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

The Bancroft Library will be closed during the move back to the Doe Annex.

Last day the Reading Room is open:
Thursday, May 22nd

Last day to request offsite material:
Tuesday, May 20th

Last day to request photocopies:
Thursday, May 22nd

Last day to place photolab orders:
Thursday, May 22nd

During the closure period, our email reference service - bancref@library.berkeley.edu - will continue to operate on a limited basis.

Link: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/events/calendar.html#7

April 17th, Faculty Club

"Emeryville," Earl Warren claimed, "is the rottenest city on the Pacific Coast." Seth Lunine, a Bancroft Study Award winner and a UC Berkeley Doctoral student, will discuss struggles over the use and meaning of urban space as Emeryville was transformed from a
sporting suburb into an industrial district. He will also consider the perspective afforded by Emeryville’s development upon broader patterns of change in California’s metropolitan regions.

Link: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/info/hours.html

From March 24th - 27th, The Bancroft Library will have limited hours of operation. The intersession hours will be as follows -

Link: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/events/calendar.html#6a

Tuesday, April 1st
Morrison Library
5:00pm

Led by Richard Jasnow, Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Johns Hopkins University

Richard Jasnow is one of the leading experts in the study of the demotic Egyptian literary manuscripts of Greek and Roman Egypt (c. 400 BC - AD 300). About a third of the Tebtunis papyri fragments at Berkeley are in Egyptian, including important temple literary texts. The Center for the Tebtunis Papyri is very pleased to have a prominent Egyptologist contribute to its annual Distinguished Lecturer series. Professor Jasnow's public lecture will give an overview of the study of demotic literature, describing the interesting personalities (and quarrels) of the Egyptologists since Champollion who have worked in this area. He will explain the nature and scope of Demotic Literature and give a glimpse of some of the fascinating stories that are coming to light. An exhibition of Egyptian literary manuscripts from the Tebtunis temple library will accompany this lecture. Never before have these papyri been displayed to the public.

For more information or to RSVP, please contact Barbara Young at (510) 643-0116 or byoung@library.berkeley.edu

Link: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/events/calendar.html#6

March 20th, Faculty Club

While people generally think of the American frontier as moving from east to west, the conquest of much the interior west actually originated in California. This talk, led by Benjamin Madley (a Yale University Doctoral student), will explore how strategies, methods, and personnel were transferred from California eastward to Arizona, Idaho, and the Great Plains. Specifically, Mr. Madley will focus on how California's Civil War volunteers brought new levels of violence to Arizona, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming, thus informing the increasingly brutal conquest of the interior west in the 1860s and 1870s.

The impact of the Civil War on American society is rarely studied from this perspective; the impact of soldiers returning from war on the violence level of a society is a topic of concern to Americans to this day. We invite the campus community to join us to hear this original view of the settlement of the west. Bancroft Round Tables aim to highlight the breadth and importance of Bancroft collections for considering perspectives vital to our understanding of our place in the world today.