The Culinary Indexing SIG is an educational forum and a network for experienced and novice indexers interested in culinary indexing in various media, such as books, periodicals, CD-ROMs, and web sites. The SIG serves several functions. As an educational forum, it provides opportunities for members to ask questions and brainstorm about technical culinary indexing problems. It may make available actual instruction by experienced culinary indexers. As a network, it gives members access to information about publishers, authors, editors, and others who need culinary indexes in various media, such as books, periodicals, CD-ROMs, and web sites.
Members also can use the network to find other culinary indexers to whom they refer projects.
Network outreach to potential clients seeks to promote awareness of SIG members' competence, experience, and availability. In addition, the SIG has prepared marketing postcards mailed out by members in Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and the United States. This website includes an extensive selection of articles about culinary indexing, as well as the SIG Marketing Directory. Besides preparing the marketing postcards, officers created a brochure for mailing. The dues pay for group marketing efforts undertaken through postal mail and the SIG website.