| 1868/00/00 |
Library established with the transfer of 1,036 volumes from the College of California. |
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| 1872/00/00 |
UCB Library holdings: 4,651 volumes, including one novel. UC enrollment: 151 students |
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| 1873/00/00 |
University moves to Berkeley. Located in South Hall, aided by a $2000 gift from Michael Reese, the Library buys the personal library of Professor Francis Lieber of Columbia University. FA Pioche bequeaths 1500 volumes of French literature and linguistics. |
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| 1875/00/00 |
Joseph C Rowell appointed the first University Librarian, UCB (he will serve until 1919). Library holdings: 13,000. Enrollment: 310 students. |
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| 1876/00/00 |
Joseph C Rowell creates the first card catalog, a hand-written subject catalog, 1876-1879. |
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| 1876/00/00 |
Henry Douglas Bacon of Oakland offers $25,000 towards the erection of a library building, together with his private collection of 1,410 library volumes, paintings, and statuary. Bacon Hall opens in 1881 and includes the Library and the Art Collection. |
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| 1879/00/00 |
Michael Reese's bequest of $50,000 for the Library comes to the University in July. It is established as the first endowment. |
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| 1881/00/00 |
Library moves to the Bacon Art and Library Building. University Librarian Rowell, up until now the sole staff member, hires a student assistant who also acts as janitor. Holdings: 17,000-plus volumes. Enrollment: 224 students. |
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| 1884/00/00 |
University of California Library becomes a depository for U.S. government publications. Rowell initiates the first system of inter-library loan. |
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| 1884/10/00 |
Rowell sends letters to 98 learned societies asking that Berkeley be placed on their mailing lists for complimentary publications. In exchange, the Library would provide cooperating libraries copies of publications produced at Berkeley (before UC Press.) |
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| 1890/00/00 |
Library holds 44,000 volumes University Librarian Rowell has one full-time assistant and a student-janitor. Enrollment: 457 students. |
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| 1897/00/00 |
James K Moffitt, UC graduate, class of 1886, establishes a book fund to which he commits to depositing $100 per year for the purchase of recent literature. |
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| 1898/00/00 |
The Library holds 71,000 volumes for 1,560 students. |
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| 1900/00/00 |
UC Berkeley Library collection is about 80,000 volumes. There are four staff members, and the library serves 1,988 students. |
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| 1905/00/00 |
The Hubert Howe Bancroft Library is acquired, including 60,000 bound volumes, 10,000 manuscript items, newspaper files, political transactions, early western imprints and rare books, all related primarily to California, western and Spanish America. |
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| 1906/05/00 |
Bancroft Library survives the 1906 earthquake, and is moved to Berkeley in May, 1906. |
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| 1908/11/29 |
On Thanksgiving Day, the cornerstone for Doe Library is laid. In 1904, San Francisco lumberman and bibliophile, Charles Franklin Doe, bequeathed $779,000 for the construction. However, construction was delayed by the 1906 earthquake. |
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| 1911/00/00 |
Library moves from Bacon Hall to new Doe Library (then comprised of 2 floors, 5 floors of stacks and the North Reading Room, with no Annex.) Collection is approx 210,000 volumes, and the campus enrollment is 3,746 students. |
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| 1912/03/23 |
Doe Library is formally dedicated on Charter Day, 1912. |
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| 1915/00/00 |
UC Berkeley Library holdings reach 300,000 volumes |
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| 1916/00/00 |
SC Kiang Kang-Hu presents the Kiang family's library to the University, described at the time as the 3rd largest Chinese collection in the United States. |
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| 1919/00/00 |
After serving for 44 years, James Cummings Rowell steps down as the first University Librarian. Harold L Leupp becomes the second University Librarian. The collection contains over 400,000 volumes. Campus enrollment is 6,983 students. |
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| 1922/00/00 |
UCB Library collections exceed 500,000 volumes. University Librarian Leupp establishes a "Readers' Department," to coordinate reference and circulation. |
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| 1924/00/00 |
The Lange Library of Education opens in Haviland Hall. |
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| 1928/00/00 |
The Alexander F Morrison Memorial Library, a recreational reading room for students, is dedicated. It contains an initial gift of 15,000 volumes. |
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| 1930/00/00 |
UC Berkeley Biology Library is established in the Life Sciences Building. The Giannini Foundation Library is established to serve the needs of the Department of Agricultural Economics. |
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| 1943/00/00 |
Recommendation is made to the UC President that The Bancroft Library becomes part of the University Library. |
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| 1946/00/00 |
UCB Library becomes depository for United Nations documents. Library collections now total 1,236,334. Campus enrollment grows to 18,262. |
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| 1947/00/00 |
The East Asian Library is established. |
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| 1950/00/00 |
The Doe Annex is completed. UC Berkeley Library becomes the sixth largest academic library in the country. Campus enrollment balloons to 30,032 students. |
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| 1965/00/00 |
The Library acquires its 3-millionth volume. |
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| 1970/00/00 |
James K. Moffitt Undergraduate Library opens. |
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| 1971/00/00 |
UC Berkeley Library reaches the 4 million volume level. |
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| 1978/00/00 |
The collections now total more than 5 million volumes. |
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| 1988/00/00 |
The Library adds its 7-millionth volume. |
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| 1994/00/00 |
The collections grow to 8 million books. Student workers move more than 1.5 million volumes into the Gardner Stacks housed in the newly completed, 4-story underground addition that connects Doe and Moffitt Libraries. |
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| 1995/00/00 |
The Thomas J Long Business and Economics Library opens in the Haas School. |
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| 2000/00/00 |
The 9-millionth volume is added to the Library's collections. |
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| 2004/00/00 |
The Jean Gray Hargrove Music Library opens. |
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| 2005/00/00 |
The Library's holdings reach 10 million volumes. Campus enrollment reaches 33,000 students. |
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