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)

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