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.

Almost 4 years ago in 2010, I posted A few heretical thoughts about library tech trends.

Is known item searching really a big issue in Web Scale discovery?