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PACIFIC NORTHWEST CHAPTER
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Pacific Northwest Chapter Meetings
Fall 2008 Meeting
Saturday, August 23, 8 a.m.-6 p.m.
Bastyr University
14500 Juanita Drive NE
Kenmore, Washington
Trends in Indexing: the Long Tail or the End of the Tale?
with Jan Wright
In this session Jan will be talking about being at the end of the line, but she doesn't mean indexing as a profession is going away. Come hear how niches, maniacs, money, time, and space are going to affect how we get work, and who is going to get indexing done in a Google and NetFlix age. Jan will bring together ideas and theories from indexing and non-indexing sources. A lively discussion will be included.
Jan Wright has been indexing since 1991, and has a background as a librarian and as a book production specialist. She has worked on indexes, taxonomies, controlled vocabularies, and knows most of the page layout packages that are used to create books these days. She specializes in embedded and technical indexing, and has used everything from Cindex to Excel to XML to create retrievable indexing.
How are PDFs used in indexing?
A panel discussion with Ed Rush, Carolyn Weaver, Jan Wright and Enid Zafran
Moderated by Cheryl Landes
Learn how portable document files (PDFs) are used in a variety of index subject areas during this lively discussion.
Legal Indexing Workshop
presented by Enid Zafran
This three-hour workshop will explain how legal indexes differ from other indexes and review the steps in creating a legal index, including term selection. Special types of cross-references that are expected in legal indexing will be covered. Treatment of cases, especially the rules that govern their sorting, will be described.
Enid has headed the in-house departments of two legal publishers and has worked with all the major U.S. legal publishers, as well as with state and federal government agencies. Workshop attendees will benefit from her extensive experience in training legal indexers and will learn from hands-on exercises.
Other activities:
• Opportunities to network and discuss indexing with your peers
• Friday informal dinner gathering (not included in registration fee)
• Saturday dinner gathering (not included in registration fee)
• Sunday morning Board Meeting
Hotel information:
We have reserved a block of rooms at the Baymont Hotel, which is 5.4 miles east of Bastyr University. The rates are $86 per room plus tax for one king bed and $88 per room plus tax for two queen beds. The rate includes free Internet access and a free continental breakfast. Two restaurants - a coffee/sandwich shop open for breakfast and lunch only and a Shari's that's open 24 hours - are in the hotel's parking lot.
To take advantage of these rates, reserve your room by August 1. After that, the regular hotel rates will apply. Call the number below to make your reservation, as these rates will not be granted if you go through Baymont's Web site.
Also, when you call, tell reservations that you're with the "Pacific Northwest Chapter" to receive the discounted rates referenced above.
.......... Baymont Hotel
.......... 12223 NE 116th Street
.......... Kirkland, WA 98034
.......... (425) 822-2300
The PNW/ASI Spring 2009 Meeting
will be merged with the national ASI conference
April 23–25, 2009
at the Doubletree Hotel near Lloyd Center in Portland, Oregon
More information will be posted on the ASI website at
<http://www.asindexing.org/site/conferences/conf2008/index.shtml>
and here
as it becomes available.
The PNW/ASI Fall 2009 meeting
will be held in Richland, Washington
Spring 2010 - Eugene
Fall 2010 - Seattle
Previous Workshops and Meetings
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Past Indexing workshops and meetings in the Pacific Northwest region
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