UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON LIBRARIES

SPRING 2004 FACULTY LIBRARY USE SURVEY     RESULTS 1 July 2004           

(1560 respondents, 40% return rate, 1031 online surveys, 529 paper surveys))

ALL RESPONSES IN PERCENT UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED

 

 

1A. Primary college/school

 

College/school

2004%

2004#

2001%

2001#

College/School

2004%

2004#

2001%

2001#

Architecture

1.3

20

  1.0

  13

Health Sciences

46.7

728

47.7

641

Arts & Sciences

31.4

490

32.2

433

  Dentistry

1.9

30

  2.3

  31

  Fine Arts

2.5

39

  3.3

  44

  Medicine

33.1

517

33.9

456

  Humanities

6.0

93

  6.1

  82

  Nursing

2.8

43

  3.0

  40

  Social Science

8.3

129

  8.1

109

  Pharmacy

1.6

25

  2.1

  28

  Science

14.3

229

14.7

198

  Public Health

4.7

73

  5.5

  74

Business

2.3

36

  1.5

  20

  Social Work

1.2

18

  0.9

  12

Education

1.6

25

  1.5

  20

  Other Health Sci

1.4

22

 

 

Engineering

5.7

89

  5.7

  76

Interschool (sci/hlth

0.7

        11

  0.7

  10

Forest Resource

1.5

23

  2.1

  28

Other Science

0.1

2

  1.0

  14

Ocean-Fisheries

2.8

43

  3.1

  42

Law

0.7

11

  0.6

    8

Library/Info

0.6

9

  0.7

  10

Bothell campus

1.5

24

  1.5

  20

Pub Affairs

0.4

7

  0.5

    7

Tacoma

2.3

36

  0.2

    3

Other Hum/Soc Sci

0.6

10

  0.5

    7

 

 

 

 

 

Other/none

0.1

2

 

 

Total Response

 

1560

 

1345

 

 

1.B      Academic Title

 

 

2004

2001

 

2004

2001

 

2004

2001

Professor

34.3

39.3

Assoc Prof

23.5

23.7

Asst. Prof

22.2

21.7

Lecturer

  5.8

  5.1

Instructor

  4.1

 

Res Assoc

7.4

7.3

Other

1.7

2.9

No response

1.5

 

 

 

 

 

 

1.C      Location

 

Main Seattle campus

  81.5

Bothell

  1.5

No response

3.8

Off campus

10.9

Tacoma

2.3

 

 

 

 

2.       How important are the following sources for your work?

 

 

Very important

Not important

Source

 5   

4

3

2

1

2004

2001

UW Libraries

88.5

7.1

3.1

1.0

0.3

4.82

  4.78

World Wide Web

53.7

25.4

14.1

4.2

2.6

4.23

  3.82

Departmental resources

13.7

16.6

26.3

23.9

19.6

2.81

  2.71

Personal files

41.7

28.5

20.4

6.9

2.4

4.00

  4.19

Colleagues

32.8

30.5

22.2

8.4

6.1

3.75

  3.55

 

3.  During this academic year have you:

                                   

 

Yes

No

No reply

Taught undergraduates

46.7

50.2

3.1

Taught graduate students

59.4

38.8

1.8

Received or used federally funded research money

57.2

41.1

1.7

Used other external funding for research

46.5

50.3

3.2

Used the UW Libraries

97.8

1.6

0.6

 

4.  How often do you use UW Libraries services and collections?

 

Method

Weekly+

2001

Weekly

2001

Monthly

Quarterly

Less Oft.

No reply

Visit in person

7.6

14.0

21.6

24.7

33.5

20.8

15.0

1.6

Use campus computer

65.6

49.5

16.9