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Fall 2011 Meeting Summary

October 15, 2010
Lexington, Massachusetts

The 2011 annual fall meeting of the New England Chapter of the American Society for Indexing (NEASI) was held on Saturday, October 15, at Cary Memorial Library in Lexington, Massachusetts. The event was well attended by over 25 people from throughout New England and beyond.

Ten Principles for Creating Better Indexes - Margie Towery, Owner of Towery Indexing (Speaker biography)
Margie Towery, two-time Wilson Award winner, shared her tips for creating better indexes. Indexers need to keep a lot in mind as they work on a project, including: Accuracy (locators and information), Metatopic (structure and navigation), Consistency, Clarity (terminology and glosses), Conciseness, Reflexivity (digressions and language), Readability (alpha sort, parallel construction), Audience and access, Comprehensiveness (specificity and depth), and Common sense (digestion, natural language). Margie covered all of these topics and provided practical examples.

—    Submitted by Stephen Ingle

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