The ISC/SCI is thrilled to announce that our next annual conference is taking place from the comfort of your home from May 27 to 29, 2021. The theme is “Indexing Unlimited”.
The conference sessions will cover a variety of topics to help you improve your indexing practice and make your business thrive.
One new feature is designed especially for new indexers. The online Fireside Chat will give you the opportunity to talk in a group setting with an experienced indexer on your transition from student to practicing indexer.
Of course, networking has always been an important component of the annual conference. The Conference Committee wants you to know that this year will be no different. Plans are in the works for activities that will help you meet new friends and catch with up with old ones.
New indexers can register for the Fireside Chat hosted by Stephen Ullstrom and Margaret DeBoer. This group session is your opportunity to ask your burning questions on transitioning from student to practicing indexer.
Can’t make the whole conference?
Sessions will be recorded and made available to all registered attendees.
Speakers
Raegan Swanson
Queering Archival Spaces and Description: LGBTQ2+ Community history and language at The ArQuives
Jenny Higgins
Something Wikid This Way Comes … to the Centre for Newfoundland Studies
Mary Coe
In my mind’s eye, I’m turning the page” How do readers make sense of active e-book indexes?”
Kate Mertes
The Autobiography of an Indexing Relationship
Max McMaster
Quoting on Projects
Christine Jacobs
The Polished Index: Upping your Indexing Game
Pierke Bosschieter
Pre-emptive Preliminaries or How to build a satisfying client relationship
Judi Gibbs
Pilar Wyman
Indexing Standards. See NISO
Mary Coe
Bec Muir
The Spark is Curiosity: Becoming Practitioner-Researchers
Judy Dunlop
Mary Newberry
Audrey McClellan
Carla DeSantis
Anna Olivier
François Trahan
The Road to the Ewart-Daveluy Award
Optional Program for New Indexers
Stephen Ullstrom
Margaret De Boer
Fireside Chat
Conference Registration
Payment of conference fees gives you access to three days of workshops and events, plus access to all the recorded sessions for 12 months.
Time is running out if you want to register for the ISC/SCI conference and save. Register by Friday, April 30 to receive Early Bird pricing. To start making your plans in your time zone for the May 27 – 29 sessions, view and download the conference schedule (Pacific Time is UTC-7, Eastern Time is UTC-4).
Registration for the ISC/SCI Annual Conference is now open. Take advantage of these early bird rates for the three-day virtual conference: Members (including ASI, ANSZI, SI, all other affiliates and Editors Canada): $60 Non-members: $100 Special rate for eligible full-time students: $35 Optional Fireside Chat for new indexers: $10 All prices are in Canadian Dollars. … […]
The ISC/SCI is thrilled to announce that our next annual conference is taking place from the comfort of your home from May 27 to 29, 2021. The theme is “Indexing Unlimited”. The conference sessions will cover a variety of topics to help you improve your indexing practice and make your business thrive. One new feature … […]
This conference will give you a variety of topics to help you improve your indexing practice and make your business thrive, including: As well, we will have Each day there will be lots of fun activities to help you meet your fellow indexers. Special for New Indexers New indexers can register for the Fireside Chat … […]
The members’ nation-wide monthly video chats have a new schedule. We will be meeting on EITHER the second Saturday of the month OR the second Wednesday of the month in the evening (ish).
Here’s the schedule for the next three months: Wednesday, February 10, 2021, 6pm Eastern Saturday, March 13, 2021, 1pm Eastern Wednesday, April 14, 2021, 6 pm Eastern
We are changing up the timing of the chats in order to allow people with busy Saturdays to attend.
The Institute of Certified Indexers has announced that Jess Klaassen-Wrighthas won the 2020 Purple Pen Competition. Jess’s index appears in the book Deep Knowledge: Ways of Knowing in Sufism and Ifa, Two West African Intellectual Traditions by Oludamini Ogunnaike (to be published in October 2020 by Pennsylvania State University Press).
Jess created an index for this 450-page book which deals with interdisciplinary practice combining the fields of religion and philosophy, a most challenging text for a newer indexer. The judges noted Jess’s work for its attention to detail in a book with many non-English terms and diacritics, and for the web of connections she built through many helpful cross-references, especially linking the foreign phrases to their English synonyms.
Jess Klaassen-Wright
In response to the news of Jess’s award, the author, Oludamini Ogunnaike, wrote: “Jess was amazing. While doing the indexing, she caught several typos and mistakes in the text that the copyeditor and I had missed, and did a remarkable job tracing the arguments and concepts across the book, which is quite long and complicated—involving terms in Arabic, Yoruba, French, and English, and multiple conceptual traditions. Her index has made the book much easier to navigate and provided a sympathetic and insightful guide for readers. I was particularly impressed by the way she tracked distinct, but related concepts across the different traditions discussed, and represented both these distinctions and relations in the index. Ms. Klaasen-Wright was also incredibly professional and worked remarkably swiftly and carefully, I cannot recommend her work highly enough.”
With her undergraduate degree from the University of Saskatchewan (major in English and minors in Spanish and psychology), Jess completed her indexing training at Simon Fraser University and then participated in the Mary Newberry Mentorship Program of the Indexing Society of Canada / Société canadienne d’indexation (ISC/SCI). In particular, Jess has appreciated the guidance of such well-known indexers as Noeline Bridge and Audrey McClelland.
Jess completed her first index in 2019 for a scholarly monograph on the history of magic in Elizabethan England. Since then, she has indexed books in local and oral history, biography, Black feminism and feminist theory, English literature, biblical studies, international relations, and agrarian politics and economics. In addition to indexing, she works as a freelance copy editor and proofreader. An active member of the ISC/SCI, she serves on the Society’s Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity Committee (TIDE).
This is the seventh year that the international contest has been held by ICI, and the fifth time that a Canadian indexer has won the prize. For a list of previous winners, please see certifiedindexers.com.
