The Dag Hammarskj?ld Library in New York has completed the digitization and indexing of statements by the second Secretary-General Dag Hammarskj?ld.?
These documents comprise, among others, speeches, lectures, press releases, commemorative statements, and poems in his honour.
Dag Hammarskj?ld died in a plane crash on 18 September 1961, in Ndola, Northern Rhodesia (modern Zambia).? Sixty years after his death, documents about his life continue to be widely sought by researchers and Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ personnel.
Among the digitised documents is the ,?which?documents the posthumous dedication of the Library in his honour. ??
A notable excerpt is the statement of the Ford Foundation representative: ¡°He saw the Library, not primarily as a building, but as a centre dedicated to peace.¡± ?
The words by the then President of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation in the same document still stand true to?library staff today:?¡°Those of us who work in the Library?[see it as] a fulfilment of a librarian's dream.¡±
The statements can now be accessed through the??including related?and copies of the?with content about?Dag?Hammarskj?ld.
