Coffee-fuelled connections: recent meetings between indexers and their professional cousins

Book indexing is a niche profession, its practitioners generally working alone with little or no face-to-face contact with either colleagues or clients. This article outlines how regular Zoom meetings organised by members of the Society of Indexers to combat this isolation have been extended to include editors and proofreaders and those working in library and information management. This is a personal account of the benefits of making contacts over coffee.