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Unit 9: Trends in Indexing

Notes
NAME UNIT 1 UNIT 2 UNIT 3

Jessica Marie Adams ADAMS JESSICA MARIE
Susan K. Adams ADAMS SUSAN K

Susan P. Adams ADAMS SUSAN P
• Nothing Comes Before Something.
• In alphabetizing, it is important to remember that nothing comes before something.

NAME UNIT 1 UNIT 2 UNIT 3
Ann B. Shoemaker SHOEMAKER ANN B

Anne B. Shoemaker SHOEMAKER ANNE B
J. Tilden TILDEN J

John Tilden TILDEN JOHN
• Case. The case of a letter refers to whether the letter is written as a capital letter (A), called
uppercase, or written as a small letter (a), called lowercase.
• In alphabetizing, uppercase and lowercase letters are considered the same.
• For example, McAdams and Mcadams are considered to be exactly the same when alpha-
betizing

NAME UNIT 1 UNIT 2 UNIT 3
Ashley Mcadams MCADAMS ASHLEY
Ashley K. McAdams MCADAMS ASHLEY K
Patrick McDonald MCDONALD PATRICK
Phillip Mcdonald MCDONALD PHILLIP

A.B. Stillworth STILLWORTH AB
Abe Stillworth STILLWORTH ABE

9.4 Keyword Indexing

The success of this type of index depends entirely on the keywords you choose. The choice of words
needs to be carefully thought through. If words are not chosen carefully, the resulting index can be
overly long and unusable. Do not use simple words or words that repeat constantly throughout the
text. For example, if you are writing a cookbook, do not index the word egg. Every time the word egg
is mentioned, the computer will index that page. We presume that egg would show up on many
recipe pages.

Keyword Indexing by Simple Software

Simple Index is a powerful yet affordable solution for Keyword Indexing. Simple Index is designed
to allow a desktop user with a high-speed scanner to quickly scan and file many documents with a
minimal amount of manual data entry.

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