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Spring 2006 Friends of the Vietnam Center Newsletter Now Available Online (Vol.13, Issue 2)
The Sping 2006 issue of the Friends of the Vietnam Center Newsletter is now available for download on the Vietnam Center newsletters page.
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2005 Pleiku-Ia Drang Veterans 40th Anniversary Commemoration Videos now available
Session Videos and Oral History videos are now available online at the links below. Versions are available for both high-speed and slower connections. As of this posting, not all videos are currently available, but more are being added daily.
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Session Videos from the 2006 ARVN Conference Now Available Online
Conference session videos for ARVN: Reflections and Reassessments After 30 Years now available online at the link listed below. There are versions of the videos for both high-speed and for slower connections.
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Former ARVN fighter shares insights into Vietnam War
Lubbock Avalanche-Journal online
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Funding cuts hit Tech’s Vietnam archive
Federal Funding cuts cause the Vietnam Archive to let go of its graduate student assistants
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Vietnam Experience Symposium at Texas A&M University-Kingsville Tuesday, April 18
A symposium on the U.S. involvement in Vietnam as seen through the eyes of historians, veterans, and the family members and survivors of those who served. More information about this event can be found at the link listed below.
Vietnam Experience Symposium sponsored by Texas A&M University-Kingsville
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Winter 2006 Friends of the Vietnam Center Newsletter now available online (Vol. 13, Issue 1)
The Winter 2006 issue of the Friends of the Vietnam Center Newsletter is now available for download on the Vietnam Center newsletters page.
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The Vietnam Archive Will Be Closed on Friday, March 17
The Vietnam Archive will be closed on Friday, March 17, 2006 in observance of the University Spring Break Holiday and our reading room will not be available to researchers on that day. Visitors attending the ARVN conference will have the opportunity to sign up for a scheduled tour of the Archive at the registration table at the conference hotel.
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The Virtual Vietnam Archive 2005 Update
On September 1, 2005, the Virtual Vietnam Archive started its fifth year of work, resulting from very strong support from the US Congress and funding through the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The Virtual Vietnam Archive continues to grow at a remarkable rate. With more than 2.3 million pages and in excess of 300,000 individual records, it is the largest online archive of Vietnam War related materials in the world. We add approximately 30,000 – 35,000 pages of new material online each month making the Virtual Vietnam Archive a very dynamic electronic research resource.
What is most rewarding about placing archive collections online is the knowledge that they are being used. In 2005, the Virtual Vietnam Archive accommodated nearly 245,000 online research sessions. That means researchers, veterans, and others went online more than 660 times per day to search the Virtual Vietnam Archive for documents and materials. That is more researcher traffic than most of the world’s largest and most important archival facilities. The digital era truly has transformed the way in which historical research is conducted. Virtual Vietnam Archive researchers downloaded more than 934,000 documents, photos, and other online artifacts – a total of more than 1.12 Terabytes of material.
To access these and numerous other online collections, please visit www.vietnam.ttu.edu and access the Virtual Vietnam Archive.