LA Daily News: Cal State Dominguez Hills library takes over Holt Labor Library collection

“It’s sort of the greatest hits of world socialism, communism and the reaction to capitalism,”
Greg Williams, the director of archives and special collections at Cal State Dominguez Hills told the Los Angeles Daily News in reference to the Holt Labor Library collection.

The collection, originally started by early Apple employee Rod Holt, was recently added to the CSDH library's as the schools largest single donation along with $200,000 to pay for the school to have someone catalog the expansive archive.

The library hopes to begin making materials available to students and researchers within six months, but expect that it may take up to three years to fully understand the entirety of the collection which includes ephemera from decades of labor and political activism that, were it not for the efforts of the Holt Labor Library, would likely have been lost to wastepaper baskets long ago.

The collection, once made available, will certainly be a treasure trove for researchers looking into labor and left-wing political activism from around the world.