Walt Crawford is an

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writer specializing in libraries. He is primarily concerned with technology-related issues in the library sector. He has also written extensively on

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, publishing detailed surveys of gold open access journals based on data in the

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. Crawford worked for the California-based national consortium

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(RLG) from 1979 to 2006. He was president of the

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(LITA), a division of the

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(ALA) in 1992–3. Crawford is the author of a variety of articles and lectures, and books. His book ''Future Libraries'' (1995), coauthored with Michael Gorman, is held by more than 1000 libraries. His other books include ''Open Access'' (2011), ''Librarian's Guide to Micropublishing'' (2012), and ''MARC for Library Use'' (1988). Among other things, he publishes the online journal "Cites & Insights", of which he is the main author.

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