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Shannon D. Jones, EdD, MLS, MEd, AHIP, FMLA, received her Master's in Library Science from North Carolina Central University in 2002 and a Master's in Information Science from NCCU in 2004. Additionally, she holds a BA in English from North Carolina State University (1998), an MEd in Adult Learning with an emphasis in Human Resource Development from Virginia Commonwealth University (2012), and an EdD in Educational Leadership from Charleston Southern University (2022).

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Jones joined the MUSC faculty in 2014 as the Assistant Director for Program Development and Resource integration. In July 2015, she was appointed Director of Libraries for the Medical University of South Carolina and has remained in this position. She is the first African American to hold this role in the University’s history. Previously, she held multiple roles at the Tompkins-McCaw Libraries for the Health Sciences (now VCU Health Sciences Library) at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond.

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She is an active member of the American Library Association, the Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries (AAHSL), and the Medical Library Association (MLA), where she is a distinguished member of the Academy of Health Information Professionals (AHIP). In 2021, Jones was elected President of the Medical Library Association, the second African American to hold this role in the Association’s 123-year history.

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Jones focuses her research on staff recruitment and retention, diversity, equity, and inclusion in libraries, and leadership in academic health sciences libraries. Shannon is the co-editor of

She also serves as a leader for Girl Scout Troop 263 in her free time.