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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@refstaff. 
lib.unc.edu 

Summer reading programs 
The following are the 2006 Summer reading selections for selected college pro­
grams: The University of North Carolina­Chapel Hill: The Namesake by Jhumpa 
Lahiri; Texas Tech: Proof by David Auburn; Appalachian State University: Freako­
nomics, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner; Miami University (Ohio): 
Ahmad’s War, Ahmad’s Peace: Surviving Under Saddam, Dying in the New Iraq 
by Michael Goldfarb; Louisiana State University: Mountains Beyond Mountains, 
by Tracy Kidder; San Diego State University: Another Way Home: The Tangled 
Roots of Race in One Chicago Family, by Ronne Hartfield; University of Loui­
siana at Monroe: Fast Food Nation: the Dark Side of the All­American Meal by 
Eric Schlosser; Meredith College: No Ordinary Time by Doris Kearns Goodwin; 
SUNY Brockport: The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien. 
Source: Individual institution Web sites. 

Life on the Web’s factory fl oor 
Advertisers spent $5.1 billion in 2005 to place text ads next to search results 
online. Companies bought ads for approximately 1 million search terms, indexed 
and assembled by individuals working for ad agencies and search engine mar­
keting firms. Several of these companies say they plan to double the number 
of paid­search staff over the next year. 
Burt Helm, with Manjeet Kripalani, “Life on the Web’s Factory Floor,” BusinessWeek Online, May 22, 2006. http://www. 
businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_21/b3985092.htm May 23, 2006 

Katrina web archive 
The Internet Archive and individual contributors produced a comprehensive list 
of Web sites to create a historical record of the devastation caused by Hurricane 
Katrina and the massive relief effort which followed. The collection contains 
over 25 million unique pages, all text searchable, from over 1,500 sites. The 
Web archive consists of Web sites indexed between the dates of September 4 
and October 17th. 
Hurricanes Katrina & Rita Web Archive, http://websearch.archive.org/katrina/ May 30, 2006 

Community college transfers and college graduation 
Forty percent of all first­time freshmen begin their post­secondary careers in 
community colleges. Among all community college students who were eligible 
for transfer to a college or university and who declared that their goal was a 
bachelor’s degree, only 14 percent actually earned a degree. The number of 
community­college credits accepted by four­year universities greatly infl uences 
a student’s success rate, according to a study by William R. Doyle and pub­
lished by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. “Among 
those who had all of their credits accepted, 82 percent had graduated within 
six years with a bachelor’s degree,” while “among those who had only some 
of their credits accepted, 42 percent had attained a bachelor’s degree” during 
the study period. 
William R. Doyle, “Community College Transfers and College Graduation: Whose Choices Matter Most?” From Change 
May/June 2006, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/change/ 
sub.asp?key=98&subkey=1711 June 5, 2006 

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