I must concur. Most of the requests that I receive involve using the yearbooks to look up a father or grandfather who graduated in ages past. Of course there is a gap in our collection covering the 1960's to 1977, but I am requesting copies from our alumni to fill in these holes. I think they are very popular this year since it is our centennial year. -- James Wade Rare Books/Reserves Associate Paul M. Hebert Law Center Library Louisiana State University On 3/20/06 8:14 AM, "Todd Rudat" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Besides our student newspaper, our yearbooks are one of our most used and > valued research source covering the history of our university. The yearbook > ran from 1906-1999, when lack of student interest killed it. This fall I > will being doing our semester long exhibit on the yearbook to celebrate its > 100th anniversary and hopefully show the current crop of students that one of > the main avenues of preserving their history at the institution no longer > exists, unless they are willing to do something about it. > > Questions I answered just this past week using our yearbook collection: > 1) When was Harmon Killebrew's dad a student here and what teams/organizations > was he in. > 2) An alumni came in and got info about their father, also an alum, and the > wrestling team he was on. > 3) A community historical society seeking info on one of their early settlers > thought he was a 1910 Millikin grad, turns out that he graduated from the > academy (high school of the university), never from the University. > 4) Alumni relations needed info concerning a sororities history, it was found > in one of the yearbooks. > > I'm hoping our Fall exhibit will reinvigorate students to preserve their > history and restart the yearbook (it has always been a student driven/funded > project here in the past) > > Todd Rudat > Archives Associate > Millikin University > > A posting from the Archives & Archivists LISTSERV List sponsored by the > Society of American Archivists, www.archivists.org. > For the terms of participation, please refer to > http://www.archivists.org/listservs/arch_listserv_terms.asp. > > To subscribe or unsubscribe, send e-mail to [log in to unmask] > In body of message: SUB ARCHIVES firstname lastname > *or*: UNSUB ARCHIVES > To post a message, send e-mail to [log in to unmask] > > Or to do *anything* (and enjoy doing it!), use the web interface at > http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/archives.html > > Problems? Send e-mail to Robert F Schmidt <[log in to unmask]> A posting from the Archives & Archivists LISTSERV List sponsored by the Society of American Archivists, www.archivists.org. For the terms of participation, please refer to http://www.archivists.org/listservs/arch_listserv_terms.asp. To subscribe or unsubscribe, send e-mail to [log in to unmask] In body of message: SUB ARCHIVES firstname lastname *or*: UNSUB ARCHIVES To post a message, send e-mail to [log in to unmask] Or to do *anything* (and enjoy doing it!), use the web interface at http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/archives.html Problems? Send e-mail to Robert F Schmidt <[log in to unmask]>