Announcements

Additional sessions:

• Friday, June 20, 8:00 - 9:45 am
  Judging Excellence in Indexes: Demystifying the Process.
• Saturday, June 21st
  USDA Indexing Course: A Panel Discussion (approx. 11-11.30 am) Panelists will include two current instructors (Kari Kells and Pilar Wyman), a recent graduate of the basic indexing course (Galen Schroeder), and Michael T. Allen, director of the National Independent Study Center which now administers the USDA program.

Withdrawn sessions:

• Friday, June 20, 8:00 - 9:45 am
  *Speaking in Tongues: Indexing of Foreign Language Materials
  
  * Conference registrants who had indicated attending the withdrawn session (as of Thursday, May 1st) have been notified of the change. Registrations currently being processed or future registrations selecting the "Foreign Language" session will automatically be assigned the "Judging Excellence" session. Once in Vancouver you are, of course, welcome to attend any of the alternative sessions offered in this time slot.
  
• Saturday, June 21st
  Academic Questions: e-Journals, Open Access, and Autonomous Indexing (approx. 2:45-3:30) presented by Prof. John Willinsky.

Replacements and substitutions

• Thursday, June 19th
  Facing the Text: Content Analysis and Entry Selection in Social Sciences and Humanities Indexing
  
  Due to injuries sustained in a recent car accident Do Mi Stauber is not able to present her workshop. This workshop will be replaced by the following:
  
  "Tracing the Themes" - Christine Jacobs: This workshop focuses on the challenges and pleasures in identifying, tracing and expressing the levels of meaning in scholarly texts. These books often pose a number of difficulties to the indexer, including complex analytical discussions, inter-disciplinarity and implicit themes. Using a hands-on approach and excerpts from a variety of texts, we will explore such factors as user requirements, author vocabulary, multi-author texts, concept interdependence and primary sources. Practical exercises will form the basis for discussion of the issues surrounding subject analysis and index structure. Suitable for experienced and novice indexers.
  
• Friday, June 20, 10:00-11:00 am, Plaza A
  Dayle Wilson Smidt's presentation How to Build a Classification Scheme will be delivered by Seth A. Maislin.