The latest issue of The Indexer, 43(3), is now available at liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journal/index. Read about Chinese language indexing, natural-language processing and indexing, the ASI 2025 conference and National Indexing Day 2025, and more!

Currently #indexing Het Nationale Park De Hoge Veluwe: 90 Jaar Actief Beheer & Biodiversiteit.

I just returned from Birmingham, where I spoke at the Society of Indexers (@indexers.bsky.social) conference #SIConf25. It was a great conference!

It is kind of terrifying having one of your clients speak during the "working with authors" panel discussion, but this worked out really well! Thank you, Jane, for your kind words! #SIConf25

Currently #indexing De belichaming van emoties.

Arrived in Birmingham for #SIConf25 yesterday evening. Lovely to see friends again and talk about nothing but #indexing for the next three days!

My current indexing project discusses early modern book use, mostly focusing on marginalia, but also on readers creating their own indexes! The author even included photos of the indexes. I am, once again, a happy indexer.

Starting a new book, and thanks to my Canadian colleagues, I have a perfect bookmark. 🐦

Currently #indexing The Great Book of the World: The Formation and Use of the Library of Robert Ashley (1565–1641).

Currently #indexing De vervlogen wereld van Marie, gravin van Bylandt.

Currently #indexing De lucht klaren: Een hoopvolle gids om het klimaatprobleem op te lossen in 50 vragen en antwoorden.

Currently #indexing Mad Fictions: Psychiatry, Disability, and the Politics of Mental Distress in African Literature.

Currently #indexing Therapeut, vergeet jezelf niet!

Currently #indexing Fragments: Medieval Makers, Modern Responses.

I just booked my hotel for this conference, where I will be presenting a breakout session on "breaking the rules" in indexing!

The two (completely unrelated) books I am indexing today discuss the exact same obscure topic. This feels like an actual glitch in the matrix.

Currently #indexing Research Methods in Publishing and Book Studies (🤩)

The latest issue of The Indexer, 43(2), is now available at liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journal/index. Read about periodical indexing, using diacritics, trends in embedded indexing, and more!

Currently #indexing Remembering Hope: The Cultural Afterlife of Protest.

Currently #indexing Intimacies of Global Sufism: Neʿmatullahi Shrines and Material Culture Between Iran and India.

Currently #indexing Non-use Measures for Global Goods and Commons in International Law.

“wonders: chicken incident” has to be my favorite index entry.

You know that your index is almost finished when it reaches 10.000 entries and your software shuts down every 5 minutes because it can’t handle it anymore.

Happy #IndexDay to my indexing colleagues, as well as all the authors, readers, and publishing professionals who know the value of a good index. Follow @indexers.bsky.social for more indexing posts on this special day!

Volume 43.1 features work on book indexing in Japan, an exploration of qualitative research and book indexing, and a survey on embedded indexing: bit.ly/Index43-1 @djbduncan.bsky.social @indexers.bsky.social ‪@baindex.org @exterindexing.bsky.social @closereadingie.bsky.social @nicolaking.bsky.social

The latest issue of The Indexer is available now, with articles by @ivacheung.com, @stephenullstrom.bsky.social, conference reports from @exterindexing.bsky.social and @tanyaizzard.bsky.social, book reviews and the usual round-up of good and bad indexes #IndexSky

It's World Book Day today! One of the ways you can #ReadYourWay is by using the index to find the parts of a book that you're really interested in. All non-fiction books deserve a great index so that readers can find the information they really want. Learn more about indexing at buff.ly/WeSkr2y

The latest issue of The Indexer, 43(1), is now available at liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journal/index. Read about book indexing in Japan, qualitative research and indexing, embedded indexing, and more.

My latest blogpost, on the China Society of Indexers' conference in Beijing, has been published on the NIN website. You can read it here (for now it's Dutch only): indexers.nl/blog/2025/02...

I’m looking for someone who owns CMOS 17, and I’m 100% sure one of my followers on here has a copy! I’m reviewing CMOS 18 and want to have a look at some of the index entries in CMOS 17. Please let me know if you can help me out. Many thanks.

Currently #indexing The Cambridge Guide to Global Medieval Travel Writing, edited by none other than @sebsobecki.bsky.social! I am sure this will be a fun and highly interesting project.

Currently (also) #indexing Pelgrimage naar Maastricht/Pilgrimage to Maastricht. I will make subject indexes for both the Dutch and English versions of this book.

I just experienced my first "so do you actually have to read the ENTIRE book?" of the year.

Indexer pals, Mylinh is one of us. 💔

Currently #indexing The Complete Writings and Selected Correspondence of John Dickinson, Volume 4 (1767–1769). This tome will keep me busy for a while; looking forward to it. 😎

Currently #indexing An Anticolonial Development: Public Schooling, Emancipation, and Its Limits in Twentieth Century West Africa.

@indexer.bsky.social 42.4 features articles on AI in indexing, Index-Manager and alphabetisation, indexing with Excel, and conference reports from the year: bit.ly/INDEX42-4 @tanyaizzard.bsky.social‬ @indexers.bsky.social‬ @djbduncan.bsky.social @nicolaking.bsky.social

The latest issue of The Indexer, 42(4), is now available at liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journal/index. Read about generative AI and indexing, the newest additions to the dictionary of basic indexing terminology, Cindex, the ISC/SCI and ASI conferences, and more.

I’m glad to have found a few more book indexers here since I set up this starter pack. *friendly wave hello* It’s now opt-in (and still opt-out) by request, so please just let me know if you wish to join or leave it. Good to see you all in the #IndexSky. 😶‍🌫️

Happy #IndexingDay to my American colleagues! And thank you, American Society for Indexing, for creating helpful (and fun!) images to post on social media to celebrate this day.

This will be my latest Beijing group picture, as we are on our way to the airport right now. Spending a week in Beijing with fellow indexers and attending/participating in an indexing conference was an amazing experience. There will be several write-ups by our group, most prominently in The Indexer.

Indexers (and their historian) on the way to the first conference day in Beijing!

I am visiting China for an international indexing conference. It's so lovely to meet up with other representatives in Beijing and on China's Great Wall, as you can see here!

Currently #indexing two books: De polyvagaaltheorie en het kind in ontwikkeling and Een vrije geest: Het uitzonderlijke leven van Betje Wolff. Time for some Dutch-language books!

Just received my review copy of CMOS 18; ‘the most extensive revision in two decades!’ Can't wait to delve into this.

Currently #indexing Colonialism and the EU Legal Order.

Society of Indexers #SIConf24 in 2 weeks: – AI issues (George Walkley & Tanya Izzard) – software states (Pierke Bosschieter & Stephen Ullstrom) – Frankfurt Kabuff index (Beth Driscoll, Claire Squires & me) – Wikipedia editing (Mary Coe) See also here. 👉 www.indexers.org.uk/training-dev... #IndexSky

I'm (way too) excited about getting to review CMOS 18 soon 🤩

The latest issue of The Indexer, 42(3), has been published online at www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journal/index. Read about the Dictionary of Basic Indexing’s Welsh and Japanese entries; indexing Classic Mayan; Picardy book-indexing software; training in creating ebook indexes, and more!

Currently #indexing Cartographies of Empire: The Road Novel and American Hegemony.