DATE:
- Saturday, September 25, 2004
LOCATION:
- Humane Society of Boulder Valley
- Main conference room
- 2323 55th Street
- Boulder, Colorado
- Directions can be found in brochure listed below.
SCHEDULE:
- 9:00–9:30 Registration and networking
- 9:30–12:45 Morning session (with break)
- 12:45–1:30 Luncheon buffet
- 1:30–4:45 Afternoon session (with break)
- 4:45 Questions & comments
WORKSHOP COSTS:
- $55.00 ASI members registration received prior to 9/15/04
- $65.00 ASI nonmembers registration received prior to 9/15/04
- $70.00 All registration received after 9/15/04
- $10.00 Buffet lunch
BROCHURE and REGISTRATION form in
PDF format.
Local LODGING information:
The Best Western Boulder Inn has provided a special conference rate. Check out the details.
Or look through a list of other hotels in the area in
PDF format.
WORKSHOP OVERVIEW:
This participatory workshop focuses on the practical processes of indexing. Participants survey the steps that indexers follow in interpreting texts and creating index structures, using examples from real texts and indexes. This workshop covers back-of-book indexing in the social sciences and humanities. It is not a basic introduction to indexing, but novices as well as experienced indexers will benefit.
Subjects discussed include:
- understanding the author's message and the structure of the text
- the metatopic (main topic of the book)
- local main topics
- ancillary topics
- deciding which topics are indexable
- the varying relationships of subheadings to their main headings, using a new typology of subheadings developed in collaboration with Nancy Mulvany
- creating subheadings for long spans and locator strings
- choosing wordings
- double-posting
- cross-references
The workshop includes new material from Do Mi's recently published book, Facing the Text: Content and Structure in Book Indexing. (Copies of the book will be available for purchase at the workshop.)
