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2020 Nov 2;47(1):102273. doi: 10.1016/j.acalib.2020.102273

Table 2.

Level of difficulty of consultations, ordered logistic regression.

Model 1
Model 2
Model 3
Model 4
Model 5
Model 6
b b b b b b
COVID-19 0.45 ⁎⁎⁎ 0.34 ⁎⁎⁎ 0.40 ⁎⁎⁎ 0.48 ⁎⁎⁎ 0.35 ⁎⁎ 0.12
Patron Type (undergrad)
 Alumni 0.57 0.26 0.20 0.75 0.24
 Community −0.26 −0.33 −0.25 0.51 ⁎⁎ 0.10
 Library donor −0.50 ⁎⁎ −0.74 ⁎⁎⁎ −0.58 ⁎⁎⁎ 0.34 0.46
 Faculty 0.20 0.14 0.19 0.45 ⁎⁎⁎ 0.07
 Graduate student 0.98 ⁎⁎⁎ 0.65 ⁎⁎⁎ 0.66 ⁎⁎⁎ 0.93 ⁎⁎⁎ 0.35 ⁎⁎
 Library colleague 0.21 −0.17 −0.17 0.40 0.12
 Staff 0.36 0.15 0.20 0.86 ⁎⁎ 0.31
 Administration 0.81 −0.34 −0.12 0.74 0.69
 Unknown −1.03 ⁎⁎⁎ −0.74 ⁎⁎⁎ −0.98 ⁎⁎⁎ −0.28 0.68 ⁎⁎⁎
Scheduled 1.61 ⁎⁎⁎ 1.30 ⁎⁎⁎ 1.47 ⁎⁎⁎ 0.09
Format (in person)
 Email −0.54 ⁎⁎⁎ −0.85 ⁎⁎⁎ −0.11
 Online 0.39 0.56 0.34
 Phone −0.39 −0.60 ⁎⁎ −0.55
Specialized Teams
 Special collections −1.28 ⁎⁎⁎ −0.75 ⁎⁎⁎
 Research data services −1.50 ⁎⁎⁎ −1.71 ⁎⁎⁎
Duration (less than 10 min)
 10–20 min 2.43 ⁎⁎⁎
 20–30 min 3.95 ⁎⁎⁎
 30–40 min 4.85 ⁎⁎⁎
 40–50 min 5.74 ⁎⁎⁎
 50–60 min 5.74 ⁎⁎⁎
 60 min or longer 7.17 ⁎⁎⁎
Semester (fall) −0.17 −0.23 ⁎⁎ 0.00 −0.01 0.04 −0.21
Campus (Atlanta)
 Alpharetta −3.08 ⁎⁎⁎ −2.97 ⁎⁎⁎ −3.11 ⁎⁎⁎ −3.41 ⁎⁎⁎ −4.13 ⁎⁎⁎ −2.53 ⁎⁎⁎
 Buckhead −0.05 −0.61 −0.51 −0.71 −1.45 ⁎⁎ 0.18
 Clarkston −3.22 ⁎⁎⁎ −3.11 ⁎⁎⁎ −2.85 ⁎⁎⁎ −3.23 ⁎⁎⁎ −3.97 ⁎⁎⁎ −2.88 ⁎⁎⁎
 Decatur −3.01 ⁎⁎⁎ −2.83 ⁎⁎⁎ −2.59 ⁎⁎⁎ −2.95 ⁎⁎⁎ −3.75 ⁎⁎⁎ −2.73 ⁎⁎⁎
 Dunwoody 0.04 0.37 0.02 0.07 −0.27 −0.31
Intercepts (E = Effort)
 Basic | Some E −2.28 −2.19 −1.89 −2.29 −2.98 −1.62
 Some E | E −0.24 −0.03 0.35 −0.03 −0.59 2.11
 E | Sig E 1.10 1.43 1.99 1.63 1.19 4.98
Pseudo r2 (Δ in r2) 0.13 0.16 (0.03) 0.20 (0.04) 0.20 (0.00) 0.23 (0.03) 0.43 (0.20)
χ2 (df) 1145 (7) 1420 (16) 1788 (17) 1828 (20) 2107 (22) 3923 (28)
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N = 3331. Data: Georgia State University Library Consultations Fall 2019–Spring 2020.

p < 0.05.

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p < 0.01.

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p < 0.001.