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#HappyNewYear 🎉

"For last year's words belong to last year's language, and next year's words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning." #TSEliot #HappyNewYear 🎉

#TodayInHistory: American writer and professor Isaac Asimov is born in Petrovichi, Russia (1920). During his lifetime, Asimov wrote or edited more than 500 books.

#TodayInHistory: (1892) Author J.R.R. Tolkien is born in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State (now South Africa). Fun fact: His first job after the war was as an assistant writer for the Oxford English Dictionary, working on the letter W.

#OnThisDay: Louise Braille is born in Coupvray, France (1809). The reading and writing system he created for the visually impaired remains virtually unchanged to this day.

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“Perhaps it is just as well to be rash and foolish for a while. If writers were too wise, perhaps no books would get written at all." ― Zora Neale Hurston #bornonthisday

"I for my part venerate the inventor of Indexes…that unknown labourer in literature who first laid open the nerves and arteries of a book." — Isaac D'Israeli, Literary Miscellanies

"Over time…the index [has been] accepted as a necessary component of any respectable book." #MarcusGee #QuoteoftheDay

In January's See Also, winners of 2024 Indexing Awards, vacancies on ASI board, "All About Indexing," working safely & productively, 2025 member logo, Chapters & SIGs news, send indexes for Canadian award, organize for taxes, and Spotlight Bill Wheaton. bit.ly/4jbAnZZ

"The #index organizes our lives." - Dennis Duncan

"The humble back-of-book index is one of those inventions that are so successful, so integrated into our daily practices, that they can often become invisible." - Dennis Duncan

"You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book!" - Dr. Seuss

#OnThisDay: Peter Roget is born in London, England (1779).

Happy #MLKDay!

"Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know." - Alberto Manguel

#OnThisDay: Virginia Woolf is born in London, England (1882).

#OnThisDay: Lewis Carroll is born in Cheshire, England (1832).

"It's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then." #LewisCarroll #AuthorBirthdays

In April See Also, read about: annual conference, "Spring Into Action"; workshop on Regular expressions; voting for ASI's board; annual meeting 5/17; Spring Key Words—coming soon; building mentorships; client types on Playground; Spotlight—Anthony Fazio! bit.ly/4l4X9Ua