• Melbourne Indexers: Editing the ANZSI Newsletter Index

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    Twenty years of newsletters, several indexers and what do you get? While it isn’t a dog’s breakfast, there is quite a lot of editing to be done. Most is obvious. […]

  • Melbourne Indexers: What was your most challenging index?

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    What was your most challenging index? What aspects of the job made it challenging? Perhaps it was your first job, the clients were difficult or the book itself was massive […]

  • Melbourne Indexers: How are books constructed?

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    Have you ever made your own book? After a brief discussion on the process of how a book is bound there will be a chance to make your own simple […]

  • Melbourne Indexers: Index to the Chicago Manual of Style index chapter

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    The chapter on indexing in the Chicago Manual of Style is published separately with its own index. The content of the 16th and 17th editions is very similar, yet their […]

  • Melbourne Indexers: Embedded indexing

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    What is embedded indexing? One form is to embed the index in MS Word. How is this done and can indexing software be used to assist? Various options will be […]

  • Melbourne Indexers: Five things you like to have at hand while indexing

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    You have the indexing software and a copy of the item you are indexing, what else do you require or like to have at hand to work effectively? It could […]