- Collection:
- AUC Robert W. Woodruff Library Events
- Title:
- AUC Travel Award Recipient Presentation, July 19, 2023
- Date of Original:
- 2023-07
- Subject:
- African American scholars
African American universities and colleges - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- born digital
- Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- Wayne A. Wiegand is F. William Summers Emeritus Professor of Library and Information Studies at Florida State University. He has also taught at the University of Kentucky (1976-1986) and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1987-2002). At Florida State University, in 2006, he organized and, for seven years, directed the Florida Book Awards, currently the nation's largest state book awards program. He is often referred to as the dean of American library historians. In addition to more than seventy-five scholarly articles, he has authored numerous books, including An Active Instrument for Propaganda: The American Public Library During World War I (1989), Irrepressible Reformer: A Biography of Melvil Dewey (1996), Part of Our Lives: A Peoples History of the American Public Library (2015), American Public School Librarianship: A History (2021), and with his wife, Shirley A. Wiegand, Books on Trial: Red Scare in the Heartland (2008) and The Desegregation of Public Libraries in the Jim Crow South: Civil Rights and Local Activism (2018). His current project is In Silence or Indifference: Librarianship's Willful Blindness Towards Jim Crow Segregated Public School Libraries, 1954-1974. He currently lives in Walnut Creek, California.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.lib.events:0017
- Rights Holder:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Additional Rights Information:
- All works in this collection either are protected by copyright and/or are the property of the Robert W. Woodruff Library, and/or the copyright holder as appropriate. To order a reproduction or to inquire about permission to publish, please contact the Archives Research Center at: archives@auctr.edu with the web URL or handle identification number.
- Extent:
- 0:01:04
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Rights:
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