Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers
{{Short description|Professional association}}
The Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers (ANZSI) is a society representing indexers in Australia and New Zealand.{{cite web
|url=http://www.anzsi.org/site/about.asp
|title=Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers - who we are and what we do
|accessdate=2009-03-28
|publisher=Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090404035607/http://www.anzsi.org/site/about.asp
|archivedate=4 April 2009
|url-status=dead
}} It has branches and groups in ACT, New South Wales, New Zealand, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, and Western Australia.{{cite web
|url=http://www.anzsi.org/site/branches.asp
|title=Branches and Groups
|accessdate=2009-03-28
|publisher=Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090404035622/http://www.anzsi.org/site/branches.asp
|archivedate=4 April 2009
|url-status=dead
}}
It provides training courses,{{cite web |url=http://www.anzsi.org/site/courses.asp |title=ANZSI Courses and Workshops |accessdate=2009-03-28 |publisher=Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090404035647/http://www.anzsi.org/site/courses.asp |archivedate=4 April 2009 |url-status=dead }} conferences,{{cite journal |last=Browne |first=Glenda |date=October 2007 |title=Around the conferences: ANZSI 2007 Conference report |journal=The Indexer: The International Journal of Indexing |volume=25 |issue=4 |page=274 |issn=0019-4131}} a newsletter,{{cite web |url=http://www.anzsi.org/site/newsletter.asp |title=ANZSI Newsletter |accessdate=2009-03-28 |publisher=Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090404035410/http://www.anzsi.org/site/newsletter.asp |archivedate=4 April 2009 |url-status=dead }} and a directory of available indexers.{{cite web|url=http://www.anzsi.org/IndexersAvailable/index.htm |title=Indexers Available |accessdate=2009-03-28 |publisher=Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080530002834/http://www.anzsi.org/indexersavailable/index.htm |archivedate=May 30, 2008 }}
History
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.{{cite web |url=http://www.anzsi.org/site/background.asp |title=Background |accessdate=2009-03-28 |publisher=Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090404035227/http://www.anzsi.org/site/background.asp |archivedate=4 April 2009 |url-status=dead }} Its early history was recorded by Hazel Bell.{{cite journal |last=Bell |first=Hazel K. |date=April 2000 |title=History of indexing societies part 6: 1988–91 |journal=The Indexer: The International Journal of Indexing |volume=22 |issue=1 |pages=35–38 |doi=10.3828/indexer.2000.22.1.11 |s2cid=129970221 |issn=1756-0632 |url=http://www.theindexer.org/files/22-1/22-1_035.pdf |accessdate=2009-03-28}}
Affiliation with other indexing societies
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).{{cite journal|date=April 2007 |title=International agreement of indexing societies |journal=The Indexer: The International Journal of Indexing |volume=25 |issue=3 |pages=C16 |issn=1756-0632 |url=http://www.theindexer.org/files/25-3cp2_16.pdf |accessdate=2009-03-28 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090319204654/http://www.theindexer.org/files/25-3cp2_16.pdf |archivedate=March 19, 2009 }}{{Cite journal |last=Russell |first=Mary |date=March 2014 |title=Footnotes, endnotes and the indexer |url=http://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/indexer.2014.5 |journal=The Indexer |language=en |volume=32 |issue=1 |pages=18–22 |doi=10.3828/indexer.2014.5 |issn=0019-4131}}
Awards
ANZSI medals and highly commended certificates are offered annually for an outstanding index to a book or periodical compiled in Australia or New Zealand.{{cite journal
|date=March 2009
|title=ANZSI Medal 2008: the judges report
|journal=The Indexer: The International Journal of Indexing
|volume=27
|issue=1
|page=8
|doi=10.3828/indexer.2009.4
|issn=0019-4131|doi-access=free
}} Medals and certificates are not awarded every year.{{cite web
|url=http://www.anzsi.org/site/medal_win.asp
|title=Medal Winners
|accessdate=2009-03-28
|publisher=Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers
|url-status=dead
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090523153438/http://www.anzsi.org/site/medal_win.asp
|archivedate=2009-05-23
|url=http://www.anzsi.org/site/Medal_high.asp
|title=Highly Commended indexes
|accessdate=2009-03-28
|publisher=Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers
|url-status=dead
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090524140758/http://www.anzsi.org/site/Medal_high.asp
|archivedate=2009-05-24
}} Notable recipients include musicologist and indexer Samantha Owens, who was awarded a medal in 2012.{{Cite web |title=Samantha Owens |url=https://phanza.org.nz/historian/samantha-owens/ |access-date=2024-11-02 |website=PHANZA |language=en-US}}
ANZSI (then AusSI) was the first{{cite web
|url=http://www.web-indexing.org/web-indexing-award.htm
|title=Web Indexing Awards
|accessdate=2009-04-16
|publisher=Web and Electronic Indexing SIG
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090420144038/http://www.web-indexing.org/web-indexing-award.htm
|archivedate=20 April 2009
|url-status=usurped
}} indexing society in the world to recognise web indexing with an award.{{cite journal
|last=Walker
|first=Dwight
|date=April 1997
|title=AusSI Web indexing prizewinners
|journal=The Indexer: The International Journal of Indexing
|volume=20
|issue=3
|pages=121–124
|issn=1756-0632
|url=http://www.theindexer.org/files/20-3/20-3_121.pdf
|accessdate=2009-03-28}}
Publications
The ANZSI Newsletter is published 11 times per year. 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,{{cite web |url=http://www.theindexer.org/files/25-3/25-3-cp2_001.pdf |title=Indexing personal names |website=Theindexer.org |accessdate=2016-06-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170809093117/https://www.theindexer.org/files/25-3/25-3-cp2_001.pdf |archive-date=2017-08-09 |url-status=dead }} and AusSI (now ANZSI) guest-edited the April 2001 issue.
In the Index Series,{{cite web|url=http://www.anzsi.org/site/indexing_series.asp |title=ANZSI - Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers |accessdate=March 22, 2009 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090404035813/http://www.anzsi.org/site/indexing_series.asp |archivedate=April 4, 2009 }} ANZSI publishes indexes which have been created under the ANZSI Mentoring Scheme, in which mentees create indexes to published, but previously un-indexed works.
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