Robert Wedgeworth is an American librarian who was the founding President of ProLiteracy Worldwide, an adult literacy organization. He is also a former executive director of the American Library Association, served as president of IFLA, served as Dean of the School of Library Service at Columbia University, and was university librarian at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has also authored and edited several major reference works, and has won many awards over the course of his career. In 2021 the American Library Association awarded him Honorary Membership, its highest award.
Wedgeworth (center), alongside Jean E. Lowrie, meeting a Chinese foreign language instructor during a visit by Chinese librarians to the ALA headquarters. October 18, 1973.
American Library Association
The American Library Association (ALA) is a nonprofit organization based in the United States that promotes libraries and library education internationally. It is the oldest and largest library association in the world.
American Library Association conference at New Monterey Hotel in Asbury Park, New Jersey, June 25, 1919
Panelist Dr.Cora Dunkley speaking at Association for Library Service to Children 2022 President's Program, Lucia Gonzalez, President
ALA Youth Media Awards in January 2014; Pura Belpré Committee with Henrietta M. Smith
The American Library Association Conference in June 2011
