“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently” Nietzsche

 

Associate Professor Jeff Weddle seeks to understand the historical and cultural foundations of publishing and the information professions.

Dr. Weddle joined the SLIS faculty in 2004. Previous to his appointment, Weddle was an assistant professor in the Department of Business and Communication at the Mississippi University for Women. While a practicing librarian, he served as director for public libraries in Mississippi and Maine. Weddle was granted the M.S. in Library Science from the University of Kentucky in 1988 and the Ph.D. in Communications from the University of Tennessee in 2003.

 

His Bohemian New Orleans: The Story of the Outsider and Loujon Press (University Press of Mississippi, 2007) received the Eudora Welty Prize and served as inspiration for the documentary, The Outsiders of New Orleans (Wayne Ewing Films, 2007).  Weddle’s other books include a poetry collection, Betray the Invisible (OEOCO, 2010) and, with Beth Ashmore and Jill Grogg, The Librarian’s Guide to Negotiation: Winning Strategies for the Digital Age (Information Today, 2012). His work on small press history has appeared in Publishing History, Beat Scene, and Chiron Review.