Rick Anderson has been serving as the university librarian at the Harold B. Lee Library since September 1, 2020.
Anderson has worked previously as an associate dean in the J. Willard Marriott Library at the University of Utah, as a bibliographer for YBP, Inc., as Head Acquisitions Librarian for the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, and as Director of Resource Acquisition at the University of Nevada, Reno. He is the author three books and numerous articles on librarianship and scholarly communication, and has served on the advisory boards of organizations including biorXiv, Elsevier, JSTOR and Oxford University Press.
Anderson received his bachelor’s degree in family science and his master’s degree in library and information science from BYU.
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