Biography



	Rick Anderson

Always a River, Sometimes a Library

Soaring to Excellence

Rick Anderson

Rick Anderson earned his B.S. and M.L.I.S. degrees at Brigham Young University. Before assuming his current position as Director of Resource Acquisition at the University of Nevada, Reno, he worked as a bibliographer for Yankee Book Peddler, Inc., as Head Acquisitions Librarian for the University of North Carolina, Greensboro and as Electronic Resources and Serials Coordinator at Nevada. He serves on the editorial boards of ACQNET, Serials and Library Collections, Acquisitions and Technical Services and edits the Sound Recording Reviews column for Notes (the quarterly journal of the Music Library Association). He writes a regular op-ed column for Against the Grain entitled “In My Humble (But Correct) Opinion.”, and 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.”

Rick Anderson
Director of Resource Acquisition
Univ. of Nevada, Reno Libraries
1664 N. Virginia St. / MS 322
Reno, NV 89557
PH (775) 784-6500 x273
FX (775) 784-1328
Email: rickand@unr.edu