This guide presents the policies and procedures used by the North Dakota State University Libraries for indexing "The Forum," a daily newspaper serving eastern North Dakota and western Minnesota. The guide includes lists of material to be included and excluded, timetables for updating the index, duties of the editor and the library clerk, rules for compiling the index (general, headlines, names, punctuation, and qualifiers), and rules for indexing obituaries (general and names). Step-by-step instructions for producing weekly, monthly, and annual reports using the Procite bibliographic software program and converting the monthly and annual reports to Word Perfect 5.1 are also provided. (KRN)