Learned Publishing : The Bell Years

The October 1996 issue of Learned Publishing was the last to be edited by Hazel Bell. For one who has greatly regretted her lack of editorial training, ten years (1987-96) is a good spell to clock up on one journal, and it is the ten-year rule which sees Hazel leaving this role. HKB came to the job internally as she had been the Society of Indexers’ representative to ALPSP (Council member from 1984) for some time. She was and is a busy professional indexer (450 or so compiled to date) and incidentally a teacher, who would over the years dash off from time to time on some assignment, usually in the field of English lit, the subject of her Reading degree.