Indexing
Compiling a useful and elegant index requires, first, close and careful reading, and then what seems to me to be an unexpected combination of craft, good judgment, determination, attention to detail and an eye for the big picture, informed intuition as to what the audience will be seeking, a busy mind that sees connections, and the ability to budget time. To my great surprise, I have this peculiar combination.
- In February 2021, Nigel Beale featured me in an interview for his popular informative and entertaining podcast about "the book," Biblio File, "Mary Newberry on the Joys of Indexing. Yes, Indexing."
- In June of 2016, I was awarded the Ewart-Daveluy Indexing Award for excellence in indexing. The award honours the indexing of The Letterbooks of John Evelyn, volumes 1 and 2, edited by Douglas D.C. Chambers and David Galbraith and published by University of Toronto Press.
- In 2015, I was very honoured to be one of a team of indexers working on the Truth and Reconciliation Commissions Residential Schools Report. Ryan Van Huijstee, of McGill Queen's University Press, expressed his gratitude for our work:
To put it simply, I look at the indexes and see great minds at work on a great work. I’m grateful to everyone who was involved with the project and particularly to the thorough and thoughtful indexers who worked so hard and so quickly to help this report’s information reach as many people as possible.
- From 2010 to 2020, I worked with the Alberta government's Human Services, on their occupations and educational programs website OCCinfo. Most rewarding about this work was the opportunity to work as an ongoing member of a team.
- From 2010 to 2020, I taught indexing in a course I developed for Ryerson University’s Publishing Program, begun on campus, but now offered exclusively online.
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