The Bancroft Library is the primary special collections library at the University of California, Berkeley. It is one of the largest and most heavily used libraries of manuscripts, rare books, and unique materials in the United States.
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- Location:
- Berkeley, CA, 94720-6000
- Phone:
- (510) 642-3781 Administration office, (510) 642-6481 Reference desk
- Mon - Fri:
- 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Events
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- Roundtable Discussion
Lewis-Latimer Room, Faculty Club, U...
Thursday, November 19 at 12:00pm - Panel Discussion: Darwin's En...
Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall
Wednesday, November 4 at 7:00pm - Roundtable Discussion
Lewis-Latimer Room, Faculty Club, U...
Thursday, October 15 at 12:00pm - The Bancroft Is Worth a Thousa...
120 Latimer, Pitzer Auditorium, UC ...
Saturday, October 3 at 2:30pm - Gallery Talk
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Friday, October 2 at 3:00pm - Gallery Talk
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Friday, October 2 at 1:30pm - Roundtable Discussion
Lewis-Latimer Room, Faculty Club, U...
Thursday, September 17 at 12:00pm
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The Bancroft Library Digital Object of the Day: How will YOU celebrate?: http://tinyurl.com/yj3vfe9
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Tune into KQED at 10am today to hear Bancroft director Charles
Faulhaber discuss the City Arts and Lectures collection of recordings
with Michael Krasny on Forum.
www.kqed.org
City Arts & Lectures Archive DonationCity Arts & Lectures has donated over 28 years of its guest interviews to the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley. The digital audio archives of more than 1,300 programs will be made available at UC Berkeley libraries and online campus terminals. ...
The Bancroft Library Photographs from the Bancroft's collection appear in new book, Japanese American Resettlement Through The Lens: Hikaru Carl Iwasaki and the WRA’s Photographic Section, 1943-1945.
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The Bancroft Library Digital Object of the Day: A sketch of the Galapagos Islands to commemorate the 1859 publication of Darwin's "On the Origin of Species": http://tinyurl.com/ybcs69p Come visit the exhibit being held at the Bancroft, Darwin and the Evolution of a Theory.
The Bancroft Library Digital Object of the Day: Today in 1852, a severe earthquake created a fissure through which the waters of Lake Merced flowed to sea: http://tinyurl.com/yfwu833
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The Bancroft Library Digital Object of the Day: Wheeler Hall on Dec. 8, 1964
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Digital Object of the Day: On Nov 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln gave an address as part of the dedication ceremony for a new national cemetery on the former site of the Battle of Gettysburg. http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf3n
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The Bancroft Library Digital Object of the Day: Mark Twain publishes "Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" today in 1865. It was during his stay here that he heard the story at a saloon in nearby Angels Camp: http://tinyurl.com/ybdvdmh
August 9/28. The Mark Twain Cabin halfway off the highway between Sonora, Tuolumne Co. and Angels Ca
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August 9/28. The Mark Twain Cabin halfway off the highway between Sonora, Tuolumne Co. and Angels Camp, Calaveras Co. Calif.
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New at ROHO: America's Wine: The Legacy of Prohibition Documentary Film with Oral History Interviews
http://ucblibrary3.berkeley.edu:7080/BAN
New York Premiere November 18 at Wine 2.0 Expo
ucblibrary3.berkeley.edu
This documentary offers an unprecedented overview of the legacy of National Prohibition and its continuing impact on the wine industry and everyday lives of Americans. Marking the 75th Anniversary of Prohibition’s ...
The Bancroft Library Digital Object of the Day: Street signs authorized at San Francisco intersections today in 1853: http://tinyurl.com/ykgkj7p
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Digital Object of the Day: Join us for the Bancroft Round Table discussion of Dr. Sidney Garfield by Tom Debley, author of The Story of Dr. Sidney R. Garfield: The
Visionary Who Turned Sick Care into Health Care. This Thursday at noon in the Lewis-Latimer Room of the Faculty Club: http://tinyurl.com/y8gqvdd
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Read about new all digital streaming City Arts & Lectures collection in SF Chronicle: "Listen to past City Arts & Lectures programs"
(see records for all programs at http://bit.ly/2pUeDY)
www.sfgate.com
The other day, Dr. Charles B. Faulhaber, director of the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley, had an urge to hear the sonorous Chilean accent of the author Isabel Allende. So he went to the third-floor reading ...
The Bancroft Library Digital Object of the Day: Portrait of Robert Louis Stevenson, born Nov 13, 1850
www.oac.cdlib.org
The Bancroft Library Digital Object of the Day: The Bay Bridge opens to traffic today in 1936...finally fulfilling Emperor Norton's 1869 decree that a bridge be built from Oakland to San Francisco.
Norton I. Emperor of United States and Protector of Mexico. Bradley & Rulofson. Charles W. Stoddart,
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Norton I. Emperor of United States and Protector of Mexico. Bradley & Rulofson. Charles W. Stoddart, Egn. [?], with respects.
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