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RESTRICTED: Betty Adcock correspondence (Series 1) closed until ten years after her death.

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Paul Jones Papers #04787, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Paul Jones in December 1995 (Acc. 95153) and January 2020 (Acc. 20200110.5).

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Processed by: Jackie Dean, April 1996

Encoded by: Jackie Dean, April 1996

Updated by: Nancy Kaiser, February 2020; Jodi Berkowitz, January 2021

Since August 2017, we have added ethnic and racial identities for individuals and families represented in collections. To determine identity, we rely on self-identification; other information supplied to the repository by collection creators or sources; public records, press accounts, and secondary sources; and contextual information in the collection materials. Omissions of ethnic and racial identities in finding aids created or updated after August 2017 are an indication of insufficient information to make an educated guess or an individual's preference for identity information to be excluded from description. When we have misidentified, please let us know at wilsonlibrary@unc.edu.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• American poetry--20th century.
• Computer networks--United States.
• Internet Poetry Archive.
• Internet.
• Jones, Paul, 1950-
• Literature--Societies, etc.
• North Carolina Writers' Network.
• Poetry Exchange (ArtSchool, Carrboro, N.C.).
• Poets, American--North Carolina--20th century.
• SunSITE.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Office of Information Technology.
• Warren Wilson College--Students.
• ArtSchool (Carrboro, N.C.)
• Poetry--Study and teaching--History--20th century.

Subject Headings, Authors
• Adcock, Betty.
• Applewhite, James.
• Atwood, Calvin.
• Baddour, Margaret Boothe.
• Bayes, Ronald H., 1932- .
• Beam, Jeffery, 1953-
• Black-Beck, Sandy.
• Brody, Harry.
• Childers, David C.
• Deagon, Ann, 1930- .
• Duke-Sloan, Ruth.
• Dupree, Edison.
• Earle, Ralph Harding.
• Eaton, Charles Edward, 1916-2006.
• Fetter, Kathy.
• Kaufman, Debra.
• Kowit, Steve.
• Lipsitz, Lewis.
• Long, Robert Hill.
• Lyman, Mitchell.
• Manganaro, Marc, 1955- .
• May, Kathy.
• McFee, Michael.
• Morgan, Robert, 1944- .
• Morton, Margaret.
• Muldoon, Paul.
• Parsons, Rohn.
• Price, Reynolds, 1933-2011.
• Ragan, Sam, 1915-1996.
• Reddy, T. J., 1945- .
• Riggs, Donald Albert.
• Rigsbee, David.
• Rosten, Norman, 1914-1995.
• Sauls, Roger.
• Seay, James, 1939-
• Smith, R. T.
• Smith, Stephen E., 1946- .
• Stephenson, Shelby, 1938- .
• Strowder, William M.
• Wally, Darryl.
• Williamson, John.
• Willis, Julia.

Paul Jones, a white poet and information technologist, was born in Hickory, N.C., on 5 February 1950. He received his M.F.A in poetry from Warren Wilson College in 1993. Since high school, Jones has followed a dual career path in computers and poetry. From 1977 to 1996, Jones worked for the Office of Information Technology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 1992, he was instrumental in creating SunSITE, a major Internet server and digital library. One of Jones's special interests has been establishing the Internet Poetry Archive. In 1996, Jones moved to the University of Virginia. Jones was director of the Poets Exchange at the ArtSchool in Carrboro, N.C.; on the founding board for the North Carolina Writers' Network; and, in 1990, Jones won the Harperprints Poetry Chapbook competition award from the North Carolina Writers' Network for his chapbook "What the Welsh and Chinese Have in Common."

Correspondence and related materials, ca. 1980-1994, includes letters to and from poets and other literary figures. Some of the letters include copies of correspondents' writings. Writings by Jones are chiefly poems, including several drafts of "What the Welsh and Chinese Have In Common." Also included are a few essays, some written for graduate school classes at Warren Wilson College. There are also letters and writings of others who were Jones's classmates at Warren Wilson. ArtSchool materials relate to Jones's position as director of the Poetry Exchange. These include newspaper articles, publicity posters, and correspondence from poets who participated in ArtSchool readings over the course of Jones's tenure and audio tapes of poetry readings. North Carolina Writers' Network materials deal with the founding of the Network and Jones's tenure as president. SunSITE materials include items relating to the introduction of SunSITE and to the Internet Poetry Archive. Also included are poems by members of a poetry group and materials relating to writers' conferences Jones attended. Note that authors significant in this collection have been cataloged separately.

The Addition of January 2020 consists chiefly of optical discs with digital facsimiles and transcriptions of published fiction by white British author Charles Dickens. The original items are from the Wilson Special Collections Library Charles Dickens Collection. The facsimiles were created as part of a project led by Paul Jones and Gregory B. Newby, who at the time of the project were professors in the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Other materials include optical discs with digital copies of NASA educational programs; White House Photo Office images of President Richard M. Nixon's meeting with Elvis Presley and Nixon's last day in office; and miscellaneous audio and other content.