ALIA West

March 2003

Indexing courses

Venue: Centre for Business Solutions, 140 Royal Street, East Perth

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.

Journal indexing
This half day course is specifically designed for anyone responsible for preparing annual or cumulative indexes for journals, magazines, or newsletters in a library, commercial publisher or community group/society setting. The course will cover: deciding what to index; number of indexes to be included; style of author entries; title entries; anonymous items; and selection of subject terms.

Thursday 3rd April, 1:30-4:30pm, cost: $132 ($110 for members of CAVAL, ALIA and Australian Society of Indexers)

Refresher back-of-book indexing
This half day course is specifically designed for those indexing students who are planning to attend the full-day Intermediate Back-of-Book indexing course, but have forgotten or are unsure of some of the basic indexing elements. Areas to be covered include: selection of headings and sub-headings; formatting of names; cross-references; issues of editing and style; and length of index.

Thursday 3rd April, 9:30-12:30pm, cost: $132 ($110 for members of CAVAL, ALIA and Australian Society of Indexers)

Intermediate back-of-book indexing
This full-day course is designed to provide hands-on indexing practice of a small 60 page technical document using one of the commercial dedicated indexing software packages on the market. No specific subject knowledge is required, but a basic knowledge of indexing principles is assumed. By the end of the day students will have fully indexed the document and will be in a position to move on to real world indexing.

Friday 4th April, 9:30-4:30pm, cost: $220.00 ($198 for members of CAVAL, ALIA and Australian Society of Indexers) includes lunch

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.

For further information please contact Eve Cornish

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

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