ALIA West

July 2002

Indexing courses

Despite predictions that computers and search engines would make indexing obsolete, quality indexes are here to stay as readers, researchers, publishers, librarians and others admit that quality indexing adds context and integrity to a world otherwise populated by disorganised information.
CAVAL Collaborative Solutions is happy to offer the following training courses for those responsible for the provision of indexes to assist locating information.

Indexing books: an introduction
This back-of-book indexing workshop provides an introduction to the theory of indexing and the opportunity to apply this in practical exercises.
Authors, editors, indexers, librarians and technical writers who are responsible for providing quality indexes will benefit from this workshop.

Indexing databases and pictorial materials
Most organisations devote time and energy to database building, and then neglect to provide enough assistance to find the resources. Pictorial materials, such as maps, photographs, charts, etc. comprise rich sources of information, but their non-textual (ie. pictorial) nature, can make them particularly difficult to manage, store, and access.
This workshop provides the opportunity for those responsible for the management and access of databases and pictorial materials to learn and practice indexing fundamentals such as writing abstracts and selecting index terms.

All courses are developed and presented by Max McMaster who has been a freelance indexer for the past 9 years. Although he has mainly worked on back-of-book indexing, he is also highly experienced in database indexing, journal indexing and web-indexing. He arrived at indexing after spending 19 years in the library and information fields, mainly involved with scientific disciplines in State government departments and CSIRO. He has in excess of 900 indexes to his name. Max lectures on indexing to editing and publishing students at RMIT, and runs indexing training courses for the Australian Society of Indexers and others all around Australia. Max has been awarded the prestigious Australian Society of Indexers Medal on three occasions.

Cost per day: $220.00 ($198.00 for CAVAL and ALIA individual members) includes lunch.

For further information please contact Eve Cornish

Register online at http://www.caval.edu.au/Services/rego_form.html

CAVAL is a Registered Training Organisation.