@book{7932,
  author = {Hazel K. Bell},
  title = {From Flock Beds to Professionalism: A History of Index-Makers},
  year = {2009},
  pages = {348 pp.},
  publisher = {Oak Knoll Press},
  address = {New Castle, DE},
  isbn = {9780955250347},
  note = {Includes an overview essay, profiles of individual indexers, and indexing societies in the English-speaking world.

 Contents:
I The history of index-makers
Methods, training, remuneration, social and personal characteristics

II INDEXERS: LONE WORKERS
 1 Bernardo Machiavelli 1428-1500: indexes to Livy 
 2 Ludovico Dolce 1508-68: revisionist indexer
 3 Conrad Gessner 1516-65: the father of bibliography
 4 John Marbeck d. c. 1585: heretical indexer
 5 Joseph Justus Scaliger 1540-1609: master of classics
 6 John Florio 1553-1625: index to Montaigne
 7 Henry Oldenburg 1615-77: R. S. indexer
 8 Samuel Pepys 1633-1703: diarist/indexer
 9 John Dunton 1659-1733: The Athenian
10 Alexander Cruden 1699-1770: concordancer and corrector
11 Gilbert White 1720-93: natural indexer
12 Giuseppe Garampi 1725-92: Vatican indexer
13 Samuel Ayscough 1745-1804: DNB recognition
14 Anon. 1788: Gibbon's original index
15 Eduard Buschmann, 1805-1880: the longest index
16 William Poole 1821-94: library periodicals indexing pioneer
17 Charlotte Yonge: 1823-1901: nominal indexer
18 Lewis Carroll 1832-98: the orderly mind at work
19 Percy Fitzgerald 1834-1925: indexer with arrogance
20 Henry B. Wheatley 1838-1917: the father of indexing
21 Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1844-1900: philosopher/indexer
22 Frederick Howard Collins 1857-1910: and Spencer
23 Sir Edward Cook 1857-1919: masterpiece indexer
24 Beatrice Webb 1858-1943: card-indexing
25 (George) Norman Douglas 1868-1952: humorous indexes
26 Nancie Baily c. 1892: services tendered 
27 Mary Petherbridge 1870-1940: indexer admin
28 Stella Browne 1880-1955: disparagement
29 Theodora Bosanquet 1880-1961: from indexing to Henry James - and on
30 Gordon Carey 1886-1969: publisher turned indexer
31 Gertrude Boyle 1889-1977: indexer to Mr Coleridge
32 Gilfred Norman Knight 1891-1978: founder of the Society of Indexers
33 Esmond de Beer 1895-1990: king of indexers
34 Frederick A. Pottle 1897-1987: the wittiest indexer
35 John Edwin Holmstrom 1898-19: information scientist
36 Margaret Anderson 1899-1996: from eights to eighties
37 Frances Partridge 1900-2004: Freudian indexer 
38 Georgette Heyer 1902-1974: novelist turned indexer
39 William S. Heckscher 1904-99: indexing beyond the limits
40 Robert Latham 1912-2000: the soul of an indexer
41 Barbara Pym 1913-80: anthropological indexer
42 Gerald Fowler 1918-96: indexer in New Zealand
43 Hans Wellisch 1920-2004: a paradoxical career
44 BevAnne Ross 1924-1995: woman of many parts
45 Oliver Stallybrass 1925-1978: a plenitude of praise
46 Douglas Matthews b. 1927: librarian turned indexer
47 John Vickers b. 1927: methodical Methodist
48 Elizabeth Moys 1928-2002: legal indexer
49 Ken Bakewell b. 1931: standards and Standards
50 Cherry Lavell b 1931: archaeological indexer
51 Christine Shuttleworth b. 1939: from in-house to freelance
52 Norma Whitcombe 1943-92: champion of the freelance
53 Drusilla Calvert b. 1944: the birth of a program, UK
54 Oula Jones b. 1944: indexer to Mr Levin
55 Tom Norton b. 1944: multi-lingual ÿber-swot
56 Michael Brackney b. 1945: thinking outside the box
57 Linda Fetters b.1945: software critic
58 Geraldine Beare b. 1948: `Big is beautiful!â¿¿
59 Frances Lennie b.1948: the birth of a program, US
60 Laura Gottlieb b.1949: softly indexing
61 Bella Hass Weinberg b.1949: multi-tasking, multi-publication
62 Jan Ross b. 1950: from housewifery to high-tech
63 Laurence Errington b. 1951: biomedical specialisms
64 Nancy Mulvany b. 1952: indexing docent
65 Michael Robertson b. 1954: Continental indexer

III BANDING TOGETHER
The Index Society, 1877-90
Other early groups
Society of Indexers: the first ten years, 1957-67
Three affiliations: American SI, Australian SI, IAS Canada
1968-77
1978-82
1983-87
1988-91
1992-95
The end of print-only indexing
The Indexer, 1958-95
Editorials in The Indexer, 1958-95
Obituaries in The Indexer, 1958-95
Chronology of print-only indexing},
  language = {English},
}