He left a quarter of his estate to the university for construction of a new library. The Beaux Arts building ... over the main entrance reflects Berkeley's aspiration to become the "Athens of the West ...

Its collection originated as the personal library of George Howison, the founding member of the Berkeley philosophy department, and it now includes 60 periodicals and over 10,000 monographs. The ...

Now, slightly reluctantly, Tan is allowing her archive to be housed at UC Berkeley’s Bancroft Library. “They are mementoes of my life: what I thought, what I loved, who I loved, what I believed, what ...