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Dimensions and use of the scholarly information environment.
Question 13: Tables 549-580
Digital Library Federation.
Copyright, 2002, Council on Library and Information Resources.

Table 561

Q13a_7. Would you say Information filtering mechanisms (Search functions) is extremely important, 
very important, somewhat important, not very important or  not at all important to you?
       
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 - Total Responding 1391 426 427 853 537 546 375 469 190 242 404 251 55 191 15* 43* 791 600
Top 2 Box 1095 323 368 691 404 444 306 345 147 184 335 196 42 147 12 33 611 484
78.7 75.8 86.2 81 75.1 81.4 81.6 73.4 77.3 76 82.8 78.1 76.2 77.1 78.4 76.7 77.3 80.7
AD D G G
  Extremely Important 426 124 151 275 151 182 126 117 59 59 126 81 17 68 5 11 239 187
30.6 29 35.5 32.2 28.1 33.4 33.6 25 31 24.4 31.2 32.1 30.7 35.6 36.4 25.6 30.2 31.2
D G G I I
  Very Important 669 200 217 416 253 262 180 227 88 125 209 115 25 79 6 22 373 297
48.1 46.8 50.7 48.8 47.1 48 48 48.4 46.3 51.7 51.6 46 45.5 41.5 42 51.2 47.1 49.5
M M
Somewhat Important 228 75 45 120 109 81 50 97 33 43 56 47 9 31 3 7 136 92
16.4 17.5 10.5 14 20.2 14.9 13.3 20.7 17.1 17.8 14 18.8 16.4 16.1 17 16.3 17.2 15.4
B BC EF
Bottom 2 Box 51 19 13 32 19 16 16 20 7 9 11 6 3 12 1 3 34 18
3.7 4.5 3.1 3.8 3.5 2.9 4.3 4.2 3.7 3.7 2.8 2.2 5.3 6.3 3.4 7 4.3 2.9
K
  Not Very Important 38 14 11 25 12 13 10 15 4 4 8 4 3 11 1 3 24 14
2.7 3.4 2.6 3 2.3 2.3 2.8 3.2 2.3 1.7 1.9 1.8 4.8 5.9 3.4 7 3 2.3
IJK IJK
  Not at all Important 14 5 2 7 7 3 6 5 3 5 4 1 0 1 0 0 10 4
1 1.1 0.5 0.8 1.2 0.6 1.5 1.1 1.4 2.1 0.9 0.4 0.5 0.5 0 0 1.3 0.6
DK/Refused 16 9 1 10 6 5 3 8 4 6 2 2 1 1 0 0 10 6
1.1 2.1 0.2 1.2 1.1 0.9 0.9 1.7 1.9 2.5 0.5 0.9 2.1 0.5 1.1 0 1.2 1
B J
Mean 4.06 4.01 4.18 4.1 4 4.12 4.1 3.95 4.05 3.97 4.11 4.09 4.03 4.06 4.13 3.95 4.03 4.09
AD D G G

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