Conference 2022 :: Congrès 2022 – Virtual

December 29, 2022October 1, 2021

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2022 Conference Posts

Early Bird Conference Pricing Ends Saturday

Conference Registration Now Open

Dennis Duncan to speak at 2022 Conference

Conference 2021 :: Congrès 2021 – Virtual

December 29, 2022February 7, 2021

This conference will give you a variety of topics to help you improve your indexing practice and make your business thrive, including:

Creating an award-winning index, from a panel of Ewart-Daveluy award winners
Editing your index to take it to the next level
Building client relationships
Quoting on projects
The new NISO standard for indexes (NISO is the National Information Standards Organization)
And more

As well, we will have

Keynote speaker Raegan Swanson from The ArQuives (The Canadian Lesbian + Gay Archives)
Jenny Higgins, former Wikipedian-in-Residence at Memorial University in Newfoundland
Announcement of the winner of the Ewart-Daveluy Award for Indexing Excellence

Each day there will be lots of fun activities to help you meet your fellow indexers.

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Special for New Indexers

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.

	Members	Non-Members	Students	Fireside Chat (optional)
Early Bird	$60	$100	$35	$10
After April 30	$75	$100	$25	$10

Conference Blog

Early Bird Conference Pricing Ends Soon

April 26, 2021

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).

Conference Registration Now Open

February 24, 2021

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. … […]

Save the Date for the ISC Virtual Conference May 27- 29, 2021

February 7, 2021

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 … […]

Conference 2021 :: Congrès 2021 – Virtual

February 7, 2021

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 … […]

2020 Conference Cancelled

March 17, 2020

Given the World Health Organization’s announcement of a pandemic, we have determined to move forward with an abundance of caution. ISC/SCI is cancelling this year’s conference.

We have no plans to hold any online presentations, but intend to hold the conference next year in St. John’s, Newfoundland. Planning for next year’s conference—which we hope to be similar to what we had planned for this year—will start again in September, 2020.

If you registered for the conference, your fees will be refunded to you over the next week. If you do not receive a notice about your refund by March 25, please contact treasurer@indexers.ca.

We are sad and disappointed to announce this, but hope that everyone stays safe and well and comes to see us next year in Newfoundland!

Conference 2019 :: Congrès 2019 – Ottawa, Ontario

December 29, 2022January 21, 2019

May 24 – 25, 2019

University of Ottawa

12th Floor, Desmarais Building, 55 Laurier Avenue East

The publishing and information world continues to bring new challenges and new opportunities. At this conference, we’ll fine-tune our indexing practices, grow our business skills, offer our support and encouragement to newcomers, and pick the brains of those who have experience.

Ottawa is more than the political centre of Canada. It’s also home to some of the nation’s most important cultural venues. (Our conference site, which is on the University of Ottawa campus in the city’s centre, is just across the street from the new Ottawa Art Gallery.) The city is very walkable, with pathways on either side of the Rideau Canal.

The University of Ottawa is a medium-size campus and east to walk. Conference sessions will be on the top floor of the Desmarais Building (55 Laurier Avenue East). A map will be included in the conference packet.

Conference and Workshop Agenda

Download the Program

View and download conference handouts (Members Only content)

Friday

Anne Fifer, “Editing Without Pain”
Alexandre Grandmaître and Martine Rocheleau, “Accessing Parliamentary Information: from Traditional Indexes to a Database Integrated Information Management System”
Fred Leise, “Brilliantly Structured Indexes Redux: New Realities in Index Structure”
Lunch
Kate Mertes, “Beyond the Subject Index: The Index Locorum”
Gale Rhoades and Marian Sullivan, “Above and Beyond: The Experts Help You Get the Most from Your Indexing Software”
Annual General Meeting
Banquet and Awards

Saturday

Camille Callison (Canadian Federation of Library Associations) and Katherine Kasirer in “A Behind-the-Screen Look at the Indigenous Knowledge Materials Classification Schema (IMCS) Implementation during the Creation of NFB’s Indigenous Cinema”
Enid Zafran, “Indexing Scholarly Books: Go Deep”
Ruth Paulauskas (BreathWoRx), “BreathWoRx for Desk Workers”
Lunch
Kendra Millis, “Indexing Lives”
Pierre Joyal on incorporating your business
Heather Ebbs, Christine Jacobs, Anne Louise Mahoney, and Elizabeth Schwaiger, “Ethical Choices: Thinking Beyond the Page”

Sunday (optional) – Sold Out

“Names, the Challenge of Indexing”, a full-day workshop with Enid Zafran, has been sold out, but you can be added to the waiting list when you register. Location is same as conference venue.

Conference Sponsors

We’d like to thank our generous sponsors:

Beth Macfie

Clive Pyne

Heather Ebbs

Margaret de Boer

Ruth Pincoe

Thanks also to the Lord Elgin Hotel and the University of Ottawa residence.

Conference Announcements

Pricing

Conference rates include continental breakfast (with protein), lunch, and snacks.
Early bird rates apply until April 15.

Prices are in Canadian Dollars

	Members	Non-members	Students
Early Bird	After April 15	Early Bird	After April 15
Full conference	$291	$343	$344	$396	$158
Friday or Saturday only	$159	$184	$211	$238	$80

Sunday Workshop “Names” presented by Enid Zafran (includes lunch) – $105 (sold out, wait list available)

Banquet – $63

Plan Your Travel

To help you plan your travel, here’s the schedule of activities:

Thursday, May 23: Optional dinner (pay your own) at Johnny Farina Italian Restaurant, 216 Elgin Street or East India Company, 210 Somerset St. W, from 6 p.m. on.
Friday, May 24: Breakfast around 8, sessions from 9 until 5, followed by banquet at Signatures Restaurant, 453 Laurier Ave. E. Cash bar from 6:15 p.m. Banquet at 7 p.m.
Saturday, May 25: Breakfast around 8, sessions from 9 until 5, followed by optional dinner (pay your own) at Colonnade Pizza, 280 Metcalfe St. from 6 p.m. on.
Sunday, May 26: “Names” workshop from 9 until 4, location is same as conference venue (12th floor, Desmarais Building, 55 Laurier Avenue E.)

Accommodations

We have negotiated special rates for conference attendees at two venues:

University of Ottawa Housing

90U Residence
90 University, less than a five-minute walk to the conference venue
Two bedroom suites with double beds and kitchenette for $125 per suite per night
Rates apply until April 11, 2019

Lord Elgin Hotel

Lord Elgin Hotel
100 Elgin Street, less than 10 minute walk to the conference venue
Classic King, Classic Queen, Classic 2 Queen Beds: $239 for Single or Double
Rates apply until April 22

There are many other accommodation options in downtown Ottawa, including boutique hotels such as the Byward Blue Inn and ARC the Hotel, B&Bs such as Auberge McGee’s Inn and Auberge des Arts, and chain hotels such as Novotel, Days Inn, Fairmont and others. Airbnbs in Sandy Hill and the Byward Market area are closest, but Downtown and Centretown are also quite close. Even the Glebe neighborhood is only a 30- to 40-minute walk along the Rideau canal, and it will be a beautiful walk at the end of May.

Book early to avoid disappointment!

Another Successful Conference

June 24, 2019

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Great Intentions

April 12, 2019

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The Professional Treatment

April 5, 2019

In 1997, John E Simkin, a founding member of the Australian Indexing Society, wrote about the “technical vs. professional aspects … […]

Indexing in the Scholarly Niche

March 29, 2019

Of the all the book titles published in Canada, scholarly books make up less than 3% (Statistics Canada, 2016). For … […]

Construction plans

March 25, 2019

Writing an index can be like building a magnificent backyard storage shed one brick at a time, with no blueprint … […]

Behind the screen look at decolonization of terms

March 15, 2019

Last December, one of the topics that came up on the ISC-L list was the need to decolonize terms in … […]

Parliamentary information

March 8, 2019

The House of Commons, Canada’s lower house of Parliament, is steeped in tradition. But progress carries on. When television cameras … […]

An elegant niche

March 1, 2019

Ever since Kate Mertes offered to talk about “indexing locora” at the ISC/SCI conference, we’ve been curious. “Index locorum” literally … […]

Sunday Workshop

February 14, 2019

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ISC/SCI Conference Program Announced

February 14, 2019

The ISC/SCI has set the program for the 2019 conference taking place in Ottawa on May 24 and 25. In … […]

Registration Now Open

February 4, 2019

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Does it spark joy?

January 25, 2019

Marie Kondo, the author of The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up, teaches a method to help us deal with … […]

Post Conference Workshop Announced

January 18, 2019

Indexing names sounds so easy. But names indexing is so much broader than just people—it really encompasses all proper nouns … […]

Library Archives Canada: a national, accessible treasure

January 4, 2019

One thing that we love about indexing is the opportunity to read books that we might not discover on our … […]

A Gift to Yourself

December 29, 2018

In an interview, David Allen, the creator of “Getting Things Done”, described a Year End Review that will motivate and … […]

Conflicting Views

December 21, 2018

Have you ever indexed a scholarly book with views that you disagree with? It would have felt good to ignore … […]

Save the Date for ISC/SCI Conference in Ottawa

November 30, 2018

Mark your calendar for the ISC/SCI annual conference on May 24-25, 2019, in Ottawa, Ontario. The conference theme,“Beyond the Page—New … […]

Conference 2018 :: Congrès 2018 – Winnipeg, MB

December 29, 2022January 18, 2018

Winnipeg, June 8 – 9, 2018

Fort Garry Hotel

Get into the flow and join us in Winnipeg for our 2018 conference.

Discover the best tips and techniques for your indexing practice
Explore new insights and ideas for your business and career
Meet and mingle with colleagues old and new

Winnipeg is an extraordinary city situated on the Canadian Prairie at the crossroads of ancient North American canoe routes. Consider lingering a while to experience the rich multicultural heritage, the prairie landscape, and illuminating attractions such as the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (“the world’s only museum that explores human rights as a concept and aspiration”) and the Winnipeg Art Gallery (the largest collection of Inuit art in the world). Learn more about what to do while you are in Winnipeg.

Program

View or download the conference program.

Schedule

To help you plan your travel, here’s the schedule of activities:

Thursday, June 7: a pre-conference event, starting at 5:30
Friday, June 8: breakfast, sessions from 9 until 5, and banquet dinner at 6:30
Saturday, June 9: breakfast, sessions from 9 until 5, followed by a reception at the conference hotel
Sunday, June 10, 9:00 to 12:00: Workshop: “Indexing for Multiple Outputs” presented by Cheryl Landes, renowned speaker and owner of Tabby Cat Communications.