Rick Anderson is associate dean for collections and scholarly communication in the J. Willard Marriott Library at the University of Utah. He has worked previously as a bibliographer for YBP, Inc.; as head acquisitions librarian for the University of North Carolina Greensboro; and as director of resource acquisition at the University of Nevada, Reno. He serves on numerous editorial and advisory boards, is a regular contributor to The Scholarly Kitchen, and has been a regular contributor to Library Journal’s Academic Newswire. His book Buying and Contracting for Resources and Services: A How-to-Do-It Manual for Librarians was published in 2004 by Neal-Schuman. In 2005, he was identified by Library Journal as a “Mover &Shaker”—one of the “50 people shaping the future of libraries.” In 2008, he was elected president of the North American Serials Interest Group, and he was named an ARL Research Library Leadership Fellow for 2009–2010. In 2013, he was the recipient of the HARRASSOWITZ Leadership in Library Acquisitions Award and was invited to give the Gould Distinguished Lecture on Technology and the Quality of Life at the University of Utah. In 2015, he was elected president of the Society for Scholarly Publishing. He is a popular speaker on subjects related to the future of scholarly communication and research libraries.

• PrefaceSection I: Libraries and Their Collections, Now and in the Future1: Being Essential Is Not Enough2 : My Name Is Ozymandias, King of Kings3: The Crisis in Research Librarianship4: The Portal Problem: The Twin Plights of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and the Library Collection5: On Necessity, Virtue, and Digging Holes with Hammers6: Can, Should, and Will7: How Sacred Are Our Patrons’ Privacy Rights? Answer Carefully8: Crazy Idea #274: Just Stop Collecting9: Local and Global, Now and Forever: A Matrix Model of “Depth Perception” in Library Work10: A Quiet Culture War in Research Libraries—and What It Means for Librarians, Researchers, and Publishers11: Interrogating the American Library Association’s “Core Values” Statement12: Asserting Rights We Don’t Have: Libraries and “Permission to Publish”13: Frenemies: The Perfect and the Good, the Noisy and the Important14: What Patron-Driven Acquisition Does and Doesn’t Mean: An FAQ15: Reference Services, Scalability, and the Starfish Problem16: Kitten in a Beer Mug: The Myth of the Free Gift17: You Might Be a Zealot If . . .18: It’s Not about the Workflow: Patron-Centered Practices for Twenty-First-Century Serialists19: Can’t Buy Us Love: The Declining Importance of Library Books and the Rising Importance of Special Collections20: On Knowing the Value of Everything and the Price of Nothing21: Preservation, Yes—but What Shall We Preserve?22: The Struggle for Library SpaceSection II Scholarly Communication and Library-Publisher Relations23: On Advocacy, Analysis, and the Vital Importance of Knowing the Difference24: Signal Distortion: Why the Scholarly Communication Economy Is So Weird25: Six Mistakes Your Sales Reps Are Making—and Six That Librarians Are Making26: Prices, Models, and Fairness: A (Partly) Imaginary Phone Conversation27: Print-on-Demand and the Law of Unintended Consequences28: Quality and Relevance: A Matrix Model for Thinking about Scholarly Books and Libraries29: No Such Thing as a Bad Book? Rethinking “Quality” in the Research Library30: No, You May Not Come Train My Staff31: On the Likelihood of Academia “Taking Back” Scholarly Publishing32: Is a Rational Discussion of Open Access Possible?33: CC BY, Copyright, and Stolen Advocacy34: Open-Access Rhetoric, Economics, and the Definition of “Research”35: CC BY and Its Discontents: A Growing Problem for Open Access36: Deceptive Publishing: Why We Need a Blacklist, and Some Suggestions on How to Do It Right37: The NPR Model and the Financing of Scholarly CommunicationIndex.

Rick Anderson is associate dean for collections and scholarly communication in the J. Willard Marriott Library at the University of Utah. He has worked previously as a bibliographer for YBP, Inc.; as head acquisitions librarian for the University of North Carolina Greensboro; and as director of resource acquisition at the University of Nevada, Reno. He serves on numerous editorial and advisory boards, is a regular contributor to The Scholarly Kitchen, and has been a regular contributor to Library Journal’s Academic Newswire. His book Buying and Contracting for Resources and Services: A How-to-Do-It Manual for Librarians was published in 2004 by Neal-Schuman. In 2005, he was identified by Library Journal as a “Mover &Shaker”—one of the “50 people shaping the future of libraries.” In 2008, he was elected president of the North American Serials Interest Group, and he was named an ARL Research Library Leadership Fellow for 2009–2010. In 2013, he was the recipient of the HARRASSOWITZ Leadership in Library Acquisitions Award and was invited to give the Gould Distinguished Lecture on Technology and the Quality of Life at the University of Utah. In 2015, he was elected president of the Society for Scholarly Publishing. He is a popular speaker on subjects related to the future of scholarly communication and research libraries.

• PrefaceSection I: Libraries and Their Collections, Now and in the Future1: Being Essential Is Not Enough2 : My Name Is Ozymandias, King of Kings3: The Crisis in Research Librarianship4: The Portal Problem: The Twin Plights of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and the Library Collection5: On Necessity, Virtue, and Digging Holes with Hammers6: Can, Should, and Will7: How Sacred Are Our Patrons’ Privacy Rights? Answer Carefully8: Crazy Idea #274: Just Stop Collecting9: Local and Global, Now and Forever: A Matrix Model of “Depth Perception” in Library Work10: A Quiet Culture War in Research Libraries—and What It Means for Librarians, Researchers, and Publishers11: Interrogating the American Library Association’s “Core Values” Statement12: Asserting Rights We Don’t Have: Libraries and “Permission to Publish”13: Frenemies: The Perfect and the Good, the Noisy and the Important14: What Patron-Driven Acquisition Does and Doesn’t Mean: An FAQ15: Reference Services, Scalability, and the Starfish Problem16: Kitten in a Beer Mug: The Myth of the Free Gift17: You Might Be a Zealot If . . .18: It’s Not about the Workflow: Patron-Centered Practices for Twenty-First-Century Serialists19: Can’t Buy Us Love: The Declining Importance of Library Books and the Rising Importance of Special Collections20: On Knowing the Value of Everything and the Price of Nothing21: Preservation, Yes—but What Shall We Preserve?22: The Struggle for Library SpaceSection II Scholarly Communication and Library-Publisher Relations23: On Advocacy, Analysis, and the Vital Importance of Knowing the Difference24: Signal Distortion: Why the Scholarly Communication Economy Is So Weird25: Six Mistakes Your Sales Reps Are Making—and Six That Librarians Are Making26: Prices, Models, and Fairness: A (Partly) Imaginary Phone Conversation27: Print-on-Demand and the Law of Unintended Consequences28: Quality and Relevance: A Matrix Model for Thinking about Scholarly Books and Libraries29: No Such Thing as a Bad Book? Rethinking “Quality” in the Research Library30: No, You May Not Come Train My Staff31: On the Likelihood of Academia “Taking Back” Scholarly Publishing32: Is a Rational Discussion of Open Access Possible?33: CC BY, Copyright, and Stolen Advocacy34: Open-Access Rhetoric, Economics, and the Definition of “Research”35: CC BY and Its Discontents: A Growing Problem for Open Access36: Deceptive Publishing: Why We Need a Blacklist, and Some Suggestions on How to Do It Right37: The NPR Model and the Financing of Scholarly CommunicationIndex.

Rick Anderson is associate dean for collections and scholarly communication in the J. Willard Marriott Library at the University of Utah. He has worked previously as a bibliographer for YBP, Inc.; as head acquisitions librarian for the University of North Carolina Greensboro; and as director of resource acquisition at the University of Nevada, Reno. He serves on numerous editorial and advisory boards, is a regular contributor to The Scholarly Kitchen, and has been a regular contributor to Library Journal’s Academic Newswire. His book Buying and Contracting for Resources and Services: A How-to-Do-It Manual for Librarians was published in 2004 by Neal-Schuman. In 2005, he was identified by Library Journal as a “Mover &Shaker”—one of the “50 people shaping the future of libraries.” In 2008, he was elected president of the North American Serials Interest Group, and he was named an ARL Research Library Leadership Fellow for 2009–2010. In 2013, he was the recipient of the HARRASSOWITZ Leadership in Library Acquisitions Award and was invited to give the Gould Distinguished Lecture on Technology and the Quality of Life at the University of Utah. In 2015, he was elected president of the Society for Scholarly Publishing. He is a popular speaker on subjects related to the future of scholarly communication and research libraries.

• PrefaceSection I: Libraries and Their Collections, Now and in the Future1: Being Essential Is Not Enough2 : My Name Is Ozymandias, King of Kings3: The Crisis in Research Librarianship4: The Portal Problem: The Twin Plights of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and the Library Collection5: On Necessity, Virtue, and Digging Holes with Hammers6: Can, Should, and Will7: How Sacred Are Our Patrons’ Privacy Rights? Answer Carefully8: Crazy Idea #274: Just Stop Collecting9: Local and Global, Now and Forever: A Matrix Model of “Depth Perception” in Library Work10: A Quiet Culture War in Research Libraries—and What It Means for Librarians, Researchers, and Publishers11: Interrogating the American Library Association’s “Core Values” Statement12: Asserting Rights We Don’t Have: Libraries and “Permission to Publish”13: Frenemies: The Perfect and the Good, the Noisy and the Important14: What Patron-Driven Acquisition Does and Doesn’t Mean: An FAQ15: Reference Services, Scalability, and the Starfish Problem16: Kitten in a Beer Mug: The Myth of the Free Gift17: You Might Be a Zealot If . . .18: It’s Not about the Workflow: Patron-Centered Practices for Twenty-First-Century Serialists19: Can’t Buy Us Love: The Declining Importance of Library Books and the Rising Importance of Special Collections20: On Knowing the Value of Everything and the Price of Nothing21: Preservation, Yes—but What Shall We Preserve?22: The Struggle for Library SpaceSection II Scholarly Communication and Library-Publisher Relations23: On Advocacy, Analysis, and the Vital Importance of Knowing the Difference24: Signal Distortion: Why the Scholarly Communication Economy Is So Weird25: Six Mistakes Your Sales Reps Are Making—and Six That Librarians Are Making26: Prices, Models, and Fairness: A (Partly) Imaginary Phone Conversation27: Print-on-Demand and the Law of Unintended Consequences28: Quality and Relevance: A Matrix Model for Thinking about Scholarly Books and Libraries29: No Such Thing as a Bad Book? Rethinking “Quality” in the Research Library30: No, You May Not Come Train My Staff31: On the Likelihood of Academia “Taking Back” Scholarly Publishing32: Is a Rational Discussion of Open Access Possible?33: CC BY, Copyright, and Stolen Advocacy34: Open-Access Rhetoric, Economics, and the Definition of “Research”35: CC BY and Its Discontents: A Growing Problem for Open Access36: Deceptive Publishing: Why We Need a Blacklist, and Some Suggestions on How to Do It Right37: The NPR Model and the Financing of Scholarly CommunicationIndex.