Chicago/Great Lakes Chapter
Fall Workshop
November 5–6, 2010

Hilton Garden Inn O'Hare
2930 South River Road, Des Plaines, IL (adjacent to O'Hare Airport)

Reserve November 5 and 6, 2010, on your calendars for the Chicago/Great Lakes Chapter annual Fall Workshops. The first day is dedicated to indexing skills. The second day is dedicated to marketing—both theory and application.

Friday, November 5, will feature Kate Mertes discussing "Aboutness" in indexing. Debuted as a half-day session at the Minneapolis annual conference, this full-day workshop addresses the concept of aboutness when approaching a text. Multiple exercises and discussion are included.

Saturday, November 6, features multiple speakers. Join us for a day devoted to building your client base.

In the morning, Madge Walls will present marketing theory. Envision this: You have successfully completed an indexing course. You have learned to use indexing software. You are ready to tackle your first paying indexing job. So what do you need to do to prepare for that first assignment? And how do you find ongoing work? Madge will lead us in a "prospecting for clients" journey.

After lunch, Naomi Linzer and Bonnie Hanks will describe their own approaches to marketing. Are you just starting out and need clients? Have you been indexing for many years but clients don’t call as frequently as before? Are some of your clients paying less? Today’s economy dictates knowing how to market and market well.

In today’s tough and uncertain economy, the Hilton Garden Inn’s room rates are the same as last year ($79 plus tax per night), and our registration costs are also the same.

The fun begins Thursday evening, November 4, at an informal dinner in the hotel restaurant. Each day ends with a dinner at a local restaurant.

We hope to see you in Chicago in early November. More information will be forthcoming by September on our chapter Web site at http://www.chicagogreatlakesindexers.org.

Golden Gate Chapter of American Society for Indexing

Coming sometime this fall to the Bay Area: Hazel Bell. Details on date, place, and topic to follow.

Spring 2010 Meeting
Heartland Chapter, American Society for Indexing
Saturday, April 10, 2010
10 a.m. to 4 p.m. EST in Richmond, Indiana

Presenting: Enid Zafran
“Polishing the Index”

Enid L. Zafran started her own indexing business in 1989, Indexing Partners, which is presently located in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. She has worked in publishing since 1975, and run indexing departments at two publishers. Her publications include the popular books, Starting an Indexing Business, Indexing Specialties: Law, Indexing Specialties: Scholarly Books, and Index It Right! Volumes 1 & 2. For ASI's newsletter, Key Words, Enid writes a recurring column on style matters for indexing. She also offers an Indexing Boot Camp which consists of three intensive days of one-on-one training aimed at newer indexers and tailored to their needs.

Polishing the Index — An Editing Workshop

This full-day workshop takes you through the steps that insure your index will shine. With numerous examples, Enid shows common pitfalls and ways to avoid them. Her detailed approach has been praised by attendees. The workshop includes a hands-on exercise to apply the principles presented. Whether you are a long-time indexer or new to the profession, don't miss your opportunity to learn from and converse with one of the country's leading indexers.

also

“Starting and Maintaining your Indexing Business”

During the last hour of the meeting, we'll discuss common questions that new indexers have when starting out, as well as share tips and ideas for experienced indexers on maintaining and building their business. Chapter members will be asked to submit questions or topics they would like to discuss before the meeting. This guided discussion will be a great time to get input from our fellow indexers.

$35 - ASI members
$40 - non-members who have been to a Heartland meeting previously
$30 - 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. To register, mail your name, address, phone, and check payable to “Heartland Chapter-ASI” by April 3rd to: Mary Peterson, ASI Heartland Treasurer, 1085 East Glengarry Circle, Bloomfield MI 48301. You may also pay at the door; however, please RSVP by April 3rd to Mary Peterson or Tanya Bomsta at (740) 353-7809 or bomsta@inkpressindexing.com so that we can prepare materials for you.

Location of Meeting: MCL Cafeteria in Richmond, Indiana

Richmond, Indiana is at the Ohio border on Interstate 70, 1 hour east of Indianapolis, half an hour west of Dayton, and less than two hours west of Columbus.

The MCL Cafeteria is at 3801 National Road East, in the Richmond Square Mall, between Earlham College and the Ohio border. Take I-70 exit 156A onto U.S. 40 (this is the second exit west of the state line). Go west on U.S. 40 for 2 miles to the Richmond Square Mall, on the left.

Software Tools of the Trade
Mid- and South-Atlantic Chapter Fall Conference
Saturday, October 9, 2010, 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Hampton Inn Dumfries/Quantico, VA

Using PDFs in Indexing by Cheryl Landes
To save shipping costs and paper, more publishers are delivering files in the Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). During this 90-minute workshop, learn how you can take advantage of the PDF environment to make the indexing process more efficient.

The primary topics we will cover are

• Searching for text in a PDF document
• Comparing two versions of the same PDF document to view changes
• Copying and pasting text from PDF documents
• Editing text in PDF documents (useful when you want to make notes to yourself or when you notice errors that should be flagged for an editor)
• Setting security on PDF documents (great for submitting invoices)

We will cover other topics as time allows. A handout written in the form of a user’s guide will be provided so that you can practice the steps Cheryl demonstrates on your own.

Cheryl Landes, an award-winning technical writer, is the owner of Tabby Cat Communications in Seattle. She has more than 19 years of experience as an indexer and a technical writer in several industries: computer software, marine transportation, HVAC, manufacturing, energy metering and monitoring, and the trade press. She is a member of ASI's national Board of Directors, and is active in the Society for Technical Communication (STC) on the chapter and international levels. She speaks frequently at ASI and STC meetings throughout the United States and Canada.

A Review of Popular Indexing Utilities by Dave Ream
Add-ons expand the functionality of indexing software as well as offer ways of streamlining some tedious editing processes.

• Index/Check provides style checking on index files and reports inconsistencies in spelling, capitalization, sorting, etc.
• EntryExpander allows creation of consolidated entries, such as lists of author names, then expands them into multiple, single entries for Name Indexes.
• UtilityControlPanel provides a simple window interface to invoke utilities such as those listed above.

Dave 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. Mr. Ream can be reached by e-mail at DaveReam@LevTechInc.com or by visiting the LevTech web site at http://www.LevTechInc.com.

SKY Index Professional 7.0–What’s New and What It Can Do by Kamm Schriener
You’ll be introduced to some of the exciting new features in the latest release of SKY Index Professional and get to see how they can save you time with live demonstrations. Some of the new features you'll get to see are: The new Edit View (Edit your index in a way that's similar to editing in a word processor), the Browse Pane (compare two sets of index entries side-by-side), the Consume Subheadings command (delete all subheadings of a main heading but keep the locators), and much more...

Kamm Y. Schreiner is the owner of SKY Software and programmer of SKY Index Professional. He has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech with a Minor in Mathematics. He has been writing indexing software for more than 30 years and finds creating easy to use software interfaces the most enjoyable part of programming. He is an amateur songwriter when he isn't programming.

CINDEX(TM) Cornucopia by Frances Lennie
You work best when you are comfortable with your software. Explore ways in which you can adapt the program to your preferred work habits. Become familiar with shortcuts to minimize keyboarding and ensure consistency. Become confident in one of Cindex's most powerful features — the use of patterns for finding and editing — and take a brief look at techniques for efficiently handling revisions and embedding index entries into Word documents.**

Frances Lennie began her indexing career over 30 years ago while still living in the United Kingdom. Since then she has prepared indexes in many different subject areas (medical, scholarly, history, etc.) and materials (books, journals, association minutes, legislative proceedings), and compiled database entries for a variety of corporations, institutions, and publishers (Kodak, Mellon Foundation, Martha Stewart Omnimedia, Guideposts, etc.): all handled by CINDEX(TM) which she developed and first marketed in 1986 through her company Indexing Research. France is a frequent speaker at indexing meetings and library schools classes in North America and overseas, taught an indexing course at New York University 2001-2006, and conducts CINDEX training workshops. She is currently serving (thru April 2011) as ASI's President, has previously served on ASI's Board of Directors as Treasurer (1992-1998) and as President (2003-2004), and has been a juror for the ASI/H. W. Wilson Award on several occasions. She has also been intimately involved in the establishment and operation of ASI's Training in Indexing Certificate Program, and continues to monitor its progress with interest. In 2005 she was presented with the Hines Award.

**If you have specific features you would like covered, or questions you would like answered, please send them to chair@msasindexing.org to be compiled for the presenter.

Hampton Inn Dumfries/Quantico
Hotel rooms are available for $99 per night ($108.90 with tax, a savings of $40), with breakfast included, until Monday, August 30. To receive this rate, ask for the "MSA Fall Conference" when calling (1-703-441-9900) or use the code "C-MSI" when booking online.

Directions: From north or south I-95 in Virginia, take Exit 152B to 234N. Hotel is 1/8 mile on right at 16959 Old Stage Road, Dumfries, 22025. Please note that you will NOT be taking the exit toward Dumfries!

Costs
The cost of the conference is $60 for members and $75 for non-members until September 17, 2010. After September 17 the cost is $70 for members and $85 for non-members. Boxed lunches are included in the price of the conference.

Business Meeting
There will be a brief chapter business meeting during the conference.

New England Chapter of the American Society for Indexing

Annual Fall Meeting
Saturday, October 16, 2010
9:15 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Cary Memorial Library 1874 Massachusetts Avenue Lexington, MA

Enid Zafran: "Polishing the Index"
This full-day workshop (with breaks for lunch and a half hour presentation from Heather Hedden) takes you through the steps that ensure your index will shine. With numerous examples, Enid shows common pitfalls and ways to avoid them. Her detailed approach has been praised by attendees. The workshop includes a hands-on exercise to apply the principles presented. Whether you are a long-time indexer or new to the profession, don’t miss your opportunity to learn from and converse with one of the country’s leading indexers.
Enid L. Zafran started her own indexing business in 1989, Indexing Partners, which is located in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. She has worked in publishing since 1975, and run indexing departments at two publishers. Her publications include the popular books, Starting an Indexing Business, Indexing Specialties: Law, Indexing Specialties: Scholarly Books, and Index It Right: Advice from the Experts, Volumes 1 & 2. For the newsletter, Key Words, of the American Society for Indexing, Enid writes a recurring column on style matters for indexing. She also offers an Indexing Boot Camp which consists of three intensive days of one-on-one training aimed at newer indexers and tailored to their needs.

Meet the Author: Heather Hedden: "From Indexer to Accidental Taxonomist"
The Accidental Taxonomist is the most comprehensive guide available to the art and science of building information taxonomies. Heather Hedden -- one of today’s leading writers, instructors, and consultants on indexing and taxonomy topics -- will speak briefly on the subject matter of her book and how it came into being. Heather will speak on her book for half an hour after lunch.
Heather Hedden has been doing freelance book indexing and controlled vocabulary/taxonomy development since 2004. Heather teaches online continuing education workshops at Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science in Website Indexing and Taxonomies/Controlled Vocabularies. She has written two books, Indexing Specialties: Web Sites and The Accidental Taxonomist, and a chapter in Index It Right: Advice from the Experts, Volume 2.

NEASI Business Meeting
We will discuss nominations for the officer positions for Secretary and Vice President/ President-Elect (Vice President for 2011 and President in 2012). All members are encouraged to participate and to make nominations.

Cost: $25.00, which covers the cost of continental breakfast and lunch.

Registration: Mail your completed registration form by October 9, 2010. Forms are available at the NEASI website: www.newenglandindexers.org.

Questions and Cancellations: Cancellations must be received by October 9 for a full refund. No refunds can be made if received after October 9. For questions and cancellations contact Steve Ingle, NEASI Vice President at sringle@wordco.com.

For directions see the Cary Memorial website: www.carylibrary.org/aboutus/directions.html. For additional information, check the NEASI website: www.newenglandindexers.org.

New York City Chapter, American Society for Indexing

It's time for another informal luncheon with the New York City chapter of the American Society for Indexing.

It will be on Tuesday, June 22nd, at Smorgas Chef at Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue (between 37th and 38th Streets) at 12:00 PM. This is change-of-pace from our usual Asian luncheons. We are making it a bit earlier to avoid the big crowds at 12:30 or 1:00 PM.

The Smorgas Chef is just a few dollars more expensive than the restaurants we have been to previously.

Expect to spend between $15.00 and $20.00. You can look at their menu at http://www.scandinaviahouse.org/pdf/Lunch12_08.pdf.

As usual, this is not a meeting, it is a luncheon. No agenda. We can talk about anything on our minds. It is open to ASI members and nonmembers. All indexers, people interested in indexing and friends of indexers are welcome to attend. Please let us know if you are planning to come.

Please RSVP to Janet Mazefsky, at jmazefsky@aol.com or 212-427-7375, by Friday, June 18th.

PNW/ASI Fall Meeting
August 27–28, 2010
Water Resources Education Center
Vancouver, WA

For our next meeting, we have an exciting round-up of experts who will share tips on

• Branding yourself
• Pricing your services
• Finding work through the social networking sites
• Editing your indexes

Agenda-at-a-Glance

Friday, August 27

9 am–12 pm: Fall Board Meeting (Everyone is welcome.)

12:15 pm: Registration

12:30–1:30 pm: Welcome and Business Meeting

1:45–2:45 pm: “Price Negotiations and Personal Brand Value” with Jeff Barlow, Jelvetica, Seattle

3–5 pm: “Effective Job Search Techniques for Social Networking” with Ed Marshall, Marshall Documentation Services, Boston

6–7:30 pm: Dinner at the Red Lion at the Quay

Saturday, August 28

10 am–5 pm: “Editing and Polishing Your Indexes” with Enid Zafran, Indexing Partners LLC, Rehoboth Beach, Delaware

For more information and to download a registration packet, go to http://www.pnwasi.org/mtgnext.htm.

Hotel

Red Lion at the Quay
100 Columbia Street
Vancouver, WA 98660
(360) 694-8341

The Red Lion at the Quay in Vancouver, WA, three miles west of the Water Resources Education Center, has extended a courtesy rate of $79/night, plus tax, to the PNW/ASI Chapter for our fall meeting. Rooms must be reserved by Friday, August 13, to take advantage of this special rate. To make a reservation, call the Red Lion directly at (360) 694-8341 and mention the "Northwest Indexers courtesy rate." A complimentary airport shuttle is available.

For more information about the Red Lion at the Quay, go to http://redlion.rdln.com/. Please note that if you make a reservation through the Web site, you will not receive the special negotiated room rate above. Call the Red Lion directly to receive the discounted rate.

ASI Rocky Mountain Chapter
Fall Indexing Skills Workshop
Aboutness in Indexing

September 18, 2010
9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
South Metro Denver Chamber of Commerce
6840 S. University Blvd.
Centennial, CO 80122
Map: http://tinyurl.com/natztt

The Rocky Mountain Chapter of ASI invites you to attend our 2010 Fall Indexing Skills Workshop, Aboutness in Indexing presented by Kate Mertes.

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 shows you how to avoid tangents and stay focused to produce a good index. We'll analyze the purpose and structure of a single, complete, challenging text through instruction, workshop exercises, and question-and-answer periods.

$50 for ASI members, $70 for nonmembers.
Includes morning coffee/tea/juice and pastries, water/coffee/tea for breaks, and box lunch (details on receipt of registration).

Please register by Monday, September 13, 2010. You may send your contact information (including e-mail) along with a check, payable to ASI Rocky Mountain Chapter, to Judy Gordon, RM-ASI Treasurer, 2829 Wyandot, Denver, CO 80211. There’s no registration form; your check is your registration. Receipts will be available upon request. For more information, please contact Liz Walker at ewindexer@msn.com.

Workshop participants are invited to join us in the evening for dinner with Kate at a nearby restaurant (Dutch treat)

The SOUTH CENTRAL CHAPTER of ASI
ANNOUNCES ITS FALL 2009 MEETING

Saturday, November 7, 2009
8:30 a.m.–4:00 p.m.

Fort Worth Botanical Gardens
Fort Worth, Texas

Kate Mertes presents her very popular NASCAR INDEXING: CREATING AND MAINTAINING SPEED

Time is money, and indexers are business people. We all want to work quickly and efficiently without sacrificing quality. NASCAR drivers don't win races because they drive carelessly and cut corners, or because they only drive in easy races. They win because they're good, they're fast, and they're good at being fast. Indexers can do that too. The workshop is divided into three parts:

• philosophical aspects of speed in indexing
• the baseline requirements an indexer needs for speed
• actual speed-producing skills and practices.

Kate Mertes is sole proprietor of Mertes Editorial Services, providing indexing, information retrieval, and editorial expertise for complex, challenging projects in law and the humanities. Kate took her B.A. in medieval studies, a Ph.D. in medieval history, and a post-doctoral degree in theology, and after teaching at university level for several years moved into publishing with a stint at Oxford English Dictionaries. After nine years as a managing editor of indexing with Research Institute of America, a legal publishing company, Kate started her own business in 1998. She has lived in Alexandria, VA, since 1992. Kate served on the Board of the American Society for Indexing (ASI) from 1998 to 2004, and was president of ASI in 2002–2003; she is currently serving her second presidential term. She was also president of the Mid and South Atlantic chapter of ASI, 2005–2006, and periodically teaches a course on indexing for the Library School of the Catholic University of America. Kate is the author of Good Governance and Politic Rule: The English Noble Household, 1250–1550, and chapters in many of ASI's publications on the indexing of legal, historical, and theological materials. She is also a co-author, with Fred Leise and Nan Badgett, of Indexing for Editors and Authors.

The Southeast Chapter
of the American Society for Indexing
announces its
Inaugural Meeting
November 12–13, 2010

Spring Hill Suites
Savannah Historic District
150 Montgomery Street
Savannah, GA 31401
912-629-5300

We will present two workshops by Kate Mertes, immediate past president of the American Society for Indexing.

On Friday, beginning at 1 PM, Kate will present her workshop on “Aboutness” in indexing.

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 shows you how to avoid tangents and stay focused to produce a good index. We'll analyze the purpose and structure of a single, complete, challenging text through instruction, workshop exercises, and question-and-answer periods.

The workshop will be followed by a welcome reception, and the chapter committee will provide a variety of dining options in downtown Savannah.

On Saturday Kate will present her daylong workshop, NASCAR Indexing: Creating and Maintaining Speed

Time is money, and indexers are business people. We all want to work quickly and efficiently without sacrificing quality. NASCAR drivers don’t win races because they drive carelessly and cut corners or because they drive only in easy races. They win because they’re good, they’re fast, and they’re good at at being fast. Indexers can do that too.

This workshop is divided into three parts: philosophical aspects of speed in indexing, the baseline requirements an indexer needs for speed, and actual speed-producing skills and practices.

This is a hands-on workshop that will provide helpful information and applications for indexers at all levels.

Kate Mertes is sole proprietor of Mertes Editorial Services, providing indexing, information retrieval, and editorial expertise for complex, challenging projects in law and the humanities. After nine years as a managing editor of indexing with Research Institute of America, a legal publishing company, Kate started her own business in 1998. Kate served on the Board of the American Society for Indexing (ASI) from 1998 to 2004, and has been president of ASI twice, in 2002–2003 and 2009–2010; she is currently serving as immediate past president. She was also president of the Mid and South Atlantic chapter of ASI, 2005–2006. She is a co-author, with Fred Leise and Nan Badgett, of Indexing for Editors and Authors.

Lunch will be provided on Saturday, followed by a brief business meeting to go over the nuts and bolts of what we need to do to organize the chapter, and also to get input from potential members about where to hold future meetings and what kind of programming we would like to have going forward.

The fee for both workshops, the reception, and lunch, will be $140 till October 15; $160 after that date.

We are also able to offer a room rate of $119 (including free breakfast) at Spring Hill Suites. This hotel is located in historic downtown Savannah, near shopping, restaurants, Savannah’s riverfront, and its famous historic squares.

Deadline for registration for this event will be October 15, 2010. We must have a firm commitment for at least 10 people by this date in order to meet our costs.

THIS EVENT IS OPEN TO ALL INDEXERS. ASI MEMBERSHIP IS NOT REQUIRED

We hope you will join us. Download the registration form here or contact Diana Witt diana.witt@comcast.net or Sandi Schroeder sanindex@schroederindexing.com directly.

ASI Twin Cities Chapter
Fall Indexing Skills Workshop
Metatopic Menace & Subheadings: Basic, Useful, Elegant

Saturday, October 16, 2010
9:30 am–3:30 pm
William Mitchell College of Law
875 Summit Avenue, Room 229
St. Paul, Minnesota 55105
651-227-9171
Directions to campus: http://www.wmitchell.edu/about/directions.html

$50 for ASI members, $65 for nonmembers
Includes beverages and lunch
(water or coffee—food details will be available on receipt of registration)

** Door Prize**
Attendees will have a chance to win a copy of the newly released
Chicago Manual of Style, 16th Edition

Schedule:

9:30–10:15 am: Coffee & Networking

10:15–10:30 am: Chapter Business Meeting

10:30–12:00 noon: Metatopic Menace

12:00–1:15 pm: Lunch

1:15–2:45 pm: Subheadings: Basic, Useful, Elegant

2:45–3:30 pm: Q&A, Networking

Metatopic Menace — Presenter: Kay Schlembach
Is it possible to master the metatopic? The era of search has made this question even more important. It is my opinion that taming the metatopic, both main and local, is the key to developing a stable index structure. We look at examples, discuss various approaches, and suggest several solutions to this challenge. We will also touch on biographies.

Kay Schlembach has been passionate about teaching beginning indexers for more than a decade. A "marvelous, vivacious teacher," Kay is a managing partner with Potomac Indexing, LLC (http://www.potomacindexing.com), along with Richard Shrout, Seth Maislin, and Mary Coe. In addition to speaking, she has served as an ASI director, an ASI Training Course developer, committee member and evaluator. Coming from a diverse background, including homeschooling gifted children and real estate appraisal, Kay has been a full-time indexer since 1997. After two decades in Houston, Texas, Kay and family now live in northern Virginia.

Subheadings: Basic, Useful, Elegant — Presenter: Margie Towery
The structure of a back-of-the-book index consists of main headings, subheadings, and accurate locators (and cross-references). This "entry array" must reflect the text and lead the index user to the desired information quickly and efficiently. Margie will talk about and illustrate the ins and outs of subheadings: when to use (and when not), wording options, sorting possibilities, editing, readability, and format alternatives for run-in (paragraph-style) indexes. There may or may not be a test, or rather, hands-on exercises. It depends. But you will almost certainly walk away with something to think about in terms of your own approach to subheadings.

Margie Towery has worked in the publishing field for over twenty years. For more than fifteen of those years, she has focused on indexing scholarly texts. Margie won the H. W. Wilson Award for Excellence in both 2002 and 2008. Information about and samples of those indexes are available on ASI's web site. Her recent essays include "The Quality of a Scholarly Index" (in Indexing Specialties: Scholarly Books), "The Joycean Usability Experiment" (in both Key Words and The Indexer), and, with Victoria Agee, "Creating Elegant Subheadings" (in Index It Right, vol. 2).

**Please register by Monday, October 11, 2010.** You may send your contact information (including e-mail) along with a check, payable to ASI Twin Cities Chapter, to Terri Hudoba, ASI-TC Treasurer, 5724 View Lane, Edina, MN 55436. There’s no registration form; your check is your registration. Receipts will be available upon request. For more information, please contact Terry Casey at tcasey@inkandline.com or Terri Hudoba at tahudoba@comcast.net or terri.hudoba@gmail.com.

Western New York Chapter of ASI
Fall Meeting

Saturday, October 16, 2010

Fletcher Steele Room
Pittsford Public Library
24 State St,
Pittsford, NY, 14534
Phone: (585) 248-6280
www.townofpittsford.org/home-library

The focus of our fall meeting will be an open forum on indexing. We’re looking forward to a facilitated freewheeling discussion on a wide range of indexing topics. The topics should be interesting whether you’re a beginning indexer or an experienced professional. The suggested list of topics includes, but is not limited to: starting an index business, acquiring clients, receiving timely payment, building relationships with authors and editors, hardware and software issues, home office space, what the life of a freelance indexer is like, and best practices/how do you do it. If there’s a particular topic you’d like to discuss please either e-mail it to Judy or Lyle or bring it along with you—it’s an open forum!

Agenda:

Members: $20 before September 25; $25 after September 25.
Non-members: $25 before September 25; $30 after September 25.

Send checks payable to: WNY Chapter of ASI to Judy Kip, 3 Courtly Circle, Owego, NY 13827.

For questions or more information, contact: Lyle Warren lyle.warren@thomsonreuters.com 585-293-1571, or Judy Kip JudithKip@earthlink.net 607-687-0993.