Dr. Jeff Weddle / CV

University of Alabama
School of Library and Information Studies

EXPERIENCE

Assistant Professor, School of Library and Information Studies (SLIS), University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, Aug. 2004-present
• Teach LS 507, Information Sources and Services
• Teach LS 505, Collection Development
• Teach LS 530, Public Libraries
• Designed and teach special topics course (LS590), “The American Literary Small Press”
• Teach selection of above courses in synchronous online mode and also in accelerated weekend college, as part of SLIS distance education program
• In partnership with the Tuscaloosa Public Library, taught a ten-week IMLS-funded workshop on collection development for Alabama public librarians (Spring 2005)
• SLIS Committee Assignments: Faculty Senate Representative (2005-2007); Doctoral Program; Students; Undergraduate Curriculum; Faculty Co-Sponsor, ALA Student Chapter
• College of Communication Committee and Information Science Committee Assignment: Committee on Faculty


Assistant Professor, Communication, Mississippi University for Women, Columbus, MS, Aug. 2002-June 2004
• Taught Communication 101, Oral Communication
• Taught Communication 200, Writing for the Media
• Taught Communication 307, Advanced Writing for the Media
• Served as faculty advisor to university student newspaper, The Spectator
• Advised undergraduate students pursuing the bachelor’s degree in Communication
• Served as faculty advisor for the Society of Professional Journalists


Graduate Teaching Associate, School of Information Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, Aug. 1999-July 2002
• Taught Information Science 310, Fall 2000-Spring 2002
• IS 310 is a course in information literacy. Its primary foci are determining information needs, identifying information sources, evaluating these sources, and gaining experience in using them effectively. The class helps students identify and make proper use of print materials, electronic databases, and Internet sources.
• Assisted with distance education M.S. program in both Web and compressed video formats


Director, Topsham Public Library, Topsham, ME, July 1998-July 1999
• Recommended and implemented library board policy
• Managed staff of four
• Oversaw collection development
• Strengthened ties with town government via weekly meetings with town manager and department heads
• Formed first Friends of the Library group in the library’s history
• Formed weekly writer’s group meeting in library
• Formed book discussion group at the Highlands, a local retirement community
• Wrote bi-weekly column in community newspaper promoting library activities
• Helped organize and run annual book sale


Director, Sunflower County Library, Indianola, MS, June 1997-July 1998
• Recommended and implemented library board policy
• Maintained $250,000 annual budget
• Managed staff of 24 at six branches
• Oversaw collection development for all library branches
• Developed and maintained relationship with regional bookstore resulting in frequent and substantial donation of materials
• Maintained close association with newspaper, radio and television media to promote library agenda
• Maintained close relationship with the Mississippi Library Commission
• Maintained close cooperative relationships with directors of other Mississippi library systems
• Oversaw successful and creative fund raising projects, including mail campaigns and a “radiothon”


Assistant Director, Sunflower County Library, Indianola, MS, Aug. 1996-June 1997
• Assisted library director in implementing library board policy
• Wrote successful NEH “Poets in Person” grant bringing nationally acclaimed program to the Mississippi Delta
• Maintained and facilitated communication between headquarters and branch libraries
• Assisted in collection development


English Instructor, McCreary County Campus, Somerset Community College, Whitley City, KY, Jan. 1995-May 1996
• Taught composition I and composition II using the portfolio method
• Taught poetry and fiction writing
• Taught medical terminology
• Taught business writing
• Founded, edited, designed and typeset student literary journal


Graduate English Instructor, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS, Aug. 1991-Dec. 1994
• Taught composition I and composition II
• Taught 200-level literature survey course
• Taught 200-level American novel course


English Instructor (Temporary Full Time), Prestonsburg Community College, Prestonsburg, KY, Jan. 1991-Aug. 1991
• Taught composition I
• Taught developmental composition


Graduate English Instructor, Morehead State University, Morehead, KY, Aug. 1989-Dec. 1990
• Taught composition I


Reference Librarian, Concord Public Library, Concord, NH, Feb. 1989-Aug. 1989
• Duties included general reference work and collection development for the 800s in Dewey classification system


Graduate Assistant, Periodicals & Microforms, Margaret I. King Library, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, Jan. 1987-May 1987
• Performed bibliographic instruction for individual patrons
• Performed circulation duties
• Oversaw student workers


Staff Writer, The Magoffin County Times, Salyersville, KY, Aug. 1985-Dec. 1986
• Weekly newspaper
• Covered news stories as assigned
• Wrote feature articles
• Performed other duties as needed or assigned


Staff Writer, The Floyd County Times, Prestonsburg, KY, Aug. 1984-July 1985; July 1987-May 1988
• Weekly newspaper; circulation 12,500
• Covered city government, including city council meetings and city police activities
• Wrote feature articles
• Took photographs as needed to accompany stories
• Performed other duties as needed or assigned, such as composing obituaries and taking classified advertisements


Staff Writer, The Prestonsburg Post, Prestonsburg, KY, Dec. 1983-Aug. 1984
• Weekly newspaper
• Covered news stories as assigned
• Wrote feature articles
• Performed other duties as needed or assigned


Radio Announcer, WDOC AM/FM, Prestonsburg, KY, Sept. 1976-July 1977
• 100,000 Watt FM
• 50,000 Watt AM
• Disk jockey, pop and rock format
• News, weather and sports announcer
• Engineer, Sunday morning religious programming

COMMUNITY SERVICE

• Taught beginning Tai Chi Ch’uan class at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Greenville, MS, Summer 1997
• Taught beginning Tai Chi Ch’uan class at Sunflower County Library, Indianola, MS, Fall 1997
• Taught beginning Tae Kwon Do class at McCreary County Campus, Somerset Community College, Somerset, KY, 1995-96
• Taught beginning, intermediate and advanced Tae Kwon Do classes at Prestonsburg Community College, Prestonsburg, KY, 1984-1986


PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND ACTIVITIES

• Member, Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing (SHARP), 2007-present
• Member, School of Information Sciences Advisory Board, University of Tennessee, 2006-present
• Member, Sub-Committee on Continuing Education, Alabama Public Library Service, 2005-present
• Member, Association for Library and Information Science Education, 2004-present
• Member, American Library Association, 1996-1999, 2002-present
• Member, Alabama Library Association, 2005-present
• Mississippi Library Association, 1996-1998
• Chair, National Library Week, Mississippi Library Association, 1997
• Doctoral student representative, Curriculum Committee, School of Information Sciences, University of Tennessee, 2000


AWARDS AND HONORS

• The Eudora Welty Prize for interpretive scholarship in the humanities, awarded for Bohemian New Orleans: The Story of the Outsider and Loujon Press, by The University Press of Mississippi and Mississippi University for Women, 2007
•Kappa Tau Alpha, University of Tennessee, 2002
• Best Doctoral Paper, School of Information Sciences, University of Tennessee, 2002
• Named Great Teacher by the students of the McCreary County Campus, Somerset Community College, 1995
• Phi Kappa Phi, University of Mississippi, 1993
• Sigma Tau Delta, University of Mississippi, 1993
• The Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels, 1989
• Beta Phi Mu, University of Kentucky, 1988
• Black Belt, Tae Kwon Do Chung Do Kwan, 1982

• Bohemian New Orleans: The Outsider and Loujon Press. Jackson, MS: The University Press of Mississippi (June 2007). (Also available from Amazon.com)
• Betray the Invisible: Poems. OEOCO Press [forthcoming 2008].

DOCUMENTARY FILM

• Ewing, Wayne, director. The Outsiders of New Orleans: Loujon Press, 2007. Jeff Weddle, associate producer and onscreen commentator.

• Juried screening: 30th Starz Denver Film Festival, November 11, 2007
• Screenings:
  • Brooklyn Independent Cinema Series, Barbes in Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY, December 3, 2007
  • The University of Alabama Libraries, Tuscaloosa, AL, December 4, 2007
  • The New Orleans Film Society Premiere, Prytania Theater, New Orleans, LA, December 6, 2007
  • Small Press Exhibit, Bookfair, and Showing of "The Outsiders of New Orleans: The Story of Loujon Press," The Lit: Cleveland's Literary Center, Cleveland, OH, January 26, 2008
  • Bama Theater, Tuscaloosa, AL, February 5, 2008
  • Montevallo Literary Festival, University of Montevallo, AL, TBD

BOOK CHAPTER

• Weddle, Jeff & Jill E. Grogg. “E-Journal Management Tools.” In Managing the Transition from Print to Electronic Journals and Resources: A Guide for Library and Information Professionals, edited by Maria Collins & Patrick Carr. New York: Routledge/Taylor & Francis, 2008: 227-242.

ARTICLE (refereed)

• “The Loujon Press, Henry Miller and Charles Bukowski.” Publishing History: The Social, Economic and Literary History of Book, Newspaper and Magazine Publishing (Chadwyck Healey, Great Britain) Issue LVIII (2005): 79-109.

DISSERTATION, THESIS, ETC.

• The Loujon Press: An Historical Analysis. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Tennessee, May 2003.
• True Enough: Selected Poems. Masters Thesis, Morehead State University, October 1990.
• Bukowski, Charles. Letter to Jeff Weddle. Reach for the Sun: Selected Letters Volume 3. Seamus Cooney, Editor. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1998: 99-100.

EDITORSHIPS

• McCreary Pride. Bi-annual literary journal. Founding editor, faculty advisor. McCreary County Campus, Somerset Community College, 1996.
• misnomer. Bi-annual literary journal. Co-Editor/Publisher. Oxford, MS: Creeker Press, 1990-1994.
• CrossRoads. Associate poetry editor. Center for the Study of Southern Culture, University of Mississippi, 1991.
• Olson, Ted. So Far. (Chapbook) Co-editor/Publisher. Oxford, MS: Creeker Press, 1994.
• Cherkovski, Neeli. Ways in the Wood. (Chapbook) Co-editor/Publisher. Oxford, MS: Creeker Press, 1993.

ESSAYS AND REVIEWS

• “Jon Edgar Webb: Beyond Bukowski.” Beat Scene 42 (Spring 2003).
• “A Brief History of Jon Edgar and Louise Webb and Their Wonderful Loujon Press.” Beat Scene 42 (Spring 2003).
• “What the Writers Read.” (Book Review - Airships by Barry Hannah) The Midday Moon 4 (Fall 2002): 18.
•“A God We Knew Was Here.” Sure, The Charles Bukowski Newsletter 10 (1996): 65-67.
•“Comic Buk: A Couple of Winos.” Sure, The Charles Bukowski Newsletter 8/9 (1995): 5-6.
• “The Day it Snowed in L.A.” (Book Review) Sure, The Charles Bukowski Newsletter 7 (1993): 55-7.
• “Bukowski the Good: An Appreciation of ‘One for the Shoeshine Man’.” Sure, The Charles Bukowski Newsletter 5/6 (1992): 19-22.
• “Bukowski Piece on Neal Cassady Included in Viking’s The Portable Beat Reader.” (Book Review) Sure, The Charles Bukowski Newsletter 4 (1991): 44-5.
• “‘Crazy Life’: New Fix for Buk Fans.” (Book Review) Roaring Fork Sunday (May 5-June 30, 1999): B9.
• “Oxford: Mississippi’s Greenwich Village.” Roaring Fork Sunday (Aug. 11-17, 1996): 21-23.

INTERVIEWS

• “An Interview with Jon Edgar Webb, Jr.” Chiron Review 70 (Fall 2002): 18.
• “Oh, We Were SoulMates: An Interview with Gypsy Lou Webb.” Chiron Review 69 (Summer 2002): 10-14.

INTERVIEW AS SUBJECT

• "Small Press Romantics: The Loujon Press. An Interview with Jeff Weddle." Beat Scene 45 (Autumn 2007): 24-25.

ANTHOLOGIES, CHAPBOOKS, BROADSIDES

• “Confederate Barbie.” Mondo Barbie. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1993: 169.
• “Hell’s Angel Barbie.” Mondo Barbie. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1993: 167-68.
• “Hindu Barbie.” Stovepiper Book One. Mike Daily, ed. Northridge, CA: Stovepiper Books, 1994: 130.
• “Incontinent Barbie.” Stovepiper Book One. Mike Daily, ed. Northridge, CA: Stovepiper Books, 1994: 131.
• “McElvis.” Missionary Stew. (Broadside) 1, no. 1 (April 1993).
• Not Another Blonde Joke. (Chapbook) Stow, Ohio: Implosion Press, 1991.
• “Reading Pomes All Sizes Outdoors at Ole Miss, Oct., 1992.” Morehead Poets. (Broadside) (Jan. 21, 1993).

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS, SYMPOSIA, AND READINGS

• “The Loujon Press in Historical Context," University of Alabama Libraries Lecture Series, December 4, 2007.
• "Louse Webb & the Loujon Press," St. Tammany Parish Library, Covington, LA, November 11, 2007.
• "Bohemian New Orleans: A Reading," Eudora Welty Writers Symposium, Mississippi University for Women, October 19, 2007.
• "Fine Printing in a Mimeograph Age: Loujon Press and Blended Culture," The Fifthteenth Annual Conference of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, & Publishing, University of Minnesota, July 13, 2007.
• “The American Literary Small Press and Library Literature: An Historical Review,” Tennessee Library Association, April 11, 2001.
• “A Crisis of Narratives: Information Science as Postmodern Shift,”
Connections 2000: The Sixth Great Lakes Information Science Conference, University of Tennessee, 2000. Abstract later published in “Connections 2000: The Sixth Great Lakes Information Science Conference,” Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science 25, no. 1 (April 2000): 35-48.
• Presented short story, “A Feast of Snakes,” Southern Writer’s Conference, University of Mississippi, 1996.
• Presented poetry reading, Southern Writer’s Conference, University of Mississippi, 1995.
• Guest poet, Roots and Branches program, WUMS radio, University of Mississippi, various times, 1994-1995.
• Various poetry readings associated with Inscape magazine, Morehead State University, 1990-1992.

FICTION (alphabetical)

• “Dooley’s Revenge.” The Midday Moon 4 (Fall 2002): 36.
• “An Ugly Monkey.” Chiron Review (Winter 2001): 18-19.
• “Castaway.” Art Mag (Fall 2001): 14-16.
• “A Feast of Feathers.” The Journal of Kentucky Studies 14 (Sept. 1997): 40-1.

POETRY (alphabetical)

• “A fine education.” Chiron Review 46/47 (Spring/Summer 1996): 32.
• “Above All This Grinning Confusion.” Chiron Review 13, no. 1 (Spring 1994): 9.
• “Ah.” Appalachian Heritage 19, no. 2 (Spring 1991): 79.
• “Ah, Sweet.” Inscape 32 (Fall 1990): 51.
• “Alchemy of the Page.” Dog River Review 10, no. 2 (Fall/Winter 1991): 13.
• “Bare Branches.” Appalachian Heritage 19, no. 2 (Spring 1991): 79.
• “Beaver Hunt Barbie.” Kumquat Meringue 4 (1993): 7.
• “Big Loser.” Chiron Review 55 (Autumn 1998): 31
• “Bukowski, Charles.” Sure, The Charles Bukowski Newsletter 10: 85.
• “Call Me, Ishmael.” Protea Poetry Journal 9 (Summer 1992): 40.
• “Cruise.” Hawaii Review 17, no. 1 (Spring 1993): 137.
• “Dead Barbie.” Kumquat Meringue 3 (1992): 20.
• “Don’t Start with Me It’s Been a Rough Day.” Furry Chicklets (1992-93): unpaginated.
• “Fireworks, Hampton Beach, NH.” Hemispheres 8 (1991): 10.
• “Flat Tire, No Spare.” The Plastic Tower 12 (Sept. 1992): 15.
• “Freud Visits the Tropics.” Chiron Review 11, no. 1 (Spring 1992): 14.
• “Getting that Hair Sticky.” Impetus Erotica Issue #3 (Dec. 1994): 9.
• “Glory.” Ship of Fools 41 (Spring 1998): 28.
• “Hag Barbie.” Kumquat Meringue 4 (1993): 7.
• “Heart of Things.” Chiron Review 55 (Autumn 1998): 31.
• “Homeless Nixon.” Slipstream 13 (1993): 95.
• “In Faulkner’s Woods.” The Journal of Kentucky Studies 12 (Sept. 1995): 41.
• “Initiation.” Moody Street Irregulars: A Jack Kerouac Newsletter 24-26 (Spring 1991): 31.
• “It Will Be Later Still.” Chiron Review 65 (Summer 2001): 35.
• “Jay’s Bed.” Chiron Review 55 (Autumn 1998): 30.
• “Kerouac Elvis.” The Imploding Tie-Dyed Toupee 1 (1993): 11.
• “Morning.” Ploplop 4 (Oct. 9, 1993): 16.
• “Motion Sickness.” Protea Poetry Journal 9 (Summer 1992): 40.
• “My Belle.” Worm Feast (n.d.): 26.
• “New Testament.” The Journal of Kentucky Studies 12 (Sept. 1995): 40.
• “Nighthawks.” Kentucky Writing 8, no. 1 (Fall 1993): 16.
• “My Baby Wrote Me a Letter.” Protea Poetry Journal (Summer 1992): 40.
• “Nothing So Real.” Old Red Kimono 23 (1993): 24.
• “Object lesson.” Chiron Review 55 (Autumn 1998): 30.
• “On Going Over the Wall at Hemingway’s House.” The Moment 14 (Summer 1991): 10.
• “Patchen things Up.” Chiron Review 11, no. 1 (Spring 1992): 14.
• “Perfecto.” Bouillabaisse 2 (1992): 6.
• “Picasso the Great Haircut.” Chiron Review 11, no. 1 (Spring 1992): 14.
• “Picture This.” Athena Incognito 12 (n.d.): 16.
• “Pilgrimage.” Moody Street Irregulars: A Jack Kerouac Newsletter 27 (Spring 1992): 48.
• “Postal Clerks.” Sure, The Charles Bukowski Newsletter 4: 42-3.
• “Prof.” Malcontent (1992): 7.
• “Quoth the Robin.” Mobius 6, no. 2 (Fall/Winter 1992): 40.
• “Your Silence Upon My Breast.” Manna 12, no. 2 (Fall 1991): 21.
• “Rowan County, Autumn.” Mobius 6, no. 2 (Fall/Winter 1992): 30.
• “Saturdaynight.” Worm Feast (n.d.): 26.
• “So?” Worm Feast (n.d.): 18.
• “That First Affair.” The Journal of Kentucky Studies 18 (Fall/Winter 2001): 32.
• “The Piano Spilled Waltzes.” Appalachian Heritage 19, no.2 (Spring 1991): 79.
• “The Light of the World.” Chiron Review 65 (Summer 2001): 35.
• “The Woman Poet.” Chiron Review 48 (Autumn 1996): 27.
• “The Woman Poet.” Inscape 32 (Fall 1990): 52.
• “This Awful Time.” Chiron Review 55 (Autumn 1998): 30.
• “Those times she is with me.” Chiron Review 55 (Autumn 1998): 30.
• “Vicious Love.” The Nihilistic Review 1, no. 2 (Summer 1991): 39.
• “Wasn’t Sidney Poitier In That?” Open Unison Stop 1 (1993): 42.
• “We Visit Jack.” Protea Poetry Journal (Summer 1992): 40.
• “Where Were You?” Chiron Review 11, no. 1 (Spring 1992): 14.
• “Writer’s Block.” Protea Poetry Journal (Summer 1992): 40.

last updated 7-29-08
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