Chapter Information
All official chapters and informal indexing groups of the American Society
for Indexing are listed on this page, along with any up-to-date event
information they have provided us. If no events appear for a chapter,
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Relations Committee Chair, whose name and e-mail address is below.
ASI Chapter Relations Committee Chair
Diana Witt
diana.witt@comcast.net
For more information, click on a CHAPTER or Group name:
The Chapters
(Official chapter names are in CAPS.)
CHICAGO-GREAT LAKES CHAPTER
Contact: Leoni McVey Leoni@mcveyandassociates.com
or: chicagogreatlakes@asindexing.org
URL: http://www.chicagogreatlakesindexers.org
Core Region: Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Wisconsin
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CHICAGO/GREAT LAKES CHAPTER, ASI
October 24 & 25, 2008
Fall Workshops Featuring Enid Zafran, John Wean, and Do Mi Stauber
Hilton Garden Inn
2930 South River Road, Des Plaines, IL 60018
Friday, October 24:
Editing an Index (Enid Zafran)
Editing the index is more than just looking for errors.
Enid Zafran, a well-known indexer who writes a column for Key
Words on
indexing style, will draw from her extensive experience to present a
program
on the ins and outs of editing the index.
She will also include an exercise for actually editing an index.
Friday, October 24:
The Publishing Process (John Wean)
Publishing cycles: Do you really know what happens?
What is the role of the indexer in the book production process?
These questions and more will be answered by John Wean,
Vice President of Educational Publishing Services, of the Black Dot
Group
in Crystal Lake, Illinois.
Saturday, October 25:
Taming the Wild Project List: Organizing Tools for the Complex Life
(Do Mi Stauber)
This new workshop by Do Mi Stauber, author of Facing the Text: Content and
Structure in Book Indexing, is designed to help the busy freelance professional. This will be the first time Do Mi will present the full-day version of her new workshop.
Indexers, in fact all freelancers, are notorious for the
complexity of their lives.
Besides juggling multiple professional deadlines and managing the usual
home and community responsibilities,
they tend to be deeply involved in many other creative interests.
Popular workshop presenter Do Mi Stauber, a connoisseur
of time management systems for
many years, has found a combination of organizing tools that enables
her to excel in many areas
of her multifaceted life.
Her new participatory workshop provides participants with a toolkit
for managing daily tasks, deadlines, multiple ongoing projects, and
creative new ideas.
Various strategies will be covered in this full-day
workshop, including
- A flexible task organization system that promotes
calm and clarity by creating conceptual homes for all of your tasks,
projects, and ideas?
- Mindmapping techniques for brainstorming, planning,
and collecting information, using the natural strengths of the creative
brain?
- Strategies for welcoming multiple interests and
projects, and integrating them into a sane and balanced life.
Practical hands-on activities and Do Mi's enthusiastic and empowering
style make this workshop
an energizing experience, and sends participants home ready to enjoy
and manage their own
wild project lists.
A complete workshop brochure, including specific
details, hotel information, registration costs,
and more will be posted in the summer on our chapter Web site at http://www.chicagogreatlakesindexers.org/events.html.
We look forward to seeing you in Chicago in October.
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Florida
Contact: Open
URL:
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/FLI-L/
***THIS NOTICE IS FOR A RECENT PAST EVENT***
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Florida Indexers are pleased to recommend…
Space Tech Chapter of STC
April Program Meeting
Date: Wednesday 23 April 2008
Time: Networking 6:00-6:30 pm Program 6:30-8:00
Location: Piccadilly Cafeteria Meeting Room
Melbourne Square Mall
1700 W. New Haven (US Highway 192)
Melbourne, FL 32904
Presentation: Creating Web A-Z Indexes
Speaker: Heather Hedden
About the Presentation: An A-Z site index for a Web site, sub-site, or intranet can be a useful tool.
As Web sites grow in size and complexity, users need additional means beyond the navigational menu
and a site map to search for the information they want.
Unless a site is very large, an onsite search engine often does not retrieve satisfactory results.
Browsable A-Z indexes, a format familiar to users from the back of books, can provide highly accurate retrieval.
Index entries are hyperlinked to the desired text within a Web page or to an anchored point within the page.
This presentation will explain when and where an A-Z index is the best option for site searching,
the basics of how to create a hyperlinked index, and what software tools are available.
About the Speaker: Heather Hedden is an information taxonomist with Viziant Corporation in Boston and a
freelance book and Web site indexer through Hedden Information Management.
Previously she worked as a controlled vocabulary editor with Gale (formerly Information Access Company).
Heather teaches online workshops in Web site indexing and taxonomies through the continuing education
program of Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science and has given numerous
live conference workshops on Web site indexing.
In 2007 she published the book Indexing Specialties: Web Sites through ASI and Information Today Inc.
She has also published many articles on the subject.
For more information on the topic or speaker visit www.hedden-information.com
Space Tech Chapter of STC Website: www.stc-spacetech.org
Soft drinks and light refreshments will be served.
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GOLDEN GATE CHAPTER
Contact: Theresa Duran at theresad@pacbell.net
or (415) 721-7130
or: goldengate@asindexing.org
Core Region: Northern California, Nevada
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"Apples and Oranges: Exploring the Commonalities and Differences of Indexing Niches"
A workshop led by Sylvia Coates
August 16, 2008 10:00 AM to 12:30 PM
Orinda Community Center, Room 7
26 Orinda Way, Orinda, CA 94563
Cost: $30.00 for ASI members; $40.00 for nonmembers
Pre-registration is required
If you specialize in indexing a particular field or type of publication, your work practices may differ from those of other indexers. Yet some aspects of indexing are surprisingly uniform, regardless of your professional "niche." This workshop will explore the commonalities and differences found in the indexing process of various indexing niches.
First, we will cover the commonalities. The basic indexing processes of thematic term selection and constructing the index structure are the same throughout scholarly, textbook, tradebook, and embedded indexing.
Next, our focus will turn to the substantial differences in the audience, scheduling, and format specifications required by different types of presses and texts: university press indexing, non-university scholarly indexing, textbook indexing, tradebook indexing, and technical documentation indexing.
We will end with a discussion of the financial and career-development implications of these commonalities and differences.
The workshop’s primary objective will be to facilitate the ability to interact and work with different client types and to expand your client base and increase your income.
OPTIONAL LUNCH: After the workshop, please join us for a Dutch-treat lunch at Metro Lafayette restaurant, 3524 Mt. Diablo Blvd. www.metrolafayette.com, a five-minute drive from Orinda Community Center. We can carpool to and from the restaurant, so BART commuters need not worry about transportation.
PRE-REGISTRATION: Send a check, payable to GGASI, in the amount of $30.00 (ASI members) or $40.00 (nonmembers) to Theresa Duran, 60 Scenic Road, Fairfax, CA 94930. Checks must be received by August 12. Please specify whether you plan to attend the luncheon and whether you need a ride or can give others a ride. Please also include your e-mail address so you can be sent confirmation of your registration.
SYLVIA COATES has been a full-time freelance indexer since 1989. Her indexing clients include both university and non-university scholarly presses, as well as medical, textbook, and tradebook presses. Sylvia began teaching indexing in 1999. In 2004, she developed the UC Berkeley Extension Indexing course, which was the 2005 recipient of the Distance Learning Community of Practice Award from UCEA (University Continuing Education Association) for excellence in curriculum. She also currently serves as one of the three, soon to be four, instructors of this course. In addition to writing the UC Berkeley Extension course, Sylvia is the author of multiple articles on indexing.
For more information, contact goldengate@asindexing.org.
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HEARTLAND CHAPTER
Contact: Cathy Seckman at cathy@cathyseckman.com
URL: http://web.spsp.net/jbealle/heartland/index.html/
Core Region: Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky, Tennessee
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Fall 2008 Meeting
Heartland Chapter, American Society for Indexing
Saturday, October 4, 2008
10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Richmond, Indiana
Presenting: Kari Kells
“Dancing on Cobwebs: Weaving Patterns With Our Indexing Decisions”
In this workshop we will examine the variety of approaches that indexers use to implement indexing principles. We will focus primarily on the Metatopic and creating Multiple Access Points, yet other indexing principles are sure to make an appearance as they are intertwined in our decision-making.
Participants will be asked to index a text and send the index to Kari in advance of the workshop. Once you have registered, you will be sent details about completing the indexing assignment. We encourage you to register early so that you have ample time to complete your index. The official registration flyer will be available in mid-August. The more indexes submitted in advance, the more interesting and lively our discussion will be. (Please note: submitted indexes will not be judged, graded, or marked. Anonymity will be maintained. All names will be removed from indexes before they are shared with other participants.)
For nearly 15 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. (More information about the book
is available at www.InsideIndexing.com.) Kari has served ASI at the national level as one of the two original ASI web authors and by founding and serving on the Web Committee for its first three years. She was also a founding member of the Pacific Northwest chapter of ASI and has held a variety of officer positions in that chapter. In her spare time, she works on home improvement projects, creates altered books, and tries not to adopt any more cats from the cat rescue
organization where she volunteers (www.Feline-Friends.net). More information
about Kari can be found on her web site (www.indexw.com).
- $40 - ASI members
$45 - non-members who have been to a Heartland meeting previously
$35 - first-time attendees (members and non-members)
Registration: The Heartland meeting is open to all ASI members and non-members who are interested in indexing. Registration for this meeting will begin in August. Please check the Heartland website for more information or contact Devon Thomas at d.thomas1@comcast.net
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Kansas–Missouri
Group
Contact: Mary Mortensen (785) 841-3631 or marymort@aol.com
***THIS NOTICE IS FOR A RECENT PAST EVENT***
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Kansas-Missouri Group St. Louis Meeting
Thursday, Nov. 8, 2007
6:30 pm
St. Louis Bread Company
147 Westport Plaza
(314) 579-0506
RSVP to Steven Falk, steven.falk@sbcglobal.net
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MID- AND SOUTH-ATLANTIC CHAPTER
Contacts: Suzi Kaplan (Chair) and Connie Binder (Vice-Chair), msa [at] asindexing [dot] org
URL: http://www.msasindexing.org/
Core Region: District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia, Delaware, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, and International Members
***THIS NOTICE IS FOR A RECENT PAST EVENT***
Mid- and South-Atlantic Chapter
(formerly Washington D.C. Chapter)
Spring 2008 Workshop
WHICH PATH DID YOU FOLLOW?
UNDERSTANDING OUR INDEX DECISION-MAKING
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Bethesda-Chevy Chase Regional Services Center
4805 Edgemoor Lane
Bethesa, Maryland
240-777-8200
9:30 a.m. to 4:00 pm
Costs (includes lunch and refreshments):
$60 ASI members ($70 after February 22)
$90 Non-ASI members ($100 after February 22)
Which Path
Did You Follow? Understanding our Index Decision-Making is
a workshop led by two of
America’s acknowledged indexing experts, Sherry Smith and Kari
Kells. This participatory workshop is based on the
fascinating phenomenon that all
indexes for the same text will differ. Without knowing who wrote what,
workshop participants will explore the decisions apparent in each
other's indexes.
Prior the workshop, Kari and Sherry will select anonymous examples from
the submitted indexes that offer discussion opportunities. They will
focus on the primary principles of indexing and how we handled them in
the indexes: making decisions about readers; identifying the metatopic;
analyzing the text; determining the appropriate level of detail;
gathering scattered and similar information; remaining consistent with
depth, structure, and wording; providing multiple access routes; and
phrasing entries for brevity and usefulness.
This workshop is designed for indexers who are familiar
with indexing terms and have completed an indexing project. Practice
indexes and course assignments do count!
Register early as the homework for this workshop is due
well before the workshop begins! You will be asked to prepare an index
for a short text and your index must be submitted to allow sufficient
time for Kari and Sherry’s professional analysis before the
workshop.
Discounted registrations are due by February 22, 2008.
Assigned index homework is due March 10, 2008.
Directions to the Bethesda Service Center: Metro
fare
to the Bethesda Station, on Metro’s Red Line, is $2-/+
one-way
from most other Metro stations. Find Metro information at www.wmata.com
.
From I495, take the Wisconsin Avenue exit south toward Bethesda. Just
past the campus
of the National Institutes of Health, on your right, and the Naval
Medical Center, on your
left, veer right onto Woodmont Road. Follow Woodmont Road for several
blocks, moving
into the left lane. After you cross Old Georgetown Road, turn left into
the parking garage
of our building. If you miss the garage entrance, try to make the next
left turn onto
Edgemoor Lane. There is another garage entrance on Edgemoor Lane.
Parking should
be free on Saturday, but bring some quarters just in case
Please go to the Chapter website (www.msasindexing.org)
for more information about the location, and for travel and housing
options. You can
download a registration form there as well.
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NEW ENGLAND CHAPTER
Contact: Jean Jesensky, jmjindexer@msn.com
or: newengland@asindexing.org
URL: http://www.newenglandindexers.org
Core Region: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New
Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont
***THIS NOTICE IS FOR A RECENT PAST EVENT***
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Joint Meeting of the New England Chapter for the American Society for Indexing (NEASI) and the Central Massachusetts Chapter of the Editorial Freelancers Association (EFA)
"An Evening of Networking: A Facilitated Discussion About Networking"
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Randall Library, 19 Crescent Street, Stow, MA The evening's program includes brief presentations by Jean Jesensky, President of the NEASI, and Eileen Kramer, Coordinator of the Central Mass. Chapter of the EFA, about their respective organizations.
Click here for additional details, contact information, and directions.
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HOLD THIS DATE! You won't want to miss the NEASI Fall 2008 Conference in Sturbridge, MA: Saturday, October 4, 2008.
Check our website soon for more information.
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NEW MEXICO A TO ZIA CHAPTER
Contact: Heather Jones (505) 661-3101, hpjones@rt66.com
NEW YORK CHAPTER
Contact: Peter Rooney (917-376-1792), magnetix@ix.netcom.com
or President Elliot Linzer, elinzer@juno.com
***THIS NOTICE IS FOR A RECENT PAST EVENT***
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New York City Chapter
of the
American Society for Indexing
Indexing James Joyce
Wednesday, March 19, 2008 at 6:30
Jefferson Market Library auditorium
425 Avenue of the Americas [at 10th St.]
free to everybody
In celebration of St. Patrick's Day, the New York City Chapter of the American Society for Indexing announces our March meeting. Charlee Trantino will present a talk about her 2006 Wilson award index to A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake: Unlocking James Joyce’s Masterwork, by Joseph Campbell and Henry Morton Robinson.
When the stream-of-consciousness–style Finnegans Wake was published in 1939, critics called it "unintelligible." Others, such as Joseph Campbell, wanted to figure it out. Joseph Campbell and poet Henry Morton Robinson's A Skeleton Key was the first guide to Joyce's masterwork. It solved many of the puzzles Joyce presented, but earlier editions had no index. The elegance of the index and its appropriateness for the work and for its scholarly audience are what make it an exemplar. Charlee will discuss how she constructed this index for this new standard in literary criticism.
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PACIFIC NORTHWEST CHAPTER
Contact: Cheryl Landes, President, CLandes407@aol.com
URL: http://www.pnwasi.org/
Core Region: Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington
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Pacific Northwest Chapter, ASI
Fall 2008 Meeting
Saturday, August 23, 2008, 8 a.m.–6 p.m.
Bastyr University
14500 Juanita Drive
Kenmore, Washington
Trends in Indexing: the Long Tail or the End of the Tale?
Presenter: Jan Wright
In this session Jan will be talking about being at the end of the line, but she doesn't mean indexing as a profession is going away. Come hear how niches, maniacs, money, time, and space are going to affect how we get work, and who is going to get indexing done in a Google and NetFlix age. Jan will bring together ideas and theories from indexing and non-indexing sources. A lively discussion will be included.
Jan Wright has been indexing since 1991, and has a background as a librarian and as a book production specialist. She has worked on indexes, taxonomies, controlled vocabularies, and knows most of the page layout packages that are used to create books these days. She specializes in embedded and technical indexing, and has used everything from Cindex to Excel to XML to create retrievable indexing.
How are PDFs used in indexing?
A panel discussion with Ed Rush, Carolyn Weaver, Jan Wright and Enid Zafran, moderated by Cheryl Landes.
Learn how portable document files (PDFs) are used in a variety of index subject areas.
Legal Indexing Workshop
Presenter: Enid Zafran.
This three-hour workshop will explain how legal indexes differ from other indexes and review the steps in creating a legal index, including term selection. Special types of cross-references that are expected in legal indexing will be covered. Treatment of cases, especially the rules that govern their sorting, will be described.
Enid has headed the in-house departments of two legal publishers and has worked with all the major U.S. legal publishers, as well as with state and federal government agencies. Workshop attendees will benefit from her extensive experience in training legal indexers and will learn from hands-on exercises.
Other activities:
- Opportunities to network and discuss indexing with your peers
- Friday informal dinner gathering (not included in registration fee)
- Saturday dinner gathering (not included in registration fee)
- Sunday morning Board Meeting
Hotel information:
We have reserved a block of rooms at the Baymont Hotel, which is 5.4 miles east of Bastyr University. The rates are $86 per room plus tax for one king bed and $88 per room plus tax for two queen beds. The rate includes free Internet access and a free continental breakfast. Two restaurants - a coffee/sandwich shop open for breakfast and lunch only and a Shari's that's open 24 hours - are in the hotel's parking lot.
To take advantage of these rates, reserve your room by August 1. After that, the regular hotel rates will apply. Call the number below to make your reservation, as these rates will not be granted if you go through Baymont's Web site. Tell reservations that you're with the "Pacific Northwest Chapter" to receive the discounted rates.
Baymont Hotel
12223 NE 116th Street
Kirkland, WA 98034
(425) 822-2300
The registration packet is now available for downloading as a PDF file from the chapter website at http://www.pnwasi.org/mtgnext.htm. For the lowest fees, your registration must be received by Sunday, August 10.
Descriptions of past Chapter meetings are available
on the chapter website at http://www.pnwasi.org/mtgpast.htm
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Pennsylvania-Pittsburgh Group
Contact: Susan Solomon: gbssls@msn.com,
(724)981-9885
or: westpenn@asindexing.org
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The Pittsburgh Group is trying to form again.
We had a small but successful initial meeting on Sat.,
January 20, 2007, at the home of Susan
Cohen. Diana Witt,
ASI's Chapter Liaison, came and gave an extremely useful talk on Time
Management. She then spoke on ideas to build up our chapter,
and gave us
several useful suggestions about other organizations to contact for
potential future collaborations.
Anyone interested in finding out more
about this group should contact Susan Solomon.
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ROCKY MOUNTAIN CHAPTER
Contact: Liz Walker at EWIndexer@msn.com
URL: http://www.asicolorado.org
Core Region: Colorado, Wyoming, Utah
***THIS NOTICE IS FOR A RECENT PAST EVENT***
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Rocky Mountain Chapter of ASI
Summer Meeting
Saturday, June 21, 2008
10:00 am–3:00 pm
Castle Rock Public Library 100 S. Wilcox Street Castle Rock, Colorado
Getting Started as a Freelance Indexer: Madge Walls will begin this round-table discussion by
sharing her first year experiences about all the things she did to get the ball rolling, and what
she learned along the way. This will be an informal discussion inviting questions and comments from
the floor as it goes along.
Editing an Index: A panel discussion with Lucie Haskins, Marilyn Anderson, Sara
Lynn Eastler, and Doreen McLaughlin. These four experienced indexers will share some of their
tips and tricks for editing, both during the index process and with the final draft index.
Each panelist will share their editing process and then we will open the floor for questions.
Program:
10:00–10:30: Check-in and networking
10:30–12:00: Getting Started as a Freelance Indexer
12:00–1:00: Potluck Lunch
1:00–3:00: Editing an Index Panel Discussion
There is no charge for this valuable educational and networking opportunity.
However, we would ask that you provide a dish to share for lunch and RSVP to Madge Walls (Madge@allskyindexing.com) so she can plan appropriate seating and beverages. We will provide coffee, tea, bottled water, and a morning snack. Also contact Madge for any additional questions.
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SOUTH CENTRAL CHAPTER
Contact: President: Martha Malnor, southcentral@indexing.org
URL: http://www.asi-scc.org/
Core Region: Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and
Louisiana
***THIS NOTICE IS FOR A RECENT PAST EVENT***
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The SOUTH CENTRAL CHAPTER of ASI
ANNOUNCES ITS FALL 2007 MEETING
Saturday, November 3, 2007
8:30 a.m.–4:00 p.m.
The Woodlands, Texas
Our program will be in three parts:
Wilson Award of 2007. Kay Banning, Wilson
Award Committee Chair, Joanne Sprott, a Wilson Award Committee judge,
and Ellen Todd Hanks, a first time Wilson Award Committee judge, will
discuss the process and criteria that were used to determine this
year's winner.
Peer Index Review. Kay Schlembach will speak
on the guidelines used by ASI Lesson Evaluators in reviewing submitted
indexes. Attendees will then review indexes in a small group setting.
Each group will be moderated by an experienced indexer. After all
groups have had their opportunity to review, groups will combine to
share their findings. All attendees are encouraged to submit indexes
for review, either their own or one that they select. Additional
details will be provided via email to each attendee.
It's Anniversary Party Time. ASI is
celebrating its 40th anniversary this year and our Chapter is
celebrating as well. Please come and help us celebrate. We will honor
our founders and look at our history.
Where:
- Woodlands (South Montgomery) Community Center
- 2235 Lake Robbins Drive (Lake Robbins at Grogan's
Mill)
- The Woodlands, TX 77380
Directions: The Community Center is located
next to the Woodlands Public Library and near the Mitchell Pavilion.
Plenty of on-site free parking is available. The Woodlands is located
just off I-45 between Conroe and Houston, TX. Here is a link to a map
of The Woodlands. http://www.town-center.com/map.cfm.
The location of the South Montgomery Community Center is at tab 306.
Also nearby is an HEB, with a coffee bar, (tab 6) and Starbucks (tab
39).
Cost:
- For registrations received prior to October 19, 2007
- ASI members: $45.00
- Students (with proof): $35.00
- Non-ASI members: $55.00
- Late registration fees received after October 19, 2007
- ASI members: $55.00
- Students (with proof): $45.00
- Non-ASI members: $65.00
- NOTE: Bottled water, juice, continental breakfast and
a boxed lunch are included in the registration fee. (A Starbucks and
HEB with coffee bar are located nearby.)
REGISTRATION FORM
South Chapter Fall Meeting
Saturday, November 3, 2007
Name:_____________________________________________________
Address:____________________________________________________
City, State, Zip:______________________________________________
Phone:______________________ E-mail_________________________
Membership:
ASI yes _______ no ________
Cost:
- For registrations received prior to October 19, 2007
- ASI members: $45.00
- Students (with proof): $35.00
- Non-ASI members: $55.00
- Late registrations received after October 19, 2007
- Add $10.00
Amount Enclosed: $_________
Please makes checks payable to South Central Chapter, ASI and send to
workshop registrar:
- Paul Hightower
- PO Box 101028
- Fort Worth, TX 76185
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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CHAPTER
Contact: Anne Leach (760) 360-1432 or ALeach@dc.rr.com
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ASI-SoCal invites you to lunch and a presentation on...
Creating Award-Winning Indexes
by the One and Only Two-Time Winner
of the Wilson Award, Margie Towery!
Saturday, September 20, 2008, 10am – 4pm
at the home of Loraine Schacher, in San Diego, California
Margie Towery has worked in the publishing field for over twenty years. Since 1994 she has been a freelance indexer focused on scholarly texts. She has edited two Indexing Specialties books for ASI, one of which includes her essay, "The Quality of a Scholarly Index: A Contribution to the Discourse." She won the H. W. Wilson Award in 2002 for the cumulative index to The Letters of Matthew Arnold, 6 vols., edited by Cecil Lang and published by the University Press of Virginia. An almost comparable honor was to be asked by the editors at the University of Chicago Press to index their 15th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style, a reference work that is almost a Bible to the American publishing industry. And unprecedentedly, she won a second Wilson Award in 2008 for her index to The History of Cartography, vol. 3: Cartography in the European Renaissance, parts 1 and 2, edited by David Woodward and published by the University of Chicago Press.
Our program: Using material from her two Wilson Award–winning indexes to the Renaissance Cartography volume and from The Letters of Matthew Arnold, Margie will walk us through her indexing process. She’ll describe her routine from the time the pages hit the doorstep to the mouse-clicking delivery of the final index. The in-between stuff will be the heart of the workshop: selecting mains and subs; wording, rewording, and more rewording; editing all along and at the end; maintaining elegance and quality while considering diverse audiences; setting the mood in her office; and letting intuition work in a hard-copy environment. This will be a chance to see two excellent indexes from the inside-out and from start to finish in the process.
More fun to be had: For those who can stay over in the San Diego area, here's another invitation: As is our custom, we'll go out to dinner on the Friday before the Saturday luncheon, and again on the Saturday after the luncheon, so really, these weekends are like a two-day seminar! On Sunday morning Margie will be giving another of her workshops on hand appliqué tips and techniques (her needlework has also won prizes!), while those of us who are needle-averse will exchange tips on running an indexing business.
Additional entertainment options are to visit Balboa Park on Saturday evening or Sunday. We’ll carpool if there is enough interest, and let you know about ticket prices, etc., which will be extra.
Three of the Bard's favorites are performed in nightly rotation in the outdoor Lowell Davies Festival Theatre:
- Romeo and Juliet: The story of "star-cross'd" teenagers whose untimely deaths unite their feuding households;
- The Merry Wives of Windsor: Hilarious comic morality play in which the philandering Falstaff gets his comeuppance from two cunning wives;
- All's Well That Ends Well: Shakespeare's fascinating romance pits the wise and witty woman doctor again the haughty, hotheaded courtier.
- The Women: One of the most and stylish American comedies of all time. The Women offers an acidic commentary on the pampered lives of a group of wealthy Manhattan socialites and is being performed at the Old Globe.
Find your preferred event or destination at http://www.balboapark.org/info/
Below-Cost Bargain! This excellent opportunity to visit a world famous park in addition to learning from a colleague who has developed her skills to the highest achievable peak—the Wilson Award, twice!—is a below-cost bargain at only $47 (ASI members) or $58 (non members)
We look forward to seeing you, honing our indexer's skills, and enjoying the opportunities for networking with our peers.
Registering: Send a check, payable to ASI-SoCal, to Anne Leach, 78240 Bonanza Drive
Palm Desert, CA 92211. Directions to Loraine's will be emailed when your registration is confirmed.
Ride/Room Share: We will set up a room/ride-sharing bulletin board for those of you who are interested. Let Anne know the details, which will be emailed to others who are interested. We will also pick you up and deliver you to the San Diego airport.
For further information, including a list of lodgings in the San Diego area reasonably close to Loraine's house, please email Anne Leach at ALeach@dc.rr.com.
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Tennessee Group
Contact: Dawn Spencer at (865) 354-9601 or indexlady@aol.com
or: tennessee@asindexing.org
URL: http://members.aol.com/tennwords/
TWIN CITIES CHAPTER
Contact: Galen Schroeder galenschroeder@msn.com
Core Region: Minnesota
***THIS NOTICE IS FOR A RECENT PAST EVENT***
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Twin Cities ASI Chapter Meeting
Saturday, March 8, 2008, 9:00 AM
Location
Classroom 234
William Mitchell Law College
875 Summit Avenue, St. Paul
(see driving directions below)
Meeting Agenda
9:00–9:30: Registration and Networking
9:30–10:00: Brief Chapter business meeting and announcements
10:00–12:00: Program—Website Indexes
12:00–Drawing for door prizes! And, for those interested,
lunch at a nearby restaurant
Website Indexes
Once considered a rather archaic approach to providing organizational
pointers to web content, indexes are becoming a more common element of
website design. Also called A–Z topics, online indexes, or
site indexes, this approach can provide as useful a function as
back-of-book indexes, provided they are based on good indexing
practice. This presentation will discuss which indexing precepts
translate well to the web, what is different from back-of-book or other
traditional indexing, and some examples.
Eileen Quam is a librarian and information
architect at the Minnesota Office of Enterprise Technology. In this
role she provides guidance in organizing the State web portal (soon to
become Minnesota.gov) and agency websites, and in implementing document
management systems. She is adjunct faculty at St. Catherine's Graduate
School of Library and Information Science, teaching coursework in
indexing, abstracting, and metadata. She has been a freelance indexer
since the 1980s, particularly in the realms of academic and legal
publishing.
*** While supplies last, Indexes: A Chapter from CMS 15
will be available for purchase at the meeting at a 20% discount from
publisher's price.
Driving directions
From I-94 take the Lexington Parkway exit. Turn right on Lexington
Parkway and continue to Summit Avenue. Turn left on Summit Avenue and
continue to Victoria. (William Mitchell is on your left). Turn left on
Victoria and left into parking lot.
Security instructions
On weekends the College locks all doors and requires non-WM visitors to
enter through the front doors (by the flagpole) and to sign in at the
visitor's desk.
Questions
Call Galen Schroeder (office: 701-298-6304; cell: 701-541-0055)
or e-mail at: galenschroeder@msn.com
Reminder
Every meeting is a networking opportunity. Bring business cards to
share!!!
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WESTERN NEW YORK CHAPTER
Contact: Peg Mauer at wny@asindexing.org
***THIS NOTICE IS FOR A RECENT PAST EVENT***
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Western New York ASI
Chapter—Spring Meeting
Friday, April 4, 2008
Join us for a brief tour and overview of Thomson/West's
operation in Rochester, NY. Thomson/West is a legal publishing firm
with one of their offices
in Rochester.
We'll meet at Thomson/West for a tour of their operation
in
the morning. Lyle Warren, one of our chapter members who works at
Thomson/West, has graciously arranged for us to
have lunch onsite after the tour. After lunch, we will have an
informal panel discussion with legal indexers, attorney-editors, and
others.
Thomson/West is located in downtown Rochester at:
50 E. Broad St
Rochester, NY 14694
(585) 546-5530
http://west.thomson.com
Agenda:
- 10:45 AM – meet in front entrance of
Thomson/West at 50 Broad St
- 11 AM to 12 PM – tour of Thomson/West
facility
- 12 PM to 1 PM – lunch at Thomson/West
- 1 PM to 1:30 PM – panel discussion
- 1:30 PM to 2 PM – chapter meeting
Cost: $10
Space is limited! Reserve your spot by sending a check ,
made out to Western NY Chapter of ASI, to:
Judy Kip
3 Courtly Circle
Owego, NY 13827
Questions? Contact: Peg Mauer (pmauer2004@yahoo.com),
518-359-8616 or Judy Kip (judithkip@earthlink.net),
607-687-0993.
Directions to Thomson/West:
Click on this link: http://tinyurl.com/23uomq
or cut and paste the URL into your browser.
There are only two hotels within walking
distance of Thomson/West, but they are both
kind of expensive.
Clarion Riverside Hotel (0.3 miles)
www.clarionriversidehotel.com/
800-916-4614
Hyatt Regenecy Rochester (0.3 miles, but about
$180/night)
www.Hyatt.com
866-226-6223
There are many more reasonable rooms available a bit
further out. See www.hotels.com
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