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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.
As of 2024, Berkeley's library system holds materials in more than 400 languages and includes more than 14 million volumes. [1] The libraries together cover over 12 acres (49,000 m 2 ) of land and compose one of the largest library complexes in the world. [ 2 ]
The library is home to the Mark Twain Papers, an extensive collection of the private manuscripts, sketches, essays, poems, notes, photographs and letters of Samuel Clemens’ works as Twain. [2] At the library's entrance is a statue of Clemens holding a copy of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , sculpted by Gary Lee Price . [ 3 ]
Moffitt Library exterior Moffitt Library interior. The James K. Moffitt Undergraduate Library, simply known as Moffitt Library, is a library situated at the crossroads of the University of California, Berkeley, designed by American activist John Carl Warnecke [1] in the late 1960s as a cutting-edge library for undergraduates
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 ...
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]
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On July 27, 2021, all ten campuses went live with UC Library Search, a unified systemwide library catalog based on the Ex Libris Alma/Primo platform. [2] The UC libraries also manage a digital library, the California Digital Library or CDL. They also hold special collections and electronic archives of research documents.