Music Media Monthly

Rick Anderson – Editor and Recordings Column

Rick Anderson is Associate Director for Scholarly Resources and Collections at the University of Utah’s Marriott Library.  He earned his B.S. and M.L.I.S. degrees at Brigham Young University, and 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 and writes a regular op-ed column for Against the Grain entitled “In My Humble (But Correct) Opinion.”  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 information and information services in higher education.  He is the founder and editor of  CD HotList: New Releases for Libraries, and from 2002 through 2010 he edited the Sound Recording Reviews column for Notes, the quarterly journal of the Music Library Association.