ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 79 0 / C&RL News ■ December 2003 F a G a s r y P t a t t i F l l o acts Sto ry C o rp s oral h isto ry project The American Folklife Center at the Library o f Congress is partnering with Sound Portraits Productions to develop StoryCorps, a new oral history project inspired by the historic Works Progress Administration (WPA) Federal Writers’ Project. It has the potential to becom e one of the largest oral history projects ever donated to the Library of Congress. StoryCorps will build soundproof facilities across the countiy w here Americans can participate in the project. The new collection will be housed alongside the WPA recordings. "American Folklife Center Houses Storycorps Archive," www.loc.gov/today/pr/2003/03-168.html. September 30, 2003 Lo st In tern et references Internet references accounted for 2.6 percent of all references in medical and scientific publications betw een 2000 and 2003, according to a new study p u b ­ lished in Science. These cited references often disappear. For example, 13 percent of Internet references w ere inactive in articles 27 months old. Robert P. Dellavalle, et al., "Going, Going, Gone: Lost Internet References," Science. October 31,2003, pp. 787-88 How m uch in fo rm a tio n ? School of Information M anagement and Systems researchers at the University o f California-Berkeley estimate that print, film, magnetic, and optical storage media produced about five exabytes of new information in 2002. This is equiva­ lent in size to the information contained in 500,000 libraries the size o f the Library of Congress print collections. According to their findings, the United States produces about 40 percent of the w orld’s new stored information. Peter Lyman and Hal R. Varian, "How Much Information? 2003," www.sims.berkeley.edu/research/projects/how- much-info-2003/. October 28,2003 In tern ation al stu d en t e n rollm e n t The Institute of International Education reports the num ber o f foreign students studying in the United States grew less than 1 percent last year following a five- year average annual growth rate o f 5 percent. India, Korea, and Kenya saw increases w hile Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and United Arab Emirates saw signifi­ cant decreases. India, China, and South Korea are the top three countries with the largest num ber o f students studying in the United States. "Open Doors 2003: International Students in the U.S." opendoors.iienetwork.org/?p=36523. November 3,2003 W orldC at and G o o gle A 2 million record subset from the more than 53 million records in the WorldCat database becam e searchable via Google in November. 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