WIEGAND, Wayne A. 1946-

PERSONAL: Born April 15, 1946, in Manitowoc, WI; son of Edward (a truck driver) and Germaine (a homemaker; maiden name, Leider) Wiegand; married Shirley Ann Abitz (a professor of law), June 19, 1965; children: Cori F. Wiegand Sheets, Scott, Andrew. Education: University of Wisconsin—Oshkosh, B.A., 1968; University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee, M.A., 1970; Western Michigan University, M.S.L.S., 1974; Southern Illinois University, Ph.D., 1974. Politics: Independent. Hobbies and other interests: Swimming, carpentry.

ADDRESSES: Home—9163 McDougal Ct., Tallahassee, FL 32312. Offıce—254 Louis Shares Bldg., Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-2100; fax: 850-644-6253. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER: University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee, Milwaukee, history teacher at university school, 1969; history teacher at a military academy in Lake Geneva, WI, 1969-70; John A. Logan College, Carterville, IL, instructor in history, 1973; Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, MI, rare books cataloger and evening supervisor at Upjohn Library, 1973-74; Urbana College, Urbana, IL, college librarian, 1974-76; University of Kentucky, Lexington, assistant professor, 1976-82, associate professor of library and information science, 1982-86; University of Wisconsin—Madison, Madison, associate professor, 1987-89, professor of library history and information studies, 1989-2002, cofounder and codirector of Center for Print Culture History in Modern America, 1992-2002, fellow of Teaching Academy, 1996-2002, fellow of Institute for Research in the Humanities, 1998; Florida State University, Tallahassee, F. William Summers Professor of Library and Information Studies and professor of American studies, 2003—. University of Arizona, visiting distinguished professor, 1993, 1995, 1997; University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill, William Rand Kenan, Jr. Visiting Professor, 1994.

MEMBER: American Historical Association, American Library Association, Library Research Round Table (member of board of directors, 1979-82; chair, 1992), Library History Round Table (chair, 1988), Social Responsibilities Round Table, Intellectual Freedom Round Table, American Studies Association, Association for Library and Information Science Education, Organization of American Historians, Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing, Wisconsin Historical Society, Beta Phi Mu, Delta Tau Kappa, Phi Alpha Theta.

AWARDS, HONORS: American Library Association, Herbert Putnam Award, 1975; fellow at Newberry Library, 1976; Library Research Round Table of American Library Association, Library Research Round Table Award, 1978; grants from Council on Library Resources, 1979-81, and American Philosophical Society, 1981; Harold Lancour scholar, Beta Phi Mu, 1981; grant from Kentucky Department of Library and Archives, 1982; shared Justin Winsor Award, 1982, for "British Propaganda in American Libraries, 1914-1917"; research paper award, Association of Library and Information Science Education, 1984, 1987, and 1993; G. K. Hall Award for Outstanding Contribution to Library Literature, 1988, for Politics of an Emerging Profession: The American Library Association, 1876-1917, 1991, for An Active Instrument for Propaganda: American Public Libraries during World War I, and 1997, for Irrepressible Reformer: A Biography of Melvil Dewey; grants from American Council of Learned Societies, 1988, and National Endowment for the Humanities, 1990; William Best Hesseltine Award, Wisconsin Magazine of History, 1990, for "In Service to the State: Wisconsin Public Libraries during World War I"; grants from Center for the Book, Library of Congress, 1992, 1995; Delta Award, Friends of Morris Library, Southern Illinois University—Carbondale, 1995; Justin Winsor Award, 1996, for "The 'Amherst Method:' The Origins of the Dewey Decimal Classification Scheme"; Carey McWilliams Award for Contribution to Multicultural Literature, 1999.

WRITINGS:

The History of a Hoax: Edmund Lester Pearson, JohnCotton Dana, and the Old Librarian's Almanack, Beta Phi Mu (Pittsburgh, PA), 1979.

(Editor) Leaders in American Academic Librarianship,1925-1975, Beta Phi Mu (Pittsburgh, PA), 1983.

Politics of an Emerging Profession: The AmericanLibrary Association, 1876-1917, Greenwood Press (Westport, CT), 1986.

Patrician in the Progressive Era: A Biography ofGeorge von Lengerke Meyer, Garland Publishing (New York, NY), 1988.

(With Dorothy Steffens) Members of the Club: A Look at One Hundred ALA Presidents, University of Illinois (Champaign, IL), 1988.

An Active Instrument for Propaganda: AmericanPublic Libraries during World War I, Greenwood Press (Westport, CT), 1989.

(Editor) Supplement to the Dictionary of AmericanLibrary Biography, Libraries Unlimited (Englewood, CO), 1990.

(Editor, with Donald G. Davis, Jr.) Encyclopedia ofLibrary History, Garland Publishing (New York, NY), 1994.

Irrepressible Reformer: A Biography of Melvil Dewey, American Library Association (Chicago, IL), 1996.

(Editor, with James P. Danky) Print Culture in aDiverse America, University of Illinois Press (Urbana, IL), 1998.

(Editor, with Thomas Augst) Libraries as Agencies ofCulture, University of Wisconsin Press (Madison, WI), 2002.

(Editor, with Anne Lundin) Defending Print Culture for Youth: The Cultural Work of Children's Literatures, Libraries Unlimited (Westport, CT), 2003.

Contributor to books, including State Library Services and Issues: Facing Future Challenges, edited by Charles McClure, Ablex Publishing (Norwood, NJ), 1986; For the Good of the Order: Essays in Honor of Edward G. Holley, edited by Williams, Delmas, and others, JAI Press (Greenwich, CT), 1994; The Versatile Text: Studies in the History of the Book, edited by Bill Bell, David Finkelstein, and Simon Eliot, Pennsylvania State University Press (University Park, PA), 1998. Contributor of more than 200 articles and reviews to library and history journals, including Bookmark, Libraries and Culture, Journal of Library History, and Oregon Historical Quarterly. Member of editorial advisory board, The ALA World Encyclopedia of Library and Information Services, 1983-86. Library Quarterly, member of board of editors, 1990-2000, coeditor, 2003—; editor, Drexel Library Quarterly, 1980; guest editor, Library Trends, 1996.

WORK IN PROGRESS: Editing and writing a contribution for A World History of Librarianship, with Pamela Spense Richards, for Sauer Publications; Main Street Public Library: Books and Reading in the Rural Heartland, 1876-1956; "Right Here I See My Own Books": The Woman's Library at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair; editing and writing a contribution for On the Shores of Lake Mendota: The School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin—Madison, 1896-2006, publication expected in 2006; "The American Public Library: Construction of a Community Reading Institution, 1876-1924," to be included in History of the Book in the United States, Volume 4, edited by Carl Kaestle and Janice Radway, Cambridge University Press (New York, NY).

SIDELIGHTS: Wayne A. Wiegand once told CA: "In large part, I decided to work in the academy because it would encourage me to write about history, and then reward me for that task. For me, writing offers an opportunity to work out and refine my thoughts, then subject those thoughts to the critical scrutiny of others. I find the process exciting and energizing.

"I stumbled onto the field of American library history in the early 1970s as a doctoral student at Southern Illinois University, where I fit a minor in library and information studies into my history major. Although the ubiquitous American library has been an important cultural institution for centuries, its role and influence in American history has largely been ignored by historians, and was largely being celebrated (rather than analyzed) by librarians. Once I received my doctorate and after I spent two years in library practice, in 1976 I decided to enter the field of library and information science education and use it as a foundation to research and write American library history with a thirty-year 'grand plan' divided into decades.

"During the first decade I planned to establish myself as a library history scholar, during the second I would do what I could to improve the quality and quantity of library history scholarship by working with establishment institutions (like the American Library Association's Library History Round Table). Now in the third decade, however, I am committed to advertising the library as a cultural institution worthy of scrutiny to a variety of research communities, including scholars in traditional academic departments like English and history, and in newer area studies units like print culture and cultural studies.

"I continue to find the field of American library history so rich in possibilities that I will never lack for subjects on which to research and write, and I welcome opportunities to sell this relatively untapped field to scholars working in and outside the library profession. Generally, I look to print culture studies (David Hall, Janice Radway), social history (Larry Levine, Gerda Lerner), and the new scholarship on the culture and history of reading (Carl Kaestle, Roger Chartier) for inspiration.

"Generally I draft all my work in longhand. I find this process forces me to work more slowly, and by thinking more carefully about the words I write (rather than type) onto a page, I am convinced I go through fewer drafts. I do most of my writing in my study. After completing a handwritten first draft, I quickly transcribe it to a word-processed document."