<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (January 2010) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (January 2010) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> An index (plural: usually indexes, more rarely indices; see below) is a list of words or phrases (' headings') and associated pointers (' locators') to where useful material relating to that heading can be found in a document or collection of documents . Examples are an index in the back matter of a book and an index that serves as a library catalog . </P> <P> In a traditional back - of - the - book index, the headings will include names of people, places, events, and concepts selected by the indexer as being relevant and of interest to a possible reader of the book . The indexer may be the author, the editor, or a professional indexer working as a third party . The pointers are typically page numbers, paragraph numbers or section numbers . </P>

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