Building Online High School Digital Archives: Complete Guide to Preserving School History
High schools face a critical challenge in the digital age: decades of irreplaceable historical materials—yearbooks, photographs, newspaper clippings, athletic records, and institutional documents—deteriorate in storage rooms while remaining largely inaccessible to students, alumni, and researchers who could benefit from them. Paper yellows, photographs fade, and magnetic media degrades, threatening the permanent loss of institutional memory that defines school identity and community connections.
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Digitizing Yearbooks: Complete Guide to Preserving School Memories for Generations
For over a century, yearbooks have documented school life, preserved student memories, and captured the essence of each academic year. Yet physical yearbooks face inevitable challenges: they deteriorate over time, get lost or damaged, take up valuable storage space, become difficult to access as they age, and often exclude students unable to afford purchasing copies. Many schools discover their yearbook archives incomplete, with critical years missing entirely due to lost volumes or damaged copies.
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