Gary Pattillo is reference librarian at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, e-mail: pattillo@email.unc.edu

College students and news sources

The News Study, a report by Project Information Literacy, investigated how U.S. college students gather information and engage with news in the digital age. “Today’s young news consumers are ‘multi-modal’: 67 percent of the survey respondents received news from five pathways to news during the preceding week. Most common were discussions with peers (93 percent), while 70 percent got news from discussions with professors. Social media was another common source (89 percent) and to a lesser degree, online newspapers (76 percent) and news feeds (55 percent).”

Alison J. Head, John Wihbey, P. Takis Metaxas, Margy MacMillan, and Dan Cohen, “How Students Engage with News: Five Takeaways for Educators, Journalists, and Librarians,” Project Information Literacy Research Institute (October 16, 2018), www.projectinfolit.org/news_study.html (retrieved November 1, 2018).

Higher education degrees

The 2018 Education at a Glance report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) found 44 percent of young U.S. adults (ages 25–34) had completed a higher education degree in 2017. Numbers varied widely by state, with the District of Columbia at 73 percent and Nevada at 30 percent. The average for all OECD and partner countries was 44 percent. Canada had the highest percentage (61), while Brazil had the lowest percentage (19) of the group.

OECD, “Education at a Glance 2018: OECD Indicators,” OECD Publishing, Paris. http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/eag-2018-en (retrieved November 8, 2018).

Norway archive

The National Library of Norway “aim(s) to digitize everything ever published in Norway: books, newspapers, manuscripts, posters, photos, movies, broadcasts, and maps, as well as all websites on the Norwegian .no domain. Their work has been going on for the past 12 years and will take 30 years to complete by current estimations.”

Stig Øyvann, “Norway’s Petabyte Plan: Store Everything Ever Published in a 1,000-Year Archive,” ZDNet, October 4, 2018, https://www.zdnet.com/article/norways-petabyte-plan-store-everything-ever-published-in-a-1000-year-archive (retrieved November 6, 2018).

WorldCat

This year, WorldCat grew to 423 million records and 2.6 billion holdings.

OCLC, “2017–2018 OCLC Annual Report: Smarter Libraries, Smarter Services, Smarter Communities,” October 29, 2018, https://www.oclc.org/en/annual-report/2018/home.html (retrieved November 1, 2018).

YouTube Learning

YouTube is “investing $20 million in YouTube Learning, an initiative to support education focused creators and expert organizations that create and curate high quality learning content on YouTube. Part of this investment includes a Learning Fund to support creators who want to build multisession learning content for YouTube.”

YouTube, “YouTube Learning: Investing in Educational Creators, Resources, and Tools for EduTubers,” Official YouTube Blog, October 22, 2018, https://youtube.googleblog.com/2018/10/youtube-learning-investing-in.html (retrieved November 8, 2018).