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 was the creator, writer and publisher of Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large , an occasional ejournal on the intersections of libraries, policy, technology and media published from December 2000 through 2019. He also maintains a blog on these and other issues, Walt at Random . Crawford's books include Successful Social Networking in Public Libraries (ALA Editions, 2014), The Librarian's Guide to Micropublishing (Information Today, Inc, 2012), Open Access: What You Need to Know Now (ALA Editions, 20
Self-published books (through Lulu) appear at the bottom of this page. All books and datasets related to the SPARC-sponsored Gold Open Access Journals project may be found at the GOAJ project page .
Sustaining the Knowledge Commons / Soutenir les savoirs communs | Open Access Scholarship / Littérature savante en libre accès
Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large
Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large
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