Index it Right!: Advice from the Experts, Volume 2

by Janet Perlman, Enid Zafran (Editor)

The second volume in the Index It Right series provides general advice for all indexers and explores a number of important niches. Three winners of the Wilson Award for Excellence in Indexing (Towery, Russell, and Wright) are joined by some of the best-known names in the profession (Agee, Zafran, McVey, Haskins, Hedden, Patton, and Mamassian) in covering such topics as subentries, locators, indexing for the specialties of public policy and military/naval books, creating indexes for technical materials and for textbooks, working as a database indexer, using embedding software, and understanding the various and distinctive uses of vocabularies, thesauri, and taxonomies. The expert tips and copious examples provided throughout support the development of advanced decision-making skills in indexing.

168 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2010