About Me

My name is Gina Guilinger and I am the owner and operator of Weight of the Word Indexing Service. I am a member of the American Society for Indexing, serving on the Executive Board (2019-2024), and as President of ASI (2022-2023). I have also served as the Chair of the ASI Membership Committee. I am an active member of the following ASI Special Interest Groups (SIGs): Culinary Indexing SIG, Gardening and Environmental Studies SIG, and History/Archaeology SIG. I am a member of the Rocky Mountain Area Chapter of ASI, where I served on the Executive Board as Vice Chair and Chair from 2012-2016. I am also a member of The Indexing Society of Canada and Editorial Freelancers Association. I am a graduate of the UC Berkeley Indexing Theory and Application course. I received my BA in Law, Societies, and Justice from the University of Washington.

My background includes 15 years experience in independent bookstores in Seattle and Denver; 9 years in various positions with UPS, including Import/Export, Dispatch, and Supervisor; and 20 years as a freelance research and technical assistant for World Industrial Minerals, a mining and minerals consulting firm. Additionally, I have been a remote contract indexer for Alexander Street, part of Clarivate, indexing a wide variety of video, print, and archival products from 2013-2020 and 2022-2024 and a remote contract indexer for WARC, indexing marketing case studies from 2023–present.

I participated in the 1940 US Census Community Project as a volunteer indexer and was a former member of the Shrine of St. Anne Directory Team. I have written guest posts about indexing for the blogs, At Least We're Here, and Message in a Bottle. I was featured in the Spotlight section of the April, 2022 issue of ASI's monthly newsletter, See Also.

A note about generative AI: Weight of the Word Indexing Service does not input or use any content, data, or information provided by clients or created by Weight of the Word Indexing Service into any generative or predictive artificial intelligence software, programs, or models.

If you are interested in indexing as a career, I would love to answer any questions you have via email or Zoom and send you a list of resources!