Why Hire Index Plus
Index Plus can create a back of the book or periodical index. Benefits of a good index include: making your book easier to use, increasing the chance that a shopper purchases your book instead of a similar title, and adding a marketing element compared to a book without an index. It provides a built-in list of tags people can use when talking about your book on their website or social media.
Professional affiliations include:
Education and training:
Specialty subjects include:
Why do you need a professional indexer?
A little bit about me:
https://potomacindexing.com/pi-associate-interview-maria-sosnowski
Professional affiliations include:
- American Society for Indexing, member 2006-present. www.asindexing.org
- Pacific Northwest Chapter of ASI, Secretary 2008-2009 and 2016-2017, Conference Planning Team 2010-2011 and 2014-2017, and Membership Coordinator 2018. www.pnwasi.org
- Legal Indexing Special Interest Group of ASI, Officer 2006-2011 and 2016-present. www.legalindexing.org
- American Association of Law Librarians, member 2000-present, Government Law Libraries Special Interest Section member 2000-present, Pacific Northwest Chapter member 2000-present, and Education Committee member 2014-2016. www.allnet.org
- Oregon Bar Association, member 1991-1997, inactive member 1998-present. www.osbar.org
Education and training:
- Certificate of Practical Competency in Indexing from Index West, a Certificate of Participation for the Building Indexes and Taxonomies for Legal Materials workshop by Enid Zafran and Kate Mertes, and completion of the ASI Training in Indexing Course.
- Continuing education includes attending regular meetings with fellow indexers as well as ASI national and chapter meetings.
- Degrees include a JD (law degree) and a BS (psychology). Employment history includes work as an attorney, law librarian, and freelance writer.
Specialty subjects include:
- law and criminal justice
- teaching and education
- children, families, and parenting
- psychology and social sciences
- finance and money management
- business
Why do you need a professional indexer?
- A good index requires objectivity an author lacks. An indexer can see the book from the reader's perspective, and allow the reader to access information in multiple ways.
- An indexer uses professional software that increases indexing speed to meet tight deadlines and to offer various output options.
- An indexer has technical training and practice in indexing.
- Although the author is the expert on the subject, the indexer brings a sense of priority and structure to the work from an outsider's view.
- Read this in the words of someone who tried to do it herself: chronicle story
- Three reasons why scholars should hire an indexer:
- Why you need a human, not a computer, for your index: human versus computer
- Electronic searching is just not enough to replace a real index.
- Best Practices for Indexing from the American Society for Indexing: Best Practices from ASI
- Learn more about indexing by taking an online asynchronous class about indexing called Indexing Books as a Career.
- In a Google Era, Indexers are the Unsung Heroes of the Publishing World
- You can learn a lot about a book from the index. For an example, see this article about the index to Fire and Fury.
A little bit about me:
https://potomacindexing.com/pi-associate-interview-maria-sosnowski