Member Dashboard

Featured

The Summer 2024 Bulletin is here

Download the Bulletin

View previous issues

Annual General Meeting

Our meeting is on June 22 at 1 p.m. Eastern. RSVP to presidents@indexers.ca for the Zoom link.

Download AGM At-A-Glance

Find all the AGM documents on the Society Administration page

Member Programs

ISC/SCI has a page summarizing the programs and resources available to members.

Check it out whether you are a new member or have been here for years. You may find something you had forgotten about.

Find a Discount Code

How to get your discount on ASI webinars and more.

The codes are here on the Member Benefits page.


Membership News

Indexing Society of Canada unveils new friendlier website

April 19, 2018 The Indexing Society of Canada / Société canadienne d’indexation (ISC/SCI) is announcing the launch of its redesigned website indexers.ca. The new design provides more functionality, friendlier navigation, and improved readibility for visitors on desktops and mobile devices. The Register of Indexers Available (“Find an Indexer” page) was completely rewritten. Visitors in need … […]

Embedded Indexes in MS Word

At a recent meeting of the Central Region in Toronto, Sergey Lobachev gave a detailed and informative presentation on embedding indexes in Microsoft Word. Here is the presentation. [restrict paid=”true”]Embedded index in MS Word[/restrict]

Winner of 2017 Purple Pen: Sergey Lobachev

Sergey Lobachev has won the 2017 Purple Pen Competition sponsored by the Institute of Certified Indexers.  His index will appear in the book The Magnificent Nahanni: The Struggle to Protect a Wild Place by Gordon and Shirley Nelson (published by the University of Regina Press).  The judges praised his index for its strong treatment of … […]

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 … […]