Education

  • B.S.E. Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan
  • M.S.E. Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan
  • USDA Graduate School Certificate in Basic Indexing

 

Work Experience

Since 2000, I've provided professional freelance indexing services. Prior to that, I spent seven years in the automotive industry working as a mechanical engineer, primarily on engine design and development. For samples of my indexing work, please click here. Also, I will gladly provide references upon request.

 

Professional Involvement

  • American Society for Indexing, member
  • Chicago/Great Lakes Chapter, ASI, member
  • Science/Medicine Special Interest Group, member (SIG manager 2003-2005; membership coordinator 2001-2003)
  • contributed chapter "Software for Database Indexing" to Software for Indexing (Schroeder, ed.): American Society for Indexing, 2003.
  • yearly participant in panel discussion for Wayne State University School of Library and Information Science's course on indexing

 

Back-of-the-Book Indexing Projects

  • The Braces Cookbook, Vol. 1 (Waterman): The Discovery Box
  • The Braces Cookbook, Vol. 2 (Waterman): The Discovery Box
  • Business Leader Profiles for Students, Vol. 2 (Noce, ed.): Gale
  • Career Directions Handbook (Yena): McGraw-Hill
  • Crime and Punishment: Essential Primary Sources (Lerner, ed.): Thomson/Gale
  • Digital Human Modeling for Vehicle and Workplace Design (Chaffin): Society of Automotive Engineers
  • Elementary Number Theory, 6th ed. (Burton): McGraw-Hill
  • Elementary Number Theory, 7th ed. (Burton): McGraw-Hill
  • Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol, & Addictive Behavior, 2nd Ed.(Carson-DeWitt, ed.): Gale
  • Environmental Advocacy: Working for Economic & Environmental Justice, 1st ed. (Bryant): Morgan James Publishing
  • Environmental Advocacy: Working for Economic & Environmental Justice, 2nd ed. (Bryant): Morgan James Publishing
  • Environmental Crisis or Crisis of Epistemology? (Bryant): Morgan James Publishing
  • Environmental Issues: Essential Primary Sources (Lerner and Lerner, eds.): Thomson/Gale
  • Extremist Groups: Information for Students: Gale
  • Ford: The Dust and the Glory: Volume 2 (1968-2000) (Levine): Society of Automotive Engineers
  • Fourier Series and Boundary Value Problems, 7th ed. (Brown and Churchill): McGraw-Hill
  • Fundamentals of Chemical Reaction Engineering (Davis and Davis): McGraw-Hill
  • Fundamentals of Machine Elements, 2nd ed. (Hamrock et al): McGraw-Hill
  • Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine, 2nd ed. (Longe, ed.): Gale
  • Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine, 3rd ed. (Fundukian, ed.): Gale Cengage
  • Gale Encyclopedia of Diets: A Guide to Health and Nutrition (Longe, ed.): Gale
  • Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders, 3rd ed. : Gale Cengage
  • Gender Issues & Sexuality: Essential Primary Sources (Lerner, ed.): Thomson/Gale
  • Government, Politics & Protest: Essential Primary Sources (Lerner, ed.): Thomson/Gale
  • Heat Transfer, 9th ed. (Holman): McGraw-Hill
  • History of Mathematics, 7th ed. (Burton): McGraw-Hill
  • How Products Are Made, Vol. 6 (Longe, ed.): Thomson/Gale
  • How Products Are Made, Vol. 7 (Blanchfield, ed.): Thomson/Gale
  • Human and Civil Rights: Essential Primary Sources (Lerner, ed.): Thomson/Gale
  • Infectious Diseases: In Context (Lerner, ed.): Gale Cengage
  • New Catholic Encyclopedia, 2010 supplement (Dentino, ed.): Gale Cengage
  • New Dictionary of Scientific Biography (Koertge, ed.): Gale (member of index team)
  • Organic Chemistry: A Brief Course (Atkins and Carey): McGraw-Hill
  • Semiconductor Device Fundamentals (Neamen): McGraw-Hill
  • Technology Ventures: From Idea to Enterprise (Byers, Dorf & Nelson): McGraw-Hill
  • Volpe's Understanding Evolution(Rosenbaum): McGraw-Hill
  • The Winning Solar Car (Carroll): Society of Automotive Engineers
  • World Education Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition (Marlow-Ferguson and Lopez, eds.): Thomson/Gale
  • World of Forensic Science (Lerner and Lerner, eds.): Gale
  • UXL Encyclopedia of Biomes (Weigel, ed.): UXL/Gale
  • UXL Encyclopedia of Drugs and Addictive Substances (Bigelow and Edgar, eds.): UXL/Gale
  • UXL Encyclopedia of Weather and Natural Disasters (Hill, ed.): UXL/Gale

 

Database Indexing Projects

Over the years, I have indexed tens of hundreds of articles, essays and book chapters for online databases, using a controlled vocabulary/taxonomy. Subject matter covered includes medicine, social sciences, literary biography and religion.

 






Shana K. Milkie, Freelance Indexer