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Jan 1, 2006 6:03 pm
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The ASI/H.W. Wilson Company Award for Excellence in Indexing was established in 1978 to honor excellence in indexing of an English language monograph or other...
Deborah Patton
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Jan 1, 2006 7:13 pm
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ASI, in its 30-year history, has been fortunate in having the services of many dedicated members. The Theodore C. Hines Award was established in 1993 to honor...
I was in the emergency room yesterday (broken finger) and the x-ray tech asked me what I did, since I mentioned I had a deadline and this broken finger was...
<I was in the emergency room yesterday (broken finger)> Oh Bobbi, Sorry to hear about the fracture--I broke my hand badly last year (my left hand, dominant...
Thanks Caryn, Fortunatly this is a simple fracture - I thought I had popped (try to type that word without your ring and little fingers!) it out of joint, it...
Hello, In a book about military history, I have many entries that start with numbers. Such as: 1st Division 11th Submarine Group 12th Air Regiment These are...
Seems to me you could handle it in two ways: 1) Add a Headnote explaining what is going on. Although we suspect many people don't read headnotes, at least...
... I don't know the context of your project - so perhaps your listing of the units by number are appropriate. In projects I've worked on, I've been able to...
Paula, Have you considered sorting them so they fall under the letter instead? For example instead of 1st Division under the numeral, have it fall under the ...
Dear Paula, Listing numbers at the beginning of an index is typical for technical material (i.e. software manuals) indexes. However, for university presses, ...
With just a few of them, I like to double-post them under 1st and First, and so on. If you have a lot of them, you could have some see-refs at the top, under...
Ed Rush
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Jan 3, 2006 12:29 am
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Thank you Charles and Susan. The only thing I found in Chicago is 18.63 which says that numerals, when isolated entries, are alphabetized as though spelled...
Paula, Yours is a situation typical of military histories, and is definitely something to check with your editor or author about what he/she might prefer....
Deborah Patton
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Jan 3, 2006 12:35 am
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Sylvia, Just cross-posted with you. I read Chicago and Mulvaney as saying that if there are a lot of numeric entries, they should be arranged in numeric order....
Dear Paula, Yes--for university, textbook, and trade presses numbers and/or numerical entries are commonly sorted as though they are spelled out. And it...
I think it's crucial to learn what the author expects. Military history has its own standards, and rules from other fields like biology won't cut it. Nor would...
Peter Rooney
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Jan 3, 2006 5:52 am
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<Fortunatly this is a simple fracture - I thought I had popped (try to type that word without your ring and little fingers!) it out of joint, it was so ...
Paula, I recently indexed a book about the Civil War and I had a list of over 100 regiments at the beginning of the index by number, similar to your situation....
One possibility which I don't think has been mentioned, is entering these items as: Submarine Group, 11th Air Regiment, 12th I notice, for example, that the...
... listing under the type of unit is the standard in military history<< I respectfully disagree -- it may be the standard for that particular author and...
Deborah Patton
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Jan 3, 2006 6:27 pm
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Thanks you all for all the ideas. The author actually wants to keep it the way it is now. His theory is that people will have read the book and will know how...
I receive the CMS newsletter, and have found it to be very helpful. I have copied and pasted today's article below, in case anyone would be interested. There...
I told Elspeth that I would forward this to the group, as it has some very interesting info, that I know many of you would find as interesting as I did....
Thanks, Bobbi. It might be best to just let each of us who's interested go to the CMS Web site instead of posting any more of their newsletters. Most of these...
At this membership renewal time, I hope that members of ASI, IASC, SI, and ANZSI will consider joining the Web Indexing SIG. Even if you are not creating web...
Heather: I'm trying to keep overhead down, so I haven't renewed my ASI membership yet this year. Am I right in understanding that the SIG is open only to ...
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Jan 6, 2006 5:30 am
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Hi Meg, Yes, unfortunately, one must pay the membership for ASI (or other national indexing society) in order to be a member of one of its SIGs. However, ...
