Indexing is a career requiring special abilities and skills.
A document may be a book, an issue or volume of a magazine or journal, audiotape, film, computer disk, or any other information source. A love of reading is not enough by itself. You also need to have a good educational background, and be able to use the English language effectively. Most of our members are graduates. If dealing with specialized material, you must have an in-depth knowledge of the subject matter in order to analyse the text and devise suitable terms to express the concepts it contains.