Walt crawford on the Google Books Settlement
The March 2009 issue of Walt Crawford’s Cites & Insights is devoted to a 30 page essay on the Google Books settlement. His is an opinion that spans many of the issues : he is at once a writer, fair use advocate, a reader, and a library supporter.
found at Walt at Random
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LibrarySupportStaff.Org - February 21, 2009 Author: Rick Mason Tags: Books Copyright Google Libraries Licensing Publishing Cites & Insights Google Book settlement Google Books Walt Crawford
Cites & Insights 7:3 available
Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large, volume 7, issue 3, March 2007, isnow available for downloading athttp://citesandinsights.info/civ7i3.pdfThe 24-page issue, PDF as always, but HTML separates of some, not all,essays are available from the home page,http://citesandinsights.info/includes:* Bibs & Blather - Who's out there, another language grump, and a reasonfor the peculiar issue.* Old Media/New Media - Music and video* Trends & Quick Takes - Five trends and seven quicker takes* Net Media Perspective: Wikipedia Revisited* My Back Pages - ten snarky little pieces.Technorati tags:Cites & Insights, Walt C...
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Baby Boomer Librarian - February 22, 2007 Author: Bill Drew Tags: cites and insights Walt Crawford Cites & Insights Walt_Crawford
And now I am 243: Changes in Worldcat.org
A few days ago, I had a respectable showing in Worldcat.org–26 items, I think, including my 15 books, Cites & Insights and some presentations that were cataloged in various AV forms.
Now I have 243, more or less (the “more” is if you just search for Walt Crawford, since there are a few dozen cases where Walt and Crawford show up as something other than a single author).
The difference is that a whole bunch of articles have been added. My American Libraries articles and columns show up early on, with books intermixed. Further down, Online columns and articles pop up–as do, eventually, my “...
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Walt at Random - April 24, 2007 Author: walt Tags: Scholarly publishing Writing and blogging Books and publishing Cites & Insights RLG and OCLC
Walt crawford Named Director & Managing Editor of PALINET Leadership Network
I was very happy to hear the following news about Walt:Walt Crawford: "Walt Crawford Named Director & Managing Editor of PALINET Leadership Network Philadelphia, PA, October 2, 2007PALINET is pleased to announce the appointment of Walt Crawford as Director and Managing Editor for the PALINET Leadership Network. Crawford is an internationally recognized writer and speaker on libraries, technology, policy, and media, and 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...
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Baby Boomer Librarian - October 8, 2007 Author: Bill Drew Tags: Walt Crawford PALINET
Cites & Insights 7:2 (February 2007) available
Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large volume 7, issue 2 (February 2007) is now available for downloading athttp://citesandinsights.info/civ7i2.pdfThe 22-page issue (PDF as always, but each section is also available as an HTML separate from the home page, http://citesandinsights.info/)includes:* Bibs & Blather - Cites on a Plane and other oddities* Perspective: Predictions and Scorecards - Back to a roundup of some other people's forecasts and outcomes, after missing a year* Perspective: Conference Speaking: I Have A Little List - Conference speaking arrangements have become a bit more transparent, and it's ti...
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Baby Boomer Librarian - January 25, 2007 Author: Bill Drew Tags: cites and insights Walt Crawford Cites & Insights
Cites & Insights 7:4 available
Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large, volume 7, issue 4 (April 2007) isnow available for downloading at http://citesandinsights.info/civ7i4.pdfThis 24-page issue, PDF as usual, but the essays are available as HTMLseparates at http://citesandinsights.info/features the first Cites & Insights book:Balanced Libraries: Thoughts on Continuity and Change.Essays include:* Announcing Balanced Libraries: Thoughts on Continuity and Change -description, price, availability (www.lulu.com/waltcrawford), and thefirst paragraph of each chapter.* Library Access to Scholarship - A thematic essay on Open Access andrhetorical ...
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Baby Boomer Librarian - March 23, 2007 Author: Bill Drew Tags: cites and insights Walt Crawford Cites & Insights Walt_Crawford
"Library Rockstars" And the "Great/Radical Middle"
Walt Crawford does the wonderful cites and insights on a regular basis (monthly with occasional special additional issues).Among the things I appreciate about cites and insights is that Walt actually cares about how it looks on the page. This past year he changed typefaces, and in various places there were discussions about that. I found when I started a job which including newsletter production, that I care about how things look on a page. The Adobe PDF format is great for that, because the creator gets to really determine how it will look, and the user can't change it.Before ALA Midwinter 2010, Walt produced a special is...
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Thoughts from a Library Administrator - January 21, 2010 Author: Michael A. Golrick
New Cites & Insights
It's only taken eight years for C&I to actually appear monthly--that is, for a volume to have only a dozen issues.Cites & Insights 8:12 (December 2008) is now available for downloading.The 22-page issue is PDF as usual (a nice compact PDF, as are all the other2008 issues now that I've regenerated them with Acrobat 9), but you can also get HTML versions of most essays. (Most headings below are live links.) Bibs & Blather Advance notice of a special offer: The Liblog Landscape2007-2008 will be available soon (late November or early December if all goes well), and will have an early-bird special price of $22.50 un...
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Baby Boomer Librarian - November 17, 2008 Tags: Walt Crawford cites and insights
Walt at PALINET
Walt Crawford Named Director & Managing Editor of PALINET Leadership Network
10/4/2007
PALINET is pleased to announce the appointment of Walt Crawford as Director and Managing Editor for the PALINET Leadership Network. Crawford is an internationally recognized writer and speaker on libraries, technology, policy, and media, and 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. He was recently listed as one of the 31 ...
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Library Dust - October 5, 2007 Author: Michael McGrorty Tags: Renowned Librarians
Cites & Insights 8:12 available
It's only taken eight years for C&I to actually appear monthly--that is,
for a volume to have only a dozen issues.
Cites &
Insights 8:12 (December 2008) is now available for downloading.
The 22-page issue is PDF as usual (a nice compact PDF, as are all the other
2008 issues now that I've regenerated them with Acrobat 9), but you can also
get HTML versions of most essays. (Most headings below are live links.)
Bibs &
Blather
Advance notice of a special offer: The Liblog Landscape
2007-2008 will be available soon (late November or early December if
all goes well), and will have an early-bird special price of $22...
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gmane.education.web4lib - November 16, 2008 Author: Walt Crawford
Walt crawford Named Director & Managing Editor of PALINET Leadership Network
PALINET is pleased to announce the appointment of Walt Crawford as Director and Managing Editor for the PALINET Leadership Network. Crawford is an internationally recognized writer and speaker on libraries, technology, policy, and media, and 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. He was recently listed as one of the 31 most frequently-cited authors in library literature 1994-2004 (the only American writer on that...
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LISNews.org - October 5, 2007 Author: Blake Tags: Announcements
Blogs in the Liblog LAndscape
Walt Crawford has posted his list of 607 library-related blogs (this one included). This is as definitive and current a list as one is likely to find, and Walt has done an excellent job compiling and checking the links.
If you cannot get your fill of library blogging from this source, then you are more hard core than I.
found via Walt at Random (also included)
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LibrarySupportStaff.Org - October 26, 2008 Author: Rick Mason Tags: Blogs Libraries Library 2.0 Liblog Walt Crawford
help the LSW send Walt crawford to ALA!
On Saturday, Walt Crawford, friend to many of us, foe to the absolutist, “library voice of the radical middle,” author, blogger, lover of stone fruit and old movies and the Lovin’ Spoonful, and probably the foremost expert on blogs by library people in the English-speaking world, announced that he had lost his job and that he might thus not be able to go to ALA this year or to continue Cites & Insights. In the course of chatting with a few people about this, Laura Harris said it would be really great if the LSW could somehow sponsor Walt to go to ALA, with any extra money going toward Cites & In...
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lis.dom - March 15, 2010 Author: laura Tags: library society of the world the biblioblogosphere
Walt crawford: The Liblog LAndscape 2007-2008
Walt Crawfords neuestes Werk über die (englischsprachige) Biblioblogosphäre ist nun bei Lulu.com verfügbar: The Liblog Landscape 2007-2008.
Liblogs–blogs written by library people, as opposed to official library blogs–provide some of today’s most interesting and useful library literature. This book offers a broad look at English-language liblogs as they are and as they’ve changed between 2007 and 2008. The book includes more than 600 blogs with detailed analysis of 27 metrics for 2007 and 2008 and changes from 2007 to 2008–and, for 143 of them, 2006 as well. Through tables, charts and text,...
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Infobib - November 25, 2008 Author: CH Tags: Bibliothek Rezension Web 2.0 australien biblioblogosphäre biblioblogosphere großbritannien kanada USA
Cites & Insights 7:9 available
Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large 7:9 (August 2007) is now availablefor downloading athttp://citesandinsights.info/civ7i9.pdfIt's an odd issue (the September issue, 7:10, will be an evenissue...cheap jokes never die): Four somewhat overlapping Perspectivesand an Offtopic Perspective.The 26-page issue (PDF as usual, but each Perspective is available as anhtml separate from the homepage, http://citesandinsights.info/)includes:* Perspective: On the Literature - Thoughts about the role of grayliterature (blogs, lists, C&I...) in librarianship today.* Perspective: On Authority, Worth and Linkbaiting - Yes, it's about theB...
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Baby Boomer Librarian - July 23, 2007 Author: Bill Drew Tags: Walt Crawford cites and insights
State of the biblioblogsphere by Walt crawford
Part of cites and insights 9:3, February 2009, Walt Crawford put in article form the presentation he did at the Ontario Library Association Superconference; it's entitled Shiny Toys or Useful Tools?
After a few general definitions and tips (for novices?), Crawford gets to the meat of the presentation: how library blogs have moved from the "toy" phase to the "tool" phase; in other words, how they have matured. He uses two threshold, "robust" and "active" to then analyze the academic library blogosphere and the public library blogosphere.
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Blogging Section of SLA-IT - February 13, 2009 Author: clw Tags: Weblogs
Walt crawford meme
As some blogs have already indicated(1,2), Walt Crawford has a new job with Palinet. The full article on his job is here:-Walt Crawford Named Director & Managing Editor of PALINET Leadership Network10/4/2007 PALINET is pleased to announce the appointment of Walt Crawford as Director and Managing Editor for the PALINET Leadership Network. Crawford is an internationally recognized writer and speaker on libraries, technology, policy, and media, and 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....
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librarytwopointzero - October 5, 2007 Author: library2.0
Cites & Insights 10:5, Spring 2010
Cites & Insights 10:5, Spring 2010, is now available at
http://citesandinsights.info/civ10i5.pdf
This issue and the May and June issues (at least) are sponsored by the
Library Society of the World. Don’t assume that LSW members agree with
what’s being said–and please do check the masthead on page 30.
The 30-page issue (PDF as usual, but both essays are available as HTML
separates) contains two features:
Bibs & Blather pp. 1-4 http://citesandinsights.info/v10i5a.htm
Sponsorship, Semi-Retired and Other Quandaries: If you regularly
read Walt at Random, you can probably skip this essay, since it mostly
re...
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gmane.education.web4lib - March 26, 2010 Author: Walt Crawford
Public Library Blogs: a mention!
I don’t think I’ll add more comments on my own, just point you to “Walt Crawford’s Public Library Blogs: essential reading if your library is (even thinking about) blogging.”
and add my thanks to Kate Davis, one of the many fine Australian libloggers. This certainly started my weekend out on the right foot…
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Walt at Random - December 13, 2008 Author: walt Tags: C&I Books Writing and blogging
The job: Director & Managing Editor, PALINET Leadership Network
Here’s the press release:
Walt Crawford Named Director & Managing Editor of PALINET Leadership Network
Philadelphia, PA, October 2, 2007 — PALINET is pleased to announce the appointment of Walt Crawford as Director and Managing Editor for the PALINET Leadership Network. Crawford is an internationally recognized writer and speaker on libraries, technology, policy, and media, and 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 issue...
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Walt at Random - October 4, 2007 Author: walt Tags: Libraries Job
Of Mad Dogs And Loved Ones
I was pleased to see that I got a minor mention in Walt Crawford's most recent Cites & Insights on his piece on disagreement and discussion:Daniel Cornwall posted “We need to talk to each other, not at each other” at Alaskan librarian on March 7, 2007 (alaskanlibrarian.blogspot.com). He quotes Mark Sanborn on the ways people talk at each other (labeling, name calling, provocations, accusations, belittling) and argues for civility: “We need to treat each other with dignity and respect if we are to make progress.” Sanborn says, “You must respect [others] enough to understand them even if you don’t agree with them...
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Alaskan Librarian - July 24, 2007 Author: Daniel
Walt crawford Says Take a Vacation . . .
and I’m listening. In February’s cites and insights, Walt Crawford gives some great advice about how to find some balance: deep breathing, contemplation, unitasking and ultimately taking a vacation - a real vacation which for Crawford means “being away for at least a week,” “being somewhere and doing something that discourages thoughts of work,” and “turning off” or unplugging. Do you know what? I definitely need a vacation - and not just from work, but also from school. I guess a break from blogging couldn’t hurt either. I need a true library-free zone. While, I have...
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Life as I Know It - January 25, 2007 Author: Jennifer Tags: Miscellaneous personal reflections
Five Blogger Heroes
Walt Crawford started this discussion about a blogger heroes meme. Dorothea Salo took up the gauntlet and gave us her list. Which bloggers are my heroes??? Read on and see. I choose these five bloggers because they all had some type of impact on my choice to return to school or my decision to blog (and to keep blogging). It is tough to pick just five because there are so many others that I admire in addition to these.
Joy Weese Moll from Wanderings of a Student Librarian - I thoroughly enjoyed reading about Joy’s experiences in library school. This blog helped inspire me to bite the bullet and actually go to libr...
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Life as I Know It - April 6, 2007 Author: Jennifer Tags: blogging
Gem for Hire: Walt crawford
Several of us raised our eyebrows with last year's merger of OCLC/RLG. Mergers are certainly beneficial in many circumstances, for many reasons. But, they are also about bottom lines, consolidation, streamlining, winnowing--and not always the best thing when you look at it from the people side of things. Unfortunately our wariness was warranted, as evidenced by Walt Crawford's announcement that he has received a termination notice from OCLC, effective September 30, 2007.
I've known of Walt since early on in my library career--hard to miss, given that he is one of the most influential and prolific people...
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Tinfoil + Raccoon - May 21, 2007 Author: rochelle, just rochelle Tags: Libraries, tech, and allied interests
But Still They Blog: First review (that I’ve seen)
I’d like to call your attention to this post by Jennifer Macaulay on Just Another Day (you may know Macaulay from her previous blog, Life as I Know It).
I would quote excerpts, but it’s a nicely compact post (unlike certain blabbermouths like Walt Crawford, Jennifer Macaulay knows how to write tersely and well), so here’s the whole thing:
I find the topic of library blogs and blogging fascinating. As such, I always look forward to Walt Crawford’s commentaries about the topic. In this vein, I did buy a copy (pdf version) of his latest book, But Still They Blog. I admit that the statistical analysis made ...
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Walt at Random - January 1, 2010 Author: walt Tags: C&I Books Liblog Landscape
The Liblog LAndscape 2007-2008 now available
Since I asked these lists for suggestions of new liblogs for this project,
it seems reasonable to mention this:
*The Liblog Landscape 2007-2008: A Lateral Look* is now available at
http://www.lulu.com/content/4898086
The 285-page trade paperback covers 607 blogs from library people, with 11
chapters of discussion and analysis, including how most of those blogs
changed from 2007 to 2008 (and how 143 of them have changed between 2006 and
2008). It is, as far as I know, the first broad look at changes in liblogs.
The book is available for $22.50 from now through January 15, 2009; then it
goes to its regular price of $35.00...
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gmane.education.web4lib - November 22, 2008 Author: Walt Crawford
Intermediate/Advanced LibWorm-Fu (Power Searching)
We’ll start with the radio buttons, then move on to search operators that LibWorm understands.
RADIO BUTTONS
There are three radio buttons beneath LibWorm’s search field, any words, all words, and exact phrase.
any words
By default, any words is selected when you first load the main page of LibWorm in your web browser. Having this radio button selected tells LibWorm that your search results must contain at least one of the words you’re searching for. With the search below, you’re telling LibWorm you’d like to see results that contain either OPAC or sucks.
all words
The all words radio butto...
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davidrothman.net - February 15, 2007 Author: David Rothman Tags: Technology Search How to LibWorm
New Cites And insights from Walt crawford
Walt Crawford just posted this message:Cites & Insights 9:3, February 2009, is now available for downloading.The 30-page issue is PDF, as usual. Three of the essays are available as HTML separates (using the links below). The first, which is also the longest, is available as a PDF separate--the inclusion of embedded Excel graphs within the document made HTML creation more cumbersome than I was willing to deal with.This issue features the article versions of my two presentations for the OLA (Ontario Library Association) SuperConference, held just over a week ago in Toronto, Ontario. The first article is a longer version...
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Baby Boomer Librarian - February 11, 2009 Tags: Walt Crawford Technology Libraries Library wiki Library and Information Science
Google Book Search And egosearching (redux)
A while back (19 months, to be precise), I posted a multitopic post that included my response to Dorothea Salo’s suggestion that Google Book Search might have enough current books to make egosearching worthwhile. I was pleasantly surprised, finding 26 books (none of them my own) referring to me.
So what’s changed? I tried it again today–using [”Walt Crawford” OR “crawford, walt”] as a search term.
Impressive. 219 results (which turn out to be 160 results when browsed through). That does include four of my own books, the three from ALA Editions and, thanks to scanning at the Univers...
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Walt at Random - May 16, 2007 Author: walt Tags: Net Media Writing and blogging Books and publishing
Balanced Libraries, a new title by Walt crawford
Mazel tov to Walt Crawford on the publication of his new book Balanced Libraries. Walt published this book via Lulu Press and has devoted some space in his most recent issue of cites and insights to discussing how the Lulu Experience worked for him.
I’ve spent some of the last week going back and forth with editors of various things I’ve written. In one case an article I’d written had a blurb that I felt totally missed the point of my article, and in another case the changing of an ellipsis to a period made the last paragraph of a book introduction I wrote come across in a way I hadn’t intended. I ...
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librarian.net - March 24, 2007 Author: jessamyn Tags: books elsevier libraryjuice publishing waltcrawford
