Staying connected
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’… Read More »Staying connected
The Heart and Mind of Indexing: Society of Indexers Conference 2025
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… Read More »The Heart and Mind of Indexing: Society of Indexers Conference 2025
Human Indexing in a Digital World: Society of Indexers Conference 2024
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… Read More »Human Indexing in a Digital World: Society of Indexers Conference 2024
National Indexing Day 2024
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… Read More »National Indexing Day 2024
Society of Indexers Conference 2023
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… Read More »Society of Indexers Conference 2023
National Indexing Day 2023
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… Read More »National Indexing Day 2023
International Indexing Conference 2022
This post describes two stand-out themes of the conference: 1. Non-linear texts and reading styles 2. Translations of indexing terminology and indexes
Conference 2021
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,… Read More »Conference 2021
My route to becoming an indexer
The Society of Indexers’ newsletter has a regular column called “My Past Life.” In the most recent issue, I was asked to write about my… Read More »My route to becoming an indexer
Making alternative arrangements
Sometimes indexers use ordering systems that are neither numerical nor alphabetical. This post discusses two examples of different arrangements: the book order of a Scripture… Read More »Making alternative arrangements