Kathy Barry-Shannon, WordCo's Project Manager, earned her BA in sociology and MS in agriculture from Albertus Magnus College and the University of Connecticut, respectively. She has been with WordCo since 2004.
| Seminar 13: Indexing as a Balancing Act |
April 29, 2011 |
3:30 PM to 5:00 PM |
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  John Bealle has been indexing for more than ten years, specializing in scholarly books. He was a part of the team that helped design and test Sky 7.0 and is a frequent contributor to the Sky users email list. His interest in Regular Expressions grew out of curiosity about helpful software tools, particularly in how to get external data into an importable format for indexing software.
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  Harry Bego is an independent language engineer and software developer. He holds an MA in psychology from Nijmegen University and worked as a researcher at the Center for Knowledge Engineering at the Utrecht Academy of Arts from 1988 to 1989, and at the Institute for Language Engineering and Artificial Intelligence at Tilburg University from 1989 to 1995. TExtract was initially developed in 1991, attracted immediate attention from the publishing industry, and has been under continued development since.
| Seminar 12: Semi-automatic back-of-book indexing with TExtract |
April 29, 2011 |
1:30 PM to 3:00 PM |
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Connie Binder has been indexing books since 1998 and loves to index history and archaeology works. Each day brings an epic adventure of heroes, villains, vampires, mummies, immigration, deportation, spies, and more.
| Seminar 09: History Indexing: Bringing the Past into the Future |
April 29, 2011 |
1:30 PM to 3:00 PM |
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Ceilyn Boyd has been an software engineer and project manager in scientific visualization and computer graphics at several research and commercial organizations, including the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Mitsubishi Electric, and BBN Corporation. In 2008, she received a MSLIS from Simmons College and subsequently collaborated on developing a taxonomy of audiovisual materials and a project for archiving electronic mail at Harvard University. She is currently a freelance indexer and taxonomist.
| Seminar 17: Shaking the Tree: Case Studies of Taxonomies in Action |
April 30, 2011 |
8:45 AM to 10:15 AM |
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  Terry Casey has been working as a free-lance indexer for over twenty years. She started her business while on bed-rest with a 13-month old toddler at home. Over the years, she has honed her work-family balance skills while raising three children.
| Seminar 25: Work-Family Balance |
April 30, 2011 |
10:45 AM to 12:15 PM |
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Cynthia Col
| Seminar 21: Breaking into Indexing |
April 30, 2011 |
8:45 AM to 10:15 AM |
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Christine Connors has extensive experience in taxonomy, ontology and metadata design and development. Prior to forming TriviumRLG Ms. Connors was the global director, semantic technology solutions for Dow Jones, responsible for partnering with business champions across Dow Jones to improve digital asset management and delivery. In that position, she managed a worldwide team responsible for the development of taxonomies, ontologies and metadata that are used to add value to Dow Jones news and financial information products. Ms. Connors also served as business champion for the Synaptica® software application, including managing a USbased team of software developers, and supported Dow Jones consulting practices worldwide, which deliver end-to-end information access solutions based on taxonomies, metadata and semantic technologies. Prior to joining Dow Jones Ms. Connors was a knowledge architect at Intuit, where she was responsible for introducing semantic technologies to online content management and search. And before that, she was a Metadata Architect at Raytheon Company and Cybrarian at CEOExpress Company. At Raytheon Company she oversaw knowledge representation and enterprise search, delivering large-scale taxonomies, metadata schema and rules-based classification to improve retrieval of petabytes of internal information via a multivendor retrieval platform.
Ms. Connors is a certified Six Sigma Specialist, and is a member of both the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) and the Special Libraries Association. Christine is Organizer of the Philadelphia and Princeton Semantic Web Meetups, and Assistant Organizer of the New York Semantic Web Meetup.
Ms. Connors holds a master of science degree in Library and Information Science from Simmons College, Boston, and a bachelor of science degree in Theatre Arts Management from Ithaca College, New York.
| Seminar 17: Shaking the Tree: Case Studies of Taxonomies in Action |
April 30, 2011 |
8:45 AM to 10:15 AM |
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Linda Dunn has been a periodical indexer for almost thirty years. Former editor of the print index, Film Literature Index, she worked as an indexer and abstractor for EBSCO Publishing during the transition of the Film Literature Index into the database Film & Television Literature Index. Now working freelance, she is an indexer/abstractor for a small international periodical database. She is currently the president of the New England Chapter of ASI and was the founder and first manager of the ASI periodical/Database Indexing SIG.
| Seminar 24: Going Global: Working in a Multilingual and Multicultural World |
April 30, 2011 |
10:45 AM to 12:15 PM |
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  Heather Ebbs, a freelance indexer, editor, and writer for 30 years, has written hundreds of indexes in a broad range of subjects and styles. She is an instructor for the University of California at Berkeley online extension course Indexing: Theory and Application. Heather is a Past President of ISC/SCI and a past president of the Editors' Association of Canada (and a past president of her local curling club, but that's another story).
| Seminar 21: Breaking into Indexing |
April 30, 2011 |
8:45 AM to 10:15 AM |
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  Frances S. Lennie became a freelance indexer in 1977, after a period of teaching at both the secondary and tertiary educational level in the United Kingdom. She established her U.S. company, Indexing Research, in 1986 to develop and market CINDEX™ indexing software. She served on the ASI Board as Treasurer 1992-1998, was President 2003-2004 and 2010-2011, has been a juror for the ASI/W. H. Wilson Award, received the Theodore C. Hines Award in 2005 and is a founding member of the Western New York chapter of ASI. Frances is a frequent speaker at indexing meetings both at home and abroad, has contributed to several ASI publications, conducted semester-long indexing training courses for New York University's School of Continuing and Professional Studies 2000-2006.
| Seminar 7: How to Start a Freelance Business - A Personal Reflection |
April 29, 2011 |
10:45 AM to 12:15 PM |
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Mark Gauthier is Vice President, Indexing & Editorial Services at H.W. Wilson. He manages the editorial and production operations of 12 units that contribute content to more than 50 index, abstract, and full-text databases. He first encountered periodical indexes while studying French and Classics at the University of Vermont, fell into indexing as a profession while earning an MSLS at Catholic University of America, and later completed an MBA in Operations Management at Baruch College/City University of New York.
| Seminar 16: Controlled Vocabularies and Indexing in Large Operations |
April 29, 2011 |
3:30 PM to 5:00 PM |
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Ina Gravitz, a former Reference and Young Adult librarian, has been indexing since the last century. She especially enjoys indexing history for children and teens, and a sample of her history indexes for kids can be seen on the program cover of the 2007 Philadelphia ASI Conference.
| Seminar 09: History Indexing: Bringing the Past into the Future |
April 29, 2011 |
1:30 PM to 3:00 PM |
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Ruby Gutierrez is the Associate Editor of the Hispanic American Periodicals Index, a printed and online source on Latin America, published by the Latin American Institute, UCLA. She has 20 years of experience as a periodical indexer working in a multilingual environment. She is also the current manager of the ASI Periodical/Database Indexing SIG.
| Seminar 24: Going Global: Working in a Multilingual and Multicultural World |
April 30, 2011 |
10:45 AM to 12:15 PM |
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Bonnie Hanks is the sole proprietor of Hanks Indexing established in 2006. She indexes trade and scholarly books, mostly in the humanities. Bonnie has an AB in English from Duke University and an MS in Information Sciences from the University of Tennessee, and she is also a Registered Nurse. Bonnie currently serves on the ASI Board of Directors and is active in the Mid- and South-Atlantic Chapter of ASI. Prior to indexing, Bonnie was library director at Tandem Friends School in Charlottesville. Bonnie lives in Virginia where she enjoys foxhunting.
| Seminar 28: Real-Life Marketing |
April 30, 2011 |
1:45 PM to 3:15 PM |
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  Heather Hedden is a taxonomy consultant with Project Performance Corporation. She also teaches online continuing education workshops in taxonomy creation through Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science. Heather previously worked as a taxonomist at First Wind, Viziant Corporation, Earley & Associates, and Gale and has done freelance book indexing in between full-time jobs.
Heather is the founder and past manager of the Taxonomies & Controlled Vocabularies SIG of ASI, a past manager of the Web Indexing SIG of ASI, and past president of the New England Chapter of ASI. She is the author of The Accidental Taxonomist (Information Today, Inc.) and ASI books Indexing Specialties: Web Sites, a chapter in Index It Right: Advice from the Experts, Volume 2, and a chapter in the forthcoming book, Indexing Names.
| WS03: Taxonomy and Thesaurus Creation |
April 28, 2011 |
8:30 AM to 5:00 PM |
| Seminar 16: Controlled Vocabularies and Indexing in Large Operations |
April 29, 2011 |
3:30 PM to 5:00 PM |
| Seminar 17: Shaking the Tree: Case Studies of Taxonomies in Action |
April 30, 2011 |
8:45 AM to 10:15 AM |
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  Margaret A. Hogan is currently the Managing Editor of The Adams Papers editorial project at the Massachusetts Historical Society (MHS), with which she has been associated since 2003. She is also the lead editor for the Adams Family Correspondence series, publishing the letters of John and Abigail Adams and their extended family. Before that she held editorial positions with the Ratification of the Constitution documentary editing project, Oxford University Press, and the Greenwood Publishing Group. She presents regularly on the Adams family to a wide array of audiences and has recently begun work on a book on Catholic nuns in antebellum Kentucky, based on her doctoral dissertation. Originally from Connecticut and following a lengthy detour in Wisconsin, she now resides in the Boston suburb of Brookline, Massachusetts.
| Seminar 5b: Indexing for the Long Haul |
April 29, 2011 |
11:30 AM to 12:15 PM |
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  Barbara Holloway, Senior Indexing Supervisor, has been with WordCo since 1998. She has a degree in English from Hood College.
| Seminar 29: Updating and Reflowing Indexes: The Three-Screen Method |
April 30, 2011 |
1:45 PM to 3:15 PM |
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Mark Hyer, Vice President STM Publishing, ProQuest, is responsible for the development and management of ProQuest's science, technology, and medical publishing programs. Mark also oversees the figure and table "deep indexing" programs at ProQuest. Mark has been at ProQuest since 1993 with the majority of his career focused on the abstracting and indexing product lines.
| Seminar 16: Controlled Vocabularies and Indexing in Large Operations |
April 29, 2011 |
3:30 PM to 5:00 PM |
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Steve Ingle has been indexing for over 20 years and is the founder and owner of WordCo Indexing Services. He earned his BA and MA in German literature from Yale College and Washington University, respectively, and also received an MA in Russian area studies from Hunter College (CUNY).
| Seminar 5a: Indexes and eBooks Roundtable |
April 29, 2011 |
10:45 AM to 11:30 AM |
| Seminar 13: Indexing as a Balancing Act |
April 29, 2011 |
3:30 PM to 5:00 PM |
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Andrea Jones
| Seminar 21: Breaking into Indexing |
April 30, 2011 |
8:45 AM to 10:15 AM |
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Chuck Knapp is the indexing manager for BNA's Legal Services Publishing Group and BNA Tax & Accounting. He has been in BNA's indexing department in Washington, DC for eighteen years. He oversees publication of indexes and finding aids for print and electronic products that cover subjects ranging from bankruptcy to intellectual property law. He also leads the BNA taxonomy team. Previously, he was the indexer for U.S. Law Week - Supreme Court Today, and he created the index for BNA's Health Law & Business Series that won the American Association of Law Libraries' 1997 Best New Product award. He authored the chapter on indexing court cases for the book, Indexing Specialties: Law (Peter Kendrick and Enid L. Zafran eds., American Society of Indexers 2001). He is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma School of Law, and grew up in Kansas and Texas.
| Seminar 11: Legal Indexing: Past, Present and Future |
April 29, 2011 |
1:30 PM to 3:00 PM |
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  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, manufacturing, and the trade press.
She is the Program Committee Coordinator of the Pacific Northwest Chapter of the American Society for Indexing (PNW/ASI), a member of ASI's national Board of Directors, and is an active member of 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. She has also been awarded as one of the STC Fellows.
| Seminar 3: Indexing Online Help in MadCap Flare |
April 29, 2011 |
8:45 AM to 10:15 AM |
| Seminar 15: Marketing Your Business Through Social Networking |
April 29, 2011 |
3:30 PM to 5:00 PM |
| Seminar 20: Embedded Indexing in FrameMaker |
April 30, 2011 |
8:45 AM to 10:15 AM |
| Seminar 30: On-line Help Indexing in Adobe RoboHelp |
April 30, 2011 |
1:45 PM to 3:15 PM |
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 Frances S. Lennie became a freelance indexer in 1977, after a period of teaching at both the secondary and tertiary educational level in the United Kingdom. She established her U.S. company, Indexing Research, in 1986 to develop and market CINDEX™ indexing software. She served on the ASI Board as Treasurer 1992-1998, was President 2003-2004 and 2010-2011, has been a juror for the ASI/W. H. Wilson Award, received the Theodore C. Hines Award in 2005 and is a founding member of the Western New York chapter of ASI. Frances is a frequent speaker at indexing meetings both at home and abroad, has contributed to several ASI publications, conducted semester-long indexing training courses for New York University's School of Continuing and Professional Studies 2000-2006.
| Seminar 10: CINDEX: Different Points of View |
April 29, 2011 |
1:30 PM to 3:00 PM |
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  Seth Maislin is a senior content strategist and taxonomy practice lead for Earley & Associates, and a senior partner with Potomac Indexing, with more than 20 years experience in the information industry. He served as ASI president in 2006-7 and has dedicated the last 10+ years providing sustainable content strategy solutions to clients facing complex findability and reuse challenges. Recent clients include Consumer Reports, Corning Display Technologies, Hasbro, Motorola, and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.
| WS02: Principles of Indexing |
April 28, 2011 |
8:30 AM to 5:00 PM |
| Seminar 1: Cloud Indexing |
April 29, 2011 |
8:45 AM to 10:15 AM |
| Seminar 6: DEXembed, WordEmbed, and Word Indexing - From the Front Lines |
April 29, 2011 |
10:45 AM to 12:15 PM |
| Seminar 5a: Indexes and eBooks Roundtable |
April 29, 2011 |
10:45 AM to 11:30 AM |
| Seminar 14b: Transformation from Within |
April 29, 2011 |
4:15 PM to 5:00 PM |
| Seminar 17: Shaking the Tree: Case Studies of Taxonomies in Action |
April 30, 2011 |
8:45 AM to 10:15 AM |
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Judith McConville
| Seminar 21: Breaking into Indexing |
April 30, 2011 |
8:45 AM to 10:15 AM |
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  Before starting Wordnik, Erin McKean was editor in chief for American Dictionaries at Oxford University Press. She is the editor of the irregularly published recreational-linguistics journal VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly, and the author of Weird and Wonderful Words, More Weird and Wonderful Words, Totally Weird and Wonderful Words, and That's Amore (also about words). She has served on the board of the Dictionary Society of North America and on the editorial board for its journal, Dictionaries, as well as on the editorial board for the journal of the American Dialect Society, American Speech. She also serves on the advisory boards of the Credo Reference and the Dictionary of American Regional English. She has a A.B./A.M. in linguistics from the University of Chicago. She rants about dresses on her blog (A Dress A Day, listed as one of the top fifty fashion blogs online by FashionIQ) and is disconcertingly bad at Scrabble (but surprisingly good at roller-skating).
| Keynote presentation with Erin McKean - About Aboutness |
April 30, 2011 |
7:45 AM to 8:30 AM |
| Seminar 26: Reference Frustrations |
April 30, 2011 |
10:45 AM to 12:15 PM |
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Bill Morrison, an Indexing Supervisor, received his degree in Philosophy from Connecticut College and has been with WordCo for 12 years.
| Seminar 13: Indexing as a Balancing Act |
April 29, 2011 |
3:30 PM to 5:00 PM |
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Lori Murphy is a senior index editor at LexisNexis and has been with the company for eight years. She has indexed publications from many subject areas but is currently focused on Environmental Law and Family Law. She also does metadata work on her publications. She graduated from Golden Gate University School of Law and is currently working on her Masters of Library and Information Science through San Jose State University.
| Seminar 11: Legal Indexing: Past, Present and Future |
April 29, 2011 |
1:30 PM to 3:00 PM |
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  Janet Perlman has more than 25 years of experience in indexing with dual specialties - providing indexes for science-based and engineering textbooks and materials, and also indexing Spanish-language materials. Janet has served ASI in many capacities over the years on the Board of Directors, on national committees, and as one of the founders and long-time officer of the Arizona chapter. She is most proud of serving on the judging panel for the H.W. Wilson Award for Excellence in Indexing in 2003 and chairing the judging process in 2004. Janet served as the first Course Administrator for ASI's Training in Indexing instructional course from 2006 to 2008, and is currently Treasurer of ASI. Janet has presented many indexing workshops and is also an author. Besides articles forKeyWords and The Indexer, she edited Running An Indexing Business (ITI, 2002) and Index it Right, Vol. 2 (ITI, 2009, with Enid Zafran). Negotiations are underway for additional indexing books.
| Seminar 2: Keeping Your Indexing Business Alive |
April 29, 2011 |
8:45 AM to 10:15 AM |
| Seminar 14a: Spanish Language Indexing |
April 29, 2011 |
3:30 PM to 4:15 PM |
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Robert Pfahler
| Seminar 6: DEXembed, WordEmbed, and Word Indexing - From the Front Lines |
April 29, 2011 |
10:45 AM to 12:15 PM |
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Kristi Reilly has been managing the taxonomy and indexing operations at The New York Times website for the past 7 years. She worked previously as an Information Architecture consultant to clients in various industries.
| Seminar 16: Controlled Vocabularies and Indexing in Large Operations |
April 29, 2011 |
3:30 PM to 5:00 PM |
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  Gale Rhoades, in addition to being the North American publisher of the Macrex Indexing Program, is a consultant who specializes in making the use of computers more like toasting bread than rocket science. She developed many of her skills and techniques during the ten years she served as the Executive Director of the nonprofit Fog International Computer Users Group; in addition to coordinating the activities of volunteers and employees there, she was often the teacher who manages to stay just one step ahead of the students. Since 1991 she has been self-employed, working with individuals, small businesses, and municipalities; her client base now extends far beyond the San Francisco Bay Area in which she lives. Indexers, and especially Macrex users, often benefit from her extensive (and freely shared) knowledge of hardware, software, and peripherals.
| Seminar 8: Highlights of Macrex Basics and Its Extraordinary Features |
April 29, 2011 |
10:45 AM to 12:15 PM |
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Joanne Rhoton graduated from the University of Buffalo Law School in 1980 and immediate began a career in legal publishing with The Lawyers Cooperative Publishing Company in Rochester, New York. Joanne has written and edited various publications during her legal publishing career and had also participated in developing on-line research tools. For the past ten years, Joanne has held the position of Principal Attorney Editor in the Thomson-Reuters Indexing Department in Rochester, New York.
| Seminar 11: Legal Indexing: Past, Present and Future |
April 29, 2011 |
1:30 PM to 3:00 PM |
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  Kay Schlembach She has based her professional life on service, both to clients and the profession. Since 1996, she has indexed hundreds of books as well as managing projects as a Potomac Indexing senior partner. (www. potomacindexing.com) Large, multi-volume projects are a specialty, as well as business, professional, and school publishing texts. For over a decade, Kay taught the acclaimed Practical Introduction to Indexing workshop, as well as serving for five years on the ASI Board of Directors. During her ASI service, Kay was instrumental in the development, adoption, and implementation of the ASI Training in Indexing distance learning course. She works full-time as an indexer and project manager, while growing more familiar with taxonomy application. Kay lives and works near Washington D.C.
| Seminar 18: Hunting the Elusive Wilson - Part I |
April 30, 2011 |
8:45 AM to 10:15 AM |
| Seminar 23: Hunting the Elusive Wilson - Part II |
April 30, 2011 |
10:45 AM to 12:15 PM |
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Sarah Schott has been indexing since 2006. As an indexer, she’s a generalist and works on a variety of materials, including trade books, scholarly books, catalogs and magazines. She holds a B.A. from Hunter College in sociology and Spanish, a Certificate in Editing from NYU, and is almost finished pursuing an MLS via Southern Connecticut State University’s virtual information and library sciences program. Her work history includes jobs in publishing, entertainment, library support and legal services. Before making the move to full-time indexing, Sarah worked at Time Inc. in the Copy Acceptance department keeping readers safe from bad magazine advertising. In her spare time, she loves to read, travel and hunt for treasures on Ebay and Etsy. Sarah is a member of ASI currently serving on the board of the NYC Chapter, DNI (German Network of Indexers), the Editorial Freelancers Association (EFA) and the Special Libraries Association (SLA).
| Seminar 28: Real-Life Marketing |
April 30, 2011 |
1:45 PM to 3:15 PM |
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  Kamm 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.
| Seminar 27: SKY Index Professional v7.0: What's New and What It Can Do |
April 30, 2011 |
1:45 PM to 3:15 PM |
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  Galen Schroeder completed the USDA course in 2001 and has been a member of ASI since 2002. He is active in the Twin Cities Chapter and served as chair for 2 years. He attends the annual meeting regularly and has been a panel member and a co-presenter at two annual meetings. Currently, he has created about 300 published indexes for books ranging from children's books, to trade books, to textbooks, to scholarly and scientific books. Prior to coming to indexing and ASI he was involved in a number of professional societies as board member, elected officer, committee chair, session moderator, and presenter. Those societies had extensive award opportunities for peer recognition that were instrumental in increasing and/or improving member morale, membership retention, and media exposure both locally (for the member) and nationally.
| Seminar 4: Peer Recognition Awards for Excellence in Indexing |
April 29, 2011 |
8:45 AM to 10:15 AM |
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  Cathy Seckman has been a part-time indexer since 2002, working mostly in the health/medicine, education, and business fields. She is a member and past president of Heartland chapter. Because of a background in dental hygiene, she is especially interested in ergonomics and repetitive stress injuries. Her article on ergonomics appeared in the Oct.-Dec. 2008 issue of Key Words.
| Seminar 22: Bend and Stretch: Reach for the Stars |
April 30, 2011 |
10:45 AM to 12:15 PM |
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Richard Shrout has indexed books on computer-related, engineering, and social science subjects for over 15 years. He has served as Secretary and Chair of his local chapter of ASI and has served on the national Board of ASI in various capacities, including Director, Treasurer, and now President Elect. Richard is one of the founding partners and now one of the managing partners of Potomac Indexing, LLC. Prior to retirement from the federal government, Richard served as the Director of Technical Services for a system of federal libraries for over 20 years.
| Seminar 6: DEXembed, WordEmbed, and Word Indexing - From the Front Lines |
April 29, 2011 |
10:45 AM to 12:15 PM |
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Jennifer Spanier
| Seminar 21: Breaking into Indexing |
April 30, 2011 |
8:45 AM to 10:15 AM |
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  Maria A. Sullivan has a library background and has been an indexer since 1988, first in-house with a legal publishing company and then as a freelancer. Since 1994 she has been providing technical support and training in CINDEXT for Windows on behalf of Indexing Research.
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  Joshua Tallent started KindleFormatting.com right after the Amazon Kindle was first released. He has formatted a large number of books for a diverse set of individual authors and small publishers and has had the opportunity to work with books from a broad range of subject categories.
The transformation process a book goes through from hardcopy to electronic text is always a challenge; every book is different, and every project brings unique obstacles and issues. That is part of the reason Joshua loves doing this so much... there's never a dull moment!
| Keynote Address: Joshua Tallent |
April 29, 2011 |
7:45 AM to 8:30 AM |
| Seminar 5a: Indexes and eBooks Roundtable |
April 29, 2011 |
10:45 AM to 11:30 AM |
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Dawn Tessmer is an Indexing Supervisor at WordCo, where she has worked since 2008. She has degrees in Bacteriology and Medical Microbiology/Immunology from the University of Wisconsin (Madison).
| Seminar 29: Updating and Reflowing Indexes: The Three-Screen Method |
April 30, 2011 |
1:45 PM to 3:15 PM |
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Devon Thomas has been indexing since 2005, with about half her work in database indexing, the other half in back-of the-book. Favorite topics include literature, history, education, and cookbooks. She is a former public and business librarian.
| Seminar 24: Going Global: Working in a Multilingual and Multicultural World |
April 30, 2011 |
10:45 AM to 12:15 PM |
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Margie Towery has worked in the publishing field for over 20 years. For the last 15 years, she has focused on indexing scholarly texts. She won the H.W. Wilson Award for Excellence in Indexing in both 2002 and 2008.
She has edited two of ASI's Indexing Specialties books: History and Scholarly Books (with Enid Zafran). The latter includes Towery's essay, "The Quality of a Scholarly Index." Her recent article, "A Joycean Usability Experiment," was published in both Key Words and The Indexer. Margie also wrote an essay for the forthcoming Indexing Specialties: Culinary and Cookbooks.
| Seminar 09: History Indexing: Bringing the Past into the Future |
April 29, 2011 |
1:30 PM to 3:00 PM |
| Seminar 18: Hunting the Elusive Wilson - Part I |
April 30, 2011 |
8:45 AM to 10:15 AM |
| Seminar 23: Hunting the Elusive Wilson - Part II |
April 30, 2011 |
10:45 AM to 12:15 PM |
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Carolyn Weaver is a retired medical librarian, former ASI president, and current Chair of the History/Archaeology SIG. She has been indexing since 1991 and enjoys reading and indexing American history and visiting the sites of events she has indexed.
| Seminar 09: History Indexing: Bringing the Past into the Future |
April 29, 2011 |
1:30 PM to 3:00 PM |
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Mary Wendt is a freelance indexer who specializes in a number of areas including law. She will be the moderator of a panel of speakers.
| Seminar 11: Legal Indexing: Past, Present and Future |
April 29, 2011 |
1:30 PM to 3:00 PM |
| Seminar 21: Breaking into Indexing |
April 30, 2011 |
8:45 AM to 10:15 AM |
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James Whitfield is Associate Production Manager in Bibliographic Production in the PsycINFO Department at the American Psychological Association (APA). He assists in the management and production of bibliographic records for the PsycINFO, PsycARTICLES, PsycCRITIQUES, PsycEXTRA, and PsycBOOKS databases. Initially hired as an indexer, James had been at APA/PsycINFO since 1985 and he holds the BS and MS degrees in Psychology from Howard University.
| Seminar 16: Controlled Vocabularies and Indexing in Large Operations |
April 29, 2011 |
3:30 PM to 5:00 PM |
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Autumn Winslow, Indexing Supervisor, graduated from Mount Holyoke College with a degree in history and has been with WordCo since 2009.
| Seminar 13: Indexing as a Balancing Act |
April 29, 2011 |
3:30 PM to 5:00 PM |
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Jan Wright
| Seminar 5a: Indexes and eBooks Roundtable |
April 29, 2011 |
10:45 AM to 11:30 AM |
| Seminar 17: Shaking the Tree: Case Studies of Taxonomies in Action |
April 30, 2011 |
8:45 AM to 10:15 AM |
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Pilar Wyman is a professional freelance indexer and has been writing indexes for over 18 years. She has written over 900 indexes for print and multimedia, for English and Spanish-language materials. Her areas of expertise typically include medical and technical subjects.
She edited the ASI booklet Indexing Specialties: Medicine, frequently consults on indexing, teaches the USDA Applied Indexing course, and when her schedule permits, provides training and presentations on indexing and related topics. When not indexing, Pilar works as a computer teacher and technical coordinator at a private K-12 school in Annapolis, Maryland.
| Seminar 2: Keeping Your Indexing Business Alive |
April 29, 2011 |
8:45 AM to 10:15 AM |
| Seminar 14a: Spanish Language Indexing |
April 29, 2011 |
3:30 PM to 4:15 PM |
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