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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
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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