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Jeffrey Wheeler

Assistant Professor & Reference and Liaison Librarian

University Library

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  • Assistant Professor & Reference and Liaison Librarian
    University Library
  • Graduate Assistant (Reference Desk)
    University Library
  • Teaching Assistant (Early American History, World History, Western Civilization, History of Chicago)
    College of Liberal Arts & Sciences - History

BIO

Jeff Wheeler is Liaison Librarian to the University of Illinois at Chicago's History; Anthropology; and Criminology, Law and Justice Departments. He earned his Master's in Library Science from Drexel University in 2007, has over 6 years professional librarian experience, and is finishing his PhD in History here at UIC.

He investigates transformations in urban library services in the late-20th century as a window into the cultural and political history of education, philanthropy, and social services after the mid-1960s. Engaging urban history, labor history, and the history of education, he critically examines shifts in the practice of public librarianship in relation to federal education and economic policy and demographic change. After completing the PhD, he hopes to extend my research to contextualize the evolution of academic librarianship in the late-20th century within the larger information economy and history of education.

Before coming to UIC, he worked as a music librarian and neighborhood library branch manager at the Free Library of Philadelphia, and a library assistant at Drexel University's Health Sciences Library. Jeff had been a teaching assistant in UIC's History Department, and a Graduate Assistant in the Richard J Daley Library IDEA Commons, since he began the PhD program in 2014.

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS CHICAGO APPOINTMENTS

  • Assistant Professor & Reference and Liaison Librarian
    University of Illinois at Chicago, University Library, Chicago, IL, United States2 Jan 2019
  • Graduate Assistant (Reference Desk)
    University of Illinois at Chicago, University Library, Chicago, IL, United States1 Jan 2014
  • Teaching Assistant (Early American History, World History, Western Civilization, History of Chicago)
    University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences - History, Chicago, IL, United States1 Jan 2014

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Library Assistant in Administration, ILL & Reference
    Drexel University, Hahnemann Library, Philadelphia, PA, United States1 Jan 2006 - 1 Jan 2008

NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Librarian II
    Free Library of Philadelphia, Music Department, Central Library, Philadelphia, PA, United States1 Jan 2008 - 1 Jan 2012
  • Library Supervisor I / Branch Manager / Adult & Teen Librarian
    Free Library of Philadelphia, Eastwick Branch, Philadelphia, PA, United States1 Jan 2012 - 1 Jan 2014
  • Staff Librarian
    The Wistar Institute Library, Philadelphia, PA, United States6 Jan 2008 - 9 Jan 2008

DEGREES

  • Master of Arts in History
    University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United StatesSep 2017
  • Master of Library and Information Sciences
    Drexel University, Philadelphia, United States2005 - 2007
  • Bachelor of Arts, Major: Religion, Minor: Music
    Hope College, Holland, MI, United StatesMay 2004

LANGUAGES

  • English
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review

GEOGRAPHIC EXPERTISE

  • United States of America

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