New England Chapter
American Society for Indexing

Current Officer Bios

2008 Officers

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PRESIDENT: Jean Jesensky has been a member of NEASI since 2006, serving as chapter Vice-President in 2007. She is a freelance indexer dba Endswell Indexing. She specializes in back-of-the-book indexing, but also provides other indexing and taxonomy related services. She has indexed general interest books and textbooks. Recent projects include indexing an historical collection for a local library’s museum and editing a taxonomy/controlled vocabulary for an online directory search program. Subject areas of special interest include music; human resources; management; health care, including home health care and mental health and mental retardation services; ADD/ADHD; Alzheimer’s Disease and other dementia; antique and classic cars; astronomy; dog behavior, care, and training; gardening and horticulture; geography; health and fitness: social sciences; and trains and railroading. Jean earned a B.A. in Music from Clark University, a Certificate in Technical Communication from Bentley College, and a Certificate in Writing Indexes for Books and Websites from Middlesex Community College (program taught by Seth Maislin). She worked for more than 20 years in human resources before changing her career focus to indexing. Jean plays the piano and classical guitar and has sung in choral groups for many years.  She is also a member of Bookbuilders of Boston and a senior member of the Boston Chapter of the Society of Technical Communication. Jean lives in Bolton, MA with her husband, John, and their two Golden Retrievers, Maxwell and Jackson.

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 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 indexer since 2004, with published (or soon-to-be published) indexes in the following subject areas: forestry, agriculture, urban issues, literature, film history, gardening, animal care and user manuals. 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.

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