Wayne A. Wiegand
Autore di Part of Our Lives: A People's History of the American Public Library
Sull'Autore
Wayne A. Wiegand is F. William Summers Professor Emeritus of Library and Information Studies at Florida State University.
Fonte dell'immagine: Wayne A. Wiegand [credit: American Library Association]
Opere di Wayne A. Wiegand
Main Street Public Library: Community Places and Reading Spaces in the Rural Heartland, 1876-1956 (Iowa and the Midwest… (2011) 38 copie
The history of a hoax : Edmund Lester Pearson, John Cotton Dana, and The old librarian's almanack (1979) 33 copie
A History of Modern Librarianship: Constructing the Heritage of Western Cultures (2015) — A cura di — 17 copie
"An Active Instrument for Propaganda": The American Public Library During World War I (Beta Phi Mu Monograph Series) (1989) 8 copie
The Politics of an Emerging Profession: The American Library Association, 1876-1917 (Contributions in Librarianship and… (1986) 6 copie
Popular culture and libraries 1 copia
Opere correlate
Reading & Libraries: Proceedings of Library History Seminar VIII, Bloomington, Indiana, 9-11 May, 1990 (1991) — Collaboratore — 5 copie
Libraries & philanthropy : proceedings of Library History Seminar IX, 30 March-1 April, 1995, University of Alabama,… (1996) — Collaboratore — 3 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Wiegand, Wayne A.
- Nome legale
- Wiegand, Wayne August
- Data di nascita
- 1946-04-15
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Walnut Creek, California, USA
Tallahassee, Florida, USA - Istruzione
- University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Western Michigan University
Southern Illinois University - Attività lavorative
- library historian
author
academic
librarian - Organizzazioni
- Florida State University
Urbana College
University of Kentucky
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America
American Antiquarian Society (mostra tutto 8)
Spencer Foundation
Beta Phi Mu
Utenti
Recensioni
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 17
- Opere correlate
- 3
- Utenti
- 463
- Popolarità
- #53,109
- Voto
- 3.9
- Recensioni
- 15
- ISBN
- 26
He does not shy away from the less attractive aspects of this history. Despite their contemporary reputation as defenders against censorship, librarians for many years were the first line of censors. They adamantly opposed adding fiction titles to their collections, and had little compunction about consigning controversial titles to the "Inferno" that required patrons to go to extraordinary lengths to obtain the book if it were available at all. Nor does he gloss over the history of racial segregation that many libraries employed.
Several earlier reviewers complained about all the detail he provides. Those bits create the depth of the narrative he constructs, without which this would be flatter, and less significant history.… (altro)