Awards 2020 and 2021
Posted on: 17/11/2021
We’re pleased to announce that Dennis Duncan has been awarded Honorary membership of the Society of Indexers in recognition of his role in publicising indexing and indexers and his close links with the Society. This was approved by a unanimous vote at our AGM this month Also at our conference we announced
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National Indexing Day 2021
Posted on: 15/03/2021
Updated 31st March 2021 The Society of Indexers celebrated the fifth annual National Indexing Day on Tuesday 30 March 2021 across social media with #indexday. You can see a full list of the Twitter story with our Wakelet story here National Indexing Day was established in March 2017 to commemorate the diamond anniversary of the
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5th Edition Training Course Launch
Posted on: 06/07/2020
We are pleased to announce the launch of the 5th edition of the Society of Indexers’ distance-learning course ‘Training in Indexing’. The course has been remodeled to bring it more in line with modern professional training methods and to provide a better learning experience with more autonomy and responsibility. There is more tutorial and one-to-one
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Betty Moys 2019 Award
Posted on: 26/06/2020
We’re pleased to announce that Melina Costi has won the Betty Moys Award for the best newly Accredited Indexer of 2019, and that Dino Costi and Non Lowri Evans have been Highly Commended. All three gained very high marks on the Society’s Training Course and are to be congratulated. The award is normally given at
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Contacting the Society during the Covid19 outbreak
Posted on: 18/03/2020
We have decided that our office manager will be homeworking for the foreseeable future. It would be preferable for communications with the Society to be via email, using admin@indexers.org.uk, rather than phone or post. Society members have already been given the new contact phone number to use if they urgently need to contact the office, but
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Books of the Year
Posted on: 30/11/2017
Professional indexers make good books even better. Many magazines, newspapers and organisations are currently publishing their 2017 Books of the Year lists, including Evening Standard, The Guardian, History Today, New Statesman, The Spectator, The Telegraph, The Times and TLS. We are pleased to note that several of these books have indexes created by members of the Society of Indexers. Well done to our members Marian Aird, Paula Clarke Bain, Wendy Baskett, Rohan Bolton, Rosemary Dear, Ruth Ellis, Susan Farr, Auriol Griffith-Jones, Jane Horton, Ann Hudson, Caroline Jones, Nicola Nicholas, Christopher Phipps, Alan Rutter, Christine Shuttleworth and Caroline Wilding for their indexing work on these books.
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