| Tunnel vision and blind spots: What the past tells us about the present; reflections on the twentieth-century history of American librarianship WA Wiegand The Library Quarterly 69 (1), 1-32, 1999 | 313 | 1999 |
| Part of our lives: A people's history of the American public library WA Wiegand Oxford University Press, 2015 | 285 | 2015 |
| Irrepressible reformer: A biography of Melvil Dewey WA Wiegand American Library Association, 1996 | 254 | 1996 |
| Encyclopedia of library history WA Wiegand, G Donald Jr Routledge, 2015 | 203 | 2015 |
| The politics of an emerging profession WA Wiegand The American Library Association 1917, 84-89, 1876 | 145 | 1876 |
| An active instrument for propaganda: The American public library during World War I WA Wiegand (No Title), 1989 | 123 | 1989 |
| The" amherst method": The origins of the dewey decimal classification scheme WA Wiegand Libraries & culture, 175-194, 1998 | 115 | 1998 |
| To reposition a research agenda: What American studies can teach the LIS community about the library in the life of the user WA Wiegand The library quarterly 73 (4), 369-382, 2003 | 99 | 2003 |
| Print culture in a diverse America JP Danky, WA Wiegand University of Illinois Press, 1998 | 90 | 1998 |
| Main Street Public Library: Community Places and Reading Spaces in the Rural Heartland, 1876-956 WA Wiegand University of Iowa Press, 2011 | 85 | 2011 |
| American library history literature, 1947-1997: theoretical perspectives? WA Wiegand Libraries & culture, 4-34, 2000 | 83 | 2000 |
| The desegregation of public libraries in the Jim Crow South: Civil rights and local activism SA Wiegand, WA Wiegand LSU Press, 2018 | 65 | 2018 |
| The Library as an Agency of Culture T Augst, WA Wiegand Univ of Wisconsin Press, 2001 | 48 | 2001 |
| The politics of an emerging profession: the American Library Association, 1876-1917 WA Wiegand (No Title), 1986 | 48 | 1986 |
| The development of librarianship in the United States WA Wiegand Libraries & Culture 24 (1), 99-109, 1989 | 47 | 1989 |
| Supplement to the Dictionary of American library biography WA Wiegand Bloomsbury Publishing, 1990 | 45 | 1990 |
| Library as place WA Wiegand North Carolina Libraries 63 (3), 76-80, 2005 | 44 | 2005 |
| Out of Sight out of Mind: Why Don't We Have Any Schools of Library and Reading Studies? WA Wiegand Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 314-326, 1997 | 43 | 1997 |
| Right here I see my own books: the Woman's Building Library at the World's Columbian Exposition S Wadsworth, WA Wiegand Univ of Massachusetts Press, 2012 | 39 | 2012 |
| “Tunnel Vision and Blind Spots” Reconsidered: Part of Our Lives (2015) as a Test Case WA Wiegand The Library Quarterly 85 (4), 347-370, 2015 | 35 | 2015 |
