Knowledge Commons | Helen Slavin | Activity https://hcommons.org/members/hslavin/activity/ Activity feed for Helen Slavin. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:39:46 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 093fe9dfe33341f541e51255264a8dd9 Helen Slavin uploaded the file: Field Bibliographer Newsletter. 2008 November. Vol. 5, Iss. 4 to Field Bibliographers for the MLA International Bibliography https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1565915/ Mon, 03 Apr 2017 21:31:50 -0400 Message from Barbara Chen
- Greg Grazevich named Associate Editor
- Daniel Connor, Index Editor in charge of field training
- Julie Frick-Wade, American literature Index Editor
Manual for Field Bibliographers, new interactive webform version
Sessions, 2008 MLA Annual Convention, San Francisco
Indexing Tips
- RA field
In-office training,…[Read more]

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- 2008 Printed Bibliography will be our last
2008 Bibliography fellow training sessions
ALA meeting in Anaheim
- Comparing search results

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- New hyper-linked on-line indexing manual
General FAQ
Web Citations FAQ
Indexing FAQ
2008 field bibliographer fellowships

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MLAIB Advisory Committee
ALA Convention, Philadelphia, PA 2008
Paging rule change for 2008

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Convention sessions/ 123rd MLA Annual Convention in Chicago
Statistics for 2006 MLAIB

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- Gale's new Infotrac platform
Tips on Indexing
- TA: Periods
- Mandatory periods
- Optional named periods
2007 MLA Bibliography Fellowships

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- Indexing Web sites
Tips on Indexing
- UL: Language
- Entering Diacritics
- ISBN-13

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- Project Muse full text links
- MLA Annual Convention. Philadelphia, 2006
Journals Update
- Open Access journals
Tips on Indexing
- Entering Diacritics

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- The Bibliography Advisory Committee meeting
- Bibliography Sessions at the 122nd MLA Annual Convention
- Statistics for the 2005 MLA International Bibliography

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- Include abstracts
- DAT / VOL / ISS Formats
- Entering “double strings” on the Web Citations website
2006 MLA Bibliography fellowships
2006 Advisory Committee on the MLA International Bibliography

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Agreement with Project Muse
Use our thesaurus!
Place of Publication
Capitalization of document titles

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Individual training sessions at Convention
Reasons to become an indexer
Tips on Indexing

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2005 Bibliography Advisory Committee meeting
Statistics for the 2004 MLA International Bibliography
Tips on Indexing
- What Should Be Cited in the Bibliography?
- NFU (Not For Us) journal or series issues must be reported
- Table of Contents (TOC) field
- Please stick to your assignment list
Bibliography…[Read more]

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Tips on Indexing
Advisory Committee on the MLA International Bibliography, 2005
MLA Bibliography Fellowship awards, 2005

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Tips on Indexing
- Keep to assignment lists
- NFU (Not For Us) journal or series issues must be reported
Vendor News
Manual for Field Bibliographers

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Panel on the past, present, and future of the bibliography
History of the index, (Professor Jim Dow, Iowa State)
Vendor News
ALA (American Library Association) Convention
Tips on indexing pedagogy and humanities sections

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2003 Statistics:
2003 Coverage by Major Classification
2003 Languages of Documents
Coverage by Field Bibliographers Compared to In-house Indexers

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2004 MLA Bibliography Fellowship award recipients
Offprints from field bibliographers
Vendor news
Webform enhancements
More indexing tips
MLA language map

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What happens to your citations once submitted?
Indexing Tips: - Choosing indexing terms
- Special issues of journals
- Summaries should be noted in the GLO field
- Translators should be included in the AU field.
Webform enhancement

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New Senior indexers
Advisory Committee news
Web form addition: Table of Contents (TOC) field
JSTOR's language and literature collection

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