About the Author

Aaron Tay is currently Head (Data Services), Singapore Management University Libraries and before that was E-services Facilitator, Senior Librarian at the National University of Singapore Libraries.

He started blogging at Musings about Librarianship in 2009.

Currently on Clarivate Academia AI governance board, Katina Librarianship Elevated formerly known as The Charleston Advisor and various other advisory boards (see my LinkedIn for details.)


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