📚Fedorak Indexing

Ha! I read this as "I"m only a witch without my yarn stickers" and I spent a good minute trying to figure out what yarn stickers were and would they help me.

Ironclad Art Challenge: Expressing our spirit, values, and vision for a sustainable future On June 1, 2013, 2 new Vancouver maintenance hole cover designs were revealed. Winners' art will cover sewer holes citywide.

My city has some lovely maintenance hole covers. Sewage systems are sexy

vancouver.ca/parks-recrea...

I'm an artist and indexer. Sewage systems are sexy, and sorted under S.

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Are you detailed oriented or a big picture/somone else will fix my mistakes person? If you are the former you are suited to it. If you are the latter, hire someone.

Book Indexing: A Step by Step Guide by @stephenullstrom.bsky.social

The former Maybelline headquarters entrance had a stairway that was REALLY good...like, made with lipstick good.

Ooof! For some reason the camera sounds from the beginning always morph into the start of Wake Me Up Before You Go Go!

I just sent off an index that had an entry pointing to the distinction between the two!

Currently indexing a book about 16mm and have Paul Simon's Kodachrome on endless repeat in my mind. Any other film songs you can send my way? 🎥📽️ #BookIndexer

Type High Prize package sitting on top of box of envelope metal type ornaments.

Type High Prize package sitting on top of box of envelope metal type ornaments. Explains type high day (9/18).

Inside of Type High Prize package showing matching set of envelope ornaments.

The Type High Prize mails out to all Print Club members that’ve been in the Club for a whole year (starting in September) to celebrate Type High Day (9/18). These ornaments were designed by me and cast by @bowerbox.com. Super grateful to all the PC members that keep the studio going!

If you can, publish with a university press! They're non-profit, they often struggle because their goal is not to make money but produce knowledge, and they're run by the kindest, most hard-working people. UP editors are artisans--your book will 100% be in good hands.

If you are reviewing a book and you have thoughts on the index (good or bad or lack thereof) please include them in your review. Indexing is invisible so reminders of their existence helps to keep them from the chopping block of budget cuts. #BookSky #NonFiction #AcademicSky

A nineteenth-century Japanese print showing a man in closeup in six circular portraits. In each he’s making a different expression.

“The Experience of Being Online,” 1884, Kobayashi Kiyochika. (Actual title: “One Person, Six Expressions.”)

I'd love to index this!

a purple puppet is wearing a green cape and has a purple nose and mustache . Alt: The Muppet's Count character doing a face palm

Typo of the day:

European-Count of Human Rights

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All four the same. The last one is someone else.

#philsky

Currently indexing this idea in a book about community engaged research

Resonance | University of California Press

Resonance (UC Press) is looking for humanities research across the following topics: Sound in Political Crisis, Sound and Social Justice, Experiments in Sound, Sound Archives and Preservation, and we're convening a permanent series that'll examine "Film and Cinema Sound" in 2026. Please circulate!

You ‘run the gamut’ and ‘run the gauntlet.’

You don’t ‘run the gambit.’

gamut = entire range or series

gauntlet = severe trial

Gambit = Alpha-level mutant who can convert potential energy to kinetic energy

One of the audiences I think of when I'm indexing a book is people looking for sources for something tangential in the book because the search is part of the fun.

Boston Athenaeum's quest to ID vintage photos In 1974, Constantine Manos spent nine months taking thousands of photos of people and neighborhoods across Boston. The photographs will be the focus of a forthcoming exhibition at the Boston Athenaeum...

In 1974, Constantine Manos spent nine months taking thousands of photos of people and neighborhoods across Boston. The photographs will be the focus of a forthcoming exhibition at the Boston Athenaeum, and the curator are asking for help IDing the images.

Frustrated by being referred to as a mere "caricature" artist, William Hogarth produced this 1743 print to explain the difference between characters and caricatures — which he saw as radically different — and aligning his style firmly with the former: publicdomainreview.org/collection/c...

I have authors who will ask why someone or something isn't in the index. And it turns out that I considered it a passing mention. I always ask myself what will the reader learn about "person/concept being considered" if they go to this page? Great 🧵on what indexers consider when deciding in or out?

Indexing about how homophobia was a barrier to collecting and archiving queer history during the Holocaust. 🏳️‍🌈🗃️🏛️

I’m not a part of this org, but as an art historian, the suggestion that you would use GenAI to make fake images to ‘illustrate’ your work is infuriating. Real artworks exist. You can just ask one of your art history colleagues.

A great thing about physical books is that they seldom stop working

Congratulations! If you haven't secured an indexer, this is the time to find one and get pencilled into their schedule. Indexer directories at the websites of:@asindexing.bsky.social, @indexerscanada.bsky.social,
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Considering changing the name of my website and account to Fugitive Books Intercepted.
(From the letterhead of Washington, DC rare book sellers Duff and Gilfond.)

Now You See It...Now You DON'T!

Master magician Ricky Jay was a big fan of the Museum of Jurassic Technology, which recently (and briefly) caught on fire! In honor of Ricky and the ephemerality of all good things, here I am showing off the Newberry's 18th c. Blow Book like Ricky once taught me.
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