Want to relive your glory days or take a walk down memory lane to revisit the faces and places of your youth? The library now has Emmaus High School yearbooks in digital form on DVD for every year from 1950 to 2016 (except for 2011*) — 65 yearbooks in all, averaging 200 pages each.
The large yearbook preservation project was made possible by a grant and completed by Oklahoma Correctional Industries (OCI), a company that uses inmate labor to help schools, libraries and historical societies digitize yearbooks free of charge. Several area libraries have used OCI to digitize their yearbooks, including Whitehall, Parkland and Allentown.
While you can’t check the yearbook DVDs out of the library, you can come in and view them on one of our computers any time during library hours. The digital files are saved in searchable PDF format, making it easy to find the page or person you’re looking for.
The library also has some older yearbooks for random years dating back to the 1920s that are not yet digitized, but can be viewed in the library as well.
*If you have an Emmaus High yearbook from 2011, or any year from 2017-2019 that you’re willing to part with, please consider donating it to the library. Those are yearbooks the library doesn’t own that would make a valuable addition to the ‘Shelter House Collection’ of local history. This reference collection includes hundreds of books and documents, all available for in-library use by anyone doing genealogy research or needing information about local history. Go here for a list of items in the Shelter House Collection.
To view any of the Emmaus High School yearbooks (digital or non-digital), or other items in the Shelter House Collection, please ask at the desk.
