Wayne A. Wiegand

Wayne A. Wiegand (1946- ) is an American library historian, author, and academic.

Wiegand recently retired as F. William Summers Professor of Library and Information Studies and Professor of American Studies at Florida State University. He received a BA in history at the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh (1968), an MA in history at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee (1970), and an MLS at Western Michigan University and a Ph.D. in history at Southern Illinois University (1974). Before moving to Tallahassee in 2003 he was Librarian at Urbana College in Ohio (1974-1976), and on the faculties of the College of Library Science at the University of Kentucky (1976-1986) and the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison (1987-2002). At the latter he also served as founder and Co-Director of the Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America (a joint program of the University and the Wisconsin Historical Society established in 1992).

In Spring, 1994, he was William Rand Kenan Jr. Visiting Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In Spring, 1998, he was Fellow in the UW–Madison’s Institute for Research in the Humanities. In 1999 he was elected to membership in the American Antiquarian Society, and in Fall, 2000, he was a Spencer Foundation Fellow. In July, 2004, he became Executive Director of Beta Phi Mu (the International Library and Information Science Honor Society).

Bibliography

• Wiegand, Shirley A. and Wayne A. Wiegand; Books on Trial: Red Scare in the Heartland. University of Oklahoma Press, 2007 ISBN 0806138688
• Danky, James P. & Wiegand, Wayne A.; Women in Print: Essays on the Print Culture of American Women from the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. University of Wisconsin Press, 2006 ISBN 0299217841
• Herald, Diana Tixier & Wiegand, Wayne A.; (Ed), Genreflecting: A Guide to Popular Reading Interests, Sixth Edition. Libraries Unlimited, 2005 ISBN 1591582865
• Lundin, Anne & Wiegand, Wayne A.; Defining Print Culture for Youth : The Cultural Work of Children's Literature. Libraries Unlimited, 2003
• Garrison, Dee, Garrison, Lora Dee, and Wiegand, Wayne A.; (Eds), Apostles of Culture: The Public Librarian and American Society, 1876-1920. University of Wisconsin Press, 2003
• Augst, Thomas, Wiegand, Wayne A. (Eds); Libraries As Agencies Of Culture Print Culture History In Modern America. University of Wisconsin Press, 2002 ISBN 0299183041
• Danky, James P. & Wiegand, Wayne A.; Print Culture in a Diverse America. Univ of Illinois Press, 1998 ISBN 0252023986
• Wiegand, Wayne A.; Irrepressible Reformer: A Biography of Melvil Dewey. American Library Association, Chicago, 1996 ISBN 083890680X
• Wiegand, Wayne A.; Encyclopedia of Library History. Garland, 1994
• Wiegand, Wayne A.; Supplement to the Dictionary of American Library Biography. Libraries Unlimited Inc., 1990
• Wiegand, Wayne A.; "An Active Instrument for Propaganda: The American Public Library During World War I. Greenwood Press, Westport, CT, 1989 ISBN 0313267022
• Wiegand, Wayne A.; Leaders in American Academic Librarianship: 1925-1975. American Library Association, Chicago, 1983
• Wiegand, Wayne A.; The History of a Hoax: Edmund Lester Pearson, John Cotton Dana, and the Old Librarian's Almanack. Beta Phi Mu., Pittsburgh, 1979