After several posts in a row about discovery services, let's have a change of pace and let me share with you some interesting ideas in the world of librarianship that I am playing with lately.

A tongue in a cheek, thought experiment or perhaps precautionary tale of the ultimate fate of library discovery services in 2035.

I blogged 8 things we know about web scale discovery systems in 2013 , and am working on a draft of "4 issues about web scale discovery systems we are still pondering about", but I was already pretty sure that beyond a certain point, the size of the index while important is no-longer the be-all and end all for evaluating the search.

I recently had the privilege to attend & present a paper at the satellite Meeting of IFLA World Library and Information Congress Information Literacy Section and Reference & Information Services Section held between Aug 15-16.

Being a librarian, I often find myself obliged to try my hand using curation tools.

On July 1, 2013 Google reader was retired. This was high profile news that was covered heavily online. This wasn't the only blow to RSS usage, a lesser blow was struck when Twitter announced permanently retiring the Twitter API v1.0 which allowed Atom and RSS feeds output. The current Twitter API 1.1 only allows JSON format and requires authentication to access. This took effect, June 12. For most people, this did not make a difference.

Since we implemented our discovery service, I noticed that increasingly we are asked by users if there was a way to use Summon to browse , clearly users new to a topic were overwhelmed by the number of results they were getting and besides recommender systems

Web scale discovery systems as a class of product has existed for over 4 years, and there has been rapid adoption by academic libraries around the world.

Organization as serious as the CDC use zombie outbreaks as a fun way to educate the public, so why not libraries?

Last week, I had the amazing opportunity to visit Xi'an China from 9 May to 11 May 2013 to attend the Greater China SerialsSolutions' User Group meeting.

Like many academic libraries, we recently launched our discovery service Summon.