Wilma's Bio

WILMA LESLEY JONES

AWARDS

Staten Island Project - African Community on Staten Island, July 2005.

Awarded $8,333.00 to conduct Phase II survey of African leaders in the Staten Island community.

Rutgers University – African Studies Association, Books for Africa, December 2004.

Awarded $540.00 to ship discarded academic books, published no later than 1998.

PSC CUNY- Research Grant, Virtual Universities and their Libraries, March 2004.

Awarded $2,500.00 to study how virtual libraries are being defined and developed for virtual institutions.

PSC-CUNY Compliance and Diversity Fund, $3700, Spring 2002.

Established an educational film forum series at the College of Staten Island to screen films

that include one or more of the following messages—ones that illustrate the testament of the human spirit, illuminate

issues of difference, raise awareness of gender, socio-economic, religious, and political issues of minority culture,

and reveal global issues.

PUBLICATIONS

Refereed Articles:

"Demonstrating the World Wide Web as an Academic Research Tool." The Journal of

Computing in Higher Education, v.9: no.2 (Spring 1998): 113-134. Co-authored

with Prof. Beth Evans.

"The Professional Status of Librarians in a Changing World: A Selective Bibliography."

Urban Library Journal, v.10: no.1/2 (Fall'97/Winter '98): 55-61.

"A Review of Journals Dealing with the Internet." The Serials Librarian, v.30: no.2

(1996): 35-44.

"A Profile of an African University Library: Fourah Bay College Library." Third World

Libraries, v.5: no.2 (Spring 1995): 22-29.

Non-refereed Article:

“Twenty Contemporary African Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliography.” ERIC, 1995, 45p.

ED386752.

PAPERS DELIVERED

"Information Sharing and Networking", presented at the Annual Convention of The Sierra Leone

Association of Archivists, Librarians & Information Scientists, April 20^th, 1995.

VIDEO TRANSLATION AND TRANSCRIPTION

Translated and transcribed "HIV PREVENTION VIDEO" from Krio to English. Video was

produced on partnership with Lowcounty AIDS Services, Charleston, SC for the Society

for Women and AIDS in Africa, Sierra Leone -- A grant secured by Prof. Donna Richter, 1994.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Pamphlets and Newsletters:

Editor and Contributor. CSI Library News. v.1 - v.8:

Editor and Contributor. Library Notes , #1 (Fall 2002)

Rules for Web Research. July 2001, revised 2003.

Leadership 2000: Empowering Librarians to Lead: A Selective Bibliography. American Library Association

Pre-Conference. NY: Library Association of the City University of New York, 1996, 6p.

How to Write a Term Paper. Revised pamphlet for CSI Library handouts, 1996.(updated 2001, 2003)

Bibliographic Instruction Materials from the City University of New York Libraries. NY: LACUNY

Bibliographic Committee, 1994, 10p.