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All about book indexing and sometimes, more broadly, library & information science and the book industry.
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Indexing Books in Spanish / Creando índices en español (opens the original)
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Indexing books is a detailed process regardless of the language it is done in. Usually, books tend to be indexed in the language of the text, so a Spanish book would naturally be indexed in Spanish. For this, an indexer fluent in Spanish is the ideal candidate. But simply knowing a language — with sufficient reading comprehension levels, does not mean that the person knows how to index a book in the language. 1Just like the style guidelines in English, there are stylistic preferences unique to o
"I Hope They Fire Me" (opens the original)
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Submitted in August 2026“I Hope They Fire Me: Black Teachers in the Fight for Equal Education,” by Candace Cunningham will be published by University of Georgia Press.This book takes a close look at the role of Black teachers in South Carolina’s civil rights movement dating back to the early 1900s. The book cites archival sources in the examination of events including the Charleston’s Black teacher-hiring campaign (1917-1920), the teacher salary equalization campaign (1940-1947), the fight for s
"Europeanization and De-Europeanization in the Eastern Partnership Countries" (opens the original)
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To Index or Not to Index (opens the original)
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