We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

The former Maybelline headquarters entrance had a stairway that was REALLY good...like, made with lipstick good.

Currently indexing a book about 16mm and have Paul Simon's Kodachrome on endless repeat in my mind. Any other film songs you can send my way? 🎥📽️ #BookIndexer

The Type High Prize mails out to all Print Club members that’ve been in the Club for a whole year (starting in September) to celebrate Type High Day (9/18). These ornaments were designed by me and cast by @bowerbox.com. Super grateful to all the PC members that keep the studio going!

If you can, publish with a university press! They're non-profit, they often struggle because their goal is not to make money but produce knowledge, and they're run by the kindest, most hard-working people. UP editors are artisans--your book will 100% be in good hands.

If you are reviewing a book and you have thoughts on the index (good or bad or lack thereof) please include them in your review. Indexing is invisible so reminders of their existence helps to keep them from the chopping block of budget cuts. #BookSky #NonFiction #AcademicSky

“The Experience of Being Online,” 1884, Kobayashi Kiyochika. (Actual title: “One Person, Six Expressions.”)

Typo of the day: European-Count of Human Rights #BookIndexing

Resonance (UC Press) is looking for humanities research across the following topics: Sound in Political Crisis, Sound and Social Justice, Experiments in Sound, Sound Archives and Preservation, and we're convening a permanent series that'll examine "Film and Cinema Sound" in 2026. Please circulate!

You ‘run the gamut’ and ‘run the gauntlet.’ You don’t ‘run the gambit.’ gamut = entire range or series gauntlet = severe trial Gambit = Alpha-level mutant who can convert potential energy to kinetic energy

In 1974, Constantine Manos spent nine months taking thousands of photos of people and neighborhoods across Boston. The photographs will be the focus of a forthcoming exhibition at the Boston Athenaeum, and the curator are asking for help IDing the images.

Frustrated by being referred to as a mere "caricature" artist, William Hogarth produced this 1743 print to explain the difference between characters and caricatures — which he saw as radically different — and aligning his style firmly with the former: publicdomainreview.org/collection/c...

I have authors who will ask why someone or something isn't in the index. And it turns out that I considered it a passing mention. I always ask myself what will the reader learn about "person/concept being considered" if they go to this page? Great 🧵on what indexers consider when deciding in or out?

Indexing about how homophobia was a barrier to collecting and archiving queer history during the Holocaust. 🏳️‍🌈🗃️🏛️

I’m not a part of this org, but as an art historian, the suggestion that you would use GenAI to make fake images to ‘illustrate’ your work is infuriating. Real artworks exist. You can just ask one of your art history colleagues.

A great thing about physical books is that they seldom stop working

Considering changing the name of my website and account to Fugitive Books Intercepted. (From the letterhead of Washington, DC rare book sellers Duff and Gilfond.)

Now You See It...Now You DON'T! Master magician Ricky Jay was a big fan of the Museum of Jurassic Technology, which recently (and briefly) caught on fire! In honor of Ricky and the ephemerality of all good things, here I am showing off the Newberry's 18th c. Blow Book like Ricky once taught me. 1/2

Need an indexer for your book in the humanities? I've just two August projects slip into September! #AcademicSky 🎥🗃️🪡🏛️ #lit #FeministSky

Don't let "Why Don't Celebrity memoirs Have Indexes Anymore?" fool you. There is no investigation aimed at answering this question. This is an opinion piece lamenting the lack of indexes in biographies of late.

"I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done." Steven Wright #NationalWritingDay

When I told a friend from grad school I was becoming an indexer the look on her face was sheer horror. Then I remembered she'd helped her girlfriend index her dissertation She'd used Word with manual sorting and formatting. Yeah I have software to speed things up, but to the speed of 3-4 hours!

Who is coming to Vancouver for ISC/SCI's conference? @indexerscanada.bsky.social I had a coffee catch-up with @apeaceinns.bsky.social yesterday and I'm excited to be attending a conference without a travel related migraine!

When I'm indexing and come across name spelled differently, I will send an email noting the differences. A recent author kept replying thank-you but wouldn't tell me the correct version! I had to explain that I need to know so the index is correct!

This is what the FBI's fingerprint files looked like in 1942: FBI was adding 400,000 file cards a month to its archives, and was receiving 110,000 requests for “name checks” per month. By 1944 the agency contained some 23 million card records, as well as 10 million fingerprint records.

This is what professional indexers do, we give you time to do the things you are paid to do.

New paper for the journals "Scholars divided as indexer's routine terminology/typo query sets off Otlet kerfluffle"

I routinely send an email to my clients with a query asking if two things/people/titles are or are not the same. I thought it was a simple query, but heard back today from the editor of the compilation that I've set off a lot of discussion.

I have an indexing joke. See infinite loop. #BookIndexer #AcademicSky

#academicsky #booksky New book and DH project with tons of digitized archival materials www.getty.edu/publications...

I'm indexing a multi authored book about information history, not the history of information. Wrapping up Otlet's Mundaneum before heading into facial AI systems. #BookIndexer #GLAM #AcademicSky

Meeting at the Golden Gate (game was in San Francisco!), by Giotto, 1303-06 - The Smokers, by Adriaen Brouwer, 1636

Indexing about Scandinavian encyclopedias #AmIndexing #AcademicSky #GLAM

I have been truly envious of Leontien Talboom’s digital preservation related knitted jumpers but now she’s released the charts, and more about their origins on Cambridge University Library Blogs #digitalpreservation digitalpreservation-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/knitting-thr...

Here's your reminder to check in early with your press regarding their process and timeline for indexing. If you want someone with subject expertise, start your search for an indexer at least 3 months before you will need to hire them. 1/2

Looking forward to ‪@indexerscanada.bsky.social‬'s annual conference in my home town later in the month!

Me working on my latest index for an 800+ page book while out of the country. The specific demons are extreme heat, insect bites and an ergonomically challenged work space.

🚨Repository of public domain craft pattern publications🚨 www.antiquepatternlibrary.org/html/warm/ma...

Fabulous illustration of a mention not meeting the question "Will the user find this useful when they flip to the page?" and thus being categorized as a passing mention.

Even before AI and LLM’s were on everyone's radar as something to make your life easier, take away jobs or create chaos because sometimes a human's perspective is better than a machine's, indexers would talk about how a computer can't make an index. 1/3

Follow the instructions on tenbluelinks.org if you do still want to use Google but only get a page of normal link search results and not this waste of space and millions of dollars

#IndexDay “qualities in the indexer who creates…Empathy: the ability to put oneself in the place of the reader…Judgement: the ability to make rational decisions about what to include in the index…Understanding: the content of a book and implications of a text” www.thebookseller.com/comment/the-...

Really important piece about what tariffs do. Bookstores across Canada are about to be hit with 25% tariffs on most of their stock, and it's worth thinking about who this is hurting: not as simple as "buy Canadian." globalnews.ca/news/1109106...

Registration is open for @indexerscanada.bsky.social ‘s 2025 Conference at UBC in Vancouver, May 30 & 31! You can check out the line-up and learn about the location on our conference page (heads up, we’ve got a conference rate on accommodations but supplies are limited) #indexing

If it's not in the index, your work doesn't exist.

If you didn’t put it in power point does your work even exist? 🤔 #academicsky #socAF #sociology

Here's a reminder to authors that are considering indexing their upcoming book, indexing is not something that most people like doing and especially after they have gone through the gauntlet of editing after manuscript submission. Note: not my index #AcademicSky #AcademicPublishing

Federal and Haida leaders signed a historic agreement Monday recognizing Aboriginal title over the archipelago of Haida Gwaii off British Columbia's northern coast.