LIBRARIES, LEADERSHIP, AND SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION

• Main Author: Anderson, Rick 1965- (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Chicago American Library Association 2016
• Subjects: Research libraries > Aims and objectives; Research libraries > Collection development; Academic libraries > Aims and objectives; Academic libraries > Collection development; Communication in learning and scholarship; Libraries and publishing
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A creative thinker on topics related to library collections and scholarly publishing, Rick Anderson does not back away from controversy. "Whenever we, as members of an organization like a library, are forced to choose between good things, we may start by trying to figure out some way to have bo...

Table of Contents:

• 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 Space Section 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 Communication Index.