This is the third in a series of blog postings on the American Society for Indexing’s (ASI) Virtual Conference, held on Saturday, May 2nd. The Annual Conference in Raleigh, North Carolina was postponed until 2021 because of COVID-19.
Held on Zoom, the third session, The Naked Indexer, featured an experienced indexer, Fred Leise, working on an index in real time. The session opened a window into his indexing processes and methods as he explained his choices along the way. On a split screen, he showed the PDF of the document and the Cindex indexing software in which he was working. He selected headings and subheadings and entered page references for the scholarly book which he was indexing for the first time. He also answered questions, prompting lively discussion.
The session, often presented at ASI past conferences, was a highlight of the virtual conference.
I will discuss the fourth session of the Virtual Conference in the next blog posting. For more information about the services provided by the author of this blog, see the Stellar Searches LLC website, http://www.stellarsearches.com
Tags: American Society for Indexing, book indexing, indexing, Virtual Conference