CHICAGO/GREAT LAKES CHAPTER, ASI
October 24 & 25, 2008

Registration Now Open for Fall Workshops

Featuring Two Days of Seminars by
Enid Zafran, John Wean, Cathy Townsend, and Do Mi Stauber

A complete workshop brochure, including location, registration costs and form, and more, is posted on our chapter Web site at http://www.chicagogreatlakesindexers.org/events.html.

Workshop Highlights:

• Polishing Your Index: Enid Zafran will draw from her vast experience to present the steps of editing and polishing the index.
  
  
• The Publishing Process: What is the role of the indexer in the book production process? What causes schedules for indexing proofs to be delayed? Do you ever wonder why your marketing efforts seem to get no response, even a simple acknowledgment of receipt? These questions and more will be answered by John Wean, Vice President of Educational Publishing Services, and Cathy Townsend, Director of Editorial Services, of the Black Dot Group in Crystal Lake, Illinois.
  
  
• Taming the Wild Project List: Organizing Tools for the Complex Life: This new workshop by Do Mi Stauber, author of Facing the Text: Content and Structure in Book Indexing, is designed to help the busy freelance professional. Popular workshop presenter Do Mi Stauber, a connoisseur of time management systems for many years, has found a combination of organizing tools that enables her to excel in many areas of her multifaceted life. Her new participatory workshop provides participants with a toolkit for managing daily tasks, deadlines, multiple ongoing projects, and creative new ideas.

Florida Indexers are pleased to recommend…
 
Space Tech Chapter of STC
April Program Meeting
Date: Wednesday 23 April 2008
Time: Networking 6:00-6:30 pm Program 6:30-8:00
Location: Piccadilly Cafeteria Meeting Room
Melbourne Square Mall
1700 W. New Haven (US Highway 192)
Melbourne, FL 32904
Presentation: Creating Web A-Z Indexes
Speaker: Heather Hedden

About the Presentation: An A-Z site index for a Web site, sub-site, or intranet can be a useful tool. As Web sites grow in size and complexity, users need additional means beyond the navigational menu and a site map to search for the information they want. Unless a site is very large, an onsite search engine often does not retrieve satisfactory results. Browsable A-Z indexes, a format familiar to users from the back of books, can provide highly accurate retrieval. Index entries are hyperlinked to the desired text within a Web page or to an anchored point within the page. This presentation will explain when and where an A-Z index is the best option for site searching, the basics of how to create a hyperlinked index, and what software tools are available.

About the Speaker: Heather Hedden is an information taxonomist with Viziant Corporation in Boston and a freelance book and Web site indexer through Hedden Information Management. Previously she worked as a controlled vocabulary editor with Gale (formerly Information Access Company). Heather teaches online workshops in Web site indexing and taxonomies through the continuing education program of Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science and has given numerous live conference workshops on Web site indexing. In 2007 she published the book Indexing Specialties: Web Sites through ASI and Information Today Inc. She has also published many articles on the subject.

For more information on the topic or speaker visit www.hedden-information.com

Space Tech Chapter of STC Website: www.stc-spacetech.org

Soft drinks and light refreshments will be served.

Golden Gate Chapter of ASI
Business Meeting & Lunch

Sunday, November 2, 2008
12:30 AM to approx. 2:30 PM
Gordon Biersch Brewery
2 Harrison Street (on the Embarcadero)
San Francisco, CA 94105
Dutch-treat lunch (menu available online at www.gordonbiersch.com)

All GGASI members are invited to attend this combination business meeting/lunch. Besides socializing, we will be voting on issues that will determine the chapter's short- and long-term direction. The main items of discussion will be (1) Chapter banking and incorporation, (2) Funding a scholarship to the 2009 ASI conference, (3) Nomination of chapter officers for 2009, and (4) Suggestions for upcoming programs and events.

A detailed summary of these issues will be emailed to all GGASI members in advance of the meeting so that those unable to attend may still have the opportunity to voice their opinions. For more information, or to nominate yourself or someone else to the GGASI board, please contact Theresa Duran at goldengate@asindexing.org.

Fall 2008 Meeting
Heartland Chapter, American Society for Indexing
Saturday, October 4, 2008
10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Richmond, Indiana

Kari Kells’ presentation "Dancing on Cobwebs: Weaving Patterns With Our Indexing Decisions" has been CANCELLED. We are still meeting and we will discuss Kari’s assignment and handouts, but Kari cannot come. The discussion will be informal, but we will examine the variety of approaches that indexers use to implement indexing principles. We will use the indexes that Kari already received. Anyone coming is encouraged to do the assignment, but if you can't and still want to come, we have enough samples to have a good discussion.

We are also planning to do a peer edit/review and have our business meeting. There will be plenty of time to visit with other indexers.

For more information or to register please contact Cathy Seckman, ASI Heartland President, at cathy@cathyseckman.com, 330-853-5343 or Devon Thomas, ASI Heartland VP, at d.thomas1@comcast.net, 734-972-5502.

The Heartland meeting is open to all ASI members and non-members who are interested in indexing. There is no charge for this meeting. For Richmond hotel information, contact Cathy Seckman.

MSA FALL PROGRAM & MEETING
INDEXING MEDICINE & THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE

Friday, November 14, 2008
9:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.

Lister Hill Visitor Center
National Library of Medicine
Bethesda, Maryland

MSA and NLM have a program sure to appeal to indexers at all levels of career and expertise, from beginner to expert. With all the changes in our local, national, and global economy, it’s certainly a great time to expand your capabilities, so plan to join MSA at NLM on Friday, November 14. We’ll learn some medical indexing and have a fine time meeting, greeting, and supporting our fellow indexers. Program highlights include

• Contracting with NLM
• Indexing for MEDLINE
• Jobs with NLM/NIH in the Atlantic coast states
• Reserved area for MSA lunch and business meeting
• Behind the scenes tour of NLM & tour of NLM exhibits
• Bibliographic control at NLM
• MESH, UMLS, PubMed, MedLars
  

RSVP by email to MSA Chair, Suzi Kaplan, at chair [at] msasindexing [dot] org, to ensure seating. There is no charge for this program. Contributions of any size to MSA, however, are always welcome! Coffee and tea service during the meeting have been donated.

Lunch is at your own expense in the Lister Hill Cafeteria.

Important: Please see the information about security and visiting NIH.

DIRECTIONS
NIH provides directions here.

TRANSPORTATION
NLM/NIH is accessible by Metro, public bus, and private vehicle.

Metro (subway): use the Medical Center stop on Metro’s Red Line MetroBus J1, J2, J3, J7, J9; Montgomery County RideOn Bus 30, 33, 34, 46, 70

Drivers, there is a charge for parking at NIH.

Metro’s Red Line can be accessed via Union Station in Washington, DC, from Amtrak, MARC, and VRE trains, and BWI–Baltimore Washington International Airport. Shuttle bus service is available from IAD–Dulles International Airport that will enable you to connect with other public transportation. The Metro is directly accessible from DCA–National Airport. Southwest Airline serves BWI and IAD airports and has “HotFares” available from some cities through October 16.

New York City Chapter, American Society for Indexing

Please mark your calendar for this upcoming meeting:

Wednesday, October 15, at 6:00 pm. The chapter will meet at the Jefferson Market Library in Greenwich Village. The subjects will be starting up an indexing practice and periodical and database indexing. Further details to be announced.

Pacific Northwest Chapter

The PNW/ASI Spring 2009 Meeting will be merged with the national ASI conference, April 23-25, 2009, at the Doubletree Hotel near Lloyd Center in Portland, Oregon. More information about chapter activities at the national conference will be posted on the Chapter website at http://www.pnwasi.org/mtgnext.htm as it becomes available.

The Fall 2009 meeting will be held in Richland, Washington.

The Pittsburgh Group is trying to form again.  We had a small but successful initial meeting on Sat., January 20, 2007, at the home of Susan Cohen.  Diana Witt, ASI's Chapter Liaison, came and gave an extremely useful talk on Time Management. She then spoke on ideas to build up our chapter, and gave us several useful suggestions about other organizations to contact for potential future collaborations.

Anyone interested in finding out more about this group should contact Susan Solomon.

Rocky Mountain Chapter of ASI
Fall Meeting
Saturday, October 18, 2008
9:30 am–3:30 pm

Colorado History Museum
1300 Broadway
Denver, Colorado 80203

EMBEDDED INDEXING—UNDER THE COVERS, presented by Lucie Haskins

This workshop will delve into the mysteries of embedded indexing and shed light on the indexing processes involved.

Lucie will quickly explore the basic concepts of embedded indexing, discuss the difficulties, and then will spend the majority of the workshop demonstrating her indexing process for FrameMaker and Word. Due to the limited functionality of built-in tools in these applications, Lucie will emphasis the add-on utilities she's found that streamline and improve her indexing process.

While not strictly "embedded indexing," but because of its somewhat related nature, Lucie will also demonstrate using the Microsoft TIM (Tagging and Index Mapper) tool.

Finally, with her recent introduction to XML indexing, Lucie will also provide a short demonstration of what she's learned so far in this newest and burgeoning area.

ENERGY EXERCISES FOR STRESS MANAGEMENT, presented by Noalani Terry

This session will provide participants with easy-to-do exercises and postures, some of which can be performed while seated at your computer. These balance energy flows through the body, relieving stress, reducing anxiety and revitalizing mind, body, and spirit. The holistic healing modality of polarity will be briefly explained. Handouts for future reference will be available.

Program:

9:30–10:00 Registration and networking
10:00–12:00 Morning session
12:00–1:30 Lunch and Business meeting
1:30–3:30 Afternoon session

Conference Costs

$50 ASI members prior to October 10
$75 ASI non-members prior to October 10
$60 ASI members after to October 10
$85 ASI non-members after to October 10

For more information contact Liz Walker <ewindexer@msn.com> or Madge Walls <madge@allskyindexing.com>.

The SOUTH CENTRAL CHAPTER of ASI
November 8, 2008 Virtual Meeting

Due to a hurricane, the previously announced program was held as a virtual meeting via Yugma.com. Attendees from Tennessee and all around Texas were able to talk and listen by telephone while viewing the presenters' visuals on their own computer screens.

Discussions included:

Subcontracting Forum. Kay Schlembach and Joanne Sprott shared the subcontracting forum guidelines written by ASI member Enid Zafran and responded to a number of question based on their own experience.

Big Question Brainstorming Session: Previously submitted questions were discussed by participants.

The session concluded with a Chapter business meeting.

ASI-SoCal invites you to lunch and a presentation on...

Creating Award-Winning Indexes
by the One and Only Two-Time Winner
of the Wilson Award, Margie Towery!

Saturday, September 20, 2008, 10am – 4pm
at the home of Loraine Schacher, in San Diego, California

Margie Towery has worked in the publishing field for over twenty years. Since 1994 she has been a freelance indexer focused on scholarly texts. She has edited two Indexing Specialties books for ASI, one of which includes her essay, "The Quality of a Scholarly Index: A Contribution to the Discourse." She won the H. W. Wilson Award in 2002 for the cumulative index to The Letters of Matthew Arnold, 6 vols., edited by Cecil Lang and published by the University Press of Virginia. An almost comparable honor was to be asked by the editors at the University of Chicago Press to index their 15th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style, a reference work that is almost a Bible to the American publishing industry. And unprecedentedly, she won a second Wilson Award in 2008 for her index to The History of Cartography, vol. 3: Cartography in the European Renaissance, parts 1 and 2, edited by David Woodward and published by the University of Chicago Press.

Our program: Using material from her two Wilson Award–winning indexes to the Renaissance Cartography volume and from The Letters of Matthew Arnold, Margie will walk us through her indexing process. She’ll describe her routine from the time the pages hit the doorstep to the mouse-clicking delivery of the final index. The in-between stuff will be the heart of the workshop: selecting mains and subs; wording, rewording, and more rewording; editing all along and at the end; maintaining elegance and quality while considering diverse audiences; setting the mood in her office; and letting intuition work in a hard-copy environment. This will be a chance to see two excellent indexes from the inside-out and from start to finish in the process.

More fun to be had: For those who can stay over in the San Diego area, here's another invitation: As is our custom, we'll go out to dinner on the Friday before the Saturday luncheon, and again on the Saturday after the luncheon, so really, these weekends are like a two-day seminar! On Sunday morning Margie will be giving another of her workshops on hand appliqué tips and techniques (her needlework has also won prizes!), while those of us who are needle-averse will exchange tips on running an indexing business.

Additional entertainment options are to visit Balboa Park on Saturday evening or Sunday. We’ll carpool if there is enough interest, and let you know about ticket prices, etc., which will be extra.

Three of the Bard's favorites are performed in nightly rotation in the outdoor Lowell Davies Festival Theatre:

• Romeo and Juliet: The story of "star-cross'd" teenagers whose untimely deaths unite their feuding households;
• The Merry Wives of Windsor: Hilarious comic morality play in which the philandering Falstaff gets his comeuppance from two cunning wives;
• All's Well That Ends Well: Shakespeare's fascinating romance pits the wise and witty woman doctor again the haughty, hotheaded courtier.

• The Women: One of the most and stylish American comedies of all time. The Women offers an acidic commentary on the pampered lives of a group of wealthy Manhattan socialites and is being performed at the Old Globe.

Find your preferred event or destination at http://www.balboapark.org/info/

Below-Cost Bargain! This excellent opportunity to visit a world famous park in addition to learning from a colleague who has developed her skills to the highest achievable peak—the Wilson Award, twice!—is a below-cost bargain at only $47 (ASI members) or $58 (non members)

We look forward to seeing you, honing our indexer's skills, and enjoying the opportunities for networking with our peers.

Registering: Send a check, payable to ASI-SoCal, to Anne Leach, 78240 Bonanza Drive Palm Desert, CA 92211. Directions to Loraine's will be emailed when your registration is confirmed.

Ride/Room Share: We will set up a room/ride-sharing bulletin board for those of you who are interested. Let Anne know the details, which will be emailed to others who are interested. We will also pick you up and deliver you to the San Diego airport.

Twin Cities ASI Chapter
November 2008 Program

Saturday, November 8, 2008

The printing plant tour planned for the Twin Cities Chapter meeting on Nov 8th has fallen through. The program and tour have been cancelled and rescheduled for Saturday, March 14th.

The Twin Cities meeting schedule for the remainder of the year includes:

November 8th–meeting cancelled

December–no meeting planned

January 17th–e-books (possibly including Kindle demonstration)

February 21st–abstracting

March 14th–publishing industry update and printing plant tour (rescheduled from November)

April 23-25–ASI annual meeting, Portland

May–no meeting scheduled; we could do an annual meeting recap if there is sufficient interest

Any questions, please call Galen Schroeder (office: 701-298-6304; cell: 701-541-0055) or drop an e-mail to galenschroeder@msn.com.

Western New York ASI Chapter—Fall Meeting
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Sherwood Inn, Skaneateles, NY

Join us for a mock Wilson Award index judging!

To prepare for the Wilson Award judging and to improve our own indexing skills, we’ll individually evaluate several indexes, according to the criteria posted at: http://asindexing.org/site/WilsonAward.shtml#awcrit. Then we’ll compare notes, discuss features of the indexes, and decide which index we think is deserving of the Wilson Award!

Agenda:

• 9:00 to 9:30 – coffee and tea on the glass porch
• 9:30 to 12:00 – mock Wilson Award index judging
• 12:00 to 1:00 – lunch – we’ll order off the menu
• 1:00 to 2:00 – finish up the mock Wilson Award index judging
• 2:00 to 3:00 – chapter meeting

The Sherwood Inn is located at:
26 W Genesee St.
Skaneateles, NY
315-685-3405

Directions and a map are at: http://www.thesherwoodinn.com/locate.html.

Cost: $10 (plus lunch; we'll order off the menu)

Space is limited! Reserve your spot by sending a check, made out to Western NY Chapter of ASI, to:

Judy Kip
3 Courtly Circle
Owego, NY 13827

Questions? Contact:
Peg Mauer (wny@asindexing.org), 518-359-8616
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Judy Kip (judithkip@earthlink.net), 607-687-0993.