James F. Williams
Template:Short description James F. Williams II is a retired American librarian.[1][2] He was the Dean of Libraries at the University of Colorado at Boulder from 1988-2017.[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]
In 2017, Williams was honored by the Colorado Association of Libraries with their Career Achievement Award. [13]
Publications
- Strategic Planning in Higher Education: Implementing New Roles for the Academic Library
- Managing Diversity Library Management in Light of the Dismantling of Affirmative Action
- Leadership competencies and the importance of research methods and statistical analysis in decision making and research and publication: A study of citation patterns
- Leadership Evaluation and Assessment
- Collaboration between practitioners and teaching faculty: A study of research, publication, and citation patterns
References
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- ↑ Williams receives the 2002 Melvil Dewey Medal, American Library Association, April 2002, retrieved 2012-07-16.
- ↑ Jim Williams honored by Colorado Association of Libraries, October 2017, retrieved 2024-07-19.
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