Medical Library Association | Fellows and Honorary Members : MLA Awards and Honors

MLA Fellow Brief Vitae

Fellowship Conferred: 1993

Bulletin of the Medical Library Association, Editor-in-Chief, 1982-88,1991-92.
Bulletin of the Medical Library Association Consulting Editors Panel, chair, 1982-88.
Medical Society Libraries Group, chair, 1977-78;
Committee on Surveys and Statistics, chair, 1966-75; principal Investigator and consultant, 1975-80

100 most notable in MLA, 1998
Fellow, 1993
President's Award, 1992
Marcia C. Noyes Award, 1992
Academy of Health Information Professionals, Distinguished Member, 1990
Special Award to Editor of the Bulletin of the Medical Library Association, 1988
Janet Doe Lecturer, 1983
Eliot Award, 1976

Distinguished Graduate Medal on Sixtieth Anniversary of the Faculty of Library and Information Science, University of Toronto, 1989.
American Society for Information Science. Outstanding Specialty Group Award, to Chair, Medical Information Systems, 1988 and 1989
Board of Overseers, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, 1988-89.
Distinguished Alumnus Award , Faculty of Library and Information Science, University of Toronto, 1987
Special Award to Editor, Bulletin of the Medical Library Association, McGovern Foundation, Houston, TX, 1986
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1982
American Society for Information Science, Certificate of Appreciation to founder and editor of JASIS Perspectives, 1981
International Steering Committee, Universal Guide for Contributors of Scientific Publications (The Vancouver Group); Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, Vancouver (1978) and Montreal (1979)
Sigma Xi, 1978
Certificate of Appreciation, U.S. Public Health Service, 1975
Board of Regents, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health 1971-75
University of Chicago, doctoral research award, 1967-1969
Pi Lambda Theta
Who's Who in America
American Men and Women of Science
Who's Who Among American Women
Who's Who in Medicine and Healthcare

Crawford S, Hurd J, Weller A. From print to electronic: the transformation of scientific communication. Washington, DC: American Society for Information Science,1996.
Crawford S. The origin and development of a concept: the information society. Bull Med Libr Assoc 1983 Oct; 71:380-5.
Crawford S., ed. Cognition: human information processing. J Amer Soc Info Sci 1981 Sep; 32:344-99. (JASIS Perspectives Series)
Crawford S. Information needs and uses. Ann Rev Inform Sci Tech 1978;13: 61-81.
Crawford S. Informal communication among scientists in sleep research. J Amer Soc Info Sci 1971 Sep-Oct; 22: 301-10 (Reprinted in: Key Papers in Information Science. Griffith BC, ed. Washington: American Society for Information Science, 1980).

Adjunct Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, 1994 to present
Professor and Director, Library and Biomedical Communications Center, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, 1981-92
Associate Professor, School of Library Service, Columbia University, New York, NY, 1972-75
Director, Division of Library and Archival Services, American Medical Association, Chicago, IL, 1974-81
Research Associate, Office of the Executive Vice President; Director, Archive-Library Department, American Medical Association, Chicago, IL, 1960-74

Presentation of awards. Proceedings of the 93rd Annual Meeting. Bull Med Libr Assoc 1994 Jan; 82(1):122.
Presentation of awards. Proceedings of the 92nd Annual Meeting. Bull Med Libr Assoc 1993 Jan; 81(1):114.

Edited July 12, 2003