Video: MSU Yearbook Going Back to Print

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STARKVILLE, Miss. (WCBI) – College students at Mississippi State University will soon have a new way to remember this past year they’ve been in school.

Mississippi State’s Reveille yearbook is going back to print for the first time since 2008.

“I think it’s nice for people to have some kind of, something to hold, a keepsake, a momento of their college experiences,” said Randall McMillen, digital project coordinator at the MSU library.

Especially since so many books are going online.

“What we used to have in our journals, our print journal area, is getting smaller and smaller each year and our online journal subscriptions or our e-journal subscriptions get greater each year,” he said.

But regardless, McMillen says digital is still good. It gives more people access to the yearbooks.

“Some, we have more than one, but they’re all very fragile, especially the older ones, so by digitizing, we allow more people to look at them without them having to be handled, and people can look at them without having to come here,” he said.

The MSU library has digital versions of the yearbooks from 1898 through 2007.

To see one for yourself, log onto their website, then click on the Reveille digital archive section.

If you’re a student and would like to order a copy of the 2013-2014 Reveille yearbook, log onto your MyState account, and click “Order Reveille.”

It costs $50, and will be ready in July 2014.