"The unique Nordic Collections consist of more than thirty thousand volumes, augmented by hundreds of pamphlets, reprints, articles, and extensive files of news releases from Scandinavian governments. The Collections began with the personal library of Waldemar Westergaard who started his teaching career at Pomona College before moving to UCLA. Shortly before World War II, he and a colleague David Bjork traveled up and down the Baltic photographing documents they could not buy. “Westy’s” heart remained with Pomona, and before his death in 1963, he bequeathed his library to Pomona College “for the promotion of research and related activities in the field of Northern European and Baltic history primarily but not exclusively Scandinavian.”