ISC / SCI Conference - 2010
Congrès de la SCI / ISC - 2010

Conference Program

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Tuesday, May 25 (pre-conference)

Pre-Conference Activities
5:30 p.m. start	ISC/SCI Executive Meeting For the ISC/SCI executive; other interested members are welcome.

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Wednesday, May 26

Conference — Day 1
3F.43 – Hall 8:30 - 9 a.m.	Registration
3F.43 9 - 9:15 a.m.	Welcome / Opening Remarks
3F.43 9:15 - 10 / 10:15 a.m.	Keynote Address: The World Through Words / Le monde par les mots About our keynote speaker Michèle Hudon, Ph.D., is Associate Professor at École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l'information (EBSI), Université de Montréal. She teaches and conducts research in the broad area of information and knowledge organization, more specifically on classification and thesaurus development and use. Prior to joining the faculty at Université de Montréal, she worked for several years as bilingual indexing and thesaurus specialist for various departments of the Canadian and Québec governments, as well as with several not-for-profit organizations. She is the author of the recently published Guide pratique pour l'élaboration d'un thésaurus documentaire (ASTED, 2009). Michèle is a Canadian delegate on the working group tasked with structuring and writing ISO 25964, a new international standard to be published at the end of 2010 under the title: Information and Documentation - Thesauri and interoperability with other vocabulary. She is a past president of the Indexing and Abstracting Society of Canada (IASC/SCAD).
10:15 - 10:30 a.m.	Morning Break
3F.43 10:30 - 12 noon	Indexing Archival Images Three short presentations on a theme – find out about the challenges faced by indexers as they organize images. Katherine Kasirer (National Film Board) Céline Arseneault (Jardins Botaniques de Montréal) Elaine Ménard (McGill University) About the presenters Katherine Kasirer began her career cataloguing archival films at the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). She then helped to develop a system to catalogue and index stock footage and continued as Stockshot Librarian for 10 years. Katherine currently works as a librarian in the Audiovisual Reference Centre at the NFB, indexing films and providing reference services for filmmakers and staff. Katherine has directed and produced two short films using live action animation and stock footage. Céline Arseneault has been a botanist and librarian at the Montreal Botanical Garden since 1980. Over the years, she has taken part in many off-library educational and scientific projects and has represented the Montreal Botanical Garden on an array of international and local committees and professional associations, from the Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries to the ASTED. She also has been co-ordinating the Garden’s web site since its opening in 1999. More recently, she has been particularly interested in the management, retrieval, preservation, and use of digital institutional information and documentation. Elaine Ménard is Assistant Professor at the School of Information Studies, McGill University. Her teaching expertise includes cataloguing, indexing, classification, and information retrieval. Her doctoral thesis examined the role of language in indexing and retrieving images in a multilingual context. Her main research interests deal with cross-language information retrieval, image indexing, and metadata.
3F.45 12 noon	Lunch
3F.43 12:30 - 2 p.m.	Show and Sell / Exhibits
3F.43 1 - 2 p.m.	Profit Through Innovation (show and tell) – Fred Brown, chair Calling all indexers! Come share a great little idea that's helped you. Maybe you've got a great way to organize your files, a handy little macro or some other cool trick that saves you time or money – or just makes life a little easier. Take a photo, capture a screen shot, bring a sample or tell a story! There will be a laptop and projector which you can use. Be prepared to talk about what triggered the idea, any challenges you faced and how you've benefited (5 minutes maximum). Please contact Fred Brown at fred.brown@allegrotechindexing.com, or at (613) 728-9373, with your ideas. About the chair Fred Brown writes indexes largely for computer book publishers. He specializes in embedded indexing and enjoys experimenting with different publishing systems such as XML and LaTeX.
3F.45 2 - 3:15 p.m.	Electrified or Electrocuted?: Digital Journal Indexing - Problems, Practicalities & Possibilities – Brian Hogan Brian Hogan will discuss his work developing a comprehensive, integrated, digital index of the 1,008 articles published by La Société canadienne d'histoire de l'Église catholique and the Canadian Catholic Historical Association between 1933 and 2009. About the presenter Following a five-year term as Dean of the University of St. Michael's Faculty of Theology, Brian Hogan took early retirement from teaching and active ministry. Brian lives in Hamilton with his wife Janine. He continues to work on an extensive Canadian religious bibliography project, writes poetry, and serves on the Board of L'Arche, Toronto. Mostly, he wrestles with the multiple tasks associated with mastering digital indexing.
3:15 - 3:30 p.m.	Afternoon Break
3F.43 3:30 - 4:30 p.m.	Loosen up, let the energy flow! – Helena Goris (Qi gong and other useful techniques for hanging loose in your office) About the presenter Helena Goris has forty years of experience, starting as a nurse, then adding massage therapy and acupunture to her repertoire. Fascinated by the world of energies, she is also certified in jin shin do (Japanese acupressure) and yoga, and practises tai chi. She is now in her fourth year of studying medical qi gong, a Chinese tradition that includes meditation, breathing techniques, and work with the energy centres in the body to improve health and quality of life.
6 p.m. start	Conference Banquet Our conference banquet will be held at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Please see the banquet page for more information.

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Thursday, May 27

Conference — Day 2
3F.43 – Hall 8:30 - 9 a.m.	Registration
	Post-Registration Sessions (9 - 10:15 a.m.) – choose one of the two sessions offered below
3F.45 9 - 10:15 a.m.	ISO Thesaural Standard Revisions – Michèle Hudon Michèle Hudon returns in her capacity as Canadian delegate to the working group on ISO 25964: Information and Documentation - Thesauri and interoperability with other vocabulary. PLEASE NOTE: Michèle's presentation – A New Standard for Thesaurus Construction and Management – is available here as a PDF file (372 KB).
3F.43 9 - 10:15 a.m.	Negotiating Contracts – Riça Night Riça Night will share her expertise in negotiating contracts effectively.
10:15 - 10:30 a.m.	Morning Break
3F.45 10:30 - 12 noon	ISC / SCI Annual General Meeting Please see our AGM page for details.
3F.43 12 noon - 1:30 p.m.	Roundtable / Lunch Lunch tables will be organized by topics of interest. Choose the one that interests you and meet others of like mind.
3F.45 1:30 - 3 p.m.	Ethics Panel – Heather Ebbs, chair Heather Ebbs chairs this panel of experienced indexers and editors as they consider various ethical dilemmas that occur in the indexing process and business. Heather Ebbs, Chair (Editor's Ink) Joan McGilvray (McGill-Queen's University Press) Carolyn Brown (formerly of CMAJ) Christine Jacobs (C.M. Jacobs, Information Management Services / John Abbott College) About the chair Heather Ebbs, a freelance indexer, editor, and writer for 30 years, has written hundreds of indexes in a broad range of subjects and styles. She is an instructor for the University of California at Berkeley online extension course Indexing: Theory and Application. Heather is the current Past President of ISC/SCI and a past president of the Editors' Association of Canada (and a past president of her local curling club, but that's another story). About the presenters Joan McGilvray has been coordinating editor at McGill-Queen's University Press for more years than she cares to count. During that time she has seen a great many indexes, created by professional indexers, authors, and the occasional graduate student with a search function, and varying from sensible to idiosyncratic and from ninety-five pages (single spaced) to one page (with ten entries). Carolyn Brown has worked in scientific editing and publishing for 20 years, for Canadian Medical Association Publications and for the Research Press of the National Research Council of Canada. She was an indexer for the Canadian Medical Association Journal. She regularly uses online abstracting and indexing services such as MEDLINE and Web of Science. Christine Jacobs has been indexing (mostly books and films) and designing indexing systems since 1983. She considers herself very lucky to have worked ten years as one of the few PRECIS indexers in the world. Over the years she has taught indexing at McGill and Concordia, and in various workshops, and she is a Past President of ISC/SCI. Christine currently chairs the Information & Library Technologies program at John Abbott College, and keeps her indexing hand in through 2-3 book indexes a year, teaching the required indexing course, and occasionally consulting.
3 - 3:15 p.m.	Afternoon Break
3F.43 3:15 - 5 p.m.	Approaches to Indexing Workshop and Seminar – Mary Newberry, facilitator The object of this session is to explore multiple solutions to the indexing of one document. We will compare various approaches, discussing the value of each and how they all fit together to form an intricate map. You will come away amazed at the various ways that one document can be successfully revealed, gaining insights from your peers to take back to your own practice. Please see the seminar description for more details. About the facilitator Mary Newberry is a freelance indexer and teacher, and an editor of fiction and non-fiction. Since 2000 she has indexed over 70 texts, mostly books, but recently had the pleasure of doing a pilot project of online indexing with the Ontario finance ministry. She works with books, magazines, and journals, in print and online, in scholarly, literary, and trade publishing. Mary began teaching indexing in-class at Ryerson in 2010 and is developing the course to go online in 2011.

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