Ruth Ann Jones
Marketing & Public Relations Coordinator
Michigan State University Libraries
Education
Certificate in Special Collections Librarianship
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Midwest Book & Manuscript Studies Program
May 2011
MS: Library and Information Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
August 1991
BA: Sociology/Anthropology
Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota
June 1983
Employment
Michigan State University Libraries, East Lansing, Michigan:
Marketing & Public Relations Coordinator, 2012-present.
Special Collections Cataloger, 2005-2012.
Digital Projects Manager, 1999-2005.
Public Services Librarian, 1991-1999.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Graduate Library:
Graduate Reference Assistant, 1990-1991.
American Library Association, Chicago, Illinois:
ALA Publishing Services, Marketing Dept. 1983-1990.
Selected publications
Jones, Ruth Ann. "An Experiment in Progress: The MSU Student Comic Art Anthology." The Library Publishing Toolkit, edited by Alison P. Brown. Geneseo, NY: IDS Project Press, 2013.
Jones, Ruth Ann. "Empowerment for Digitization: Lessons Learned from The Making of Modern Michigan." Library Hi-Tech, volume 23, issue 2 (June 2005) pp. 205-219. (Online version available only to subscribing institutions.)
Berg, Peter, and Ruth Ann Jones. "Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project." Journal of Agricultural & Food Information, volume 5, no. 4, 2003. pp. 69-75. (Online version available only to subscribing institutions.)
Selected presentations
"Establishing an Academic Library Publishing Program." Poster session. Library Publishing Coalition Forum, Kansas City MO, March 2014.
"Futureshock for Libraries: The Re-emergence of Orality." With Ranti Junus. Michigan Library Association Annual Conference, Traverse City, November 2010.
"Oral Traditions as a Model for Understanding 21st Century Readers and Writers." Material Cultures 2010: Centre for the History of the Book, University of Edinburgh, Scotland. July 2010.
"Controversial Materials in Libraries." LAMP LIS Summer Institute. (LAMP is a regional network of academic libraries which recruit students from historically under-represented groups to consider librarianship as a career.) East Lansing. May 2010.
"Reference Approach to Cataloging: Using the Internet to Enhance Records for 20th Century Ephemera." Michigan Library Association Academic Day. May 2010.
"Introduction to eXtensible Markup Language." Six full-day sessions for the Michigan Library Consortium in 2004 and 2005.
"Cataloging, Metadata, and Digital Repositories." Michigan Library Consortium, The Future of Cataloging workshop. East Lansing. April 2003.
"Introduction to Digital Project Management." Detroit Area Libraries Network. Detroit. March 2002.
"A Primer on Markup Languages: SGML, XML, TEI, EAD." With Lisa Robinson. Michigan Library Association Annual Conference, Detroit, October 2000.
Significant continuing education
Rare Book School, University of Virginia
- Developing Collections: Donors, Libraries, and Booksellers. Upcoming: June 2014.
- History of European and American Papermaking. 2012.
Hollanders School of Book & Paper Arts, Ann Arbor MI
- Introduction to Letterpress Printing. 2008.
Digital Tool Kit Program. University of Michigan School of Information, 2000, 2002.
- Standard Generalized Markup Language
- Programming in ColdFusion
- Introduction to Database Development
- Programming in Perl
- Programming in Javascript
University of New Brunswick, Canada
- Summer Institute on Creating Electronic Texts and Images (Taught by David Seaman, UVa Rare Book School) 1999
University of Chicago Publishing Program, 1984, 1985.
- Book Marketing
- Introduction to Book Design
- Professional and Technical Writing
Contact info
Ruth Ann Jones
Marketing and Public Relations Coordinator
Michigan State University Libraries
366 West Circle Drive
East Lansing, MI 48824-1048
jonesr@msu.edu
517-884-0910
Last updated March 2014