• Melbourne Indexers: Five things from the indexing puzzle bag

    'Peppercorn' Meeting Room, Level 1 Hawthorn Library 584 Glenferrie Road, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia

    Five things from the indexing puzzle bag The indexing puzzle bag contains a collection of topics we may puzzle over. What is the common way to display page ranges? How […]

  • Melbourne Indexers: Improving indexing speed

    'Peppercorn' Meeting Room, Level 1 Hawthorn Library 584 Glenferrie Road, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia

    Improving indexing speed More haste, less speed, they say (and we have probably all experienced). We will discuss tips on how to improve your indexing speed. Carparking is available down […]

  • Melbourne Indexers: Selecting indexing terms

    'Peppercorn' Meeting Room, Level 1 Hawthorn Library 584 Glenferrie Road, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia

    Selecting indexing terms In a group exercise we will select indexing terms for a short article and compare the results Carparking is available down the side of the building. If […]

  • Melbourne Indexers: Shortened forms

    'Peppercorn' Meeting Room, Level 1 Hawthorn Library 584 Glenferrie Road, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia

    Shortened forms Shortened forms can be abbreviations, contractions, acronyms, initialisms or symbols. What’s the difference? What punctuation is needed? How are they capitalised? How do you make them plural? How […]

  • Melbourne Indexers: Editing the index

    'Peppercorn' Meeting Room, Level 1 Hawthorn Library 584 Glenferrie Road, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia

    Editing indexes is a good way of learning about indexes through detecting errors. Come and put your editing skills to the test, and edit a deliberately faulty (made up) index. […]

  • Melbourne Indexers: Show and tell

    'Peppercorn' Meeting Room, Level 1 Hawthorn Library 584 Glenferrie Road, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia

    Have you seen a different index in a book, app or journal? Have you explored different indexing techniques or areas you would like to share? Perhaps a new software feature […]