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

Reference Type Book
Year of Publication
2009
Author
Author: Hazel K. Bell
Language
English
Number of Pages
348 pp.
Publisher
Oak Knoll Press
City
New Castle, DE
Region
Canada
Europe
Oceania
United States
Chronological Period
15th century
16th century
17th century
1800-1849
1850-1899
18th century
1900-1949
1950-1999
ISBN
9780955250347
Annotation

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
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