: Tables 119-180. 
Digital Library Federation.
Copyright, 2002, Council on Library and Information Resources.

Table 129

R7D_10. When you are doing research, where do you go to get Manuscripts and other primary source documents?
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 Manuscripts and other primary source documents  343 224 119* 343 0** 135 147 61* 73* 63* 117* 47* 14* 25** 5** 0* 233 110*
for research
Borrow from or use in campus library 258 167 91 258 0 101 111 45 51 50 90 32 10 20 4 0 179 79
75.2 74.4 76.6 75.2 0 75.1 75.8 74.1 69.9 79.4 77.4 69 74.5 81.5 77.8 0 76.6 72.2
Access online (includes Internet, web sites,  169 118 51 169 0 67 68 34 48 34 43 15 9 17 2 0 122 46
web sites, web searches, etc.) 49.2 52.7 42.5 49.2 0 49.8 46.2 54.9 66.3 54 37.1 31 68.1 66.7 51.9 0 52.5 42
JK K JK
Interlibrary loan, asking someone in your institutions library to  50 45 5 50 0 7 20 23 12 10 15 7 2 4 1 0 40 10
borrow the source for you 14.6 20.3 4 14.6 0 5.2 13.8 37.4 16.9 15.9 12.9 14.3 12.8 14.8 14.8 0 17.1 9.5
B E EF
Borrow from or use in other libraries 42 33 9 42 0 11 18 13 4 7 19 9 0 3 1 0 25 17
12.2 14.6 7.7 12.2 0 8.1 12.5 20.6 4.8 11.1 16.1 19 2.1 11.1 11.1 0 10.9 15.1
E HL HL
Source 13 11 2 13 0 8 4 1 3 3 0 2 2 3 0 0 9 4
3.7 4.9 1.3 3.7 0 5.6 2.7 1.6 3.6 4.8 0 4.8 12.8 11.1 3.7 0 3.9 3.3
J J HJ
Order from on demand document delivery service 11 7 4 11 0 4 7 0 2 0 6 2 0 1 0 0 8 3
3.2 3 3.5 3.2 0 2.9 4.7 0 2.4 0 4.8 4.8 2.1 3.7 0 0 3.4 2.6
Colleague 7 5 2 7 0 2 4 1 0 1 6 0 1 0 0 0 5 2
2.1 2.3 1.8 2.1 0 1.4 3 1.6 0 1.6 4.8 0 4.3 0 0 0 2.2 2
HK
Personal holdings 7 6 1 7 0 3 2 2 0 1 4 0 0 2 0 0 6 1
2 2.6 0.8 2 0 2.3 1.3 3.1 0 1.6 3.2 0 2.1 7.4 0 0 2.6 0.8
H
Printed material 5 3 2 5 0 3 1 1 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0
1.4 1.3 1.6 1.4 0 2.1 0.6 1.6 2.4 4.8 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
J
Purchase from physical book store 3 1 2 3 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 1
0.9 0.5 1.7 0.9 0 1.7 0.6 0 1.2 0 0 4.8 0 0 0 0 1 0.8
J
Ask library to purchase source 3 3 0 3 0 0 2 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 2 1
0.9 1.4 0 0.9 0 0 1.4 1.6 0 1.6 0 2.4 0 3.7 0 0 0.8 1
Purchase from online bookstore 3 0 3 3 0 2 1 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
0.9 0.1 2.3 0.9 0 1.4 0.8 0 1.2 0 1.6 0 2.1 0 0 0 0.1 2.5
Office 2 2 0 2 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
0.5 0.8 0 0.5 0 0 1.2 0 2.4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.8 0
E-journals 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
0.3 0.4 0 0.3 0 0.7 0 0 0 1.6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.4 0
Faculty 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0.1 0 0.2 0.1 0 0 0.2 0 0 0 0 0 2.1 0 0 0 0.1 0
HJ
Meetings/conference 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 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
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 29 22 7 29 0 12 13 4 4 0 13 10 0 1 0 0 20 9
8.4 9.7 6.1 8.4 0 9.2 8.7 6 6 0 11.3 21.4 2.1 3.7 0 0 8.6 8
I I HIL
DK/Refused 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0.1 0 0.2 0.1 0 0.2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2.1 0 0 0 0.1 0
HJ

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