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Annual General Meeting
Our meeting is on June 22 at 1 p.m. Eastern. RSVP to presidents@indexers.ca for the Zoom link.
Find all the AGM documents on the Society Administration page
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Check it out whether you are a new member or have been here for years. You may find something you had forgotten about.
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Membership News
2018 Conference Photos Here!
Heather Ebbs (and others) took some amazing photos at our ISC/SCI annual conference in Winnipeg. Check them all out here.
Announcing ISC/SCI discount for PerfectIt software
ISC/SCI Members: As we announced at the AGM, the ISC/SCI has negotiated a substantial discount on PerfectIt, the professional proofreading software. PerfectIt helps you deliver error-free documents. It improves consistency, ensures quality, saves time and helps to enforce style guides. It lets you control every change, giving you the assurance your documents are the best … […]
Mary Newberry Mentorship Program
June 12, 2018 The Indexing Society of Canada / Société canadienne d’indexation (ISC/SCI) is excited to announce the Mary Newberry Mentorship Program. The proposal for this new initiative was developed over this past year by the mentorship committee, composed of Stephen Ullstrom (chair), Margaret de Boer, and Pierre Joyal. The proposal was accepted by the … […]
From the Blog
Patterns of indexing careers
Indexers come into their careers from many directions. For some, it’s a natural progression from a job in a publishing house. Others discover the calling accidentally. There are indexers who started out by volunteering to write an index for a friend or a local society. Once the decision is made to become an indexer, the … […]
The scent of information
Have you heard of a rule in web design called the three-click rule? It states that users will leave your web page or app if they can’t find what they want in three clicks. However, the rule has been challenged by numerous studies. It turns out that users don’t actually stop searching after three clicks, … […]
Doing the right thing by the author and the reader
Over the last week, we’ve had a riveting discussion on the ISC-L forum. It started because a Canadian indexer was indexing a book on racism in the US, and had asked an American indexer for advice on approaching the language. For the benefit of ISC-L forum readers, the American indexer posted the very useful guidance … […]
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