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Help for tough questions
Conference Committee
Do you have examples of texts where you were not completely comfortable with either what you were reading or your approach to indexing?
Well, we have exciting news: Rhonda Kronyk, Project Coordinator for the Indigenous Editors Association, will be the keynote speaker at the ISC/SCI Conference in Vancouver. Her presentation will focus on the second edition of Dr. Gregory Younging’s Elements of Indigenous Style.
From the Indigenous Editor’s Association (IEA) and her website, Rhonda Kronyk specializes in editing manuscripts by and about Indigenous Peoples. A settler and a member of the Tsay Keh Dene Nation (Treaty 8), she calls amiskwaciwâskahikan (Edmonton) in Treaty 6 home. Rhonda is a founding member of the IEA, where she is Project Coordinator. Since 2018, she has been educating editors, writers, book and magazine publishers, and university publishing students on how to publish culturally respectful stories by and about Indigenous Peoples through in-person and virtual presentations and workshops. She has edited and proofread manuscripts by some of Canada’s best known Indigenous authors, including Richard Van Camp, Monique Grey Smith, and Drew Hayden Taylor.
To help direct her talk to indexers, Rhonda would like to know about the tough issues you encounter when indexing Indigenous-related texts. Please gather your comments, queries, and problematic index entries and send them to Mary at maryjnewberry@outlook.com by March 31st. Mary will collect them anonymously and pass them on to Rhonda.

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Reminder of Submission Deadline: ISC/SCI Ewart-Daveluy Award for Excellence in Indexing 2025
Indexing Society of Canada
Submission deadline: Friday, March 14, 2025
Submissions are open! The application has never been easier.
- It’s all online.
- You don’t need a hard copy — a PDF of the published book AND/OR the PDF sent to you by the publisher plus your Word/RTF file of the index.
- The cost is only $30.
The benefits:
- The winner will receive two tickets to the conference banquet at the next in-person conference.
- We provide feedback for up to three runners-up.
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 in an outstanding, well-structured, easy-to-navigate, clear and comprehensive guide for all of its users.
Give us a challenge. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain. Maybe you’ll get the prize (which won’t happen if you don’t apply). And if not, you’re likely to get expert confidential feedback. That’s worth a lot.
This year you can submit indexes published in 2023 and 2024. If you are a Canadian citizen or a permanent resident of Canada, this is the time to do it. If you are not a Canadian citizen or permanent resident, you may submit an index if you were a member of ISC/SCI at the time you wrote the index.
The deadline for submissions is March 14, 2025. Please see the Ewart-Daveluy Award page for guidelines, criteria, and the submission form.
Save the Date: ISC/SCI Conference 2025 in Vancouver
Conference Committee

We are excited to announce that our 2025 in-person conference will be taking place May 30–June 1, 2025, with pre-conference events on Thursday, May 29.
The conference will take place on the beautiful University of British Columbia (UBC) campus. There will be accommodations on campus for every budget, including suites, studios and pods. From there, it’s a short walk to the Museum of Anthropology, the UBC Botanical Garden, and lovely beaches and hiking trails.
The programming team is pulling together an array of speakers, including a panel of indexers offering their perspectives working on the same text, another on teaching indexing, and a presentation on setting rates. You’ll hear more about our program soon, and some of our speakers are interested in hearing from you! Keep an eye out for future updates.
The conference promises to be an amazing experience in a spectacular setting. Registration begins in February, so mark your calendars now and we’ll see you in May!
Call for Submissions: ISC/SCI Ewart-Daveluy Award for Excellence in Indexing 2025
Indexing Society of Canada
Submission deadline: Friday, March 14, 2025
Submissions are open! The application has never been easier.
- It’s all online.
- You don’t need a hard copy — a PDF of the published book AND/OR the PDF sent to you by the publisher plus your Word/RTF file of the index.
- The cost is only $30.
The benefits:
- The winner will receive two tickets to the conference banquet at the next in-person conference.
- We provide feedback for up to three runners-up.
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 in an outstanding, well-structured, easy-to-navigate, clear and comprehensive guide for all of its users.
You have nothing to lose and everything to gain. Maybe you’ll get the prize (which won’t happen if you don’t apply). And even if you don’t win, you’re likely to receive expert confidential feedback. That’s worth a lot.
This year you can submit indexes published in 2023 and 2024. If you are a Canadian citizen or a permanent resident of Canada, this is the time to do it. If you are not a Canadian citizen or permanent resident, you may submit an index if you were a member of ISC/SCI at the time you wrote the index.
See the Ewart-Daveluy Award page for more information.
Society of Indexers Conference 2024
Indexing Society of Canada
Bookings are now open for the Society of Indexers 2024 online conference ‘Human Indexing in a Digital World’. The conference will take place via Zoom on Wednesday 18th September and Thursday 19th September 2024.
The rate for the two-day conference is £50 for SI, ICRIS-affiliated and CIEP members (and £60 for non-members), which includes access to recordings of the presentations for 12 months.
The booking form is available at https://www.indexers.org.uk/events/conference-2024-human-indexing-in-a-digital-world/.
The conference main sessions and presenters are:
- AI (artificial intelligence) tools in publishing and implications for indexing (George Walkley and Tanya Izzard)
- Software: current states of play of the main dedicated indexing programs (Pierke Bosschieter and Stephen Ullstrom)
- The Frankfurt Kabuff as creative publishing critique and its unusual index (Beth Driscoll, Claire Squires and Paula Clarke Bain)
- Wikipedians: improving online information about indexing (Mary Coe and other indexer–Wikipedians)
Plus parallel breakout discussion sessions including:
- client relations
- embedded indexing
- multi-author works
- peer review
- students and new professionals forum
- time for free chat with indexing colleagues
The conference programme timetable is now available via the conference page at https://www.indexers.org.uk/training-development/conferences/conference-2024/.
Please join us at the SI 2024 online conference and on social media with the hashtag #SIConf24. We look forward to seeing you there.
ISC/SCI members can access the discount code in the member area.