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Re: Book recommendation: Indexing Books vs. The Art of Indexing

Subject: Re: Book recommendation: Indexing Books vs. The Art of Indexing
From: Fred Brown <fred -dot- brown -at- allegrotechindexing -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 12:33:34 -0500


Andreas, you'll find that "Indexing Books" by Nancy Mulvany gives a very good explanation of indexing. For indexing technical material, you may also want to look at "Chapter 9: Indexing," Read Me First!: A Style Guide for the Computer Industry. 1996. Sun Technical Publications. The STC Indexing Special Interest Group <http://www.stcsig.org/idx/index.html> has an excellent newsletter. Two online discussion groups are INDEX-L <http://listserv.unc.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=Index-L> and stcisig-l <http://www.stcsig.org/idx/lists.html>. The American Society of Indexers (ASI) Web site <http://www.asindexing.org/site/index.html> lists many other resources as well.

-- Fred Brown

At 02:36 PM 11/28/2002 +0100, you wrote:

Hi all,

if budget lets me buy only one book on indexing (because books from the USA
are very expensive in Germany), which can you recommend?

Indexing Books by Nancy Mulvany
or
The Art of Indexing by Larry Bonura

The rating on amazon is better for the first one, but I don't want to make a
decision based only on amazon's customer reviews.

Or are there other (better) books about indexing you would recommend? Or do
you know online tutorials about indexing?
I have the CMOS, so "Indexes: A Chapter from the Chicago Manual of Style"
isn't an alternative.

TIA and greetings from Germany

Andreas Ternes


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