Some of author Mark Twain’s hair and a note from his secretary Isabel Lyon in the Mark Twain project room at the UC Berkeley Bancroft Library in Berkeley, Calif., on Tuesday, May 21, 2024.

Opinion: UC Berkeley should stop planned library closures The university says it can’t find the money in its $3.1 billion budget to keep three of them open ...

Sit-in of UC Berkeley Anthropology library continues 03:11. BERKELEY - On Tuesday, the occupation of UC Berkeley's anthropology library entered its fifth day, with students demanding that it be ...

UC Berkeley intends to shrink the number of libraries from 23 to 10 “hub” libraries, and seven “satellite” libraries, the latter with very limited hours, and without a librarian in attendance.

The UC Berkeley Anthropology Library is one of just three of its kind in the nation, with the other two housed on the campuses of Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania. As of Sunday, ...

The restructuring comes after the UC Berkeley Library initiated a review process last fall to “refresh its strategic plan,” per a proposal written in October 2022.

On July 15, the Anthropology Library Occupation announced on Instagram it had “won an open public UC Berkeley Anthropology Library.” “The strength of our occupation forced the university to negotiate ...

A group of University of California at Berkeley students is in its fourth day of an open-ended occupation of the school's anthropology library in an effort to thwart plans for its closure.

The library is a place where students do this together. I know because I spent hours every week at the tables and among the stacks as a graduate student in Berkeley’s anthropology department.