Head Librarian
Charles E. Jones is the Head of the Library at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World and a member of the Faculty of the Libraries of New York University. Before coming to ISAW in 2008, Jones spent three years in Greece as the Head of the Blegen Library, the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, preceded by twenty-two years as the Librarian of the Research Archives, Oriental Institute, The University of Chicago. Trained in the University of Chicago's Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations in Ancient Near Eastern History and Assyriology, he is a member of the Editorial Board of the Persepolis Fortification Archive Publication Project. In addition to building and running focused academic libraries, Jones works on a broad range of issues related to scholarly communication in digital environments.
Jones' CV, publications, reading list and project web sites are best accessed here.
