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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 322

S7D_1. When you are doing your coursework, where do you go to get Print or hardcopy 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 Print or hardcopy books for coursework 780 0** 376 376 404 369 192 219 95 134 237 140 34 89* 12* 39* 382 398
Borrow from or use in campus library 660 0 297 297 363 295 164 200 78 114 209 129 26 61 9 34 313 347
84.6 0 78.9 78.9 90 80.1 85.6 91.4 82.4 85.1 88.1 92 77.6 68.8 73.2 87.2 81.9 87.3
BC E M MN LMN HLMN
Purchase from physical book store 147 0 84 84 62 66 38 43 15 32 39 13 10 27 3 7 82 65
18.8 0 22.4 22.4 15.4 17.8 20 19.4 15.7 23.9 16.7 9.6 29.3 30.2 25.4 17.9 21.5 16.3
D D K HJK HJK K
Access online (includes Internet, web sites,  118 0 67 67 51 65 31 21 18 22 38 13 6 14 2 5 53 64
web sites, web searches, etc.) 15.1 0 17.8 17.8 12.5 17.7 16.1 9.8 19.4 16.4 15.9 9.6 16.4 15.6 14.1 12.8 14 16.2
G K
Borrow from or use in other libraries 39 0 13 13 26 13 8 18 2 10 8 16 1 2 1 1 16 23
5 0 3.6 3.6 6.4 3.7 4.4 8 1.9 7.5 3.2 11.2 2.6 2.1 5.6 2.6 4.3 5.8
E HJLM
Purchase from online bookstore 34 0 23 23 11 11 13 10 4 7 4 7 3 7 1 1 20 14
4.3 0 6.1 6.1 2.6 3.1 6.6 4.4 4.6 5.2 1.6 4.8 7.8 8.3 5.6 2.6 5.1 3.5
D D J J J
Interlibrary loan, asking someone in your institutions  19 0 6 6 12 5 3 11 4 2 6 3 0 2 0 1 9 10
library to borrow the source for you 2.4 0 1.6 1.6 3.1 1.5 1.3 4.8 4.6 1.5 2.4 2.4 0.9 2.1 0 2.6 2.4 2.4
E
Faculty 12 0 7 7 5 2 5 5 2 2 2 7 0 0 0 0 5 7
1.6 0 1.9 1.9 1.3 0.6 2.5 2.4 1.9 1.5 0.8 4.8 0 0 0 0 1.3 1.8
JM
Colleagues 5 0 3 3 2 2 2 2 0 1 2 0 1 0 0 2 2 3
0.7 0 0.9 0.9 0.5 0.5 0.8 0.9 0 0.7 0.8 0 1.7 0 0 5.1 0.6 0.8
K
Ask library to purchase source 3 0 2 2 1 3 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 3 0
0.4 0 0.5 0.5 0.2 0.8 0 0 0 0 0.8 0 0 0 0 2.6 0.8 0
Order from on demand document delivery service 2 0 2 2 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1
0.2 0 0.5 0.5 0 0.3 0.5 0 0 0.7 0 0 0 1 0 0 0.3 0.2
Home 2 0 2 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
0.2 0 0.5 0.5 0 0 1 0 0 0 0.8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.5
Personal holdings 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1
0.2 0 0.4 0.4 0 0.3 0.2 0 0 0 0 0.8 0.9 0 0 0 0.1 0.3
J
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
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
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
Other 10 0 6 6 4 5 4 1 1 3 0 1 0 5 1 0 7 3
1.3 0 1.7 1.7 1 1.4 2.1 0.5 0.9 2.2 0 0.8 0 5.2 5.6 0 1.8 0.8
J JKL HJKL
DK/Refused 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0
0.2 0 0.4 0.4 0 0.4 0 0 0 0 0 0.8 0.9 0 0 0 0.4 0
J

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