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The prize doesn’t come with a parking place. But UC Berkeley University Librarian Tom Leonard is still tickled to win The New Yorker’s weekly cartoon caption contest.
Tag: library
Library opens 24/7 study spaces for RRR and finals weeks
December 3, 2012:
Moffitt Library and Gardner (Main) Stacks offer extended hours for RRR week and finals week. They opened at 8 a.m. TODAY (Monday, Dec. 3) and will remain open continuously until Friday, Dec. 14, at 7 p.m. The Moffitt Microcomputer Lab and the Free Speech Movement Café will also be open round the clock.
Commission on Library’s future invites input
November 16, 2012:
A newly established Commission on the Future of the Library has been tasked with assessing the campus’s renowned research library and creating a blueprint for services, staffing, technology and financial models in the future. Members of the Commission invite comments and concerns from students, faculty, staff and the public.
Commission formed to envision Library’s future
October 23, 2012:
A newly established Commission on the Future of the Library has been tasked with assessing the campus’s renowned research library and creating a blueprint for services, staffing, technology and financial models in the future. The 12-member task force, sponsored by the campus administration and the Academic Senate, is to submit its findings in mid-March.
Occupy Cal stages ‘study-in’ at Kroeber Hall
January 20, 2012:
Demonstrators occupied the anthropology library overnight Thursday, in a protest against curtailment of the facility’s hours and disinvestment in public higher education.
Lunch Poems kicks off 17th year
September 8, 2011:
Lunch Poems, the popular campus poetry reading series, launched its 17th year on Sept. 1, with favorite readings by members of the campus community, including the executive vice chancellor and provost, a campus gardener, a Doe Library employee, a Ph.D. student and several professors.
Doe Library centennial goes live with new website
August 24, 2011:
Doe Library’s centennial celebration is going live, with a new website with images of the library under construction as well as of students and others attending a special event.
Venerable Doe Library undergoes roof, gutter repairs
August 3, 2011:
The campus’s venerable Doe Library, which is turning 100, is undergoing needed roof and gutter repairs that should be completed around late October.
Moffitt Library: Renovating a Bear essential
March 4, 2011:
Moffitt Library is preparing for a major renovation that will meet the needs of students in this digital age in a flexible, sustainable way. Check out the plans and tell your Moffitt story.
Digital library rolls out global, local services for students, faculty, and K-12 teachers
November 17, 2010:
The California Digital Library — working to be both global and local — has recently rolled out new resources to support research and scholarship. These include tools for easier searching of digitized books; mapping local history; and indexing, searching, and displaying text-based resources.
Jean Gray Hargrove, music library benefactor
July 27, 2010:
Jean Gray Hargrove, an alumna whose generosity helped build the campus music library that bears her name, died July 12 at her Berkeley home.
Corliss Lee: Teaching undergrads how to unearth academic resources
May 24, 2010:
Although the Web has become the go-to tool for finding anything and everything online, instructional librarian Corliss Lee is holding the line and teaching students that academic research involves more than a Google search.
The Bancroft Library accepts gift of William Saroyan archives
May 19, 2010:
The Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley, has received a spectacular gift of hundreds of books, drawings, correspondence and other personal communications to and from one of America’s best-known writers, the Armenian-American author and playwright William Saroyan.
