Paul Jones

Although often mistaken for other unreconstructed relics of the failed social policies of the Sixties, Paul Jones is the Director of ibiblio.org, a project that includes the Site Formerly Known as MetaLab and SunSITE, The Public's Library -- a large contributor-run digital library. Besides speaking at several conferences world-wide, Paul teaches on the faculties of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and the School of Information and Library Science. He can be found many places on the Internet. He was the original manager of SunSITE.unc.edu, one of the first WWW sites in North America and is co-author of The Web Server Book (Ventana, 1995) (rereleased as The Unix Web Server Book, Second Edition Ventana, 1997). Jones is author of recent articles on digital libraries in Communications of the ACM in May 2001 and February 2002. Jones has an additional on-going research interest in Open Source and Sharing Communities and Information policy issues as well as being an actively publishing poet. Paul is the editor of the Internet Poetry Archives, published with UNC Press.

Paul is a founding board member of the American Open Technology Consortium, a member of the Board of Trustees of Chapel Hill Public Library, and a board member of the Linux Documentation Project. But he is most pleased to have been admitted into the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists and to have been selected in April 2003 as Best Geek in the Research Triangle by the Independent Weekly.

He is married to Sally Greene, a research lawyer and newly elected member of the Chapel Hill Town Council. She is editor of Virginia Woolf: Reading the Renaissance and of a recent issue of Women's Studies on Virginia Woolf and Performance and author of a recent article in the Journal of Mordern Literature Things money cannot buy: Carl Sandburg's Tribute to Virginia Woolf Sally has taught English as well as Law and Literature at the University of Virginia. They have one son, Tucker, who has his own pages on the net.

I've been on the Net for quite a while now. Despite destroying my old home page, parts of which date back to 1993, I did manage to keep a copy of the original page that Tim Berners-Lee used at Hypertext 91 as well as my own first attempt from that same year. You may have to use View Text to see them on modern browsers, but I'm sure you'll be amused.