Posts Tagged ‘abstracting’

Newsletter Article Feature

Wednesday, June 10th, 2015

Meet a Fellow Indexer: Lisa Ryan

The author of this blog, Lisa Ryan, was featured in the Spring 2015 Heartland Chapter Newsletter of the American Society for Indexing (ASI).  The link to the article is below.  “When Lisa isn’t indexing and abstracting books, she’s writing them,” the article says.  “I have written two young adult novels and three screenplays, and I am working to get these published or produced.”  The article gives her background as a journalist before changing careers to library science.  Her biggest influence, she says, was her mother, who was a middle school librarian before retiring.

She earned her Master of Science in Library Science Degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  She worked as an Indexer/Abstracter for the National Association of Home Builders, then as an Indexer for the U.S. Department of Transportation, both in Washington, D.C.  She founded and developed Stellar Searches LLC in 2007, focusing on research and online searches and then expanded into indexing and abstracting.  She joined ASI shortly thereafter.

Lisa focuses on back-of-the-book, periodical, newspaper, and database indexing and her specialties include science and technology, social science, education, and scholarly works, but she is open to indexing and abstracting a variety of topics.

Read more about Lisa Ryan in the article by Roseann Biederman, “Meet a Fellow Indexer: Lisa Ryan.” Heartland Chapter Newsletter of the American Society for Indexing. Spring 2015. http://www.heartlandindexers.org/meet-lisa-ryan.html

For more information about the services provided by the author of this blog, see the Stellar Searches LLC website, http://www.stellarsearches.com

 

Welcome to Optimal Indexing, my indexing blog!

Saturday, January 30th, 2010

This blog will focus on optimal indexing for effective search retrieval.  How do you index books and documents in such a way that patrons will easily and effectively find the needed information?  As an Information Professional for Stellar Searches LLC, I depend on quality indexing to find the information that fulfills a query.  While I conduct searches for information, I also provide indexing and abstracting services.  This blog will examine how to enhance your indexing and focus on tips for indexing that will help the patron find the needed information.  But most importantly, I’ll explore why an index is needed in the first place, how it enhances a book.  An index, in short, is indispensable.

For more information about the services provided by the author of this blog, see the Stellar Searches LLC website, http://www.stellarsearches.com