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Aaron Tay's Musings about librarianship

Aaron Tay's thoughts about academic librarianship
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Recently, I pulled everything I have read on the topic on Web Scale Discovery tools (e.g Summon, Ebsco Discovery Service or EDS, Worldcat local and Primo Central) together into a bibliography and posted it on the following Google Site on the topic started by Andy Ekins (Christ Church University, UK) and Lukas Koster (Library of the University of Amsterdam, NL). It has about 50 different links to various topics on discovery tools from

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Augmented reality is one of the technologies that education and libraries industry is looking at, that might be the next big thing by complementing mobile. If you are unfamiliar with the idea, you point your device (smartphone or tablet) camera at an object and when you look at your device it not only shows the object but additional information overlaying it, typically some text, image or movie.

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I recently attended and spoke at a library conference/seminar, Libraries for Tomorrow 2011 conducted by the Library Association of Singapore*. It was clear that like everywhere else, institution repositories was a hot topic with 5 presentations, followed by mobile with 4 presentations (5 if you include a presentation on a Facebook app). Not really a surprise since the last few times I have written on mobile

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Last year, my institution launched both LibAnswers (a Faq system) and LibGuides (a content management system that is wildly popular for libraries). One interesting thing I noticed is that a number of queries (about 5-10%) were treating the search for LibAnswers or LibGuides like a library catalogue search box. People were searching for keywords of very narrow subjects.

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I suppose by now many of you have heard, I was named as a Library Journal Mover & Shaker 2011! I woke up to my phone beeping like crazy from congratulatory messages on Twitter and Facebook, went to the link and it was almost surreal to see my profile alongside names such as Bobbi Newman, Buffy Hamilton and Ned Potter etc.

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In 2009, I wrote a series of Twitter posts studying library accounts on Twitter (here, here and here) , since then Twitter accounts have become a norm rather then a novelty for organizations including universities and companies. How does one measure success of such accounts beyond crude follower accounts?