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.

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.

https://medium.com/@aarontay/from-confusion-to-expertise-d04bd02d2ec6

Like many academic library bloggers, I occasionally fancy myself as a "trend spotter" and am prone to attempts at predicting the future.

Regular readers of my blog know that I am interested in discovery, and the role academic libraries should play in promoting discovery for our patrons.

At library school, I was taught the concept of nested boolean.

Google Scholar is increasingly becoming a subject that an academic librarian cannot afford to be ignorant about.

I have been recently thinking of the types of expertise academic librarians have and how recent trends in academic librarianship have made things harder.

Every librarian worth his salt knows that despite the rise of web scale discovery services, Google and Google Scholar are often the go-to tools of researchers.