ANZSI

Melbourne Indexers: Typesetting
2019-05-02 18:00 - 20:00 (Australia/Sydney) | ‘Peppercorn’ Meeting Room, Level 1 Hawthorn Library, 584 Glenferrie Road, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia
Typesetters play in important role in book design and production. Sonya Murphy will talk about the history of the industry in Australia. How it transferred from a male-dominated hot-metal trade to today’s technology. Explaining how books are designed, she will discuss how the font use, size, number of pages, etc are all determined.

Parking is available down the side of the building. If you are travelling by public transport there is a tram stop nearby, and Glenferrie Station is just a couple of tram stops away.
After the meeting, we will go to a local restaurant for a meal (at own expense).

ANZSI Council Meeting
2019-04-28 16:00 - 18:00, 2019-03-21 17:00 - 19:00, 2019-02-11 17:00 - 19:00

ANZSI National Indexing Day 2019: Indexers SA
2019-04-05 10:30 - 14:00
Sylvia Muscardin and Jane Oliver , will meet with Madeleine Davis, President of ANZSI and Amanda Ward, Zoos SA Librarian, to discuss a new indexing project being undertaken by Indexers SA for the Zoo.

ANZSI National Indexing Day 2019: Melbourne Indexers
2019-03-28 10:30 - 12:00
National Indexing Day is on Thursday 28 March. Celebrate the day by meeting with your fellow indexers at ACMI Café, Federation Square (http://fedsquare.com/eatdrink/acmi-cafe-bar) from 10.30 am to 12.00 pm.
National Indexing Day is not just about keeping the fun to ourselves, so we’ll be promoting indexing by releasing a terrific book (with an equally terrific index of course!) through the World’s Library – BookCrossing (https://www.bookcrossing.com/). Our book will carry a unique BCID, along with indexing-related information, and its release at The Nook (http://fedsquare.com/news/the-nook-fed-squares-newest-pop-up-venue) will be visible to the whole world. Its serendipitous discovery is sure to make some lucky stranger’s day, and if they hop onto the site to log their catch, they’ll make our day too!
It would be good to have some idea of the number attending, so please drop us a line at melbourneindexers@gmail.com if you are going to join us.

National Indexing Day 2019 - 28 March
2019-03-28
Several indexing groups have events planned for the lead-up to National Indexing Day or on the day itself.

The Canberra Region Group plans to meet for lunch on Saturday March 2 and use the opportunity to discuss current ANZSI issues as well as welcoming a new member, Ted Briggs.

NSW Indexers plan to celebrate the NID on Monday 25 March at the Botanic Gardens Cafe in the Sydney Botanic Gardens. They will meet for lunch, then go to the State Library and/or Mitchell Library for NID photographs. All welcome. Contact Glenda Browne (glendabrowne@gmail.com) for details.

Melbourne Indexers will celebrate on Thursday 28 March. Enjoy the day by meeting with your fellow indexers at ACMI Café, Federation Square (http://fedsquare.com/eatdrink/acmi-cafe-bar) from 10.30 am to 12.00 pm.
They’ll also be promoting indexing by releasing a terrific book (with an equally terrific index of course!) through the World’s Library – BookCrossing (https://www.bookcrossing.com/). The book will carry a unique BCID, along with indexing-related information, and its release at The Nook (http://fedsquare.com/news/the-nook-fed-squares-newest-pop-up-venue) will be visible to the whole world. Its serendipitous discovery is sure to make some lucky stranger’s day, and if they hop onto the site to log their catch, they’ll make our day too!
It would be good to have some idea of the number attending, so please send a message to melbourneindexers@gmail.com if you are going to join in.

ANZSI National Indexing Day 2019: NSW Indexers
2019-03-25 08:00 - 17:00
NSW Indexers plan to celebrate the NID on Monday 25 March at the Botanic Gardens Cafe in the Sydney Botanic Gardens. They will meet for lunch, then go to the State Library and/or Mitchell Library for NID photographs. All welcome. Contact Glenda Browne glendabrowne@gmail.com for details.

Melbourne Indexers: Indexing music biographies
2019-03-07 18:00 - 20:00 | ‘Peppercorn’ Meeting Room, Level 1 Hawthorn Library, 584 Glenferrie Road, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia
Indexing biographies can be tricky – indexing biographies connected with Classical music can be trickier! If the readers are musicians, they will be looking for information on symphonies, piano trios, Middle Period style and so on. This doesn’t fit conveniently under a chronological arrangement nor a name/event one. Susan Pierotti will bring some Classical music books with a variety of indexing styles for us to discuss. Feel free to bring along any books on music and composers that you may have.

Parking is available down the side of the building. If you are travelling by public transport there is a tram stop nearby, and Glenferrie Station is just a couple of tram stops away.
After the meeting, we will go to a local restaurant for a meal (at own expense).

ANZSI National Indexing Day 2019: Canberra Region Indexers
2019-03-02
The Group plans to meet for lunch and use the opportunity to discuss current ANZSI issues as well as welcoming a new member, Ted Briggs.

Melbourne Indexers: Military and Wartime History
2019-02-07 18:00 - 20:00 | ‘Peppercorn’ Meeting Room, Level 1 Hawthorn Library, 584 Glenferrie Road, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia
In recent times there has been a resurgence of interest in the history and commemoration of twentieth-century wars and those who served in them, especially in the lead-up to the 100th anniversaries of the Gallipoli campaign and the ending of World War I. This interest has been was accompanied by the publication of numerous books on wartime and military history ranging from biographies of major military figures, detailed analyses of military strategy, reports of archaeological digs on battlefields, to battlefield tourism guidebooks. There have also been many publications on the actions of the military in more contemporary conflicts and peacekeeping missions.
In this session we will explore, as a group, how military history is indexed in such works. In particular, we’ll be considering such questions as How are defence forces and military units arranged in the index? Are ranks added to the names of people? How do you index battles, campaigns, and locations? How do you index ordnance (i.e. military materiel)?
Spend some time browsing indexes to wartime and military histories and bring something to share to the session.

Parking is available down the side of the building. If you are travelling by public transport there is a tram stop nearby, and Glenferrie Station is just a couple of tram stops away.
After the meeting, we will go to a local restaurant for a meal (at own expense).

Council meeting (teleconference)
2018-12-06 19:00 - 20:30

Melbourne Indexers: Indexing handwritten journals
2018-12-06 18:00 - 20:00 | ‘Peppercorn’ Meeting Room, Level 1 Hawthorn Library, 584 Glenferrie Road, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia
Even in this computer age, handwritten journals are still popular. Indexing these has a long history. This session will explore some of the methods, tools and terminology being used by those keeping journals today. Are there tips for professional indexers?

Parking is available down the side of the building. If you are travelling by public transport there is a tram stop nearby, and Glenferrie Station is just a couple of tram stops away.
After the meeting, we will go to a local restaurant for a meal (at own expense).

Melbourne Indexers: Show and tell
2018-11-01 18:00 - 20:00 | ‘Peppercorn’ Meeting Room, Level 1 Hawthorn Library, 584 Glenferrie Road, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia
Have you seen a different index in a book, app or journal? Have you explored different indexing techniques or areas you would like to share? Perhaps a new software feature or app? Has a job encouraged you to arrange material in a different way? In other words, bring something to show and tell with others.

Parking is available down the side of the building. If you are travelling by public transport there is a tram stop nearby, and Glenferrie Station is just a couple of tram stops away.
After the meeting, we will go to a local restaurant for a meal (at own expense).

ANZSI Annual General Meeting 2018
2018-10-30 19:00 - 20:00 | Teleconference, Australia
All ANZSI members are welcome to join in our Annual General Meeting, which will be held via teleconference. It is easy to join in the teleconference, it’s as simple as dialing a phone number, and then entering a code. If you would like the relevant numbers, please contact the ANZSI Secretary Sherrey Quinn.
The ANZSI AGM Agenda and papers are in the ‘Council minutes and reports’ section of the Official Documents page: notice of meeting, agenda, draft minutes of the 2017 AGM, and draft 2017-18 annual report.
Teleconference start times in all time zones – NZ: 9.00 pm; NSW, Vic, Tas: 7.00 pm; SA: 6.30 pm; Qld: 6.00 pm; NT: 5.30 pm; WA: 4.00 pm.

Melbourne Indexers: Editing the index
2018-10-04 18:00 - 20:00 | ‘Peppercorn’ Meeting Room, Level 1 Hawthorn Library, 584 Glenferrie Road, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia
Editing indexes is a good way of learning about indexes through detecting errors. Come and put your editing skills to the test, and edit a deliberately faulty (made up) index. You will be given a house style to edit against.

Parking is available down the side of the building. If you are travelling by public transport there is a tram stop nearby, and Glenferrie Station is just a couple of tram stops away.
After the meeting, we will go to a local restaurant for a meal (at own expense).

Council meeting September 2018
2018-09-10 19:00 - 20:00 | Teleconference, Australia

Melbourne Indexers: Shortened forms
2018-09-06 18:00 - 20:00 | ‘Peppercorn’ Meeting Room, Level 1 Hawthorn Library, 584 Glenferrie Road, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia
Shortened forms
Shortened forms can be abbreviations, contractions, acronyms, initialisms or symbols. What’s the difference? What punctuation is needed? How are they capitalised? How do you make them plural? How do you index them? And where are they filed?

Carparking is available down the side of the building. If you are travelling by public transport there is a tram stop nearby, and Glenferrie Station is just a couple of tram stops away.
After the meeting we will go to a local restaurant for a meal (at own expense).

Melbourne Indexers: Selecting indexing terms
2018-08-02 18:00 - 20:00 | ‘Peppercorn’ Meeting Room, Level 1 Hawthorn Library, 584 Glenferrie Road, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia
Selecting indexing terms
In a group exercise we will select indexing terms for a short article and compare the results

Carparking is available down the side of the building. If you are travelling by public transport there is a tram stop nearby, and Glenferrie Station is just a couple of tram stops away.
After the meeting we will go to a local restaurant for a meal (at own expense).

Council meeting July 2018
2018-07-29 16:00 - 17:00 | Teleconference, Australia

Melbourne Indexers: Improving indexing speed
2018-07-05 18:00 - 20:00 | ‘Peppercorn’ Meeting Room, Level 1 Hawthorn Library, 584 Glenferrie Road, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia
Improving indexing speed
More haste, less speed, they say (and we have probably all experienced). We will discuss tips on how to improve your indexing speed.

Carparking is available down the side of the building. If you are travelling by public transport there is a tram stop nearby, and Glenferrie Station is just a couple of tram stops away.
After the meeting we will go to a local restaurant for a meal (at own expense).

Council meeting June 2018
2018-06-18 19:00 - 20:00 | Teleconference, Australia

Melbourne Indexers: Five things from the indexing puzzle bag
2018-06-07 18:00 - 20:00 | ‘Peppercorn’ Meeting Room, Level 1 Hawthorn Library, 584 Glenferrie Road, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia
Five things from the indexing puzzle bag
The indexing puzzle bag contains a collection of topics we may puzzle over.

What is the common way to display page ranges?
How do you index book introductions or the long preface, particularly those with Roman page numbers?
How and why do you turn an indexing job down?
American spelling – traps for Australians.
How do you index concepts known in professions by acronyms or abbreviations? How do you file them?

Carparking is available down the side of the building. If you are travelling by public transport there is a tram stop nearby, and Glenferrie Station is just a couple of tram stops away.
After the meeting we will go to a local restaurant for a meal (at own expense).

Melbourne Indexers: Comparing indexes to biographies
2018-05-03 18:00 - 20:00 | ‘Peppercorn’ Meeting Room, Level 1 Hawthorn Library, 584 Glenferrie Road, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia
Comparing indexes to biographies
The way indexers index the main character of the biography can vary from not having an entry under their name to placing everything under their name to something in between. Then the way the indexes are set out can vary. Suddenly subheadings are not filed alphabetically but in page number order or a forced chronological order. Is this used for all subheadings or only for the main character? How do you use your indexing software to file subheadings like this? Run-on style can be used for subheadings or even sub-sub-subheadings. With all these variations what features would be most useful to the biography readers? What indexing tips can we learn by examining various biography indexes? There will be examples to compare, however why not explore your bookshelves and bring along an example to share?

Carparking is available down the side of the building. If you are travelling by public transport there is a tram stop nearby, and Glenferrie Station is just a couple of tram stops away.
After the meeting we will go to a local restaurant for a meal (at own expense).

Council Meeting April 2018
2018-04-29 16:00 - 17:00 | Teleconference, Australia

Melbourne Indexers: Five things you like to have at hand while indexing
2018-04-05 18:00 - 20:00 | ‘Peppercorn’ Meeting Room, Level 1 Hawthorn Library, 584 Glenferrie Road, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia
You have the indexing software and a copy of the item you are indexing, what else do you require or like to have at hand to work effectively? It could be specific reference books or Apps, a touch screen, the Look inside feature on Amazon, or even chocolate or Panadol. Come and share your favourite five things.

Carparking is available down the side of the building. If you are travelling by public transport there is a tram stop nearby, and Glenferrie Station is just a couple of tram stops away.
After the meeting we will go to a local restaurant for a meal (at own expense).

National Indexing Day!
2018-03-29
ANZSI National Indexing Day – 29 March 2018
The Working Group for the ANZSI campaign – Sherrey Quinn, Denene Cavanagh and Madeleine Davis have begun promotion activities in earnest. Artwork for the ANZSI website, social media – Facebook (@ANZSocietyIndexers) and Twitter (@ANZSI_indexers) – and print advertising has been finalised. So far, approximately 28 block advertisements have been placed in various newsletters and journals.
Activities planned for 29 March, or weeks preceding the date, include:
Canberra Region Indexers are having a photo taken in front of the public artwork by Keld Moseholm ‘On the staircase’, at the Gorman House arts precinct. The sculpture depicts four small men climbing a staircase, reading books. The sculpture has a philosophical aspect by reflecting on the effect of reading on the spirit.
Indexers SA are planning a photo shoot in front of the Old Colonials, a mosaic of early SA settlers, at the State Library of South Australia. Janet Wilkinson, who works at the Library, has prepared an index to the colonials featured in the mosaic and will also feature in the photo.
Melbourne Indexers are finalising a photo shoot in front of a giant index on the wall of the National Gallery of Victoria. Yes, the NGV has installed a giant version of the index to their Triennial Exhibition publication! The photo opportunity is being timed to coincide with the weekend of the Melbourne Art Book Fair, also at the NGV.
NSW Indexers are progressing with an ANZSI National Indexing Day wine labelling effort and are liaising re a group photo shoot at the City of Sydney Library – Customs House, Circular Quay location.
In addition, Mary Coe and Madeleine Davis have been invited by the School of Information Studies, Charles Sturt University, to give a joint presentation to an online session for students undertaking the Metadata for Resource Discovery course , on or around 29 March. They have about 100 students and the session is recorded for those who cannot attend.
Similarly , Mary and Madeleine are hoping to give a face-to-face presentation to Sydney University of Technology, Information Technology students.
Gleebooks, in Blackheath, Blue Mountains, has agreed to a photo in front of their window displaying the ANZSI NID media release when it is available.
Finally, ANZSI has been invited to participate in a podcast about writer/indexers at the end of February, run by the Australian Writers Centre, The AWC has also welcomed the suggestion of a Q&A on indexing for their blog, at a later date.

Council Meeting March 2018
2018-03-20 19:00 - 20:00 | Teleconference, Australia

Melbourne Indexers: Embedded indexing
2018-03-01 18:00 - 20:00 | ‘Peppercorn’ Meeting Room, Level 1 Hawthorn Library, 584 Glenferrie Road, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia
What is embedded indexing? One form is to embed the index in MS Word. How is this done and can indexing software be used to assist? Various options will be discussed and demonstrated.

Carparking is available down the side of the building. If you are travelling by public transport there is a tram stop nearby, and Glenferrie Station is just a couple of tram stops away.
After the meeting we will go to a local restaurant for a meal (at own expense).

Council meeting February 2018
2018-02-05 19:00 - 20:00 | Teleconference, Australia
