Moira Greenhalgh BSc MCLIP FSI

"So essential do I consider an Index to be to every book, that I propose to bring a Bill into Parliament to deprive an author who publishes a book without an Index of the privilege of copyright, and, moreover, to subject him, for his offence, to a pecuniary penalty."

Baron Campbell (1799-1861 Scottish lawyer and politician; Lord Chancellor 1859)
Lives of the Chief Justices, Preface to Vol III

"Some books live or die by their indexes. An index can be the determining factor in whether a reference book is useful ... Pity the poor indexer! Most readers take good indexes for granted and curse bad ones and, in either event, give little thought to the people who created them."

Michael Gorman
Our singular strengths; meditations for librarians
Chicago; American Library Association, 1998

"God is in the details."

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, b. 1886, d. 1969

Stonehenge