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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 567

Q13a_10. Would you say Subject coverage 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 1160 368 373 742 419 468 319 373 163 198 338 207 45 160 13 36 639 521
83.4 86.4 87.4 86.9 77.9 85.8 85 79.5 85.6 81.8 83.7 82.6 82 83.9 86.4 83.7 80.8 86.9
D D D G P
  Extremely Important 404 132 153 285 119 177 128 100 62 61 113 73 17 59 6 14 216 188
29.1 31 35.9 33.4 22.1 32.4 34.1 21.2 32.9 25.2 27.9 29 30.2 30.7 40.9 32.6 27.4 31.3
D D D G G IJK
  Very Important 756 236 220 456 300 292 191 273 100 137 226 134 28 101 7 22 423 333
54.4 55.4 51.6 53.5 55.8 53.4 50.8 58.2 52.8 56.6 55.8 53.6 51.9 53.2 45.5 51.2 53.5 55.5
F
Somewhat Important 177 37 39 76 100 56 43 78 21 29 53 37 7 23 2 5 115 62
12.7 8.8 9.1 8.9 18.7 10.2 11.5 16.5 11.1 12 13 14.7 12.7 12.2 11.4 11.6 14.6 10.3
ABC E Q
Bottom 2 Box 37 12 12 24 13 15 11 12 4 11 9 2 3 7 0 1 26 11
2.7 2.8 2.8 2.8 2.5 2.7 3 2.5 2.3 4.5 2.3 0.9 4.8 3.4 1.1 2.3 3.3 1.9
K K
  Not Very Important 23 7 9 16 7 8 8 7 3 9 2 1 1 6 0 1 15 8
1.6 1.6 2.2 1.9 1.3 1.4 2.2 1.5 1.4 3.7 0.5 0.4 2.6 2.9 1.1 2.3 1.9 1.3
JK JK JK
  Not at all Important 14 6 3 8 6 7 3 5 2 2 8 1 1 1 0 0 11 4
1 1.3 0.6 1 1.2 1.2 0.8 1 0.9 0.8 1.9 0.4 2.1 0.5 0 0 1.4 0.6
DK/Refused 16 9 3 12 5 7 2 7 2 4 4 4 0 1 0 1 10 6
1.2 2 0.7 1.3 0.9 1.3 0.5 1.5 0.9 1.7 0.9 1.8 0.5 0.5 1.1 2.3 1.3 1
Mean 4.1 4.16 4.21 4.18 3.97 4.16 4.16 3.99 4.16 4.03 4.08 4.12 4.06 4.11 4.28 4.17 4.05 4.17
D D D G G IL P

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