James F. Williams

James F. Williams II is an American librarian.[1][2] He is the Dean of Libraries at the University of Colorado at Boulder.[3]

He holds a bachelor's degree in sociology from Morehouse College (1966)[4] and a master's degree in library science from Atlanta University. His wife, Nancy Allen, is also a librarian, the Dean of Libraries at the University of Denver.[5]

He is a former member of the editorial board of the journal Portal: Libraries and the Academy.[6] He was on the board of directors of the Association of Research Libraries and chaired the ARL's Strategic Direction Steering Committee on Influencing Public Policies for 2010–2013.[7] He is on the board of visitors for the School of Information Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh,[8] and has been a member of the visiting committee for the libraries at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[9] He is a member of the Libraries' National Council of Washington University in St. Louis,[10] and a trustee of the Denver Art Museum.[11]

In 2002, Williams won the Melvil Dewey Medal of the American Library Association for his "distinguished service to the profession of librarianship".[12]

Publications
gollark: They make deliberately sterile GMOs.
gollark: Oh, that's fine then.
gollark: Do they replace it somehow or do you just die?
gollark: What does that involve then?
gollark: You have significant latency, and encoding video fast enough and for the low bandwidth of most home internet connections means you have rather low quality.

References
  1. Dawson, Alma (2000), "Celebrating African-American Librarians and Librarianship" (PDF), Library Trends, 49 (1): 49–87.
  2. Williams, J. F. (1994), "A Black Dean of an ARL Library", in Josey, E. J. (ed.), The Black Librarian in America Revisited, Scarecrow Press, pp. 152–161.
  3. University Libraries > Libraries & Departments > Dean's Office > James F. Williams, II: Biographical Sketch Archived 2012-06-15 at the Wayback Machine, Univ. of Colorado, retrieved 2012-07-16.
  4. Black Issues in Higher Education v.4 (1987) p, 16
  5. "In the Spotlight with Jim Williams, Dean of Libraries", Inside: The CU/Boulder Faculty/Staff E-Newsletter, March 8, 2005, archived from the original on October 13, 2014.
  6. portal: Libraries and the Academy, Editors and Editorial Board, Johns Hopkins University Press, retrieved 2012-07-17.
  7. Governance & Leadership: Committees, Task Forces & Working Groups, Association of Research Libraries, archived from the original on August 29, 2012.
  8. School of Information Sciences Visitor Biographies, University of Pittsburgh, retrieved 2012-07-17.
  9. Visiting Committees: Libraries, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, archived from the original on June 30, 2012
  10. Washington University Libraries: National Council, Washington University in St. Louis, retrieved 2012-07-17.
  11. "Trustees & Staff". Denver Art Museum. Retrieved May 2, 2020.
  12. Williams receives the 2002 Melvil Dewey Medal, American Library Association, April 2002, retrieved 2012-07-16.
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