I’ve been indexing for about 15 years, working in areas as diverse as:
- back-of-the-book indexing
- aging- and gerontology-related research for AARP
- database indexing, for both AARP and U.S.News & World Report
- metadata creation and content tagging
- creating a subject index for (and thus the first subject access to) the University of Maryland Computer Science Department’s technical report collection
Other life experience includes:
- being a primary caregiver for a now-deceased cancer patient and loved one;
- being a practicing Buddhist;
- working as a UNIX system administrator, library systems administrator, and database designer.
I have degrees in sociology and library science.
My indexing specialties include:
- computers and software
- gerontology and the literature of aging
- social sciences:
- sociology
- psychology
- trauma
- PTSD
- mental illness
- addiction
- social psychology
- death, grief, and loss
- cancer and caregiving
- books on writing
- spirituality, especially Buddhism
- library science
- engineering
- technical documentation
