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From the president's desk ...(PRESIDENT'S FILE)

Apr 01, 2008; Weaver, Carolyn ... The bylaws amendment changing ASI's name has been approved by 83.5% of those casting ballots. Therefore, as the last president of the American Society of Indexers, I will be passing the gavel on May 3 to Fred Leise as the first president of the American Society for Indexing. In the course ...

A good laugh.(EDITOR'S FILE)(Editorial)

Apr 01, 2008; Reveal, Judy ... If Reader's Digest did not already have a copyright on their column, "Laughter is the Best Medicine," I'd make it a recurring column in Key Words. I do believe that laughter keeps us young, and my philosophy is that if I can't laugh at myself, I'm not allowed to laugh at anyone else. ...

Letter to the editor.(EDITOR'S FILE)(Letter to the editor)

Apr 01, 2008; Walls, Madge ... I recently stumbled on a route that I hope will soon secure me a steady stream of indexing referrals from a small but robust publisher in my town. I asked if I could evaluate one of their author-created indexes in one of their published books and share the results with them. They were all ...

Physical Fitness.(Brief article)

Apr 01, 2008; Manner, Phyllis ... It was a cold wintry night in New York. Sedentary people were huddled around a fire or sat hunched over a computer. They stood up with sore backs. They should have been at the joint meeting of the New York City Chapter of the American Society of Indexers and the Editorial Freelancers ...

Mid- and South-Atlantic Chapter: January and February round table reports.(Chapter Focus)

Apr 01, 2008; Kaplan, Suzi ... JANUARY A dedicated group of indexers attended the Mid-and South-Atlantic Chapters first Round Table of 2008. Our mid-morning meeting on Monday, January 28, at the Original Pancake House in Bethesda, Maryland, proved to be timed just right, not so early that indexers were caught ...

Chicago/Great Lakes Chapter spring practicum, March 15, 2008.(CHAPTER FOCUS)

Apr 01, 2008; Jackson, Michael ... Saturday, March 15, saw the vibrant Chicago/Great Lakes Chapter busy writing indexes as a full-day collaborative exercise, facilitated by Neil Ching (Champaign, Illinois), at the suburban Park Ridge, Illinois, public library. The librarians seemed surprised to hear considerable laughter ...

Rocky Mountain ASI Chapter report.(CHAPTER FOCUS)(American Society for Indexing)(Conference notes)

Apr 01, 2008; Drialo, Donna ... The BLT (Below Lone Tree) Peer Review Group of the Rocky Mountain ASI chapter held their first meeting on Thursday, February 21, 2008. We met at 10 am in the back room of a local coffee shop/restaurant which provided privacy and easy access to lunch after the meeting. In attendance were: ...

Twin Cities ASI Chapter report.(CHAPTER FOCUS)(Conference notes)

Apr 01, 2008; Drialo, Donna ... On Saturday, February 9, Deanne Levander spoke to the Twin Cities Chapter of the ASI on embedded indexing. Deanne Levander, currently employed by TCF Bank as a technical writer, has been a technical writer and editor for more than 25 years. An Associate Fellow of the Society of Technical ...

The Legal Indexing SIG.(SIGs)(Special Interest Groups)

Apr 01, 2008; Sosnowski, Maria ... The Legal Indexing SIG is a new group, formed in June of 2006 and became an officially affiliated SIG in October of 2006. Our SIG is for indexers who either already count legal indexing as one of their specialties or who are interested in learning more about legal indexing. Members' ...

New Taxonomies and controlled vocabularies SIG approved.(SIGs)(Special Interest Group )(Brief article)

Apr 01, 2008; Hedden, Heather ... At its May 2008 meeting the ASI board approved the affiliation of the newly formed Taxonomies & Controlled Vocabularies SIG. The new SIG, which got started and created a website (www.taxonomies-sig.org) in the fall, drew up and submitted its mission statement to the ASI board on October ...

Pick it up or pass it up?(FROM A TO ZAFRAN)

Apr 01, 2008; Zafran, Enid ... One of the hardest parts of learning to index is knowing what to include and what to ignore. When you first start indexing, you have so much to keep in mind. You have to learn your software and at the same time you have to worry about phrasing entries, double posting, making ...

Marketing your indexing business.

Apr 01, 2008; Hall, Amy ... Introduction Just like any other business, in order to maintain and grow an indexing venture, attention must be paid to the task of marketing. As indexers, the product" that we are selling is our ability to create an appropriate index for our client. Appropriate for ...

Strategies for sizing an index, Part Two: after the index is completed.

Apr 01, 2008; Houppert, Anne Marie ... Part One of this article detailed ways to size an index both before and during the indexing process. Part Two will discuss strategies to employ after you are finished, and only then discover that the index is too long or too short. Perhaps the publisher said you had 1100 lines but ...

Indexing without context: some thoughts about the new world of DITA and content management systems.(Darwin Information Typing Architecture)

Apr 01, 2008; Brown, Fred ... Back-of-the-book indexers use "context" as a key component in their work. Context can consist of: the subject of the publication; the material in a specific page; section, or chapter; and the index headings themselves. Content management systems have a dramatic impact on indexing by ...

From A to Zeta: a brief guide to Spanish-language entries.

Apr 01, 2008; Cronshaw, Francine ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Introduction Spanish is rapidly becoming the de facto second language of the United States. The impact of Spanish on U.S. mass media is evident by the growing numbers of Spanish-language radio and television networks, advertising dollars spent ...

The usefulness of chronological arrangement for subheadings in book indexes: an examination of the literature (Part two).(Report)

Apr 01, 2008; Marshall, Linnea ... Abstract: Alphabetical order is the usual arrangement for subheadings in back-of-book indexes; it has the advantage of being immediately understandable by all readers and it is eminently practical. However, because this practice is so well established and so suitable for most indexes, some ...

Indexing computer books: getting started, Part 1.(Reprint)

Apr 01, 2008; Evans, Richard "Dick" ... Suppose you are an established indexer, and you want to expand your business. You have two choices: Do more of the kind of work you are familiar with, or branch out into new, and perhaps challenging, subject areas. If you choose the latter, then one potential subject area is that of ...

From the editor of The Indexer.(International News)(Editorial)

Apr 01, 2008; MacGlashan, Maureen ... I write this as we approach the end of what, in Scotland, has been a cold, wet and very windy winter: but I am very aware that what we have seen here bears no comparison to what ASI members have been going through. Here's hoping that, by the time you read this, summer will be with us, and ...

AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors, 10th edition.(Book review)

Apr 01, 2008; Ste Marie, Janyne ... AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors, 10th edition. Oxford University Press (New York, New York, 2007) ISBN#978-0-19-517633-9. 1010 pp, with index. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] There are many style guides in existence. From Chicago to Oxford and every house ...

Gerding, Stephanie. The Accidental Technology Trainer: A Guide for Libraries.(Book review)

Apr 01, 2008; Olson, Debbie ... Gerding, Stephanie. The Accidental Technology Trainer: A Guide for Libraries. Medford, NJ: Information Today, Inc., 2007. Paper, 272 pp. Sharon Hughes, Indexer. Available from information Today, Inc., $29.50. ISBN 978-1-57387-269-0. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Stephanie ...