Membership Information

The Pacific Northwest Chapter is an official chapter of the American Society for Indexing (ASI). Membership in ASI includes affiliation with a chapter of your choice. While non-members are always welcome, benefits of joining your local chapter include:

• Networking with others involved in the indexing profession
• Regional Meetings held two times per year
• PNW Chapter News twice a year
• Member discounts on PNW/ASI workshops and conferences
• Directing the efforts and energy of the chapter, volunteering for a Committee, to serving as an Officer on the board, and giving advice on the email officer's loop
• Participating in local peer review sessions
• Voting rights
• An opportunity to create a listing in the PNW OnLine Directory of Indexers , a directory of regional indexers, available 24/7 on the chapter website. Click for Registration. For additional information, contact our webmaster.
• Opportunities to participate at several regional trade shows, in order to make direct contact with authors, editors and publishers
• Access to the member only area of the ASI website
• Secret handshake and custom code-breaking ring (gotcha!)

So how do you join ASI? Membership in ASI is open to all interested persons: professional indexers, editors, publishers, librarians, and anyone else curious about indexing. For more information about ASI benefits and an application form, go to http://www.asindexing.org/site/membship.shtml.

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