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fdl-indexing.com
jfuhr@earthlink.net
Evanston, Illinois
847-475-3976 (home)
847-493-9346 (cell)

Professional Associations
American Society for Indexing
Chicago/Great Lakes Chapter of ASI

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Fleur de Lys is a back-of-the-book indexing service encompassing a spectrum of published materials:
product catalogs, trade books, reference works, and scholarly material. We work in Sky Index as well as
WordEmbed for CUP-XML.

A Ph.D. in Comparative Literature with minors in Art History and Film History,
six years as staff lecturer in the Department of Museum Education at the Art Institute of Chicago,
and one year on the faculty of the School of the Art Institute
serve as background in preparation for the indexing of scholarly and trade books on:

Architecture
Art Catalogs
Art History and Criticism
Ceramics
Decorative Arts
Film History
Painting
Sculpture
World Literature: History and Criticism

Furthermore, we specialize in selected areas of French Studies, including, but not limited to:

The French Revolution
The 18th century
The Siege of Paris and the Commune of 1871
The occupation, resistance, and liberation of France during World War II
French art history and criticism
French literature and literary criticism
(Indexes can be created in English from French texts.)

Other areas of interest and expertise include:

American History
Astronomy
Criminology
Civil War
International Studies
Natural History in Sciences
Photography
Politics and Political History
Sports
Urban studies
World War II

Unsolicited commentaries regarding indexing before, during, and after the indexing process:

				[Before]

This is very good. Thank you for getting started so quickly. I wholeheartedly approve of your approach so far. 
If your indexes are as thorough as your e-mails, I can’t go wrong in hiring you.--Michelle R. Boyd, author of Jim Crow Nostalgia.

								       [During]

[Regarding certain editorial suggestions. Indexers serve as editors as well.] This is spectacular!! 
Your comment about [these issues] is correct.--John Ochsendorf, author or Guastavino Vaulting.

You’re invaluable as an indexer and proofer.--Brandy Savarese, Editorial Director, Columbia College Chicago Press.

Thanks so much, Jim. You’re tearing through it and doing a superb job. We are so grateful for the speedy
turnaround and all your close checking. -- Russell Clement, head of the Art Collection Northwestern University Library.

									[After]

I looked up random topics in the index, and it looks wonderful. I couldn't be happier! Thanks so much for
doing such a thorough job. It's better than most indexes I see.--Michelle R. Boyd

I cannot thank you enough for your outstanding work. You are exceptional in every way and I'm very grateful to you.--John Ochsendorf, author or Guastavino Vaulting.

It certainly is a GRAND INDEX!!! Much grander than I expected! Thank you for all your hard work.--Victor Cassidy, author of Sculptors at Work.

Training in Indexing:

“Indexing: Theory and Application,” University of California, Berkeley Extension (Sylvia Coates, instructor)
“Introduction to Indexing,” Chicago (Fred Leise, past president of the American Society for Indexing, instructor)

Languages:

I speak, read, and write French and have studied Russian, Italian, and Ancient Greek.

Translation Courses:

“Independent Study: French Translation, Theory and Practice”
(Richard W. Saunders, American University, Washington, DC, instructor)

Presses:

Cambridge University Press(standard indexing & CUP-XML WordImbed)
The Center for American Places at Columbia College
Greenhaven Press (Gale,Cengage Learning)
Information Age Publishing
The Johns Hopkins University Press
McFarland & Company
Northwestern University Department of Special Collections
Northwestern University Press
Ruder Finn
Oxford University Press
State University of New York Press, Albany
University of Minnesota Press