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Viet Stories Project records
MS.SEA.069
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Contributing Institution:
Special Collections and Archives, University of California, Irvine Libraries
Title: Viet Stories Project records
Identifier/Call Number: MS.SEA.069
Physical Description:
5 Linear Feet
Physical Description:
6065.182 Gigabytes
Date (inclusive): 2011-2019
Condition Description: Materials in good condition. One hard drive incompatible with local drives and unable to be accessed as of 2022-04-07.
Language of Material: Collection includes oral histories in English, Vietnamese, Cantonese, and Mandarin.
"Viet Stories: Vietnamese American Oral History Project at the University of California, Irvine actively assembles, preserves,
and disseminates the life stories of Vietnamese Americans in Southern California. The project contributes to expanding archives
on Vietnamese Americans with the primary goal of capturing first-generation stories for students, researchers, and the community.
Launched in 2011, VAOHP is housed in the Department of Asian American Studies in the School of Humanities and collaborates
with the UCI Libraries Southeast Asian Archive."(From https://sites.uci.edu/vaohp/about)
The collection is comprised of audio recordings, transcripts, time logs, photographs, correspondence, marketing and promotional
materials, administrative files, books, electronic records, and related material documenting the establishment and development
of the VAOHP/Viet Stories project at the University of California, Irvine and in the Southern California region, founded by
Dr. Linda Trinh Vo, Professor in the Department of Asian American Studies.
This collection contains digital materials and is minimally processed. It may contain restricted materials. Please contact
the Department of Special Collections and Archives in advance to request access. Access to original audio and video recordings
is restricted; researchers may request listeing or viewing copies.
Property rights and copyright reside with the University of California. For permission to reproduce or to publish, please
contact the Head of Special Collections and Archives.
Gift of Linda Trinh Vo, 2019.
Viet Stories Project records. MS-SEA-069. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California. [Date
accessed].
For the benefit of current and future researchers, please cite any additional information about sources consulted in this
collection, including permanent URLs, item or folder descriptions, and box/folder locations.
Collection Scope and Content Summary
"Viet Stories: Vietnamese American Oral History Project at the University of California, Irvine actively assembles, preserves,
and disseminates the life stories of Vietnamese Americans in Southern California. The project contributes to expanding archives
on Vietnamese Americans with the primary goal of capturing first-generation stories for students, researchers, and the community.
Launched in 2011, VAOHP is housed in the Department of Asian American Studies in the School of Humanities and collaborates
with the UCI Libraries Southeast Asian Archive."(From https://sites.uci.edu/vaohp/about/) The collection is comprised of audio
recordings, transcripts, time logs, photographs, correspondence, marketing and promotional materials, administrative files,
books, electronic records, and related material documenting the establishment and development of the VAOHP/Viet Stories project
at the University of California, Irvine and in the Southern California region, founded by Dr. Linda Trinh Vo, Professor in
the Department of Asian American Studies.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Vietnamese Americans -- California -- Orange County -- History -- Sources
Vietnamese Americans -- Interviews.
Oral histories -- California -- Irvine -- 21st century