Thomas Weissinger

Professor, University Library

Color photograph of Thomas Weissinger facing forward.

African American Studies & Philosophy Bibliographer

246F Main Library

1408 W Gregory Dr.

Urbana, IL 61801

(217) 333-3006

tweissin@illinois.edu

1985-2001: Africana Center Librarian, John Henrik Clarke Africana Library, Cornell University.
1982-1985: Reference Librarian, Kilmer Area Library, Rutgers University.
1980-1982: City Hall Librarian, Newark Public Library, City of Newark.

1980- M.L.S.: School of Library and Information Studies, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1978- M.A.: School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1973- B.A.: School of Arts and Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York.

AFRO 102: Researching the African American Experience (Department of African American Studies, College of Liberal Arts).

Weissinger, Thomas, "The Core Journal Concept in Black Studies." Journal of Academic Librarianship, 36(2) (2010): 119-124.
_____, "Black Power Movement Book Publishing: Trends and Issues." Collection Management, 31(4) (2007): 5-18.
_____, "Black Studies Scholarly Communication: A Citation Analysis of Periodical Literature." Collection Management, 27 (2002): 45-56.
_____, "Defining Black Studies on the World Wide Web." Journal of Academic Librarianship, 25 (4) (1999): 288-293.

Wilson, Joseph and Thomas Weissinger, 1986. Black Labor in America, 1865-1983: A Selected Annotated Bibliography, Greenwood Press.

Weissinger, Thomas, 2005. "A Bibliography of John Henrik Clarke," in Jackson, Gerald G. We're Not Going to Take it Anymore: Educational and Psychological Practices from an Africentric Paradigm of Helping. Silver Spring, MD: Beckham Pubns, pages 167-176.
_____, 1994. "African-American Reference Books and the Reviewing Media," in Curry, Deborah A., Susan Griswold Blandy and Lynne M. Martin, editors. Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Academic Libraries: Multicultural Issues. New York: Haworth Press, pages 137-151.