Indexing Society of Canada

ISC/SCI member wins the Purple Pen award! The Institute of Certified Indexers has announced that Jess Klaassen-Wright has won the 2020 Purple Pen Competition. Jess’s index appears in the book Deep Knowledge: Ways of Knowing in Sufism and Ifa, Two West African Intellectual Traditions by Oludamini Ogunnaike. https://indexers.ca/isc-sci-member-wins-the-purple-pen-awa/

This weekend is Toronto's Word on the Street virtual event! Find the ISC/SCI at https://www.wordonthestreet.shop/en/content/indexing-society, and watch a live interview with Gillian Watts at 6:20 Eastern today on Instagram @torontowots https://instagram.com/torontowots?igshid=146f8uiplsre2 It's a great opportunity to see who's publishing and promoting what in Toronto!

The Indexing Society of Canada / Société canadienne d’indexation (ISC/SCI) is pleased to announce that Sandra Muchekeza is the 2020 ISC/SCI Diversity in Canadian Publishing Bursary Award recipient. With this bursary, ISC/SCI aims to help achieve equality of opportunity for aspiring indexers belonging to underrepresented and/or marginalized groups. https://indexers.ca/indexing-society-of-canada-announces-w/

At a recent AGM, the ISC/SCI announced the winners of two annual society awards. Congratulations to Carla DeSantis and Anna Olivier, co-winners of the Ewart-Daveluy Award for Excellence in Indexing. Carla received this award for her outstanding index to Heather Bamford's Cultures of the Fragment: Uses of the Iberian Manuscript, 11001600, published by University of Toronto Press and Anna (Index à la page) for her incredible work on the index for Les générations des Soufis: Ta...baqat al-sufiyya de Abu Abd al-Rahman, Muhammad b. Husayn al-Sulam, translated and presented by Jean-Jacques Thibon, and published by Brill. The ISC/SCI would also like to congratulate Margaret de Boer, winner of the Tamarack Volunteer of the Year Award, for her dedication to the society. To learn more about these awards and the indexing services of these wonderful women, visit the ISC/SCI website: www.indexers.ca

Check out our list of what to see and do and what (novels) to read to get the most out of your visit to Newfoundland. Our conference in St. Johns is just 15 weeks away. https://indexers.ca/newfoundland-what-to-see-do-and-read/