The Bernard Levin Award

The Bernard Levin Award is made for outstanding services to the Society of Indexers and was established in 2000 ‘to celebrate a journalist and author whose writings show untiring and eloquent support for indexers and indexing’.

On 9 September the award was presented to Janice Rayment by SI President Sam Leith. The citation reads as follows:

Finance Director for the Society since 2013 and a member of the Executive Board since 2012, she has also served at different times as Professional Development Director and acting Chair, and has been Vice-Chair of the Board since 2015

With a previous background in banking and finance, she has used her considerable business expertise to carry out a thorough review of the Society’s finances, never hesitating to question apparent anomalies, unnecessary expenditure and long-established practices

Her tenacious, hard-working and professional stewardship in this area has ensured that the Society’s finances continue to be maintained in a healthy and stable financial condition

Her thoroughness and eye for detail have been a great asset to all aspects of the Executive Board’s work over the last six years

As a member of the Training Course Committee she has been involved in SI training for several years, and is a conscientious adviser on the New Professionals forum

She has enthusiastically explored eBook indexing techniques, sharing her knowledge of embedded indexing in Word, InDesign and Index-Manager by leading workshops at conferences and tutoring the Society’s online workshop in embedded indexing

Energetic and committed, confident and capable, outgoing and likeable, she is a loyal and supportive colleague and is always willing to advise and help her fellow indexers whatever their problems

Recipients