The Hines Award Committee (Enid L. Zafran, chair and Frances Lennie and Janet Perlman, members) is pleased to announce that Kate Mertes has been chosen as the recipient of the ASI Hines Award for 2014. Kate was nominated by two ASI members, Sandi Schroeder and Elizabeth Walker. Each nominated her without knowing the other person […]
As frequently as they work together, publishers and indexers are not often in the same room. But that’s just where they’ll be on March 15, following the first day of the Tucson Festival of Books. PubWest and the American Society for Indexing invite publishers and indexers to a networking happy hour in conjunction with the […]
May 1–2, 2014, Charleston, South Carolina Charleston has an rich culinary history, with extraordinary restaurants and foodshops and a strong tradition of cookbook writing. Matt and Ted Lee grew up savoring the cuisine of their native city, and when they left for college they so missed their hometown foods that they founded a mail-order company, […]
with Linda Dunn, Dunn Information Organization This webinar was presented March 12, 2014 All large projects, especially those which are written over long periods of time or by a number of different authors, will have some inconsistency in names. The solution to such inherent inconsistencies is the use of an external file which contains records […]
Nominations Due February 28, 2014 The Hines Award, named for Theodore Hines, was established to honor those who have provided exceptional service to the American Society for Indexing (ASI). Past winners of the Hines Award have been instrumental in writing and editing books, publicizing ASI programs and services, forming and supporting chapters or SIGs (or […]
with Seth Maislin, Senior Manager, Information Management Practice, Earley & Associates, Inc. The webinar was presented February 4, 2014 Images have a big impact on user experience. Having the right image in the right context can drive customer engagement and revenue. When you have a large library of digital images that can convey nuance and […]
BETTER – FASTER – STRONGER – SMARTER May 1–2, 2014, Charleston, South Carolina ASI is proud to announce the program for our 2014 Conference. Speakers, presentation descriptions, and further additional information is now available. If you have questions or comments, please contact Kate Mertes at conference@asindexing.org. The early bird member rate for the conference is […]
Submissions accepted until February 15, 2014 Have you written an excellent index this year for a particularly challenging text? Then consider submitting it for the 2014 ASI/EIS Publishing Award for Excellence in Indexing. Nominations for the award are welcome from indexers or publishers and will be accepted from December 1, 2013, to February 15, 2014. […]
with Kate Mertes, Mertes Editorial Services The webinar was presented December 17, 2013 What’s it all about? That is the question capable indexers must keep in front of them as they work through a text. Kate Mertes will show you how to avoid tangents and stay focused to produce a good index. We’ll look at […]
The American Society for Indexing (ASI) Digital Trends Task Force (DTTF) is pleased to report that the two-year effort by the International Digital Publishing Forum’s Indexes Working Group to produce a standard method for encoding indexes in EPUB publications has come to fruition. On November 7th the IDPF Board approved the EPUB Indexes 1.0 specification […]
