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C&RL News July/August 2022 327

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

Library jobs
The number of library jobs advertised nationally is on the rise. “Five positions 
popping up in greater frequency across academic, public, school, and special 
libraries are”: Sustainability librarian; User experience librarian; Director of 
equity, diversity, and inclusion; Open educational resources librarian, and 
Data visualization librarian.
Terra Dankowski, “5 Library Jobs on the Rise,” American Libraries Magazine, June 1, 2022,
https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/?p=130100 (retrieved June 7, 2022).

Journalists killed
Since 1993, 1,529 journalists have been killed in the line of duty. As of June 
7, 2022, 39 journalists were killed so far this year.
“UNESCO Observatory of Killed Journalists,” UNESCO, https://en.unesco.org/themes/safety 
-journalists/observatory (retrieved June 7, 2022).

College enrollment declines
“Total postsecondary enrollment fell to 16.2 million this spring, marking a 
one-year decline of 4.1 percent or 685,000 students. Enrollment declined 
this spring at both undergraduate and graduate levels. Following a 3.5 per-
cent drop last spring, postsecondary institutions have lost nearly 1.3 million 
students since spring 2020.”
National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, “Current Term Enrollment Estimates,” 
May 26, 2022, https://nscresearchcenter.org/current-term-enrollment-estimates (retrieved 
June 7, 2022).

Exascale supercomputer
The Frontier system at Oak Ridge National Laboratory is the first supercom-
puter to cross the exascale mark, meaning it can do more than 1 quintillion 
floating point operations per second (1.102 exaflops). It will be operated by 
the U.S. Department of Energy.
Prometeus GmbH, “ORNL’s Frontier First to Break the Exaflop Ceiling | TOP500,” May 30, 
2022, https://top500.org/news/ornls-frontier-first-to-break-the-exaflop-ceiling (retrieved 
June 7, 2022).

Some college, but no degree
“In July 2020, the Some College, No Credential (SCNC) population … 
reached 39 million, up 3.1 million from the 36 million SCNC population pre-