2009 Annual Conference

Scaling the Heights

Conference Schedule

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THURSDAY, April 23, 2009

7:00am–2:00pm
Workshop Registration

7:00am–8:00am
Full Breakfast Buffet
(for workshop attendees only)

8:00am–5:30pm
WORKSHOP 1: Principles of Indexing
Level of Climbing Difficulty: Ben Nevis

WORKSHOP 2: Building Taxonomies from the Group Up
Level of Climbing Difficulty: Aconcagua

HALF-DAY WORKSHOPS
8:00am–12:00 noon

WORKSHOP 3: Indexing Elegant Subheadings
Level of Climbing Difficulty: K2

WORKSHOP 4: Cooking the Book
Level of Climbing Difficulty: Aconcagua

10:15am–10:30am
Morning Refreshment Break
(for workshop attendees only)

12:00 noon–1:30pm
Lunch Break
(on your own)

HALF-DAY WORKSHOPS
1:30pm–5:30pm

WORKSHOP 5: Using PDFs in Indexing
Level of Climbing Difficulty: Aconcagua

WORKSHOP 6: The Naked Indexer
Level of Climbing Difficulty: K2

3:00pm–3:15pm
Afternoon Refreshment Break
(for workshop attendees only)

3:00pm–5:30pm
Exhibits open

3:00pm–5:30pm
Conference Registration

5:30pm–6:30pm
SIG Leaders Meeting

5:30pm–6:30pm
New Members /First Time Attendees Welcome/Orientation

7:00pm–8:30pm
Welcome Reception, Wilson Award, and Indexing Bingo
(off-site at Powell’s City of Books)
(Included for those who have registered for the full conference. Workshop attendees or one-day registrants may purchase tickets for the reception. Please see the registration form to purchase tickets.)

FRIDAY, April 24, 2009

7:00am–5:00pm
Conference registration

7:00am–8:00am
Full Breakfast

7:30am–8:15am
Keynote: Q&A on the Q&A: Chicago Manual of Style’s Monthly Question and Answer Feature
Keynote Speaker: Carol Fisher Saller

8:15am–8:25am
Break

8:25am–9:00am
Knotty Bits

SEMINAR 1: Terror without Tears
Level of climbing difficulty: Aconcagua

SEMINAR 2: Metatopic Menace
Level of climbing difficulty: Aconcagua

SEMINAR 3: One Index, Two Formats: Print vs. Web Indexes
Level of climbing difficulty: Aconcagua

9:00am–9:20am
MORNING REFRESHMENT BREAK
SPONSORED BY THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN AREA CHAPTER
EXHIBITS OPEN

9:20am–9:55am
Knotty Bits

SEMINAR 4: How to Handle Illustrative Material
Level of climbing difficulty: Aconcagua

SEMINAR 5: Indexing Grammar
Level of climbing difficulty: Aconcagua

SEMINAR 6: A Is for Arbitrary
Level of climbing difficulty: Aconcagua

10:05am–10:40am
Knotty Bits

SEMINAR 7: Morphing Many Books into One Taxonomy
Level of climbing difficulty: Aconcagua

SEMINAR 8: When and When Not to Index Notes
Level of climbing difficulty: Aconcagua

SEMINAR 9: Web Design Using Web Hosts
Level of climbing difficulty: Aconcagua

10:50am–11:25am
Knotty Bits

SEMINAR 10: Indexing Negatives
Level of climbing difficulty: Aconcagua

SEMINAR 11: When is a Name Indexable/Not Indexable?
Level of climbing difficulty: Aconcagua

SEMINAR 12: Acronyms
Level of climbing difficulty: Aconcagua

11:30am–12:30pm
Hines Award Lunch
Exhibits Open

Afternoon Breakout Sessions

12:40pm–2:10pm

SEMINAR 13A: Bushwhacking, Part I
Level of climbing difficulty: Aconcagua

SEMINAR 14: The Copyeditor’s Worst Enemy: An Honest Look in the Mirror
Level of climbing difficulty: K2

SEMINAR 15: SKY Index Professional v7.0: A Sneak Peek
Level of climbing difficulty: Aconcagua

2:10pm–2:30pm
Afternoon Refreshment Break
Sponsored by Heartland Chapter
EXHIBITS OPEN

2:30pm–4:05pm
Afternoon Breakout Sessions (continued)

SEMINAR 13B: Bushwhacking, Part II
Level of climbing difficulty: Aconcagua

SEMINAR 16: How Much Are You Really Worth?
Level of climbing difficulty: Ben Nevis

SEMINAR 17: Renaissance Indexing
Level of climbing difficulty: K2

5:00pm–7:00pm
Reception
(Included for those who have registered for the full conference. Workshop attendees or one-day registrants may purchase tickets for the reception. Please see the registration form to purchase tickets.)

Poster Presentations
Presenters will be available in the Exhibits area during this time to discuss their posters. Posters will be on display in the Exhibits area Thursday through Saturday morning.

POSTER 1: The Legal Indexing SIG

POSTER 2: Presenting Your Chapter at Book Fairs

POSTER 3: Humor about Indexing

SATURDAY, MAY 26, 2007

7:00am–8:00am
Full Breakfast and Business Meeting
Exhibits open

7:30am–12:30pm
Conference registration

8:00am–12:45pm
Saturday Seminars

8:00am–9:30am

SEMINAR 18: Getting Started
Level of climbing difficulty: Ben Nevis

SEMINAR 19: The Visual Appeal of Indexes
Level of climbing difficulty: K2

SEMINAR 20: Peer Review
Level of climbing difficulty: Aconcagua

9:30am–9:50am
Morning Refreshment Break
Exhibits Open

9:50am–11:25am

SEMINAR 21: Using PDF Files to Jump Start an Indexing Project
Level of climbing difficulty: K2

SEMINAR 22: Experience an Index Usability Test
Level of climbing difficulty: Ben Nevis

9:50am–10:40am

SEMINAR 23: Between Two Worlds: A Writer’s Perspective on Indexing
Level of climbing difficulty: Ben Nevis

10:40am–11:25am

SEMINAR 24: Taxonomies to Internet 2.0
Level of climbing difficulty: Aconcagua

11:35am–1:05pm

SEMINAR 25: Entrepreneurial Indexing
Level of climbing difficulty: Aconcagua

SEMINAR 26: Apples and Oranges
Level of climbing difficulty: Ben Nevis

SEMINAR 27: Working with Authors and Editors
Level of climbing difficulty: K2

1:05pm–2:05pm
Lunch and Kohlrabi Awards

2:05pm–3:35pm

SEMINAR 28: CINDEX Updates
Level of climbing difficulty: Aconcagua

Post-Conference Workshop
(separate registration required)

2:05pm–5:35pm

WORKSHOP 7: SKY Index Professional: From Basics to Advanced
Level of climbing difficulty: Ben Nevis

Post-Conference Tours
4:00pm–7:00pm

4:00pm–5:00pm
Portland Classical Chinese Garden

5:30pm–7:00pm
Portland Underground Tour

Attendees must sign a waiver and non-compete clause in order to participate in this tour. The waiver will be available for signing at conference registration. View the waiver here. http://cgsstore.tripod.com/id23.html

Note that the opinions stated during workshops and seminars are those of the presenter and do not necessarily reflect official positions of ASI.

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