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indexerscanada.bsky.social @indexerscanada.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

2026 Ewart-Daveluy Indexing Award indexers.ca/2026-ewart-d... Marnie Lamb received the Ewart-Daveluy Indexing Award for Canadian Watercolours and Drawings in the Royal Ontario Museum, Volume 3, by Mary Allodi and Arlene Gehmacher, published by the Royal Ontario Museum.

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2026 Ewart-Daveluy Award: Marnie Lamb - Indexers.ca

Marnie Lamb was presented with the Ewart-Daveluy Indexing Award at the Annual General Meeting of the Indexing Society of Canada on 14 June 2026. The award honours Marnie’s indexing of Canadian Waterco...

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indexerscanada.bsky.social @indexerscanada.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

2026 Diversity in Canadian Publishing Bursary (indexers.ca/2026-diversi...) ISC/SCI is pleased to announce that Saleh Waziruddin is the 2026 ISC/SCI Diversity in Canadian Publishing Bursary for Indexers recipient. Saleh is South Asian, a freelance editor, and an anti-racism activist.

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2026 Diversity in Canadian Publishing Bursary Recipient: Saleh Waziruddin - Indexers.ca

The Indexing Society of Canada / Société canadienne d’indexation (ISC/SCI) is pleased to announce that Saleh Waziruddin is the 2026 ISC/SCI Diversity in Canadian Publishing Bursary for Indexers recipi...

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indexerscanada.bsky.social @indexerscanada.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

The ISC/SCI is pleased to announce that, as of June 14, 2026, the society’s new co-presidents are Jolanta Komornicka and Margaret McCutcheon. Margaret will hold her position for a one-year term. Jolanta will hold their position for 6 months, after which Emma Warnken Johnson will become co-president.

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indexerscanada.bsky.social @indexerscanada.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

ISC/SCI Virtual Conference 2026: Regular Expressions with Larisa Smyk Regular Expressions are useful for assisting indexers in automating repetitive tasks, serving as a kind of "advanced search" mechanism to find, extract, edit, or remove patterns of text. Register now: www.conference.indexers.ca

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indexerscanada.bsky.social @indexerscanada.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

ISC/SCI Virtual Conference 2026: Iva Cheung Cheung covers the definition of plain language and indexing's role in meeting that definition, the development of the indexing clause in the Plain Language standard, and that clause’s possible impact on indexers. Register now: www.conference.indexers.ca

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indexerscanada.bsky.social @indexerscanada.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

ISC/SCI Virtual Conference 2026: AI Initiatives with Elizabeth Bartmess AI chatbots don't produce viable indexes, but works that appear sufficiently like indexes that they may trick people into believing they can serve as an index. Where do we go from here? Register now: www.conference.indexers.ca

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indexerscanada.bsky.social @indexerscanada.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

ISC/SCI Virtual Conference 2026: Keynote Speaker Danny Bate! Danny Bate’s keynote address "Who ordered the alphabet?" will be an anti-chronological journey into the English alphabet. The theme: nothing about our alphabet is fixed. Register now: conference.indexers.ca

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indexerscanada.bsky.social @indexerscanada.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Registration is now LIVE for the 2026 ISC/SCI Virtual Conference, Sorting It Out! Please visit conference.indexers.ca to register for the conference April 10-11, as well as extra events like the fireside chats on Thursday, April 9. Early bird registration ends March 15, 2025, so don’t wait!

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conference.Indexers.ca – Annual conference of Canada's professional society of indexers

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indexerscanada.bsky.social @indexerscanada.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

The Indexing Society of Canada / Société canadienne d’indexation (ISC/SCI) is pleased to announce that Rhonda Kronyk is the 2025 ISC/SCI Diversity in Canadian Publishing Bursary recipient. Read more at indexers.ca/2025-diversi...

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indexerscanada.bsky.social @indexerscanada.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Submissions for the 2026 ISC/SCI Ewart-Daveluy Award for Excellence in Indexing is now open! The deadline for submissions is March 16, 2026. Please visit indexers.ca/ewart-davelu... for guidelines, criteria, and the submission form.

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Ewart-Daveluy Indexing Award - Indexers.ca

ISC/SCI gives an annual award for indexes of the highest quality

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indexerscanada.bsky.social @indexerscanada.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Caroline Diepeveen Presents “Large, Larger, Largest: How to handle large and complicated indexing assignments” at the ISC/SCI Vancouver Conference, happening May 31-June 1! Register now at www.conference.indexers.ca

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indexerscanada.bsky.social @indexerscanada.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Register now at www.conference.indexers.ca for Kim Christie's presentation “B.C. Hansard Index: a roadmap to parliamentary debates" to learn about some of the unique and interesting aspects of Hansard indexing, including a live demo (time permitting).

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indexerscanada.bsky.social @indexerscanada.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Join Emma W. Johnson’s session “What Not to Index: A Flow Chart for Passing Mentions” at the ISC/SCI Vancouver conference: Location, Location, Location! Here, she’ll share her strategies for working with passing mentions, including a flow chart for reducing decision fatigue during indexing.

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indexerscanada.bsky.social @indexerscanada.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Join Jolanta Komornicka, Pilar Wyman, Michele Combs, Devon Thomas & Gina Guilinger in the round-table session “X-Men United, Indexers Divided?: Differing Approaches to Indexing the Same Text”, where they discuss different approaches to indexing the same book. Register at www.conference.indexers.ca

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conference.Indexers.ca – Annual conference of Canada's professional society of indexers

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indexerscanada.bsky.social @indexerscanada.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Catch “AI: Where You Can Use It and Where You Shouldn't” at the ISC/SCI Vancouver Conference with Elizabeth Bartmess, who will cover how AI models (like ChatGPT) work, why you should not use it to index content, and how AI will affect indexing. Register now at www.conference.indexers.ca

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indexerscanada.bsky.social @indexerscanada.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Announcing the Sunday workshop at the 2025 ISC/SCI Vancouver Conference! Watch Stephen Ullstrom work in “Every Entry in Its Place: A Live Indexing Workshop” as he indexes a trade book he has not read before. He will talk through his decisions as he works. Register now at conference.indexers.ca

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indexerscanada.bsky.social @indexerscanada.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

ISC/SCI Vancouver Conference: Register now at conference.indexers.ca . Michelle Guiliano's "'X' Marks the Spot: Uncovering the right rate for your indexing services" will help you learn how to streamline your rate-setting that can take away any second-guessing and the fear of missing out on a job.

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indexerscanada.bsky.social @indexerscanada.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Join us at the ISC/SCI 2025 conference (May 29-April 1) in beautiful Vancouver, BC, for the session "Indexing Conundrums with Max McMaster". He will lead participants through a number of those “what do I do now" dilemmas in an interactive session. Register now at conference.indexers.ca !

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indexerscanada.bsky.social @indexerscanada.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Hello, and welcome to our new social media home! We'll be posting information about our speakers for our 2025 ISC/SCI conference happening in Vancouver May 30-31. We hope to see you there! #indexing #conference #IndexersCanada

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