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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– as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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  1. 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
  2. WXYC makes the first internet radio simulcast WXYC streamed its radio broadcast over the internet on November 7, 1994. People: Paul JonesUNC
  3. 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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