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Types of indexes

General References

Annual reports

  • Guidance on annual report requirements for Commonwealth departments, executive agencies and other entities is issued by the Department of Finance
  • ‘Indexing annual reports workshop at the National Archives of Australia‘, Edyth Binkowski, AusSI Newsletter, 2003, vol. 27, no. 6, pg. 68
  • ‘Evaluating online annual reports: an indexer’s experience’, Lynn Farkas, in: Karen Gillen (ed) Indexing: engage, enlighten, enrich: proceedings from the Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers Conference, 17–19 March 2005, Melbourne. Melbourne: Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers, 2005, pp.  33–40
  • ‘Editing and indexing government annual reports’, Shirley Campbell, ANZSI Newsletter, 2007, vol. 3, no. 8, pg. 6

Archival indexing

  • ‘Indexing manuscripts and the Koorie Indexing Name Project’, Shauna Hicks and Simon Flagg, in: Mary Russell (ed), The Indexing life: proceedings from the Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers conference, 15–17 March 2007, Melbourne. Melbourne: Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers, 2007, pp. 101-105
  • ‘Indexing archives for access’, Shauna Hicks, in: Karen Gillen (ed) Indexing: engage, enlighten, enrich: proceedings from the Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers Conference, 17–19 March 2005, Melbourne. Melbourne: Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers, 2005, pp. 72–77
  • ‘Indexing for school archives: magazine and historical records’, Alan Walker, in: Margaret Findlay (ed), The August indexer: proceedings from the second international conference, 27–29 August 1999, Hobart, Tasmania, Melbourne: Australian Society of Indexers, 1999, pp. 132–137
  • Object ID: an international standard for describing art, antiques and antiquities
  • Indexing for historical societies. Revised edition, John Adams, Melbourne: Royal Historical Society of Victoria, 2010
  • ‘A bibliography for indexing lives’, Hazel K. Bell, The Indexer, 2012, vol. 30, no. 3, pg. 147

Bibliographies

  • ‘Related skills: indexing and bibliography’, John E Simkin, in: Margaret Findlay (ed), The August indexer: proceedings from the second international conference, 27–29 August 1999, Hobart, Tasmania, Melbourne: Australian Society of Indexers, 1999, pp. 112–114
  • ‘Bibliography in the digital age’, Geraldine Triffitt, in: Mary Russell (ed), The Indexing life: proceedings from the Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers conference, 15–17 March 2007, Melbourne. Melbourne: Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers, 2007, pp. 29–38
  • ‘Indexing theatre programmes’, Dennis Bryans, in: Mary Russell (ed), The Indexing life: proceedings from the Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers conference, 15–17 March 2007, Melbourne. Melbourne: Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers, 2007, pp. 39–44
  • ‘Ensuring the best: AustLit – the resource for Australian literature’, Tessa Wooldridge, in: Karen Gillen (ed) Indexing: engage, enlighten, enrich: proceedings from the Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers Conference, 17–19 March 2005, Melbourne. Melbourne: Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers, 2005, pp. 138-145

Biographies

Children’s books

  • Indexing children’s books, K. G. B. Bakewell and Paula L. Williams, Society of Indexers Occasional Papers on Indexing No. 5, Sheffield: Society of Indexers, 2000
  • ‘Indexing children’s books’, Valerie A Elliston, Children’s Writers and Artists Yearbook, A & C Black
  • ‘Literature for children’, in: Pat Booth, Indexing: the manual of good practice, Müchen: KG Saur, 2001, pp. 298-316
  • Indexing children’s information books, Max McMaster, ANZSI Newsletter, 2009, vol. 5, no. 6, pp. 3, 7
  • Kid-friendly index, Max McMaster, ANZSI Newsletter, 2011, vol. 7, no. 1, pg. 5
  • ‘Indexing for young people’, Geoff Chapman, in: Max McMaster (ed) Indexers – partners in publishing. Proceedings from the first international conference, 31 March – 2 April, 1995, Marysville, Victoria, Melbourne: Australian Society of Indexers, 1995, pp. 55–62

Database indexing

Encyclopaedias and textbooks

  • ‘Indexing encyclopedias’, Marion Lerner-Levine in: Index it right! Advice from the experts, volume 1, edited by Enid L. Zafran, Wheat Ridge, CO: American Society of Indexers, 2005, pp. 49–64. Via Google books
  • ‘Indexing an encyclopaedia’, Gary Hall, in: Max McMaster (ed) Indexers – partners in publishing. Proceedings from the first international conference, 31 March – 2 April, 1995, Marysville, Victoria, Melbourne: Australian Society of Indexers, 1995, pp. 170–74
  • ‘Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia: how is it indexed?‘, Geraldine Triffitt,  paper presented at Indexing in the Electronic Age, 20–21 April 1996, Ranelagh House, Robertson, NSW
  • ‘Textbook indexing’, Leoni Z McVey, in: Janet Perlman and Enid L Zafran (eds) Index it right! Advice from the experts, volume 2, Wheat Ridge, CO: American Society for Indexing, 2010, pp. 49–65

Embedded indexing

Fiction

Genealogy

  • Genealogy and indexing, edited by Kathleen Spaltro, Wheat Ridge, CO: American Society of Indexers, 2003. Via Google books
  • ‘Indexing your family history for publication’, Michael Wyatt, in A selection of papers: First International Congress on Family History, Sydney, Oct 1988. Australasian Federation of Family History Organisations and Society of Australian Genealogists, 1988, pp. 369–78
  • ‘Indexing family histories’, Patricia Law Hatcher and John V. Wylie, National Genealogical Society Quarterly, 1993, vol. 81, no. 2, pp. 85–98
  • ‘Opening the door to your book’, in Producing a quality family history, Patricia Law Hatcher, Salt Lake City, Utah: Ancestory Incorporated, 1996, 165–180
  • Using and compiling indexes, Judy Webster
  • ‘Genealogy’, in: Pat Booth, Indexing: the manual of good practice, Müchen: KG Saur, 2001, pp. 282–286

Images and pictures

  • Australia Pictorial Thesaurus
  • ‘Capturing moving images online‘, Ann Cameron, The Indexer, 2005, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 142–144
  • ‘Image indexing: how can I find a nice pair of Italian shoes?’, Elaine Ménard, Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2007, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 21–25
  • ‘Indexing cartoons’, Nicholas Hiley, The Indexer, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 100–104
  • ‘Towards user-centered indexing in digital image collections‘, Krystyna K. Matusiak, OCLC Systems & Services: International digital library perspectives, 2006, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 283-298
  • ‘Images and sound (audio) recordings’, in: Pat Booth, Indexing: the manual of good practice, Müchen: KG Saur, 2001, pp. 223–244
  • ‘Nonprint materials’, in: Hans H Wellisch, Indexing from A to Z, 2nd edition, New York: HW Wilson, 1995, pp. 332–342
  • ‘Indexing the industrial art of apple box labels’, Clodagh Jones, in: Karen Gillen (ed) Indexing: engage, enlighten, enrich: proceedings from the Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers Conference, 17–19 March 2005, Melbourne. Melbourne: Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers, 2005, pp. 78–81
  • ‘Image indexing’, Tomasz Neugebauer, The Indexer, 2010, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 98–103
  • ‘Illustrative material and how to handle it’, Max McMaster, The Indexer, 2011, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 123–126

Journals, periodicals and newspapers

Maps

Poetry and hymns

  • ‘Carols for indexers’, Mary Russell and Maureen MacGlashan, The Indexer, 2011, vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 50–55
  • ‘Subject indexing of poetry — could we? Should we?’ by Hazel Bell, The Indexer, 2011, vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 56–64
  • ‘Indexing a nursery rhyme’, Max McMaster, ANZSI Newsletter, 2011, vol. 7, no. 2, pg. 5 and no. 3, pg. 8
  • ‘Poetry’, in: Indexing from A to Z, by Hans H. Wellisch, 2nd edition, New York: H. W. Wilson, 1995, pp. 386–7
  • ‘Poetry and the indexing thereof: the role of the Scottish Poetry Library (SPL)’, Julie Johnstone, The Indexer, 2010, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 2–5

Sound

  • ‘Images and sound (audio) recordings’, in: Pat Booth, Indexing: the manual of good practice, Müchen: KG Saur, 2001, pp. 223-244
  • ‘Nonprint materials’, in: Hans H Wellisch, Indexing from A to Z, 2nd edition, New York: HW Wilson, 1995, pp. 332-342
  • ‘Indexing sound (English and other languages) within a multilingual broadcaster’, Cherrill Magee and Joann Keogh, in: Karen Gillen (ed) Indexing: engage, enlighten, enrich: proceedings from the Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers Conference, 17–19 March 2005, Melbourne. Melbourne: Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers, 2005, pp. 109–117
  • ‘It ain’t just what you say but the way that you say it: indexing a DVD’, David Crystal, The Indexer, 2009, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 173–175

Technical manuals

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