Sampling of Articles

A Sampling of Articles

Key Words is published quarterly (formerly monthly). The articles do not necessarily have the official endorsement of the American Society for Indexing. The views expressed are those of the authors.

• Book Indexes in Metadata, an Interview with Patricia Payton (Bowker, Proquest) and Allison Feist (Proquest) (Ream and Wyman) (Summer 2016)
• Interview with Sanders Kleinfeld (O'Reilly) (Ream and Wyman) (January 2015)
• Indexing and Big Data (Lowry) (May 2013)
• Interview with Hugh McGuire (Pressbooks, LibriVox) (Ingle and Wyman) (April 2013)
• The Indexer as Consultant: Collaborative Indexing of Community Newspapers (Carolyn Weaver) (Jan/Mar 2006)
• Indexing a Classic: Thoreau's fully annotated Walden (Randall Conrad) (Oct/Dec 2004)
• How do I index thee? Indexers count the ways: Part I (Kari Kells) (Apr/Jun 2004)
• How do I index thee? Indexers count the ways: Part II (Kari Kells) (Oct/Dec 2004)
• Legal Textbook Indexing: An Evergreen Business (Enid Zafran) (Jan/Mar 2004)
• The Gist of Journal Indexing (Carolyn Weaver) (Jan/Feb 2002)
• Term Selection: Putting Humpty Dumpty Together, At Last (Sylvia Coates) (Sept/Oct 2001)
• Newbie Conference Reports: What We Learned at the ASI Conference (Shana Milkie & Wanda Dietrich) (Jul/Aug 2001)
•  Indexes in Classic Cookbooks: An Analysis of the Indexes in The Joy of Cooking, 1931–1997 (Catherine Sassen)(Jan/Feb 2001)
•  Usability Testing at Macmillan USA (Christine Nelsen Ryan & Sandra Henselmeier) (Nov/Dec 2000)
•  A Piece of Cake? Cookbook Indexing—Basic Guidelines and Resources (Cynthia D. Bertelsen) (Jan/Feb 1999)
•  Embedded Indexing in FrameMaker and Word (Peg Mauer) (Jan/Feb 1998, Sep/Oct 1998, The Indexer April 2000 [posted with permission of The Indexer])
•  In Defense of Specialists (Rose Grant) (Sep/Oct 1997)
•  An Encounter with Julia Child (Diane Worden) (May/June & July/Aug 1997)
•  Cookbook Indexing: Not as Easy as ABC (Rose Grant) (May/Jun 1990)