Libraries, leadership, and scholarly communication
(Book)

Section I. Libraries and their collections, now and in the future. Being essential is not enough ; My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings ; The crisis in research librarianship ; The portal problem : the twin plights of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and the library collection ; On necessity, virtue, and digging holes with hammers ; Can, should, and will ; How sacred are our patrons' privacy rights? : Answer carefully ; Crazy idea #274 : just stop collecting ; Local and global, now and forever : a matrix model of "depth perception" in library work ; A quiet culture war in research libraries-and what it means for librarians, researchers, and publishers ; Interrogating the American Library Association's "core values" statement ; Asserting rights we don't have : libraries and "permission to publish" ; Frenemies : the perfect and the good, the noisy and the important ; What patron-driven acquisitions does and doesn't mean : an FAQ ; Reference services, scalability, and the starfish problem ; Kitten in a beer mug : the myth of the free gift ; You might be a zealot if ... ; It's not about the workflow : patron-centered practices for twenty-first century serialists ; Can't buy us love : the declining importance of library books and the rising importance of special collections ; On knowing the value of everything and the price of nothing ; Preservation, yes-but what shall we preserve? ; The struggle for library space

Section II. Scholarly communication and library-publisher relations. On advocacy, analysis, and the vital importance of knowing the difference ; Signal distortion : why the scholarly communication economy is so weird ; Six mistakes your sales reps are making-and six that librarians are making ; Prices, models, and fairness : a (partly) imaginary phone conversation ; Print-on-demand and the law of unintended consequences ; Quality and relevance : a matrix model for thinking about scholarly books and libraries ; No such thing as a bad book? : Rethinking "quality" in the research library ; No, you may not come train my staff ; On the likelihood of academia "taking back" scholarly publishing ; Is a rational discussion of open access possible? ; CC-BY, copyright, and stolen advocacy ; Open-access rhetoric, economics, and the definition of "research" ; CC-BY and its discontents : a growing problem for open access ; Deceptive publishing : why we need a blacklist, and some suggestions on how to do it right ; The NPR model and the financing of scholarly communication.