Indexing Society of Canada
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The Indexing Society of Canada/Société canadienne d'indexation (ISC/SCI) was established in 1977 as Canada's national association of indexers (professionals who create indexes for books, periodicals, web sites, and more).
Originally known as the Indexing and Abstracting Society of Canada/Société canadienne pour l'analyse de documents (IASC/SCAD), its name was changed in 2006 to reflect the fact that indexing is the major specialty of its members; however, members maintain a variety of skill sets.
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[edit] Membership
Society members are located across Canada, and there are members in the United States and Europe as well. The Society encourages students to join by offering them a special membership rate.
[edit] Regional representation
The Society has established four regions, each with its own representative: British Columbia; Central Canada; Eastern Canada; and the Prairies and Northern Canada. Regional boundaries are reviewed annually to ensure that they reflect the geographic distribution of Society membership.
[edit] Publications
The Bulletin[1] is published three times a year, and the Register of Indexers Available[2] annually.
[edit] Register listings
In addition to an alphabetical listing, the Register lists indexers by their skill sets, materials indexed, and subjects indexed. Indexers who work in French are also given separate listings. Some specialized skills listed in the Register include glossary writing, HTML encoding, project management, teaching, and thesaurus construction. Materials on which Society members work go beyond the standard trade or scholarly monograph to include archives, correspondence, legal and medical materials, maps, style guides, and Web sites. And subjects in which Society members specialize run the gamut from art, history, literature, music, political science, psychology, and sociology to alternative medicine, aviation, Canada’s First Nations, community activism, ethics, folklore, home improvement, oceanography, and popular culture.
[edit] Conferences and events
The Society holds its conference and annual general meeting in a different Canadian city each year. The Society has also held joint conferences with its sister organization in the United States, the American Society of Indexers.
[edit] International representation
The Society actively participates in international indexing matters, sending a representative to the annual Society of Indexers conference, as well as to the ASI conference if possible.
