Pre-Conference Workshops

All Day Workshops 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM

• Basic Indexing Workshop - Kay Schlembach
  Newer indexers as well as others needing a refresher will value this opportunity to build, review, and reinforce their fundamental skills. Either by itself, or in conjunction with the USDA beginning indexing correspondence course, this fast-paced introduction to basic concepts for classic back-of-the-book indexing techniques covers alphabetization, format, entry, cross-references, and simple editing. Our journey will also touch on embedded indexing. The workshop is conducted in morning and afternoon sessions with an exercise to be completed over the lunch period.

Half Day Workshops

• 8:30 AM - Noon
  [Facing the Text: Content Analysis and Entry Selection in Social Sciences and Humanities Indexing - Do Mi Stauber] REPLACED *
  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.
  
• 8:30 AM - Noon
  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
  Using your basic indexing skills of content analysis and term selection, you can expand your expertise into the area of creating controlled vocabularies (CVs). In this workshop, you'll learn about the types of CVs, including synonym rings, authority files, hierarchies, and thesauri. We will explore the structure of CVs, how they are used and methods for their creation. In addition, we will delve into why CVs are important for large corporate Web sites and Intranets, as well as for content management systems.
• 1:30 - 5:00 PM
  CINDEX(tm) for Windows - Maria Sullivan Young
  In this comprehensive review of the program's features attendees will learn: (1) efficient data entry and editing techniques, (2) different sorting, formatting, and styling options, (3) simple and advanced editing techniques and applications, and (4) exporting and importing index data to and from other platforms and applications. The writing of "patterns" and use of Boolean operators will be practiced.
• 1:30 - 3:00 PM
  SKY Index(TM) Professional for Beginners - Kamm Schreiner
  This workshop will cover the basics of using SKY Index(TM) Professional. Topics will include: data entry; editing; index configuration; program configuration; index generation and printing; basic search and replace; scanning an index for errors; and spell checking.
• 3:30 - 5:00 PM
  Advanced Techniques for SKY Index(TM) Professional for Beginners - Kamm Schreiner
  This workshop will cover the use of advanced features in SKY Index(TM) Professional. Topics include: advanced editing; creating groups; advanced search and replace; using pattern matching; using macros; advanced index configuration; working with orphan subheadings; using translations; and automatic double posting.