"An index is a systematic topical analysis alphabetically arranged or arranged by function, command, procedure, or topic. It is a reader's most important map for locating information in a document that is read in random-access style."

Larry Bonura, The Art of Indexing (1994)

Professional Affiliations

• American Society of Indexers 1996-2009

• Order of the Kohlrabi, ASI

• Past President, Wisconsin Chapter of ASI

• Twin Cities Chapter, ASI

• Gardening and Environmental Indexing SIG

• Science and Medicine Indexing SIG

• Culinary Indexing SIG; also SIG Webmaster

• Web Indexing SIG

• Master Gardener (Wisconsin)

• Proofreader for Key Words, the journal of the American Society for Indexing

E-mail Snowshoe Lane Indexing

 Indexing Qualifications and Experience

Qualifications, Training, and Educational Information for Jill Edwards

Indexing Education

• Beginning and Intermediate Indexing, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Outreach

• Indexing and Abstracting, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Graduate School of Library Science

• USDA Basic Indexing Course

• Indexing: Theory and Application, University of California-Berkeley

• Website Indexing, Hedden Information Management

Work Experience

I have been indexing full time since 2005.

A variety of work experiences has provided me with the knowledge, skills, and experience to index topics in laboratory medicine, health, disease, and nutrition in a manner that makes the material accessible to the audience of your publication.

I am able to understand these topics and the important concepts and inherent relationships. I will provide your readers with logical and appropriate access points into your publication through a well-written, concise, and accurate index.

My additional coursework in writing, editing, botany, gardening and landscaping, along with a lifelong personal interest in the environment, ecology, alternative energy, photography, cooking, alternative medicine, diet, and disease, provides me with subject familiarity in these additional areas.

Past Job Titles

Medical Technologist
Research Technologist
Quality Control/Quality Assurance Coordinator
Technical Writer
Client Services
Freelance Copy Editor
Webmaster

Education

B.S. in Medical Technology, University of Wisconsin
Additional courses in immunology, computer programming, writing, editing, management, business, accounting, and cooking.

See a list of my indexing subject specialties.