[Neasis-l] Indexing and web site indexing conference in Worcester March 21

[Heather Hedden]

New England Chapter of the American Society for Indexing
Spring Conference
Saturday, March 21, 2009, 9:30 am - 4:30 pm
Worcester State College, 486 Chandler Street, Worcester, MA
North/South Auditorium on the first floor of the Student Center

“Indexing as a Balancing Act”
Presented by Stephen Ingle, President and CEO of WordCo Indexing 
Services, Inc.(www.wordco.com)
Steve will focus on the many factors that have to be taken into 
consideration by the indexer. These include client specifications, space 
limitations, time constraints, audience, and (last but by no means 
least) content and style. Does the indexer have to “cut corners” to get 
the project done? If so, what gets sacrificed? This presentation should 
be of interest to beginning as well as experienced indexers. The second 
half of the presentation will be devoted to a question and answer 
session with the audience.
Steve Ingle is the president of WordCo Indexing Services, Inc., located 
in Norwich, Connecticut. He studied German literature at Yale 
University, and has master’s degrees in German and Russian Area Studies 
from Washington University and Hunter College, respectively. Following 
graduation, he worked for four years as index editor for Germanic and 
Scandinavian literatures at the Modern Language Association in New York. 
He began his indexing business out of his home in 1988. WordCo now 
employs eight people and completes 400-500 projects annually for a 
diverse group of clients. He is also president of the Small- and 
Home-Office Association of Southeastern Connecticut. Steve presentation 
at the 2006 American Society of Indexers conference in Toronto was 
entitled: “Getting a Grasp on the Book: A Balanced Approach to Indexing.”

“Creating Web Site Indexes” Workshop
Presented by Heather Hedden, Principal of Hedden Information Management 
(www.hedden-information.com)
In this four-hour workshop, Heather will instruct participants on how to 
create hyperlinked back-of-the-book style indexes on web sites or 
intranets. Indexing techniques, design best practices, and software 
tools for web site indexing will be covered. A review of HTML codes will 
be provided, so participants with no prior experience with HTML can 
attend this workshop. Indexing experience also is not necessary, but a 
basic familiarity with the concepts of indexes is an advantage. This 
half-day workshop, based on Heather's online workshops, has also been 
presented at the ASI national conferences in Toronto (2006) and 
Philadelphia (2007). Workshop details are available at: 
www.hedden-information.com/web-site-indexing-workshop.htm
Heather Hedden offers freelance services in book and web site indexing 
and in taxonomy creation through Hedden Information Management. She 
previously worked as a taxonomist at the search software developer 
Viziant and served as an in-house periodical indexer and then senior 
vocabulary editor at Thomson Gale. Heather teaches online courses in web 
site indexing and taxonomy creation through the Continuing Education 
Program of Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information 
Science. She has published numerous articles on web site indexing and 
has recently written a book, Indexing Specialties: Web Sites, for ASI 
and Information Today, Inc. (2007). Heather was manager of the Web 
Indexing SIG of ASI from 2005 to 2006 and was president of the New 
England Chapter of ASI in 2006. She currently serves as manager of the 
Taxonomies & Controlled Vocabularies SIG of ASI.

Registration
Advance registration is requested by Tuesday, March 17, 2009.
Cost (includes continental breakfast and buffet lunch):
$40.00 for ASI members ($50.00 if you register after March 17 or pay at 
the door)
$50.00 for non-members ($60.00 if you register after March 17 or pay at 
the door)
Please complete the registration form 
(http://www.newenglandindexers.org/NEASI-spring-meeting.pdf) and check 
made out to "NEASI" to:
April Silver, NEASI Secretary, 5A Holbrook Court, Rockport, MA 01966
Cancellations must be received by Tuesday, March 17, 2009 to be eligible 
for a refund. If you need to cancel, please send email to April Silver, 
springmeeting at hotmail.com

Directions: 
http://worcester.edu/About/Shared%20Documents/campusdirections.aspx
Parking: You can park in any of the lots; no parking passes required on 
Saturdays.
Questions: Contact Jean Jesensky, jmjindexer at msn.com
See also the New England Chapter of the American Society for Indexing 
web site: http://www.newenglandindexers.org/events.htm