James F. Williams
James F. Williams II is an American librarian. He is the Dean of Libraries at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
He holds a bachelor's degree in sociology from Morehouse College 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 . 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".Publications
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