| LC control no. | n 82039766 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Anderson, James D. (James Doig), 1940- |
| Variant(s) | Anderson, James Doig, 1940- |
| Associated country | United States |
| Associated place | New Brunswick (N.J.) |
| Birth date | 1940 |
| Field of activity | Information retrieval Databases Subject headings Indexing American periodicals--Indexing American poetry--Indexing |
| Affiliation | Presbyterians for Lesbian/Gay Concerns More Light Presbyterians Rutgers University. School of Communication, Information, and Library Studies Queens College (New York, N.Y.) St. John's University (New York, N.Y.) |
| Profession or occupation | College teachers Library science teachers Librarians Periodical editors Gay activists |
| Found in | His Directory of courses on indexing in Canada and the United States, 1976. LC data base, 4-28-88 (hdg.: Anderson, James Doig, 1940- ; usage: James D. Anderson) Censored, ignored, overlooked, too expensive?, ©1979: title page (James D. Anderson) The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Religious Archives Network, via WWW, May 6, 2016: Profiles gallery > Dr. James D. Anderson (Dr. James D. Anderson; James D. Anderson served as national Communications Secretary for Presbyterians for Lesbian & Gay Concerns from 1980-1999, when PLGC merged with the More Light Churches Network to form More Light Presbyterians. Anderson edited and published the More Light Update, beginning in 1980 until 2003. From 1980 through 2001 he served on the board of PLGC and MLP. From 1978-1980, Anderson issued the newsletter for PLGC in the Synod of the Northeast. It was this newsletter that became the More Light Update in 1980. In 1984, Anderson was named one of 400 leading activists in the gay and lesbian movement in the U.S. by The Advocate; In 1977, Anderson joined the faculty at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, as assistant professor in the School of Communication, Information, and Library Studies. He became associate professor in 1979, associate dean in 1983, and Professor of Library & Information Science in 1997. He retired from Rutgers in 2003. His field has been information retrieval and the design of textual databases, with special emphasis on knowledge representation methods and on terminological thesauri for mapping and managing diverse vocabularies of information seekers and practitioners in professions and disciplines. Prior to coming to Rutgers, Anderson taught at Queens College, City University of New York, and St. John's University in New York City and worked as a librarian in Alaska and Portland, Oregon. He earned his B.A. degree at Harvard and his master's and doctoral degrees at Columbia; Anderson and his life partner have been married since 1972. Since 1981, they have jointly compiled the annual Index of American Periodical Verse) <http://www.lgbtran.org/Profile.aspx?ID=12> |
| Associated language | eng |
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