https://www.vfjindexingwordservices.com/blog daily 0.75 2026-03-18 https://www.vfjindexingwordservices.com/blog/post54 monthly 0.5 2026-03-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/453c1bac-8ff1-4246-9318-e36cb2169477/tools-indesign-import.png Blog - Tools of the Trade, pt.8: Software 2 - Make it stand out Scenes from running Kerntiff Publishing Systems’ IndexUtilities script. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/874cf908-698e-4445-b1a8-2c4c2f070721/editorium.png Blog - Tools of the Trade, pt.8: Software 2 - Make it stand out Indexing Tools from The Editorium (https://www.editorium.com) https://www.vfjindexingwordservices.com/blog/post53 monthly 0.5 2026-02-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/55975ed7-569b-4198-8f49-56d4e173b735/coimbra11b.jpg Blog - University of Coimbra & Its Libraries - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/1769387534485-1S068Y4PXKBSMM315UAA/coimbra7.jpg Blog - University of Coimbra & Its Libraries https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/1769387532847-W9DIZI0I3OCBMIOUVJ9P/coimbra11a.jpg Blog - University of Coimbra & Its Libraries https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/1769474279396-1Q18CESMKP53GIE2JDES/coimbra12a.jpg Blog - University of Coimbra & Its Libraries https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/1769474280008-X7U06NCLCEC5B29LB09G/coimbra12b.jpg Blog - University of Coimbra & Its Libraries https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/1769474293991-4L39U22YU2VYUC8BCYRC/coimbra14.jpg Blog - University of Coimbra & Its Libraries https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/1769474294688-3SGPGGFU0G447PALCO76/coimbra14a.jpg Blog - University of Coimbra & Its Libraries https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/1769474304000-B0GM2Q3EC0HM0KSJ9EDI/coimbra14b.jpg Blog - University of Coimbra & Its Libraries https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/1769474303842-V1IIIP3YIJB847TMMDXR/coimbra14c.jpg Blog - University of Coimbra & Its Libraries https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/70c0c49b-21d9-4b8e-9671-c6884edcb08b/joanina-interior.png Blog - University of Coimbra & Its Libraries - The Noble Floor The no-photography policy means that I sadly did not get any photos of the grand, baroque interior, but the UC visitor website has images and a description of the library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/1769389273077-MBYDOMB1Y4WLE4WW5P28/coimbra-digitization1.jpg Blog - University of Coimbra & Its Libraries - The Digital Joanina Project Launched in 2025 in coordination with the Sharjah Book Authority (SBA), books from the Noble Floor are being catalogued and digitized, resulting in a digital collection several thousand unique, printed books from the Early Modern era. 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On January 7 (2022) I announced my new logo on Instagram. https://www.vfjindexingwordservices.com/blog/post51 monthly 0.5 2026-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/43e09445-e509-42b4-8168-4a686e700a33/website-indexing-eg.png Blog - 2025: List of Indexing Projects - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.vfjindexingwordservices.com/blog/post50 monthly 0.5 2025-09-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/260db4ae-3bf6-4311-8dd6-9c46471944de/IMG_6413.jpg Blog - Database Indexing in Practice: Florida Laws & Statutes - Make it stand out The Capitol Complex, with the Historic Capitol pictured in front of the modern one. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/1758047717643-U4MKQY9JAT174EKGER1L/LOF-1.png Blog - Database Indexing in Practice: Florida Laws & Statutes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/1758047851332-YTAK8OSTCKZN2U78AVDC/fs-1.png Blog - Database Indexing in Practice: Florida Laws & Statutes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/be783a44-567d-40f7-a8cb-e6af09e05b58/LOF-search.png Blog - Database Indexing in Practice: Florida Laws & Statutes - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/4a3ce61d-0434-4e76-b459-e26226378fcd/LOF-FS-example.png Blog - Database Indexing in Practice: Florida Laws & Statutes - Make it stand out Subheading construction is somewhat rigid for FS since it’s a cumulative publication — the indexers are focused on integrating what’s new in a bill into the already large index. 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Its focus was on how to build a good taxonomy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/2f3fd441-df6c-4f53-82ee-6c483436c6c5/asi-geo-placenames.png Blog - 2024 in Review - Indexing Geographic Place-names This ASI Webinar, presented by Bill Wheaton, brought expertise from a geographer-turned-book indexer to discuss some considerations that can impact the treatment of place-names in an index. He also noted some authoritative resources that indexers could turn to for guidance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/59d2d0b1-7783-4223-b084-178a45fe142f/asi-biographies-webinar.png Blog - 2024 in Review - Biographical Metatopics, or, the Why of the Who This ASI Webinar, presented by Fred Leise, provided insights from an established and widely respected indexer on how to treat metatopics, with all their potential complexities, in biographical works. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/670b153d-9453-4365-a632-cdc25cc61da4/macros-image.png Blog - 2024 in Review - Make Your Own Macros — Keyboard Shortcuts to Speed Indexing and Increase Accuracy This ASI course, presented by Elizabeth Bartmess, covered the process of designing and troubleshooting both simple and complex macros. Course content was widely applicable to different macro software products, while examples focused on Macro Express (Windows) and Keyboard Maestro (Mac), with some attention to other products. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/1dd6876a-143e-48fb-bd6f-e16ea7f29d7a/2024-Conference-Logo-sm-e.jpg Blog - 2024 in Review - ASI’s first in-person conference since 2019. The plan as of now is to have alternating years of online and in-person conferences. ASI’s first in-person conference since 2019. The plan as of now is to have alternating years of online and in-person conferences. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/e03fc15b-34b9-4058-a58e-f9c9e2d821bf/IMG_3199.jpg Blog - 2024 in Review - The History-Archaeology Special Interest Group (HA SIG) Berlin Conference My second conference of the year was another online one, but this one had the option to attend in person. The International Indexing Conference is held every three years, and if I had planned better, I would have loved to have this opportunity not just to attend in person and meet some of the people I’ve only emailed with, but also to be a tourist in Berlin! Anyway, having the video recordings made available after the fact is a definite silver lining to this new online way of doing conferences…and I have definitely re-watched more than a few sessions. This two-day event was full of interesting presentations by indexers from around the world, from developments in the publishing industry to indexing series (journals), embedded indexing, and Chinese legal thesaurus creation, there was no shortage of things to learn. 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The event has, at least in recent years, been held on Zoom and attendees have web access to the videos for one year. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/eeeb142f-217c-449f-af68-3f415c0beb5b/ncjrs-doj-banner.png Blog - 2024 in Review - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/7511db3d-c662-41ae-933d-005caa3215f1/substack-recentposts.png Blog - 2024 in Review - Any Blog posts get automatically double-posted to Substack. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/4141b71c-a452-48c7-895f-cc2c2cc133e3/office1.jpg Blog - 2024 in Review - Thus ends my report on the highlights of 2024 at VFJ Indexing & Word Services. On January 7 (2022) I announced my new logo on Instagram. https://www.vfjindexingwordservices.com/blog/post44 monthly 0.5 2025-01-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/43e09445-e509-42b4-8168-4a686e700a33/website-indexing-eg.png Blog - 2024: List of Books Indexed - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.vfjindexingwordservices.com/blog/post43 monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://www.vfjindexingwordservices.com/blog/post42 monthly 0.5 2025-04-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/a560f41e-3d1d-4d6d-827f-0dd6c02235c8/asi+training+course.jpg Blog - Indexing Books: Online Training & Resources - The American Society for Indexing (ASI) The training course is available to ASI members and consists of four modules. Students can enter knowing little-to-nothing about book indexing and come out with a solid understanding of what it takes to index a book. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/a6c69083-5ed3-43b8-ab5a-b835c9a63b77/berkeley+course.png Blog - Indexing Books: Online Training & Resources - University of California, Berkley’s Indexing: Theory and Application The university course has open enrollment and allows students 180 days to complete the coursework. Taught by a respected indexer, it provides foundational knowledge of what goes into indexing books. It pertains to the Interdisciplinary Writing Program. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/8cc51e49-b600-4df5-aa26-8c6d33ab75a7/library+juice+academy.png Blog - Indexing Books: Online Training & Resources - Library Juice Academy: Intro to Book Indexing This four-week course is asynchronous, giving students the structure of a semester-based course but the flexibility of online learning. Taught by a respected indexer, it introduces students to the fundamentals of indexing books. https://www.vfjindexingwordservices.com/blog/post41 monthly 0.5 2026-03-16 https://www.vfjindexingwordservices.com/blog/post40 monthly 0.5 2024-06-17 https://www.vfjindexingwordservices.com/blog/post39 monthly 0.5 2024-06-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/6bb28d6a-53b0-4227-9fc0-e89b1d765274/IMG_3132.jpg Blog - American Society for Indexing: Annual Conference, 2024 - Make it stand out In the first week of June, the American Society for Indexing (ASI) held its first in-person annual conference since 2019. We met on the picturesque Bryn Mawr campus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/1717897313325-374SKE5SMQ9O6ISDXESI/IMG_3157.jpg Blog - American Society for Indexing: Annual Conference, 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/1717897887414-YIWMZO0J3YL9X2SSDFKI/IMG_3181.jpg Blog - American Society for Indexing: Annual Conference, 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/1717897887281-HUJ69GFBPJGCFL5G0QIN/IMG_3184.jpg Blog - American Society for Indexing: Annual Conference, 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/1717897889367-GXMRNPYPTNWU7HBB32HO/IMG_3185.jpg Blog - American Society for Indexing: Annual Conference, 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/75dc605f-d813-46be-bf0e-b815e4defc98/IMG_3160.jpg Blog - American Society for Indexing: Annual Conference, 2024 - Make it stand out Between conference sessions we gathered in the cloister to socialize over snacks and drinks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/1128ad0f-bc25-4df8-9f1a-d8c0621928e3/IMG_3199.jpg Blog - American Society for Indexing: Annual Conference, 2024 It was especially nice since we have been periodically gathering over Zoom for the past two years, with as many as 15 attendees in the remote meet-ups. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/d8e4e46e-7146-4514-a2ff-42bd6b4b7323/IMG_3264.jpg Blog - American Society for Indexing: Annual Conference, 2024 - I was also surprised and honored to receive a pin — “The Order of the Kohl Rabi” Award — for my volunteer work as the head of the HA SIG. It’s really a privilege to be able to meet so many knowledgeable and interesting people through this group. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/6e375991-718f-43fa-9569-5074afde0da9/IMG_3294.jpg Blog - American Society for Indexing: Annual Conference, 2024 - Make it stand out A group of us who were staying on Thursday night went to a Moroccan restaurant for dinner. It was a delicious way to wrap up the conference in good company and with thought-provoking discussion of all the sessions we had just attended. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/1717900769620-GXIHHBK2599I06FRJ9T2/IMG_3116.jpg Blog - American Society for Indexing: Annual Conference, 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/1717900774887-HRVWMZPBHG5AXB6PK5TY/IMG_3172+%281%29.jpg Blog - American Society for Indexing: Annual Conference, 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/1717901820193-S0ZL78H6ZT2SU0P9B27F/IMG_3191.jpg Blog - American Society for Indexing: Annual Conference, 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/1717901820647-CSTW8EMHB9WNIRC3SKDZ/IMG_3248.jpg Blog - American Society for Indexing: Annual Conference, 2024 https://www.vfjindexingwordservices.com/blog/post38 monthly 0.5 2025-01-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/3264fa26-56eb-41c2-b8a1-b26099c9ba98/raidrop-reference.png Blog - Update: Resource Lists & Project Pricing - The resources I selected to share publicly are freely available, and include things such as subject, language, & biographical dictionaries; thesauruses; directories; digital collections of documents, images, sound/video recordings; library catalogs; resource guides; and more. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/6610d16e-9e62-4d9e-ad4a-2a3e1bc9d09c/Tags.png Blog - Update: Resource Lists & Project Pricing - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/c868cc87-852d-4311-b0f4-86b8ad1b8500/blog-home.png Blog - Update: Resource Lists & Project Pricing - Learn more about book and database indexing, and other information science topics through Blog & Substack posts. Substack posts feature additional publications on recent news from VFJ Indexing & Word Services. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/11fb7bee-dc86-4549-b5f6-f5bafb4ecc6e/blog-recent.png Blog - Update: Resource Lists & Project Pricing - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.vfjindexingwordservices.com/blog/post37 monthly 0.5 2024-01-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/6664c4c5-fa0e-417a-994a-d8cbcddd4a7a/image-asset.jpg Blog - Why Index an E-Book? - The information associated with a text’s more ambiguous references to people, places, things, concepts, or events are just raindrops in a sea of words and, without the benefit of an index, are about as easy to locate as a needle in a haystack. https://www.vfjindexingwordservices.com/blog/post36 monthly 0.5 2024-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/5010fd9c-0d97-4d54-a8c5-858820b77de0/DNSA-collections.png Blog - Database Indexing in Practice: DNSA - DNSA, since 1989, has published more than 56 topic-based **collections, and the Archive’s team of indexers produce two new collections each year. Before the indexers get to work, however, each collection is compiled and curated by subject-area scholars. An introduction to the collection provides a timeline of events and the “big picture” story that put the individual documents into context. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/c900db76-60d9-4177-8ebf-b0a85f451214/nsarchive-reference1.jpg Blog - Database Indexing in Practice: DNSA - An extensive physical and digital reference collection was a crucial tool for our daily work. The thesaurus for DNSA subject terms was (and almost certainly still is) based on the UN Thesaurus; personal name authority records were based on as reputable a source as possible — from directories like the Foreign Service Lists to the LoC Authorities, etc. Additionally, all geographic (place) terms, organization names, and events that made their way into the indexing received authority records. https://www.vfjindexingwordservices.com/blog/post35 monthly 0.5 2025-06-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/a5917ceb-2c66-4b3d-89ed-b6cdb6fd093a/23inreview.jpg Blog - 2023 in Review - “A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered.” — C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/43e09445-e509-42b4-8168-4a686e700a33/website-indexing-eg.png Blog - 2023 in Review - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/5a823413-c164-405a-8817-b773eea666a2/duran-webinar.png Blog - 2023 in Review - This three-part course with Theresa Duran provided a comprehensive guide to indexing art books. I had two motives for attending this course: to gain insights on indexing works in which images are the things being indexed, for a non-book indexing project that I was beginning work on; and to learn about treatment of illustrations and titles, since many books include them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/732b542e-36af-4593-9225-b98154462bc4/embed-indesign.png Blog - 2023 in Review - Embedded Indexing One of the indexes available via my website is my first embedded indexing project, for which I used a combination of Cindex, Kerntiff Publishing Systems scripts, and Adobe InDesign, to provide my client with the desired e-book index. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/2f58883c-47be-4696-bd10-d2d250c7e157/eyes-have-it.jpg Blog - 2023 in Review - ASI’s 2023 conference focused on the past, present, and future of indexing. Some sessions I attended were: Berlin Conference My second conference of the year was another online one, but this one had the option to attend in person. The International Indexing Conference is held every three years, and if I had planned better, I would have loved to have this opportunity not just to attend in person and meet some of the people I’ve only emailed with, but also to be a tourist in Berlin! Anyway, having the video recordings made available after the fact is a definite silver lining to this new online way of doing conferences…and I have definitely re-watched more than a few sessions. This two-day event was full of interesting presentations by indexers from around the world, from developments in the publishing industry to indexing series (journals), embedded indexing, and Chinese legal thesaurus creation, there was no shortage of things to learn. View the full program, here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/da1da7b8-5f99-4bc6-a830-6a9244c26020/substack-list.png Blog - 2023 in Review - Substack posts are more frequent than blog posts and include more newsletter-type information such as announcements of recently completed indexing projects. Any Blog posts get automatically double-posted to Substack. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/eeeb142f-217c-449f-af68-3f415c0beb5b/ncjrs-doj-banner.png Blog - 2023 in Review - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/9f2307cf-35b5-4bac-a3c1-654ecd1243ec/website-work+together2.jpg Blog - 2023 in Review - Thus ends my report on the highlights of 2023 at VFJ Indexing & Word Services. On January 7 (2022) I announced my new logo on Instagram. https://www.vfjindexingwordservices.com/blog/post34 monthly 0.5 2024-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/43e09445-e509-42b4-8168-4a686e700a33/website-indexing-eg.png Blog - 2023: List of Books Indexed - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.vfjindexingwordservices.com/blog/post33 monthly 0.5 2024-01-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/1693935640562-OXW0P73UYQ2S0NDYQ515/proquest-databases.png Blog - Database Indexing: Key Principles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/1693935648733-CNI57LR9FY1SA5MMXD3L/proquest-disciplinespecificdatabases.png Blog - Database Indexing: Key Principles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/147da52b-ccc2-4db4-b620-3c767a897b64/ansi-niso_openindexes.png Blog - Database Indexing: Key Principles - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/f5620c34-598a-44b3-ba23-2df90969bced/thesaurus-definition.png Blog - Database Indexing: Key Principles - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.vfjindexingwordservices.com/blog/post32 monthly 0.5 2023-07-24 https://www.vfjindexingwordservices.com/blog/post31 monthly 0.5 2024-06-11 https://www.vfjindexingwordservices.com/blog/post30 monthly 0.5 2025-06-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/1643223224802-RHUWVTM3ZPKU3CUEIDIS/22+in+review.jpg Blog - 2022 in Review - “A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered.” — C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/a8084c57-1a1e-43c5-8d36-2af7c3e4416c/asi2022+intro+slide.png Blog - 2022 in Review - ASI 2022 Virtual Conference The first conference of the year for me was the ASI Annual Conference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/314312b3-46ad-4d23-b790-bee9d133e5f4/berlin-conference.png Blog - 2022 in Review - International Conference (Berlin/Zoom) Berlin Conference My second conference of the year was another online one, but this one had the option to attend in person. The International Indexing Conference is held every three years, and if I had planned better, I would have loved to have this opportunity not just to attend in person and meet some of the people I’ve only emailed with, but also to be a tourist in Berlin! Anyway, having the video recordings made available after the fact is a definite silver lining to this new online way of doing conferences…and I have definitely re-watched more than a few sessions. This two-day event was full of interesting presentations by indexers from around the world, from developments in the publishing industry to indexing series (journals), embedded indexing, and Chinese legal thesaurus creation, there was no shortage of things to learn. View the full program, here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/c07adf10-55c1-47a1-8db5-0dd05c8f3136/december-prodev1.png Blog - 2022 in Review - ASI Special Event The final conference was really a Special Event held in December. It provided another two days full of useful webinars on how to refine one’s indexing process, business practices, and even included a session on chair- or desk-yoga. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/dcaa800a-aa7f-47ed-af79-aa0c28b2442c/ASI-article-2022.png Blog - 2022 in Review - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/f161d5fc-3794-4b42-afb4-324606558e28/logo+complete+small.jpg Blog - 2022 in Review - On January 7 (2022) I announced my new logo on Instagram. On January 7 (2022) I announced my new logo on Instagram. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/de4f379a-2c7f-4cd0-916a-132c712149d1/office-2.jpg Blog - 2022 in Review - Make it stand out During the summer, I moved and as a result of that move, was able to establish a very nice office space. :) https://www.vfjindexingwordservices.com/blog/post29 monthly 0.5 2023-12-20 https://www.vfjindexingwordservices.com/blog/post28 monthly 0.5 2022-11-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/1655337135439-VD2BHHOWPT1FR1QAPU10/maysalun-idexed+book.png Blog - ASI Certification - The book was digitized through a special project, by the Oman Library at MEI — that’s actually how I knew to look to their digital collection for candidates. The book is Abū Khaldūn Ṣāṭi' al-Ḥuṣrī’s account of Faisal ibn al-Husein and the Syrian struggle for independence; the ambitions of France, its ultimatum regarding the mandate; and the resultant Syrian-French clash on the day of the Battle of Maysalūn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/f69191d3-fe18-432a-90bc-2afa841cee49/certification-ici.png Blog - ASI Certification https://www.vfjindexingwordservices.com/blog/post27 monthly 0.5 2022-10-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/b7c0cae4-21f2-4f43-88b9-b8ee7d8a92db/dictionary-indexer-web.png Blog - Tools of the Trade, pt.7: Single-Field Dictionaries & Glossaries - Make it stand out Available for free online, this newly published resource was made known to me as I attended the International Indexing Conference, hosted in Berlin but also made available on Zoom. This dictionary is the real inspiration for this post. The languages include English, German, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, and French. As I recently indexed a book in Spanish and relied on the Chicago Manual of Style in Spanish to check terminology and formatting practices. While this dictionary will not replace the Spanish CMS, it definitely provides another helpful tool to turn to. It is admittedly a work in progress, with efforts underway to add languages and ensure accuracy of existing terms. As it stands, it is likely to be useful to a lot of indexers across the world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/e9eaf2a2-347a-4a2e-b7c4-7a54d043f51c/dictionary-glossary-indexing.jpg Blog - Tools of the Trade, pt.7: Single-Field Dictionaries & Glossaries - Glossary of Terminology in Abstracting, Classification, Indexing, and Thesaurus Construction, 2nd Edition, by Hans H. Wellisch The glossary provides detailed information about all the specific terms involved in indexing and classification. Almost all of the entries include cross references. For example, the entry for “abstract,” after defining the term, lists a host of See also references to terms including critical abstract, extract, indicative abstract, secondary document, slanted abstract, structured abstract, *summarization, and summary. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/4c829870-6cb9-4d39-b31e-81ae9f9cc56e/dictionary-euro-libraries.jpg Blog - Tools of the Trade, pt.7: Single-Field Dictionaries & Glossaries - Manual of European Languages for Librarians, 2nd Edition, by C.G. Allen. As the title implies, this is not actually a dictionary, but it does contain glossaries for each language covered, and it has been so useful as I worked with Slavic and Turkic languages that I wanted to include it here. It provides an explanation of *language characteristics for Germanic, Latin/Romance languages, Celtic, Greek, and Albanian languages, Slavonic, Baltic, Finno-Ugrian languages (i.e., Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian), and final section that examines Maltese, Turkish, Basque, and a note on Esperanto. https://www.vfjindexingwordservices.com/blog/post26 monthly 0.5 2025-01-16 https://www.vfjindexingwordservices.com/blog/post25 monthly 0.5 2022-08-29 https://www.vfjindexingwordservices.com/blog/post24 monthly 0.5 2025-01-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/ead8cd12-e74a-460a-9efc-a7d5b421c16e/find-a_screenshot.PNG Blog - Website Update: Resource Lists & Guides - Links to directories of indexers, editors, literary agents, and publishers. An additional blog post by guru, Jane Friedman, will also help authors with selecting the right literary agent. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/8f71d04a-1f20-4300-900a-386c504724c2/guides-screenshot.png Blog - Website Update: Resource Lists & Guides - The publishing process. From literature reviews and copyright guidelines, to submitting a book proposal; these resources published by academic institutions will help answer some crucial questions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/259e246d-b883-4b88-ab5a-b7879331f6d3/raindrop-screenshot.png Blog - Website Update: Resource Lists & Guides - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/4099fb90-f7cb-45eb-adc1-4ec4acb2351c/databases-screenshot.png Blog - Website Update: Resource Lists & Guides - Collections of bookmarks are compiled using Raindrop, an online bookmark organization and sharing website. The resources I selected are limited to those that are freely available, and the lists were inspired by my own collection of bookmarks that I accumulated over a decade of library and indexing work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/6610d16e-9e62-4d9e-ad4a-2a3e1bc9d09c/Tags.png Blog - Website Update: Resource Lists & Guides - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.vfjindexingwordservices.com/blog/post23 monthly 0.5 2024-06-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/217d438a-a0ca-4559-b34c-6c1bed77dc33/indexing-resources+%282%29.jpg Blog - Indexable Pages: What to Include - Chapter one of The Chicago Manual of Style’s 17th edition goes into all the minute details about the different parts of books (and journals). Common practices of book formatting determine the layout of information, and certain sections are more likely to have pertinent information than others. If there is substantive information that is integral to the subject matter of the book, it may be included in the index even if the section is not typically one that is included in the index. One part of front matter that may sneak its way into the index, is — if present — the list of acronyms and abbreviations. That is, not the list itself, but the acronyms can help the indexer to know some alternate entry points or qualifiers for the index. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/1659136120391-Y2VRGISTJ733TU93GCOO/unsplash-image-IKzmglo7JLk.jpg Blog - Indexable Pages: What to Include - Introduction belonging to text: unlike the previously mentioned introduction, this introduction does include information pertinent to the book. This is the first section of the book to consistently be included in the index. Chapters: multiauthored works will usually include the author’s name at the head of the chapter, and more information may be included in an (unnumbered) footnote. Definitely included in the index. https://www.vfjindexingwordservices.com/blog/post22 monthly 0.5 2025-01-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/e44210ec-2b0c-4fbf-aae6-2f577b3f72b5/check-index_cross-references.png Blog - Circular Cross References - Make it stand out The “Check index” tool helps catch any missing or superfluous cross references that may have slipped past my own editing eyes. https://www.vfjindexingwordservices.com/blog/post21 monthly 0.5 2026-03-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/7fcc5b49-b95c-4faa-8830-75f000336cbc/index+cards+history.png Blog - Tools of the Trade, pt.6: Software 1 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/ce13e2f1-7b06-446e-b865-22d0de0fc924/example+index-screen+shot.png Blog - Tools of the Trade, pt.6: Software 1 - These days, for most—if not all—professional indexers, dedicated indexing software has replaced the use of physical index cards, but the method and look of the entry/record and index creation is reminiscent of the physical index card method. In the example image to the right, each record (Record 20 is highlighted) represents what would have been an index card. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/e68d1542-b3f8-4040-869f-ad86dd3c12a8/cindex-sort.png Blog - Tools of the Trade, pt.6: Software 1 - Besides taking far less space than a thousand index cards (this is not an exaggeration), dedicated indexing software has a feature that *sorts the index entries by a number of styles, such as CMS letter-by-letter or word-by-word. Simple, SBL, and ISO are the other styles included in the sorting drop-down. https://www.vfjindexingwordservices.com/blog/post20 monthly 0.5 2025-01-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/51e05cd1-85c1-429c-ac14-9bbae5d69898/cuba_rel94.jpg Blog - Indexing Place Names - Geographic names also change, for various reasons. St. Petersburg, Russia, changed its name to Petrograd and then Leningrad during the Soviet era, and back to St. Petersburg again after 1991. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/96e8369c-18bd-4f1b-a780-61d359e43e1f/getty.png Blog - Indexing Place Names - The Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names is one of those resources that helps one to identify the preferred name of a place, whether it is administrative (organizations) or physical (natural landscapes), and other background information that might be relevant to thesaurus users. The fact that Getty provides the preferred name helps indexers to know what other terms might be used by readers, and will inform the creation of cross references. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/e068dd57-1d47-450d-b7e0-a5537813c1c4/LCSH+search.png Blog - Indexing Place Names - Make it stand out The Library of Congress provides its own thesaurus, that provides with hierarchical information, preferred terms, and non-preferred terms including alternate transliterations or spellings. The terms include names of people, places, and titles of works, as well as concepts. These authorities are what appear in its catalog as subject headings. https://www.vfjindexingwordservices.com/blog/post19 monthly 0.5 2024-06-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/8ac0a655-01fc-42d8-bce7-2f204226f3af/screenshot-UNC-press-prodxn-timeline.png Blog - The Publication Process - General Production Timeline Acquisitions: before anything else can happen — a decision is made to publish a book Manuscript is created and submitted Editing is performed Book is delivered to design and production teams Formatting is set Editors and author perform final review of fully formatted proofs / Indexing is done Complete book document (aka e-book) is created Marketing begins Printer is chosen / Timeline for printing is established Review copies are printed and dispensed Printed books are boxed and sent to publisher’s warehouse Pre-orders are processed and books are distributed to stores / E-book files are distributed to e-book retailers https://www.vfjindexingwordservices.com/blog/post18 monthly 0.5 2025-01-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/b7d8ec9e-60d7-4ad9-8ad0-d496e67f2b03/IMG-3639.jpg Blog - Like a Box of Chocolates: A Brief Look into Indexing Life Stories - Travel diaries tend to focus on the person in the context of his or her experiences, and they can feature events from one voyage or many. In these books, the line between metatopic and context (person and voyage) might become blurred, and the person may seem less the focus of the book than the places that are visited and things that are done. This will impact the structure of the index. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/1651783415857-VBMBVEEZQJJNI0TJMCOM/no-res_cataloging.png Blog - Like a Box of Chocolates: A Brief Look into Indexing Life Stories https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/1651783416244-PQ3COGRZASWLGS19ZNFF/no-res_subjects.png Blog - Like a Box of Chocolates: A Brief Look into Indexing Life Stories https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/1651783416261-QNN3GATPAHX2DVK14TL3/travels_cataloging.png Blog - Like a Box of Chocolates: A Brief Look into Indexing Life Stories https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/1651783415857-SE7K857X7NUD3SP7FRRK/gellhorn_subjects.png Blog - Like a Box of Chocolates: A Brief Look into Indexing Life Stories https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/1651781622119-G0CS1E49YLO3K4B3E2BM/indexing-bios1.jpg Blog - Like a Box of Chocolates: A Brief Look into Indexing Life Stories https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/1651781623000-DSSKXTZ5EHT79086CH51/indexing-lives.png Blog - Like a Box of Chocolates: A Brief Look into Indexing Life Stories https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/1651781622174-5X7NMXX2BOTQ5HXQOY27/indexing-bios2.jpg Blog - Like a Box of Chocolates: A Brief Look into Indexing Life Stories https://www.vfjindexingwordservices.com/blog/post17 monthly 0.5 2025-01-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/6ef1b807-62b3-4543-beb0-5547f9f0c319/jstor+access+options.png Blog - Tools of the Trade, pt.5: Scholarly Publications - Journals are indexed and abstracted in a number of databases, providing a glimpse into a subject without having to spend hours poring over arguments and reading books. We can clarify nuanced concepts with a quick review of search results in JSTOR, especially now with the various access options that are available. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/1649694041742-AY8A6QGH5B2COCEQO4NQ/unsplash-image-NIJuEQw0RKg.jpg Blog - Tools of the Trade, pt.5: Scholarly Publications - Reading other books related to one’s indexing specialties provides a certain amount of background knowledge that is very helpful when indexing. https://www.vfjindexingwordservices.com/blog/post16 monthly 0.5 2025-01-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/a06b6738-6882-4204-b3b0-5d92480b003a/IMG-3385.jpg Blog - Indexing Books in Spanish / Creando índices en español - Indizar libros es un proceso que pide una forma de pensar específica para hacer que la información y temas de una obra se puedan encontrar facilmente y con la menor esfuerza posible por parte del lector. Típicamente los libros son indizados en el idioma del texto y naturalmente el indizador debería tener suficiente experiencia en él para comprender lo que lee y crear una herramienta útil. Pero eso no es todo lo que hace falta… https://www.vfjindexingwordservices.com/blog/post15 monthly 0.5 2026-03-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/a71ac013-488d-42de-91d2-3524116b3c14/IMG-3265.jpg Blog - Tools of the Trade, pt.4: Style Guides - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.vfjindexingwordservices.com/blog/post14 monthly 0.5 2022-07-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/d0887e96-4bb0-4caa-b85b-eab0b6fc0f45/example+index.png Blog - Anatomy of an Index - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/597ff5e6-0c7d-44bd-80a9-297508633750/example+index+2.png Blog - Anatomy of an Index - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.vfjindexingwordservices.com/blog/post13 monthly 0.5 2026-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/1645807218768-KR4CUJX5KS0EGQEMO6EJ/unsplash-image-pksGryThsgQ.jpg Blog - Tools of the Trade, pt.3: Encyclopedias - An Encyclopedia is defined by Merriam-Webster as being “a work that contains information on all branches of knowledge or treats comprehensively a particular branch of knowledge usually in articles arranged alphabetically often by subject.” General or subject-specific encyclopedias are common tools for indexers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/1651bd6b-1715-47c1-9b8f-ff7b4f6e33b4/brill+encyc+list.png Blog - Tools of the Trade, pt.3: Encyclopedias - Brill has published a number of specialized encyclopedias (e.g. A Concise Encyclopedia of the United Nations) that are available through subscription. Contact your local library for details. Britannica free access; a general encyclopedia. Encyclopædia Iranica free access; “[…] dedicated to the study of Iranian civilization in the Middle East, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and the Indian subcontinent.” Encyclopedia.com free access; a general encyclopedia. Oxford is another well-respected publisher, responsible for a number of quality reference works including encyclopedias (and dictionaries) on a range of subjects. — I have The Desk Encyclopedia of World History. https://www.vfjindexingwordservices.com/blog/post12 monthly 0.5 2025-01-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/8085bf25-d09b-4c5a-a0f0-125b3e9b705e/dictionaries-4.jpg Blog - Tools of the Trade, pt.2: Dictionaries - A Dictionary is *defined :) by Merriam-Webster as being a reference book that lists, alphabetically, terms or names important to a particular subject, including definitions and other pertinent information. *I paraphrased the first two definitions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/48bd421a-2feb-4d50-97c1-bdfbaa75b924/whos-who_cropped.jpg Blog - Tools of the Trade, pt.2: Dictionaries - Biographical dictionaries National Archives biography resources free access NATO Who’s Who free access The International Who’s Who Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Who’s Who in U.A.R. and the Near East (1959) Who’s Who in World Politics: From 1860 to the present day https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/3af6a61a-ccf7-4b3a-b692-3cfb5e75af67/oxford+dictionaries-bottom.png Blog - Tools of the Trade, pt.2: Dictionaries - Subject Dictionaries Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms free access The Oxford Classical Dictionary A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations (Click the image to the right for a complete list of Oxford University Press dictionaries.) https://www.vfjindexingwordservices.com/blog/post11 monthly 0.5 2025-01-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/15eab9d8-aa1a-4048-93c1-7b1591d5da30/more-resources-writers_thumbnail.png Blog - Tools of the Trade, pt.1: Thesauruses - Reference Resources…there are many kinds, on many topics. 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Some cultures, like Hungarian or Japanese, commonly refer to people by the family name first. Other cultures, such as Indonesian, may use only a single, given name. Tibetan and Burmese cultures do not typically use family names.* https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612308035142044df834cd66/bdbfd2d8-5613-43dc-ab58-d3c53dbb1443/indexing-names-december_better2.png Blog - Indexing Personal Names: Cultural & Linguistic Conventions - The American Society for Indexing (ASI) hosts regular webinars on a wide variety of topics, including indexing names. 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