New Honorary President
Posted on: 27/11/2024
We are delighted to announce that Caroline Sanderson has agreed to become the Society of Indexers’ new Honorary President. Caroline is an author, journalist and reviewer; as Associate Editor of The Bookseller she has championed non-fiction in her regular reviews and round-ups of forthcoming work. She is also Programme Director of Stroud Book Festival, and
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Conference 2024: Human Indexing in a Digital World
Posted on: 01/08/2024
Bookings are now open for the Society of Indexers 2024 online conference ‘HumanIndexing in a Digital World’. The conference will take place via Zoom on Wednesday 18thSeptember and Thursday 19th September 2024. The conference programme timetableis now available here. The conference main sessions and presenters are: Plus parallel breakout discussion sessions including: The rate for
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2024 Conference: Save the Date
Posted on: 03/05/2024
Save the date for the Society of Indexers 2024 online conference, ‘Human Indexing in a Digital World’. This will take place via Zoom on Wednesday 18th to Thursday 19th September. We’re compiling a programme that should offer something for everyone, whatever stage in your indexing career, including: The rate for the two-day conference is £50 for
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National Indexing Day 2024
Posted on: 05/02/2024
National Indexing Day 2024 took place on Thursday 28th March. We celebrated online with #indexday. In addition we hosted a half day in-person workshop for professionals in the publishing industry to help them improve their understanding of the indexing process. It was held at the Publishers Association in London and the session ran twice so that
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New Honorary Life Members, November 2023
Posted on: 21/11/2023
At its AGM on 14 November 2023, the Society of Indexers was delighted to award three new Honorary Life Memberships. Honorary Life Memberships are limited to ten at any one time, and are awarded for having rendered exceptional service to the Society or to the advancement of good indexing. The awards were made to three
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Conference 2023: Bringing the outside in: expand your indexing horizons
Posted on: 03/07/2023
We are pleased to be able to return to an in-person conference event for the first time in some years. This will take place in Leeds on Tuesday 26th September. A mix of plenary and parallel sessions will focus on expanding indexing skills. Opportunities to interact with other indexers and learn from each other will
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National Indexing Day 2023
Posted on: 01/03/2023
For #indexday 2023 we held an online event aimed at editors commissioning indexes and other interested publishing professionals. The event provided a useful opportunity for indexers and publishers to learn from each other so that together we can create better indexes and give added value to almost any non-fiction book. You can find out more
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Fellowship revised pathway launched
Posted on: 14/06/2022
The Society is pleased to announce the launching of our revised Fellowship pathway. Fellowship is the highest grade that can be awarded to Society of Indexers members, and is part of a professional development continuum. This starts with Professional Membership, gained currently by achieving accreditation after successfully completing the Society’s training in indexing course, and progresses with Advanced
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National Indexing Day 2022
Posted on: 07/02/2022
The Society of Indexers celebrated the sixth National Indexing Day and the 65th anniversary of our founding on Wednesday 30th March 2022. Celebrations were held throughout the day across social media with the tag #indexday. A summary of the discussions on Twitter can be found on our Wakelet summary. We marked this year’s event with
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Awards 2020 and 2021
Posted on: 17/11/2021
We’re pleased to announce that Dennis Duncan has been awarded Honorary membership of the Society of Indexers in recognition of his role in publicising indexing and indexers and his close links with the Society. This was approved by a unanimous vote at our AGM this month Also at our conference we announced that Graine Milner
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Conference 2021: Boosting Your Indexing Business
Posted on: 04/10/2021
Booking is now open for the Society of Indexers’ first online conference, which runs from 2 p.m. on Tuesday 9 November to 4 p.m. on Wednesday 10 November. The first day features a keynote presentation by Dennis Duncan and Paula Clarke Bain on Index, a history of the, plus opportunities for networking, a Q&A session
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National Indexing Day 2021
Posted on: 15/03/2021
Updated 31st March 2021 The Society of Indexers celebrated the fifth annual National Indexing Day on Tuesday 30 March 2021 across social media with #indexday. You can see a full list of the Twitter story with our Wakelet story here National Indexing Day was established in March 2017 to commemorate the diamond anniversary of the
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