Join us for the 2007 TAA Conference at the Hyatt Regency Buffalo in downtown Buffalo, NY, June 22-23

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Preliminary Conference Schedule now available
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Book Raffle
IIL Publishing, New York will raffle four books at the 2007 TAA Conference
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Coming to Buffalo? Put these two books on your reading list
City of Light by Lauren Belfer
Trip to Niagara Falls by Geronimo Stilton (Scholastic)
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Mentoring Sessions
Several veteran authors have agreed to serve as mentors at the conference. Attendees will be able to sign up at the conference registration desk for 15-minute sessions with a mentor. A list of mentors will be available soon.

Roundtable Discussions Luncheon
Saturday, June 23
12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Choose from 10 different moderated roundtable discussions related to textbook and academic authoring.
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Dinner at The Anchor Bar
Thursday, June 21, 6 p.m.
The restaurant where Buffalo-style wings were invented
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Buffalo, NY Waterfront Tour
Friday, June 22, 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Take a guided tour of the Buffalo waterfront
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Karpeles Manuscript Musuem and Library Tour
Friday, June 22, 1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m.
View Walt Disney illustrations and documents, among others
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Social Networking Event: A Chartered 3-hour Dinner Cruise Aboard the Grand Lady
Friday, June 22, 6:45 p.m. to 10 p.m.
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Four-hour Guided Tour to Niagara Falls (American side)
Saturday, June 23, 4:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Tour full.
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Free one-on-one sessions with an authoring attorney or literary agent
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Click here for information from the 2006 TAA Convention:

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Archive of past conventions

Writing Indexes

Moderator:
Seth Maislin, Freelance Indexer and Consultant, Focus Information Services, President of the American Society of Indexers

Open discussion about indexing in all forms: print and online publications, theory and practice, self-indexing and working with freelancers, indexing techniques and resources, etc. This roundtable will put a knowledgeable, professional indexer at the fingertips of those interested in indexing and indexing concepts.

About the Moderator:

Seth Maislin is a freelance indexer and consultant who has written over 1,000 indexes on subjects from midwifery to capital punishment, statistics programming to sports marketing, and Asian theatre to forensics. He is the 2006-7 President of the American Society of Indexers, founder of the techindexing mailing list, and an adjunct instructor at three Massachusetts colleges. He is a regular author and speaker at indexing-related events, both domestic and overseas, and author of a blog on indexing and information architecture topics. Visit his website at http://taxonomist.tripod.com

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