Cheryl Lemmens - Indexing and Editorial Services

Resources

Web Sites

Organizations • Indexing Society of Canada / Société canadienne d'indexation (ISC/SCI) • Education and training: Links to resources (ISC/SCI Web site) • American Society for Indexing (ASI) • Digital Publications Indexing Special Interest Group (formerly the Web Indexing SIG) • Complete list of ASI SIGs (ASI Web site) • Association of Southern African Indexers and Bibliographers (ASAIB) • Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers (ANZSI) • Deutsches Netzwerk der Indexer (DNI) • Nederlands Indexers Netwerk (NIN) • Society of Indexers (U.K.)

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Books

Book Indexing — General • Glenda Browne and Jon Jermey, The Indexing Companion (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007) • Dennis Duncan, Index, A History of: A Bookish Adventure (London: Allen Lane, 2021) • Indexes: A Chapter from the Chicago Manual of Style, 17th Edition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017) • Nancy Mulvany, Indexing Books, 2nd ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005) • Do Mi Stauber, Facing the Text: Content and Structure in Book Indexing (Eugene, OR: Cedar Row Press, 2004)

Book Indexing — Specific Topics • Hazel K. Bell, Indexing Biographies and Other Stories of Human Lives, 3rd ed. (London: Society of Indexers, 2004; Society of Indexers Occasional Papers on Indexing, No. 1) • Janet Perlman, ed., Running an Indexing Business (Medford, NJ: Information Today, Inc., in association with the American Society of Indexers, 2001)

Web Site Indexing • James A. Lamb, Website Indexing: Visitors to Content in Two Clicks (Ardleigh, England: James A. Lamb, 2006)

Editorial • The Chicago Manual of Style: The Essential Guide for Writers, Editors, and Publishers, 17th ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017) • MLA Handbook, 8th ed. (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2016) • J.A. (Sandy) McFarlane and Warren Clements, The Globe and Mail Style Book: A Guide to Language and Usage, 9th ed. (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2003) • Gregory Younging, Elements of Indigenous Style (Edmonton: Brush Education Inc., 2018)

Web Site Usability • Patrick J. Lynch and Sarah Horton, Web Style Guide: Basic Design Principles for Creating Web Sites, 4th ed. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2016) • Jakob Nielsen, Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity (Indianapolis: New Riders, 1999) • Jakob Nielsen and Marie Tahir, Homepage Usability: 50 Websites Deconstructed (Indianapolis: New Riders, 2002) • Louis Rosenfeld, Peter Morville, and Jorge Arango, Information Architecture for the Web and Beyond (Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly & Associates, 2015) • Jared Spool et al., Web Site Usability: A Designer's Guide (San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann, 1999)

Web Sites — Specific Topics • Nicholas G. Tomaiuolo, The Web Library: Building a World Class Personal Library with Free Web Resources (Medford, NJ: CyberAge Books, 2004)

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Articles

Web Site Indexing • American Society of Indexers (ASI), Indexing the Web. • Chiara Fox, Sitemaps and Site Indexes: What They Are and Why You Should Have Them. Boxes and Arrows (September 8, 2003). • Heather Hedden, A–Z Website Indexes Explained. Sitepoint.com (December 6, 2004). • Fred Leise, Improving Usability with a Website Index. Boxes and Arrows (July 15, 2002). • Jakob Nielsen, Site Map Usability. Nielsen Norman Group Web site (September 2, 2008). • Jared M. Spool, Why On-Site Searching Stinks. User Interface Engineering Web site (September 1, 1997).

Indexing Fiction • Hazel K. Bell, Indexing Fiction: A Story of Complexity. Originally published in The Indexer, Vol. 17, No. 4 (October 1991). • Hazel K. Bell, Should Fiction be Indexed? The Indexability of Text. Originally published in The Indexer, Vol. 18, No. 2 (October 1992).

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