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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 59
Q5b2. And which is the second 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
Reference Information 895 328 325 654 242 370 268 258 158 271 162 157 55 61 11 20 566 329
27.8 35.4 31 33.1 19.4 27.8 30.9 25.2 34.2 53.7 16.3 26.2 44.5 15.1 33 19.8 31.1 23.5
D D D G JKM HJKLMN JM HJKMN JM Q
Social science information 405 117 118 235 170 154 111 140 21 25 184 112 5 40 6 12 222 183
12.6 12.6 11.2 11.9 13.7 11.6 12.8 13.6 4.6 5 18.6 18.7 3.7 9.8 17.3 11.9 12.2 13
HILM HILM HIL HILM
News 394 89 97 186 208 125 95 173 26 37 132 76 10 87 6 19 222 172
12.2 9.6 9.3 9.4 16.7 9.4 11 16.9 5.7 7.3 13.3 12.7 8.2 21.5 17.8 18.8 12.2 12.2
ABC EF HIL HIL HIJKL HIL
Scientific and technical information 364 122 132 254 110 173 106 85 88 63 94 40 16 49 1 12 218 146
11.3 13.2 12.6 12.8 8.8 13 12.2 8.3 19 12.5 9.5 6.7 12.8 12.1 3.7 11.9 12 10.4
D D D G G IJKLMN KN N KN KN
Humanities Information 314 61 84 145 169 113 56 144 10 19 149 108 3 7 2 18 128 185
9.7 6.5 8 7.3 13.6 8.5 6.5 14.1 2.1 3.8 15 18 2.1 1.6 5.2 17.8 7.1 13.2
ABC EF M HILMN HILMN HLM P
Medical Information 201 68 70 138 63 69 63 68 101 31 49 7 8 0 0 5 98 103
6.2 7.3 6.7 7 5.1 5.2 7.3 6.7 21.9 6.1 4.9 1.1 6.5 0 0 5 5.4 7.3
IJKLMN KMN KMN M KMN P
Business Information 147 46 41 87 60 56 52 38 2 10 39 10 5 75 3 2 99 48
4.6 4.9 3.9 4.4 4.8 4.2 6 3.7 0.4 2 4 1.7 4.2 18.5 9.4 2 5.5 3.4
G H HK H HIK HIJKLN HIJKL Q
General interest and consumer information 134 37 27 64 71 43 35 56 8 14 36 29 4 36 0 7 74 60
4.2 4 2.5 3.2 5.7 3.2 4.1 5.5 1.7 2.8 3.6 4.9 3.3 8.9 1 6.9 4.1 4.3
BC E HN HIJKLN
Legal Data 108 35 34 69 39 54 26 28 6 3 60 7 3 25 3 2 61 47
3.4 3.8 3.3 3.5 3.1 4.1 3.1 2.7 1.3 0.6 6.1 1.1 2.1 6.2 8.4 2 3.4 3.4
HIKL I HIKL HIKL
Only use one information category 226 16 105 121 105 160 39 27 37 28 75 46 14 21 1 4 114 112
7 1.7 10 6.1 8.4 12 4.6 2.6 8 5.5 7.6 7.7 11 5.3 3.7 4 6.3 8
A AC FG G IMN
Don't Know 33 10 15 25 8 13 14 7 5 4 11 7 2 4 0 0 15 18
1 1 1.5 1.3 0.6 1 1.6 0.7 1.1 0.8 1.1 1.1 1.6 0.9 0.5 0 0.8 1.3

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