Fedorak Indexing

Fedorak Indexing

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Book indexer: humanities especially social justice, art, music, film, material culture, nonprofits, fashion, pop culture, feminism and how we make sense of the world

Curler, settler, she/her & klutz extraordinaire 🏳️‍🌈

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SCIENCE CAT (my latest cartoon for New Scientist)

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New CfP for The New Americanist (EUP)! "Bookselling, the Book Trade, and Literary Culture." Please consider submitting.

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The moment we hit “send.”

As an indexer I am careful about choosing my words to ensure the index is unbiased and reflects what's in the text. I'm always looking for other ways to think of terminology, categorization and context. Looking forward to reading this in the summer sun!

“To many, conscious language consists of kind, inclusive, and bias-free words. To me, the one who coined the term, this is…like reducing rainbows to seven colors. Conscious language is a philosophy and a practice that goes beyond terminology.”—The Conscious Style Guide 🌈 Excerpt | Buy #AmEditing

Starting a new index today, this time heading off to the seas of Madagascar. Love my job! I've also just realized I need to set up a macro for Madagascar. All those alternating a's are reminding me of some technical exercises from my classical piano days. #IndexSky

It's been a while since an edited volume has given me a lot of grief. Here's to tempting fate!

evergreen academic meme 📚 #AcademicSky

Month end round up: I indexed books on smuggling, ecological art practices, espionage and starving artists. #AcademicSky #LoveMyJob

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Send thank-you notes, send condolence cards, send congratulations cards to celebrate all manner of successes, send postcards to say I’m thinking of you. It can matter. It definitely brings more good into the world.

Sometimes I get hung up on what to call the act of making an index due in part to my art indoctrination "we do not use the word create" I don't use writing an index often as I heard an indexer admonish someone once "we don't write indexes" Compiling ignores the complexity Indexing? lacks fun

Currently indexing / writing the index for the next edition of Epidemiology: An Introduction -- Happy Wednesday!

My creative juices are looking for something else to tackle besides assembling a pile o' words into an interlocking puzzle of a map of the book

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One of my better Facebook posts.

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new bookcase thinks it’s a comedian

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unrelated but periodic boost since i've got it open in a tab: did you know i have an open donation box for sharing cool pronoun shit you noticed? it's here, please feel free to share widely! forms.gle/47j6VBQTD1VW... #linguistics

Dr. Conrod's Pronoun Example Donation boxforms.gle This form allows you to voluntarily donate examples of language to Dr. Conrod, a linguistics professor at Swarthmore College. This is not a survey or experiment, and has not been reviewed by any human...

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Canadian book people! Your annual reminder that you can get paid for having your books in the library. It's money there for the taking, so take it!

The Public Lending Right (PLR) Programpubliclendingright.ca The Public Lending Right (PLR) Program sends yearly payments to creators whose books are in Canada’s public libraries. Find out if you may be eligible and how to sign up!

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#academicsky #philsky

I have a proclivity to split my work hours into two: mornings and late nights. It give me the to consider how to structure things. Currently I'm indexing about taxidermy in horror films. Not helpful to read just before bed, a chapter on Levinas's il y a, insomnia and the horror of existence. 👀

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Oh, man! Look at this - they’ve put a table of contents on the spine! Hats off, Fosforo Editions, that is seriously cool. 😍

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Since this site is open now, have a greatest hits thread of #linguistics takes on the Roses are Red meme: Roses are red Violets are blue Ideas are green And colourless too

Nor is it back of book indexers!

"Yes, plenty of people, upon hearing the biggest music announcement of the year, started thinking about diacritical marks and then talking about them on social media." OK, one of us doesn't know what a diacritical mark is, and I don't think it's me.

That entry and the spareness of the index raise so many questions including what's going on in Florida?

There are so many small things that can be done to help someone navigate an index. One is to only capitalize proper nouns as it helps when scanning a long list. Here we see how it's more difficult to separate the titles from the everyday.

There are so many small things that can be done to help someone navigate an index. One is to only capitalize proper nouns as it helps when scanning a long list. Here we see how it's more difficult to separate the titles from the everyday.

"Formula for Dissolving Bones" Enjoy this snippet from the index of Gardening in Florida by J. N. Whitner (2nd edition, 1885)

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Dr LJ Maher (she/her, AuDHD, 🦂, academic precariat)

Andy Warhol's Index Book!

Just a moment...www.vintagepopupbooks.com

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There's a lovely and horrible museum caption in the National Museum of Ireland about a grad student who spent 10 years trying to decipher the runes on an elk horn, only to discover that it says "This is an elk horn."

For the naysayers: proof that people DO want indexes in books. #IndexSky

i bought this book on the first of august it should finally be arriving this month, the anticipation, its been unreal, if it doesn't have an index after all this time i am going to [this post violates blueskys terms of service]

#IndexSky If one was to make a quilt (or other visualization) of the books they indexed throughout the year, would you use pages indexed or number of entries? Or other? I'm kinda of thinking about knitting the equivalent of a temperature blanket but by an indexing metric.

I’m excited to share a data art project I’ve been working on this month! It’s a quilt made using the data of all the books I read in 2023 📊

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what a day! after sitting on a domain for #othernetworks since about 2017, today we are officially launching a (modest...) website to collect all Other Networks related events, workshops, recipes for building your own networks (BYON!), and even an asynchronous book club! othernetworks.net

other networksothernetworks.net "Other Networks" is a cluster of projects headed up by Dr. Lori Emerson and Dr. libi striegl that document and experiment with networks outside of what's now called "the internet." We are invested in ...

"But unfortunately these are typically the least negotiable of the due dates you’ll receive." Authors ensure you ask at acquisition time who's responsible for hiring/paying for indexing. It's likely you. Start searching prior to, or at MS submission. Don't wait for email "due in two weeks"!

For those fretting about meeting their book publishing deadlines, some reassurance: manuscriptworks.com/blog/deadlines And for extra comfort: I spoke to an acquiring editor at a prestigious UP today who said the “delinquency rate” for his authors turning in manuscripts on time is… 100% 😂

What Happens If You Miss a Publishing Deadline? — Manuscript Worksmanuscriptworks.com Publishing deadlines arrive fast and are often met with panic and stress. Learn which deadlines really matter and how to communicate with your publisher if you’re in danger of missing one.

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Picked up this little book in a charity shop. The Who’s Who index at the back is pure bitchiness & snidery. I *love* it 😂😂😂

some appreciation for my colleagues on #IndexSky (and those who aren't)

Just a stranger on the internet who wants to add that indexers are the unsung heroes of the research universe.

#AcademicSky ♀️

Academic assemble! I have a vague recollection of a recent review theorising what the impact of including menstruation on study outcomes (e.g mental health) might be but can’t find it! HELP!!! #PMDD