Chapter Information
All chapters and informal indexing groups of the American Society
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ASI Chapter Relations Committee Chair
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For more information, click on a CHAPTER or Group name:
The Chapters
(Official chapters are in CAPS.)
CHICAGO-GREAT LAKES CHAPTER
Contact: Leoni McVey Leoni@mcveyandassociates.com
or: chicagogreatlakes@asindexing.org
URL: http://www.chicagogreatlakesindexers.org
Core Region: Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Wisconsin
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CHICAGO/GREAT LAKES CHAPTER, ASI
October 24 & 25, 2008
Fall Workshops Featuring Enid Zafran, John Wean, and Do Mi Stauber
Hilton Garden Inn
2930 South River Road, Des Plaines, IL 60018
Friday, October 24:
Editing an Index (Enid Zafran)
Editing the index is more than just looking for errors.
Enid Zafran, a well-known indexer who writes a column for Key
Words on
indexing style, will draw from her extensive experience to present a
program
on the ins and outs of editing the index.
She will also include an exercise for actually editing an index.
Friday, October 24:
The Publishing Process (John Wean)
Publishing cycles: Do you really know what happens?
What is the role of the indexer in the book production process?
These questions and more will be answered by John Wean,
Vice President of Educational Publishing Services, of the Black Dot
Group
in Crystal Lake, Illinois.
Saturday, October 25:
Taming the Wild Project List: Organizing Tools for the Complex Life
(Do Mi Stauber)
This new workshop by Do Mi Stauber, author of Facing the Text: Content and Structure in Book Indexing, is designed to help the busy freelance professional. This will be the first time Do Mi will present the full-day version of her new workshop.
Indexers, in fact all freelancers, are notorious for the
complexity of their lives.
Besides juggling multiple professional deadlines and managing the usual
home and community responsibilities,
they tend to be deeply involved in many other creative interests.
Popular workshop presenter Do Mi Stauber, a connoisseur
of time management systems for
many years, has found a combination of organizing tools that enables
her to excel in many areas
of her multifaceted life.
Her new participatory workshop provides participants with a toolkit
for managing daily tasks, deadlines, multiple ongoing projects, and
creative new ideas.
Various strategies will be covered in this full-day
workshop, including
- A flexible task organization system that promotes
calm and clarity by creating conceptual homes for all of your tasks,
projects, and ideas?
- Mindmapping techniques for brainstorming, planning,
and collecting information, using the natural strengths of the creative
brain?
- Strategies for welcoming multiple interests and
projects, and integrating them into a sane and balanced life.
Practical hands-on activities and Do Mi's enthusiastic and empowering
style make this workshop
an energizing experience, and sends participants home ready to enjoy
and manage their own
wild project lists.
A complete workshop brochure, including specific
details, hotel information, registration costs,
and more will be posted in the summer on our chapter Web site at http://www.chicagogreatlakesindexers.org/events.html.
We look forward to seeing you in Chicago in October.
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Florida
Contact: Open
URL:
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/FLI-L/
***THIS NOTICE IS FOR A RECENT PAST EVENT***
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Florida Indexers are pleased to recommend…
Space Tech Chapter of STC
April Program Meeting
Date: Wednesday 23 April 2008
Time: Networking 6:00-6:30 pm Program 6:30-8:00
Location: Piccadilly Cafeteria Meeting Room
Melbourne Square Mall
1700 W. New Haven (US Highway 192)
Melbourne, FL 32904
Presentation: Creating Web A-Z Indexes
Speaker: Heather Hedden
About the Presentation: An A-Z site index for a Web site, sub-site, or intranet can be a useful tool.
As Web sites grow in size and complexity, users need additional means beyond the navigational menu
and a site map to search for the information they want.
Unless a site is very large, an onsite search engine often does not retrieve satisfactory results.
Browsable A-Z indexes, a format familiar to users from the back of books, can provide highly accurate retrieval.
Index entries are hyperlinked to the desired text within a Web page or to an anchored point within the page.
This presentation will explain when and where an A-Z index is the best option for site searching,
the basics of how to create a hyperlinked index, and what software tools are available.
About the Speaker: Heather Hedden is an information taxonomist with Viziant Corporation in Boston and a
freelance book and Web site indexer through Hedden Information Management.
Previously she worked as a controlled vocabulary editor with Gale (formerly Information Access Company).
Heather teaches online workshops in Web site indexing and taxonomies through the continuing education
program of Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science and has given numerous
live conference workshops on Web site indexing.
In 2007 she published the book Indexing Specialties: Web Sites through ASI and Information Today Inc.
She has also published many articles on the subject.
For more information on the topic or speaker visit www.hedden-information.com
Space Tech Chapter of STC Website: www.stc-spacetech.org
Soft drinks and light refreshments will be served.
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GOLDEN GATE CHAPTER
Contact: Theresa Duran at theresad@pacbell.net
or (415) 721-7130
or: goldengate@asindexing.org
Core Region: Northern California, Nevada
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Golden Gate Chapter
UPCOMING EVENTS:
June 7, 2008
"Golden Gate Indexing Summer Olympics"
Fort Mason Center, San Francisco
More details to come.
August 16, 2008
"Indexing Niches: Commonalities and Differences among Various Specialties"
presented by Sylvia Coates
Orinda Library (tentative) More details to come.
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HEARTLAND CHAPTER
Contact: Cathy Seckman at cathy@cathyseckman.com
URL: http://web.spsp.net/jbealle/heartland/index.html/
Core Region: Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky, Tennessee
COMING EVENT: Fall 2008 Meeting - October 4 (tentative date)
***THIS NOTICE IS FOR A RECENT PAST EVENT***
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Spring 2008 Meeting
Heartland Chapter, American Society for Indexing
Saturday, April 5, 2008
10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Richmond, Indiana
Presenting: Carol Roberts
"Marketing: Building a New Business and Enhancing an Existing One"
In the fall of 2007, Carol Roberts hired a business coach and has since expanded her business, trained a team of indexers, and learned new approaches to marketing. The results have been phenomenal, and she is eager to share with us everything she knows about target markets, print ads, trade shows, tracking results, costs of marketing, networking, and—believe it or not—cold calling!
Carol Roberts has been indexing for over 14 years and has more than 600 books under her belt. She has been helping her fellow indexers with their marketing for many years. You may have heard of her workshop "Marketing for the Shy" (among others), which she's given both at ASI conferences and to ASI chapters. She is also a past secretary and board member of ASI.
$30 - ASI members
$35 - non-members who have been to a Heartland meeting previously
$25 - first-time attendees (members and non-members)
Also Presenting: "Jumping in With One Foot" by Cathy Seckman
If you're a little afraid of getting your feet wet with an indexing business, it can be all right to start with just one foot. Heartland President-Elect Cathy Seckman will share her story of beginning a limited indexing career while still keeping a day job. She'll describe the intricate, frustrating, and occasionally fun process of getting both feet to work in tandem.
For information about location, directions, pre-registration, hotels, or schedule for the day, contact Marilyn Augst at Marilyn@PrairieMoonIndexing.com or see the
Heartland website.
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Kansas–Missouri
Group
Contact: Mary Mortensen (785) 841-3631 or marymort@aol.com
***THIS NOTICE IS FOR A RECENT PAST EVENT***
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Kansas-Missouri Group St. Louis Meeting
Thursday, Nov. 8, 2007
6:30 pm
St. Louis Bread Company
147 Westport Plaza
(314) 579-0506
RSVP to Steven Falk, steven.falk@sbcglobal.net
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MID- AND SOUTH-ATLANTIC CHAPTER
Contacts: Suzi Kaplan (Chair) and Connie Binder (Vice-Chair), msa [at] asindexing [dot] org
URL: http://www.msasindexing.org/
Core Region: District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia, Delaware, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, and International Members
***THIS NOTICE IS FOR A RECENT PAST EVENT***
Mid- and South-Atlantic Chapter
(formerly Washington D.C. Chapter)
Spring 2008 Workshop
WHICH PATH DID YOU FOLLOW?
UNDERSTANDING OUR INDEX DECISION-MAKING
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Bethesda-Chevy Chase Regional Services Center
4805 Edgemoor Lane
Bethesa, Maryland
240-777-8200
9:30 a.m. to 4:00 pm
Costs (includes lunch and refreshments):
$60 ASI members ($70 after February 22)
$90 Non-ASI members ($100 after February 22)
Which Path
Did You Follow? Understanding our Index Decision-Making is
a workshop led by two of
America’s acknowledged indexing experts, Sherry Smith and Kari
Kells. This participatory workshop is based on the
fascinating phenomenon that all
indexes for the same text will differ. Without knowing who wrote what,
workshop participants will explore the decisions apparent in each
other's indexes.
Prior the workshop, Kari and Sherry will select anonymous examples from
the submitted indexes that offer discussion opportunities. They will
focus on the primary principles of indexing and how we handled them in
the indexes: making decisions about readers; identifying the metatopic;
analyzing the text; determining the appropriate level of detail;
gathering scattered and similar information; remaining consistent with
depth, structure, and wording; providing multiple access routes; and
phrasing entries for brevity and usefulness.
This workshop is designed for indexers who are familiar
with indexing terms and have completed an indexing project. Practice
indexes and course assignments do count!
Register early as the homework for this workshop is due
well before the workshop begins! You will be asked to prepare an index
for a short text and your index must be submitted to allow sufficient
time for Kari and Sherry’s professional analysis before the
workshop.
Discounted registrations are due by February 22, 2008.
Assigned index homework is due March 10, 2008.
Directions to the Bethesda Service Center: Metro
fare
to the Bethesda Station, on Metro’s Red Line, is $2-/+
one-way
from most other Metro stations. Find Metro information at www.wmata.com
.
From I495, take the Wisconsin Avenue exit south toward Bethesda. Just
past the campus
of the National Institutes of Health, on your right, and the Naval
Medical Center, on your
left, veer right onto Woodmont Road. Follow Woodmont Road for several
blocks, moving
into the left lane. After you cross Old Georgetown Road, turn left into
the parking garage
of our building. If you miss the garage entrance, try to make the next
left turn onto
Edgemoor Lane. There is another garage entrance on Edgemoor Lane.
Parking should
be free on Saturday, but bring some quarters just in case
Please go to the Chapter website (www.msasindexing.org)
for more information about the location, and for travel and housing
options. You can
download a registration form there as well.
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NEW ENGLAND CHAPTER
Contact: Jean Jesensky, jeanjesensky@msn.com
or: newengland@asindexing.org
URL: http://www.newenglandindexers.org
Core Region: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New
Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont
***THIS NOTICE IS FOR A RECENT PAST EVENT***
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New England Chapter of the American Society for Indexing (NEASI)
Annual Spring Meeting
Saturday, April 5, 2008
9:30 am to 3:30 pm
Chelmsford Public Library
25 Boston Road; Chelmsford, MA 01824
Please join us for the following program:
The Freelance Taxonomy Business, presented by Heather Hedden
There is a growing demand for "taxonomy" and controlled vocabulary work, much of which is freelance. Indexers are well-suited for this kind of work based on the relationship between indexing and controlled vocabularies and also based on the similar skills needed. Even with the skills, where does one find the work? This presentation (a preview to the upcoming full-day pre-conference workshop at the ASI conference in Denver on April 30) defines different kinds of taxonomies, looks at the types of taxonomy and controlled vocabulary projects available, discusses the different types of freelance clients, and offers marketing tips.
Heather Hedden is an information taxonomist at Viziant Corporation. Prior to this position she was a freelance taxonomy developer and indexer, and before that she was a controlled vocabulary editor with Thomson Gale. She is also a continuing education instructor at Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science, through which she is teaching a new online workshop on taxonomies in April. Heather is manager of the Taxonomies & Controlled Vocabularies SIG and is a past-president of the NEASI.
Editing Your Index: A Panel Discussion with Steve Csipke, Linda Dunn, and Joan Shapiro
How do indexers edit their indexes? The panelists will share some of their tips and tricks for editing, both during the index process and with the final draft index, covering back-of-the book indexes as well as indexes for periodicals and databases. We'll also discuss special situations
like difficult projects, poorly edited text, indexing while final editing is happening, and updating or rekeying an existing index for a new edition. We'll talk about what editors expect and how they approach indexes submitted to them. We'll also touch on the challenges of editing ongoing
work in large indexing projects involving several indexers. Bring your questions and examples of editing problems you have faced or tips you would like to share.
Steve Csipke has a MSLS from Case Western Reserve University and a Certificate in Technical Writing from Northeastern University. After working as a freelance indexer for 10 years, he became a salaried technical writer, editor, and indexer for software manuals and online
help systems. Currently he is a Senior Technical Editor at a financial services firm where he structures, edits, and indexes content for several intranets. He has been a member of the Society for Technical Communication since 1983 and of ASI since the 1970s. Steve is Vice President/President-Elect of the NEASI.
Linda Dunn has been a periodical indexer for 30 years and currently works as a freelance indexer and abstractor for several periodical databases. She was both the editor and an indexer for the print index, Film Literature Index, an international index to film and television magazines. She has also done name reconciliation work and written scope notes (subject term definitions) for several large thesauri. Linda has given presentations on periodical indexing and developing controlled vocabularies. She is a member of the New England and the New York chapters of ASI and moderator of the new Periodical//Database Indexing Discussion Group, which hopes to become an ASI SIG.
Joan Shapiro is an experienced freelance back-of-the-book indexer. She produces mainly back-of-the-book indexes for publishers of textbooks and trade books in such subjects as nutrition/culinary arts, law, psychology, history, communications, and children's books. Joan is a past president of the NEASI.
The Business Side of Indexing: Roundtable Discussions
Need help with the business side of your indexing work? We will be holding roundtable discussions on various business-related topics such as getting that first indexing job and other marketing strategies, negotiating terms and rates, and scheduling. We are asking for your suggestions regarding which topics you would like covered. For more information, see the complete meeting details and Registration Form on our website at www.newenglandindexers.org/events.htm.
NEASI Business Meeting will follow the Roundtable Discussions. All members of NEASI are encouraged to participate.
Food and Beverages: There will be a Continental Breakfast and Lunch available for a nominal fee.
Advanced Registration is requested by Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Complete meeting details, directions, and Registration Form are on our website at www.newenglandindexers.org/events.htm.
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NEW MEXICO A TO ZIA CHAPTER
Contact: Heather Jones (505) 661-3101, hpjones@rt66.com
NEW YORK CHAPTER
Contact: Peter Rooney (917-376-1792), magnetix@ix.netcom.com
or President Elliot Linzer, elinzer@juno.com
***THIS NOTICE IS FOR A RECENT PAST EVENT***
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New York City Chapter
of the
American Society for Indexing
Indexing James Joyce
Wednesday, March 19, 2008 at 6:30
Jefferson Market Library auditorium
425 Avenue of the Americas [at 10th St.]
free to everybody
In celebration of St. Patrick's Day, the New York City Chapter of the American Society for Indexing announces our March meeting. Charlee Trantino will present a talk about her 2006 Wilson award index to A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake: Unlocking James Joyce’s Masterwork, by Joseph Campbell and Henry Morton Robinson.
When the stream-of-consciousness–style Finnegans Wake was published in 1939, critics called it "unintelligible." Others, such as Joseph Campbell, wanted to figure it out. Joseph Campbell and poet Henry Morton Robinson's A Skeleton Key was the first guide to Joyce's masterwork. It solved many of the puzzles Joyce presented, but earlier editions had no index. The elegance of the index and its appropriateness for the work and for its scholarly audience are what make it an exemplar. Charlee will discuss how she constructed this index for this new standard in literary criticism.
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PACIFIC NORTHWEST CHAPTER
Contact: Cheryl Landes, President, CLandes407@aol.com
URL: http://www.pnwasi.org/
Core Region: Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington
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Fall 2008 Meeting
Saturday, August 23, 2008, 8 a.m.–6 p.m.
Bastyr University
14500 Juanita Drive
Kenmore, Washington
Topics include:
- Trends in indexing with Jan Wright
- Panel on using PDFs in indexing with Ed Rush, Carolyn Weaver, Jan
Wright, and Enid Zafran (moderated by Cheryl Landes)
- Half-day legal indexing workshop with Enid Zafran
Please watch the PNW/ASI
Web site for more details.
Descriptions of past Chapter meetings are available
on the chapter website at http://www.pnwasi.org/mtgpast.htm
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Pennsylvania-Pittsburgh Group
Contact: Susan Solomon: gbssls@msn.com,
(724)981-9885
or: westpenn@asindexing.org
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The Pittsburgh Group is trying to form again.
We had a small but successful initial meeting on Sat.,
January 20, 2007, at the home of Susan
Cohen. Diana Witt,
ASI's Chapter Liaison, came and gave an extremely useful talk on Time
Management. She then spoke on ideas to build up our chapter,
and gave us
several useful suggestions about other organizations to contact for
potential future collaborations.
Anyone interested in finding out more
about this group should contact Susan Solomon.
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ROCKY MOUNTAIN CHAPTER
Contact: Liz Walker at EWIndexer@msn.com
URL: http://www.asicolorado.org
Core Region: Colorado, Wyoming, Utah
***THIS NOTICE IS FOR A RECENT PAST EVENT***
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Rocky Mountain Chapter of ASI
Fall Meeting
Saturday, October 6, 2007
9:00 am–4:00 pm
A Presentation on Controlled Vocabularies
by Fred Leise
Location:
- Community College of Denver, Auraria Campus
1111 West Colfax Avenue
Denver, CO 80121
See the following link for a map: http://www.tivoli.org/tivoli/map.html
Program:
9:00–9:30 Registration and networking
9:30–12:30 Morning session Controlled Vocabularies
12:30–1:30 Luncheon (see registration form for lunch
selections)
1:30–2:30 Afternoon session Controlled Vocabularies
2:45–4:00 Practicum
Cost:
$65 ASI members prior to September 25
$80 ASI non-members prior to September 25
$75 ASI members after September 25
$90 ASI non-members after September 25
For more information and registration form please visit our chapter web
site at http://www.asicolorado.org/.
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SOUTH CENTRAL CHAPTER
Contact: President: Martha Malnor, southcentral@indexing.org
URL: http://www.asi-scc.org/
Core Region: Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and
Louisiana
***THIS NOTICE IS FOR A RECENT PAST EVENT***
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The SOUTH CENTRAL CHAPTER of ASI
ANNOUNCES ITS FALL 2007 MEETING
Saturday, November 3, 2007
8:30 a.m.–4:00 p.m.
The Woodlands, Texas
Our program will be in three parts:
Wilson Award of 2007. Kay Banning, Wilson
Award Committee Chair, Joanne Sprott, a Wilson Award Committee judge,
and Ellen Todd Hanks, a first time Wilson Award Committee judge, will
discuss the process and criteria that were used to determine this
year's winner.
Peer Index Review. Kay Schlembach will speak
on the guidelines used by ASI Lesson Evaluators in reviewing submitted
indexes. Attendees will then review indexes in a small group setting.
Each group will be moderated by an experienced indexer. After all
groups have had their opportunity to review, groups will combine to
share their findings. All attendees are encouraged to submit indexes
for review, either their own or one that they select. Additional
details will be provided via email to each attendee.
It's Anniversary Party Time. ASI is
celebrating its 40th anniversary this year and our Chapter is
celebrating as well. Please come and help us celebrate. We will honor
our founders and look at our history.
Where:
- Woodlands (South Montgomery) Community Center
- 2235 Lake Robbins Drive (Lake Robbins at Grogan's
Mill)
- The Woodlands, TX 77380
Directions: The Community Center is located
next to the Woodlands Public Library and near the Mitchell Pavilion.
Plenty of on-site free parking is available. The Woodlands is located
just off I-45 between Conroe and Houston, TX. Here is a link to a map
of The Woodlands. http://www.town-center.com/map.cfm.
The location of the South Montgomery Community Center is at tab 306.
Also nearby is an HEB, with a coffee bar, (tab 6) and Starbucks (tab
39).
Cost:
- For registrations received prior to October 19, 2007
- ASI members: $45.00
- Students (with proof): $35.00
- Non-ASI members: $55.00
- Late registration fees received after October 19, 2007
- ASI members: $55.00
- Students (with proof): $45.00
- Non-ASI members: $65.00
- NOTE: Bottled water, juice, continental breakfast and
a boxed lunch are included in the registration fee. (A Starbucks and
HEB with coffee bar are located nearby.)
REGISTRATION FORM
South Chapter Fall Meeting
Saturday, November 3, 2007
Name:_____________________________________________________
Address:____________________________________________________
City, State, Zip:______________________________________________
Phone:______________________ E-mail_________________________
Membership:
ASI yes _______ no ________
Cost:
- For registrations received prior to October 19, 2007
- ASI members: $45.00
- Students (with proof): $35.00
- Non-ASI members: $55.00
- Late registrations received after October 19, 2007
- Add $10.00
Amount Enclosed: $_________
Please makes checks payable to South Central Chapter, ASI and send to
workshop registrar:
- Paul Hightower
- PO Box 101028
- Fort Worth, TX 76185
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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CHAPTER
Contact: Anne Leach (760) 360-1432 or ALeach@dc.rr.com
****THIS NOTICE IS FOR A RECENT PAST EVENT***
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ASI-SoCal invites you to lunch and a discussion on...
Creating Elegant Subentries
Saturday, February 16, 2008
10:30 to about 3:00
At the home of Anne Leach in Palm Desert, California
Presented by Vicky Agee and Margie Towery, this
presentation will focus on the
fun part of designing back-of-the-book indexes: the creation of
subentries.
As any indexer knows, construction of elegant subentries
calls for careful
consideration of wording and format. Our two experts will discuss
several
aspects of the process, such as choosing terms, gathering, flipping,
doubleposting,
sorting, reanalyzing, and so on. They will bring many illustrative
specimens, but also hope participants will bring examples of their own
to talk
about.
This is a special opportunity to pick the brains of two
of ASI’s best indexers. This
luncheon is a below-cost bargain at only $47 (ASI members) and $58
(non-members).
It’s being subsidized with a generous grant from ASI
National. To
register, send a your check, payable to ASI-SoCal, to:
Anne Leach
78240 Bonanza Drive
Palm Desert, CA 92211
Directions to Anne’s will be emailed when your registration
is confirmed.
Between them, Margie Towery and Vicky Agee have 55 years
of indexing
experience:
Margie Towery has worked in the publishing field for
over twenty years. For the
last fifteen years, she has been a freelance indexer focused on
scholarly texts.
She has edited two Indexing Specialties books for ASI, one of which
includes her
essay, "The Quality of a Scholarly Index: A Contribution to the
Discourse." She
won the H. W. Wilson Award in 2002 for the cumulative index to The
Letters of
Matthew Arnold, 6 vols., edited by Cecil Lang and published by the
University
Press of Virginia. More recently, she indexed the 15th edition of the
Chicago
Manual of Style. Towery lives in the middle of two acres of woods in
Indiana with
her husband, two dogs, and four cats.
Victoria Agee is Director of Agee Indexing Services in
Houston, TX. She has
worked for public, university, and special libraries, and has had
cataloging and
indexing contracts with the Congressional Research Service, the
National
Agricultural Library, the National Library of Medicine, and the
Smithsonian
Institution. She has over 35 years of experience working in libraries
and doing
back-of-the-book, database and periodical indexing for corporate, trade
and
university publishers from coast to coast. Ms. Agee holds an MLS degree
from
UCLA and has presented workshops on indexing throughout the United
States.
She is an active member of the Special Libraries Association, the
American
Medical Writers Association, as well as the American Society of
Indexers. She is
currently teaching the University of California Berkeley Extension
online course in
the Theory and Application of Indexing.
Wow! What a great opportunity!
We look forward to seeing you, learning, and enjoying
the day!
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Tennessee Group
Contact: Dawn Spencer at (865) 354-9601 or indexlady@aol.com
or: tennessee@asindexing.org
URL: http://members.aol.com/tennwords/
TWIN CITIES CHAPTER
Contact: Galen Schroeder galenschroeder@msn.com
Core Region: Minnesota
***THIS NOTICE IS FOR A RECENT PAST EVENT***
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Twin Cities ASI Chapter Meeting
Saturday, March 8, 2008, 9:00 AM
Location
Classroom 234
William Mitchell Law College
875 Summit Avenue, St. Paul
(see driving directions below)
Meeting Agenda
9:00–9:30: Registration and Networking
9:30–10:00: Brief Chapter business meeting and announcements
10:00–12:00: Program—Website Indexes
12:00–Drawing for door prizes! And, for those interested,
lunch at a nearby restaurant
Website Indexes
Once considered a rather archaic approach to providing organizational
pointers to web content, indexes are becoming a more common element of
website design. Also called A–Z topics, online indexes, or
site indexes, this approach can provide as useful a function as
back-of-book indexes, provided they are based on good indexing
practice. This presentation will discuss which indexing precepts
translate well to the web, what is different from back-of-book or other
traditional indexing, and some examples.
Eileen Quam is a librarian and information
architect at the Minnesota Office of Enterprise Technology. In this
role she provides guidance in organizing the State web portal (soon to
become Minnesota.gov) and agency websites, and in implementing document
management systems. She is adjunct faculty at St. Catherine's Graduate
School of Library and Information Science, teaching coursework in
indexing, abstracting, and metadata. She has been a freelance indexer
since the 1980s, particularly in the realms of academic and legal
publishing.
*** While supplies last, Indexes: A Chapter from CMS 15
will be available for purchase at the meeting at a 20% discount from
publisher's price.
Driving directions
From I-94 take the Lexington Parkway exit. Turn right on Lexington
Parkway and continue to Summit Avenue. Turn left on Summit Avenue and
continue to Victoria. (William Mitchell is on your left). Turn left on
Victoria and left into parking lot.
Security instructions
On weekends the College locks all doors and requires non-WM visitors to
enter through the front doors (by the flagpole) and to sign in at the
visitor's desk.
Questions
Call Galen Schroeder (office: 701-298-6304; cell: 701-541-0055)
or e-mail at: galenschroeder@msn.com
Reminder
Every meeting is a networking opportunity. Bring business cards to
share!!!
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WESTERN NEW YORK CHAPTER
Contact: Peg Mauer at wny@asindexing.org
***THIS NOTICE IS FOR A RECENT PAST EVENT***
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Western New York ASI
Chapter—Spring Meeting
Friday, April 4, 2008
Join us for a brief tour and overview of Thomson/West's
operation in Rochester, NY. Thomson/West is a legal publishing firm
with one of their offices
in Rochester.
We'll meet at Thomson/West for a tour of their operation
in
the morning. Lyle Warren, one of our chapter members who works at
Thomson/West, has graciously arranged for us to
have lunch onsite after the tour. After lunch, we will have an
informal panel discussion with legal indexers, attorney-editors, and
others.
Thomson/West is located in downtown Rochester at:
50 E. Broad St
Rochester, NY 14694
(585) 546-5530
http://west.thomson.com
Agenda:
- 10:45 AM – meet in front entrance of
Thomson/West at 50 Broad St
- 11 AM to 12 PM – tour of Thomson/West
facility
- 12 PM to 1 PM – lunch at Thomson/West
- 1 PM to 1:30 PM – panel discussion
- 1:30 PM to 2 PM – chapter meeting
Cost: $10
Space is limited! Reserve your spot by sending a check ,
made out to Western NY Chapter of ASI, to:
Judy Kip
3 Courtly Circle
Owego, NY 13827
Questions? Contact: Peg Mauer (pmauer2004@yahoo.com),
518-359-8616 or Judy Kip (judithkip@earthlink.net),
607-687-0993.
Directions to Thomson/West:
Click on this link: http://tinyurl.com/23uomq
or cut and paste the URL into your browser.
There are only two hotels within walking
distance of Thomson/West, but they are both
kind of expensive.
Clarion Riverside Hotel (0.3 miles)
www.clarionriversidehotel.com/
800-916-4614
Hyatt Regenecy Rochester (0.3 miles, but about
$180/night)
www.Hyatt.com
866-226-6223
There are many more reasonable rooms available a bit
further out. See www.hotels.com
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