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African National Congress Picks University of Connecticut as RepositorySouth Africa's ruling African National Congress signed an agreement March 1 with the University of Connecticut making it the official North American repository for the archives of the ANC's struggle against apartheid. The university will assist the ANC in compiling oral histories of its leaders and will train archivists from South Africa so they can return home to work in archives there. In return, copies of all the material will reside on microfilm or electronically in the Archives and Special Collections of the university's Thomas J. Dodd Research Center. The center's director, Thomas Wilsted, told American Libraries that one South African intern has already begun training at UConn. He revealed that the agreement also calls for an annual conference on comparative human rights to take place in alternate years in South Africa and the United States and for the publication of a biannual journal on the subject, which the university claims will be the first of its kind. Posted March 8, 1999. |
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