Introduction to book indexing / Law, M. D., 1970
Citation: Law, M. D. (1970). Introduction to book indexing. Indexer, 7(2), 46-48.
1970年書後索引課程中的講稿
keyword: back-of-the-book_index, index
Introduction
人類努力的目標:知識、財富。為了增加人的知識–>增加資訊的取得
Role of the indexer
- 當年的索引編製者似乎也沒有崇高的地位與收入
- 改善人類理解
An index: its essential purpose
- Re-organize the information in the book to turn it inside out. The information has to be broken down, and re-assumbled into its component parts.
- The Table-of-Contnets is a summary of the author's plan of his book. An index is the indexer's plan of the information given by the author.