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
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
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
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
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
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… Read More »National Indexing Day 2022
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
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
Commissioning a professional indexer to index your publication can save you time and stress, and ensure that your readers will gain the best possible route… Read More »Why commission a professional indexer?