Donald J. Waters

Associate University Librarian
Yale University

Donald J. Waters is Associate University Librarian in the Yale University Library. He has a B.A. (1973) in American Studies from the University of Maryland, College Park, and a doctorate in anthropology (1982) from Yale University. After completing his degree in 1982, Waters served as a User Consultant in the Yale Computer Center and as the Director of Computer Services at the Yale School of Management. In 1987 he joined the library as the Head of the Systems Office. He became Director of Library and Administrative Systems in 1992 and was appointed Associate University Librarian in 1993. In addition to his responsibilities at Yale from 1994-1996, Waters served as a co-chair of the Task Force on Archiving of Digital Information, which the Research Libraries Group and the Commission on Preservation and Access jointly sponsored. Waters was the principal author of the Task Force report. Among his other publications, Waters is the editor of a collection of African American folklore originally published during the 1890's in the Southern Workman, the newspaper of the Hampton Institute.