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Paul Jones

Paul Jones (born 1950), a poet and information technologist, worked in the Office of Information Technology at UNC-Chapel Hill from 1977 to 1996 and in 1992 helped create SunSITE, an Internet server and digital library at the university. He also directed the Poets Exchange at the ArtSchool in Carrboro.

Source: UNC Libraries, Southern Historical Collection: Paul Jones Papers (#4787), 1978-2000s

1950– · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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  1. Orange Presbytery meets at the Hillsboro Presbyterian Church for the first time in forty years Orange Presbytery met at the Hillsboro Presbyterian Church, for the first time in 40 years by the paper's count, adopted an executive council and a new manual of procedure, and elected commissioners to the General Assembly. Pastor Irving E. Birdseye led the communion service, and lunch was served in the church's new educational building. People: Paul JonesSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), January 11, 1951, p. 1
  2. Paul Jones helps create SunSITE at UNC Paul Jones of UNC's Office of Information Technology was instrumental in creating SunSITE, an Internet server and digital library at the university, in 1992.Search the index · UNC Libraries, Southern Historical Collection: Paul Jones Papers (#4787), 1978-2000s
  3. WXYC makes the first internet radio simulcast WXYC streamed its radio broadcast over the internet on November 7, 1994. People: Paul JonesUNC
  4. Paul Jones becomes director of ibiblio.org at UNC After directing MetaLab from 1997, Paul Jones became director of ibiblio.org, the university's public digital library, in 1999. The same year he became a clinical associate professor in UNC's schools of journalism and of information and library science.Search the index · ibiblio.org: Paul Jones, Curriculum Vitae

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