Gerald J. Sophar - Revision history

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	*"Nature of the Problem." With L. H. Lowell. In: ''Reprography and Copyright law''. Ed. by Lowell H. Hattery and George P. Bush. [Washington, DC]: [American Institute of Biological Sciences], 1964.		*"Nature of the Problem." With L. H. Lowell. In: ''Reprography and Copyright law''. Ed. by Lowell H. Hattery and George P. Bush. [Washington, DC]: [American Institute of Biological Sciences], 1964.
	*"'Termatrex' as a tool for storing and searching indexes." ''Modern Uses of Logic in Law'' 5, no 2 (Jume 1964): 1-12. Case study: Use of Jonker Termatrex optical discovery system for law searching.		*"'Termatrex' as a tool for storing and searching indexes." ''Modern Uses of Logic in Law'' 5, no 2 (Jume 1964): 1-12. Case study: Use of Jonker Termatrex optical discovery system for law searching.
	*''The Determination of Legal Facts and Economic Guideposts with Respect to the Dissemination of Scientific and Educational Information as It is Affected by Copyright--a Status Report. Final Report''. With Laurence B. Heilprin. Washington, ~~U.S.~~ Office of Education, Bureau of Research, 1967. ~~ED014621~~. ~~Also~~ ''American Documentation'' 19, no 3 (July 1968): p.317-321.		*''The Determination of Legal Facts and Economic Guideposts with Respect to the Dissemination of Scientific and Educational Information as it is Affected by Copyright--a Status Report. Final Report''. With Laurence B. Heilprin. Washington, US Office of Education, Bureau of Research, 1967. ED 014 621. See also ''American Documentation'' 19, no 3 (July 1968): p.317-321.
	*"Page Charges and Copyright Infringements." With David Lester. ''Science'' 163, no 3866 (Jan 1969): 423-423		*"Page Charges and Copyright Infringements." With David Lester. ''Science'' 163, no 3866 (Jan 1969): 423-423
	*"Vestigiality of fair use." ''IEEE transactions on professional communication'' PC-18, no 3 (Sept 1975): 220-221.		*"Vestigiality of fair use." ''IEEE transactions on professional communication'' PC-18, no 3 (Sept 1975): 220-221.

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	== Life ==		== Life ==
	'''Gerald Jack Sophar''' was born in 1917 in Brooklyn, NY. He attended City College of New York, learned photography, enlisted in the Army shortly after the outbreak of World War II. He was a combat intelligence officer and later an aerial photography officer in the Army Air Forces.		'''Gerald Jack Sophar''' was born in 1917 in Brooklyn, NY. He attended City College of New York, learned photography, and enlisted in the Army shortly after the outbreak of World War II. He was a combat intelligence officer and later an aerial photography officer in the Army Air Forces.

	After the war, ~~Mr.~~ Sophar worked for the U.N. Relief and Rehabilitation Administration in the displaced persons camps in occupied Germany, was chief of police in the Regensburg area and helped separate former Nazis from other refugees. He became an expert witness for US Department of Justice prosecutors bringing cases against Nazis wrongly admitted to the United States. Sophar returned to the United States in the late 1940s, graduated from Georgetown University, then worked for the State Department in its displaced persons commission in West Germany until 1952.		After the war, Sophar worked for the U.N. Relief and Rehabilitation Administration in the displaced persons camps in occupied Germany, was chief of police in the Regensburg area, and helped separate former Nazis from other refugees. He became an expert witness for US Department of Justice prosecutors bringing cases against Nazis wrongly admitted to the United States. Sophar returned to the United States in the late 1940s, graduated from Georgetown University, then worked for the State Department in its displaced persons commission in West Germany until 1952.

	In 1952 Sophar co-founded [[Documentation Incorporated\|Documentation Inc.]] with [[Mortimer Taube]] and others. He also worked for [[Jonkers Business Machines]]. He was executive director of the Committee to Investigate Copyright Problems Affecting Communications in Science and Education, Inc. and in 1956 became Washington representative for the [[Institute for Scientific Information]].		In 1952 Sophar co-founded [[Documentation Incorporated\|Documentation Inc.]] with [[Mortimer Taube]] and others. He also worked for [[Jonkers Business Machines]]. He was executive director of the Committee to Investigate Copyright Problems Affecting Communications in Science and Education, Inc. and in 1956 became Washington representative for the [[Institute for Scientific Information]].
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	== Contributions ==		== Contributions ==
	Sophar did extensive work on the copyright revision bill in the 1970's.		Sophar played a significant role in the orderly development of [[ASIST\|American Documentation Institute]]. He did extensive work on the copyright revision bill in the 1970's.
	~~He helped settle editorial crises at ''American Documentation''~~.

	== Publications ==		== Publications ==
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	== Further reading ==		== Further reading ==
	*Sullivan, Patricia. "Gerald J. Sophar, 90; Witness In Nazi Deportation Cases." Obituary. ''Washington Post'', Dec 7, 2007. [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/07/AR2007120702284.html]		*Sullivan, Patricia. "Gerald J. Sophar, 90; Witness In Nazi Deportation Cases." Obituary. ''Washington Post'', Dec 7, 2007. [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/07/AR2007120702284.html]
			*Bourne, Charles P. & Trudi B.Hahn. ''A history of online information services, 1963-1976''. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
	~~== Papers ==~~

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	After the war, Mr. Sophar worked for the U.N. Relief and Rehabilitation Administration in the displaced persons camps in occupied Germany, was chief of police in the Regensburg area and helped separate former Nazis from other refugees. He became an expert witness for US Department of Justice prosecutors bringing cases against Nazis wrongly admitted to the United States. Sophar returned to the United States in the late 1940s, graduated from Georgetown University, then worked for the State Department in its displaced persons commission in West Germany until 1952.		After the war, Mr. Sophar worked for the U.N. Relief and Rehabilitation Administration in the displaced persons camps in occupied Germany, was chief of police in the Regensburg area and helped separate former Nazis from other refugees. He became an expert witness for US Department of Justice prosecutors bringing cases against Nazis wrongly admitted to the United States. Sophar returned to the United States in the late 1940s, graduated from Georgetown University, then worked for the State Department in its displaced persons commission in West Germany until 1952.

	In 1952 Sophar co-founded [[Documentation Incorporated\|Documentation Inc.]] with [[Mortimer Taube]] and others. He also worked for [[Jonkers Business Machines]]~~, then joined the US Department~~ of ~~Agriculture, worked at~~ the ~~National Agriculture Library~~, and became ~~an expert in copyright law~~.		In 1952 Sophar co-founded [[Documentation Incorporated\|Documentation Inc.]] with [[Mortimer Taube]] and others. He also worked for [[Jonkers Business Machines]]. He was executive director of the Committee to Investigate Copyright Problems Affecting Communications in Science and Education, Inc. and in 1956 became Washington representative for the [[Institute for Scientific Information]].

	Sophar was Administrator for Federal/Local Community Information Programs, at the National Advisory Commission on Libraries, from 1980. He died on December 1, 2007 in Rockville, MD.		Sophar joined the US Department of Agriculture, worked at the National Agriculture Library, and became an expert in copyright law. He was Administrator for Federal/Local Community Information Programs, at the National Advisory Commission on Libraries, from 1980. He retired in 1984 and died on December 1, 2007 in Rockville, MD.

	== Contributions ==		== Contributions ==
	Sophar ~~worked at Documentation Inc. and for the Jonkers Termatrex Company. He~~ did extensive work on the copyright revision bill in the 1970's. ~~He authored a book on the famous Williams and Wilkins copyright case in 1970. He understood how organizations functioned and realized early that documentation was a social science.~~ He helped settle editorial crises at American Documentation and brought it back under the control of ADI. He retired from the National Agricultural Library in 1984. During World War II he was a combat intelligence officer and an aerial photographer. After the war he worked for the UN Relief and Rehabilitation Service in the displaced persons camps in Germany. He graduated from Georgetown University in the late 1940's.		Sophar did extensive work on the copyright revision bill in the 1970's.
			He helped settle editorial crises at ''American Documentation''.
	~~An obituary on him in the Washington Post is at: <nowiki>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/07/AR2007120702284.html</nowiki>~~

	~~View images of him from the ASIS photo gallery at: <nowiki>http://asis.org/gallery3/index~~.~~php/1975-Annual-Meeting-Boston-MA/Esther-Horne-and-Gerald-Sophar-1975</nowiki>~~

	== Publications ==		== Publications ==
	*"Micro-opaques." ''Special libraries'' 51, no 2 (Feb 1960): 59-62.		*"Micro-opaques." ''Special libraries'' 51, no 2 (Feb 1960): 59-62.
			*"Nature of the Problem." With L. H. Lowell. In: ''Reprography and Copyright law''. Ed. by Lowell H. Hattery and George P. Bush. [Washington, DC]: [American Institute of Biological Sciences], 1964.
	*"'Termatrex' as a tool for storing and searching indexes." ''Modern Uses of Logic in Law'' 5, no 2 (Jume 1964): 1-12. Case study: Use of Jonker Termatrex optical discovery system for law searching.		*"'Termatrex' as a tool for storing and searching indexes." ''Modern Uses of Logic in Law'' 5, no 2 (Jume 1964): 1-12. Case study: Use of Jonker Termatrex optical discovery system for law searching.
	*''The Determination of Legal Facts and Economic Guideposts with Respect to the Dissemination of Scientific and Educational Information as It is Affected by Copyright--a Status Report. Final Report''. With Laurence B. Heilprin. Washington, U.S. Office of Education, Bureau of Research, 1967. ED014621. Also ''American Documentation'' 19, no 3 (July 1968): p.317-321.		*''The Determination of Legal Facts and Economic Guideposts with Respect to the Dissemination of Scientific and Educational Information as It is Affected by Copyright--a Status Report. Final Report''. With Laurence B. Heilprin. Washington, U.S. Office of Education, Bureau of Research, 1967. ED014621. Also ''American Documentation'' 19, no 3 (July 1968): p.317-321.

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	== Publications ==		== Publications ==
			*"Micro-opaques." ''Special libraries'' 51, no 2 (Feb 1960): 59-62.
			*"'Termatrex' as a tool for storing and searching indexes." ''Modern Uses of Logic in Law'' 5, no 2 (Jume 1964): 1-12. Case study: Use of Jonker Termatrex optical discovery system for law searching.
			*''The Determination of Legal Facts and Economic Guideposts with Respect to the Dissemination of Scientific and Educational Information as It is Affected by Copyright--a Status Report. Final Report''. With Laurence B. Heilprin. Washington, U.S. Office of Education, Bureau of Research, 1967. ED014621. Also ''American Documentation'' 19, no 3 (July 1968): p.317-321.
			*"Page Charges and Copyright Infringements." With David Lester. ''Science'' 163, no 3866 (Jan 1969): 423-423
			*"Vestigiality of fair use." ''IEEE transactions on professional communication'' PC-18, no 3 (Sept 1975): 220-221.

	== Offices ==		== Offices ==

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	== Life ==		== Life ==
	'''Gerald J. Sophar''' was born in 1917 in Brooklyn, NY. He attended City College of New York, learned photography, enlisted in the Army shortly after the outbreak of World War II. He was a combat intelligence officer and later an aerial photography officer in the Army Air Forces.		'''Gerald Jack Sophar''' was born in 1917 in Brooklyn, NY. He attended City College of New York, learned photography, enlisted in the Army shortly after the outbreak of World War II. He was a combat intelligence officer and later an aerial photography officer in the Army Air Forces.

	After the war, Mr. Sophar worked for the U.N. Relief and Rehabilitation Administration in the displaced persons camps in occupied Germany, was chief of police in the Regensburg area and helped separate former Nazis from other refugees. He became an expert witness for US Department of Justice prosecutors bringing cases against Nazis wrongly admitted to the United States. Sophar returned to the United States in the late 1940s, graduated from Georgetown University, then worked for the State Department in its displaced persons commission in West Germany until 1952.		After the war, Mr. Sophar worked for the U.N. Relief and Rehabilitation Administration in the displaced persons camps in occupied Germany, was chief of police in the Regensburg area and helped separate former Nazis from other refugees. He became an expert witness for US Department of Justice prosecutors bringing cases against Nazis wrongly admitted to the United States. Sophar returned to the United States in the late 1940s, graduated from Georgetown University, then worked for the State Department in its displaced persons commission in West Germany until 1952.

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	'''Gerald J. Sophar''' was born in 1917 in Brooklyn, NY. He attended City College of New York, learned photography, enlisted in the Army shortly after the outbreak of World War II. He was a combat intelligence officer and later an aerial photography officer in the Army Air Forces.		'''Gerald J. Sophar''' was born in 1917 in Brooklyn, NY. He attended City College of New York, learned photography, enlisted in the Army shortly after the outbreak of World War II. He was a combat intelligence officer and later an aerial photography officer in the Army Air Forces.

	After the war, Mr. Sophar worked for the U.N. Relief and Rehabilitation Administration in the displaced persons camps in occupied Germany, was chief of police in the Regensburg area and helped separate former Nazis from other refugees. He became an expert witness for US Department of Justice prosecutors bringing cases against Nazis wrongly admitted to the United States.		After the war, Mr. Sophar worked for the U.N. Relief and Rehabilitation Administration in the displaced persons camps in occupied Germany, was chief of police in the Regensburg area and helped separate former Nazis from other refugees. He became an expert witness for US Department of Justice prosecutors bringing cases against Nazis wrongly admitted to the United States. Sophar returned to the United States in the late 1940s, graduated from Georgetown University, then worked for the State Department in its displaced persons commission in West Germany until 1952.

	Sophar returned to the United States in the late 1940s, graduated from Georgetown University, then worked for the State Department in its displaced persons commission in West Germany until 1952. He worked for [[Documentation Incorporated\|Documentation Inc.]] and [[Jonkers Business Machines]], then joined the US Department of Agriculture, worked at the National Agriculture Library, and became an expert in copyright law.		In 1952 Sophar co-founded [[Documentation Incorporated\|Documentation Inc.]] with [[Mortimer Taube]] and others. He also worked for [[Jonkers Business Machines]], then joined the US Department of Agriculture, worked at the National Agriculture Library, and became an expert in copyright law.

	He died on December 1, 2007 in Rockville, MD.		Sophar was Administrator for Federal/Local Community Information Programs, at the National Advisory Commission on Libraries, from 1980. He died on December 1, 2007 in Rockville, MD.

	== Contributions ==		== Contributions ==

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	After the war, Mr. Sophar worked for the U.N. Relief and Rehabilitation Administration in the displaced persons camps in occupied Germany, was chief of police in the Regensburg area and helped separate former Nazis from other refugees. He became an expert witness for US Department of Justice prosecutors bringing cases against Nazis wrongly admitted to the United States.		After the war, Mr. Sophar worked for the U.N. Relief and Rehabilitation Administration in the displaced persons camps in occupied Germany, was chief of police in the Regensburg area and helped separate former Nazis from other refugees. He became an expert witness for US Department of Justice prosecutors bringing cases against Nazis wrongly admitted to the United States.

	Sophar returned to the United States in the late 1940s, graduated from Georgetown University, then worked for the State Department in its displaced persons commission in West Germany until 1952. He worked for Documentation Inc. and Jonkers ~~Termatrex~~, then joined the US Department of Agriculture, worked at the National Agriculture Library, and became an expert in copyright law.		Sophar returned to the United States in the late 1940s, graduated from Georgetown University, then worked for the State Department in its displaced persons commission in West Germany until 1952. He worked for [[Documentation Incorporated\|Documentation Inc.]] and [[Jonkers Business Machines]], then joined the US Department of Agriculture, worked at the National Agriculture Library, and became an expert in copyright law.

	He died on December 1, 2007 in Rockville, MD.		He died on December 1, 2007 in Rockville, MD.

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			'''Gerald J. Sophar''' (1917-2007) was an American information scientist.


	== Life ==		== Life ==
	1917~~-2007~~		'''Gerald J. Sophar''' was born in 1917 in Brooklyn, NY. He attended City College of New York, learned photography, enlisted in the Army shortly after the outbreak of World War II. He was a combat intelligence officer and later an aerial photography officer in the Army Air Forces.

			After the war, Mr. Sophar worked for the U.N. Relief and Rehabilitation Administration in the displaced persons camps in occupied Germany, was chief of police in the Regensburg area and helped separate former Nazis from other refugees. He became an expert witness for US Department of Justice prosecutors bringing cases against Nazis wrongly admitted to the United States.

	~~== Relevant Employment ==~~		Sophar returned to the United States in the late 1940s, graduated from Georgetown University, then worked for the State Department in its displaced persons commission in West Germany until 1952. He worked for Documentation Inc. and Jonkers Termatrex, then joined the US Department of Agriculture, worked at the National Agriculture Library, and became an expert in copyright law.

	* Documentation Inc.		He died on December 1, 2007 in Rockville, MD.
	* Jonkers Termatrex

	== Contributions ==		== Contributions ==
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	View images of him from the ASIS photo gallery at: <nowiki>http://asis.org/gallery3/index.php/1975-Annual-Meeting-Boston-MA/Esther-Horne-and-Gerald-Sophar-1975</nowiki>		View images of him from the ASIS photo gallery at: <nowiki>http://asis.org/gallery3/index.php/1975-Annual-Meeting-Boston-MA/Esther-Horne-and-Gerald-Sophar-1975</nowiki>

	== ~~Awards~~ ==		== Publications ==

	* ASIS Watson Davis Award, 1976

	== Offices ==		== Offices ==
			*[[ASIST\|American Documentation Institute]]. President, 1961.

			== Awards ==
			*[[ASIST\|American Society for Information Science]]. Watson Davis Award, 1976.

	* ~~ASIS \| Pres~~., ~~1961~~		== Further reading ==
			*Sullivan, Patricia. "Gerald J. Sophar, 90; Witness In Nazi Deportation Cases." Obituary. ''Washington Post'', Dec 7, 2007. [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/07/AR2007120702284.html]

	== Papers ==		== Papers ==
	~~'''Location #1'''~~

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			== Life ==
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	== Offices ==		== Offices ==

	* ASIS Pres. 1961		* ASIS \| Pres., 1961

	== Papers ==		== Papers ==

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1917-2007

== Relevant Employment ==

* Documentation Inc.
* Jonkers Termatrex

== Contributions ==
Sophar worked at Documentation Inc. and for the Jonkers Termatrex Company. He did extensive work on the copyright revision bill in the 1970's. He authored a book on the famous Williams and Wilkins copyright case in 1970. He understood how organizations functioned and realized early that documentation was a social science. He helped settle editorial crises at American Documentation and brought it back under the control of ADI. He retired from the National Agricultural Library in 1984. During World War II he was a combat intelligence officer and an aerial photographer. After the war he worked for the UN Relief and Rehabilitation Service in the displaced persons camps in Germany. He graduated from Georgetown University in the late 1940's.

An obituary on him in the Washington Post is at: <nowiki>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/07/AR2007120702284.html</nowiki>

View images of him from the ASIS photo gallery at: <nowiki>http://asis.org/gallery3/index.php/1975-Annual-Meeting-Boston-MA/Esther-Horne-and-Gerald-Sophar-1975</nowiki>

== Awards ==

* ASIS Watson Davis Award, 1976

== Offices ==

* ASIS Pres. 1961

== Papers ==
'''Location #1'''

* Papers dates:
* Size:
* Includes: No information
* Finding aid:
* Source: