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Dimensions and use of the scholarly information environment.
Question 8R: Tables 181-188.
Digital Library Federation.
Copyright, 2002, Council on Library and Information Resources.

Table 181

R8a1. What percent of the information that you use for your research comes from
����� your institution's physical or virtual library?
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 - Responsibility is research 1563 811 752 1563 0** 699 593 271 269 320 491 239 79 148 18 0* 1023 540
25% or less 229 154 75 229 0 73 92 64 27 72 55 34 11 27 4 0 164 65
14.7 19 10 14.7 0 10.5 15.5 23.7 10.1 22.5 11.1 14.1 13.6 18.2 24.3 0 16 12.1
B E EF HJKL HJ HJKL
26% - 50% 319 191 128 319 0 141 104 75 46 69 100 54 17 30 4 0 215 104
20.4 23.5 17.1 20.4 0 20.1 17.5 27.7 17 21.6 20.3 22.5 22.1 20.1 22.3 0 21 19.3
B EF
51% - 75% 314 175 139 314 0 136 129 48 58 54 115 44 14 27 2 0 215 98
20.1 21.6 18.4 20.1 0 19.5 21.8 17.8 21.6 16.9 23.4 18.3 18 18.2 11.7 0 21.1 18.2
N N
76% - 100% 695 287 408 695 0 348 267 79 138 123 222 105 36 63 7 0 425 270
44.5 35.4 54.3 44.5 0 49.8 45.1 29.3 51.3 38.4 45.2 44.1 45.6 42.8 41.7 0 41.5 50
A G G I P
Don't Know 6 4 1 6 0 1 1 4 0 2 0 2 1 1 0 0 4 2
0.4 0.5 0.2 0.4 0 0.2 0.1 1.5 0 0.6 0 0.9 0.7 0.6 0 0 0.4 0.3
EF HJ
Median 73.07 59.96 76.92 73.07 0 74.91 73.51 49.16 75.56 67.64 72.6 71.62 70.77 69.5 59.17 0 72.06 75.1
EF IJ J IJ HIJKM HIJK HIJKM P
Mean 64.99 59.34 71.06 64.99 0 68.83 65.48 53.85 70.19 59.31 67.05 64.48 64.73 62.53 58.98 0 63.07 68.62
A FG G IKLMN IN I I P
Standard Deviation 28.33 28.93 26.38 28.33 0 26.71 28.28 29.77 26.62 30.65 27.18 27.66 27.35 28.91 33.56 0 28.43 27.81
Standard Error 0.7 1.01 0.93 0.7 0 1 1.1 1.86 1.52 1.72 1.68 1.9 1.66 2.3 3.31 0 0.85 1.24

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