sentences:  The Society was founded in 1889 to take over the Index Library, which had begun life the previous year as W. P. W. Phillimore's private scheme for the publication of indexes to British public records, now the brief of the List and Index Society.The Society was also always interested in record conservation, and to act as what would now be called a pressure group for archives and their users, pushing for the creation of county record offices and county record societies.The inception of an official series of Lists and Indexes in 1892 reduced the need for private publication of indexes to records in the Public Record Office.