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Dimensions and use of the scholarly information environment.
Question T7: Tables 190-308 
Digital Library Federation.
Copyright, 2002, Council on Library and Information Resources.

Table 300

T7E_16. Where do you prefer to get teaching-related Dissertations?
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 Dissertations for teaching 83* 60* 23** 83* 0** 33** 34** 16** 11** 14** 23** 25** 4** 7** 0** 0* 60* 23**
Borrow from or use in campus library 30 22 9 30 0 11 13 6 3 4 11 9 2 1 0 0 20 10
36.6 36.2 37.7 36.6 0 33.3 39.2 37.8 25 28.6 50 36.4 53.3 14.3 100 0 34 43.3
Access online (includes Internet, web sites,  24 17 8 24 0 10 9 5 4 6 6 8 1 0 0 0 20 4
web sites, web searches, etc.) 29.2 27.5 33.6 29.2 0 29.8 26.8 32.8 33.3 42.9 25 31.8 26.7 0 0 0 33.4 18.3
Interlibrary loan, asking someone in your  6 4 2 6 0 0 2 4 1 0 2 3 0 0 0 0 4 2
institutions library to borrow the source for you 7.4 6.5 9.8 7.4 0 0 6.6 23.7 8.3 0 8.3 13.6 0 0 0 0 7.1 8.1
Colleagues 5 5 0 5 0 2 3 0 0 1 2 0 0 2 0 0 5 0
5.7 7.9 0 5.7 0 5.9 8.3 0 0 7.1 8.3 0 0 28.6 0 0 8 0
Borrow from or use in other libraries 2 2 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0
2.6 3.1 1.3 2.6 0 6.6 0 0 0 0 0 0 6.7 28.6 0 0 3.6 0
Purchase from physical book store 2 2 0 2 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1
2.4 3.3 0 2.4 0 0 5.9 0 8.3 0 0 4.5 0 0 0 0 1.5 4.8
Meeting/Conferences 2 0 2 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
2.3 0 8.3 2.3 0 5.7 0 0 0 0 8.3 0 0 0 0 0 0 8.1
Personal Collection/Holdings 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1.6 2.1 0 1.6 0 3.1 0.9 0 0 7.1 0 0 6.7 0 0 0 2.2 0
Publisher 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1
1.4 1.9 0 1.4 0 0 3.3 0 0 0 0 4.5 0 0 0 0 0 4.8
Faculty 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1
1.4 0 4.9 1.4 0 3.4 0 0 0 0 0 4.5 0 0 0 0 0 4.8
Author 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1.2 1.7 0 1.2 0 3.1 0 0 0 7.1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.7 0
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
Purchase from online bookstore 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
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
Department 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
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
Office 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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0.4 0.5 0 0.4 0 0 0.9 0 0 0 0 0 6.7 0 0 0 0.5 0
DK/Refused 7 6 1 7 0 3 3 1 3 1 0 1 0 2 0 0 5 2
8 9.4 4.4 8 0 9.2 8 5.7 25 7.1 0 4.5 0 28.6 0 0 8.1 7.8

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