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Today, the Berkeley campus constitutes 18 libraries reporting to the University Librarian and 7 affiliated libraries.* Over the past 20 years, 12 campus libraries or archives including the three slated for closure in the long-term space plan have been (or will be soon) permanently closed and/or consolidated with others. Of those constituting the University Library, 7 will be designated as "satellites"—without circulation or reference services—putting them in peril during future anticipated funding reductions. The impact on departments and academic programs that have lost these libraries and expert staff is immense and will forever alter the character of the campus.
The Northern Regional Library Facility (NRLF) is a cooperative library storage facility owned and operated by the University of California and is located on the grounds of UC Berkeley's Richmond Field Station.
*Affiliated Libraries are physically and administratively separate from The University Library, and have been reduced to seven (indicated by an asterisk in the lists below).
On February 23, 2023, UC Berkeley finalized a “long-term space plan” for the Library which will result in the closure of three more campus libraries (Anthropology, Math, and Physics/Astronomy).
CLOSED OR CONSOLIDATED LIBRARIES
Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics Library
The George and Mary Foster Anthropology Library
Architecture Visual Resources*
Earthquake Engineering Research Library*
Education/Psychology Library
Institute for Research on Labor and Employment Library*
Mathematics Statistics Library
James K. Moffitt Library - collection withdrawn/consolidated
Physics-Astronomy Library
Optometry Library
Sheldon Margen Public Health Library
Water Resources Center Archive*
"The library is a really valuable space. It’s not only a space for simply going in and accessing a book. It’s also a space of encounter. The kind of thing that the University is trying to destroy is essentially this possibility for having a happenstance run-in with a book that you may not necessarily have intended to type into the catalog system or with a person who you may not otherwise run into."
- Jesús Gutierrez, PhD student in Anthropology
The South/Southeast Asia Library which has material in more than 30 languages, spanning 19 countries that represent 30 percent of the world’s population was nearly closed in 2021 in an effort to create more office space for staff being relocated from Moffitt Library. (Photo: Savita Patel/The Quint)
OPEN LIBRARIES (FOR NOW)
Art History/Classics Library
The Bancroft Library/University Archives
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive Library and Study Center*
Berkeley Law Library*
Thomas J. Long Business Library - study only
Marian Koshland Bioscience, Natural Resources & Public Health Library
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Library
Charles Franklin Doe Memorial Library
Earth Sciences & Map Library
C. V. Starr East Asian Library
Kresge Engineering Library
Environmental Design Archives*
Environmental Design Library
Ethnic Studies Library*
Graduate Services - study only
Institute of Governmental Studies Library*
David Pierpont Gardner (Main) Stacks
Media Resources Center
Morrison Library
Jean Gray Hargrove Music Library
Newspapers & Microforms Library
Northern Regional Library Facility
The Robbins Collection*
Social Research Library
South/Southeast Asia Library - study only
Harmer E. Davis Transportation Library*
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