ASI's Scholarly Indexing Special Interest Group (SIG) was established for indexers of scholarly books who want to share information about, and techniques for, indexing academic books, and to refer indexing work to one another. The only requirements for membership are (1) experience or interest in scholarly indexing, (2) membership in the American Society for Indexing (ASI) or in another national indexing organization, and (3)
a willingness to join the group's YahooGroups listserv. Currently, there are no dues.
For purposes of networking, the manager regularly uploads a file containing the current list of members, arranged alphabetically as well as by indexing specialty. In addition, a list of suggestions for panel presentations that would be of interest to any indexing conference planners or workshop leaders has been uploaded to the SIG's YahooGroups site, as well as the results of a poll of the benefits members hope to receive from their SIG membership.
For more information or to join the group, contact the SIG manager, Laura Gottlieb, at lauragottlieb@juno.com. New members are always welcome.