Vietnam Center & Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive News and Updates
Vietnam Archivist to join panel discussion at regional conference
Amy Hooker, C.A., Reference Archivist for the Vietnam Center and Archive, has been invited to participate in a panel discussion at this year’s annual meeting of the Society of Southwest Archivists in Houston, TX, on May 24, 2008. The panel is titled “CA-Wannabes: aWeb 2.0 Lifeline” and will discuss how Internet tools such as blogs, wikis, listservs, and chatrooms aid archivists in preparing for the Academy of Certified Archivists Examination. Ms. Hooker earned her archival certification in 2007.
Amy Hooker, C.A. joins the Vietnam Archive as our new Reference Archivist
The Vietnam Archive is pleased to announce that Amy Hooker, C.A. has joined the Vietnam Archive as the new Assistant Archivist for Reference. Ms. Hooker’s primary duties will involve responding to reference inquiries by email and telephone, as well as assisting patrons and researchers in our reading room. She will also contribute to the development of reference policies and public service projects to include online reference tools, outreach activities, and exhibits.
A native of Midland, Texas, Ms. Hooker earned a B.A. in Anthropology with a minor in History from Texas Tech University. She completed a master’s degree in Museum Science at TTU in 2000. As part of her degree program, Ms. Hooker completed an internship at the Juneau-Douglas City Museum in Juneau, Alaska. She returns to Tech after seven years at the Petroleum Museum in Midland, where she served as Director of Collections and Archives. She became a certified archivist in 2007. We are happy to welcome her to the team!
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Oral Historian Kelly Crager Publishes Book
Hell under the Rising Sun: Texan POWs and the Building of the Burma-Thailand Death Railway by Kelly E. Crager has been published this month by Texas A&M University, Military History Series. Dr. Crager is Assistant Archivist and head of the Oral History Project at TTU’s Vietnam Archive.
Project Archivist Hired to Process FVPPA Collection
The Vietnam Archive has hired Anna Mallett to process the Families of Vietnamese Political Prisoners Association (FVPPA) Collection. Anna comes to the Archive from Eastern Washington University in Cheney, Washington, where she recently completed a Master’s Degree in History. She previously worked at the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture in Spokane, and volunteered at the Idaho State Historical Library and Archives.
The FVPPA collection was donated to the archive in June 2005. The Archive received a $48,565 grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission to process the collection.
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