James F. Williams, II has been Dean of Libraries at the University of Colorado at Boulder since 1988. His career includes 13 years as a Medical Librarian and 25 years in research library administration. His research interests include health sciences librarianship, strategic planning, leadership in research libraries, and resource sharing and networking. He holds baccalaureate and graduate degrees from Morehouse College and Atlanta University.

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  • James F. Williams, II has been Dean of Libraries at the University of Colorado at Boulder since 1988. His career includes 13 years as a Medical Librarian and 25 years in research library administration. His research interests include health sciences librarianship, strategic planning, leadership in research libraries, and resource sharing and networking. He holds baccalaureate and graduate degrees from Morehouse College and Atlanta University. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), a member of the Board of Visitors for Libraries at Carnegie Mellon University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Washington University in St. Louis, and a member of the Board of Visitors for the University of Pittsburgh School of Information Sciences, and a member of the Advisory Board for the Simmons College Ph.D. in Managerial Leadership. He is Chair of the Board of the Foothills United Way of Boulder and Broomfield Counties and a member of the Board of the Boulder Community Hospital. He is also a Trustee of the Denver Art Museum. He is currently a member of the Editorial Board of the journal . He was awarded the Melvil Dewey Medal by the American Library Association in 2002. He has been a member of the Board of Regents of the National Library of Medicine and a Visiting Scholar and Senior Fellow at UCLA's Graduate School of Library and Information Science. He is past Chair of the Greater Western Library Alliance, a past member of the Board of Directors of Educom, and a past member of the Board of Directors of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). He is past chair of the Board of Directors of the Center for Research Libraries (CRL), and past-Chair of the PubMed Central Advisory Committee at the National Library of Medicine. He is past-Chair of the Board of the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries (the Alliance) and is a past member of the Board of the Boulder Chamber of Commerce.
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  • James F. Williams, II has been Dean of Libraries at the University of Colorado at Boulder since 1988. His career includes 13 years as a Medical Librarian and 25 years in research library administration. His research interests include health sciences librarianship, strategic planning, leadership in research libraries, and resource sharing and networking. He holds baccalaureate and graduate degrees from Morehouse College and Atlanta University.
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