27 August 2024 You hired a professional indexer, and now they’ve done the job and sent the index back to you. It’s a good idea to look it over to make sure the index does what you want it to, but how do you know… Read More »Evaluate an Index in 6 Steps
20 August 2024 This article first appeared in Key Words, the journal of the American Society for Indexing (vol. 32, no. 2, Summer 2024). Over May 31–June 1, 2024, the Indexing Society of Canada/Société canadienne d’indexation (ISC/SCI) held its virtual conference, The Art Connection. Things… Read More »The Art of Connection
13 August 2024 I am so excited to learn that J. Andrew Deman, a former colleague of mine and a friend, has just won the Eisner Award for Best Academic/Scholarly Work! The book he won for is The Claremont Run: Subverting Gender in the X-Men… Read More »Eisner Award
06 August 2024 Last week I looked at alphabetization in Czech. Polish is comparatively simpler, as you don’t have to remember which diacritics affect the sort and which don’t. Of course, you do have to keep straight which order the three z‘s go in. In… Read More »Alphabetizing Polish
30 July 2024 I’ve been away from blogging for a while, so to dip back into it here’s a handy reference if you ever find yourself working with Czech terms or names. For indexing, there are two things to know about the Czech alphabet. First,… Read More »Alphabetizing Czech
23 April 2024 Back in February I mentioned some of the dad jokes in funerary services books, such as undead Wolverine’s alter-ego Cadaverine. Today I am continuing to fill out my indexing and editing superhero team with a new mini-team: the Logistikons. Doesn’t that sound… Read More »The Superheroes of Indexing and Editing
Review of the Continental Connections international indexing conference held in Berlin, Germany, in October 2022, from the perspective of one there in person.
11 April 2024 As a medievalist and as someone who’s written an article about medieval names, I thought myself pretty well versed in the various ways people referred to each other throughout the European Middle Ages, whether in Christian, Jewish, Muslim, or pagan communities. I… Read More »TIL: Medieval Names
3 April 2024 For the past month+, I’ve had limited use of my right (dominant) arm. This has led to my purchase of a programmable mouse. In truth, it’s a gaming mouse, but I have repurposed it for productivity. When I first got it, I… Read More »Of Mice and Indexers
26 March 2024 Somewhere, long ago, I encountered the theory that delusions are culturally constructed and coded. No one had a Napoleon complex before Bonaparte; no one thought they were Jesus before Christianity had permeated their society; ancient Greek conspiracy-theorists were not convinced that the… Read More »Devil Muppets