NEWS & ACTIONS

Daily Cal: UC and librarians reach contract agreement for increased wages and support (October 4, 2024)

Daily Cal: University librarians negotiate contract as expiration approaches (March 8, 2024)

SF Chronicle: UC Berkeley anthropology library sit-in yields partial victory after 85 days (July 23, 2023)

Berkeleyside: After 85-day protest, UC Berkeley will keep its anthropology library — kind of (July 19, 2023)

Daily Cal: Anthropology Library occupation ends after 85 days, campus reaches agreement (July 18, 2023)

KALW: UC Berkeley anthropologists fight to protect liberal arts (May 29, 2023)

Daily Cal: Campus releases plan for Anthropology Library (May 17, 2023)

KQED: 'Not Just a Room That Holds Books': Inside the Fight to Save UC Berkeley's Anthropology Library (May 3, 2023)

New York Times: In Berkeley, a Library Protest Is a Fight for Anthropology in an A.I. Age (May 2, 2023)

CBS News Bay Area: Berkeley students continue occupation of anthropology library (April 25, 2023)

Local News Matters: Cal students occupy anthropology library to protest university’s plans to shut it down (April 25, 2023)

SFGATE: Students Take Over Anthropology Library To Prevent Its Closure (April 24, 2023)

DailyCal: 'This space matters’: Students organize occupation of Anthropology Library (April 23, 2023)

Davis Vanguard: UC Berkeley Shuts Libraries: Student Outcry Grows (March 20, 2023)

DailyCal: Students organize town hall to resist library closures (March 17, 2023)

DailyCal: ASUC votes to indefinitely postpone anthropology library closure (March 9, 2023)

SFGATE: Outcry after UC Berkeley plans to permanently close 3 libraries (March 8, 2023)

Inside Higher Ed: UC Berkeley to Close 3 Libraries (March 7, 2023)

DailyCal: ASUC to vote on anthropology library closure, opportunities for transfer, undocumented students (March 6, 2023)

SF Chronicle: UC Berkeley students protest plans to shutter rare anthropology library (March 3, 2023)

SFiST: Berkeley Poised to Close Famed Anthropology Library, Angry Students In Full ‘Occupy’ Mode (March 3, 2023)

Berkeleyside: UC Berkeley will close 3 libraries amid shrinking budget (March 3, 2023)

Documento: Κατάληψη στη βιβλιοθήκη ανθρωπολογικών επιστημών στο Μπέρκλεϊ των ΗΠΑ = Occupation of the Anthropology Library at UC Berkeley-USA (February 28, 2023) 

DailyCal: Anthropology students, faculty protest campus decision to close library (February 23, 2023)

DailyCal Editorial Board: “Campus must save and prioritize its libraries” (October 25, 2022)

DailyCal: UC Berkeley Library announces plans for reduced services, 3 closures (October 4, 2022)

DailyCal: ‘A rare jewel’: Campus community criticizes proposed library cuts, closures (October 16, 2022)

Daily Cal: UC Berkeley Library reveals plans for 2022-23 academic year (July 31, 2022)

Report of the Joint Academic and Administrative Working Group on the University Library (June 2023)

The LAUC-B Resolution on the Importance of Diversity in Collections is a well articulated reminder that these concerns need to be kept at the forefront. (July 13, 2023)

FAQ: Correcting misinformation about the plans for UC Berkeley’s Anthropology Library (May 16, 2023)

The UC Berkeley Library made available a proposed list of 1,204 serials and database cancellations to the campus for public comment today. Total savings is $850K. (April 4, 2023)

Fact check: Correcting the record about the UC Berkeley Library’s long-term space plan (March 15, 2023)

UC Berkeley announces long-term space plan for the Library (February 23, 2023)

Scholarly Resources: 2022-24 Budget Reduction Plan (last updated February 3, 2023)

Berkeley Faculty Association Statement of Support proposed to the Academic Senate (October 10, 2022)

UC Berkeley Library long-term space proposal (October 3, 2022)

Moffitt Library is back; other UC Berkeley libraries have modified hours and services (August 22, 2022)

UC-AFT Bay Area Chapter Librarian Organizing Committee: A call from every corner of campus: fully fund the UC Berkeley Library (August 16, 2023)

History of Anthropology Review: On the Planned Closure of Berkeley’s Anthropology Library (May 11, 2023)

Financial Times Magazine: I stand with the protesters in Berkeley’s battle of the books (May 10, 2023)

Chronicle of Higher Education: The Fight Over a Berkeley Library Is a Fight for the Future of Higher Ed (May 4, 2023)

Bookriot.com: UC Berkeley students occupy Anthropology Library, hoping to save it from closure (May 2, 2023) 

Four Notes on our Love of Books and our Need for Libraries (April 5, 2023)

Berkeleyside: Keep UC Berkeley’s libraries open (March 20, 2023)

The Mercury News OpEd: UC Berkeley should stop planned library closures (March 11, 2023)

Ralph Nader Radio Hour: Interview with UCB Anthropology graduate students (March 10, 2023) begins @ 42:30

Marin Independent Journal: ay Area Voice: Berkeley library closure plan would cut access to state’s only anthropology collection (March 9, 2023)

CalMatters: UC Berkeley library closure plan would cut access to California’s only anthropology collection (March 7, 2023)

DailyCal Op-Ed: Liabilities over libraries: Keep our doors open (March 1, 2023)

Speak Out Now: UC Berkeley Students and Faculty Occupy Library to Keep It Open (March 1, 2023)

Open Letter from Executive Director of the American Anthropology Association to the Vice Chancellor and Provost in support of the UCB Anthropology Library (February 26, 2023)

DailyCal Op-Ed from Berkeley Faculty Association: “Save our library, reinvest in our collective future” (October 26, 2022)

DailyCal Editorial Board: “Campus must save and prioritize its libraries” (October 25, 2022)

CAL YDSA - Save Our Libraries and Fight Austerity (2022)

UC-AFT Unit 17 Bay Area Chapter: A Vision for UCB Library Services Under the Specter of Austerity (May 19, 2022)

Add your name to support UC Librarians in their contract negotiations!

It's been 85 Days of peacefully occupying UCB's Anthropology Library (July 15, 2023)

Cal Day Rally & March to save the UCB Anthro Library (April 22, 2023)

Town Hall for Library Closures (April 5, 2023)

Check out student video testimonies on the importance of the Anthropology Library!

On March 8, the Associated Students of the University of California (ASUC) passed a resolution in favor of keeping the Anthropology Library open, hiring a full-time librarian, and expanding hours.

SAL presents a Teach-In with BFA Chair James Vernon on Wed. March 8 at 2:30pm in the Anthropology Library

Sign the official Anthropology Department petition to save the George and Mary Foster Anthropology Library. (February 28, 2023)

Sign also the Change.org petition to return the Anthropology Library to a fully operational Library. 

48-hour sit-in at Anthropology Library in protest of announced closures (February 22-24, 2023)

Letters demanding re-stored library funding are sent to Chancellor Christ and Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Hermalin from Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate (DIVCO), Committee on Academic Planning and Resource Allocation (CAPRA), the Committee on the Library (LIBR), Undergraduate Council, and Graduate Council (December 21, 2022)