On how to improve the quality of yearbook

Yearbook is a modern reference book that systematically records and collects the progress data and important literature information of natural social and historical development in the previous year. Yearbook editing is a systematic project, involving many aspects, fields and links, and it is a systematic and continuous work that requires the full cooperation of all departments. Yearbook quality is a universal problem that runs through every link of yearbook editing, and each link has its own quality requirements. If there are quality problems in any link, then this yearbook can't become a boutique yearbook. Quality is the life, the value and the cornerstone of the yearbook's survival and development. It can be said that the quality of yearbook is the eternal theme of yearbook editing. Some opinions as an editor. First, innovate the yearbook framework. Frame innovation is the key to improve the quality of yearbook. Yearbook workers need to keep exploring and practicing with the spirit of keeping pace with the times and pioneering and innovating in order to achieve practical results and find a new way to improve the quality of yearbooks and prosper the cause of yearbooks. Because of different location, different resources, different humanistic advantages and different history, different economic development goals and measures have formed their own characteristics. The contents reflected in the yearbook should have distinctive local characteristics. The more obvious the local characteristics, the more vital the yearbook will be. "A framework without characteristics will inevitably lead to a mediocre yearbook". Fengdu County is located in the heart of the Three Gorges reservoir area and belongs to the flooded and relocated county. In recent years, the relocation of immigrants has always been the focus of work, so the "Three Gorges Immigrants" was written as an independent article, which described the process of immigration in detail. Yearbooks are the product of reform and opening up, and the new achievements, new models, new things and new problems of reform and opening up are the main contents recorded in yearbooks. Yearbook editors should keep pace with the times, grasp the hot, difficult and focal issues with the flavor of the times according to the development and changes of the situation, optimize, integrate, adjust and supplement the yearbook framework from the contemporary reality, and make the yearbook a veritable "mirror of the times". Fengdu Yearbook (volume 2006) added a column of "Charming Fengdu", which displayed Fengdu cultural relics, historical sites, special products, photos of patent projects and artistic film and television works of Fengdu authors with appreciation and preservation value, and became a window for people from all walks of life to understand Fengdu and know Fengdu. Yearbooks, with the surname "Nian", start from year to year and mainly record the events that happened in a place within one year, so they have a strong annual nature. In the design of yearbook frame, the frame structure should be adjusted appropriately every year to make it innovative every year. In mid-2005, the Central Committee launched an education campaign to maintain the advanced nature of Communist party member, which further consolidated the party's ruling ability. In this activity, Fengdu County was well prepared, studied solidly and achieved remarkable results. Party member's vanguard and exemplary role in * * * has been fully reflected and won unanimous praise from the central and municipal supervision teams. Therefore, when editing "Fengdu Yearbook (Volume 2006)", it will be put into the "special edition" section for key description. Second, take the data as the starting point and control the quality of the yearbook from the source. Editing a comprehensive yearbook is a government act, and most of the manuscript fees are paid by the government and departments. Facts have proved that this method is feasible under certain conditions, and the efficiency and authority of submission can be improved through administrative means. However, with the transformation from socialist planned economy to market economy, the transformation of market functional departments and the trend of cross-regional and cross-industry cooperation, the way of collecting yearbook manuscripts by administrative means will continue to weaken. Its limitations are more and more obvious, which are embodied in the following aspects: 1. With the deepening of reform, the role of the market is gradually enhanced, the functions of the government are gradually shrinking, and the information provided by departments is often incomplete, which is far from the current social situation. 2. Limitations of departmental contributors. Contributors are mostly office directors or secretary section chiefs, generally with college education or above, and their writing level is also high, but they are not very familiar with the writing style of yearbook, especially their main job is secretarial, and they are used to writing official documents, which is far from the writing of yearbook materials. 3. Editors are out of touch with writers. In daily life, editors rarely communicate with the contributors of the submitting units, lack systematic understanding of the departments, and are in a passive state. 4. Missing items. Some units without competent departments (such as cross-industry private enterprises) are easily overlooked, resulting in the lack of yearbook content. Most writers regard the yearbook as a publicity platform for their own achievements, reporting good news instead of worrying, and can't face the problems in their work correctly. To change these outstanding problems, we must carry out reform and innovation. Yearbooks only have a way out through reform and innovation. Innovation means constantly emancipating the mind, seeking truth from facts and keeping pace with the times. First, change passivity into initiative, and strengthen the communication and discussion between editors and contributors. Editors can change the "dead" state in the past, take the initiative to attack, often contact the author, hold forums or seminars for the author in the process of soliciting contributions, or often organize forces to go deep into relevant units, visit at home, check and supervise, study and solve difficulties and problems in writing in time, and ensure the quality of manuscripts. Second, give full play to subjective initiative and actively seek clues to obtain information. As the saying goes, "a clever woman can't cook without rice", but a clever woman can't wait for rice to cook. Yearbook workers should strive to improve their information literacy, keep an eye on all directions, take the initiative to attack, and be good at capturing and exploring new information in emerging fields and industries for yearbook use. This can not only improve the quality of the yearbook, but also reduce the pressure of highlighting the editorial manuscript. Third, the self-made manuscript and the special manuscript are organically combined to ensure the integrity of the content. The self-written articles of Fengdu Yearbook (Volume 2005) include preface, abstract, honor list, memorabilia, appendix and index, which greatly increases the information content of the Yearbook. When complex content writers can't explain clearly, they can invite senior people in the industry to write for them, which can ensure the quality of the yearbook. In this way, there are more channels for data sources, which is convenient for us to write about the development and changes of social things under the dual role of government and market from the social point of view. As long as it is conducive to yearbook compilation, we can boldly explore and practice, gradually standardize yearbook compilation, and then meet the requirements of scientific compilation. Third, grasp the responsible editor and let him really assume the "responsibility". The editor is the protagonist of running the yearbook well. Without a high-quality editor, there can be no high-quality yearbook. Responsible editing is the first step of yearbook editing process, which is very important. The editing quality ultimately affects and determines the quality of the yearbook. Therefore, responsible editors should pay attention to the following problems: First, responsible editors should improve their own quality and avoid pretending not to know. Yearbook editing is a comprehensive work involving all walks of life. It has strong professionalism and wide knowledge, and it is the unity of erudition and specialization. Therefore, editors are required to have a wide range of knowledge, and the more they know, the better. Because of the different majors, experiences and personal hobbies of editors, it is impossible for editors to understand the situation of each industry, and it is inevitable that they will encounter problems that they do not understand in their work. This requires editors not to be shy about asking questions, but to consult authors and colleagues, and never pretend to understand. Second, responsible editors should strengthen their sense of responsibility and avoid sloppy behavior. Yearbook review generally goes through three processes: responsible editor-deputy editor-in-chief and editor-in-chief The purpose is to strictly control the quality and prevent mistakes in the yearbook. Just because it is the third review, it is easy to cause the dependence of individual responsible editors, thinking that this level is only the first review. Anyway, there are two floors behind, and there is nothing wrong with making mistakes. This careless thinking must not exist. As a qualified editor in charge, even for the third time, we should take our own level as the last pass and make it perfect. Third, the responsible editor should have the spirit of cooperation and not fight alone. A yearbook is written by several authors and edited by the editorial department, which is a process of collective cooperation, including cooperation between editors and authors, and cooperation between editors. Because yearbook editing is a collective activity, which does not involve a person or a department, data often come from different departments, and different departments have different statistical caliber for data, so the data provided by different departments are inevitably contradictory. Moreover, the division of responsibilities of editors is different, and everyone is responsible for different departments and compiles their own manuscripts. They are busy with their own affairs, and it is easy to ignore the information communication between editors, which may lead to the repetition and contradiction of yearbook content. Therefore, the responsible editor should strengthen communication in the editing process, and the whole book must be consistent with the same problem and the same set of data, so as to ensure the authority of the yearbook as a reference book. Fourth, the responsible editor should choose the manuscript according to the actual situation. It is the responsibility of every responsible editor to choose the manuscript suitable for the characteristics of the yearbook, which requires the editor to have strong professional knowledge and keen insight, and combine the local conditions and characteristics to select materials, which is not determined by the editor's personal subjective will. For local comprehensive yearbooks, the selection criteria should adhere to the principle of "new, big, special and instructive". "Novelty" means choosing new information, "greatness" means choosing mainstream information, "specialization" means choosing distinctive things, and "learning" means choosing enlightening things. Without the creative work of editors and high-quality editing work, it is difficult to fully guarantee the quality of manuscripts and to ensure the printing and publication of high-quality yearbooks. As a yearbook editor, I am always buried in my desk and dealing with numbers and words, so I am boring. In addition to good political and professional qualities, one must also have the moral sentiment of being willing to be lonely and indifferent to fame and fortune, as well as the spirit of hard work and selfless dedication. He should constantly enrich himself, learn new knowledge and master new situations. Fourth, strictly control publishing. Local comprehensive yearbooks adopt the working mode of "one contribution for more than one sponsor", so it is a complicated process from writing to publishing, often involving hundreds of people. Publishing is the last process of yearbook writing, and it is also the most easily overlooked process. Some editors think that publishing is a publishing house's business, not theirs. This idea is incorrect. Yearbooks, as publications, must implement the Regulations on Publishing Management, Regulations on Book Quality Management, Specific Provisions on Compilation and other national laws and regulations on books, periodicals and magazines, and comprehensively improve the editing and proofreading quality of yearbooks. The manuscript submitted by the editor to the publishing house is far from the layout of the book, so it needs to be typeset again with typesetting software, and the adjustment in typesetting is easy to make mistakes, so proofreading is particularly important. Proofreading is the last quality control process to deal with, reduce and eliminate errors in yearbook editing. Through proofreading, the omission of editing is made up, which is a necessary continuation of editing work. The quality of proofreading is directly related to the publishing quality of yearbook. Usually, the system of three proofreading (primary proofreading, secondary proofreading and tertiary proofreading) is adopted. After the publishing house completes the first-level proofreading and the second-level proofreading, it edits and proofreads the manuscript, and then the publishing house completes the third proofreading, which can reduce the error rate. In proofreading, it is an important link to ask yearbook workers to improve the compilation quality, not only in content, but also in binding and printing. Of course, the quality of the yearbook goes far beyond these aspects mentioned by the author. It runs through the whole process of yearbook editing, involving all aspects. A high-quality yearbook must put the quality of the yearbook in a prominent position, and it is the unshirkable responsibility of every yearbook worker to continuously improve the quality of the yearbook. Only by attaching great importance to it and studying it seriously can we improve it day by day.