Since 1994, Nancy Mulvany's Indexing Books has been the gold standard for thousands of professional indexers, editors, and authors. This long-awaited second edition, expanded and completely updated, will be equally revered. Like its predecessor, this edition of Indexing Books offers comprehensive, reliable treatment of indexing principles and practices relevant to authors and indexers alike. In addition to practical advice, the book presents a big-picture perspective on the nature and purpose of indexes and their role in published works. New to this edition are discussions of "information overload" and the role of the index, open-system versus closed-system indexing, electronic submission and display of indexes, and trends in software development, among other topics. Mulvany is equally comfortable focusing on the nuts and bolts of indexing—how to determine what is indexable, how to decide the depth of an index, and how to work with publisher instructions—and broadly surveying important sources of indexing guidelines such as The Chicago Manual of Style, Sun Microsystems, Oxford University Press, NISO TR03, and ISO 999. Authors will appreciate Mulvany's in-depth consideration of the costs and benefits of preparing one's own index versus hiring a professional, while professional indexers will value Mulvany's insights into computer-aided indexing. Helpful appendixes include resources for indexers, a worksheet for general index specifications, and a bibliography of sources to consult for further information on a range of topics. Indexing Books is both a practical guide and a manifesto about the vital role of the human-crafted index in the Information Age. As the standard indexing reference, it belongs on the shelves of everyone involved in writing and publishing nonfiction books.

A critical history of the modern tradition of documentation, tracing the representation of individuals and groups in the form of documents, information, and data. In this book, Ronald Day offers a critical history of the modern tradition of documentation. Focusing on the documentary index (understood as a mode of social positioning), and drawing on the work of the French documentalist Suzanne Briet, Day explores the understanding and uses of indexicality. He examines the transition as indexes went from being explicit professional structures that mediated users and documents to being implicit infrastructural devices used in everyday information and communication acts. Doing so, he also traces three epistemic eras in the representation of individuals and groups, first in the forms of documents, then information, then data. Day investigates five cases from the modern tradition of documentation. He considers the socio-technical instrumentalism of Paul Otlet, “the father of European documentation” (contrasting it to the hermeneutic perspective of Martin Heidegger); the shift from documentation to information science and the accompanying transformation of persons and texts into users and information; social media's use of algorithms, further subsuming persons and texts; attempts to build android robots—to embody human agency within an information system that resembles a human being; and social “big data” as a technique of neoliberal governance that employs indexing and analytics for purposes of surveillance. Finally, Day considers the status of critique and judgment at a time when people and their rights of judgment are increasingly mediated, displaced, and replaced by modern documentary techniques.

A step-by-step guide to creating comprehensive and usable technical indexes. Numerous surveys indicate that the most common complaint about technical documents concern a poorly designed index--or the lack of an index altogether! An organized, thoughtful index not only ensures that the contents of your book are accessible, but also increases the value of your book. In The Art of Indexing, professional indexer and editorial consultant Larry Bonura addresses the indexing problems specific to technical documentation and presents practical solutions to those problems. The Art of Indexing shows technical writers, editors, and documentation managers how to chart the topics of their books, reports, and documents and present a concise and accurate map that readers, researchers, libraries, bookstores, and reviewers can use to maximize the usefulness of their book. Step-by-step, The Art of Indexing shows you how to become a better indexer by: * Discussing the function of an index * Showing how to estimate indexing time * Presenting methods for selecting entries and subentries * Reviewing reasons for cross-referencing * Describing how to treat locators * Offering an extensive editing checklist for reviewing indexes * Covering indexing for online documents * Including numerous usability tests for verifying the strength of an index * Containing information on indexing standards * Providing sample indexes and a sample indexing style guide * And much more!

Based on extensive research, Viviane Mörmann presents twenty-one promising corporate art initiatives (CAIs). She introduces different types of art initiatives and provides a standardized scheme to evaluate them.

A digital color palette reference, this professional-quality set contains 1,000 downloadable combinations of 3-, 4-, and 5-colors arranged by group: Monochromatic Combinations; Complementary Hues; Adjacent Hues; Muted Hues; and more. Each palette features component recipes for both CMYK and RGB versions. ASE, TIF, and PNG file formats are included for all combinations.

This beautiful 12"X17" oversized hardcover features complete stories scanned from P. Craig Russell's stunning original art. While appearing to be in black & white, each page has been scanned in color to recreate as closely as possible the experience of viewing the actual originals¿including blue pencils, notes, art corrections and more. Pages are reproduced at original size on heavy paper stock to provide fans, aficionados and collectors with the best possible reproductions.

A survey of the major developments in art from the end of the Middle Ages to the present, with a list of major museums and galleries throughout the world and an index to the Time-Life Library of Art series.

Monograph and guide to the methodology of book and periodical indexing - discusses the characteristics of good indexes, appropriate compilation techniques, selection and alphabetical arrangement of headings and sub-headings, printing and editing of indexes, etc., And includes an account of both deliberate and unintentional humour in indexing, and overview of indexers' occupational organizations in four countries. References.

Excerpt from The Technique of Indexing This small book purports to be an elementary text-book and practical guide to index-making. It has nothing to do with cataloguing and it is addressed to that section of the general public desiring knowledge on the subject before taking up definite training; it does not pretend to teach anybody already in the profession. The main fault of the various articles which have appeared on the subject of indexing is that they are written entirely from the point of view of the cataloguer and the biblio grapher, which is quite a different one from that of the indexer. Cataloguing and biblio graphy deal with large masses of books, or with wide subjects, while indexing has to do with the minute structure of one book or of a series of books; and whereas the scope of the one is unlimited, that of the other is strictly limited and the methods employed are consequently different. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.