Message from Barbara Chen
Individual training sessions at Convention
Reasons to become an indexer
Tips on Indexing

Message from Barbara Chen
2005 Bibliography Advisory Committee meeting
Statistics for the 2004 MLA International Bibliography
Tips on Indexing
– What Should Be Cited in the Bibliography?
– NFU (Not For Us) journal or series issues must be reported
– Table of Contents (TOC) field
– Please stick to your assignment list
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New Instructions for Web Indexers
Tips on Indexing
Advisory Committee on the MLA International Bibliography, 2005
MLA Bibliography Fellowship awards, 2005

Message from Barbara Chen
Tips on Indexing
– Keep to assignment lists
– NFU (Not For Us) journal or series issues must be reported
Vendor News
Manual for Field Bibliographers

2005 MLA Convention
Panel on the past, present, and future of the bibliography
History of the index, (Professor Jim Dow, Iowa State)
Vendor News
ALA (American Library Association) Convention
Tips on indexing pedagogy and humanities sections

2004 Advisory Committee meeting
2003 Statistics:
2003 Coverage by Major Classification
2003 Languages of Documents
Coverage by Field Bibliographers Compared to In-house Indexers

Advisory Committee on the MLA International Bibliography
2004 MLA Bibliography Fellowship award recipients
Offprints from field bibliographers
Vendor news
Webform enhancements
More indexing tips
MLA language map

2004 Fellowship awards, how to apply
What happens to your citations once submitted?
Indexing Tips: – Choosing indexing terms
– Special issues of journals
– Summaries should be noted in the GLO field
– Translators should be included in the AU field.
Webform enhancement

Contents:
New Senior indexers
Advisory Committee news
Web form addition: Table of Contents (TOC) field
JSTOR’s language and literature collection