Professional Activities
Immediate Past-President, American Society for
Indexing, 2019-2020.
President, American Society for Indexing, 2018-2019.
President-Elect, American Society for Indexing, 2017-2018.
Director-at-large, American Society for Indexing, 2014-2017.
Co-moderator, ASI Jobs hotline, 2013-2018.
Co-president, Heartland Chapter,
American Society for Indexing 2008-2010.
Secretary, Heartland Chapter, American
Society for Indexing 2014-present; 2006-2008.
Member, Culinary
Indexing Special Interest Group of the American
Society for Indexing.
Member, Digital Publications Indexing Special Interest Group of the American Society for Indexing.
Member, Periodical Database Indexing
Special Interest Group of the American Society for
Indexing.
Member, American Society for
Indexing, 2005-present.
Presentation: In Defense of Markup, ASI
National Conference, Scottsdale AZ, April 2019.
Subsequently published as "In defense of markup" in The
Indexer vol. 38 no.1, 2020.
Panel participant, ASI National
Conference 2011: "Going Global: Working in a Multilingual
and Multicultural World." Subsequently published my part
of the presentation as "Database indexing basics" in The
Indexer vol. 29 no.4, December 2011.
Panel participant, indexing course at
Wayne State University, 2005-2011.
Continuing Education:
ASI National Conferences in Scottsdale, AZ (2019),
Cleveland, OH (2018), Portland, ME (2017), Chicago
(2016), Seattle (2015), Charleston (2014), San Antonio
(2013), Providence (2011), and Minneapolis (2010).
Numerous regional meetings of the Heartland and
Chicago/Great Lakes chapters.
Book reviewer for Library
Journal 1998-present. Subjects
include cookbooks, cocktails, coffee, and fiction.
“But how can it have remained so long
undiscovered, when there is a sure index to it if men
will but take the trouble to look?” Jonathan Harker in Dracula by Bram Stoker.