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Indexing and… librarianship

Posted on: 04/02/2025

Many of the Society of Indexers’ members combine indexing with other work. In this post, professional indexer Carlos Garcia-Jane discusses combining indexing with librarianship. My background I am a qualified, professional librarian and have worked at The British Museum and the Royal Academy of Dance; I now work full-time as Project Librarian at the Royal
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Indexing and… a diverse portfolio career

Posted on: 06/01/2025

Indexing is sometimes regarded as a niche career reserved for librarians and information specialists. In this post, professional indexer Susie Marques-Jones discusses the changes in global working practices in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Age and highlights her own eclectic career path to being a professional indexer and ‘multipotentialite’. Jobs in the AI Age According to
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Ask the Indexers: What aspects of indexing as a career turned out to be very different from your expectations?

Posted on: 14/11/2024

Our panel reflects on what an indexing career can be like, compared to what they imagined it might be while training. Rohan Bolton, Fellow Starting indexing nearly twenty years ago I had not realised how important computer and IT skills are in order to be efficient and how quickly things are changing: learning how to
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