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	New England Chapter American Society for Indexing News

2008 Spring Meeting	The annual NEASI Spring Meeting with be on Saturday, April 5, 2008 in Chelmsford, MA at the Chelmsford Public Library. Click here for details.
NEASI Officers - 2008	The NEASI officers for 2008 are: President: Jean Jesensky Vice President: Steve Csipke Secretary: April Silver Treasurer: Terri Corry Click here for contact information.
NEASI Election - 2008 (December 2007)	Ballots have been mailed out for the 2008 election of NEASI officers and must be returned, by mail (no electronic voting) by December 28, 2008 to:  Heather Dubnick, 39 Dodge St. #356, Beverly MA 01915.  Results will be announced via NEASITalk. The duties associated with each position can be found at Description of Officer Positions. Please feel free to contact the current officers for more information. The candidates are: VICE-PRESIDENT/PRESIDENT-ELECT: Steve Csipke - Trained as a librarian (MSLS, Case Western Reserve University),  Steve Csipke worked as a cataloger at The New York Public Library. He did his first index for Robert Palmer in New York City in 1972, when the newest technology was an electric typewriter. Steve worked freelance for 10 years, specializing in history, medicine, and psychology, indexing trade books, encyclopedias, periodicals, and databases. After moving to Boston, Steve taught indexing at the Radcliffe Institute Publishing Procedures Course and the Word Guild. After completing a Certificate in Technical Writing (Northeastern University, 1983), Steve has worked as a technical writer, editor, and indexer for software manuals, newsletters, and online help system; he also gave presentations on editing and technical writing at conferences. Steve currently is a Senior Technical Editor at a financial services firm, where he structures, edits, and indexes content for several policies and procedures intranets. He has been a member of ASI since the 1970s and the Society for Technical Communication since 1983. SECRETARY: April Silver -  A former nurse, April Silver has worked as a medical librarian at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston for the last seven years. Her main project there is assigning MeSH headings to approximately 8000 documents per year in “MyCourses,” Harvard Medical School’s online course material. She has a BS in chemistry from Allegheny College, an M.S. in Library and Information Science from Simmons College, and, in the spring of 2005, she was a Medical Informatics MBL.NLM Course Fellow at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA. Managing a collection of toxicology articles for a pharmacology professor at Dartmouth Medical School exposed her to the beauty of cross-references. TREASURER: Terri Corry – Terri Corry has been a freelance back-of-the-book and online indexer since 2004, with published indexes in a variety of subject areas including: business, education/parenting, literary criticism, social sciences, film history, library science, gardening, animal care and travel. She has worked as a reference librarian in both urban and suburban libraries in Connecticut for over ten years. In addition, she previously worked as a technical writer for several years. Terri received her B.A. in English from the University of Connecticut, Phi Beta Kappa, and her M.L.S. from Southern Connecticut State University. PLEASE BE SURE TO VOTE!
Meeting Minutes (October 2007)	Our most recent board meeting was help on October 20, 2007. If you would like to receive a copy of the minutes, please contact the NEASI secretary, April Silver.
Diane Brenner is the New Webmaster (July 2007)	Diane Brenner is the new NEASI webmaster. She is an experienced indexer, a member of the ASI board of directors, long-time NEASI member and former NEASI treasurer. She is also one of the ASI webmasters. She welcomes all contributions to the site and looks forward to working with everyone. When writing to her, please be sure to put the word NEASI somewhere in the subject line as a flag.
Bylaws Amendment (January 2007)	The NEASI board's proposal to amend the chapter bylaws has been approved. We have amended the bylaws to remove the office of Chair of Continuing Studies. This is neither a required office, nor was it one of our original offices but was added later. It was a position that required a certain level of experience in indexing, unlike the other officer positions, so it was not always easy to fill this position. (We had no candidate for 2007.) Meanwhile, the Program Committee, one of the standing committees specified in our bylaws, is an appropriate committee for continuing education programs. The Program Committee chair is appointed, rather than elected. See Bylaws Revisions.

Last updated February 5, 2008