Main Stacks

UC Berkeley’s libraries are generally quiet places of refuge for studying during Reading, Review and Recitation week, or dead week. On Thursday night, however, this silence was broken as students gathered for the semesterly Naked Run.

Our campus has seen the construction of some of California’s most iconic and exemplary buildings — many of which still stand today.

Doe Library and Main Stacks will extend hours, remaining open until 2 a.m. starting March 28, according to a UC Berkeley Library announcement. 

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. 

Several UC Berkeley libraries will be extending their hours once additional employees are hired to cover the required shifts.

As Moffitt Library and Main Stacks have extended their hours around the clock throughout Reading, Review and Recitation and finals weeks, library employees have reported staffing shortages and increased student misconduct.

It’s thanks to the activism of students over the years that we have the time we do to reset, recharge and prepare for finals.

UC Berkeley will be extending library hours at select locations in order to compensate for the closing of Moffitt Library next semester.

Since you're closing soon, I just want you to know that I’m going to be crumbling here without you, but I surely hope you won’t.

This isn’t a matter of preference but is instead a matter of equity. UC Berkeley must find the funding to immediately reinstate longer library hours.