Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers
Melbourne Indexers: Typesetting
'Peppercorn' Meeting Room, Level 1 Hawthorn Library 584 Glenferrie Road, Hawthorn, Victoria, AustraliaTypesetters play in important role in book design and production. Sonya Murphy will talk about the history of the industry in Australia. How it transferred from a male-dominated hot-metal trade to today’s technology. Explaining how books are designed, she will discuss how the font use, size, number of pages, etc are all determined. Parking is […]
Introductory book indexing course
Sydney Mechanics School of Arts 280 Pitt Street, Sydney, New South Wales, AustraliaANZSI Inc will be running a two-day introductory indexing course in Sydney at the beginning of May 2019. This course covers the basic principles of indexing with a focus on book indexing. Venue SMSA ( Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts ) at 280 Pitt St, Sydney, is a few minutes’ walk from Town Hall Station, […]
Commonwealth Government annual report indexes 2016-17 examined
Room 4, Griffin Centre, 20 Genge Street, Canberra City. Max McMaster and Mary Russell will present a session on their examination of indexes to 2016-17 Commonwealth Government annual reports. Having examined all 186 Commonwealth annual reports for 2016-17, they ask, 'What can we learn about the quality of their indexes? How do they vary? What […]