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Since 1994, Nancy Mulvany's Indexing Books has been the gold standard for thousands of professional indexers, editors, and authors. This long-awaited second edition, expanded and completely updated, will be equally revered. Like its predecessor, this edition of Indexing Books offers comprehensive, reliable treatment of indexing principles and practices relevant to authors and indexers alike. In addition to practical advice, the book presents a big-picture perspective on the nature and purpose of indexes and their role in published works. New to this edition are discussions of "information overload" and the role of the index, open-system versus closed-system indexing, electronic submission and display of indexes, and trends in software development, among other topics. Mulvany is equally comfortable focusing on the nuts and bolts of indexing--how to determine what is indexable, how to decide the depth of an index, and how to work with publisher instructions--and broadly surveying important sources of indexing guidelines such as The Chicago Manual of Style, Sun Microsystems, Oxford University Press, NISO TR03, and ISO 999. Authors will appreciate Mulvany's in-depth consideration of the costs and benefits of preparing one's own index versus hiring a professional, while professional indexers will value Mulvany's insights into computer-aided indexing. Helpful appendixes include resources for indexers, a worksheet for general index specifications, and a bibliography of sources to consult for further information on a range of topics. Indexing Books is both a practical guide and a manifesto about the vital role of the human-crafted index in the Information Age. As the standard indexing reference, it belongs on the shelves of everyone involved in writing and publishing nonfiction books.… (mehr)
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One of the most recommended introductions to indexing.

http://allbookedup-elena.blogspot.ca/2012/07/indexing-books-second-edition-nancy... ( )
  ElenaGwynne | Nov 14, 2013 |
Lady Wombat says:

Not a thrilling book to sit down and read straight through, but it will be a great source for me as I put together the index for my own book.
  Wombat | Dec 22, 2010 |
Mulvany offers much more than a simple overview of back-of-the-book indexing in this book. She gives the reader a completely different perspective of indexing, particularly the idea of indexing as an art or creative act. This is one of the more comprehensive recent indexing publications and a must for many collections.
  OUSLIS | Dec 11, 2009 |
Misleadingly simple a title, this one: We have here no brisk “how to do it” manual. Indeed, its author, a professional indexer who teaches indexing (at the University of California Extension in Berkeley), opens with caveats: “I do not believe that indexing can be taught ... Indexing books is a form of writing ... a mixture of art and craft, judgment and selection ... Indexing skills can be nurtured and rules can be learned, but the indexer’s ability to thoroughly digest the intentions of the author and anticipate the needs of the readers, thereby producing a knowledge structure that is sensible and useful, involves the application of abilities and skills that are inherent in some individuals and not in others.”

Wannabee indexers would nevertheless do well to start here, receiving good, basic guidance from “Getting Started” onwards. The book production process, relationships between the various parties involved, the skills needed by indexers, structure and arrangement of entries, typography for indexes, computer programs -- all are covered. Mulvany defines an index as “a structured sequence —resulting from a thorough and complete analysis of text — of synthesized access points to all the information contained in the text ... a network of interrelationships ultimately an interface between the author and the reader”.

All kinds of readers in the world of publishing can profitably read this book. Publishers can learn from it how to draw up clear and professional contracts for indexing, how to brief the indexer, what the style guide should cover and of proper costs and copyright for indexes. Authors can learn how to plan ahead for the index, how to find an indexer, how to help or antagonize him or her, how to review and edit the index. Editors can learn how to assess indexes and to salvage the least worst calamities. Information technologists can study details of electronic line numbering, codes for subentry levels, formatting indention levels, embedded indexing tools, user interface design and appendices dealing with ASCII tables and generic coding for special characters. And distributors should note her comments on the effects on potential buyers of a bad index.

As for adept indexers, they can relish the detailed consideration of extreme niceties and complexities of indexing, such as intellectual versus algorithmic analysis of text; reference locator formats; listing much-married women, or names of other nationalities; transliteration; multi-author and multi-volume works; spelling out 80486 CPU for alphabetization; KWIC, KWAC and KWOC listings; tracing a name occurring only in a note reference back to its relevant text passage. There is speculation, too: should indexers scrupulously follow rules of practice not likely to be known to users? How intense should cross-referencing become? "The index should not be a vehicle for the indexer to demonstrate prowess in tracking down the genealogical roots of every individual mentioned in text,” Mulvany admonishes.

But, as she emphasizes, indexing is an art, no mere set of precepts to be correctly followed: there is bound to be disagreement among concerned practitioners. Indexers too have fervent disputes as to best practice.

Who could dispute that this is an author eminently qualified to index her own book? But instead, for reasons she cogently adduces, including exhaustion and over-familiarity with her text, she delegated this work. No doubt she followed her own precepts regarding author-indexer collaboration. She thus gained her book an excellent index, boasted at its head as “Written by Carolyn McGovern”, and expatiated in a footnote on its own first page (which is itself indexed) as “alphabetized letter-by-letter. Leading function words in subentries are not alphabetized. The page-number compression style follows that in The Chicago Manual of Style, 14th ed, section 8.69. The index was prepared with the Macrex Indexing Program. Using the formula on page sixty-four of this book, this is a 7% index. There are 2,062 entries, averaging seven entries per page.”

The virtues and excitement of indexing (yes!) come through loud and clear. ‘The phrase automatic indexing is an oxymoron,” Mulvany insists, and demonstrates. “The index is molded and remolded through the first ‘sweep’ through the text ... As the indexer adds new entries, old entries are constantly being manipulated. A biological metaphor for this process would not be far off the mark. New cells grow and old cells divide; synergy is at work that results in a functioning organism in which renegade or mutant aberrations have been identified and eliminated. Index writing integrates substantive editing into the intitial creative writing process. This index goes beyond the words in a text. It provides a gateway to ideas and information ... Master the art of book indexing, and you will experience the magic of sharing knowledge.”

That’s indexing talk, that is. ( )
3 abstimmen KayCliff | Apr 24, 2009 |
The most comprehensive text on the subject of indexing information, 'Indexing Books' is the basic book that must be acquired by anyone wishing to pursue its study. ( )
  suzik | Aug 18, 2008 |
An excellent and invaluable resource covering every practical detail of constructing an index.
 
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Since 1994, Nancy Mulvany's Indexing Books has been the gold standard for thousands of professional indexers, editors, and authors. This long-awaited second edition, expanded and completely updated, will be equally revered. Like its predecessor, this edition of Indexing Books offers comprehensive, reliable treatment of indexing principles and practices relevant to authors and indexers alike. In addition to practical advice, the book presents a big-picture perspective on the nature and purpose of indexes and their role in published works. New to this edition are discussions of "information overload" and the role of the index, open-system versus closed-system indexing, electronic submission and display of indexes, and trends in software development, among other topics. Mulvany is equally comfortable focusing on the nuts and bolts of indexing--how to determine what is indexable, how to decide the depth of an index, and how to work with publisher instructions--and broadly surveying important sources of indexing guidelines such as The Chicago Manual of Style, Sun Microsystems, Oxford University Press, NISO TR03, and ISO 999. Authors will appreciate Mulvany's in-depth consideration of the costs and benefits of preparing one's own index versus hiring a professional, while professional indexers will value Mulvany's insights into computer-aided indexing. Helpful appendixes include resources for indexers, a worksheet for general index specifications, and a bibliography of sources to consult for further information on a range of topics. Indexing Books is both a practical guide and a manifesto about the vital role of the human-crafted index in the Information Age. As the standard indexing reference, it belongs on the shelves of everyone involved in writing and publishing nonfiction books.

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