2013 LAUNC-CH Conference - True Collaborations: Creating New Structures Services and Breakthroughs
Keynote Session
The Purpose of Collaboration
is Not to Collaborate:
Creating Leverage While
Bringing Complexity Indoors
Rick Anderson
Interim Dean of the
J. Willard Marriott Library at
the University of Utah
Rick Anderson is currently the Interim Dean of the J. Willard Marriott Library and University Librarian at the University of Utah. He received his B.S. and M.L.I.S degrees at Brigham Young University, and has previously held posts as Associate Dean for Scholarly Resources and Collections at the University of Utah, as bibliographer for YBP, Inc, as Head Acquisitions Librarian for the University of North Carolina, Greensboro and as Director of Resource Acquisitions at the University of Nevada, Reno.
He serves on numerous editorial and advisory boards and is a regular contributor to the Scholarly Kitchen blog, as well as writing a regular column for 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, Rick 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 2009-10. He is a popular speaker on subjects related to the future of scholarly communication and information services in higher education.