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So what do you do?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

Moira Greenhalgh
Moira Greenhalgh
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Moira Greenhalgh became a Registered Indexer in 1986, and was co-author of the SI Occasional Paper, Indexing Legal Materials. She is an active member of the Society of Indexers.
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“I am an indexer” as the answer to the usual occupation enquiry is pretty much guaranteed to stop a conversation stone dead. It is much easier to say ‘librarian’, which was on my passport for 20 years, or even ‘information scientist’, which I was trained to be. Sometimes I get quite defiant. I am an indexer, and yes a human actually does prepare those pages at the back of books, and no, it is not all done by computer.

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Research Article
Information
Legal Information Management , Volume 2 , Issue 4 , Winter 2002 , pp. 18 - 22
Copyright
Copyright © The British and Irish Association of Law Librarians 2002

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