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Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 07:23:17
To: index-nw@u.washington.edu
From: "Kari J. Kells" <indexwest@mindspring.com>
Subject: Re: looking for a class or book ...
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The book used when I took an indexing & abstracting class in grad school
(pre-Mulvany's book) was _Indexing and Abstracting in Theory and Practice_
by Lancaster.  It's good, but it's dry.  About half of its 300 pages are
about abstracting.  It actually has practice exercises at the end of the
book & it covers several types of abstracts as well as methods of writing
abstracts,  evaluating abstracts, abstracting imaginative works, automatic
abstracting, etc.

We happen to have a copy of this title in the PNW/ASI lending library, so
if you're a member of our chapter, you can ask Elspeth to send it to you
for just $3 to cover postage.  For more info about that service & what info
Elspeth would need from you, take a look at
<http://www.mindspring.com/~indexwest/ASI/library.htm>. 8-)

-Kari

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>Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 11:46:54 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Robin Hilp <rolybear@yahoo.com>
>To: index-nw@u.washington.edu
>Subject: looking for a class or book ...
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>Does anyone know of a correspondence, tape, or web
>based workshop or a book specifically about
>abstracting? I've found several books that mention the
>topic in one chapter and some classes that cover it in
>one lesson, but at this point I'd rather not spend
>money (and time) on an entire class or book just to
>get the one section.
>
>Thank you :-)
>===
>RolyBear ICQ 1863181 (Robin Hilp)
>
>
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