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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 563
Q13a_8. Would you say Coverage period 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 742 255 236 491 251 309 210 223 108 115 241 114 28 111 10 15 428 314
53.4 59.8 55.3 57.5 46.7 56.5 56.1 47.5 56.9 47.5 59.5 45.5 51.9 58 65.9 34.9 54.1 52.3
D D D G G IK IK IK IKL
  Extremely Important 185 68 71 139 46 86 58 41 34 19 56 35 5 31 3 2 104 81
13.3 16 16.6 16.3 8.5 15.8 15.5 8.6 18.1 7.9 14 13.8 9.5 16.1 17 4.7 13.1 13.6
D D D G G IL I I I I
  Very Important 557 187 165 352 205 222 152 183 74 96 184 80 23 80 7 13 324 233
40.1 43.8 38.7 41.2 38.2 40.7 40.6 38.9 38.9 39.7 45.6 31.7 42.3 42 48.9 30.2 41 38.8
K K K K
Somewhat Important 399 94 118 213 187 133 111 155 59 73 107 67 18 52 3 20 219 180
28.7 22.1 27.7 24.9 34.8 24.4 29.6 33 31 30.2 26.5 26.8 32.8 27.3 20.5 46.5 27.7 30
ABC E N
Bottom 2 Box 154 37 40 76 78 62 30 62 14 36 39 36 5 16 1 7 93 61
11.1 8.6 9.3 8.9 14.5 11.3 8.1 13.1 7.4 14.9 9.8 14.3 9 8.3 5.7 16.3 11.7 10.2
ABC F HMN HN
  Not Very Important 107 23 26 49 58 39 21 47 6 27 26 26 3 13 1 5 57 50
7.7 5.4 6 5.7 10.8 7.2 5.5 10 3.2 11.2 6.5 10.3 5.3 6.8 4.5 11.6 7.2 8.4
ABC F HL H
  Not at all Important 47 13 14 28 20 23 10 15 8 9 13 10 2 3 0 2 36 11
3.4 3.1 3.3 3.2 3.7 4.1 2.6 3.1 4.2 3.7 3.3 4 3.7 1.5 1.1 4.7 4.6 1.8
Q
DK/Refused 95 41 33 73 22 42 23 30 9 18 17 34 3 12 1 1 51 44
6.8 9.5 7.7 8.6 4 7.7 6.2 6.4 4.6 7.4 4.2 13.4 6.3 6.3 8 2.3 6.4 7.4
D D D HIJLM
Mean 3.56 3.71 3.64 3.67 3.39 3.62 3.65 3.43 3.67 3.4 3.63 3.47 3.52 3.69 3.83 3.19 3.54 3.58
D D D G G I I IK IKL

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