nicolaking.bsky.social
Fellow of the Society of Indexers, ex-archaeologist, also family historian, mum, bell ringer, knitter and learning the cornet. Easily found elsewhere. https://abookindexer.com/
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If you need a human to index in German - there's a German society of indexers d-indexer.org
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@indexers.bsky.social @tanyaizzard.bsky.social has written about this www.indexers.org.uk/posts/indexi... Professional software is for human based indexers to make the job easier, not for choosing terms, putting in page numbers and all the stuff their brain needs to do.
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Oh dear. @indexers.bsky.social has some info for authors having to do an index www.indexers.org.uk/about-indexi... especially the blogs linked from the end of that page.
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The indexers you contacted should a) have given you some more names of possible indexers and b) offered to post on our forum for jobs offered. I can do that for you if you are still stuck after contacting the others who have offered here.
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Indexing is such a specific talent, and we need to keep indexers employed so it doesn't die ... (I very much do not have this talent!)
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Thank you.
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Thanks to the volunteers at St Brides for hosting us, to @baindex.org and @nicolaking.bsky.social for organising, and to everyone for coming along.
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We get those, it is about 230 miles from us.
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The rate they are going there won't be a third series. Actually quite liking it.
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Hasn't been available for at least a decade. Cuts have been ongoing for a long time.
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Alas, not in Milton Keynes library system any more.
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Good one
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Albania was looking super lovely this afternoon.
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Lincoln - post WWI interesting period of readjustment that you can write pretty much anything into archives.lincoln.ox.ac.uk/records/LC/P... and archives.lincoln.ox.ac.uk/records/LC/P... and archives.lincoln.ox.ac.uk/records/LC/P...
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In preparation for next time/life you could join an indexing society - there is one in Germany d-indexer.org and think about some training. The UK society has an intro course www.indexers.org.uk/training-dev... and a full professional one.
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Looking at you - Colen Campbell and Humphry Repton. But it couldn't spell Philip, insists on Phillip where Philip should go. Doesn't believe Thomas Daniels was really Daniells. And Sibyl Colefax wasn't Sybil. The wiggly red line has a lot to answer for.
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Super thread, don't have time to contribute own experience in the sticks but this kind of thing is impossible when more than one service provider has access to the space. You get clumping where 3 buses on different routes are scheduled to come in 10 mins, then nothing for half an hour or an hour.
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Depends what you are used to and possibly how you think when looking for a word or term. I can't be doing with letter-by-letter because it isn't intuitive for me. It would be interesting to know why Chicago made the change.