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Dimensions and use of the scholarly information environment.
Question 7S: Tables 318-436. 
Digital Library Federation.
Copyright, 2002, Council on Library and Information Resources.

Table 336

S7D_3. When you are doing your coursework, where do you go to get e-books?
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 - Use e-books for coursework 131 0** 46* 46* 85* 54* 34** 43* 18** 15** 45** 22** 7** 12** 1** 10* 58* 73*
Access online (includes Internet, web sites,  93 0 27 27 66 29 27 36 12 11 30 17 6 7 1 8 39 54
web sites, web searches, etc.) 70.5 0 58.3 58.3 77 54.1 79.8 83.3 66.7 73.3 66.7 75 83.3 61.5 87.5 80 66.2 73.9
BC E
Borrow from or use in campus library 46 0 18 18 27 23 9 13 7 6 15 7 3 5 0 3 24 22
34.6 0 40.2 40.2 31.7 43.6 26.6 29.9 38.1 40 33.3 30 41.7 38.5 12.5 30 40.4 30.1
Purchase from online bookstore 3 0 3 3 0 2 1 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
2.2 0 6.3 6.3 0 3.5 2.9 0 0 6.7 4.2 0 0 0 0 0 4.9 0
D D
Purchase from physical book store 2 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 2
1.5 0 0 0 2.3 3.6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7.7 0 10 0 2.6
Home 2 0 2 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
1.4 0 4.1 4.1 0 3.5 0 0 0 0 4.2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2.6
Interlibrary loan, asking someone in your institutions 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1
 library to borrow the source for you 0.9 0 0 0 1.3 0 0 2.6 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 1.5
Order from on demand document delivery service 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
Access from course website 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
Access book/journal/journal article elsewhere online 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
Borrow from or use in other libraries 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
Ask library to purchase source 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
Faculty 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
Colleagues 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
In class 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
Dorm room 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
Personal holdings 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
Other 3 0 0 0 3 3 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 3
2.2 0 0 0 3.4 5.4 0 0 0 0 4.2 0 0 0 0 10 0 3.9
DK/Refused 3 0 1 1 2 1 0 2 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 2
2.4 0 1.9 1.9 2.6 1.6 0 5.2 4.8 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 1.9 2.7

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