Marilyn Augst has used her innate organization skills to develop office systems for her freelance indexing business, Prairie Moon Indexing, as it has grown and become profitable over the last three years. During her ten-year membership in ASI, she has been an active member in the Heartland chapter, serving as newsletter editor, secretary, treasurer, vice president, and president. Before her indexing career, Marilyn was a technical writer for computer companies, writing software manuals for programmers.

Jon S. Bach is a senior technical editor at The Aerospace Press. (The Aerospace Press is the publishing arm of The Aerospace Corporation, a federally funded research and development center in El Segundo, California.) He has edited and indexed books on subjects such as cryogenics, orbital mechanics, and launch sites.

Noeline Bridge was a university library cataloguer for 11 years, where she daily wrestled with entries for names. As a freelance indexer and writer, she has made presentations at conferences and written about names. Her writing includes articles in the IASC/SCAD Bulletin, Key Words, and The Indexer, along with a chapter on names in Genealogy and Indexing and an appendix, "Using the Internet," to the 3rd edition of Hazel Bell's Indexing Biographies and Other Stories of Human Lives. She was co-author with Kathleen Spaltro of Royals of England: A Guide for Readers, Travelers, and Genealogists, for which she also compiled the indexes of place and personal names. Noeline was on the executive council of IASC/SCAD for 12 years, including four as president.

Vivien Cartmell is an indexer with the Hansard Office of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan. She joins fellow Hansard indexers from four other provinces on the Parliamentary indexing panel.

Estelita Chan (nee Bautista) has a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of the Philippines. Upon completion of her Master’s in Education at the Ohio University, she did advanced studies in library science at the State University of New York (Buffalo) and the Western Australian Institute of Technology. Prior to joining the Legislative Assembly of Ontario more than 25 years ago, she worked in academic libraries in Australia and in the United States. After several years at the Legislative Library, she decided to become an indexer of debates. From 1992 to the present, Estelita Chan has been the head of Hansard’s Index and Reference in Ontario.

Fred Brown is an experienced consultant and back-of-the-book indexer. Coming from the world of technical communication, much of his indexing work has focused on the computer field. He has received the Australian Society of Indexers (AusSI) Web Indexing award and contributed a chapter to Index It Right! Advice from the Experts, Volume 1, recently published by ASI.

Ian Cooper is a Senior Technical Writer at American Express Canada, where he has managed content on the call centre reference intranet for the past five years. He is passionate about plain language and other strategies for making information more accessible to users. Ian holds a Certificate in Information Design from the University of Toronto and a Certificate in Technical and Professional Writing from York University.

Timothy C. Craven is a Professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario. He is the developer of the web indexing tool XRefHT32. He has published more than 60 articles in the areas of Web page description and computer-assisted indexing, abstracting, and thesaurus construction. He currently teaches online courses in the graduate Library and Information Science program in Web design and architecture, in managing Internet information services, and in subject analysis and thesaurus construction.

After obtaining her bachelor degree in political science from the University of Amsterdam, Caroline Diepeveen continued to study international relations at the London School of Economics and the University of Amsterdam, earning an MA degree from the University of Amsterdam. She worked on various research projects and worked in development cooperation, before relocating to Scotland and taking up indexing. In 2000, she moved back to the Netherlands, where she continued her indexing career. Caroline has been an accredited indexer with the British Society of Indexers since 1998. In 2004, Caroline and others started NIN, the Netherlands Indexing Network.

Judy Dunlop is an indexer with the Hansard Office of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. She joins fellow Hansard indexers from four other provinces on the Parliamentary indexing panel.

Seth Earley has been implementing content management and knowledge management projects for over 12 years and has been in the technology field for 20+ years. He is founder of the Boston Knowledge Management Forum (Boston KM Forum) and co-author of Practical Knowledge Management from the IBM Press. He is former adjunct professor at Northeastern University, where he taught graduate courses in Knowledge Management Infrastructure and E-Business Strategy. Seth has developed knowledge strategies for global organizations and has developed underlying knowledge taxonomies for a diverse roster of Fortune 1000 companies. He is a popular speaker and workshop leader at conferences throughout North America, speaking on intranet design, knowledge management, content management systems and strategy, taxonomy development, and other related topics.

Dick Evans has worked in the computer industry since 1965. He has been, at various times, a computer operator, programmer, systems analyst, technical writer, and human factors engineer. In that last role he became interested in indexing while conducting usability tests on indexes for telecommunications manuals. He retired from corporate life in 1992 and started Infodex Indexing Services, Inc. Now he specializes in indexing computer books for both corporate clients and publishing houses, as well as providing workshops that teach technical writers about indexing. Dick is a senior member of the Carolina chapter of the Society for Technical Communication (STC), a recipient of STC's Distinguished Chapter Service Award for 1999, and past president at both the national and local levels of ASI.

Deirdre Grist is an indexer with the Hansard Office of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. She joins fellow Hansard indexers from four other provinces on the Parliamentary indexing panel.

Heather Hedden is a freelance indexer and principal of Hedden Information Management. In addition to indexing, she teaches online workshops in web-site indexing through Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science and on her own. Previously she was a senior vocabulary editor with Thomson Gale. Heather also heads ASI’s Web Indexing SIG and is currently president of the New England Chapter of ASI.

Stephen Ingle never realized that the indexing profession was for him until he was past 30, but when he looks back it just seems like the most logical choice. Since childhood, he has been interested in books and language, collecting and organizing things (postage stamps and bottles, to name two areas), and a fascination with maps. In his high-school and college years, he pursued mathematics, German, Russian and music, completing two master's degrees that together with his car would enable him to find employment at any of several fast-food establishments. Steve finally did find more meaningful work as an editor at the Modern Language Association (MLA). While there, he worked part time for a freelance indexer and was immediately hooked. The rest is history (hysteria?), and in 1991 Steve converted his part-time indexing business into a full-time indexing "shop" run out of his Astoria, New York, apartment. In 1998 he hired his first employee, and the next year he moved out of his house into a commercial space in downtown Norwich, Connecticut. He is now president of WordCo Indexing Services, Inc. in Norwich, which currently employs eleven indexers. In his free time Steve strives to recover his sanity, spending quality time with his wife Jeanne and daughters Sara and Nora, dog Gennie and cats Hermione and Licorice.

Christine Jacobs has been indexing since 1983, primarily back-of-the book and film indexing. As an active member of IASC/SCAD, she has served as President and was its first International Liaison Officer. She teaches indexing in workshops and at university and college levels. Currently, she chairs the Information and Library Technologies Program at John Abbott College, just outside Montreal, teaching in the areas of classification, cataloguing, communication, and indexing. Christine loves indexing scholarly materials, which usually provide lots of opportunities for ethical dilemmas and self-doubt.

For nearly 10 years, Kari Kells has enjoyed teaching indexing through Index West (her freelance indexing business), the Graduate School (USDA), and at several universities in the Pacific Northwest. In 2005, Inside Indexing, a book she co-authored with Sherry Smith, was published. Kari is a member of IASC/SCAD and has served ASI at the national level as one of the two original ASI web authors/webmistresses and also by founding and serving on ASI's Web Committee for its first three years. She was also a founding member of the Pacific Northwest chapter of ASI, has held a variety of officer positions in the chapter, and is currently the chapter’s co-webmistress.

Ilana Kingsley is a librarian at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Prior to working at UAF, Ilana was a technical writer at IBM and an information specialist at Cisco Systems. Ilana’s hobbies include indexing, dog mushing, and backpacking. She lives near Fairbanks with her husband, cat, and 29 sled dogs.

Laura Kotler and Julie McClung are senior indexers with Hansard Services at the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, with a combined experience of 21 years. They write subject, speaker, and business indexes for the transcripts of the debates that take place among the elected members of the provincial Legislature. Julie and Laura also upload the index files to the internet and maintain the indexes website (http://www.leg.bc.ca/hansard/8-2.htm). Collaboration on this presentation is being shared with colleagues from four other provinces: Estelita Chan, Ontario; Vivien Cartmell, Saskatchewan; Deirdre Grist and Judy Dunlop, Alberta; and Trine Schioldan, Newfoundland. Dave Ream, of Leverage Technologies, will also participate.

Cynthia Landeen opened her indexing business, In.dex.trous, in 1997. As a generalist indexer, her work is as varied as her background, which includes Catholic theological philosophy and Chinese medicine. She claims she'll index almost anything except cookbooks, western medicine, and traditional philosophy—even mathematics. She has worked as a public speaker, a corporate trainer, an organizational change agent, an engineer, and a technical writer. She holds five degrees, including a Ph.D. in organizational change/corporate education from the University of Oregon, a bachelor's and master's in engineering, and a master's in information systems from the University of Arizona. Cynthia is a member of IASC. She is also active in the Pacific Northwest Chapter of ASI (PNW/ASI), where she is the head of the speaker's bureau and a member of the officer's advisory group.

Cheryl Landes has more than 15 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. She holds bachelor's degrees in journalism from the University of Oregon and in general studies from Eastern Oregon University. She has also received two technical certificates: Microcomputers and Networks from the University of Washington and a Graduate Certificate of Technologies in Education (CTE) from Harvard. In February 2006, she completed her Master of Arts in Adult Distance Education at the University of Phoenix. The master's program focused on how to design and develop online education for adults. Cheryl has been active in PNW/ASI since its inception. She has also participated in various indexing activities for the Society for Technical Communication (STC) at the chapter and international levels.

Fred Leise is owner and principal of ContextualAnalysis, LLC, which provides consulting services in information architecture as well as metadata and controlled vocabularies development. He has worked with a wide range of clients, including Abbott Laboratories, Textron, AIG, Accenture, Hewlett-Packard, PeopleSoft, and Alliant Energy Company, a Wisconsin-based utilities company. He recently completed a content access and author training project for the Social Security Administration, focusing on their 65,000-section policy manual. Fred has also been a freelance back-of-book indexer since 1995, specializing in scholarly works in the humanities, especially international relations and East Asian history. He has taught indexing courses for the University of Chicago Publishing Program and the continuing education program of Columbia College Chicago. He is currently serving on the board of directors of ASI, is a member of the Information Architecture Institute, and is a founding member of the Consortium of Indexing Professionals.

Cheryl Lemmens began indexing books and Web sites in 2001 after some 20 years as an editor. She has worked in a wide range of milieus, from newspaper and magazine writing to editing at the Hansard office of the Ontario Legislature, at a major legal publishing company, and at a Toronto Internet development and consulting firm. Cheryl currently serves on the IASC/SCAD executive as Webmaster and is a member of the ASI's Web Indexing SIG. Her post-secondary education includes a Ph.D. in English from the University of Toronto and a Bachelor of Applied Arts in journalism from Toronto's Ryerson Polytechnical Institute.

Frances S. Lennie is the owner of Indexing Research which develops and markets CINDEX™ software, both for Windows and Macintosh. In addition to her own indexing activities, she has taught a semester-long indexing course at New York University since 2000 and actively participates in ASI.

Julie McClung. See biography for Laura Kotler and Julie McClung.

Kate Mertes is sole proprietor of Mertes Editorial Services. Since 1998, she has provided indexing, information retrieval, and editorial expertise for complex, challenging projects in law and the humanities. Kate took her B.A. degree in medieval studies, a Ph.D. in medieval history, and a post-doctoral degree in theology, and after teaching at the university level for several years, moved into publishing with a stint at Oxford English Dictionaries. She worked nine years as a managing editor of indexing with Research Institute of America. Kate served on the ASI Board from 1998 to 2004 and is a past president of ASI and a founding fellow of the Consortium of Indexing Professionals.

Ruth Pincoe has been working as a freelance indexer, editor, and researcher for more than 25 years. She is the winner of the Editors Association of Canada Tom Fairley Award for Editorial Excellence (1994) and has served as national president for the Editors Association and IASC/SCAD. She presently serves as International Liaison for IASC/SCAD. She specializes in scholarly books and now works mainly in music, history, art, and literature, but she also has an extensive background in both trade and educational publishing, and she enjoys cookbooks.

David Ream is Leverage Technologies' chief consultant for publishers. He has a B.S. in Engineering and an M.S. in Computer Science from Case Western Reserve University. Mr. Ream has spent over 30 years working with publishers in the areas of typesetting design and production, database creation, editorial systems, and electronic publication design and production. One of Mr. Ream's earliest assignments (in the mid-seventies) involved creating custom programs to sort legal indexes into locator order and then back into alpha order. Since then he has worked on many indexing, abstracting, and thesaurus projects and systems. Currently, indexing projects center around integrating Indexing Research's Cindex into corporate and governmental publishing operations, including web applications. LevTech also performs computer consulting and programming for editorial applications as well batch composition services.

A member of the Indexing and Abstracting Society of Canada and a voting member of the Editors’ Association of Canada, Louise Saint-André is a French language indexer and editor. Based in Ottawa, she has developed expertise in indexing works translated from English to French. She often cooperates with English counterparts in the production of equivalent indexes for documents published in both languages. Her faithful clientele, which includes Canadian and American publishers, professional associations, Canadian government departments and crown corporations, affords her the opportunity to work on a broad range of projects. Louise holds a Master’s degree in Education and she is currently pursuing a translation degree. She teaches professional development seminars for the Editors’ Association of Canada and the University of Ottawa.

Kay Schlembach, presenting Indexing for Beginners for the tenth year, has been called a "marvelous, vivacious speaker." Coming from a diverse background including home schooling and real estate appraisal, Kay has been a full-time indexer since 1997. She believes in service and is currently an ASI Director, working on ASI's educational initiatives, while remaining actively involved with the South Central Chapter. She credits her students for the continued success of Indexing for Beginners.

Kamm Schreiner is the owner of SKY Software and the programmer for SKY Index™ Professional. He has been presenting workshops on SKY Index Professional for ASI conferences for the past 7 years. In his spare time he’s an amateur musician and songwriter.

Jacob (Jake) Schulzinger has been a member of ASI since 1994 and has served as secretary-treasurer of ASI's South Central Chapter for the past 3 years. He is an experienced consultant, industrial and manufacturing engineer, technical writer, and documentation project manager. He is currently employed by Hewlett-Packard Corp. as a Technical Writer/Project Manager.

Margie Towery focuses on indexing scholarly works. She won the 2002 H. W. Wilson Award for the cumulative index to The Letters of Matthew Arnold. More recent indexes include The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th ed., and Emma Goldman: A Documentary History (vols. 1 and 2). She has been involved in ASI's Heartland Chapter and the History-Archaeology SIG and is a founding fellow of the Consortium of Professional Indexers.

Trine Schioldan is an indexer with the Hansard Office of the House of Assembly, Newfoundland and Labrador. She joins fellow Hansard indexers from four other provinces on the Parliamentary indexing panel.

Pilar Wyman is a professional freelance indexer who specializes in preparing indexes for print and electronic publication. She has been involved in indexing since late 1983 and has been writing indexes since 1990. She is a founding member of the ASI web site committee and the Science-Medicine SIG of ASI; Editor, Key Words, bulletin of ASI; and past Chair of the Washington, DC Chapter of ASI. When her schedule permits, she gives training workshops and presentations on indexing and related topics.

Professor Xu Zhong is chairman of the executive council CSI and vice president of Fudan University. Professor Niu Zhendong is vice chairman of the executive council CSI.

Maria Sullivan Young has been providing support to CINDEX™ users since 1988, originally in-house at a large legal publishing company and subsequently for Indexing Research. Maria also prepares legal indexes and provides other technical assistance (such as data conversion) to multiple clients worldwide.