Vietnam Center & Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive News and Updates

Wednesday, December 20, 2000

Congress Allots $461,000.00 for Virtual Vietnam Archive

The Vietnam Archive at Texas Tech University received $461,000.00 from the United States Government in order to digitize the materials in its collections. The Virtual Vietnam Archive will make available to an international audience vast amounts of materials related to the Wars in Southeast Asia. All online materials will be indexed allowing for keyword search capability and the rapid retrieval of digital copies of documents, photographs, slides, and other archival materials. People who donate materials to the Vietnam Archive will benefit form knowing that their materials can be made accessible to a global audience through the internet. Researchers, students, and the interested public will be able to view original documentation from the convenience of their computers at home, school, work, the library, and anywhere else they have internet access. The project is expected to take four years to complete at a cost of approximately $2 million. The infrastructure created and personnel supported with this federal funding will allow for the continual addition of materials into the Virtual Vietnam Archive as new collections are received for many years to come.

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