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Table of Contents
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.

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      Publisher: MP-ALA American Library Assoc
      Publication Date: 6/30/2016 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780838914335, 978-0838914335
      ISBN10: 0838914330

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Table of Contents
      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.

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