"The index is amazing - it is really thorough and exceptionally

                    well done. I am very impressed."

                                                                                            J. G. 

 

Services

            O  Back of book indexes for academic and trade monographs and edited volumes

            O  Exhibition catalogues for gallery exhibitions

            O  Consultation/index review for authors making their own indexes

            O  Rush jobs are considered if my schedule allows

 

​I create detailed back of book indexes using dedicated indexing software. Briefly this means reading the book, selecting terminology, making entries for headings and locators, and then on a second pass of the text, editing those entries into a structure designed to help the books' audiences find information as fast as possible.

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When choosing terminology, I consider the range of audiences for your book so that experts in your field, students in early stages of learning and those from other fields can all find what they are looking for. The small gems of research you have discovered are included as well as the concepts, theories, discourses and authors cited in the text.

 

You will receive the index formatted to the specifications of your press at our agreed upon date, which will give you a few day for review in case there are revisions needed. 

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Subjects

I index scholarly and trade texts in the humanities and social sciences that explore how our minds work, how we navigate the world,  ideas that can instigate change or involve making meaning through sight and sound such as music, film, fashion and the visual arts.

Areas I often index in are: 

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          O  business management                                  O  the language arts 

          O  cultural studies                                                  O  material culture

          O  fashion and textiles                                          O  museum studies

          O  the fine arts and their histories                   O  musicology

          O  history                                                                    O  philosophy

​          O  law informed topics                                         O  social justice

 

                 

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Trade publications on the intersection of art and science, current affairs, true crime, feminism, detailed investigations of a narrow topic and biographies, especially those of women are also of particular interest to me. 

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                       "Lisa crafted a superb index for my academic monograph.

                        The index is thoughtful, thorough, and consistently effective.

                         I would readily choose to work first with her on future projects

                         and would recommend her services strongly."

                                                                                             George C. Grinnell

               

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