Dr. Weinberg chaired the committee of the National Information Standards Organization that developed the revised American National Standard on thesaurus construction, which was reaffirmed in 1998. She is a Past President of the American Society of Indexers and the recipient of its Hines Award. At St. John's, Professor Weinberg teaches graduate courses in Information Science, Indexing and Abstracting, and Language and Information, The last-mentioned is a new course which focuses on the design of controlled vocabularies. Dr. Weinberg consults on the design of thesauri and indexes, has done research on thesaurus structure, and publishes extensively on linguistics and information science. Handouts, audiotapes, and videotapes of the seminar are available.
Foreign postage is additional.
Any combination of materials may be ordered. This full-day seminar is offered once in two years. Many of these concepts are applicable to the indexing of electronic resources. Manual and computer-assisted techniques are discussed, but software is not demonstrated. Authors, publishers, information scientists, technical writers, librarians, and indexers should benefit from the seminar.