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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 323

S7E_1. Where do you prefer to get course-related 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 575 0 252 252 323 253 138 183 66 96 186 115 21 50 7 33 279 296
73.7 0 67 67 80 68.7 72.1 83.6 69.4 71.6 78.6 82.4 62.9 56.3 59.2 84.6 73.1 74.4
BC EF M LMN HILMN
Access online (includes Internet, web sites,  85 0 50 50 34 51 21 12 14 14 30 8 3 12 1 2 37 48
web sites, web searches, etc.) 10.9 0 13.4 13.4 8.5 14 10.9 5.7 14.8 10.4 12.7 5.6 10.3 13.5 9.9 5.1 9.6 12.1
D D G K K
Purchase from physical book store 83 0 51 51 32 45 22 16 11 18 19 4 6 19 3 4 47 36
10.6 0 13.5 13.5 8 12.1 11.7 7.3 11.1 13.4 7.9 3.2 17.2 20.8 22.5 10.3 12.4 9
D D K K JK JK HJK
Purchase from online bookstore 9 0 8 8 1 4 3 1 1 1 0 1 1 5 0 0 4 4
1.1 0 2 2 0.3 1.2 1.7 0.5 0.9 0.7 0 0.8 2.6 5.2 1.4 0 1.1 1.1
D D J IJK J
Borrow from or use in other libraries 8 0 3 3 5 3 2 3 0 1 0 6 1 1 0 0 4 4
1.1 0 0.8 0.8 1.3 0.9 1 1.4 0 0.7 0 4 1.7 1 2.8 0 1 1.1
HJ J HJ
Faculty 4 0 2 2 2 1 1 2 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 1 3
0.5 0 0.5 0.5 0.6 0.3 0.5 1 0.9 0 0 2.4 0 0 0 0 0.3 0.8
J
Ask library to purchase source 2 0 2 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
0.2 0 0.5 0.5 0 0.5 0 0 0 0 0.8 0 0 0 0 0 0.5 0
Interlibrary loan, asking someone in your institutions  2 0 1 1 1 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
library to borrow the source for you 0.2 0 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.5 0 0 1.9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.4
Colleagues 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
0.2 0 0.3 0.3 0 0 0.7 0 0 0.7 0 0 0.9 0 0 0 0.3 0
J
Personal holdings 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 0.9 0 0 0 0.1 0
J
Home 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
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
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
Other 4 0 1 1 2 2 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 2 1
0.5 0 0.4 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.1 0.5 0 0.7 0 0.8 0 1 4.2 0 0.5 0.4
HIJKL
DK/Refused 6 0 5 5 1 4 2 0 0 2 0 1 1 2 0 0 4 2
0.8 0 1.2 1.2 0.3 1 1.1 0 0 1.5 0 0.8 2.6 2.1 0 0 1 0.5
HJ J

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