Rick Anderson

Rick Anderson is University Librarian of Brigham Young University, a "chef" at The Scholarly Kitchen, and the author of several books, including _Scholarly Communication: What Everyone Needs to Know_.

Is Leadership for You? There's No Shame in Saying "No"

Here are some questions to ask yourself if you think you might want to pursue library leadership.

A Note to My Subscribers (Especially Those Who Are Paying)

Some news about the future of Vision & Balance.

"I Have No Answers, Only Questions"? That's Not Leadership.

The work of library leadership doesn't require you always to have the right answer -- but it does require you to do more than ask questions.

Two and a Half Cheers for the "Scarcity Mindset"

Every academic library is dealing with the problem of scarce resources. So how should you respond when someone accuses you of having a "scarcity mindset"?

Two Kinds of Organizational Problem, Part 2: Posts and Beams

Sometimes our workflows and practices are set up in such a way that they provide support to programs that are supposed to be supporting them. What does that look like?

Two Kinds of Organizational Problem, Part 1: Flies and Sledgehammers

In the first part of a two-part post, we discuss why it really is important to think about efficiency in the library -- even if that seems like a foreign concept to us.