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Wayne A. Wiegand
Brings to light a distressing history that continues to impact the library community. Currently available school library literature skews the historical perspective that informs the present. This book is the…
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Part of Our Lives challenges the conventional idea that public libraries are valuable mostly because they are essential to democracy.
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Wiegand examines the development of ALA from 1876 to 1917 in this masterful tale. He analyzes the three elements of Dewey’s motto, “The best reading for the largest number at…
A comprehensive introduction provides an overview of public library history prior to World War I, touching on such topics as the growth of the public library from the genteel, early…
This work records the accomplishments of the leaders of library science with 51 thoroughly researched biographies of individuals whose contributions have profoundly influenced the profession’s history.
Drawing from rare archival materials researched over a period of 15 years, Dewey historian Wayne Wiegand has produced a comprehensive biography of the man behind the Dewey Decimal Classification System…
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Shirley A. Wiegand,Wayne A. Wiegand
How civil liberties triumphed over national insecurity
Tells the comprehensive story of the integration of southern public libraries. As in other efforts to integrate civic institutions in the 1950s and 1960s, the determination of local activists won…
Between the two major red scares of the twentieth century, a police raid on a Communist Party bookstore in Oklahoma City marked an important lesson in the history of American…
Sponsored by the Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America, this volume features a selection of ten papers compiled from the Center’s second national conference, accompanied by…
In the modern era there arose a prolific and vibrant print culture - books, newspapers, and magazines issued by and for diverse, often marginalized, groups. This collection offers a fresh…
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Libraries - public, school, and academic - are ubiquitous cultural agencies. Yet how much do we know about the multiple ways that they serve and enrich our culture? These essays…
Wayne A. Wiegand (F. William Summers Professor of Library and Information Studies Emeritus, Florida State University)
This book is a comprehensive and critical history of American public school librarianship –
A collection on modern print culture, this work talks about women readers, editors, librarians, authors, journalists, booksellers, and others. It presents a picture of print culture and of the forces…
A broad, comparative history of librarianship, this intriguing work goes beyond the standard focus on institutions and collections to help you explore the part modern librarianship played-and continues to play-in…
Wayne A. Wiegand (F. William Summers Professor Emeritus, School of Library and Information Studies, Florida State University)
Wayne A. Wiegand,Donald G. Jr. Davis,Donald G. Davis
A comprehensive global and historical reference in 263 alphabetically arranged articles ranging in length from a paragraph to a mini-essay, most followed by a brief bibliography. It offers coverage of…
