New England Chapter
American Society for Indexing

Current Officer Bios

2011 Officers

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PRESIDENT: Steve Ingle is the president and CEO of WordCo Indexing Services, Inc., located in Norwich, Connecticut.  He studied German literature at Yale University, and earned master’s degrees in German and Russian Area Studies from Washington University and Hunter College, respectively.  Following graduation, Steve worked for four years as index editor for Germanic and Scandinavian literatures at the Modern Language Association (MLA) in New York.  He began his indexing business out of his home in 1988.  WordCo now employs ten people and completes about 500 projects annually for a diverse group of clients.  Steve’s presentation at the 2006 American Society of Indexers conference in Toronto was entitled: “Getting a Grasp on the Book: A Balanced Approach to Indexing.” His interests include productivity, quality control, and business growth models.

VICE PRESIDENT/PRESIDENT-ELECT: [position currently open]

SECRETARY: Karen Gracie Kowles came to indexing via a library colleague who retired recently from many years of indexing and editing. As their conversations rambled over diverse subjects, indexing (and the art thereof) began taking more of center stage, culminating in private mentoring lessons on fine summer afternoons in 2008. Karen’s library cataloging experience prepared the groundwork for taking to indexing like a duck to water. In addition, the minutiae of the work integrates well with her background as book designer and typographer. Karen is primarily interested in texts on social and political philosophy, cultural studies and literary theory, and looks forward to her first cookbook index.

TREASURER: Christine Hoskin is a multi-year member of the American Society for Indexing and a regular attendee of the New England Chapter conferences. She began freelance indexing in 2006.  With a degree in Business Administration and many years of experience in a variety of industries, Christine has a strong background in business and administration, hospitality and tourism, environmental sciences, geology, engineering, construction and architecture.  Knowledge of child development, travel, history, law and the French language creates a broad-based skill set for her indexing business.  Christine offers both back-of-the-book and Word-embedded indexing services. Having lived in the Virgin Islands, south Florida and Ontario, Canada over the past 20 years, she and her family are happy to have resumed their residency in New Hampshire, her native state.

IMMEDIATE PAST-PRESIDENT: Linda Dunn has her MLS and has been a periodical indexer for nearly 30 years. Former editor of the print index, Film Literature Index, she worked as an indexer and abstractor for EBSCO Publishing during the transition of the Film Literature Index into the database Film & Television Literature Index. Now working freelance, she is an indexer/abstractor for a small international periodical database and wrote scope notes for thesaurus terms in the EBSCO Humanities International database for almost two years. She is the founder and manager of the ASI Periodical/Database Indexing SIG. From 2007-2009 she was a board member of the New York Chapter of ASI.

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