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Updates

At the ACL Conference this June, there will be several opportunities to talk CPI:

Sunday, June 1 -- Join team members for an afternoon of indexing. Lori will have issues pre-selected for us, so just bring your laptop!

Monday, June 2 -- CPI Indexers fellowship -- we'll meet and greet and talk and laugh and learn a thing or two.

Tuesday, June 3 -- Vendor Showcase & Poster Sessions

If you want to use credit earned from indexing to pay for part of your conference registration, please contact Sarah (for current indexing) or Lori (for retro indexing).

Hope to see many of you there!

Reminder: the next indexing checkpoint is

May1.

Do you have any indexing to submit?

Fridays in February

Fridays in February is a series of training sessions to introduce indexing for CPI. These sessions are great opportunities to see what indexing entails and give you a chance to try your hand before committing to index an issue on your own.

  • Part 1, Indexing reviews (slides)--Friday, February 7
  • Part 2, Indexing articles (descriptive indexing and identification of subject headings) (slides) – Friday, February 14
  • Part 3, Hands-on indexing practice (articles and reviews) – Friday, February 21
  • Next level indexing with tips for the newly trained and experienced indexers – Friday, February 28

Preparation:

Read or skim Priscilla Papers 20:2 (Spring 2006) and 20:3 (Summer 2006). These open access issues are available at https://www.cbeinternational.org/primary_page/priscilla-papers-academic-journal/. By the end of session three we will have completed indexing both issues.

Cost: Free!

Register now to reserve your spot: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0ud-CgqDMoGNxSQsbDYmk9gvaKNk9ra5Fj

How to Index

Text Editors

Using a Mac with your text files? So that we don't have trouble with smart punctuation, please read:

  1. In Textedit (The Mac text editor), choose the Textedit item from the top menu, then select preferences.
  2. In the preferences screen, make sure that format is set to plain text. This should be the default.
  3. Further down, there’s an options section with several checkboxes. Uncheck smart dashes and smart quotes. You may also want to uncheck text replacements and correct spelling automatically; those are up to you. Close the window, and the changes are saved and should stay the same across restarts of the text editor.

This info is from MacOS 10.11 but is probably the same or very similar in other versions.

Using a PC? Although Notepad works fine,if you want a few more features (like search and replace), try out Notepad++ (https://notepad-plus-plus.org/).

Interested in Indexing?

From time to time, we have openings for additional indexers. If you are interested in volunteering, please contact Sarah Wessel.

Recently Approved Titles -- Want to Index One?

Titles recently approved and appearing soon in CPI:

  • Mid-America Journal of Theology (February 2025)
  • Methodist History (November 2024)
  • Journal of Biblical and Theological Studies (October 2024)
  • Bunyan Studies (September 2024)
  • Protestant Reformed Theological Journal (June 2024)
  • Israel My Glory (May 2024)
  • Revista Reformada Puritana (March 2024)
  • Integration: A Journal of Faith and Learning (February 2024)
  • Journal of Biblical Literature (January 2024)
  • The Furrow (October 2023)
  • The Mockingbird (September 2023)