Margie Towery's Background

• H. W. Wilson Award for Excellence in Indexing, 2002
  
  
• Indexing-Related Publications:
  • Indexing Specialties: Scholarly Books (editor), Information Today, 2005
  • Indexing Specialties: History (editor), Information Today, 1998
  • Numerous articles in Key Words (newsletter of the American Society of Indexers)
    
    
• Indexing-Related Presentations:
  • "Unsolved Mysteries: Indexing History and Archaeology" (moderator; ASI National Conference, 2002)
  • "One-to-One Peer Reviews" (co-organizer; ASI National Conference, 2002)
  • "Evaluating Scholarly Book Indexes" Workshop (ASI National Conference, 2001)
  • "Comparing Our Indexes" Mini-Workshop (Heartland Chapter of ASI, 2000)
  • "Indexing Specialties: History" Roundtable (moderator; ASI National Conference, 1999)
  • "Special Interest Groups" Roundtable (moderator; ASI National Conference, 1997)
    
    
• Membership:
  • American Society of Indexers (including Heartland Chapter [twice president] and the History-Archaeology Special Interest Group [founder and past coordinator; current co-coordinator]
    
    
• Education:
  • Apprenticeship with professional indexer, 1994
  • Bachelor's (1987) and Master's (1989) degrees, History, University of Illinois at Springfield