Yearbook Digitization
Items to Preserve
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All schools have a legacy that goes back to their founding, but nothing gives a sense of the school culture and community like the yearbook. Not just the pictures or the messages scribbled in the back, but the evolution of the classes, clubs, and sports though out the years. When did the Future Homemakers of America club disappear? When did the school start both boys’ and girls’ swimming teams? It’s a tangible record of the school’s history one year at a time.
No Need to Destroy History to Save It
When it comes to yearbooks, most scanning companies will want to use destructive scanning methods, such as slicing off the spine, to allow the pages to be sent through an automatic document scanner. This not only leaves the yearbook unusable as a regular book but also risks cutting off photos and text that are deep in the page gutter. Anderson Archival does things differently to ensure the preservation of the digital files and physical book. Our non-destructive digitization process uses a split table or v-cradle to carefully support the yearbook while capturing the entire page.
Schools and Universities
Schools and colleges – especially those with an extensive past – have so much local history preserved in the form of yearbooks. What a rich resource to take advantage of! Digitizing allows you to share those yearbooks with alumni and students without the risk of damage to the books themselves and allows a much more widespread audience to enjoy them.
The photos, notes, names, and activities are all searchable once they’ve been through our digitization process. Colleges and universities will be able to catalogue history using the digital files, and the digital copies will be preserved should any disaster befall the originals.
Public and Historical Research
With the popularity of genealogy research, the digitization of yearbooks is becoming increasingly helpful. Family members’ search for relatives and their history will be aided by the searchable-text feature, and they will be able to quickly find out what that person looked like, what they did, and a little more about who they were.
Historians or attorneys also find the digitization of yearbooks invaluable. You will instantly be able to search for the names or text needed instead of paging through countless physical books. Are you a representative of a school district or college, researcher, or historian? Then yearbook digitization is for you!
