ANZSI Council is pleased to invite nominations for the John Simkin Medal 2020. The 2020 Medal may be awarded to an indexer for an outstanding index to a book or periodical published in or since 2017. The index must have been compiled in Australia or New Zealand. Details are available here. Nominations close on 30 June 2020.

SI (UK) will be holding a  half-day conference for editors commissioning indexes, or for other interested publishing professionals, on how indexers work and how they can add value to any non-fiction book. Due to concerns about Covid-19 this has now been moved to a social media event #indexday.

http://www.indexers.org.uk/events/national-indexing-day-2020

National Indexing Day 2020 – ANZSI NSW Group

ANZSI NSW Group will be celebrating National Indexing Day 2020 with a nuts-and-bolts Q&A session via teleconference. We will use the Redback teleconferencing system that Council uses for meetings.

This has always been a popular type of event for face-to-face meetings, and we are keen to try it electronically. This makes the event accessible to everyone with a telephone. With people being advised to minimise travel at the moment, this is a timely event.

The teleconference will be held at 4pm Sydney time* on Sunday 29 March 2020.

This event is open to all ANZSI members. If we have a lot of questions, priority will go to those from NSW Group members, and those that are sent to me the soonest.

Please email me (glendabrowne@gmail.com) if you would like to attend, and I will send the teleconference phone number and code. There is no cost for participants in Australia and New Zealand except for a local phone call.

If you have questions, please send them to me. I will share them with the group so people can start thinking about them. If possible we will have one prepared response before opening the ‘floor’ to comments.

All discussions will be confidential, and we ask participants not to share identifiable details outside the meeting.

If we run out of questions we could also do ‘take 5 minutes to share one of your recent indexing experiences’ as we have done at some of our informal lunches.

I look forward to sharing the joy (and puzzles) of indexing with you all on National Indexing Day.

*If you will not be calling in from NSW (except Broken Hill), please check the time zone. Because NSW is on summer time (AEDT) I think it will be:

1 pm Perth

2.30 pm Darwin

3 pm Brisbane

3.30 pm Adelaide

4 pm Sydney, Melbourne, Hobart, Canberra

6 pm New Zealand

The American Society for Indexing (ASI) have announced their 2020 annual conference to be held in Raleigh, North Carolina from 23-25 April.

https://www.asindexing.org/conference/2020/

SI have announced the date of their 2020 conference:
https://www.indexers.org.uk/training-development/conferences/ [Subsequently cancelled due to COVID]