{"id":2044,"date":"2011-05-31T09:43:59","date_gmt":"2011-05-31T16:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2044"},"modified":"2016-09-27T09:25:29","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T16:25:29","slug":"waldrop-ruth-wiggins-1911","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2044","title":{"rendered":"WALDROP, RUTH WIGGINS, 1911-2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Librarian; library educator. Born&#8211; March 30, 1911, in May, Tex. Parents&#8211; James Ernest and Della (Campbell) Wiggins. Married&#8211; James Curtis Waldrop. Children&#8211;two. Education&#8211; Livingston State University, B.S., 1939; University of Alabama, M.Ed., 1960; Ed.S, 1970. Further study,\u00a0University of Denver; State University of New York, Albany; University of California, Berkeley. \u00a0Librarian at Hewitt-Trussville High School, Shades Valley High School and Howard College. Taught Library Science at University of Alabama, 1961-1968, when it was taught in the College of Education; instrumental in establishing the School of Library Science at the University of Alabama; associate professor at the Library School, 1969-78. Instructional materials consultant, Jefferson County Board of Education, 1960-1968; school library consultant, Alabama State Dept. of Education, 1968-1969.\u00a0 Executive Secretary, Alabama Library Association, 1978.\u00a0Member of many professional organizations; charter member of the International Association of School Libraries. \u00a0Recipient of many academic awards; a named fellowship in her honor was established at the library school at UA.\u00a0 Died March 20, 2010.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s Who in Library Science; Biographical Directory of Librarians in the United States and Canada; Who&#8217;s Who in Library and Information Services.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Abigail Adams. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Rush, Inc., 1988.<\/p>\n<p>Alabama Authors; Books in Print. Huntsville, Ala.; Strode, 1980.<\/p>\n<p>Alabamiana for Grades K-12; An Annotated Bibliography. University, Ala.; s.n., 1978.<\/p>\n<p>Bibliography of Southeastern Regional Literature for Elementary, Junior High and Senior High School Students. S.l.; s.n., s.d.<\/p>\n<p>Bunny Rabbits in Mother Goose Land. Birmingham, Ala.; R. W. Waldrop, 1987.<\/p>\n<p>How to Select a Children&#8217;s Book. Minneapolis; T.S. Denison, 1973.<\/p>\n<p>Martha Washington. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; s.n., 1987.<\/p>\n<p>Santa Claus, a Brief Bibliography. S.l.; s.n., 1981.<\/p>\n<p>Santa Grows Up in Mother Goose Land. Birmingham, Ala.; R. Waldrop, 1986.<\/p>\n<p>Simple Steps to Successful Legislation. S.l.; s.n., 1976.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Librarian; library educator. Born&#8211; March 30, 1911, in May, Tex. Parents&#8211; James Ernest and Della (Campbell) Wiggins. Married&#8211; James Curtis Waldrop. Children&#8211;two. Education&#8211; Livingston State University, B.S., 1939; University of Alabama, M.Ed., 1960; Ed.S, 1970. Further study,\u00a0University of Denver; State University of New York, Albany; University of California, Berkeley. \u00a0Librarian at Hewitt-Trussville High School, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-w-z"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2044"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5911,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2044\/revisions\/5911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}