An Anniversary Opportunity: Digitization of Student Yearbooks

Anniversary celebrations provide archivists and librarians with many unique opportunities to build public support for their programs. Archivists, in particular, are expected to be a resource for such events. Handled adroitly, anniversary programming can offset the “dusty shelf” stereotype that frustrates many professionals. Moreover, resource allocators planning an anniversary are likely to look to their archives for ideas and special projects, initiatives that may result in additional financial and staffing resources. Describing the positive public relations value of anniversaries, archivist Tim Ericson has gone so far as to suggest “The Archivist\u27s First Law of Outreach”: Human beings are unable to resist celebrating any anniversary divisible by twenty-five

L\u27Ami Yearbook, 2013

Yearbook of George Fox University, 58 pages, color.https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/yearbooks/1077/thumbnail.jp

Yearbooks RIP

The author looks at the decision by the Australian Bureau of Statistics to terminate many print publications, such as state and territory yearbooks, now that their strategy is to go 'all-electronic'

Maximizing Institutional Archives with Limited Resources: A Case Study

This practice-oriented article shares how one small institution on a tight budget without a fulltime archivist leveraged existing resources (human, technological, and physical) to maximize 75 years of institutional archives for a recent milestone alumni reunion. Projects included drafting an institutional history, interviewing long-time members of the institution, organizing photos for display, and providing alumni with access to yearbooks. Special attention is given to the process of creating a 20-minute institutional history video, which premiered at an alumni banquet and was shared with other constituents electronically. There is also a focus on project management and collaborating with coworkers in other departments. Part-time archivists or those who are beginning archival management will gain an approach to tackling projects and creating professional results

Education promoted secularization

Why did substantial parts of Europe abandon the institutionalized churches around 1900? Empirical studies using modern data mostly contradict the traditional view that education was a leading source of the seismic social phenomenon of secularization. We construct a unique panel dataset of advanced-school enrollment and Protestant church attendance in German cities between 1890 and 1930. Our cross-sectional estimates replicate a positive association. By contrast, in panel models where fixed effects account for time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity, education – but not income or urbanization – is negatively related to church attendance. In panel models with lagged explanatory variables, educational expansion precedes reduced church attendance

All The Things I Can\u27t Throw Away

In lieu of an abstract, below is the essay\u27s first paragraph. Taking after my mother now, I save receipts in the center billfold of my wallet. Loose change, half empty tubes of lipstick, gum wrappers. Postcards, photographs in albums, birthday cards, yearbooks signed by forgotten friends

The Shield 1988

Murray State University Yearbooks, 1988https://digitalcommons.murraystate.edu/yearbooks/1062/thumbnail.jp

06.01.004 Lesley College Publications, Yearbooks, 1924-2008

Formerly called The Lesleyan, this collection consists of yearbooks published annually by Lesley College for the graduating classes between the years 1924 to 2008. The yearbooks contain photographs of students, staff, faculty and organizations, providing a valuable historical view of Lesley University throughout the years. The yearbook was not published in 2007 and 2009-present. Yearbooks are also accessible online at the following site: http://digitalcommons.lesley.edu/yearbooks/ Yearbooks for 1925, 1927, and 1943 are available in the Archives in digital format only; Physical copies of these editions may be found at the Lesley University Office of Advancement