On December 28, 2001, Congressman Larry Combest visited the Vietnam Archive at TTU to announce the reception of an additional $500,000.00 from the United States Government to continue digitizing the materials in its collections. The project is expected to take four years to complete at a cost of approximately $2 million. This additional funding will allow for the continual addition of materials into the Virtual Vietnam Archive as collections are received for many years to come. The Vietnam Archive has received $961,000.00 to date. You can read a local newspaper story about this project which was published in the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal (see link below). If you are interested in the Virtual Vietnam Archive Project or have any questions or comments, please contact the Vietnam Archive Staff.
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Oral History Project Update
We have added a new feature to our interviews online – Streaming Audio. Now you can listen to interviews. Just click the sound icon on the collection pages and your browser should automatically open and start playing the audio file. If that does not happen, we have instructions and links to where you can get your free copy of Windows Media Player.
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Virtual Vietnam Archive Update
The Virtual Vietnam Archive is now open to the public. You can access documents, photographs, and other materials online at the Virtual Archive Web Page (see link below).
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Vietnam Archive Oral History Project becomes Official Partner with Library of Congress Veteran History Project
The Veterans History Project was created by the U.S. Congress and signed into law on October 27, 2000. The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress is developing a program to collect and preserve audio and video recorded oral histories from America’s war veterans, along with documentary materials such as letters, diaries, photographs, and films. The American Folklife Center also will develop online presentations of the collection as part of the Library’s National Digital Library, to make this valuable resource accessible to the American people. In July, 2001, the director of the Veterans History Project approached the Vietnam Archive Oral History Project in order to establish an official partnership between the two institutions. We accepted and will continue our work in addition to assisting with the Library of Congress Project to record and preserve the experiences of American veterans.
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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.