
Sharon Laverick, BA, MCILIP

Location: Lutterworth
Membership Grade: Advanced Professional Member
Contact Info
Mobile: 07773 875009
Email: sjlaverick@gmail.com
Website: www.signpostindexing.com
Social Links
General Experience
I am both an Advanced Professional Member of the Society of Indexers, and a Chartered Librarian with many years experience in book indexing, journal article and database indexing and working in libraries and information centres.
I have a wide range of experience and subject knowledge through working in a number of different fields including economics, taxation, finance, financial services, government, investment, companies, stockmarkets, property, architecture and the built environment, history, local and family history, art and design, and fashion.
I began home working as an indexer for a database intermediary company in 2002, and started writing abstracts and indexing terms for a database publishing company in 2005. Having successfully completed the Society of Indexers course in 2007, I began book indexing in that year and have continued with it ever since.
Prior to indexing, after six years working for HMRC as a tax officer, I chose to study Library Studies and History at Loughborough University. As a librarian I then worked for Her Majesty’s Treasury and Cabinet Office library, and Fidelity International (investment company). For twelve years I was an Information Manager and then Associate Director for a commercial property agency (Chesterton). For thirteen years I have been employed on a part-time basis as a Subject Librarian at De Montfort University, with subject specialisms in Architecture, Interior Design and Fashion.
Organisations I have worked for as an indexer include: BDP (Business Database Production), ProQuest, Pearson, Wiley-Blackwell, Taylor & Francis, HMRC, Harriman House, Routledge, Oxford University Press, Manchester University Press and Central European University Press.
My interests include family activities, hill-walking, local and family history.
Subjects
My experience at HMRC and HM Treasury gave me a good grounding in finance and accounts, but my knowledge of stockmarkets, investments and banking developed whilst at the investment company Fidelity, and then with the nationwide property company Chesterton. I also gained a good understanding of business theory and analysis.
Books indexed include:
Venturing in International Firms by Christopher Williams (Sunrise Setting)
How to Coach your Team by Pam Jones and Angela Jowitt (Pearson Education)
Core Assumptions in Business Theory: A Wedge between Performance and Progress edited by Subramanian Rangan (Oxford University Press)
Oxford Handbook of Banking and Financial History by Youssef Cassis, Richard S. Grossman and Catherine R. Schenk (Editors) (Oxford University Press)
Smart Portfolios by Robert Carver (Harriman House)
The Stockpicker: a financial history from the sharp end by Paul Mumford (Harriman House)
Financing Water Security and Green Growth by Robert C. Brears (Oxford University Press)
My History degree focused on areas such as social and economic history, landscape and local history and some of the major changes in Britain and Europe wrought by extensive religious and political changes, and I have maintained an ongoing interest in these areas as well as undertaking research into family history.
Books indexed include:
Inspiration and Authority in the Middle Ages by Brian Fitzgerald (Oxford University Press)
Champion: the Making and Unmaking of the English Midland Landscape by Dave Chaffey and P.R.Smith (Routledge)
The Minoans: Lost Civilisations by Ellen Adams (Reaktion Books)
Remembering the Irish Revolution Dissent, Culture, and Nationalism in the Irish Free State by Frances Flanagan (Oxford University Press)
A History of the World’s Religions by David S. Noss and Blake R. Grangaard (Routledge)
After the Berlin Wall: A History of the EBRD, Volume 1 by Andrew Kilpatrick (Central European University Press)
As a subject librarian for Architecture at De Montfort University, I learned much about architectural practices, techniques, movements and individual buildings.
Books indexed include:
Modern Buildings in Blackheath and Greenwich 1950-2000 by Ana Sutherland (Studio Blackburn)
The Making of our Urban Landscape by Geoffrey Tyack (Oxford University Press)
I have indexed and written abstracts for articles appearing in many art journals, and have an interest generally in the history of art.
Books indexed include:
Arts & Crafts Stained Glass by Peter Cormack (Yale University Press)
The Art of the Erotic by Rowan Pelling (Phaidon Press)
Going Once: 250 Years of Culture, Taste and Collecting at Christie’s (Phaidon Press)
The Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné: Paintings and Sculptures mid-1977-1980 (Volume 6) by the Andy Warhol Foundation (Phaidon Press)
My interest in economics stems from my time working in HM Treasury, and has been enhanced by the various roles I have had since which touch on this area in a number of different ways.
Books indexed include:
Building State Capability by Matt Andrews, Lant Pritchett and Michael Woolcock (Oxfprd University Press)
Microeconomics in Words by Gregory Besharov (Oxford University Press)
Economics for Business by Andrew Gillespie (Oxford University Press)
The Economy of Ghana Sixty Years after Independence by Ernest Aryeetey and Ravi Kanbur (Oxford University Press)
The Chinese Macroeconomy and Financial System: a US Perspective by Ronald M. Schramm (Routledge)
I became a Fellow of the Higher Education Authority whilst employed at De Montfort University, drawing on my extensive learning and teaching experience there.
Books indexed include:
Your Education Research Project Handbook
by Dr Anthony Coles and Dr James McGrath (Longman)
How to Pay for College: A Complete Financial Plan for Funding Your Child’s Education by Ann Garcia (Harriman House)
The Learning Game: Teaching Kids to Think for Themselves, Embrace Challenge, and Love Learning by Ana Lorena Fábrega (Harriman House)
From my studies and subsequent employment in government and corporate libraries I have developed a keen awareness of national and international politics and economics.
Books indexed include:
The Origins of Elected Strongmen: How Personalist Parties Destroy Democracy from Within by Erica Frantz and Andrea Kendall-Taylor (Oxford University Press)
The New Politics of Russia: Interpreting Change, Revised and Updated Edition (Russian Strategy and Power) by Andrew Monaghan (Manchester University Press)
Rethinking American Women’s Activism (American Social and Political Movements of the 20th Century) by Annelise Orleck (Routledge)
Power Without Responsibility: Press, Broadcasting and the Internet in Britain by James Curran and Jean Seaton (Routledge)
As a subject librarian for Fashion at De Montfort University I really loved learning about the world of fashion styling, management and buying as well as the specialisms of footwear and contour fashion.
I am passionate about our historical and environmental heritage and really value studies and research in these areas.
I have always maintained a keen interest in the heritage, culture and environment of the many places I have visited in Europe and other parts of the world, making the most of opportunities to learn about the localities.
Related qualifications
FHEA
MCILIP
Other skills
Abstracting
Have prepared abstracts for ProQuest, usually from art and design journals
Taxonomic Indexing
Have done some taxonomic indexing on legal publications
Recent indexes include
Subramanian Rangan, Core Assumptions in Business Theory: A Wedge between Performance and Progress, Oxford University Press, May 2025
David Fields and Robert Avery, The Royal and Russian Navies: Cooperation, Competition and Confrontation, Manchester University Press, April 2025
Clients Include
Harriman House
Oxford University Press
Pearson Education
Phaidon Press
Routledge
Sunrise Setting
Taylor & Francis
Manchester University Press
Reaktion Books
and independent authors
Special Publication Type
Have worked on biographies using specific indexing techniques appropriate to these works.
Books indexed include:
The Young Kim Philby: Soviet Spy and British Intelligence Officer by Edward Harrison (Liverpool University Press)
Prepared indexes and abstracts for databases hosted by ProQuest, and also Reuters Business database.
Have prepared indexes for a number of textbooks, usually in areas of marketing, business and education.
Tools
SKY INDEX