About Me
A former elementary and high school teacher and teacher-librarian, I have been involved in education most of my life. My background includes an MA in English and an MEd in Secondary English. I specialize in indexes for scholarly works in the humanities and social sciences, including law.
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Winner of the 2017 Ewart-Daveluy Award for Excellence in Indexing
This award honours my index for One Child Reading: My Auto-Bibliography by Margaret Mackey, published in 2017 by the University of Alberta Press. Mackey examines her personal history of reading and literacy development by revisiting texts she read, viewed, listened to, and wrote as she grew up in the 1950s and 1960s in Newfoundland. She told the editor she was ‘awestruck by the sensitivity' of my reading.
A PDF of the index is available here, courtesy of the University of Alberta Press.
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Memberships
Indexing Society of Canada / Société canadienne d'indexation
- Chair, Ewart-Daveluy Awards Committee, 2021–2022
- Co-chair, Ewart-Daveluy Awards Committee, 2020–2021
- Co-presenter “Scholarly indexing” at 2018 ISC Conference, Winnipeg
- Member 2000–2023
- Vice-President, 2014–2015
- Regional Representative for Prairies and Northern Canada, 2012–2013
- Chair, Annual Conference, 2012, Ottawa
- Attendee at annual conferences
- Member 2000–2005, 2011–2017
- Panel member, Annual Conference, 2012, San Diego
- Attendee at annual conferences: 2012, San Diego; 2013, San Antonio; and 2015, Seattle
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Indexing Instructor
- Instructor, University of Alberta, Faculty of Extension. The Art of Indexing (12 hour course), 2002 and 2004
- Instructor, workshop on indexing for editors at University of Alberta Press (6 hours), 2006
- Instructor, workshop for editors at Distributed Learning, Alberta Education (6 hours), 2006
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Education
University of Alberta, Edmonton
- PhD English, coursework only (Canadian Indigenous Literature), 1998
- MA English, 1997
- MEd Secondary English, 1995
- Graduate Diploma (Secondary School Libraries), 1991
California State University, Long Beach
- BA English and History
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(780) 444-3787
Edmonton, Alberta