Argues in favor of summer delivery yearbooks, telling how they permit coverage of end-of-the-year school events. (GT)

Provides helpful ideas for students on the yearbook staff to create better publications by using themes that add interest throughout the yearbook. Encourages students and advisers to work hard and be creative. (MG)

Points out important aspects of well-designed yearbook covers, illustrating with discussions and photographs of covers from two award-winning yearbooks. (GT)

Suggests a method for organizing the room used by the yearbook staff and provides ideas for organizing tasks and materials. (TJ)

Suggests using yearbooks of the National Society for the Study of Education (NSSE) to get an historical perspective on the discipline. Includes a classification scheme of the yearbooks according to subjects and authors. (TJ)

Describes a five-step process for using research techniques of the nation's best newspapers to transform high school students into a professional sales staff. (RS)

Discusses how sensitive issues should be approached in a school yearbook, focusing on suggestions for covering the death of a student or faculty member. (MM)

Argues that anniversary yearbooks offer unique opportunities for schools to cover major anniversaries of their publications, their schools, and their communities. Offers numerous examples from around the country of different ways high school anniversary yearbooks have done just that. (SR)

The Yearbook of Education Law contains analyses of the previous year's federal and state court decisions that affect private and public elementary and secondary schools and higher education. The Yearbook provides summaries and analyses of relevant state appellate and federal trial and appellate court cases. Contents include: (1) Employees; (2)…

Examines the elements of a yearbook title page, offering suggestiions for thematic focus, type style and size, photography, and graphics. (HTH)

Discusses criteria for determining whether to develop a yearbook around a specific theme. (HTH)

Lists 10 ways in which yearbook staffs can help the movement of their books through the production process, thereby avoiding unnecessary delays and resulting in a better product. (RL)

Offers tips on improving the organizational communication between yearbook staff editors and photographers to ensure that the right pictures are taken at the right times. (RL)

Describes the successful organization of a high school yearbook staff into three-member teams, each responsible for layout, copy, and pictures for assigned spreads throughout the yearbook. (GT)

Explains that yearbook photographs can be grouped into various divisions, including candids, group photographs, portraits, and illustration/studio-type photographs. Provides important photographer guidelines for each group. Concludes with some overall suggestions on understanding photojournalism and how it relates to creating a better yearbook.…