Date: Tue, 15 Mar 1994 16:31:41 ECT Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: Margaret Monsour Subject: Accreditation teleconference ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- ALA Committee on Accreditation and H. W. Wilson call for participation in accreditation teleconference A teleconference to prepare librarians and other information professionals to implement the 1992 Standards for Accreditation of Master's Programs in Library and Information Studies is scheduled for September 8, 1994, hosted by the American Library Association (ALA) Committee on Accreditation (COA) and the H. W. Wilson Foundation. The Committee on Accreditation (COA) invites individuals from the American Library Association (ALA) and other library and information associations to participate in a teleconference explaining the accreditation process under the 1992 Standards. This interactive seminar will be downlinked to numerous locations throughout North America to make it accessible to a diverse group of librarians, educators and information professionals. Facilitators will be available at each designated site to field questions, promote discussion, and provide additional information and materials. Participants will learn how to serve as chairs and members of the External Review Panels. These panel members review and evaluate master's programs seeking accreditation under the 1992 standards. Applications are due May 1, 1994 and the program is scheduled for September 8,1994. This teleconference is an exciting opportunity for the library and information community. This technology will reach a larger and more diverse audience of participants in the new accreditation process than in the past. To attend the teleconference, interested individuals should send their name, address and association membership along with a self-addressed stamped envelope (SASE) by May 1, 1994 to Teleconference, Office for Accreditation, American Library Association, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 15 Mar 1994 16:33:48 ECT Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: Ray Schwartz Subject: ASIS SIG/CR's 5th Classification Research Workshop - Call for Papers. ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 5th ASIS SIG/CR Classification Research Workshop QUESTIONS, CONTROVERSIES AND CONCLUSIONS IN CLASSIFICATION RESEARCH The American Society for Information Science Special Interest Group on Classification Research (ASIS SIG/CR) invites submissions for the 5th ASIS Classification Research Workshop, to be held at the 57th Annual Meeting of ASIS in Alexandria, VA. The workshop will take place Sunday, October 16th, 1994, 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. ASIS '94 continues through Thursday, October 20th. The CR Workshop is designed to be an exchange of ideas among active researchers with interests in the creation, development, management,representation, display, comparison, compatibility, theory, and application of classification schemes. Emphasis will be on semantic classification, in contrast to statistically based schemes. Topics include, but are not limited to: - Warrant for concepts in classification schemes. - Concept acquisition. - Basis for semantic classes. - Automated techniques to assist in creating classification schemes. - Statistical techniques used for developing explicit semantic classes. - Relations and their properties. - Inheritance and subsumption. - Knowledge representation schemes. - Classification algorithms. - Procedural knowledge in classification schemes. - Reasoning with classification schemes. - Software for management of classification schemes. - Interfaces for displaying classification schemes. - Data structures and programming languages for classification schemes. - Image classification. - Comparison and compatibility between classification schemes. - Applications such as subject analysis, natural language understanding, information retrieval, expert systems. The CR Workshop welcomes submissions from various disciplines. Those interested in participating are invited to submit a short (1-2 page single-spaced) position paper summarizing substantive work that has been conducted in the above areas or other areas related to semantic classification schemes, and a statement briefly outlining the reason for wanting to participate in the workshop. Submissions may include background papers as attachments. Participation will be of two kinds: presenter and regular participant. Those selected as presenters will be invited to submit expanded versions of their position papers and to speak to those papers in brief presentations during the workshop. All position papers (both expanded and short papers) will be published in proceedings to be distributed prior to the workshop. The workshop registration fee is $35.00. Submissions should be made by email, or diskette accompanied by paper copy, or paper copy only (fax or postal), to arrive by May 15, 1994, to: *Raya Fidel, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Washington, FM-30, Seattle, WA 98195; Internet: fidelr@u.washington.edu; Phone: 206-543-1888; Fax: 206-685-8049* ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1994 16:57:03 ECT Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: mrowland@aol.com Subject: Massachusetts indexers ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- I would like to talk to other Massachusetts indexers about the possibility of establishing a Massachusetts ASI chapter. I'd like to work on this jointly with one or two other people, preferably those with access to e-mail. Some of the groundwork has already been done by others who, for various reasons, could not continue with organizational efforts. If you are interested in working on the formation of a MA chapter, please let me know. I'd also be happy to hear from anyone in any state who has advice to share on organizing a state chapter. Thank you! Marilyn Rowland Duxbury, MA Mrowland@aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 18 Mar 1994 14:26:22 ECT Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: Charlotte Skuster Subject: FAQ--no change INDEX-L FAQ BOOKS ON INDEXING? Knight, G. N. Indexing, The Art Of. Allen & Unwin, 1979. Lancaster, F. W. Indexing and Abstracting in Theory and Practice. U of Illinois Press, 1991. Lancaster, F. W. Vocabulary Control for Information Retrieval, 2nd ed. Information resources Press, 1986 Wellisch, H. Indexing and Abstracting, an International Bibliography ABC-Clio, 1980. Wellisch, H. Indexing from A to Z. H. W. Wilson, 1991. WHAT HAS BEEN WRITTEN ABOUT AUTOMATIC INDEXING? Books: Salton and McGill Introduction to Modern Information Retrieval Salton, Automatic Text Processing Van Rijsbergen Information Retrieval Jones, Karen Spark Information Retrieval Experiment Papers: Bell, C. and Jones, K. "Back-of-the-book Indexing: A Case for the Application of Artificial Intelligence", Informatics 5, ASLIB Pub., pp. 155-161, 1979 Bennion, B. "Performance Testing of a Book and its Index as an Information Retrieval System", JASIS, pp. 265-270, July 1970 Borko, H. "Experiments in Book Indexing by Computer" Information Storage and Retrieval, 6:5)16, 1970 Dillon, M. and McDonald, J. "Fully Automatic Book Indexing" Journal of Documentation 39(1):135-154, 1983 Dion, M. Thesaurus-Based Automatic Book Indexing", Information Processing and Management, 81(4):167-178, 1982 Salton, G. "Syntactic Approaches to Automatic Book Indexing", Proceedings of the 26th ACL, pp. 204-210, 1988 WHAT SOFTWARE DO INDEXERS USE? (All of these are for DOS machines...no Macs) IN>SORT Kensa Software P.O. Box 4415 Northbrook, IL 60065 (708) 559-0297 Macrex Bayside Indexing Service P.O. Box 3051 Daly City, CA 95015-0051 (415) 756-0821 FAX: (415) 757-1567 Cindex Indexing Research Box 18609 Rochester, New (716) 461-5530 FAX: (716) 442-3924 COURSES OR TRAINING FOR INDEXERS (OUTSIDE OF LIBRARY SCHOOLS)? Graduate School of the USDA Correspondence Programs Room 1114, South Agriculture Building 14th St. and Independence Ave. SW Washington, DC 20250 (202) 720-7131 Tuition: $269.00 (includes all materials) PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES/ORGANIZATIONS FOR INDEXERS? (this question was not actually asked..but here's the answer anyway) American Society of Indexers (ASI) P.O. Box 386 Port Aransas TX 78373 (512) 749-4052 FAX: (512) 749-6334 E-Mail: asi@well.sf.ca.us Indexing and Abstracting Society of Canada Box 744 Station F Toronto Ontario Canada M4Y 2N6 National Federation of Abstracting and Information Services (NFAIS) 1429 Walnut Street Philadelphia PA 19102 (215) 563)2406 FAX: (215) 563-2848 Society of Indexers (SI) 16 Green Road Birchington, England CT79JZ Australian Society of Indexers (AusSI) GPO Box 1251L, Melbourne Victoria 3001, Australia NETWORK CONNECTIONS America Online (800) 227-6364 CompuServe (800) 848-8199 Delphi (800) 495-4005 GEnie (800) 638-9636 The Well (415) 332-4335 Real/Time Communications (512) 459-4391 See also. Maren, M. "The Age of E-Mail. Home Office Computing, December, 1993, 63-70. WINNERS OF THE ASI/H.W. WILSON COMPANY AWARD FOR INDEXING 1979--Hans H. Wellisch, author and indexer; John Wiley, publisher: The Conversion of Scripts: Its Nature, History and Utilization. 1980--Linda I. Solow, indexer; M.I.T. Press, publisher: Beyond Orpheus: Studies in Musical Structures. 1981--Delight Ansley, indexer; Random House Publisher: Cosmos, Carl Sagan, author. 1982--Catherine Fix, indexer; Wm. Saunders Company, publisher: Diagnosis of Bone and Joint Disorders. 1983--Award not given. 1984--Trish Yancey, indexer; Information Handling Services, publisher: Index and Directory of U.S. Industry Standards. 1985--Sydney W. Cohen, indexer; Random House, publisher: The Experts Speak, Cerf and Navasky, authors. 1986--Marjorie Hyslop, indexer; American Society for Metals, publisher: Metals Handbook. 1987--Award not given. 1988--Jeanne Moody, indexer; National Wildlife Institute, publisher: Raptor Management Techniques. 1989--Philip James, indexer; Butterworths, publisher: Medicine for the Practicing Physician, 2nd ed.. 1990--Marcia Carlson, indexer; Cornell University Press, publisher: Strategic Nuclear Arms & Arms Control Debates. 1991--Daniels, Nancy L., indexer; Van Nostrand Reinhold, publisher: Beyond Public Architecture: Strategies for Design Evaluation. 1992--Johnson, Rachel Jo., indexer; Matthew Bender, publisher: American Law of Real Property. 1993--Award not given. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 18 Mar 1994 14:39:56 ECT Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: Joseph Galron Subject: Book Indexing: Principles and Techniques ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Book Indexing: Principles and Techniques Friday, April 22, 1994 Sixty East Club 60 E. 42nd St. New York City A Professional Development Seminar taught by Bella Hass Weinberg sponsored by St. John's University, Division of Library and Information Science and The School of Continuing Education This one-day seminar will introduce the preparation of book indexes, covering concepts of indexable matter, structure of index entries, cross references, filing, format, and indexer-publisher relations. Both manual and computer-assisted techniques will be discussed. Authors, publishers, information scientists, librarians, and indexers -- both experienced and novice -- should benefit from the seminar. No prior training in library and information science is re quired. Continuing Education Units (.6 CEU) may be received by those attending. Reports on the 1990 Book Indexing Seminar were published in The Indexer (Oct. 1990) and the Journal of Education for Library and Information Science. (Winter 1991). A report on the 1992 Seminar appeared in Key Words: The Newsletter of the American Society of Indexers (July-Aug. 1992). The 1992 Seminar was rated "excellent" by 72% of those attending. ___________________________ Austin Travel is the official agent for the seminar. Call Ann Thompson at (516) 293-6977; out of state, call (800) 899-3117 for discount airfares and hotel rates, which will apply three days before and after the seminar. Book Indexing: Principles and Techniques Date: Friday, April 22, 1994 Time: 9:00 am - 5:00 pm 9:00 - 9:30 Registration and Coffee 9:30 - 10:40 Principles of Indexing 10:40 - 11:00 Break 11:00 - 12:30 Cross Reference Structure 12:30 - 1:45 Lunch 1:45 - 3:00 Format of Indexes 3:00 - 3:20 Break 3:20 - 4:20 Techniques of Indexing 4:20 - 5:00 Questions and Answers Place: Sixty East Club 60 East 42nd Street New York City (The Lincoln Building, opposite Grand Central Station, 27th floor) Fees: $95 including lunch, coffee breaks, and handouts $60 for students and St. John's University staff $5 for .6 Continuing Education Units (optional) Preregistration fees (until April 8, 1994) $85 regular $55 students and SJU staff Seminar Instructor Dr. Bella Hass Weinberg is a Past President of the American Society of Indexers and former Chair of its Indexer Education Committee. As a Professor in the graduate Division of Library and Information Science at St. John's University, she teaches courses in indexing and abstracting as well as information science. Dr. Weinberg has compiled several highly praised book indexes, and consults on the design of large-scale indexing and thesaurus projects. She is a reviewer of national and international standards related to indexing, and has published extensively on indexing theory. The book she edited, Indexing: The State of Our Knowledge and the State of Our Ignorance (Learned Information, 1989), has received many favorable reviews. ______________________________ For further information, write or call: James A. Benson, Director Division of Library and Information Science St. John's University, Jamaica, New York 11439 Fax (718) 380-0353 Tel. (718) 990-6200 ____________________________ Early registration is recommended, as space is limited. Please photocopy the registration form for additional attendees. Receipts will be mailed only upon request. Cancellation and refund requests will be honored if made by April 14, 1994, and are subject to a $10 processing fee. ------------------------------------------------------ Book Indexing: Principles and Techniques April 22, 1994 Registration Form Please type or print in block letters. Today's Date_______________________ Name_____________________________ Title______________________________ Organization_______________________ Address_____________________________ __________________________________ City, State, Zip_____________________ Daytime Phone_____________________ Social Security Number (for those requesting Continuing Education Credit)___________________________ Lunch Choice: Chicken _______ Fish _______ Vegetarian _____ Kosher _____ _____$85 Preregistration fee (must be received by April 8, 1994) _____$95 Registration fee _____$55 Preregistration fee for students and St. John's University staff _____$60 Registration fee for students and St. John's University staff _____$5 for .6 Continuing Education Units (optional) _____ Total enclosed Checks should be made payable to: ST. JOHN'S UNIVERSITY and mailed by April 14, 1994 to: BOOK INDEXING SEMINAR Division of Library and Information Science St. John's University Jamaica, New York 11439 -- _\\|//_ o o ----------------------uuu-- U --uuu------------------------------------------ Joseph (Yossi) Galron | Internet: jgalron@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu Jewish Studies Librarian | galron.1@osu.edu Ohio State University Libraries | or jgalron@aleph.lib.ohio-state.edu 308 Main Library | 1858 Neil Ave. Mall | Tel.: (614)292-3362 (W); (614)231-9546 (H) Columbus, OH 43210 USA | Fax.: (614)292-7859 (W); (614)231-1862 (H) =========================================================================