Yearbook

For other uses, see Yearbook (disambiguation).
A 1942 copy of the yearbook La Ventana from Texas Technological College (now 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.[1] From 1995 to 2013, the number of U.S. college yearbooks dropped from roughly 2,400 to 1,000.[2]

  1. ^ Dern, Daniel. "In the Facebook era, will printed yearbooks survive?". betaBoston. The Boston Globe. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
  2. ^ Smith, Susan (17 June 2013). "The Future of the Venerable Yearbook". cmreview.org. College Media Review. Retrieved 9 October 2015.