I’ve just had a look at the program for the 2018 conference in Cleveland. There are so many good presentations on the program schedule. It’s going to be a hard decision what sessions to attend when you really want to attend everything. Just a few of the things you’ll find on the program: Pilar Wyman and Katharina…
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It depends…
Indexing involves decision making–and the rules? Well, it depends…on what the author is writing about and other things. That does not mean that writing an index is done without “rhyme or reason” in just any fashion we feel like at the moment. There are some guiding principles, rather than strict rules or protocol. The American Society…
The personal Facebook page…
In the presentations at the 2017 ASI conference on online presence, there were various views on using Facebook–a business page or a personal page. Do you have clients on your personal page? Do you have only a business page? I value my personal Facebook page as a place to have connections with people I don’t see often–other…
An unproductive day….
I do love working from home and being my own boss; usually I’m quite diligent about work but there are those occasional days productivity just isn’t happening–I can’t think of appropriate ways to phrase entries; just nothing is going right. I can’t blame the cat–even if he is persistently trying to walk across the keyboard (trying…
Currently indexing….
Just started the index for The Medical Device Validation Handbook. I think I’m off to a good start–the editor provided an excellent introduction which I could use get some structure to start.
ASI Conference in San Antonio, Texas
It’s been a good trip to Texas–once I escaped from Denver and finally got here. Talk about time travel! Wednesday was a pretty strange day: leave Durham NC (Eastern time zone) in pleasant spring weather; arrive Denver CO in 28 degrees Fahrenheit, snow, freezing rain–all on Mountain time. A cancelled flight, and several delays to…
A passing mention….
I’ve just given a huge sigh of relief, hit the send button on the e-mail with the attachments, and had an acute attack of nervousness–is there an error in there somewhere, did I miss something, is there…? It’s been a long, but interesting, project. I’ve prepared the index for a commemorative edition of The Polar…
I know it’s not Monday, but…
I’ve been telling myself since very early this morning that today is NOT Monday–it’s Wednesday. No matter, it’s been a functional Monday. First my secondary monitor was displaying everything with a distinct blue (very blue) tint–not good. I need the extra display for this project. Then MSWord crashed several times–I’m embedding the index in MSWord…
Index for “The Polar Times”
It’s a relief to have a cat-proof computer as I’m now editing/proofreading scanned excerpts from The Polar Times for a 75th anniversary publication. The excerpts are coming to me as MS Word documents. I’m doing some formatting and checking for OCR errors, and preparing an index. My indexing software, CINDEX®, is making the embedding easy! It’s a…
Index Appreciation Day 2011
For several of us the first Index Appreciation day was celebrated by meeting for lunch near Index, Virginia, actually in King George. Gathering for this occasion were Connie Binder, Becky Horynak, Kay Pederson, Kara Pekar, and me. We visited and had lunch. After lunch we made a “pilgrimage” to the Index, Virginia, sign. (Fortunately one…
Graffito Indexing 