A good index makes a text more accessible, and so much more useful.

Back-of-book indexing for Aotearoa New Zealand texts are a specialty, especially texts that incorporate te reo Māori. Subject areas include histories, social sciences, and any works that concern te ao Māori.

Glenys will read your text with care to analyse the main ideas and distinguish between important information and things that are only mentioned in passing. Terms will be chosen that reflect both the wording of the text and the ideas that a reader is likely to search for. Relationships between topics will be identified and appropriate cross-references  provided. Helpful subheadings will be included where needed, and the whole index will be organised so that the reader can easily find what they are looking for.

Only an experienced indexer can analyse a text, concept by concept, making connections at the granular level across paragraphs, pages and chapters. An index like that is a very different thing from a computer-generated concordance, which is merely a list of words and pages, regardless of their relevance.

Professional indexing calls for a sound understanding of the subject matter of the text, as well as knowledge of the accepted rules and conventions of indexing. Glenys has the experience and the background needed for indexing any books that focus on Aotearoa New Zealand.
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At Tika Check, a professional index will be created efficiently and will be submitted on time. 

Glenys is a member of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers (ANZSI). For information about hiring an indexer, see here.
               
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​Books indexed recently are listed here

Click here, to see an example:
an index for The Report of ​Matike Mai Aotearoa – The Independent Working Group on Constitutional Transformation.

Email  [email protected]  to discuss an index for your  book and to get a quote.