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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's expansion requests in 1913 and the subsequent voter-approved library building tax in 1921 and 1925 foreshadowed its need for growth.
The tunnel bores through the Berkeley Hills east of Berkeley and Oakland a distance of 3.1 miles (5.0 km) [3] through a variety of rock strata, most of which are soft and porous. The earthquake-active Hayward Fault bisects the tunnel about 900 feet (270 m) inside the west portal (Oakland side).
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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 ...
To accomplish this, a temporary wooden trestle was built along Henry Street with tracks for the construction trains which was subsequently filled in with material excavated from the tunnel cut. [4] [5] A steel bridge was emplaced at Eunice Street. allowing auto traffic to pass under the tracks. This bridge was removed in 1959-60 after the Key ...
Berkeley Historic Civic Center District - Roughly bounded by McKinney Ave., Addison St., Shattuck Ave., and Kittredge St. Berkeley Public Library - 2090 Kittredge St. Berkeley Women's City Club - 2315 Durant Ave. Boone's University School - 2029 Durant Ave. Bowles Hall - Stadium and Gayley Way; California Hall - Oxford St.
Berkeley (/ ˈ b ɜːr k l i / BURK-lee) is a city on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California, United States.It is named after the 18th-century Anglo-Irish bishop and philosopher George Berkeley.
In 1948 Joeckel and Amy Winslow wrote A National Plan for Public Library Service published by the American Library Association. [3] In 1956, the ALA was finally able to persuade Congress to pass the Library Services Act, which provided funds for public library initiatives but did not extend to buildings or land. [4]