Dr. Jeff Weddle
Associate Professor
Dr. Jeff Weddle joined the SLIS faculty in the fall of 2004 after a two year stint at the Mississippi University for Women. Dr. Weddle has also served as the director of Topsham Public Library in Topsham, Maine, and the Sunflower County Library in Indianola, Mississippi.
Education
Ph.D., Communications (emphasis in Information Sciences), University of Tennessee (Knoxville), 2003.
Dissertation: The Loujon Press: An Historical Analysis.
M.A., English, Morehead State University (Morehead, KY), 1990.
Masters Thesis: True Enough: Selected Poems.
M.L.S., University of Kentucky (Lexington), 1988.
B.A., English, University of Kentucky (Lexington), 1981.
Teaching at SLIS
CIS 654: History of the Book: Print Culture and Society
CIS 655: History of the Book: Book as Artifact
LS 505: Collection Development
LS 507: Information Sources and Services
LS 530: Public Libraries
LS 536: Archives
LS 590: Issues in Librarianship: The American Literary Small Press
Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Weddle lectures on the Loujon Press as part of The University of Alabama Libraries Book Talk and Lecture Series, December 4, 2007.