A blog about academic librarianship. Covers discovery, open access and other hot trends by a librarian in Singapore.

Traditional—or should I say, classic—reference librarianship involved some basic practices in dealing with clients seeking information. When a client came in asking where to look for a topic, you directed them to the sources most focused on the subject area. When a bunch of clients kept asking for certain subjects, you put together a package and kept it handy for distribution. When clients began scratching their heads and furrowing their brows while using a search tool, you leaned over their shoulders and gave them some tips. Now Serials Solutions, a ProQuest company producing a leading discovery service called Summon, has introduced a suite of tools called Summon Suggestions that integrate the same kinds of service for digital content. Components of the new suite include upgraded Database Recommender and Best Bets along with Related Search Suggestions.

Fairly up-to-date information on open-source ILSes, including lesser-known ones.

Web-Scale Discovery Reality           Check   Jeff Wisniewski         Frank Cervone  Web Services Librarian   Vice Chancellor and                           CIO…

ACRLog welcomes a guest post from Pete Coco, formerly of Grand Valley State University, now Humanities Liaison at Wheaton College in Norton, MA.  With the continued improvements being made to web-scale discovery tools like Proquest's Summon and EBSCO's Discovery Service, access to library resource

Koha is the world's first open source system for managing libraries (the books and periodical variety, that is), and one of the most successful.  In the ten years since its first release, Koha has expanded from serving as the integrated library system (ILS) at a single public library in New Zealand to more than 1000 academic, public, and private libraries across the globe.  But the past twelve months have been divisive for the Koha community, due to a familiar source of argument in open source: tensions between community developers, end users, and for-profit businesses seeking to monetize the code base.v

Open source link resolver, federated search, ERMS, and citation manager.

On the state of discovery and ILSes.

Library of Congress has announced  its intention to "review the bibliographic framework to better accommodate future needs." The translation...

Two librarians discuss the selection process for their library's acquisition of a new discovery layer.