Wayne A. Wiegand
American library historian (1946-)
Wayne August Wiegand (born April 15, 1946) is an American library historian, author, and academic. Wiegand retired as F. William Summers Professor of Library and Information Studies and Professor of American Studies at Florida State University in 2010.
Early life and education
Wiegand received a BA in history at the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh (1968), an MA in history at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee (1970), an MLS at Western Michigan University and a Ph.D. in history at Southern Illinois University (1974).
Career
Wiegand was Librarian at Urbana College in Ohio (1974-1976).
He taught at the College of Library Science at the University of Kentucky from 1976 through 1986.
From 1987-2002 he was a professor at the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. At the University of Wisconsin-Madison he served as cofounder 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).
He served as William Rand Kenan Jr. Visiting Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and as Fellow in the UW–Madison's Institute for Research in the Humanities. He was an elected member of the American Antiquarian Society and a Spencer Foundation Fellow.
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