Lyndsay Marshall – Indexer
Over the past months I have stayed in touch with indexing colleagues by attending a Society of Indexers’ Scotland Local Group visit to The Writers’ Museum in Edinburgh, the Indexing Society of Canada’s virtual conference, and a ...
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This blog post gives an overview of the 2025 Society of Indexers conference, with a particular focus on the breakout session I facilitated on health and wellbeing for indexers.
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This year, the Society of Indexers conference theme was ‘Human Indexing in a Digital World’. Held online, the conference took place on Wednesday 18 and Thursday 19 September. This blog post describes some key points I gleaned from the sessi...
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To mark National Indexing Day 2024, this word cloud includes ‘A’ and ‘Z’ headings from a selection of my indexes and is accompanied by a discussion of how thinking about different categories of information can be hel...
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This blog post describes the Society of Indexers 2023 conference in Leeds. It begins by describing the pre-conference walking tour of Leeds, and then covers the day of the conference. I describe the sessions that I attended, and the session...
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All of the places in this word cloud are from the indexes that I’ve created since National Indexing Day 2022. The colour and size of each place name shows how often it appeared in this set of indexes.
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This post describes two stand-out themes of the conference:
1. Non-linear texts and reading styles
2. Translations of indexing terminology and indexes
The Society of Indexers’ annual National Indexing Day is on Wednesday 30th March this year. And, in what is becoming an annual tradition, I have created another word cloud for 2022. I chose two or three words from each of the indexes ...
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The Society of Indexers’ annual conference was held online for the first time on 9th and 10th November 2021. More than seventy indexers Zoomed in, including delegates from SI and sister organizations in Europe and North America. This ...
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To celebrate National Indexing Day, here are some of the frequently used terms from the indexes I have created this past year.
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