Spring into Action! Freshen Up Your Indexing Skills and Revitalize Your Freelance Business. ASI’s 2025 virtual conference will offer a wide range of hands-on sessions for indexers at all levels of experience. Presenters will address real-world indexing issues and challenges, and provide best practices and fresh approaches for dealing with them.
Building a Successful Mentorship with Carlisle Froese on March 19. Mentorship is a great tool for improving or acquiring skills in indexing. Learn how to establish a successful independent mentorship, and gain tools for successful partnerships that enhance your indexing process and save you time.
Indexing Playgrounds are where we get together to chat with other indexers in an informal, safe environment created just for ASI members. Our theme for the upcoming Indexing Playground on March 12 is client types. Chat with your fellow indexers about the client types you enjoy or the ones you’d like to learn more about.
Call for Hines Award Nominations Nominations Due March 15, 2025 Do you know someone who has given unstintingly of their time and talents to ASI? Then consider nominating them for the 2025 Hines Award. ASI’s Theodore C. Hines Award recognizes those who have made exceptional contributions to ASI and to the indexing profession. The deadline […]
The American Society for Indexing has announced the winners of the 2024 Indexing Awards. In the Trade category, Jan Wright won for Shift Happens: A Book about Keyboards, published by Aresluna, LLC. In the Scholarly/Technical category, Enid Zafran won for Looking for Other Worlds: Black Feminism and Haitian Fiction, published by University of Virginia Press.
December 6, 2024. When you run an indexing business, you spend time indexing, and you spend time running a business. You seek out ways to be more efficient, and you look for tools—both indexing- and business-related—that help you to work smarter. We’ve gathered renown experts to help you navigate your path to a more savvy […]
The American Society for Indexing (ASI) has designated November 18 as National Indexing Day to celebrate the making and using of indexes. Indexing is a largely hidden and important part of the publishing industry. Indexes are created for print publications such as books and periodicals and for media such as websites, ebooks and other digital […]
You could win a $500 award. Enter your index into the awards by October 24, 2024.
We are planning our next Indexing Playground, a networking opportunity for ASI members. Our theme is indexing software. Attendees can socialize with their indexing peers and discuss their experiences and questions relating to particular software. Join us 9/25!
Three-Part Course with Elizabeth Bartmess. October 9, 16, and 23, 2024. Macros are like mini-programs that anyone can write. They allow users to perform a longer series of tasks with a quick keyboard shortcut and can speed indexing, increase accuracy, and reduce small annoyances. Macros can invert names, clean text, and do many other useful […]
