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CHAPTER ONE Indexes - purpose and uses Myths about Indexes • Only long texts need them • They are not worth the money spent on them • Books for children don't need them • No-one bothers to use them • A detailed contents list makes an index unnecessary • Only printed textual documents need indexes • Searching on the internet means we don't need them • Full-text searching makes them unnecessary • There is only one possible 'right' index for any document • Fiction books never need indexes Myths about Indexing • Anyone can do it • It's just making a list of names • It can all be done entirely automatically by a computer • It's just clerical work

CHAPTER ONE Indexes - purpose and uses Myths about Indexes • Only long texts need them • They are not worth the money spent on them • Books for children don't need them • No-one bothers to use them • A detailed contents list makes an index unnecessary • Only printed textual documents need indexes • Searching on the internet means we don't need them • Full-text searching makes them unnecessary • There is only one possible 'right' index for any document • Fiction books never need indexes Myths about Indexing • Anyone can do it • It's just making a list of names • It can all be done entirely automatically by a computer • It's just clerical work

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. The Author v
  3. Contents vii
  4. Society of Indexers’ Foreword xi
  5. Preface xiii
  6. CHAPTER ONE: Indexes - purpose and uses 1
  7. CHAPTER TWO: Indexers 24
  8. CHAPTER THREE: What (and whether) to index 40
  9. CHAPTER FOUR: Forming the index entries 67
  10. CHAPTER FIVE: Editing and presenting the index 130
  11. CHAPTER SIX: Serial publications 186
  12. CHAPTER SEVEN: Images and sound (audio) recordings 223
  13. CHAPTER EIGHT: Subject specialisms 245
  14. CHAPTER NINE: Literature for children 298
  15. CHAPTER TEN: Managing the work 317
  16. CHAPTER ELEVEN: Technology 375
  17. CHAPTER TWELVE: Professional organizations and interest groups 407
  18. Index 447
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Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. The Author v
  3. Contents vii
  4. Society of Indexers’ Foreword xi
  5. Preface xiii
  6. CHAPTER ONE: Indexes - purpose and uses 1
  7. CHAPTER TWO: Indexers 24
  8. CHAPTER THREE: What (and whether) to index 40
  9. CHAPTER FOUR: Forming the index entries 67
  10. CHAPTER FIVE: Editing and presenting the index 130
  11. CHAPTER SIX: Serial publications 186
  12. CHAPTER SEVEN: Images and sound (audio) recordings 223
  13. CHAPTER EIGHT: Subject specialisms 245
  14. CHAPTER NINE: Literature for children 298
  15. CHAPTER TEN: Managing the work 317
  16. CHAPTER ELEVEN: Technology 375
  17. CHAPTER TWELVE: Professional organizations and interest groups 407
  18. Index 447
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