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This page and site belong to Walt Crawford (full name Walter C. Crawford), a Californian who's always been active in the library field.
If you're looking for Walt Crawford (full name Walter C. Crawford, Jr.--but no known relation), the founder and executive director of the World Bird Sanctuary in Valley Park, Missouri, you've come to the wrong place. While we both have a considerable fondness for raptors, he's actually doing something about it--and if you're interested, I encourage you to visit the WBS site.
Here's that Walt Crawford's email address. (Mine is waltcrawford at gmail dot com.) As I've noted elsewhere, in the overall scheme of things, I suspect that Walt Crawford is more important than I am--but I'm much more of a loudmouth on the internet.
Walt Crawford is an internationally recognized writer and speaker on libraries, technology, policy and media. He is open for opportunities in library-related wresearch, riting, editing and speaking on a part-time or project-oriented telecommuting basis.
From October 2007 through March 2010, Crawford was Editorial Director of the Library Leadership Network (since abandoned by LYRASIS). For many years before that, he was a Senior Analyst at RLG, focusing on user interface design and actual usage patterns for end-user bibliographic search systems, finally working on RLG-OCLC transition and integration issues through September 2007.Crawford is the creator, writer and publisher of Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large, an ejournal on the intersections of libraries, policy, technology and media published since 2001. He also maintains a blog on these and other issues, Walt at Random.
Crawford's books include The Librarian's Guide to Micropublishing (Information Today, Inc,; available January 2012), Open Access: What You Need to Know Now (ALA Editions, 2011), First Have Something to Say: Writing for the Library Profession (ALA Editions, 2003), Being Analog: Creating Tomorrow's Libraries (ALA Editions, 1999), Future Libraries: Dreams, Madness & Reality (with Michael Gorman, ALA Editions, 1995), and eleven others (mostly from G.K. Hall and Knowledge Industry Publications) going back to MARC for Library Use: Understanding the USMARC Formats (1984).Self-published books (through Lulu as Cites & Insights Books) include Library 2.0: A Cites & Insights Reader (2011),, The Liblog Landscape 2007-2010 (2010), But Still They Blog: The Liblog Landscape 2007-2009 (2009), The Liblog Landscape 2007-2008 (2008) and Balanced Libraries: Thoughts on Continuity and Change (2007).
Crawford has written columns for American Libraries, EContent, ONLINE Magazine and Library Hi Tech. In all, he has written more than 500 library-related articles and columns appearing in a range of library publications. Crawford was cited as one of the 31 most frequently cited authors in library literature 1994-2004 (the only American writer on that list outside academic libraries and library schools). In 1995, he received the American Library Association's LITA/Library Hi Tech Award for Excellence in Communication for Continuing Education, followed by the ALCTS/Blackwell Scholarship Award in 1997. He was president of the Library and Information Technology Association in 1992/93.
More information is available: selective vita, complete vita (PDF), professional background and interests (informal).
ProfessionalDownloadable publicity photo:
Recent, informal (large version of picture above), taken July 2011, Morgan Territory Regional Preserve, California
Vita (selective) [4/8/11]
Vita (complete, updated annually: PDF) [4/8/11]
Background and current professional interests [5/21/07]
Speaking invitations: some notes [5/21/07]
Writing, consulting, etc.: some notes [5/21/07]
Blog: Walt at Random [4/1/05]
If you got here looking for the spreadsheets that accompany Cites & Insights 5:10, they're here (raw data) and here (expanded 60 blogs) respectively.
The set of liblogs included in The Liblog Landscape 2007-2008: A Lateral Look is available here (and here, with Technosophia in its proper Greek form)
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ContactUsername: waltcrawford Domain: gmail.com [checked once or twice a day]. I'm also on FriendFeed and Facebook once or twice a day, maybe.
I don't check email when I'm on the road. I'll get back to you.
Updated October 23, 2011
