I recently signed up to a "research methods" class whose aim was to help practitioners like me produce high quality LIS papers.

I had the privilege to attend ALA annual conference 2015 in San Francisco this summer. This was my 2nd visit to this conference (see my post in 2011) and as usual I had lots of fun. Presenting at  "Library Guides in an Era of Discovery Layers" Session My ex-colleague and I were kindly invited to present on our work on a bento-style search we implemented for our LibGuides search.

I have had experience implementing Summon in my previous institution and currently have some experience with EDS and Primo (Primo Central). The main thing that struck me is that while they have differences (eg. Default Primo interface is extremely customizable though requires lots of work to get it into shape, while Summon is pretty much excellent UI wise out of the box but less customizable,  EDS is basically Summon but with tons of

I am right now involved in helping my current institution shift towards a new Library Service Platform and discovery service (Alma and Primo) and this has given me an opportunity once again to rethink traditional library tools like citation linkers, A-Z journal and databases lists. It's pretty obvious such tools need a refresh as they were created before Google/Google Scholar and web scale discovery.

I've recently been involved in analysing  LibQual+ Survey at my new institution and one of the things recommended nowadays when doing LIBQUAL analysis is to do a plot of performance of various items versus how important those items are to users. Above we see sample data from Library Assessment and LibQUAL+®: Data Analysis.

After over 7 years of working at NUS, I am finally moving on. I am very grateful for the opportunities given to me here and I have changed and grown far beyond I expected. This period has been by far the most eventful period in my life, I've changed so much I wager the newbie librarian who first stepped into NUS in 2007 could hardly recognise the person I am in 2015.

LibGuides V2 Search Display Like many libraries right now, my institution is working towards upgrading to SpringShare LibGuides V2. Update 15/1/2014 just went live! Like many libraries, we took the opportunity to revamp many aspects of Libguides v2. One of the areas, we spent the most effort on was the front page.

"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." Somehow though, I doubt successful libraries are all alike except in the most general of ways. Still, these are some of the changes or trends in librarianship in the year of 2014 that resonated with me or occupied me. A lot of it probably is highly specific to my current institution and environment so your mileage might vary.

I was recently invited to give a talk at the Swedish Summon User Group meeting and I presented about possible scenarios for the future of web scale discovery. As Web Scale Discovery in libraries goes back to roughly 2009, most academic libraries have by now had 2-3 years of grappling with the concept.

In How academic libraries may change when Open Access becomes the norm  , I argued that as open access takes hold, academic libraries will increasingly focus on Expertise based services like bibliometrics, open access publishing, GIS services, Research data management and more. The question is this, with this change in focus how should academic libraries reflect these changes in priorities on their library website?

https://medium.com/@aarontay/from-confusion-to-expertise-d04bd02d2ec6 Trying something new this time. I have started to post on Medium. Read the post "From Confusion to Expertise" there. Some brief impressions The interface is indeed as clean and well designed as I have heard, allowing writers to knock out simple yet professional looking posts. One of the selling points of Medium, where you can easily submit to "collections" is gone.