Jones Knowledge To Offer Digital Library Service

Staff -- Library Journal, 1/8/2001

After creating a digital library service to support the online students of their own distance education program, Jones International University, officials at Jones Knowledge say they will now offer the service to consumers on a wide scale. Known as e-global library, the new venture will offer links to scholarly works and government documents sites, reference assistance, and a slate of tutorials to subscribers on subjects ranging from how to do research on the net to how to write a research paper. E-global library Vice President Kim Dority, herself a librarian, said the service was designed with the help of more than 40 librarians who pulled together the best resources available. The service launched January 1, with some 40 librarians on the job 14 hours a day to help patrons with research questions. "Our goal is to provide a library that is portable for anybody's student," says Dority.