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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 562

Q13B_7. And, in thinking of how well your current sources are meeting your
        needs on this feature (Information filtering mechanisms (Search functions)), would you rate them as:
        Excellent, very good, good, fair or poor?
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 1391 426 427 853 537 546 375 469 190 242 404 251 55 191 15* 43* 791 600
Top 2 Box 587 161 196 357 230 234 170 183 84 91 179 102 22 81 8 20 335 252
42.2 37.8 45.9 41.8 42.8 42.8 45.4 39 44.4 37.6 44.2 40.6 40.2 42.4 54.5 46.5 42.4 42
A IKL
  5 - Excellent 135 36 42 78 57 50 41 45 21 20 41 19 5 20 3 5 82 53
9.7 8.4 9.8 9.1 10.7 9.1 10.8 9.5 11.1 8.3 10.2 7.6 9 10.7 20.5 11.6 10.4 8.8
HIJKLM
  4 - Very Good 452 125 154 279 173 184 130 138 63 71 137 83 17 60 5 15 253 199
32.5 29.4 36.1 32.7 32.1 33.7 34.6 29.5 33.3 29.3 34 33 31.2 31.7 34.1 34.9 32 33.2
3 - Good 621 191 180 371 249 235 161 224 88 113 173 116 24 80 6 20 346 275
44.6 44.8 42.2 43.5 46.4 43.1 43 47.7 46.3 46.7 42.8 46.4 44.4 42 38.6 46.5 43.7 45.8
Bottom 2 Box 161 59 50 109 52 69 41 51 13 31 51 29 7 26 1 3 97 64
11.6 13.8 11.8 12.8 9.7 12.6 11 10.9 6.9 12.8 12.6 11.6 13.2 13.7 5.7 7 12.3 10.7
H H H
  2 - Fair 139 47 45 92 47 60 35 44 11 24 45 26 6 24 1 3 80 59
10 11.1 10.5 10.8 8.7 11 9.2 9.4 5.6 9.9 11.2 10.3 10.6 12.7 4.5 7 10.2 9.8
H H H
  1 - Poor 22 12 5 17 5 8 7 7 3 7 6 3 1 2 0 0 17 5
1.6 2.8 1.2 2 0.9 1.5 1.7 1.5 1.4 2.9 1.4 1.3 2.6 1 1.1 0 2.1 0.9
DK/Refused 22 15 1 16 6 9 2 11 4 7 2 3 1 4 0 0 13 9
1.6 3.5 0.2 1.9 1.1 1.6 0.6 2.3 2.3 2.9 0.5 1.3 2.1 2 1.1 0 1.6 1.5
BD J J
Mean 3.39 3.31 3.43 3.37 3.43 3.38 3.44 3.37 3.48 3.31 3.41 3.36 3.34 3.39 3.69 3.51 3.39 3.4
A I IJKLM

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