yearbook
Sign in to saveAlso known as chronicled year, year book, almanac, annual
thumb|A 1942 copy of La Ventana, the yearbook of Texas Technological College, later renamed Texas Tech University A yearbook, also known as an annual, is a type of a book published annually. One use is to record, highlight, and commemorate the past year of a school. The term also refers to a book of statistics or facts published annually. A yearbook often has an overarching theme that is present throughout the entire book.
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Encyclopedic overview
30 sectionsContents
- History
- Yearbooks by country
- Australia
- Publishing
- India
- Nigeria
- South Africa
- United States
- U.S. military
- Production and distribution
- Compilation
- Sections
- People (seniors, underclassmen, faculty)
- Student life
- Academics/education
- Organizations
- Sports
- Advertising pages
- Index
- Colophon
- Signature or autograph page
- Design
- Publication
- U.S. printing companies
- Distribution
- Digital yearbooks
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|A 1942 copy of La Ventana, the yearbook of Texas Technological College, later renamed Texas Tech University A yearbook, also known as an annual, is a type of a book published annually. One use is to record, highlight, and commemorate the past year of a school. The term also refers to a book of statistics or facts published annually. A yearbook often has an overarching theme that is present throughout the entire book.
Many high schools, colleges, elementary and middle schools publish yearbooks; however, many schools are dropping yearbooks or decreasing page counts given social media alternatives to a mass-produced physical photographically oriented record. From 1995 to 2013, the number of U.S. college yearbooks dropped from roughly 2,400 to 1,000.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “yearbook” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.