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Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers

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The Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers (ANZSI) is a society representing indexers in Australia and New Zealand.[1] It has branches and groups in ACT, New South Wales, New Zealand, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, and Western Australia.[2]

It provides training courses,[3] conferences,[4] a newsletter,[5] and a directory of available indexers.[6]

History

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ANZSI was established as the Australian Society of Indexers (AusSI) in Melbourne in 1976 to replace the Society of Indexers in Australia, members of the UK Society of Indexers in Australia.[7] Its early history was recorded by Hazel Bell.[8]

Affiliation with other indexing societies

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ANZSI is affiliated with indexing societies in the UK, the United States, Canada, Southern Africa, and China; and associated with societies in Germany (DNI) and the Netherlands (NIN).[9][10]

Awards

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ANZSI medals and highly commended certificates are offered annually for an outstanding index to a book or periodical compiled in Australia or New Zealand.[11] Medals and certificates are not awarded every year.[12][13] Notable recipients include musicologist and indexer Samantha Owens, who was awarded a medal in 2012.[14]

ANZSI (then AusSI) was the first[15] indexing society in the world to recognise web indexing with an award.[16]

Publications

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The ANZSI Newsletter is published 11 times per year.[5] In addition, ANZSI members are regular contributors to the international journal, The Indexer, and ANZSI events are documented in the 'Around the World' section of every issue. Special contributions include articles on Australian topics such as the indexing of Australian Aboriginal personal names,[17] and AusSI (now ANZSI) guest-edited the April 2001 issue. In the Index Series,[18] ANZSI publishes indexes which have been created under the ANZSI Mentoring Scheme, in which mentees create indexes to published, but previously un-indexed works.

References

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  1. ^ "Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers - who we are and what we do". Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers. Archived from the original on 4 April 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-28.
  2. ^ "Branches and Groups". Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers. Archived from the original on 4 April 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-28.
  3. ^ "ANZSI Courses and Workshops". Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers. Archived from the original on 4 April 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-28.
  4. ^ Browne, Glenda (October 2007). "Around the conferences: ANZSI 2007 Conference report". The Indexer: The International Journal of Indexing. 25 (4): 274. ISSN 0019-4131.
  5. ^ a b "ANZSI Newsletter". Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers. Archived from the original on 4 April 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-28.
  6. ^ "Indexers Available". Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers. Archived from the original on May 30, 2008. Retrieved 2009-03-28.
  7. ^ "Background". Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers. Archived from the original on 4 April 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-28.
  8. ^ Bell, Hazel K. (April 2000). "History of indexing societies part 6: 1988–91" (PDF). The Indexer: The International Journal of Indexing. 22 (1): 35–38. doi:10.3828/indexer.2000.22.1.11. ISSN 1756-0632. S2CID 129970221. Retrieved 2009-03-28.
  9. ^ "International agreement of indexing societies" (PDF). The Indexer: The International Journal of Indexing. 25 (3): C16. April 2007. ISSN 1756-0632. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 19, 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-28.
  10. ^ Russell, Mary (March 2014). "Footnotes, endnotes and the indexer". The Indexer. 32 (1): 18–22. doi:10.3828/indexer.2014.5. ISSN 0019-4131.
  11. ^ "ANZSI Medal 2008: the judges report". The Indexer: The International Journal of Indexing. 27 (1): 8. March 2009. doi:10.3828/indexer.2009.4. ISSN 0019-4131.
  12. ^ "Medal Winners". Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers. Archived from the original on 2009-05-23. Retrieved 2009-03-28.
  13. ^ "Highly Commended indexes". Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers. Archived from the original on 2009-05-24. Retrieved 2009-03-28.
  14. ^ "Samantha Owens". PHANZA. Retrieved 2024-11-02.
  15. ^ "Web Indexing Awards". Web and Electronic Indexing SIG. Archived from the original on 20 April 2009. Retrieved 2009-04-16.
  16. ^ Walker, Dwight (April 1997). "AusSI Web indexing prizewinners" (PDF). The Indexer: The International Journal of Indexing. 20 (3): 121–124. ISSN 1756-0632. Retrieved 2009-03-28.
  17. ^ "Indexing personal names" (PDF). Theindexer.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-08-09. Retrieved 2016-06-16.
  18. ^ "ANZSI - Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers". Archived from the original on April 4, 2009. Retrieved March 22, 2009.
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