Background
Reinette Jones was born on November 23, 1958, in Paris, Kentucky, United States. She is the daughter of Nellie B. (Smith) Jones.
Lexington, KY 40506, United States
Reinette got a Bachelor of Arts in 1983 and a Master of Library and Information Science in 1988 from the University of Kentucky.
(Although the majority of libraries in the state of Kentuc...)
Although the majority of libraries in the state of Kentucky did not offer services to African Americans between 1860 and 1960, public libraries did employ them. The Louisville Public Library, a leader in the development of management and education from 1905 to 1925, began in 1912 to train African American women to be librarians in segregated branches opening in the South. In 1925, an academic program was developed for African Americans at the Hampton Institute in Virginia to continue the work that began in Kentucky. This movement culminated with Helen F. Frye's becoming in 1963 the first African American to graduate with a master of library science degree from the University of Kentucky Library School. This work moves from the provision by Berea College of the first library services to a fully integrated student body in 1866, through the integration of the state's only accredited library science program at the University of Kentucky in 1949, to the civil rights initiatives of the 1960s. Also addressed are the interconnectedness of libraries and societal events and how one affected the other.
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Reinette Jones was born on November 23, 1958, in Paris, Kentucky, United States. She is the daughter of Nellie B. (Smith) Jones.
Reinette got a Bachelor of Arts in 1983 and a Master of Library and Information Science in 1988 from the University of Kentucky.
Reinette F. Jones served as a student financial aid assistant at the University of Kentucky, Lexington from 1984 to 1988 and a community college coordinator for student financial aid from 1987 to 1988. In 1988 she became an instructor librarian at Margaret I. King Library. She held this position until 1989.
Jones began to work as an assistant librarian and then became an associate librarian at Margaret I. King Library from 1989 to 2000. In 2000 she started her work as a librarian at Shaver Engineering Library and in 2002 at Margaret I. King Library.
From 1991 to 1994 Reinette was an adult literacy tutor in Paris and Bourbon County, Kentucky. In 1996 she was an instructor at Lexington Community College.
Jones is a consultant to the Humanitarian Center for Culture and Diversity and Pride of the Bluegrass Center Library. She is a conference speaker and public lecturer. She also gives readings from her works.
Reinette's works include "Library Service to African Americans in Kentucky, from the Reconstruction Era to the 1960s" published in 2001. This work moves from the provision by Berea College of the first library services to a fully integrated student body in 1866 through the integration of the state's only accredited library science program at the University of Kentucky in 1949 to the civil rights initiatives of the 1960s. Also addressed are the interconnectedness of libraries and societal events and how one affected the other.
(Although the majority of libraries in the state of Kentuc...)
2001Since 1988 Reinette is a member of the Gay Lesbian Service Organization.