Joy of Cooking is a great cookbook and reference book, but I do want to have a little talk with the person who alphabetized the index. You want a bread recipe? Look under Y for Yeast Breads, not under B for Bread or even Bread, Yeast.

Conference feedback was enthusiastic, especially for participatory sessions. As conference presenter Alan Rutter suggested, running a conference session is a liberating experience that's really worthwhile in terms of your own learning and development, and your relationship with your fellow indexers.

At our SI Coffee Morning today 13 indexers met to talk about things we've learned over our indexing careers.

At our monthly online Coffee Morning today to hear indexer David Green talk about the experience of indexing his own writings. David is the author of four true crime genre works, most recently The Murder of Lily White #IndexSky

"Large language models are extraordinarily powerful tools for identifying surface patterns, but they are not as robust when it comes to hermeneutic engagement, for recognising that what is present in a corpus is often as meaningful as what has been effaced or marginalised."

On Saturday 20 September, our first #SIConf25 session is on AI and indexing. How can indexers and indexing societies adapt to the new world of AI? @tanyaizzard.bsky.social and Xiaoyuan [JoJo] Chen will present ideas and suggestions. Book at the earlybird rate until Mon 7 July at