Arcadia has awarded Yale University Library a grant of $5 million dollars to be paid from 2009 to 2013 in $1 million instalments.

The grant will allow the library to continue its work dedicated to “preserving, cataloguing and digitising” published and unpublished documents from around the world.

Examples include a set of Cambodian newspapers from the early 1990s and work to microfilm the archive of the Khmer Rouge for Yale’s Cambodian Genocide Documentation project.

The library is home to a collection of materials from around the world, including documents from Latin America, Africa, Europe and Asia.

It will use a portion of the first payment of $1 million to help continue its work on cataloguing African-language materials.