Welcome, Rickertonites!

Enjoy this curated resource guide to our favorite University Librarian.

Performances

THE BANJO

• Youtube playlist of Rick's banjo videos
• Old-time and contradance ensemble Dewey & the Decimals: Vimeo 1 and 2; Facebook 1 (incomplete)

Swim Herschel Swim

Rick played the guitar in this popular ska band.

• I Wish I Had A Raygun on Soundcloud
• Playlist of YouTube reunion videos; this Facebook video is also excellent
• Wikipedia page

Rick's Writings

Music journalism

• CD HotList
• Music guides written at the SHFL
• Music Media Monthly, a group blog Rick edited from March 2010-January 2014
• "On Music" column written for Provo's The Daily Herald

Other writings

• Written works available in the BYU Library
• Contributions to The Scholarly Kitchen
• Contributions to Against the Grain; we recommend "Sexing The Academy: Or, The Seductive Art of The Misleading Monograph Title"
• "Addressing Prickly Issues." The Interpreter, vol. 23, 2017.
• "Mormonism, Materialism, and Politics: Six Things We Must Understand in Order to Survive as Latter-day Saints." The Interpreter, vol. 21, 2016.

Works from Libraries, Leadership, and Scholarly Communication that are available online:

• "My Name is Ozymandias, King of Kings"
• The Portal Problem:Part 1 and Part 1
• "On Necessity, Virtue, and Digging Holes with Hammers"
• "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"
• "What Patron-Driven Acquisition (PDA) Does and Doesn't Mean: An FAQ"
• "Reference Services, Scalability, and Starfish Problems"
• "You Might be a Zealot if…"
• "Four Mantras for the Patron-Centered Technical Services Librarian"
• "Can’t Buy Us Love" plus a lengthy response here
• "On Knowing the Value of Everything and the Price of Nothing"
• "Preservation, Yes -- But What Shall We Preserve?"
• "Advocacy, Analysis, and the Vital Importance of Discriminating Between Them"
• "Signal Distortion — Why the Scholarly Communication Economy Is So Weird"
• "Six Mistakes Your Sales Reps Are Making" and "Six Mistakes the Library Staff Are Making"
• "Prices, Models, and Fairness: A (Partly) Imaginary Phone Conversation"
• "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" and "Part 2 — Implications and Problems"
• "No, You May Not Come Train My Staff"
• "Revisiting: On the Likelihood of Academia "Taking Back" Scholarly Publishing"
• Is a Rational Discussion of OA Possible?; speech text and slides here
• "CC-BY, Copyright, and Stolen Advocacy"
• "OA Rhetoric, Economics, and the Definition of "Research""
• "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"

Rick's Speeches

• Is a Rational Discussion of OA Possible?; speech text and slides here
• Scholarly Kitchen podcast episode on MOOCs
• YouTube playlist of Rick's appearances at scholarly conferences (incomplete)

Spotify playlists made from Rick's reccs

• Ricks' Desert Island List

SHFL Guides

• UK Reggae
• Progressive Bluegrass
• Classical Indian Music
• Lee "Scratch" Perry
• Early Music on Period Instruments
• Traditional Bluegrass
• Cool Jazz
• Adrian Sherwood & On-U Sound
• Fred Frith
• Bill Laswell

CD Hotlist playlists by genre

2022, Quarter 1

• Classical
• Folk/Country
• Rock/Pop
• World/Ethnic

2022, Quarter 2

• Classical
• Folk/Country
• Rock/Pop
• World/Ethnic

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