Time for some navel-gazing! Sarah Kennedy asks What does it mean to be a librarian? You know what? Not sure what it says about me that after 5 years in this profession and writing hundreds of blog posts, I have not once come around close to even this topic.

In a recent LibraryThing blog post entitled Pew study: Library patrons want personalized recommendations, they noted that in the Pew study , 64% of patrons interested in a library service which suggested books, audiobooks and DVDs to them based on their own preferences.

I recently finished reading two introductory volumes on Open Access, namely Open Access - What you need to know by Walt Crawford and Open Access by Peter Suber.

I was talking to a couple of students from my university in a online chatroom* and one mentioned that he was doing his literature review for his final year thesis**.

I am sure most of you have heard of Google Now available on Android Jellybean it is not just a intelligent personal agent like Siri that answers voice queries but more impressively there is a "predictive" component that can intelligently display content that Google thinks you will need before asking for it.

It's the end of the year, and perhaps it's time to take stock of what went right and what to work on the next year.

I have been studying, thinking and posting about web scale discovery since 2011 and my institution is currently days away from pushing it out as a default search.

There's a fascinating discussion going on now (Nov 2012) at the NGC4LIB (Next generation catalogs for libraries) Listserv about the value of cataloguing, RDF, Linked data etc.

Hi all, this is yet another conference report from me, my 3rd and last international conference for 2012.

This is probably the final part of my mammoth series of posts analysing Summon libraries.

This is part II of How are libraries designing their search boxes?