Wayne A. Wiegand, F. William Summers Professor of Library and Information Studies Emeritus, has received one of three 2012 Diversity Research Grants from the American Library Association (ALA). His research project, “This Hallowed Place: The Desegregation of Public Libraries in the American South, 1954-1968,” will analyze primary source materials like African American newspapers; local, state …
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Wiegand receives ALA diversity grant
Wiegand 'gathers no moss'
In their July 2011 article in The Library Quarterly, “Wayne A. Wiegand and the Library: A Passionate Engagement,” co-authors Arthur P. Young and John C. Bertot accurately anticipated that retirement would not be “a retiring activity for Wayne…” Earlier this year, the Florida State University F. William Summers Emeritus Professor of Library and Information Studies …
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