C.V. Starr East Asian Library

Prying eyes will find before them the stories of the planet and its people, collected from across space and time. Campus’s 10 collections and 22 libraries hold some of the rarest pieces in their fields.

To pass beneath the stern face of Athena, goddess of wisdom, peering down from atop the north entrance to Doe Library is to enter a temple to the truth born from coexisting contradictions: sciences and humanities, objectivity and subjectivity, form and function.

Conveniently located just above Memorial Glade, the East Asian Library is relatively accessible for students coming from all directions.

The Physics-Astronomy Library will be closed starting March 21 due to ongoing staffing shortages. The library will likely remain closed through the summer semester. 

Almost all UC Berkeley libraries reopened to students on Wednesday, as fall classes began.

UC Berkeley announced that students and staff will be able to return to three campus libraries with limited services beginning July 12.

On May 20, the UC Berkeley C.V. Starr East Asian Library, or EAL, announced plans to digitize most of its pre-1912 collection of Chinese texts.

Consistently crowded, with people lining up outside on Sunday afternoons, the C.V. Starr East Asian Library, known colloquially as the East Asian Library, easily ranks among the top study spots on campus.

The city of Berkeley's air quality index, or AQI, has dropped to 121 after exceeding 150 — a level deemed unhealthy, as of press time Monday.

Libraries at UC Berkeley are like McDonald’s and Starbucks in New York City: everywhere you look, there is going to be one. Each one is unique, however, and is always worth a look into.