ASI Webinar
Textbook Indexing: Basic skills and guidelines to create a good textbook index with Diana Witt
Wednesday, March 13, 2019
10 am Pacific; 11 am Mtn; 12 pm Central; 1 pm Eastern
Learn the pros and cons of updating vs. original creation of textbook indexes. Understand how to handle non-text material such as glossaries, graphics, appendices, etc. Find out how to create multiple name, subject, and company indexes simultaneously.
Program will cover:
- Table of contents, and/or chapter titles as term sources
- Highlighted boldfaced terms
- Introductory matter relevance
- Glossary, inclusion or not
- Appendices, case studies, online resources and other nontext material
- Multiple indexes (name, subject, and company name indexes)
- Audience for the book, elementary, secondary, college, continuing education
- New vs. updated indexes
- Rates and fees: Current crisis for textbook indexers, reasonable charges for multiple indexes
- Calculating for updated vs. original indexes.
Diana Witt is a long-time professional indexer with many years’ experience in textbook and scholarly indexing.
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