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Experience & Credentials

Since April 2003, I have applied my indexing expertise on a freelance basis for clients on a variety of subjects, most recently including: African-American history, women's history, military history, ancient cultures, photography, geography, psychology, sports, and interior and exterior decorating.

Between September 1997 and March 2003, I worked as a full-time professional indexer on the staff of the National Geographic Society in Washington, D.C.—one of the largest non-profit educational publishers in the world—where I indexed and catalogued books, magazines, and a variety of non-textual and online products. During that time I oversaw book indexing by others, and wrote back-of-book indexes for more than 15 trade books on the topics of space, travel, natural history, archaeology, geography, wildlife, photography, and more, which have since been translated and sold worldwide in more than twenty languages.

For six years I edited and co-edited an annual 36-page cumulative index to four National Geographic magazines, and in 1999 I made extensive editorial contributions to NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, 1989-1998—a 222-page cumulative index to articles printed in NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC magazine spanning ten years, including subjects, titles, authors, and photographers. My year-in-review-style indexes were published annually in NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC and National Geographic TRAVELER magazines from 1998 to 2003, and I worked closely with editors to develop both structure and content for the first-ever editorial index to National Geographic ADVENTURE magazine, published in 2002.

In August 2002, I completed a Masters of Library Science degree with honors at the University of Maryland at College Park. My course of study included intensive training in information structure, organization, and searching techniques.

In my personal time I compile and self-publish indexes—both for sale in print and free online—to assist genealogists and local historians.

 
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