Many hands make light work of tight schedules. Many eyes look at content from diverse viewpoints. Many brains work together to help readers find information. No job is too big or too small for the CDI team.
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Colleen DunhamNo one has challenged Colleen’s boast of indexing more than a million pages in her career. She started in the publishing business in 1970, working 28 years for Thomson-West and later for Microsoft. In 2004, she began Colleen Dunham Indexing. Accused of wearing too much turquoise, Colleen still hopes to live long enough to read the complete works of the Native American Renaissance writers.
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Mary RosewoodMary has enjoyed more than 20 years of copyediting newspapers, books, and technical documentation. She gained an international perspective by working in Europe and the Middle East, then returned home to the Pacific Northwest. A lifelong habit of carefully organizing everyday objects, such as the dollar bills in her wallet, foreshadowed her current occupation as indexer. She also takes delight in the details of knitting and baking.
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Chris BantaIn her teens, Chris catalogued all her comic books, planning one day to cross-reference individual stories. When she discovered indexing, she recognized it as an outlet for her desire to organize books’ contents. Chris especially enjoys indexing mathematical and legal texts. She works as a benefits compliance professional, and does volunteer tax preparation. With her remaining free time, she plays the piano, quilts, and writes.
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Carol DeMatteisCarol’s life and home are filled with books. After a variety of occupations including small business owner and bookseller — not to mention mother of three — that honed her organizational skills, she has become the indexer she was always meant to be. When she is not indexing she loves to cook for friends and family and likes to think that she always has one foot on a plane to Italy.
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Maria SosnowskiMaria practiced law for several years but left that profession in the pursuit of sanity. Now she works part-time in a law library, where she uses indexes both good and bad every day. She discovered indexing in 2005 and has enjoyed having a way to harness her type-A, obsessive tendencies in a healthy way. Maria runs Index Plus, a small business offering indexing, editing, and proofreading services.
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Lisa DeBoerLisa DeBoer specializes in the organization of intellectual material. She wears many hats: indexer, librarian, archivist, editor, teacher, and mother. As a library archivist, she organized rare photographs from 19th and 20th century Brooklyn. Lisa operates DeBoer Indexing out of Ithaca, New York.
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Sarah RowanCDI’s newest indexer is fussy and focused. Don’t get in her way when she’s got pages in front of her. |