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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.), 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 writing, editing, speaking, research and systems analysis, on a part-time or project-oriented telecommuting basis.
From October 2007 through March 2010, Crawford was Editorial Director of the Library Leadership Network. 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 monthly since 2001. He also maintains a blog on these and other issues, Walt at Random.
Crawford's books include But Still They Blog: The Liblog Landscape 2007-2009 (2009), The Liblog Landscape 2007-2008 (2008), Balanced Libraries: Thoughts on Continuity and Change (2007), First Have Something to Say: Writing for the Library Profession (2003), Being Analog: Creating Tomorrow's Libraries (1999), Future Libraries: Dreams, Madness & Reality (with Michael Gorman, 1995), and eleven others going back to MARC for Library Use: Understanding the USMARC Formats (1984).
Crawford writes "Crawford at Large" for ONLINE Magazine and has written columns for American Libraries, EContent 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 recently 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). 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 older picture), taken June 2003, Alaska
Vita (selective) [1/7/10]
Vita (complete, updated annully: PDF) [1/7/10]
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 March 14, 2010
