Anderson, Rick 1965-

PERSONAL:

Born September 28, 1965, in Palo Alto, CA; son of Richard (a social scientist) and Valerie (a homemaker) Anderson; married Laura Wolz (a homemaker), June 12, 1990; children: Maggie, Bryan, Tucker. Education: Attended Ricks College, 1983, 1987; Brigham Young University, B.S., 1991, M.L.I.S., 1993. Religion: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons). Hobbies and other interests: Music.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Sparks, NV. Office—University Libraries, University of Nevada, 1664 N. Virginia St., Reno, NV 89557. E-mail—rickand@unr.edu.

CAREER:

YBP, Inc., Contoocook, NH, bibliographer, 1993-97; University of North Carolina at Greensboro, head acquisitions librarian, 1997-2000; University of Nevada, Reno, coordinator of serials and electronic resources, 2000-01, director of resource acquisition, 2001—. Blackwell Publishing, member of library advisory board, 2004—.

MEMBER:

North American Serials Interest Group, Music Library Association.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Mover and Shaker Award, Library Journal, 2005.

WRITINGS:

Buying and Contracting for Resources and Services: A How-to-Do-It Manual for Librarians, Neal-Schuman (New York, NY), 2004.

Editor, "Sound Recording Reviews" column, Notes; author of "In My Humble but Correct Opinion," a column in Against the Grain. Contributor to periodicals, including All-Music Guide. Editor, CD HotList: New Releases for Libraries, 1999—; contributing editor, Notes, 2001—.

SIDELIGHTS:

Rick Anderson told CA: "I write for two reasons: because I can't help it and to make money. The former motivation inspires most of my professional publications; I write regularly on subtopics of librarianship that fascinate me: primarily issues of copyright, information economics, vendor relations, and the future of libraries. My more mercenary writing usually concerns music: I write roughly 500 CD reviews per year for the All-Music Guide and edit a more scholarly review column for Notes, the quarterly journal of the Music Library Association. I also occasionally write CD liner notes and one-sheet biographies for record labels.

"While I love being a librarian, music is my real passion. I'm a multi-instrumentalist and a veteran of symphony orchestras, jazz bands, bluegrass and contradance bands, and a surprisingly successful ska band. I play the string bass, guitar, Irish flute, and bodhran, but since 2001 my primary emphasis has been on clawhammer banjo. I'm especially interested in fiddle tunes from French Canada and the British Isles, and I have arranged quite a few obscure tunes from those regions for melodic-style banjo.

"I'm one of those unfortunate people who can't think an issue through unless I'm writing or talking about it. Writing puts less strain on those around me than talking does, and it also lends itself to after-the-fact editing and revision, so my first impulse is usually to write about issues that concern me, rather than to talk about them, though I'm always happy to debate as well."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Library Journal, March 1, 2004, Margaret Sylvia, review of Buying and Contracting for Resources and Services: A How-to-Do-It Manual for Librarians, p. 115.