Past meeting: October 10, 1998
Learning Indexing: What Are Your Options

New indexers and those wanting to advance their skills had the chance to gather information about a variety of indexing courses at the PNW/ASI fall meeting in Portland on October 10, 1998.

The session began with a short segment from Susan Holbert's five-hour training video, "How to index books: a practical workshop on freelance indexing," which discussed creating index entries. Then they practiced creating entries from a book excerpt and compared their results with the video.

Workbooks from the Basic and Applied Indexing classes, sponsored by the USDA Graduate School, and the Book Indexing Post Tutorials (BIPT) were available for browsing. Other training discussed during the session included:

• indexing courses offered through the University of Washington's library school and technical communication program
• Indexing Basics workshops, sponsored by Index West
• WWW Walker Indexing Course

  Detailed information about indexing courses available to new and experienced indexers is available on the ASI Web site at http://www.asindexing.org/courses.shtml

  Indexstudents, a new listserv, is open to anyone interested in indexer education. For more information, contact Dan Connolly at connolly@neca.com