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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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

Even in this computer age, handwritten journals are still popular. Indexing these has a long history. This session will explore some of the methods, tools and terminology being used by […]

In recent times there has been a resurgence of interest in the history and commemoration of twentieth-century wars and those who served in them, especially in the lead-up to the […]

Indexing biographies can be tricky – indexing biographies connected with Classical music can be trickier! If the readers are musicians, they will be looking for information on symphonies, piano trios, […]