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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 399

S7D_12. When you are doing your coursework, where do you go to get Data?
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 Data for coursework 572 0** 231 231 341 265 114 193 83* 85* 182* 91* 22* 75* 6* 28* 275 297
Borrow from or use in campus library 356 0 125 125 231 146 64 145 50 51 120 63 11 38 3 19 157 199
62.2 0 53.9 53.9 67.8 54.9 56.6 75.4 60.6 60 66 69.1 52 50.6 48.6 67.9 57 67
BC EF M LMN P
Access online (includes Internet, web sites,  330 0 139 139 192 146 73 112 48 53 100 45 13 50 4 18 178 152
web sites, web searches, etc.) 57.8 0 60.1 60.1 56.3 54.9 64 58.1 57.4 62.4 54.6 49.4 60 66.7 71.4 64.3 64.8 51.3
K K Q
Faculty 32 0 21 21 11 17 7 8 6 5 9 3 2 5 0 1 21 12
5.6 0 9.1 9.1 3.3 6.3 6.5 4.2 7.4 5.9 5.2 3.7 10.7 6.2 5.7 3.6 7.5 3.9
D D K
Borrow from or use in other libraries 23 0 7 7 17 9 3 11 5 4 8 4 1 0 0 1 12 12
4.1 0 3 3 4.8 3.4 2.7 5.9 6.4 4.7 4.1 4.9 4 0 5.7 3.6 4.4 3.9
M M M
Interlibrary loan, asking someone in your institutions 18 0 0 0 18 2 0 16 2 3 6 4 0 0 0 3 7 11
 library to borrow the source for you 3.1 0 0 0 5.2 0.8 0 8.2 2.1 3.5 3.1 4.9 0 0 0 10.7 2.5 3.7
BC EF
Purchase from physical book store 10 0 1 1 9 5 1 4 0 0 6 1 1 2 0 1 6 5
1.8 0 0.5 0.5 2.7 2.1 0.8 2.1 0 0 3.1 1.2 2.7 2.5 2.9 3.6 2.1 1.6
HI HI
Purchase from online bookstore 3 0 2 2 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 1 2
0.5 0 0.9 0.9 0.3 0.8 0.8 0 0 0 0 1.2 0 2.5 0 0 0.3 0.7
Personal holdings 3 0 2 2 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 2 1
0.5 0 1 1 0.2 0.5 1.2 0.2 0 0 0 1.2 4 1.2 0 0 0.7 0.4
HIJ
Home 2 0 2 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
0.4 0 0.9 0.9 0 0 1.8 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2.9 0 0 0.7
E HIKM
Access from course website 2 0 1 1 1 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0
0.3 0 0.4 0.4 0.3 0.8 0 0 0 1.2 0 0 0 0 0 3.6 0.7 0
Order from on demand document delivery service 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
0.2 0 0.1 0.1 0.3 0 0.1 0.5 0 1.2 0 0 0 0 2.9 0 0.1 0.3
HJKM
Dorm room 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0
0.2 0 0 0 0.3 0 0 0.5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3.6 0.4 0
Colleagues 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
0.2 0 0.4 0.4 0 0 0.8 0 1.1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.3
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
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
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
Other 26 0 17 17 8 17 6 3 4 4 9 3 1 5 0 0 17 9
4.5 0 7.5 7.5 2.5 6.3 5 1.7 4.3 4.7 5.2 3.7 2.7 6.2 2.9 0 6.2 2.9
D D G
DK/Refused 5 0 2 2 3 2 2 1 1 1 0 0 1 2 0 1 3 3
0.9 0 0.9 0.9 0.9 0.8 1.8 0.5 1.1 1.2 0 0 2.7 2.5 0 3.6 1 0.8
JK

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