More great talks at @indexerscanada.bsky.social conference today. After the latest review by Elizabeth Bartmess on generative AI attempts at creating book indexes, compared with how ‘good’ the chatbots say they are, the bots could do with much more imposter syndrome. #IndexSky
Day 3 of the @indexerscanada.bsky.social conference! Today we have presentations about Canada's plain language standards, subcontracting, and a follow-up to 2025's very successful AI debunking presentation. #AmIndexing
The capsule splashing down onto the water with the three red and white parachutes above it
Splashdown! Vehicle is stable and upright. “A perfect bulls-eye splash for Integrity and its four astronauts!” #Artemis
Enjoying my first day of @indexerscanada.bsky.social online conference. I loved the brilliant keynote by @dannybate.bsky.social on ‘Who Ordered the Alphabet’. Surely several more copies of his ‘Why Q Needs U’ book now sold, including to the UK @indexers.bsky.social and me. #IndexSky
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Thanks @carosanderson.bsky.social for this excellent post and for joining @indexers.bsky.social for #IndexDay again today.
On National Indexing Day, we need to celebrate this intensely human publishing role, says our associate editor and non-fiction previewer Caroline Sanderson 👇 #BookSky
The National Indexing Day 2026 presenting team at the Publishers Association next to a Society of Indexers roller banner: Tanya Izzard, Rachel Gee, Caroline Sanderson and Paula Clarke Bain.
Paula, Rachel and Tanya raising glasses for a post-event drink in The George Inn, Southwark.
National Indexing Day 2026 at the @publishersassoc.bsky.social with @indexers.bsky.social team @tanyaizzard.bsky.social, Rachel Gee, @carosanderson.bsky.social and me.
How #IndexDay started and how it ended.
It’s #IndexDay and I’m sat here reading every index in the house (as I do every day), and I’m rediscovering @baindex.org’s brilliantly amusing index to Alan Partridge’s ’Big Beacon’. Very funny!
Happy National Indexing Day @indexers.bsky.social #IndexDay
This year I have indexed texts on Buddhism, medieval Sri Lanka, performing arts, theatre, Carmelite history, Yoga, Spanish art and literature, and libraries, amongst others -- each a challenge, each a pleasure!
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Happy National Indexing Day @indexers.bsky.social 🥳
Couldn’t indexing be done by a computer, or AI? No, because the usual problems with AI accuracy apply. It’s more efficient for a human to index a book for another human to use. We don't recommend AI or automated tools that can't meet indexing standards #IndexDay
Happy National Indexing Day. We're torn on how to celebrate... but the kettle is going on, who wants a brew?
Shout out to everyone in this LIS related profession, thanks for all you do 📑📚 #IndexDay
Happy National Indexing Day from @indexers.bsky.social!
Here is a new blog post from me on ‘My 25th freelance anniversary: how it started vs how it’s going (for NID 2025)’. Follow along and post your love of indexes and human indexers today with the hashtag #IndexDay.
baindex.org/2026/03/31/m...
A blue foiled background with the white LUP logo on the left, featuring the Indexer cover to the right which comprises a deep blue journal cover with streaks of fibreoptic light across the front, with 'The Indexer' written at the bottom in white text, with the subtitle 'The International Journal of Indexing' written beneath in light blue text.
National Indexing Day | The Indexer
Celebrate National Indexing Day 2026 with a free issue of @indexer.bsky.social. Read it online via the LUP website:
➡️ bit.ly/IndexFTR26
@indexers.bsky.social @cilip.bsky.social @djbduncan.bsky.social @baindex.org
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For #IndexDay, a new blog post by Ruth Martin explores what our members say when they talk about indexing. What's the best way to communicate what we do?
www.indexers.org.uk/posts/what-w...
It's #IndexDay so time to celebrate the human ingenuity that goes into creating the indexes that helps us find what we need to know.
This one is from "Index, a History of the" by @djbduncan.bsky.social.
Index by @baindex.org @indexers.bsky.social
Welcome to National Indexing Day! We're the UK's professional society for book and journal indexing, and we're celebrating our founding anniversary with lots of posts about indexing, indexes and indexers. Follow #IndexDay to join in.
Photo from a train window of trees and green fields with sheep and lambs by a farm and a canal with canal boat, plus a coffee cup on the train table in the foreground.
Indexer on penultimate train of March 2026. Off to London for National Indexing Day workshop tomorrow. Look forward to presenting with rest of @indexers.bsky.social team – @carosanderson.bsky.social, @tanyaizzard.bsky.social and Rachel Gee – and to fruitful chats with publishers on #IndexDay.
@djbduncan.bsky.social @baindex.org - the long reach goes on. Influencing ideas about book indexing and how to do it. "a banger good book" should go on the jacket of the next printing.
Last day to book for @indexers.bsky.social National Indexing Day #IndexDay workshop for publishers, with speakers @carosanderson.bsky.social, Rachel Gee, @tanyaizzard.bsky.social and me. We’d love to discuss how to keep your readers happy with quality book indexes by human indexers!
Penultimate day for bookings for our #IndexDay workshop, 31 March in London @publishersassoc.bsky.social, a chance to learn more about indexing from professional indexers @baindex.org, Rachel Gee, and @tanyaizzard.bsky social
Such a funny show. Thanks @katemccabe.bsky.social @robgilroy.bsky.social @davidstanier.bsky.social and all at @murderinccomedy.bsky.social. 😁
What a buzz! Murder Inc served up another insanely funny murder mystery. 🎥🐝 That one was nuts 😆 Murder Inc return to Thread on Wednesday 15th of April for Cirque Du Slay – a murder mystery set at a circus 🎪 #stockport #comedy #improv #murdermystery
Publishing professionals, please join us for Society of Indexers’ National Indexing Day #IndexDay workshops on Tues 31 March, with speakers @carosanderson.bsky.social (Hon President @indexers.bsky.social), Rachel Gee, @tanyaizzard.bsky.social and me. We’d love to talk about book indexes with you!
What’s it like to index a book? Experience this intellectual challenge for yourself with indexer @baindex.org, who’ll lead an indexing exercise for publishing professionals at our #IndexDay workshops on 31 March. Book your place at
It’s Thursday 19 March, Stockport will see highs of 17°C and Thread will be filled with 120dB of laughter. Have a lovely day, Stopfordians, we’ll see you this evening. 🌞
Murder Inc. presents: Box Office Hit
Tickets (£10): wegottickets.com/event/693268
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#stockport #comedy #improv #murdermystery
I'm looking forward to talking about how technology can help with indexing, particularly in terms of publishing workflow, and sharing our understandings of its limitations, too. Plus some nerdy stuff about index layout to enjoy #IndexDay
