Note: I originally prepared this web page while working for the Indochina Center of the University of California at Berkeley. I left the job in March 2002 due to its difficult funding situation, and now work full time at the main library of U.C. Berkeley. Below is a description of the Indochina Center holdings. - Stephen Denney

The Indochina Center of the University of California, Berkeley, contains one of the largest collections in the world of English-language materials on Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. The heart of the collection comprises approximately 225 file cabinet drawers (525 linear feet) of government documents, press clippings, and private papers stored in vertical files and organized by subject.

The collection was founded and developed by Douglas Pike from the time he was a U.S. Foreign Service officer in Vietnam, and continued to develop under his direction after he came to Berkeley in 1981 until 1997 when he moved to the Vietnam Center at Texas Tech University, as the university here could no longer support the collection and his work as head of the UCB Indochina Studies Project. At the time, Mr. Pike had intended to take all the files with him to Texas Tech, but was prevented from doing so by the university here. So he left behind about half of the files, dealing with post-1975 conditions in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, along with many files on North and South Vietnam during the war, and microfiche of most of the Vietnam war files which went to Texas Tech.

Mr. Pike passed away on May 13, 2002 and his presence will be deeply missed. Click here for a tribute to him by the TTU Vietnam Center. The TTU Vietnam Center has placed many of his donated files online at its virtual archive (see links below).

The Indochina Center also includes a recently expanded collection of contemporary serials from Vietnam, now the largest collection in the San Francisco Bay Area, and about three file cabinets of materials from the former Indochina Resource/Southeast Asia Resource Center, a major antiwar research organization from the 1970s and 1980s.

The Indochina Center is now under the Center for Southeast Asia Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Use of the collection is free and open to the public. However, because it is presently closed, one must contact the Center for Southeast Asia Studies in order to use the facility.

• Indochina Center collection. A listing of the files and serials received of the Indochina Center of U.C. Berkeley, including estimated file footage.

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