Professional freelance indexing services
Pilar Wyman is a professional freelance indexer and indexing consultant. She has been involved in indexing since late 1983, and has been writing indexes since 1990. She teaches the Basic and Applied Indexing courses for the USDA Graduate School, and has mentored countless students of indexing. When her schedule permits, she gives training workshops and presentations on indexing and related topics.

Great Indexes for Great Books, and other media -- ¡ahora en español también!
Pilar is an accomplished indexer and has written over 900 indexes for books, journals, CD-ROMs, archives, Web sites and electronic media. She provides indexing for English, French, and Spanish-language materials. Her rates are reasonable and estimates can be provided. Her areas of expertise include:

Upcoming Events!

• American Society for Indexing (ASI) 2009 Annual Conference Scaling the Heights!, Portland, Oregon, 23-25 April 2009, including my knotty-bits presentation, "Indexing Negatives."

News!

• The AMA Manual of Style, 10th Edition, a superb guide for authors and editors is now available online. I highly recommend this editorial manual, especially for the new Chapter 13, Medical Indexes.

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• An index to this site, finally!

• Editing Indexes for Ease of Use and Efficiency handout.

• Checklist for Editing Tech Indexes handout.

• Benchmarks of Quality Indexes handout.

• For students of the USDA Basic and Applied Indexing courses: Submitting Indexes As E-Mail Attachments details how you should send your index lessons. Please submit all lessons with a Student Response Sheet including your complete mailing address so I know where to send graded lessons: EDIT3360C Student Response Sheet. Also check out Indexing Info for Indexing Students and a FAQ file about my indexing instruction.

• Dispelling Myths About the USDA Indexing Courses

• Latest favorite entries and juxtapositions from an index:

  Flash Gordon, 381, 386
  Flight simulations, 342

  Lawrence, T.E., 216
  Leadbelly (Huddie Ledbetter), 404
  Lear Jet, 391

  Star Trek, 239, 381, 387
  Star Wars, 127
  Star Wars, 377, 381
  -- Aeronautical and Astronautical Resources of the Library of Congress: A Comprehensive Guide, in press

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