I am a notorious time management junkie, one of those people who procrastinates by reading blogs about doing …
Mirror, Mirror: Matching the Index to the Text
There are various metaphors for an index: a roadmap, web, a library catalog, a hallway full of doors. I even sometimes graph out …
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Expert, Generalist, or Somewhere in Between?
One of the fun things about indexing — yes, it's a fun job! — is learning about subjects I wouldn't otherwise. In my spare time, …
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Indexing Names: Passing Mentions
All professions, whether they admit to it or not, develop specialized vocabularies—jargon, terms of art, whatever you want to call …




