They’re back—the ASI Indexing Awards!
Last year the American Society for Indexing (ASI) revamped its indexing awards program to better reflect the variety of work that indexers do. Instead of recognizing a single winner, the competition was divided into two broad categories, trade books and...
You are invited to ASI’s next Indexing Playground
Indexing Playground August 27, 2025 10 am Pacific | 11 am Mountain | 12 pm Central | 1 pm Eastern The Indexing Playground is ASI’s version of water cooler conversation—an opportunity to informally gather with peers and chat about indexing. Because, let’s be...
ASI initiatives in response to AI indexes
You may have recently seen threads on indexing discussion lists about AI. It’s a topic many of us are aware of and concerned about. At this time, however, it looks like AI chatbots based on large language models (LLMs) do not make adequate indexes. Consequently, our...