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?

I am sure you have seen presentation slides done in the libraryland by speakers that are often stunning in simplicity.

I am hardly a expert on usability or user experience but over time of looking at usage logs and talking to users, observing users by walking around and helping I have started to realise a couple of things.

So we librarians are failing (or are we? See Walt Crawford's analysis of public library closures in US). Amazon is eating our lunches. Google is where people go. Surely we must be doing something wrong? Below are some of the critiques about how we librarians do things that perhaps deserve our consideration.