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Biography

Jack believes libraries play critical roles in open societies and higher education, including as a fundamental piece in larger socio-technical infrastructures supporting learning and research. He has published and presented widely on information literacy and ethics, open access, user expectations and behaviors, collections as data, and libraries as physical spaces. He currently sits on the Publications Coordination Committee for the American Library Association’s Core Division and the National Information Standards Organization’s Information Policy & Analysis Committee, and he frequently reviews for several journals, including College & Research Libraries. He has won awards from the Johns Hopkins University Press, the International Earth Data Alliance, the American Library Association, and the Colorado Endowment for the Humanities.

Prior to joining Mines he served as Associate Dean for Scholarly Communication & Collections Services at the University of Denver Libraries (2017-2024), where he was promoted to Professor and also taught in the Morgridge College of Education, and he held several positions at the University of Colorado Boulder (2005-2017), where he was awarded tenure in 2014. He proudly began his career at a shelver at the Denver Public Library.

Education

• Master of Library Science, Emporia State University, 2004
• Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, University of Colorado at Denver, 2000

Publications

• Eastwood, Megan M., Jennifer Bowers, Jenelys Cox, and Jack Maness (2023). "One size does not fit all: Self-archiving personas based on federally funded researchers at a mid-sized private institution." Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication 11, 1.
• Maness, Jack and Kim Pham (2021). "Just because we can doesn't mean we should: On knowing and protecting data produced by the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society." Humanist Studies in the Digital Age, 6, 1.
• Maness, Jack, Kim Pham, Fernando Reyes and Jeff Rynart (2020). "A vertical cooperation model to manage digital collections and institutional resources." Publications, 8, 23.
• Maness, Jack, Ruth Duerr, Michael Dulock, Walker Sampson, Athea Merredyth, Gloria Hicks, Florence Fetterer, and Allaina Wallace (2017). "Revealing our melting past: Rescuing historical snow and ice data." GeoResJ, 14: 92-97.

Affiliations

• National Information Standards Organization (NISO), Information Policy Analysis Topic Committee, 2019-present (co-chair, 2020-2023).
• American Library Association (ALA) Core Publications Coordination Committee (2024-2026).
• Editorial Board, Library Leadership & Management, 2023-2024.
• Western Regional Storage Trust (WEST), Operations and Collections Council, 2018-2024.

Additional Information

ORCID: 0000-0003-4298-7766
Contact for: Administration