A lot of the material collated in this digital public history sat in a secluded corner of the Africa Media Matrix (AMM). Documents, newsletters, files, records, letters, copies of administrative forms, architectural plans, tutorials, course outlines, student handbooks; a trove of archival treasures; a treasure chest of the department. The informal archive was disorganized, flopping, held together by a couple of strands and without any kind of categorization, index or themes; only a pink "JMS History do not throw out please" sign which was, and still is, being obeyed. 

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What made this collection all the more interesting was the collector. The one who had been curating this material, keeping it together through the times —  someone who had been with and in the department almost throughout its entire evolution; Guy Berger.