id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crln-16784 Pattillo, Gary Fast Facts 2017-10-06 1 .pdf application/pdf 540 22 27 Postsecondary libraries In 2015 (the latest reliable data available), eligible Title IV degree-granting in- stitutions reported approximately 1.3 billion items in physical library collections (books and media) and about 839 million items in electronic library collections (digital/electronic books, databases, and digital electronic media). C&RL News October 2017 528 Gary Pattillo is reference librarian at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, e-mail: pattillo@ email.unc.edu Reference rot in electronic theses and dissertations In a study of one electronic theses and dissertations repository, authors found that documents deposited from 2011 to 2015 exhibited 23 percent link rot. cache/crln-16784.pdf txt/crln-16784.txt