WAYNE A. WIEGAND is Associate Professor in the School of Library and Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the widely acclaimed author of scores of articles and books on the library profession including Politics of an Emerging Profession: The American Library Association, 1876-1917 (Greenwood, 1986), which won the 1986 G.K. Hall Award for Outstanding Contribution to Library Literature. He is currently working on a biography of Melvil Dewey.
?Indispensable reading for persons interested in the history of
librarianship in the USA...Ought to be on the shelves of library
schools and in research collections of library science.?-Australian
Library Review
?Readable and useful, this is 'an outstanding reference work
that...will serve librarians for some time to come.'?-Wilson
Library Bulletin
"Readable and useful, this is 'an outstanding reference work
that...will serve librarians for some time to come.'"-Wilson
Library Bulletin
"Indispensable reading for persons interested in the history of
librarianship in the USA...Ought to be on the shelves of library
schools and in research collections of library science."-Australian
Library Review
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