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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 435

S7E_17. Where do you prefer to get course-related News?
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 News for coursework 445 0** 148 148 296 183 94* 168 44* 35* 162* 84* 12* 71* 6* 31* 206 239
Access online (includes Internet, web sites,  265 0 93 93 172 112 56 97 28 26 94 34 7 53 5 18 125 140
web sites, web searches, etc.) 59.5 0 62.3 62.3 58 61 59.6 57.7 64 74.3 58.1 40 58.1 75 75 58.1 60.5 58.6
K K K JK K
Borrow from or use in campus library 135 0 40 40 95 47 30 58 11 6 51 39 4 12 1 12 58 77
30.4 0 26.9 26.9 32.1 25.6 32.4 34.4 24 17.1 31.4 46.7 30.2 17.1 11.1 38.7 28.1 32.3
MN HIJMN
Faculty 8 0 1 1 7 4 1 3 1 0 4 2 0 0 0 1 3 5
1.8 0 0.8 0.8 2.4 2.3 0.9 1.8 2 0 2.3 2.7 2.3 0 0 3.2 1.4 2.2
M
Dorm room 5 0 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 1 2 1 0 1 0 0 5 0
1.1 0 0 0 1.7 0 0 2.9 0 2.9 1.2 1.3 0 1.3 0 0 2.4 0
E Q
In class 3 0 1 1 2 3 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 2 1
0.6 0 0.6 0.6 0.6 1.5 0 0 0 0 1.2 0 0 1.3 0 0 0.9 0.4
Home 2 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
0.4 0 0 0 0.6 1 0 0 0 0 1.2 0 0 0 0 0 0.9 0
Interlibrary loan, asking someone in your institutions  2 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
library to borrow the source for you 0.4 0 0 0 0.6 1 0 0 0 0 1.2 0 0 0 0 0 0.9 0
Access from course website 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0
0.2 0 0.6 0.6 0 0.5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.3 0 0 0.5 0
Borrow from or use in other libraries 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
0.2 0 0.6 0.6 0 0.5 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.4 0
Purchase from online bookstore 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0.1 0 0 0 0.1 0.2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2.3 0 0 0 0 0.1
JKM
Personal holdings 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0.1 0 0.2 0.2 0 0 0.3 0 0 0 0 0 2.3 0 0 0 0 0.1
JKM
Purchase from physical book store 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0.1 0.1 0 0 0.2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2.8 0 0.1 0
HJKM
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
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
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 14 0 6 6 8 4 5 4 3 0 4 6 0 1 1 0 4 10
3.1 0 4.3 4.3 2.5 2.4 5.4 2.6 6 0 2.3 6.7 2.3 1.3 11.1 0 1.8 4.3
IJM
DK/Refused 6 0 2 2 4 5 0 1 1 2 0 1 0 2 0 0 4 2
1.4 0 1.5 1.5 1.3 2.8 0 0.6 2 5.7 0 1.3 2.3 2.6 0 0 2.1 0.8
J J

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