One of the many prestigious projects that have teamed up with the archival research center is the Shoah Foundation's Access to History project. ARC currently is helping to support the Shoah Foundation's cataloging of video interviews with Holocaust survivors and witnesses who reside in California. The ultimate goal of this joint project is to provide schools, libraries and other centers of learning with broader digital access to the Shoah Foundation's collection of more than 50,000 eyewitness Holocaust testimonies. Other key partners include the Automobile Club of Southern California, the California Historical Society, the Chinese Historical Society of Southern California, the Huntington Library and the Los Angeles City Archives. The research center received a major boost at the end of 2000 when it entered into a wide-ranging agreement with the city of Los Angeles that clears the way for extensive cooperation in the digitization and wide distribution of the city's voluminous records. By initiating partnerships with these and other institutions, the ARC will continue to enhance USC's position as an international center of academic research. Previous