Sylvia Coates—An ethical indexing practice (ISC conference 2015)
Sylvia Coates, who developed UC Berkeley’s extension indexing course, gave the opening keynote about ethical indexing practice at the 2015 Indexing Society of Canada(ISC) conference in Victoria. She...
View ArticleHeather Ebbs & Thérèse Shere—Making time: Working wisely so you can play more...
What can indexers do to work more efficiently? Heather Ebbs and Thérèse Shere offered some productivity tips at the Indexing Society of Canada conference. The physical setting For Ebbs, “to live in...
View ArticleJoAnne Burek—Business continuity and disaster preparedness for freelancers...
JoAnne Burek drew on her thirty-six years in IT to show freelancers how we can prepare our businesses for sudden and unplanned incidents, which can cause irreparable damage to our brand or revenue...
View ArticleLucie Haskins—Jumping on the embedded indexing bandwagon—or should I? (ISC...
Embedded indexing is still evolving as the relatively new ebook industry finds its legs. Ebook indexing is so new that it’s a bit of a Wild West, with different software, standards, and processes...
View ArticleSylvia Coates—The business of indexing: Indexing efficiency, speed, and...
Sylvia Coates developed and teaches the UC Berkeley Extension indexing course and has been indexing since 1989. Although there’s more than one way to index, Coates’s approach has allowed her to earn a...
View ArticleSelf-publishing and the oft-neglected index
For some of my editorial colleagues, working with self-publishers is their bread and butter. Many of these editors become de facto project managers, capably shepherding each book through its editorial...
View ArticleEthical indexing practices
This summary of a talk by Julie McClung and Rosalind Guldner, given at the Indexing Society of Canada‘s annual conference, appeared in the Summer/Fall 2015 issue of Bulletin, ISC’s newsletter. *** What...
View ArticleCookbook editing (Editors BC meeting)
October’s Editors BC meeting featured a panel on cookbook editing including Jesse Marchand, editing instructor in SFU’s Editing Certificate program and former associate publisher of Whitecap Books,...
View ArticleShould publishers invest in software for in-house indexers? A case study
I learned to index on the job—and by reading books like Nancy Mulvany’s Indexing Books—when I worked as an in-house editor. I created several indexes using only Microsoft Word, which is perfectly...
View Article
