- Bancroft Library
The Bancroft Library is a library at the
University of California, Berkeley . It was founded in 1905 with the acquisition ofHubert Howe Bancroft 's collection and was named in his honor. It is a large collection of historical documents, with a specialty in literary works related to thehistory of California and theTrans-Mississippi western United States , the focus of Bancroft's original collection. The Bancroft Library is now home to a number of special collections, including the papers ofMark Twain and the University of California archives. It is one of the largest special collections in the United States.Although the library itself is open to anyone who wishes to use it, access to some of its more valuable materials is restricted to researchers with a demonstrated need. The library website offers online access to several collections in digital form.
From February 2006 to an unknown date in the Fall 2008 semester, the building on the UC Berkeley campus is undergoing retrofitting, and the library was temporarily housed at 2121 Allston Way in Downtown Berkeley.
The library's current director is Charles Faulhaber.
Further reading
*"Exploring the Bancroft Library," co-edited by Charles Faulhaber and Stephen Vincent,
Signature Books ,Salt Lake City , 2006. ISBN 1893663183
** [http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/friends/exploring_contents.pdf Complete Table of Contents] (Full title: "Exploring the Bancroft Library: The Centennial Guide to Its Extraordinary History, Spectacular Special Collections, Research Pleasures, Its Amazing Future & How It All Works")External links
* [http://bancroft.berkeley.edu Bancroft Library website]
* [http://www.kpfa.org/archives/index.php?arch=25108 Radio interview of library director Charles Faulhaber] onKPFA 's "Cover to Cover with Denny Smithson,"March 3 ,2008
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