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Membership News
Winner of 2023 Purple Pen Contest for New Indexers
The Institute of Certified Indexes (ICI) is pleased to announce that Elizabeth Bartmess has won the 2023 award in this contest for new indexers. Elizabeth is a San Francisco Bay Area indexer with a background in the social and information sciences. Her formal indexing training includes American Society for Indexing’s Module A and the UC … […]
New website improvements coming
We have been working on changes to give our members a better user experience with ISC/SCI through our website. In the next few weeks, you will see— In fact, the first thing you will see is that the login has moved into the main menu (next to Contact). Once you are logged in, the blue … […]
ASI Special Event: Indexing Life Hacks
December 5, 2023 Life hacks are simple and clever tips or techniques for accomplishing a familiar task more easily and efficiently. Indexing life hacks are all about working smarter at the job of indexing. Four experts share the hacks they use to save time, minimize stress, and increase efficiency. Whether you’re wrestling with PDFs or … […]
From the Blog
What are the start-up costs for becoming an indexer?
To work successfully as an indexer, you must make some initial investments. The biggest investment is your time for training and practice, which is critical because the more practice you have, the more efficient you will be. This article, however, addresses specifically the cash outlay. Fortunately, the upfront technology and education costs are not particularly … […]
Can you talk me “out” of indexing?
In the early 2000’s, indexer Martha Osgood posted a series of popular articles in the “Novice Notes” section of her website, Backwordsindexing.com. Here is an extract from one article, updated and edited for an international audience. Martha’s comments, which reflect her personal experience and observations, offer food for thought and not hard and fast rules. … […]
Marketing your indexing business Q&A – replay
As freelance indexers, you can’t sit back and expect jobs to come to you. It’s on you to market yourself. But where do you start? How do you do it? And what’s involved? That`s what several new indexers wanted to know when we met at our monthly chat session in December. So we quickly threw … […]
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