Tag: Resources

2023 Freelance Indexer Survey

Posted on by Sanet le Roux

This survey is about the business practices of the freelance indexer. Michelle poses questions about annual earnings and the number of books indexed in 2021, 2022, and the first half of 2023. There are also questions about indexing specialties, such as scholarly indexing and trade book indexing. Rush rates and embedded indexing are covered as well. You can even add your own thoughts about your business practices at the end of the survey.

2023 Indexer Rate Survey

‘Catalogue and Index’ September 2018 issue

Posted on by Sanet le Roux

The September 2018 issue of ‘Catalogue and Index’, is a special issue on indexing. This periodical is published by the Cataloguing and Indexing Group, a Special Interest Group of CILIP (Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals).
You can download a PDF of the whole issue or individual articles at https://www.cilip.org.uk/members/group_content_view.asp?group=201298&id=760736

Contents:

  • FAST forward? By Alan Danskin
  • Methodologies for classifying repositories, by Robert T. Kasenchak
  • Subject indexing in a repository, by Clare Playforth
  • History of index creation, by Helen Bilton
  • Comedic indexes, by Paula Clarke Bain
  • Foundation of the Society of Indexers, by Rosemary Dear
  • Directions in indexing, by Pilar Wyman
  • Changed needed in the subject index, by Liz Antell
  • Online language classification, by Lucile Deslignères
  • Machine translation, by Lynne Bowker
  • Retrospective cataloguing Case study, by Max Zanotti
  • CILIP Conference 2018 report, by Lynn Thorn
  • Letters & responses