Aaron Tay's Musings about Librarianship
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Better AI Search Rubrics: Roles, Gates, and Retrieval Tests
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Whenever I give workshops or talks on AI search tools, someone eventually asks whether I have or recommend an evaluation framework or matrix for AI search tools.
I have been hesitant to give a firm answer. I know...
AI academic search needs better frameworks for understanding and evaluation. These three librarian projects are a start
Most librarian commentary on AI search still operates at the level of warnings and impressions. Tools hallucinate. Sources are opaque. Students should be cautious. None of this is wrong, but none of it helps a colleague decide whether Under...
From Fixed Search Workflows to Agentic Academic Search: Promise, Progress, and the Invisible Menu Problem
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Academic search tools might be moving towards a different architectural model. The first generation of AI-powered literature review tools — Undermind, Consensus Deep Search, AI2’s Asta — relied on predetermined, hand-crafte...
The Horseless Carriage of AI Search: Why Using LLMs to Generate Boolean Alone Is Likely of Little Benefit
TL;DR: Turning natural language into Boolean is not the future of library AI search. It can help with some failed queries, but the bigger problem in most discovery systems is weak ranking, not the need for better Boolean. More radically, I...
The agentic researcher - building custom, transparent and extensible workflows with Claude & MCP
When I last wrote about MCP servers in the context of the launch of Wiley’s AI Gateway and the PubMed MCP server/connector you could add to Claude.ai, I received a few private messages from librarians and researchers who shared how much mor...
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