Who can access the VHA?
Anyone using the UNC-Chapel Hill campus network can access the VHA testimonies, including those not affiliated with UNC, who they can access the archive from the public terminals in Davis Library. (Ask at the Reference Desk for the public terminals as well as for headphones and help getting started if necessary.) The archive is available to compliment and enrich classroom curricula, for research and for personal enrichment. Users of the VHA must have access to Internet Explorer and Windows Media Player (for Windows users) or Safari and QuickTime (for Macintosh users). Users can conduct a variety of searches using a hierarchical thesaurus of about 50,000 graphic and experimental keywords as well as the names of every person mentioned in the testimonies and biographical information for each interviewee. Users can request testimonies already available on the local RENCI cache or request that testimonies be uploaded from the Los Angeles-based archive.
