Publications


The following booklets are for sale and may be ordered from (all items have a R5-00 postage and handling charge):

M du Preez
Department of Information Science
P O Box 392
Unisa 0003

Tel (012) 429 6792
Fax (012) 429 3221

Bibliography and indexing: a basic guide (1995) R25-00

Contents: Practical bibliography; Practical indexing; Indexing of periodicals; Indexing of official publications.

Current issues in South African indexing and bibliography (1995) R25-00

Contents: Automated indexing; The SARDIUS experience; South African bibliography in the mid-1990s; Bibliographies: the cornerstone of scholarship.

Bibliographies and indexes in publishing (1997) R25-00

Contents: Bibliographies and indexes in publishing; Bibliographies and indexes in South African publishing; Indexer: the specie and its doings.

Indexing, the art of (1997) R25-00

Contents: Why indexing? Indexing: an author's point of view; Understanding the process of indexing: practical approach; Back-of-book indexing: basic guidelines; Contract indexing.

Indexing for the next millennium (1999) R25-00

Contents: Information in crisis; The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) and Standard Generalised Markup Language (SGML) as standards for scholarly electronic texts; Indexing and search engines: Quo Vadis?; Making information accessible to users beyond the millennium.

Training and careers in indexing (1999) R25-00

Contents: How to get started on a career in indexing; Indexing and I; A career in indexing; Getting started on your indexing career; Training in indexing and bibliography.

Indexing museum specialities (1999) R25-00

Contents: Indexing in museums; Documenting Museum Africa's collection - where the museum stands now; Use of computer databases in botanical collections; Indexing and classifying material in a military museum.

Indexing for Africa (1999) R40-00)

Contents: Bibliographic control in the SADC region - the scenario at the turn of the Millennium; Information see Learning - the role of information literacy; Yesterday is history: the evolution of the Weekly Mail Index; Indexing - is more better?; Indexing traditional African musical instruments in collections of the University of South Africa.

Indexing our heritage (2000) R40-00

Contents: Documenting our fossil heritage; Oral history; The Anglo-Boer South African War; In case of index failure consult a librarian - two small keys in explaining the decline of the Johannesburg CBD; Indexing the process of democratisation in South Africa; The art of cataloguing with specific reference to the SABC Sound Archives; Botanical bibliography.

Mastering indexing skills: steps along the way (2001) R40-00

Contents: The scenery, paths and hurdles of an indexing career; The Gateway Project; An indexer's guide to the Internet; Metadata and indexing; Computer assisted indexing; Evaluating an index; Indexing software: Macrex as an exemplar.

Bibliography: dead duck or useful tool? (2002) R40-00

Contents: The making of the South African Bibliography to 1925; Types of bibliography; The research value of bibliographies; Bibliographical services to postgraduate students; Music bibliography; The Disa Project as a digital bibliography; The Brenthurst Press: private press book production.

Signposts to Knowledge: Indexing in the 21st Century. (2003) R60

Contents: Creative extremities: secrets behind best-sellers; Pointing the way: information literacy and indexing; Trends in the practice of indexing; The need for the professional education of indexers in South Africa; Embedded indexing; A publisher's expectations of an indexer; The publishing process; Tax and the business freelancer

Book indexing and beyond (2004) R60

Contents: Visit to the Brenthurst Library - personal impressions; Future of Indexing; Jacobsen's Index, book burning and the complicity of South African librarians, 1955-1971; Conceptualisation - easy getting easier, or more complex; Khoe-San languages; Society of Indexers.

Indexing for Southern Africa: a manual compiled in celebration of ASAIB's first decade:1994-2004 / edited by JAcqueline A Kalley, Elna Schoeman, Marlene Burger. Pretoria: Unisa Press, 2005. ISBN 1868883809. (R109)