| Exhibition Review | The Journal of American History, 90.1

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Virtual Vietnam Archive. Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409.
Permanent Internet archive, launched March 2002. Ronald B. Frankum Jr., archivist; Stephen F. Maxner, assistant archivist/oral historian; Mary Elizabeth McLain, assistant archivist/virtual archive; Curtis L. Peoples, assistant archivist/audio-visual; Justin Saffell, programmer II; Mary Ruth Thurmond, cataloger; Kevin Sailsbury, archival specialist; Ty Loveday, archival specialist.
Internet: access to a search engine and information on the Virtual Vietnam Archive and on donating materials <http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/> (Jan. 5, 2003).

In March 2002, the Vietnam Center at Texas Tech University announced the launch of the Virtual Vietnam Archive, aided by a grant of five hundred thousand dollars in federal funds to help digitize the extensive documentary, photographic, and audio holdings of the Vietnam Archive. According to the Friends of the Vietnam Center newsletter, the goal of the archive is to preserve "as complete a record as possible" of the Vietnam War, "not only the records of those who served in Vietnam but also the records of those in the anti-war movement who opposed America's involvement there" (March 2002, p. 1). The Virtual Vietnam Archive begins to make the Vietnam Archive's holdings available in digital format to scholars at remote sites. Although constituting only a small portion of the Vietnam Archive's materials, the World Wide Web-accessible virtual archive in July 2002 already included 24,000 documents, 45,000 photos or slides, 560 finding aids, and 150 oral histories. New documents arrive at the Vietnam Archive on a weekly basis, sent by veterans and scholars, but according to the assistant archivist and oral historian Steve Maxner, it will be years before they are all available on the Web (e-mail to Patrick Hagopian, July 16, 2002, in Hagopian's possession). . . .

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