Lucy Temperley Metzger
Advanced Professional MemberLocation | 67 Larkfield Road, LENZIE, East Dunbartonshire G66 3AS |
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Telephone | 07526 186753 |
Skills
- Copyediting
- Dictionary editing/lexicography
- Proofreading
- Americanizing
- Anglicising
- Rewriting
- Editorial training and mentoring
- Music reading
- Music transcription
- Music proofreading
Media
- Academic books and essay collections
- Academic journal articles
- Theses and dissertations
- Music education materials including listening tests
- University textbooks
- School textbooks
- College training materials
- Language-learning materials
- Dictionaries
- Encyclopedias
Qualifications and awards
- BA, French, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, USA
- Advanced Professional Member, CIEP
- SfEP accredited proofreader
Experience
Editorial
- Freelance editorial professional, since 1995
- Managing editor, Macmillan/Grove Dictionary of Art, Macmillan, 1993–95
- Manager, Proofs Department, Macmillan/Grove Dictionary of Art, Macmillan, 1992–93
- Desk editor, New Grove Dictionary of Opera, Macmillan, 1990–92
Management and administrative
- Professional standards director, CIEP, 2020–22
- External relations director, SfEP, 2018–20
- Vice-chair, SfEP, 2015–18
- Regional development director, SfEP, 2014–15
Training and mentoring
- Course tutor in copy-editing and proofreading, SfEP, 2013–15
- Mentor in copy-editing and proofreading, SfEP, 2012–16
Training and CPD
- Efficient Editing (SfEP) 2018
- CIEP Conferences: each year, 2014 to 2022
- SfEP Mini-conference Scotland 2014, 2018
- On-Screen Editing (SfEP) 2014
- Training for Trainers (SfEP) 2013
- Editing and Proofreading Music (SfEP) 2011
Principal clients
Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Bloomsbury, Routledge
Subjects
- Art history
- Art reference
- Business
- Cognitive science
- Economics
- English language teaching
- Fine art practice
- History
- International relations
- Management
- Music education
- Music history
- Music reference
- Philosophy
- Politics
- Psychology
- Sociology
- Visual art