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Dimensions and use of the scholarly information environment.
Question 13: Tables 549-580
Digital Library Federation.
Copyright, 2002, Council on Library and Information Resources.

Table 557

Q13a_5. Would you say Update frequency is extremely important, very important, somewhat important, not very important or
        not at all important to you?
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 - Total Responding 1391 426 427 853 537 546 375 469 190 242 404 251 55 191 15* 43* 791 600
Top 2 Box 898 260 317 577 321 390 244 264 129 140 269 148 36 139 13 24 502 396
64.6 61.1 74.2 67.6 59.7 71.5 65 56.1 68.1 57.9 66.5 58.9 65.1 73.2 84.1 55.8 63.5 65.9
AD D G G IK IK HIJKL
  Extremely Important 282 78 105 183 99 136 78 68 44 29 92 40 10 53 5 8 137 144
20.3 18.2 24.5 21.4 18.5 24.8 20.9 14.4 23.1 12 22.8 16.1 18 27.8 36.4 18.6 17.4 24.1
AD G G I I IKL HIJKL P
  Very Important 616 183 212 395 221 255 165 196 85 111 177 108 26 86 7 16 365 251
44.3 42.8 49.6 46.2 41.2 46.7 44.1 41.7 44.9 45.9 43.7 42.9 47.1 45.4 47.7 37.2 46.2 41.9
D
Somewhat Important 341 112 79 191 150 108 94 138 41 80 92 65 15 33 2 13 188 152
24.5 26.3 18.5 22.4 27.8 19.8 25.1 29.5 21.8 33.1 22.8 25.9 27 17.1 12.5 30.2 23.8 25.4
B BC E HJMN MN MN
Bottom 2 Box 126 38 25 63 63 37 33 56 16 19 36 29 3 17 0 6 82 44
9.1 8.9 5.9 7.4 11.7 6.8 8.7 12 8.3 7.9 8.8 11.6 6.3 8.8 2.3 14 10.4 7.3
BC E N
  Not Very Important 98 29 21 50 48 31 27 40 14 13 28 21 3 12 0 6 65 33
7 6.8 4.9 5.9 8.9 5.7 7.1 8.5 7.4 5.4 7 8.5 5.3 6.3 0 14 8.2 5.4
B N N N N N
  Not at all Important 29 9 4 13 16 6 6 16 2 6 8 8 1 5 0 0 17 11
2.1 2.1 1 1.5 2.9 1.1 1.6 3.5 0.9 2.5 1.9 3.1 1.1 2.4 2.3 0 2.2 1.9
E
DK/Refused 26 16 6 22 4 10 4 11 4 3 8 9 1 2 0 0 18 8
1.9 3.7 1.4 2.6 0.7 1.9 1.2 2.4 1.9 1.2 1.9 3.6 1.6 1 1.1 0 2.3 1.3
D D
Mean 3.75 3.71 3.93 3.82 3.64 3.9 3.76 3.56 3.83 3.6 3.8 3.62 3.77 3.91 4.17 3.6 3.7 3.82
AD D FG G IK I I IK HIJKLM P

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