Yearbook Digitization Project
The Yearbook Digitization Project from LVA allows people to browse yearbooks online from high schools across Virginia. Funded by the Library Services and Technology Act, the collection currently includes yearbooks dating from 1912 to 1977.
The idea for the project began in 2012 after LVA loaned scanners and other equipment to Virginia public libraries for digitizing their local history collections. Library staff members noticed that high school yearbooks made up the bulk of the scanning, but the libraries didn’t have a good way to make them available to the public—thus, an idea was born.
Since then LVA has coordinated the scanning of yearbooks from public libraries and made them available online through the Library of Virginia. While most of the digitized yearbooks came from public library collections, some were donated or loaned for scanning by school alumni groups, historical societies, and individuals.
Here is a sample yearbook: Alleghany Highlands Regional Library (7/2017)
Visit this libguide or contact project manager Jessi Bennett, Digital Collections Specialist, (804-692-3793 or jessica.bennett@lva.virginia.
