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The UC Berkeley Anthropology Library announced tentative plans to reopen in the fall under a “reduced service model” that limits the space to studying and browsing.
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The Physics-Astronomy Library will be closed starting March 21 due to ongoing staffing shortages. The library will likely remain closed through the summer semester.
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Staffing shortages are prompting UC Berkeley Libraries to make difficult decisions amidst budget cuts and sudden worker absences due to COVID-19.
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They are not just housing ancient artifacts or dusty preservations of a lost civilization — they are a part of living, breathing and evolving cultures.
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The UC Berkeley Anthropology Library will remain open after approximately 40 students and faculty organized a sit-in Friday to protest the closure.
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The UC Berkeley Anthropology Library announced Wednesday it will close indefinitely beginning Feb. 28.
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In a bid to improve UC Berkeley libraries while mitigating fiscal deficits, library administrators have tasked teams of employees with exploring ways to continue library services and expand digital access to information in a more streamlined way. After presenting the teams’ proposals to the Library Committee of the Berkeley Division
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With so many voices constantly demanding salvation for the University of California in the face of the state’s ever-mounting budget crisis, solid and constructive victories are often difficult to find. When protesters occupied Kroeber Hall’s anthropology library between last Thursday and Saturday and pushed UC Berkeley’s administration to preserve its
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Welcome to the first episode of the “Weekly Recap”, narrated by Photo Editor Kevin Foote. This video covers the first week of school and all its happenings: -Bookstores were crowded with students buying books. -Bus passes were distributed. -It started raining Thursday (Jan. 19). -Occupy Cal rally at noon on
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The occupation of UC Berkeley’s anthropology library ended Saturday evening when campus administrators agreed to meet the demands of protesters and restore the library’s hours, marking the second time the campus has restored the library’s hours in response to a student occupation. The demonstration began as a “study-in” Thursday evening in
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