Speakers

• Dorthea Atwater
  Designing Indexes from Shared Content for Multiple Delivery Formats
  Dorthea Atwater has worked as an editor, writer, and small press publisher in Canada and the United States. She has indexed books for Oxford University Press, Viking Penguin, and Ballantine Books. For the past twenty years she has edited, written, and indexed computer software manuals and online content. She managed documentation departments for Claris Corporation (Apple) and Ashton-Tate, and has consulted for TRW Aerospace, Experian, and Universal Music Group, among others. Currently she is Principal Information Developer at Symantec Corporation, makers of Norton AntiVirus. Born in Vancouver, she now lives in Los Angeles.
• Cynthia Berman
  Managing a Multi-Volume Indexing Project: An Evolutionary Approach
  Cynthia Berman is a freelance technical editor, indexer, and writer with more than 18 years in technical publications. Prior to becoming a freelancer in summer 2002, she worked as a Senior Technical Editor and Lead Indexer at Siebel Systems in Emeryville, California. At Siebel Systems, she developed indexing standards and managed an indexing project for the 10,000-page document set.
• Sylvia Coates
  Getting It Right: Indexing for Specific Audience and Text
  Sylvia Coates has been a freelance indexer since 1989. Her indexing specialties are social sciences, public policy, religious studies, and education. Her clients include tradebook and textbook publishers as well as university presses. She has been one of the USDA Basic Indexing instructors since 1999 and is the author of numerous articles on indexing.
• Robert E. Creeden
  Legal Indexing: Specialties within the Specialty
  Robert E. Creeden (Bob) is a graduate of Tufts University (B.A.) and the Columbus School of Law of the Catholic University of America (J.D.). He has been the lead tax law indexer at The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc. (BNA) since 1980. His responsibilities include the indexing of current reports and reference files covering federal taxation by the IRS, foreign tax authorities, and multistate tax issues.
• Madeleine Davis
  Legal Indexing: Specialties Within the Specialty
  Madeleine Davis has a BA Hons and a Postgraduate Diploma in Publishing and Editing. As well as undertaking general back-of book indexing, she has specialised in legal indexing for the past 7 years, including loose-leaf services, academic law books and manuals for Butterworths, CCH and Thomson Legal and Regulatory Ltd. She currently works at AustLII (Australasian Legal Information Institute) where her major responsibility is the development and maintenance of online indexes to legal material on the WWW on the WorldLII Catalog http://www.worldlii.org/ which currently contains over 14,000 website links. Madeleine also lectures in Computerised Legal Research and presents workshops on Indexing on the Web at the University of Technology, Sydney.
• Jim Diggins
  Legal Indexing: Specialties within the Specialty
  Jim Diggins received his BA from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, and his JD from Cleveland State University. After briefly working in private practice, he settled into the legal publishing field as Attorney Editor with Banks-Baldwin Law Publishing Company in Cleveland, and subsequently with West Group, which acquired Banks Baldwin in 1993. Jim currently runs JD Editorial Services in San Diego, specializing in indexing of statutory codes, session laws, practice manuals, and other legal publications.
• Dick Evans
  Indexes vs. Full-Text Search: A Usability Case Study
  Since 1992 when he retired from corporate life, Richard (Dick) Evans has been a freelance indexer specializing in back-of-the-book indexes for computer topics. He owns and operates Infodex Indexing Services, Inc in Raleigh , NC. He was a founding member of the Carolina Chapter of the ASI and has served as president of the chapter and is a past president of ASI national. In addition, he is a senior member of the Society for Technical Communication (STC) and in 1999 received their Distinguished Chapter Service Award. He has a BA and an M.A. in psychology.
• Ina Fourie
  Abstracting: From Basic Indicative Abstracts to Critical Abstracts
  How Can We Take a Socio-Cognitive Approach in Teaching Indexing and Abstracting
  Ina Fourie is an Associate Professor at the Department of Information Science, University of Pretoria (South Africa) since 1 July 2001. She formerly lectured at the University of South Africa (Unisa), and has fifteen years teaching experience. Her teaching responsibilities include various aspects of information organization and retrieval, such as indexing, abstracting, thesaurus construction, information retrieval, database design and Internet information seeking behavior. She has published and presented papers at national and international level on various aspects of information organization and retrieval, as well as teaching related topics, such as computer-assisted instruction, distance teaching, instructional design and portfolio assessment. She is also a regular book reviewer for The Electronic Library and Online Information Review.
• Christine Jacobs
  Mapping the Meanings
  Christine Jacobs has worked as a freelance indexer with a variety of types of materials since 1983. She is a past-president of IASC, and is currently Chair of the Information and Library Technologies Program at John Abbott College outside of Montreal.
• Kari Kells
  USDA Indexing Course: A Panel Discussion
  Kari Kells was one of the two original co-authors/webmasters for the ASI Web site and served on its Web committee for its first few years. She is a founding member of the Pacific Northwest chapter of ASI, and has further served the chapter as Webmistress, Newsletter Coordinator, Directory Coordinator, Vice-President, and President, as well as serving as a member on several other committees. Kari also teaches indexing classes through her business (Index West), the USDA's Graduate Program, the University of Washington's Department of Technical Communication, and through Emporia State University's Graduate School of Library and Information Management. .
• Yang-Woo Kim
  User-Oriented Representation of Documents for Interactive IR: Connecting Beyond-Topical Criteria of User-Defined Relevance with the Surrogate Features of an IR Database
  Yang-woo Kim received his M.S. degree in Library and Information Science from the School of Library and Information Management at Emporia State University (Emporia, Kansas). He entered the Ph.D. program in the School of Communication, Information and Library Studies at Rutgers University in 1998 (New Brunswick, New Jersey). His research interests are in the areas of knowledge representation (focusing on user oriented representation of document characteristics), interaction in IR and user behavior study.
• Cheryl Landes
  An Index Comparison Project: The Effects of Two Indexers' Diverse Backgrounds on Creating an Index from a Software Manual
  Cheryl has more than 11 years of experience as an indexer and a technical writer in a wide variety of industries, including computer software, marine transportation, occupational health and safety, and more recently, manufacturing. Cheryl holds bachelor's degrees in journalism and in general studies, and a certificate in Microcomputers and Networks from the University of Washington in Seattle. She is also currently a candidate in the Graduate Certificate for Technologies in Education (CTE) program at Harvard. Activities in ASI include Marketing Committee Coordinator for the PNW/ASI chapter and writing a regular column for the biannual PNW/ASI newsletter.
• Fred Leise
  Pre-conference Workshop - You Say Cookies, I Say Biscuits: Or Why Controlled Vocabularies are Important and How Indexers Can Expand Their Skills to Start Creating Them
  Fred Leise is an information architecture and metadata design consultant, specializing in content analysis and organization, classification system design, thesaurus design, and website indexes. He has provided consulting services to such companies as Alliant Energy, Hewlett-Packard, Morningstar, and PeopleSoft, Inc. As a freelance indexer, he specializes in scholarly works in the humanities. His index for Art and Affection: A Life of Virginia Woolf was one of three indexes shortlisted for the H.W. Wilson/ASI Indexing Award in 1996. He currently teaches an introduction to indexing course for the continuing education program of Columbia College, Chicago.
• Seth A. Maislin
  Getting Personal: Individualized Information Delivery
  Seth Maislin is an information architecture and indexing consultant, specializing in the construction of usable web-based and knowledge hierarchies. He provides information architecture, navigation, usability, indexing, content analysis, and related consulting services; presents regularly at conferences; and indexes books and web documents. Seth has written several articles for professional print and online periodicals.
• Susan Wilson Murray
  Digital by Design: A Case Study in Creating a WebFriendly Cumulated Journal Index
  Susan Wilson Murray is an indexer and a member of bookmark: editing & indexing. She began indexing in 2000 and with her associates has worked on projects ranging from quotes to cooking, history to guide books, union contracts to catalogues. She had a BA from Simon Fraser University with a major in Communication and a minor in English. She is currently working on the database management and web indexing component of a journal indexing project. Her other career is as a library technician in the public school system.
• Deborah Patton
  How to Develop a Style Guide
  Deborah Patton earned an M.S.L.S. from Syracuse University's School of Information Studies, then worked as a public librarian in Indiana and Texas. Retiring from that her pursuits were artistic until starving as an artist paled. There followed a number of years' work in fundraising offices (making donor lists and checking them twice) before stumbling upon indexing in the early 1990s. Since that time she has been a freelance indexer in Baltimore, MD. She was eager to work with Pilar Wyman on this particular workshop after so many frustrating experiences with editors who don't understand indexing styles.
• Naomi Pauls
  Digital by Design: A Case Study in Creating a WebFriendly Cumulated Journal Index
  Naomi Pauls is an editor and indexer who has been making words her freelance business since 1997. She has a degree in anthropology from the University of British Columbia and worked for several years in community museums. Naomi began her career in publishing as an editor on a weekly entertainment newspaper in Vancouver. After five years, she returned to university for a Master of Publishing. Her clients include trade book publishers, academic journals, magazine writers, self-publishers, corporations and think-tanks. Special areas of interest are cultural anthropology and history, especially community and oral histories.
• Ellen Perry
  Managing a Multi-Volume Indexing Project: An Evolutionary Approach
  Ellen Perry is the Lead Technical Editor for AutoCAD Technical Publications at Autodesk, Inc. Ellen has been a technical editor and technical writer for 20 years. Prior to that, she was a Senior Editor in grades K-12 educational publishing at Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, in both San Francisco and New York.
• Linda Rainaldi
  Legal Indexing: Specialties within the Specialty
  Linda Rainaldi is the Director of Publications at the Continuing Legal Education Society of British Columbia. She graduated from the University of British Columbia Faculty of Law. She has been involved in legal publishing since 1982, when she worked with a national legal publisher as a writer and editor. She joined the publications department of the CLE Society of B.C. in 1988 and is responsible for overseeing the publishing initiatives of CLE, both in books and course materials.
• David K. Ream
  Improving Productivity through Technology
  Mr. Ream is Leverage Technologies' chief consultant for publishers. He has a M.S. degree in Computer Science from Case Western Reserve University. Mr. Ream has spent over 28 years working with publishers in the areas of typesetting design and production, database creation, editorial systems, and electronic publication design and production.
• Gale Rhoades
  Windows/MS Office: Skills for Indexers and Editors
  Gale Rhoades has been guiding computer users for more than 20 years, including 10 years as the Executive Director of a large computer users group. Since 1991, she has worked as an independent consultant based in the San Francisco Bay area with clients nationwide. She is also the North American distributor for the Macrex indexing program.
• Bill Richardson
  Opening Keynote Speaker
  Bill Richardson is well-known and much-loved by CBC Radio audiences for his work as a host on both Radio One and Radio Two. In addition to his popularity as a broadcaster, Bill is a well-known columnist, writer and humorist. Bill has written a dozen books, including The Bachelor Brothers Bed and Breakfast which won the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour in 1994. Bill was born in Winnipeg and received his BA from the University of Winnipeg in 1976. After spending a year in Montpellier, he moved to Vancouver where he completed a Master of Library Sciences. He then worked as children's librarian, before turning to writing and broadcasting.
  
  In 1997, Bill became the host of a new program, Richardson's Roundup, which can be heard weekday afternoons on the CBC's Radio One. The Roundup's heart is the voices of its listeners - their letters, music requests and phone calls. Bill 'wrangles this huge pool of material with the skill, verve and humour one would expect from this multi-talented man. In 1998, Bill received a Honorary Doctor of Laws, from the University of Winnipeg.
• Elspeth Richmond
  Digital by Design: A Case Study in Creating a WebFriendly Cumulated Journal Index
  Elspeth Richmond is a former teacher, teacher-librarian and public library circulation department supervisor. Two years ago she embarked on still another career change when she joined Sheilagh Simpson and Susan Wilson Murray to form bookmark: editing and indexing. She has also recently edited the memoirs of a West Vancouver woman, a year-long and challenging experience for both writer and editor. Volunteer activities include coordinating for the past seven years a program for writers at a local seniors' long-term care facility.
• Kay Schlembach
  Pre-conference Workshop - Basic Indexing Workshop
  Kay Schlembach, after working as a real estate appraiser and home-schooling teacher, began indexing in 1996 with the USDA course and mentor Joanne Sprott. She has built a successful full time business and loves her work. Kay has taken an active part in ASI's South Central chapter, and is especially appreciative of the leadership provided by ASI national. This will be her fifth year presenting Basic Indexing - bringing hard-won experience, enthusiasm, and commitment to her students year after year.
• Joe Schneider
  Legal Indexing: Specialties Within the Specialty
  Joe Schneider holds a MA (and ABD) in English from University of Miami where he also taught English. Subsequently he taught English at Hofstra University and Wagner College. He moved into informational and directory publishing, first at R.R. Bowker, then Thomas Publishing Co., as editor-in-chief of Thomas Food Industry Register. Since 1993, he has worked at Matthew Bender on Immigration and Employment Law treatises. He received a JD from Fordham Law School.
• Kamm Schreiner
  Pre-conference Workshops - SKY Index(tm) Professional
  Kamm Schreiner, the owner of SKY Software, 350 Montgomery Circle, Stephens City, VA, is also the programmer of SKY Index(tm) professional. He has given several workshops on SKY Index(TM) professional at previous ASI conferences that were very well received.
• Galen Schroeder
  USDA Indexing Course: A Panel Discussion
  Galen Schroeder has just completed his first year as a full-time freelance indexer after indexing part-time for two years while completing the USDA course. Galen spent 25+ years in agriculture and pesticide research and development before finding his love for indexing. Recently he has accepted the position as Managing Editor of Agricultural History, the journal of the Society of Agricultural History. Galen is a member of the Twin Cities Chapter.
• Sheilagh Simpson
  Digital by Design: A Case Study in Creating a WebFriendly Cumulated Journal Index
  Sheilagh Simpson was an elementary school teacher before she began editing, in 1985, as assistant editor with Canadian Airlines' in-flight magazine. A year later she began her freelance career as an editorial and research associate with an award-winning U.S. author on non-fiction articles and books, including
  the best-selling The Bodyguard's Story: Diana, the Crash, and the Sole Survivor. She now edits both
  fiction and nonfiction books, and has added technical editing to her skills and financial service companies to her clientele. Sheilagh has written magazine articles and coauthored the book Implosion: World Overpopulation and US Immigration. In 2000, she began both indexing and, with fellow indexers/ editors, a company (bookmark: editing & indexing).
• Debra Spidal
  An Index Comparison Project: The Effects of Two Indexers' Diverse Backgrounds on Creating an Index from a Software Manual
  Debra currently works as the Library Systems User Technician at Blue Mountain Community College in Pendleton, Oregon. In addition, she freelances as an indexer, specializing in history, regional subjects, spirituality, and cookbooks. Other experience includes three years as the Electronic Resources Librarian at Eastern Oregon University in La Grande and nine years of active service in the US Army in a variety of locations and occupations. Debra's education includes a Master's of Library and Information Science (MLIS) from the University of Washington in Seattle and a bachelor's degree in history. She is also the Secretary of the Pacific Northwest Chapter of ASI (PNW/ASI) and is starting an index peer review group in eastern Oregon and eastern Washington.
• Do Mi Stauber
  Pre-conference Workshop - Facing the Text: Content Analysis and Entry Selection in Social Sciences and Humanities Indexing
  Do MI Stauber has been a full-time back-of-book indexer since 1986. She indexes scholarly books, textbooks, government documents and encyclopedias in all of the social sciences and humanities. She has been the chair of the Wilson Award judging committee. She is currently writing a book based on this Workshop.
• Larry D. Sweazy
  Writing Your Own Paycheck
  Prior to becoming to a fulltime indexer, Larry D. Sweazy was a Registered Representative for John Hancock Financial Services where he specialized in financial planning and estate planning (please note Larry is no longer affiliated with any financial services company and will not be recommending specific products). To date, he has indexed over 230 titles for publishers such as New Riders Press, Cisco Press, Que, Sams, John Wiley and Sons, and Addsion-Wesley Professional.
• Jody Urquhart
  Closing Keynote Speaker - Joy of Work
  Professional speaker and writer, Jody Urquhart has been inspiring audiences comprised of information professionals since 1998. Recognized in Canada, the United States and Ireland, she has presented her signature topic, Joy of Work, to 65 organizations last year alone. Her monthly syndicated column on the same subject appears in over fifty trade journals. Jody is also an associate speaker for the Individual Development Organization in Vancouver where she works with Bill Clennan, the Dean of Canadian Speakers.
  Jody's book, All Work & No Say Takes the Passion Away, will be published in 2003.
• Carolyn Weaver
  Starting Your Indexing Business
  Carolyn Weaver is a former academic medical librarian who has been indexing since 1991. She was a moonlighting indexer for nine years before moving to full-time indexing in 2000 and advocates "don't give up your day job!" as a smart strategy for those who are just starting an indexing business. She served as ASI Treasurer from 1998-2002, is currently vice-president of the Pacific Northwest Chapter/ASI, and serves as Webmaster for the Business Indexing SIG. She specializes in health, behavioral, and social sciences books and journals.
• Jan C. Wright
  REVIEW - Field Trip: Beyond Indexing Software Technical Indexing Progression
  Managing a Multi-Volume Indexing Project: An Evolutionary Approach
  Jan C. Wright has been indexing professionally since 1991, primarily specializing in technical work for clients in the software industry. Through her memberships in ASI and STC's Indexing SIG, she shares her expertise in embedded indexing software, single-sourced projects, online index interfaces, and trends in technical indexing. She currently serves as the editor of the award-winning A to Z: The Newsletter of STC's Indexing SIG. Recent projects have been leading her down the path to XML schemas, taxonomy development, thesaurus and controlled language construction, and XML topic maps, and she's following the yellow brick road wherever it might lead.
• L. Pilar Wyman
  How to Develop a Style Guide
  L. Pilar Wyman, Wyman Indexing, has been writing indexes for books, manuals, journals, andmultimedia products since 1990. She has written over 600 indexes. Her areas of specialty include clinical medicine, health, technology, and maritime studies. In addition to occasional workshops and presentations, she teaches indexing via the USDA Graduate School Correspondence Program Basic and Applied Indexing courses. Pilar has collected all sorts of index style sheets and, like her co-presenter Deborah, has recently set upon herself the task of helping editors and others define their own index style guides.
• Maria Sullivan Young
  Pre-conference Workshop - CINDEX for Windows
  Maria Sullivan Young has been indexing since 1988 when she joined the staff of Lawyer’s Cooperative Publishing (now West Group) in Rochester, NY. Prior to that, she held positions in libraries and at Clarkson University on the computing center’s Help Desk. Maria first used CINDEX™ while at Lawyer’s Coop and soon became the trainer for the 25+ member indexing staff. After leaving to have a family, Maria has been working directly with Indexing Research to provide training and online technical support to CINDEX users.
• Enid L. Zafran
  Improving Productivity through Technology Legal Indexing: Specialties within the Specialty
  Enid L. Zafran holds a B.A. from Mount Holyoke College, M.S.L.S. from the University of Kentucky School of Library Science, J.D. from Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, and LL.M. in Labor Law from Georgetown University Law Center. From 1990 to 2001, she was the Director of Indexing Services at The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc., Washington, DC. Her freelance indexing business, Indexing Partners, specializes in legal indexing. She is the Chair of ASI’s Publication Committee, has edited the book Starting an Indexing Business (2nd ed.) and Indexing Specialties: Law. In the forthcoming ASI book, Indexing Software, she has co-authored with David Ream the article “Beyond the Standard Software.” She is a founding member of the Consortium of Indexing Professionals as well as a former member of the ASI Board and past Chair of the DC Chapter of ASI.