When I wrote my first index in 2005, for an accounting textbook from Queen's University Press, it was love at first index. I immediately signed up for professional training through the USDA Graduate School, and indexing became my portal into the broader worlds of editing and librarianship. In 2025, after 20 years on a winding path through academic libraries; digital archives; and several editing specialities, from proofreading to copyediting...