Walt at Random
The library voice of the radical middle
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I'm Walt Crawford, a long-time systems analyst/programmer and writer. This blog deals with the intersections of libraries, policy, technology and media. There's a related ejournal: Cites & Insights
Contact me at waltcrawford at gmail.com.
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Recent Posts
- The last post (and a little oops)
- Great customer service redux
- What did you learn at ALA?
- Not dead yet, not really back yet
- Restored copyright? Querulous comments on early Hitchcock
- Hemispheres, triumphalism and xCamps
- Cites & Insights 9:9 (August 2009) available
- The fine print and grading on the curve
- The dynamics of spam on a semi-dormant blog
- Sometimes words really do matter
Recent Comments
- Chris on Not dead yet, not really back yet
- Walt Crawford on Restored copyright? Querulous comments on early Hitchcock
- HP on Restored copyright? Querulous comments on early Hitchcock
- george.w on Restored copyright? Querulous comments on early Hitchcock
- Angel on The fine print and grading on the curve
- jessamyn on Fading away? (More metablogging)
- Walt Crawford on Sometimes words really do matter
- Christina Pikas on Sometimes words really do matter
- Walt Crawford on Fading away? (More metablogging)
- Wayne Bivens-Tatum on Fading away? (More metablogging)
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You might find my ejournal, Cites & Insights, worthwhile.
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About
Walt Crawford is Editorial Director for the Library Leadership Network.I worked full-time in library automation from June 1968 through September 2007--first at UC Berkeley, then at the Research Libraries Group (for 27 years), finally at the OCLC RLG Service Center completing the transition from RLG to OCLC.
This is a personal blog. Comments and opinions offered here are mine and do not in any way reflect those of Lyrasis.
This blog includes whatever I feel the urge to write about that isn't better suited to a primary outlet, that is:
- Cites & Insights, my ejournal on the intersections of libraries, policy, technology and media
- The "disContent" column in EContent Magazine, offering an outsider's views on the wonderful world of econtent.
- The "Crawford at Large" column in ONLINE Magazine, new and revised essays on topics including those in C&I.
The motto for this blog used to be "Libraries, music, net media, cruising, policy, and other stuff not quite ready for Cites & Insights." It's now "The library voice of the radical middle," since I seem to be carving a space in that middle area whose existence some people on either "side" deny.
Posts appear when I have something to say that suits the blog and have free time to say it. Posts that appear here are typically written on the fly and posted without editorial review.
This blog began here. If they're missing, archives from April 1, 2005 through June 10, 2009 will be found there. That site now contains "Walt, Even Randomer"--posts that really don't suit ScienceBlogs.
Creative Commons License: It doesn't show on the sidebar yet (or does it?), but this blog carries a CC BY-NC license (attribution, noncommercial), and I interpret "noncommercial" very broadly.
