Drysiders Gatherings

The Dry-Siders Indexing Group is an informal group of persons interested in indexing who meet occasionally to discuss indexing issues. Attendees come from Idaho, Oregon and Washington. All are welcome, member of PNW or not.

The meetings of the Drysiders Peer Review Group occur irregularly in non-snowy months. Please contact Annanaomi Sams for details.

Missoula Indexer Networking Dinner - 2009

We have scheduled another indexing dinner on Thursday, June 18, 2009, at 5:30 p.m. at the MacKenzie River Pizza Company in downtown Missoula. Anyone interested in indexing is welcome!
     MacKenzie River Pizza Company
     137 W. Front Street Missoula, MT    (406) 721-0077      www.mackenzieriverpizza.com/
Directions to the MacKenzie River Pizza Company:
From I-90 East:
     - Take Exit 104 to Orange Street; turn right at N. Orange Street. (You'll see signs for the City Center.)
     - Drive 0.6 miles and turn left on W. Front Street. The MacKenzie River Pizza Company will be on the right, 0.2 mile away.
From I-90 West:
     - Take Exit 104 to Orange Street; turn left at N. Orange Street. (You'll see signs for the City Center.)
     - Drive 0.6 miles and turn left on W. Front Street. The MacKenzie River Pizza Company will be on the right, 0.2 mile away.

Please RSVP to Cheryl Landes by Thursday, June 11, if you plan to join us. Dinner is Dutch treat (each person pays for her/his own meal and beverages).
If you know anyone else who's interested in indexing and would like to attend this dinner, please forward this invitation to them.  We look forward to seeing you again in Missoula!

Cheryl Landes
Past-president and Program Committee Coordinator
Pacific Northwest Chapter / American Society for Indexing
clandes407@aol.com

Boise Lunch with the President of PNW on Saturday, January 31, 2009

Join the PNW chapter prewsident Cheryl Landes for lunch.  Anyone interested in indexing is welcome, You do not have to be a member of PNW/ASI to participate. Let's meet at 1:30pm at the Golden Corral across the street from the Boise Town Plaza at 8460 West Emerald. The Golden Corral's phone number is (208) 373-7118. If you're interested, please RSVP to clandes407@aol.com. Lunch is Dutch treat. If you know any indexers in the area who don't subscribe to this list or anyone who's interested in indexing, feel free to forward this invitation to them. We'll get to know each other, catch up, and talk about indexing.

Network with indexers in the Idaho panhandle on January 10, 2009

Nancy Gerth has invited us to dinner at her home in Sagle, near Sandpoint, on Saturday, January 10, 2009. Her home is on a beautiful 40-acre plot there...a paradise for snowshoers or anyone who simply loves the outdoors. Several of us are planning to snowshoe there, if enough snow has fallen by then. If you are interested in attending, please RSVP to  clandes407@aol.com offlist by Monday, January 5, 2009.

2006 (We know this "looks" out of date, but the discussions continue irregularly)

September 16, 2006
The Drysiders' Group will be meeting on September 16 at 11:00 in Moscow, Idaho, to discuss chapters 8 and 9 of Facing the Text by Do Mi Stauber. Please join us if you can. We will meet in the Maps Room of the Library at the University of Idaho. After the meeting, we might all mosey down to Mikey's Greek Gyros for some lunch. Hope to see you here!
Linnea Marshall
linneam@uidaho.edu

August 19, 2006
The next Drysiders meeting will be held in Spokane, WA on August 19, 2006.  We will meet at our customary 11:00am time and will adjourn about 2:00-3:00pm depending on how long we continue our discussion.  The discussion will cover chapters 6-7 of Do Mi Stauber’s book, Facing the Text, as we continue through it this summer.  We will meet on the beautiful campus of Whitworth College in George’s Place in the Hixon Union Building (HUB).  George’s Place is a faculty room, not a restaurant.  Since it will be after summer school is over and before Fall Semester begins, no food service will be available on campus.  Lemonade and baked goods will be available for snacking.  Either bring your own lunch, or we can break for lunch and walk 2 blocks to buy our lunch.  Questions?  Call Tami Robinson  509-777-4483 weekdays or 509-464-1380 evenings and weekends.   

July 15, 2006
The Drysiders will meet in Richland at the CIC building on the WSU Tri-Cities campus. We will meet on the second floor of the building from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM, then adjourn for an informal lunch @ Atomic Ale Brewpub.& Eatery, 1015 Lee Blvd., Richland. This summer we are discussing Do Mi Stauber’s Facing the Text. At the July meeting, we will discuss Chapters 4 & 5. Annanaomi Sams, 509-372-7448

2005

27 August 2005
The August meeting will be held Saturday, August 27, 2005, from 10:30 AM until 12:30 PM at the WSU Tri-Cities Consolidated Information Center. Please see info under July 30 meeting for maps and driving instructions. Indexes for review should be submitted to indexer@eoni.com by August 19 around noon to allow time for distribution to attendees. To followup, we have two indexes for review that were distributed on 8/19 and 8/20.

30 July 2005
The July meeting of the Drysiders Peer Review group will be held Saturday, 30 July 2005, from 10.30am until 12.30pm at the WSU Tri-Cities Consolidated Information Center in Richland, Washington. The meeting will be followed by an informal lunch at Atomic Ale, 1015 Lee Blvd, Richland from approximately 1-3pm.

11 June 2005
The Drysiders Indexing Group will be meeting from 10.30am-12.30pm on 11 June 2005 at the WSU Tri-Cities Consolidated Information Center Room TBA in Richland, Washington. The meeting will be followed by an informal lunch at Atomic Ale, 1015 Lee Blvd, Richland from approximately 1-3pm. The focus of this meeting will be on 1) any indexing topic of interest to you, or 2) term selection in indexing, or 3) peer review of an index you created or one you find of particular interest. Peer review will take precedence over topic discussion, indexes should be sent to me in advance for distribution (.rtf please). Article or book selection citations for your topic of interest are appreciated but not required, if sent to me in advance I will also distribute to those I know are attending.

2004

September 18, 2004
10.30am to 12.30pm at the WSU Tri-Cities Consolidated Information Center. See below for directions. In addition to reviewing indexes we will be discussing issues (pros/cons) in purchasing laptop computers. See you there!

August 7, 2004
10.30am to 12.30 pm at the WSU Tri-Cities Consolidated Information Center. See information from June 19 meeting. We will be bringing a current index or an index we like for review and discussion. Lunch to follow as usual.

June 19, 2004
10.30 am to 12.30 pm at the WSU Tri-Cities Consolidated Information Center.
We will be looking at the exercise from the last meeting, a review of the Cosmos Index using the Wilson Guidelines and creating a quick style guide using Pilar's format. This should not take too much time. And to get back into the swing of indexing, we will do a short selection from Lawrence Lessig's book Free Culture, Chapter 13 titled "Eldred". This is a tad longer than 30 pages but any portion of it for discussion should work. The book does have an index which will give us something for comparison. If anyone has time to read the entire book, it is very interesting and put copyright in a different perceptive for me.

2003

November 8, 2003
We indexed the "Elder Family History" which was found on the web. We discovered there is very little in the indexing literature about formatting genealogy indexes/entries, more in the genealogy literature. We also realized they are slow going, tedious, and not likely to produce large financial returns as many are self-published by the author/researcher.

August 9, 2003
Hmm, looks like this was the month we attempted a scholarly history, a selection for England Under the Tudors by Arthur D. Innes.

May 10, 2003
Canceled due to conflicting schedules. We were scheduled to look at an article on Chlorine.

March 8, 2003
I think this was the meeting we indexed a history thesis by Taylor on "Women in Memorial Literature" or maybe this was October's topic??

2002

October 12, 2002
Nothing in my notes about what we indexed.

July 20, 2002
This was the first meeting. My notes indicate that we indexed Wild Water by Ellis Lucia and compared our indexes.

May 11, 2002
This is generally considered the event which sparked the formation of Drysiders. Sherry Smith organized an intermediate/advanced indexing workshop where we all indexed Hubbell's A Year in the Country. Sherry lead the discussion/comparison of our indexes. We enjoyed it so much that some of us decided to meet again.

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