C&RL News December 2018  676

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 preced-
ing 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 Co-
operation 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 percent-
age (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).

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http://www.projectinfolit.org/news_study.html
http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/eag-2018-en 
https://www.zdnet.com/article/norways-petabyte-plan-store-everything-ever-published-in-a-1000-year-archive
https://www.oclc.org/en/annual-report/2018/home.html
https://youtube.googleblog.com/2018/10/youtube-learning-investing-in.html