was distinguished visiting scholar at the Library of Congress's John W. Kluge Center, researching a book on the history of American public school librarianship. It will appear as “American Public School Librarianship: A History” (Johns Hopkins University Press) in Fall, 2021. In Spring, 2018, Louisiana State University Press published "The Desegregation of Public Libraries in the Jim Crow South: Civil Rights and Local Activism," a book he coauthored with his wife, Shirley A. Wiegand. It was awarded the 2019 Eliza Atkins Gleason Book Award by the Library History Round Table of the American Library Association. Personal life Wiegand is married to Shirley A. Wiegand. They currently reside in Walnut Creek, California. Bibliography Books "Part of Our Lives: A People's History of the American Public Library." Oxford University Press, 2015 Main Street Public Library: Community Places and Reading Spaces in the Rural Heartland, 1876-1956. University of Iowa Press, 2011. Irrepressible Reformer: A Biography of Melvil Dewey. American Library Association, 1996. "An Active Instrument for Propaganda:" The American Public Library During World War I. Greenwood Press, 1989 "Patrician in the Progressive Era: A Biography of George von Lengerke Meyer." Garland Publishing, 1988. "The Politics of An Emerging Profession: The American Library Association, 1876-1917." Greenwood Press, 1986. The History of a Hoax: Edmund Lester Pearson, John Cotton Dana, and the Old Librarian's Almanack. Beta Phi Mu. 1979. With Sarah Wadsworth, "Right Here I See My Own Books:" The Woman's Building Library at the World's Columbian Exposition. University of Massachusetts Press, 2012. With Shirley A. Wiegand; Books on Trial: Red Scare in the Heartland. University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. With Shirley A. Wiegand; "The Desegregation of Public Libraries in the Jim Crow South: Civil Rights and Local Activism." Louisiana State University Press, 2018. () Edited Books Leaders in American Academic Librarianship: 1925-1975. Beta Phi Mu, 1983. Supplement to the Dictionary of American Library Biography. Libraries Unlimited Inc., 1990. With Donald G. Davis, Jr., Encyclopedia of Library History. Garland, 1994. With James P. Danky, Print Culture in a Diverse America. University of Illinois Press, 1998. With Thomas Augst; Libraries As Agencies Of Culture Print Culture History In Modern America. University of Wisconsin Press, 2002. With Anne Lundin, Defining Print Culture for Youth : The Cultural Work of Children's Literature. Libraries Unlimited, 2003. With Diana Tixier Herald Genreflecting: A Guide to Popular Reading Interests, Sixth Edition. Libraries Unlimited, 2005. With James P. Danky Women in Print: