Events
2010 Events
Informal Luncheon Chat
February 20, 2010
11:30 a.m.
We are planning an informal lunch “chat” on the topic of office layout and equipment for indexers at Geppetto’s Italian Ristorante, 113 N. Oak Park Avenue in Oak Park, Illinois, a near-west suburb of Chicago.
Watch for further details about time and travel options around the last week of January. There is no fee, and attendees can purchase their own lunches.
Travel Options: The CTA Green Line stop closest to Geppetto's is Oak Park Avenue. There is also a parking garage entrance on North Boulevard (parallel to the tracks). Parking is free for the first hour on Saturdays, $1.00 for the next.
Please RSVP to Caryl Wenzel (carylwenzel@comcast.net) to let us know if you are planning to attend. We need to give an indication of numbers to the restaurant by February 15th.
Past Events
Fall Workshops: Names and Biographies,
Managing an Indexing Business, Cookbook Indexing
November 6–7, 2009
Hilton Garden Inn O’Hare
2930 South River Road,
Des Plaines, IL 60018
See the workshop brochure.
Friday, November 6—Two Programs
Morning session
Martin White presented a workshop on indexing names and biographies.
Afternoon session
An expert panel (featuring an accountant, an insurance representative, and a marketing specialist focusing on social media) presented ways of managing your indexing business.
Saturday, November 7—Easy as Pie? (The Complexities of Cookbook Indexing)
Fred Leise was featured speaker for a full-day workshop on cookbook indexing.
Brochure
Program descriptions, speaker biographies, daily schedules, hotel information, registration fees, and more, including the registration form, can be found in the workshop brochure.
Spring Practicum: Term Selection
May 16, 2009
Chicago Public Library,
Austin-Irving Branch
6100 W. Irving Park Rd.
Chicago, IL 60634
312-744-6222
9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
$15 plus lunch
How do indexers decide what terms to use in an index?
Using a variety of provided sources, we chose index entries and then discussed why specific terminology was chosen. The discussion included the kinds of patterns and problems that indexers might encounter in various types of indexing (e.g., back of the book, journal, encyclopedia).
Getting to the Library
The library is on Irving Park Road just west of Austin Avenue (6000 west).
The parking lot is accessible off Irving Park Road on the east side of the building. There is also street parking.
Metra riders
Take the Union Pacific Northwest Line train and get off at the Irving Park Road station. At street level, board a westbound #80 CTA bus. The library is about 3 miles west of the train station. There is a bus stop across the street from the library. Bus service runs every 10–15 minutes on Saturdays.
EL riders
The #80 Irving Park bus connects with the Red, Blue and Brown lines along its route. The Blue Line is the closest elevated line to the library.
Drivers
The library is conveniently located near the Kennedy Expressway (I-90).
Coming from the north on eastbound Kennedy
Exit I-90 at Nagle (Exit #82A), travel south about 2.0 miles to Irving Park Road and then east about 0.5 mile to the library.
(Note: As you travel south on Nagle, the name of the road changes to Narragansett Avenue.)
Coming from the south on westbound Kennedy
Exit I-90 at Irving Park (Exit #44B) and travel west on Irving Park Road about 3 miles to the library.
Luncheon Indexers Chat
Saturday, March 7 , 2009
Evanston’s Rhythm Room
1715 N Maple, Evanston
(Century Evanston 18 Theatre, 2nd Floor)
847-492-9723
Starting at 12:00 nooon
Bring your own topic—perhaps indexing theory or index practice. Maybe you have questions about indexing minutiae or the big picture, getting hired, professional advancement, or self-employment.
Directions are available here (PDF).
2008 Fall Workshops
October 24 & 25, 2008
Two Days Featuring Enid Zafran,
John Wean, Cathy Townsend, and Do Mi Stauber
Hilton Garden Inn O'Hare
2930 South River Road,
Des Plaines, IL 60018
Complete details are available in our PDF brochure.
Friday, October 24
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Polishing Your Index (Enid Zafran)
Enid Zafran drew from her vast experience to present the steps of editing and polishing the index.
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The Publishing Process (John Wean and Cathy Townsend)
What is the role of the indexer in the book production process? What causes schedules for indexing proofs to be delayed? These questions and more were answered by John Wean and Cathy Townsend of the Black Dot Group in Crystal Lake, Illinois.
Saturday, October 25
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Taming the Wild Project List:
Organizing Tools for the Complex Life
(Do Mi Stauber)
This new workshop by Do Mi Stauber, author of Facing the Text: Content and Structure in Book Indexing, is designed to help the busy freelance professional.
Popular workshop presenter Do Mi Stauber, a connoisseur of time management systems for many years, has found a combination of organizing tools that enables her to excel in many areas of her multifaceted life.
Registration Fees
ASI Members
Registration received by October 1
Friday only: $125; Saturday only: $125
Both days: $200
Registration received by October 17
Friday only: $150; Saturday only: $150
Both days: $275
Non-ASI Members
Registration received by October 1
Friday only: $150; Saturday only: $150
Both days: $275
Registration received by October 17
Friday only: $175; Saturday only: $175
Both days: $340
Saturday, July 12, 2008
Summer Practicum: Term Analysis
Park Ridge Library
20 South Prospect Ave.
Park Ridge, IL 60068
9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Fee: $10, plus lunch
Join us for a lively group discussion and exercise in text analysis and term selection. We will
summarize, in back-of-the-book-index format, short texts that can be read in a few minutes yet still
give rise to substantive indexing problems and decisions.
Library Location
The Park Ridge Library is in downtown Park Ridge at 20 S. Prospect Ave. and is near various public transportation routes (bus and commuter train). View transportation options to Park Ridge Library (PDF)
Parking Information
To park for the full period of our meeting (9:30 a.m.–4:00 p.m.), use the inexpensive, full-day metered
parking on Summit Avenue, south of the Park Ridge Metra station. (The train station is on Summit Avenue,
just north of Prospect). The Park Ridge Library (marked "A" in the map) is visible from the train station.
Map of Park Ridge Library Area
Chicago/Great Lakes Practicum
Saturday, March 15, 2008
Park Ridge Public Library
Park Ridge, Illinois 60068
9:30 a.m.–4:00 p.m.
Fee: $10, plus lunch
Join us for a group discussion and exercise in text analysis and term selection. We will consider how to summarize, in back-of-the-book-index format, short texts that can be read in a few minutes yet still give rise to substantive indexing problems and decisions.
Library Location
The Park Ridge Library is in downtown Park Ridge at 20 S. Prospect Ave. and is near various public transportation routes (bus and commuter train). View transportation options to Park Ridge Library (PDF)
About Our March Practicum
One of our chapter members, Michael Jackson, wrote the following review of the March meeting, which appeared in the April 2008 issue of Key Words.
Saturday, March 15, saw the vibrant Chicago/Great Lakes Chapter busy writing indexes as a
full-day collaborative exercise facilitated by Neil Ching (Champaign, Illinois) at the suburban Park Ridge,
Illinois, public library. The librarians seemed surprised to hear considerable laughter emanating from
the conference room on the third floor of the library.
A warm-up exercise, “Humpty, Dumpty”
(familiar to graduates of the UC Berkeley Extension Indexing course) was indexed to such a degree that
participants almost achieved what the “cavalry. See king’s horses and king’s men
” could not—putting “Humpty Dumpty, accident victim” back together again!
The remainder of the morning session was spent working on a technical, medical article. After lunch at a local restaurant, we worked on a current affairs article concerning the recent declaration of independence by Kosovo from Serbia, stretching our political tact and fully using our collective geographic knowledge.
In
addition to adding to our indexing expertise, we found that indexing is not always a lonely occupation. As
Lori Bell (Chicago, a first-time attendee) remarked, “It is so good to find other people who think
like I do!”
2007: Fall Workshops
Fall Workshop presenters Kate Mertes and Carol Roberts have fun with ASI merchandise.
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