From Flock Beds to Professionalism: A History of Index-Makers

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!⿿ 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