Link: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/info/move/

The Bancroft Library is CLOSED until mid-Fall 2008 for the move back to the newly retrofitted Doe Annex.

During the closure period, the Bancroft Reference, Duplication, and Permissions services will be operating on a very limited basis due to the inaccessibility of our collections.

More information is available at "Construction News"

Link: http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2008/06/24_lantos.shtml

"The papers of the late Tom Lantos of California, a leading champion of human rights and the only Holocaust survivor to serve in the U.S. Congress, are now part of the University of California, Berkeley's Bancroft Library.

The materials reflect how Lantos's lifelong dedication to human justice sprung from his remarkable early experience: the loss of his family to the Holocaust, his escape from a forced labor camp in his native Hungary during World War II; and his participation as a youth in the Nazi resistance. Years after emigrating from post-war Communist Hungary to the United States, he became known as an outspoken defender of 21st century human rights around the globe, from Sudan and Tibet to Central Europe and the former Soviet Union." - Kathleen Maclay, Media Relations

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Link: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/info/move/new_building_ss.html

The Bancroft Library Construction Slideshow:  See the dramatic changes made to the Doe Annex! The slideshow's before and after photos were taken by Randal Brandt, Diana Bolling, and Peg Skorpinski.

The Bancroft Library is pleased to announce the winners of the following fellowships for the 2008-2009 academic year:

The Bancroft Library Study Award
Audrey Clark
"The Asian American Avant-Garde: Internationalist Aspirations in Early Asian American Literature"

William Wagner
"Reading, Writing, and Rambling: The Literary Culture of Travel in Antebellum America"

Gunther Barth Fellowship
Richard Welker
"The Culture of Agrarian Capitalism: Farmers, Neighbors, and Economic Relationships in Nineteenth Century California"

Reese Fellowship
Andrina Tran
"Resurrecting the Forgotten Cookbook"

Link: http://blogs.lib.berkeley.edu/bancsurvey.php

The Bancroft Survey Project began in February 2008.  Funded by grants from the Andrew W. Mellon and the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundations, the survey project is intended to be a simultaneously broad and in-depth survey of all manuscript holdings of the Bancroft Library, which has been collecting for over a century.  Four archivists were hired to scour the collections for a three year term, during which they will review the vast myriad of manuscript materials and use a survey instrument designed to gather data on collection scope, subject categories, and physical condition. 

The survey archivists are Marjorie Bryer, Amy Croft, Dana Miller, and Elia Van Lith, and they have kindly agreed to share with us some of their discoveries via a project blog - hpttp://blogs.lib.berkeley.edu/bancsurvey.php - that will be updated regularly with interesting (and occasionally odd) finds.