Recently, a researcher I was talking to remarked to me that University staff can be jumpy around copyright questions and some would immediately duck for cover the moment they heard the word "copyright".

Despite writing a bit more on open access and repositories in the last few years, I find the issues incredibly deep and nuanced and I am always thinking and learning about them.

Long time readers of my blog know that I'm a bit of a worrier when it comes to libraries,

2016 seems to the year Sci-hub has broken out into popular consciousness.

It's probably a coincidence but I have been recently getting queries about pursuing a career as a academic librarian in Singapore, so I decided to write "So you want to be a academic librarian in Singapore?"

In Aug 2014, I wrote the speculative "How academic libraries may change when Open Access becomes the norm".

When I was back in school, I dreaded art class as I was simply horrible at it.

UPDATE : Years after I wrote this OCLC now offers Ezproxy analytics which uses Ezpaarse and Elastic's Kibana for dashboards.

Last month, I had the opportunity to attend VALA16 in Melbourne and I capped off my visit down under by seizing the opportunity to attend ANZREG (Australia New Zealand Regional Ex Libris Group for users) seminar.

I always been fortunate to be associated with a institute with a good academic library so I haven't really kept up with illegal or semi-illegal ways of getting access to scholarly material.

It's the beginning of 2016, and nostalgia once again makes me look back at my past posts to see how they have stood the test of time.