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Dimensions and use of the scholarly information environment.
Question 5: Tables 57-60
Digital Library Federation.
Copyright, 2002, Council on Library and Information Resources.

Table 58

Q5b1. Of those information categories you just mentioned as using, which is the most important?
Base Faculty Member Graduate Student Faculty / Graduate Student Under Graduate Student Public Private Liberal Arts Biological Sciences Physical Sciences Social Sciences Arts & 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 - Regularly use at least one  3221 928 1049 1977 1244 1330 866 1025 463 505 991 598 124 406 32 101 1819 1402
category of information
Scientific and technical information 921 377 343 720 202 396 262 263 258 363 128 29 90 43 0 10 625 296
28.6 40.6 32.7 36.4 16.2 29.8 30.3 25.7 55.7 71.9 12.9 4.9 72.7 10.5 1 9.9 34.4 21.1
BD D D G JKMN HJKMN KN N HJKMN KN Q
Reference Information 629 130 180 311 318 294 135 199 77 80 207 166 23 45 2 30 323 306
19.5 14 17.2 15.7 25.6 22.1 15.6 19.4 16.7 15.8 20.9 27.7 18.2 11 5.8 29.7 17.8 21.8
ABC F MN MN IMN HIJLMN MN P
Social science information 541 158 191 349 191 230 134 177 11 11 415 62 2 28 2 10 239 302
16.8 17 18.2 17.7 15.4 17.3 15.5 17.2 2.3 2.2 41.9 10.3 1.6 6.9 6.8 9.9 13.1 21.5
HIKLMN HIL HIL HIL P
Humanities Information 401 106 102 208 193 126 111 164 2 11 90 270 2 5 1 21 212 189
12.4 11.4 9.7 10.5 15.5 9.4 12.8 16 0.4 2.2 9.1 45.1 1.4 1.1 1.6 20.8 11.7 13.5
ABC E E H HILMN HIJLMN H H
Business Information 263 85 85 169 94 104 78 81 3 6 19 7 2 225 0 2 174 90
8.2 9.1 8.1 8.6 7.6 7.8 9.1 7.9 0.6 1.2 1.9 1.1 1.6 55.4 0 2 9.5 6.4
HIJKLN Q
News 175 23 21 44 131 56 41 79 8 11 66 37 1 33 1 19 103 72
5.4 2.5 2 2.2 10.6 4.2 4.7 7.7 1.7 2.2 6.6 6.2 1.2 8 2.1 18.8 5.7 5.1
ABC EF HILN HILN HILN
Medical Information 145 20 74 95 50 71 54 19 101 15 21 3 1 1 0 2 59 85
4.5 2.2 7.1 4.8 4 5.4 6.3 1.8 21.9 3 2.1 0.6 1.2 0.2 0 2 3.3 6.1
AD A G G IJKLMN KMN KM M P
Legal Data 67 23 29 52 15 25 29 13 0 2 21 8 0 8 27 1 40 26
2.1 2.5 2.7 2.6 1.2 1.9 3.3 1.3 0 0.4 2.1 1.3 0.2 2.1 82.2 1 2.2 1.9
D D D G HIL H HIL HIJKLM
General interest and consumer information 56 2 10 12 44 19 12 25 1 5 15 12 2 15 0 6 34 23
1.7 0.2 1 0.6 3.5 1.4 1.4 2.4 0.2 1 1.5 2.1 1.6 3.7 0 5.9 1.8 1.6
A ABC H H H HIJN
Don't Know 23 3 14 17 6 9 9 5 3 1 9 4 0 5 0 0 9 13
0.7 0.3 1.3 0.9 0.5 0.7 1 0.5 0.6 0.2 0.9 0.7 0.2 1.1 0.5 0 0.5 0.9
AD
None 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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