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Membership News

Call for Submissions: ISC/SCI Ewart-Daveluy Award for Excellence in Indexing 2024

Submission deadline: Friday, March 15, 2024 Submissions are open! The application has never been easier. The benefits: No restriction to the subject matter or genre — textbooks, cookbooks, guidebooks, memoirs, art books, how-to books, travel books, all books — it’s your index we will be looking at. Show us how you creatively overcame challenges, resulting … […]

Conference 2024: Call for proposals

The Conference Committee invites your proposals for ISC/SCI Conference 2024. Proposals are being accepted until October 31, 2023. This is an online conference taking place on Friday, May 31 and Saturday, June 1, 2024. Sessions will be 50 minutes in total (35–40 minutes for presentation followed by a 10–15 minute question-and-answer session). The committee is seeking proposals in the following areas: … […]

ASI Online Learning Course: Indexing Art Books

A three-part course with Theresa Duran. Presented on October 11, 18, and 25, 2023. Art books represent a thriving segment of the publishing industry. They encompass a variety of book categories—from coffee-table books to exhibition catalogues to academic or technical studies—and an even greater array of subjects. What art books all have in common is … […]

From the Blog

Editors and publishers want to know: What makes a good index?

In an interview with publisher Sandra Uschtrin, indexer Jochen Fassbender described some key qualities of a good index. What does a good index look like? The key qualities include: Indexes with these traits add value to the text by ensuring users can efficiently find all substantive concepts, details, and facts. What should editors and publishers … […]

What are some ways that indexers market their services?

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 2020. So we quickly … […]

How do I find potential clients?

Congratulations, you’re ready to start marketing yourself as an indexer! But who are your potential clients, and how do you reach them? There are a number of ways to make contacts, but we’ll focus on email marketing in this article. Here are some ideas to get you started. Take it seriously Marketing yourself to potential … […]