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

Public Internet access 
While more than 99 percent of public libraries offer Internet access, many have 
not kept up with increasing infrastructure demands, a trend that may have 
implications for demand at academic libraries. Public library branches have an 
average of 10.7 public access workstations. Bandwidth speed has decreased 
slightly, with 62.1 percent of public library branches having connection speeds 
of greater than 769kbps in 2007, compared to 63.3 percent in 2006. The aver­
age number of workstations has remained steady, while demand has increased. 
Nearly 80 percent of libraries reported that they have insuffi cient workstations 
some or all of the day. 
Charles McClure, Paul Jaeger, and John Bertot, “The Looming Infrastructure Plateau? Space, Funding, Connection Speed, 
and the Ability of Public Libraries to meet the Demand for Free Internet Access” First Monday [Online], Volume 12, 
Number 12 (21 November 2007),www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2017/1907. Accessed: 
January 3, 2008 

Academic workplace satisfaction 
The Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education at the Harvard 
Graduate School of Education reported results of a survey of general job satisfac­
tion among faculty nationwide. Overall, faculty members at colleges were more 
satisfied than those at universities (4.06 versus 3.60 on a 5-point scale). Faculty 
members at public universities were less satisfied than their peers at private 
institutions (3.60 versus 3.79). Two universities (Brown and Stanford) achieved 
exemplary status in eight out of twelve categories surveyed. 
The Collaborative On Academic Careers in Higher Education, “Top Academic Workplaces,” December 5, 2007, gseaca­
demic.harvard.edu/~coache/reports/20071205.html. Accessed: December 7, 2007 

Most literate cities 
Among the 69 largest U.S. cities, Minneapolis is the most literate, according to 
an annual study that focuses on six key indicators of literacy: newspaper circula­
tion, number of bookstores, library resources, periodical publishing resources, 
educational attainment, and Internet resources. Seattle, St. Paul, Denver, and 
Washington, D.C., round out the top five. Aurora, Colorado; Anaheim, Califor­
nia; El Paso, Texas; and Stockton, California, were ranked the lowest on the 
list of 69 cities. 
John W. Miller, “America’s Most Literate Cities, 2007,” www.ccsu.edu/amlc07/. Accessed: January 7, 2008 

WikipediaVision 
WikipediaVision is a Web site that displays anonymous near real-time editing 
of Wikipedia, with an overlay to Google maps. Each Wikipedia edit displayed 
includes the title of the article, a summary of the edit, a link to the changes 
made to the article, geographic location of the Wikipedia user, and the time 
the edit happened. 
László Kozma. WikipediaVision, www.lkozma.net/wpv/index.html. Accessed: January 11, 2008 

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