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and Notices
Hotel Space
Roommates
Travel
Vendors
Tours, Outings, and
Informal Groups
Hotel
Space
The conference hotel is sold out
for Wednesday, June 9. We still have space available on Thursday, Friday,
and Saturday nights at the $99 rate. It is being held through May11.
The Crowne Plaza is referring people
to the Holiday Inn North at 317-872-9790. This is the nearest Holiday Inn.
It is possible that some transportation can be arranged if enough people
are staying there.
Other hotels with some space include
The Residence Inn, 350 W. New York
Street, 317-822-0840 at $139
Hampton Inn Downtown, 105 S. Meridian
St., 317-261-1200 $109
Embassy Suites Hotel Downtown, 110
W. Washington, 317-262-8100 at $169
Radisson Hotel City Centre, 31 W.
Ohio St., 317-635-2000 $139
Days Inn Downtown, 401 E. Washington
St., 317-637-6464
Roommates
If you are looking for someone to share a room at the conference, please
provide the following information to Kara
Pekar:
1. Your name, snail mail and email addresses, and telephone number
2. Are you male or female?
3. Do you smoke?
4 What hours do you usually keep?
5. Which nights do you plan to stay?
6. Is there anything else a potential roommate ought to know about
you? (Severe pet or perfume allergies, sleepwalking, practicing the trumpet
at 5 am, etc.)
Email, send or phone this information to
Kara Pekar
8112 Harrison Drive
King George, VA 22485
540-775-4072
jkpekar@crosslink.net
Kara will do her best to match everyone with a compatible roommate.
Travel
to Indianapolis
United Airlines is the official airline of the American Society
of Indexers. If you or your travel agent call United's toll-free number
(1-800-521-4041) to book your reservations, you will receive a 5% discount
off the lowest applicable fare, purchased 7 days in advance. An additional
5% discount will apply when tickets are purchased at least 60 days in advance
of your travel date. Discounts also apply on Shuttle by United and United
Express. Please mention Meeting ID Number 527ZG.
Most of the major airlines serve the Indianapolis International Airport,
which is 8 miles from the hotel. Indy Connection (1-800-888-Indy)
provides shuttle service to the hotel.
Directions to the Conference Hotel: From I-70, exit 79B. Continue
north to Georgia Street (four stoplights). Turn left on Georgia Street.
Follow to Capital Avenue. Turn left on Capitol Avenue. 2 blocks. The Crowne
Plaza Union Station is on the left.
Parking is available at PanAm Plaza at $6 a day.
Vendors
Betty C McDonald, Assistant District Director, Business Development/Minority
Enterprise Development, Small Business Administration, will be available
for one-on-one consulting.
Tours,
Outings, and Informal Groups
At the Conference: A sign-up board will be provided for chapter
meetings, SIG meetings, and messages.
To add your conference notices to this list, e-mail the webmasters.
For Sale at the Conference:
The Chicago/Great Lakes group will be selling T-shirts, sweatshirts
and polo shirts.
The Washington chapter will be selling bumper stickers
The Heartland chapter will be selling ASI logo pins.
Musical Indexers.
Can you sing or play an instrument? If so, we can make beautiful music
together. Join your colleagues for an informal music-making session after
hours (probably on Thursday, June 10). If you sing or play an instrument,
let's have some fun. All ranges of abilities welcome. What kind of music?
All kinds. Pop, classical, jazz, folk, barbershop, swing, whatever.
Do you have to sign up first? Sort of. We'll need to get an idea beforehand
of how much participation to expect and what kinds of music we'll be enjoying.
Some music types require printed music, and it would be nice to get some
of that organized before we arrive in Indianapolis. Also, you may find
that there are others with whom you can join for duets, trios,
quartets, etc.
Contact Karen Lane (klane@digital.net)
if you sing, and Marilyn Rowland
(marisol@marisol.com) if you play an instrument. Remember, we're looking
for amateurs. You don't have to be a professional musician; you just have
to love making music.
Macmillan Tour.
Indexers and editors attending the Indianapolis Conference will
have a unique opportunity on Wednesday afternoon. They will be able to
take a tour through Macmillan Computer Publishing, which is a part of Pearson
Education.
The tour is scheduled for Wednesday afternoon. We will be leaving the
Crowne Plaza Union Station Hotel around 2:00 and arriving at Macmillan
around 2:30 in the afternoon.
There will be a tour of production and some areas of interest in the
company, following a brief presentation by the production department about
Macmillan. The editorial manager will also give a short presentation on
indexes and what they contribute to a book and what the relationship is
between the in-house indexers and the book editor.
This tour was arranged by Joelynn Gifford at Macmillan.
The costs for this tour will be for transportation to and from Macmillan.
Anyone who would like to take this tour should contact Sandi Schroeder
at 847-303-0989 or sanindex@schroederindexing.com.
You will also be able to sign up at the conference, but it would be helpful
to know how many people would like to go so that transportation can be
arranged.
Macmillan will also be giving two presentations at the Friday general
sessions.
In Editorial Production Process, several members of the Macmillan
Training Team will give a presentation on the development stages of a book
from an idea to its delivery to the printer. They will discuss the organizational
structure of the editorial areas and the editorial functions. This group
is responsible for the training of all editorial people at Macmillan.
Embedded Indexing will cover the process Macmillan uses to index
their books and why they feel embedding entries has been successful for
them.
IDG Books Worldwide, Inc.
and York Graphics Services Inc. will be sponsoring the Networking
Suite on Friday, June 11 from 1-4. Please stop by for the opportunity
to have refreshments and conversation with IDG, York and other indexers.
Psychology/Sociology Special
Interest Group (and any interested indexers) will meet on Thursday,
June 10, at 5:45 pm in the hotel lobby to go out to supper and make plans
for the coming year. Contacts are Becky Hornyak at bhornyak@iquest.net
and Margie Towery at MTowery@aol.com
The Heartland Chapter
is planning to meet for breakfast on Friday, June 11. No more details available
at this time. Contacts are Diane Worden at WordenDex@aol.com
and Margie Towery at MTowery@aol.com.
The ASI Web Site Committee
will meet for breakfast on Friday, June 11 at 7 am, probably in the hotel
coffee shop. Potential Committee members and interested others are welcome.
Contact Marilyn Rowland.
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