For the previous fifteen years he was Curator for Special Collections at the Colonial Williamsburg
Foundation, where he administered the Library's collections of rare books, manuscripts, architectural and
archaeological drawings, graphic -arts, maps, and microforms. He was responsible f6r conservation and
preservation decisions for library collections, served as principal contact between the Library and donors
of rare library materials, and served on committees for African-American history, preservation, and
museum programming. He also functioned as coordinator for the planning of new facilities and transfer
of five major research components of the Foundation to them.

During his time at Colonial Williamsburg, he also served as acting director of the Library in 1983-4, and
1991. Before assuming duties at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation in 1979, he worked in the
manuscripts and archives sections of Brown University. He received a Ph.D. in Slavic linguistics from
Brown University in 1977, and BA and MA degrees in Russian language and literature from Fordham
University in 1967, 1968.

In addition to editing and publishing several guides to manuscript and microform collections at Colonial
Williamsburg, he was the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and
the American Philosophical Society in support of his edition of John Evelyn's seventeenth-century
manuscript on gardening "Elysium Britannicum," considered one of the most significant unpublished
manuscripts on landscape design of that century. He also directed an NEH planning grant to study
eighteenth-century bookbinding in Williamsburg, from which a monograph is currently being finished
for publication.

He has published and lectured extensively on the collections at Colonial Williamsburg, including topics
such as children's literature, music, garden history, and book arts. He has served on review boards for
Title IIC grants and NEH Fellowships in History, and mounted a number of exhibitions at Colonial
Williamsburg. He has served on a number of committees in professional organizations.


Douglas Jones

Douglas Jones is currently Team Leader for the Science-Engineering Team at the University of Arizona
Library. He received a M.A. in English in 1973 and a Master of Library Science in 1978 from the
University of Arizona. He previously served at the University of Arizona Library as Assistant Head of the
Science-Engineering Library, Coordinator for Collection Development, and Coordinator for Online
Service while working as a reference and collection development librarian. At the University level he was
a faculty senator for 12 years, chaired the University Academic Personnel Policy Committee, and served
on the Faculty Senate Budget Advisory Committee. For the past four years he has been elected as one of
ten faculty representatives to the University Strategic Planning and Budget Advisory Committee. He
currently chairs the committee revising the University Strategic Plan. At the Regents level he has served
on the Status of Women and the committees reviewing the Conditions of Faculty Service and the
Conditions of Professional Service. At the national level he has served as Secretary/Treasurer of the
United States Agricultural Information Network as well as local arrangements chair of the 1997 Joint
International Conference of USAIN and IAALD, numerous American Library Association committees,
and the AgNIC Steering Committee. In 1990 he was the first Visiting Librarian at the National
Agricultural Library.

He has reviewed manuscripts for Cornell University Press and Oryx Press and served for five years on the
Editorial Advisory Board of Oryx Press. He is currently on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Food
and Agricultural Information and the Library Advisory Committee for the Optical Society of America.
His publications include Research Guide to the Arid Lands of the World (1982), and numerous
publications in library journals as well as presentations and talks.