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An Excerpt from “Part of Our Lives”
In "Part of Our Lives," Wayne Wiengard tells the story of the relationship between the American Public Library and the American people.
Wayne A. Wiegand
Wayne A. Wiegand is F. William Summers Professor Emeritus of Library and Information Studies at Florida State University and former director of the Florida Book Awards. Often referred to as the “Dean of American library historians,” he is the author of more than one hundred articles and numerous award-winning books, includingAn Active Instrument for Propaganda: American Public Libraries During World War Iand Irrepressible Reformer: A Biography of Melvil Dewey. In 2008–’09, he was a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow to support his research on the American Public Library. He now lives in the California Bay Area.