Doe Library

UC Berkeley Social Sciences Dean Raka Ray announced plans Tuesday to turn the George and Mary Foster Anthropology Library into an open space for students, faculty and community members, which will be controlled by the Anthropology Department, UC Berkeley spokesperson Janet Gilmore said in an email.

"Letters | الحروف How Artists Reimagined Language in the Age of Decolonization" is on show in Doe Library’s Bernice Layne Brown Gallery through Aug 31. A student-curated exhibit with its origins in an art history seminar, it presents a vibrant and illustrative examination of the use of the Arabic alphabet in postcolonial art.

With California’s state of emergency set to expire by the end of the month, all of the city of Berkeley’s COVID-19 testing sites are expected to close.

“I will keep thinking of it not as four months or as sixteen weeks, but as eleventy-one days, because it feels bigger. Longer. It’s a reminder to take it a day at a time, not to chop it into chunks that make time fly even faster.”

A UC Berkeley DeCal course aiming to decolonize campus’s relationship with the Philippines is allowing students to curate an exhibit at the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology.

Some days of the year are for dark / Colors. Mahogany pillars / And emerald green turtlenecks.

The UC Berkeley Library has announced plans for the long-term reduction of library services due to a reduced budget and smaller workforce, according to a proposal released Monday. 

He had internalized the Campanile’s striking by now, his heartbeat had synchronized with it.

To pass beneath the stern face of Athena, goddess of wisdom, peering down from atop the north entrance to Doe Library is to enter a temple to the truth born from coexisting contradictions: sciences and humanities, objectivity and subjectivity, form and function.

Display cases in the lobby of Doe Library reflect more than 150 years of The Daily Californian’s history — from its inception as an campus-affiliated paper to the independent, student-run publication known today.