The First International Indexing Special Interest Group In Defense of Specialists by Rose Grant Key Words , Vol. Although I've been indexing cookbooks for 15 years I never thought of myself as a real indexer.
Real indexers do history books, or biochemistry books, or encyclopedias.
I spend my time reading cookbooks, even when I'm not indexing them. I enjoy what I do so much that it doesn't even feel like work. I now see myself in a whole new light. Not only am I a real indexer, I am a specialist in my field with a certain body of knowledge and experience and strong opinions on how cookbooks should be indexed. I would like to make a case for specialists, who have an area of expertise and do books only in that field.