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Work in Publishing Week and the missing Michelle Obama index
It’s been a good week for the indexers. As part of the Publishers Association’s Work in Publishing Week (19–23 November 2018), the Society of Indexers (SI) held a Twitter Q&A hour about freelance...
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National Indexing Day III: 28th March 2019 #indexday
It’s February so it must nearly be time for the third National Indexing Day (NID). Yes, it’s National Indexing Day III: The Return of the NID. National Indexing Day was invented and launched by the...
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National Indexing Day 2020: some of the best and funniest index entries I know
A brief history Today (31st March) is the fourth National Indexing Day. Hooray, hip hip! This now-annual event was invented by the Society of Indexers in 2017 to mark the 60th diamond anniversary of...
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Why you need and how to work with a book indexer: a guide for authors
An edited version of this article first appeared as ‘Indexers, all about’ in the Autumn 2020 issue of The Author, the journal of the Society of Authors, republished here with permission. Indexer Paula...
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The role of the index in Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi: book review
This review article was first published as ‘Book review: Piranesi by Susanna Clarke’, Paula Clarke Bain, The Indexer, vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 113–117, copyright © 2021 Society of Indexers, Liverpool...
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An A to Z of Indexing (for National Indexing Day 2021)
Today, 30 March 2021, is the fifth National Indexing Day – hooray! For NID 2021, here is an A to Z of indexing, covering some key terms, figures and other observations from my near two decades of...
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Indexing, a freelance career in
The original version of this post was published on the Publishers Association website for their Work in Publishing Week in 2018 (original link currently not available) and is republished and...
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Meet 22 indexers for National Indexing Day 2022 #indexday
Today, Wednesday 30th March 2022, is National Indexing Day in the UK (#indexday). This is the sixth annual National Indexing Day (NID) and marks the 65th anniversary of the founding of the Society of...
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An #IndexDay-themed cryptic crossword for National Indexing Day 2023
Today, Thursday 30th March 2023, is the seventh National Indexing Day in the UK, commemorating the founding of the Society of Indexers (SI) by G. Norman Knight and colleagues in London on 30th March...
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#IndexDay, A Brief History of
Today, Thursday 28 March, is National Indexing Day 2024 (hashtag: #IndexDay). Hooray! The Society of Indexers (SI) created National Indexing Day (NID) in 2017 to commemorate the 60th anniversary of...
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