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  1. Bernier, a past president of the American Society of Indexers, is professor in the School of Information and Library Studies, State University of New York, Buffalo. Borko, Professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of California, Los Angeles, has been chairperson of ASI's Committee on Ethics, Standards and Specifications.

  2. “... language is imprecise with semantic, syntactic, and syndetic structuring, which may easily cause a range of interpretation of many concepts, passages, phrases and words among different individuals. By the very nature of this imprecision, it is not surprising that inconsistency occurs among indexers and that there is no one right, correct, or exact assignment of index terms for any given document.” Lawrence E. Leonard,Inter-Indexer Consistency Studies, 1954–1975: a Review of the Literature and Summary of Study Results. Urbana: University of Illinois, Graduate School of Library Science, 1977, p. 2 (Occasional Papers, No. 131).

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  3. “There is simply no manual of practice that identifies the major methods of deriving and displaying printed index entries, and that also gives performance measures to guide choice through the labyrinth of possibilities.” E. Michael Keen. “On the Generation and Searching of Entries in Printed Subject Indexes,”Journal of Documentation 33(1) (March 1977) 19.

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  1. Nottingham University, England

    J. Morehen (lecturer)

  2. Madison Academic Computer Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison

    Arthur Rasmussen (software specialist)

  3. Brigham Young University, USA

    Steven P. Sondrup (associate Professor)

  4. Beaver College, Glenside, PA

    Peggi Maki Horodowich (assistant professor)

  5. Institut für deutsche Sprache, Mannheim

    Alan Kirkness (member)

  6. Department of Modern Foreign Languages and literatures, Boston University, Boston

    Nathaniel B. Smith (assistant professor)

  7. Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, Rutgers

    James D. Anderson (associate professor)

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Has been involved for several years with computer-aided studies of nineteenth-and twentieth-century German poetry.

Alan Kirkness is in charge of work on the historicalDeutsches Fremdwörterbuch begun by Schulz/Basler and has published on aspects of German lexicology and lexicography.

Specialized in medieval Provençal, French, and Catalan.

The State University of New Jersey, is presently head of the design team, Bibliography Revision Project, Modern Language Association of America, and chairperson of the Committee on Indexer Education, American Society of Indexers.

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Morehen, J., Rasmussen, A., Sondrup, S.P. et al. Book reviews. Comput Hum 14, 201–212 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02403769

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