Ed Jones

Ed Jones (MLS, Kent State University; PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) has been active in serials cataloging during the whole of his professional career. Over this time, he has represented various institutions on the CONSER Operations Committee and has served on many CONSER and Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) committees and task groups, including as CONSER representative to the PCC Policy Committee and cochair of the PCC Standing Committee on Standards (SCS). He is currently cochair of the SCS Task Group on CONSER Policies for Official RDA in MARC. He has spoken extensively on RDA and its underlying conceptual models over the years, serving as an RDA advisor for the Original RDA Toolkit and more recently chairing the Serials Task Force of the RSC Aggregates Working Group during the RDA Toolkit Restructure and Redesign (3R) Project. In 2019, in recognition of his professional contributions, he received the Ulrich’s Serials Librarianship Award from the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS).