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G a r y  P a t t i l l o  

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

Printing 
Xerox estimates that 44.5 percent of documents are printed for one-time use and 
25 percent of all documents printed get recycled the same day. Lyra Research 
estimates that 15.2 trillion pages are printed worldwide per year, a fi gure that 
will grow 30 percent over the next 10 years. 
Michael Kanellos, “New way to save energy: Disappearing ink, CNET News.com, April 29, 2008, www.news.com/8301-
11128_3-9930674-54.html. Accessed April 29, 2008. 

Use of libraries and museums 
The public trusts libraries and museums more than other sources of information 
including government, commercial and private individual Web sites. People who 
visit public libraries and museums in-person value the information they fi nd 
with greater trust than those who visit via the Internet. Ninety percent of remote 
online visitors to museums and 91 percent of remote online visitors to public 
libraries are also in-person visitors. Public library in-person visits per capita have 
increased 26 percent over the past 13 years. Uses of traditional public library 
services (circulation and reference transactions) have increased in transactions 
per capita over the past 13 years. 
José-Marie Griffiths and Donald W. King, “Interconnections: The IMLS National Study on the Use of Libraries, Museums 
and the Internet” (February 28, 2008), interconnectionsreport.org/reports/. Accessed May 14, 2008. 

Data curation 
Sayeed Choudhury, in a discussion of data curation, mentions “Peter Murray 
Rust, a researcher in Britain, conducted a study with his colleagues in which 
they estimated that up to 80 percent of data cited in publications are gone. It’s 
not that you can’t find them, or that they’re really hard to get, or that you don’t 
want to give them to me. They just don’t exist anymore: They were in someone’s 
hard drive, on a Web site that went away when the person left that institution, 
or in some medium that doesn’t work anymore . . .” 
“How to Channel the Data Deluge in Academic Research,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 4, 2008, Volume 
54, Issue 30, Page B24, chronicle.com/weekly/v54/i30/30b02401.htm Accessed May 1, 2008. 

Search engine share 
Google has hit a new high, while Microsoft and Yahoo hit all-time lows in 
search engine use. Google accounted for 67.90 percent of all U.S. searches in 
the four weeks ending April 26, 2008. Yahoo! Search, MSN Search, and Ask. 
com each received 20.28, 6.26, and 4.17 percent respectively. The remaining 45 
search engines in the Hitwise Search Engine Analysis Tool accounted for 1.40 
percent of U.S. searches. 
“Google Receives Nearly 68 Percent of U.S. Searches in April 2008,” Hitwise, May 14, 2008, www.hitwise.com 
/press-center/hitwiseHS2004/google-receives-us-searches.php. Accessed May 14, 2008. 

372C&RL News June 2008