Libraries, Leadership, and Scholarly Communication: Essays by Rick Anderson

ISBN-13: 9780838914335 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 240 str.

Rick Anderson

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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 you're forced to make choices, values are going to come into conflict," he writes in the preface. "The painful truth is that not everyone in the organization has the same priorities and wants the same things in the same amounts." When it's time for your organization to make choices and set priorities, this collection of essays, articles, white papers, and blog posts will provide conversation starters for your strategic discussions. Anderson offers engaging, persuasive arguments on range of timely topics, such as: the decline of print; patron-driven acquisitions; Open Access (OA); blacklisting publishers and relations with publishers' sales reps; patron privacy; symptoms of zealotry; unintended consequences of the print-on-demand model; and how to define library value. Ideal for browsing, the ideas in this collection will kickstart your brainstorming sessions and spur your organization to confront choices head on.

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Preface

Section I: Libraries and Their Collections, Now and in the Future

• 1: Being Essential Is Not Enough
• 2 : My Name Is Ozymandias, King of Kings
• 3: The Crisis in Research Librarianship
• 4: The Portal Problem: The Twin Plights of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and the Library Collection
• 5: On Necessity, Virtue, and Digging Holes with Hammers
• 6: Can, Should, and Will
• 7: How Sacred Are Our Patrons’ Privacy Rights? Answer Carefully
• 8: Crazy Idea #274: Just Stop Collecting
• 9: Local and Global, Now and Forever: A Matrix Model of “Depth Perception” in Library Work
• 10: A Quiet Culture War in Research Libraries—and What It Means for Librarians, Researchers, and Publishers
• 11: Interrogating the American Library Association’s “Core Values” Statement
• 12: Asserting Rights We Don’t Have: Libraries and “Permission to Publish”
• 13: Frenemies: The Perfect and the Good, the Noisy and the Important
• 14: What Patron-Driven Acquisition Does and Doesn’t Mean: An FAQ
• 15: Reference Services, Scalability, and the Starfish Problem
• 16: Kitten in a Beer Mug: The Myth of the Free Gift
• 17: You Might Be a Zealot If . . .
• 18: It’s Not about the Workflow: Patron-Centered Practices for Twenty-First-Century Serialists
• 19: Can’t Buy Us Love: The Declining Importance of Library Books and the Rising Importance of Special Collections
• 20: On Knowing the Value of Everything and the Price of Nothing
• 21: Preservation, Yes—but What Shall We Preserve?
• 22: The Struggle for Library Space

Section II Scholarly Communication and Library-Publisher Relations

• 23: On Advocacy, Analysis, and the Vital Importance of Knowing the Difference
• 24: Signal Distortion: Why the Scholarly Communication Economy Is So Weird
• 25: Six Mistakes Your Sales Reps Are Making—and Six That Librarians Are Making
• 26: Prices, Models, and Fairness: A (Partly) Imaginary Phone Conversation
• 27: Print-on-Demand and the Law of Unintended Consequences
• 28: Quality and Relevance: A Matrix Model for Thinking about Scholarly Books and Libraries
• 29: No Such Thing as a Bad Book? Rethinking “Quality” in the Research Library
• 30: No, You May Not Come Train My Staff
• 31: On the Likelihood of Academia “Taking Back” Scholarly Publishing
• 32: Is a Rational Discussion of Open Access Possible?
• 33: CC BY, Copyright, and Stolen Advocacy
• 34: Open-Access Rhetoric, Economics, and the Definition of “Research”
• 35: CC BY and Its Discontents: A Growing Problem for Open Access
• 36: Deceptive Publishing: Why We Need a Blacklist, and Some Suggestions on How to Do It Right
• 37: The NPR Model and the Financing of Scholarly Communication

Index.