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This tradition dates back to the Shattuck family donations of 1893 and 1903 and culminated in the overwhelming voter approval of a special post-Prop.13 library tax in 1980. Berkeley's initial public library building, funded by a Carnegie grant in 1903, was designed by John Galen Howard, the Beaux Arts architect of the University of California ...
The library system also contains many other departmental and specialized libraries, including the 580,000 volume Marian Koshland Bioscience, Natural Resources & Public Health Library, the C. V. Starr East Asian Library (the largest of its kind in the West), and the Jean Gray Hargrove Music Library, which features more than 260,000 books ...
The University Library began re-envisioning Moffitt Library with the renovation of Floors 4 and 5 in 2016, [3] transforming them into a flexible, 24-hour environment for individual and group study. The renovated floors provide a variety of spaces including open casual seating, meeting rooms for brainstorming and group projects, and nooks and ...
The Gardner (Main) Stacks is a four-story underground structure consisting of 52 miles of bookshelves, most of which are mobile shelving.It is home to 2.3 million of the 4.5 million volumes in Doe Library's research collection; the rest are stored off-campus at the Northern Regional Library Facility in Richmond.
Occupy Cal occupied UC Berkeley's anthropology library for 3 days following cuts to library hours and resources. On January 19, 2012, following a noon-time rally by the larger Occupy Cal community, a group of roughly 100 students, faculty, and staff occupied the anthropology library and sent their demands [12] to the administration. [13]
Hubert H. Bancroft, the library's founder and namesake Bancroft Library (c. 1890) at 1538 Valencia Street. The Bancroft Library's inception dates back to 1859, when William H. Knight, who was then in Bancroft's service as editor of statistical works relative to the Pacific coast, was requested to clear the shelves around Bancroft's desk to receive every book in the store having reference to ...
2013 Wikipedia Loves Libraries meetup. Sunday, February 9, 2014.Berkeley Public Library downtown. Saturday, November 16, 2013.South Branch of the Berkeley Public Library. 1pm to 5pm.
A new library was completed in 1960 on its former site. 94: San Diego San Diego: Jul 7, 1899: $60,000 Demolished in 1952. San Diego received California's first Carnegie grant in 1899, with a large well detailed Classical Revival library building opening in 1902. The San Diego Public Library system continues elsewhere. 95: San Francisco Main San ...