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James F. Williams II is a retired American librarian. He was the Dean of Libraries at the University of Colorado at Boulder from 1988-2017.

He holds a bachelor's degree in sociology from Morehouse College (1966) 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.

He is a former member of the editorial board of the journal Portal: Libraries and the Academy. 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. He is on the board of visitors for the School of Information Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh, and has been a member of the visiting committee for the libraries at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a member of the Libraries' National Council of Washington University in St. Louis, and a trustee of the Denver Art Museum.

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

In 2017, Williams was honored by the Colorado Association of Libraries with their Career Achievement Award.

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

1. Dawson, Alma (2000), "Celebrating African-American Librarians and Librarianship" (PDF), Library Trends, 49 (1): 49–87, archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-10-09, retrieved 2012-07-17.
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. "Q&A: James Williams on his tenure as dean of libraries". CU Boulder Today. 2017-05-18. Retrieved 2022-09-14.
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, archived from the original on 2012-07-23, 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, archived from the original on 2012-07-13, retrieved 2012-07-17.
11. "Trustees & Staff". Denver Art Museum. Archived from the original on December 26, 2018. Retrieved May 2, 2020.
12. Williams receives the 2002 Melvil Dewey Medal, American Library Association, April 2002, retrieved 2012-07-16.
13. Jim Williams honored by Colorado Association of Libraries, October 2017, retrieved 2024-07-19.

• University of Colorado Boulder faculty
• African-American librarians
• Academic librarians
• Living people
• American librarians
• Morehouse College alumni
• Clark Atlanta University alumni
• 21st-century African-American people
• Washington University in St. Louis trustees