College & Research Libraries News vol. 85, no. 2 (February 2023)


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

Journalists jailed
At least 375 journalists and media workers are currently behind bars. China 
is incarcerating the most with 84 journalists in jail, followed by Myanmar 
(64), Turkey (51), Iran (34), Belarus (33), Egypt (23), Russia and occupied 
Crimea (29), Saudi Arabia (11), Yemen (10), Syria (9), and India (7).
“67 Journalists Killed so Far in 2022: IFJ Demands Immediate Action,” The International 
Federation of Journalists, December 9, 2022, https://www.ifj.org/media-centre/news 
/detail/category/press-releases/article/67-journalists-killed-so-far-in-2022-ifj-demands 
-immediate-action.html.

Degrees/certificates by field of study
Title IV degree-granting institutions of higher education in the US awarded 
5,005,309 degrees o certificates in the 2020–2021 academic year. The largest 
share of those (888,353) went to the health professions and related programs. 
Business and related support services earned 823,270 degrees or certificates. 
There were 6,519 degrees awarded in the field of library science.
National Center for Education Statistics, “Summary Tables—Completions—Degrees/
Certificates by Field of Study,” 2022, https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/SummaryTables/report/360 
?templateId=3600&year=2021&expand_by=0&tt=aggregate&instType=1.

E-books
Key findings of the ACRL report, “The State of Ebooks in Academic Libraries: 
2022,” include that 85 percent of academic libraries currently hold ebooks 
and digital audiobooks in their collections, non-curriculum-based ebooks and 
audiobooks are a rapidly growing segment, and ebook purchasing in most 
subject areas is up nearly 26 percent. While curriculum support continues 
to be the dominant element in ebook collection development, survey results 
indicate that non-curriculum-based ebooks are a rapidly growing portion 
of academic library digital collections (79 percent of respondents devote up 
to 10 percent of their collection to pleasure reading, which is a 14 percent 
increase from 2020).
Andi Barnett, “New Choice Survey Shows Shift in Academic Library Digital Collections 
toward Popular Fiction and Nonfiction,” OverDrive (blog), December 7, 2022, https://
company.overdrive.com/2022/12/07/new-choice-survey-shows-shift-in-academic-library 
-digital-collections-toward-popular-fiction-and-nonfiction.

https://www.ifj.org/media-centre/news/detail/category/press-releases/article/67-journalists-killed-so-far-in-2022-ifj-demands-immediate-action.html
https://www.ifj.org/media-centre/news/detail/category/press-releases/article/67-journalists-killed-so-far-in-2022-ifj-demands-immediate-action.html
https://www.ifj.org/media-centre/news/detail/category/press-releases/article/67-journalists-killed-so-far-in-2022-ifj-demands-immediate-action.html
https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/SummaryTables/report/360?templateId=3600&year=2021&expand_by=0&tt=aggregate&instType=1
https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/SummaryTables/report/360?templateId=3600&year=2021&expand_by=0&tt=aggregate&instType=1
https://company.overdrive.com/2022/12/07/new-choice-survey-shows-shift-in-academic-library-digital-collections-toward-popular-fiction-and-nonfiction
https://company.overdrive.com/2022/12/07/new-choice-survey-shows-shift-in-academic-library-digital-collections-toward-popular-fiction-and-nonfiction
https://company.overdrive.com/2022/12/07/new-choice-survey-shows-shift-in-academic-library-digital-collections-toward-popular-fiction-and-nonfiction