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ASI Webinar: Indexing Philosophy Books—Bringing lofty ideas (and indexes) down to Earth

ASI Webinar: Indexing Philosophy Books Bringing lofty ideas (and indexes) down to Earth with Tom Kiefer August 26, 2026 10 am Pacific; 11 am Mountain; 12 pm Central; 1 pm Eastern Known to be abstract, difficult, and filled with technical jargon, philosophy books...

ASI Webinar Series: Structural Elements—A Deeper Look Into Structure

Part 1. Indexing Whatchamacallits and Thingamajigs How to Word Vague, Implied, and Elusive References with Joan Shapiro In this session Joan will discuss indexing textual discussions that are in some way incomplete. How do you handle references to concepts that...

ASI Webinar Replay: Legal Indexing: A Brief Introduction

ASI Webinar: Legal Indexing: A Brief Introduction with Jennifer Allison Legal Indexing, A Brief Introduction, will introduce you to foundational information about the U.S. legal system and provide strategies and tips for creating indexes for law-related books. In this...

ASI Webinar Replay: Building a Successful Mentorship

ASI Webinar Replay: Building a Successful Mentorship with Carlisle Froese Mentorship is a great tool for improving or acquiring skills in indexing. That being said, it can be challenging to establish this type of relationship outside of an organized program. Whether...

ASI Webinar Replay: Biographical Metatopics, or, the Why of the Who

ASI Webinar: Biographical Metatopics, or, the Why of the Who with Fred Leise Determining the metatopic of a text is often a complicated, perhaps worrisome task. This is especially the case with biographies. This webinar offers a brief refresher on metatopics and then...

ASI Webinar Replay: Indexing Geographic Place-names

ASI Webinar: Indexing Geographic Place-names Information and Tools to Get Place-names Right with Bill Wheaton In this webinar, Bill Wheaton will provide information to help index geographic place-names. We’ll look at many aspects including: accurate spelling,...

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