Yearbooks Going Digital

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Link to May 16 Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel article, "A yearbook for the Facebook generation".

Excerpt: If an Appleton area start-up has its way, the yearbook, a time-bound high school tradition, will go digital.

Liveyearbook Inc. plans to begin a pilot project in September where 20 to 30 schools will use the company's Web-based platform to produce more dynamic yearbooks for the Facebook generation.

Hello audio, video, and archived content. Goodbye February deadlines, old-fashioned software, and the same book for each student.

Liveyearbook allows individual students to create a certain number of customized pages for their own yearbook and do things like sign and view each other's books online.

Coming to your library soon? Digital yearbook collections.

Retiring Guy wonders if the developers of these websites understand the library's role in providing access to a comprehensive collection of local yearbooks?

Related article:
High school yearbooks:  An essential part of a library's local history collection.  (10/30/2009)