"High School Yearbooks Go High-Tech?"
By Chip Guy
Sussex Bureau Reporter, October 21, 2003

...The yearbook discs are similar to the bonus disc that comes with some DVD movie rentals, with extras that the printed book cannot offer: oodles of pictures, videos and audio clips of life in high school.

...Called a yearbook CD supplement, the discs are one of the newest products offered by the yearbook publishing business, and some industry leaders predict they will grow increasingly popular with a generation raised in a digital age of computers, instant messages and cell phones doubling as cameras.

..."It's really kind of up-and-coming technology," said Sussex Central yearbook adviser Carole Hunt. "The wonderful thing about this is you can put so much on it." Stephanie said she keeps her disc next to the computer at home in Georgetown, and views it from time to time. Her printed yearbook is on a shelf in her bedroom.  "I think it's a lot easier to look at and find things, and a little more practical," she said.

...It came out a lot better than we expected it to. This year, we know a lot more about what we're doing, and it's going to come out even better."

..."To be able to see and hear, to see movement and hear voices, is just too important a part of that 'memory preservation' to think that it'll go away," Brown said. "It's priceless.

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