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Saturday, March 11, 2023

Special Libraries at Berkeley: Going! Going! Gone? - Part 2

From the Daily Cal:

The ASUC meeting on Wednesday marked a win for students and community members fighting to preserve the George and Mary Foster Anthropology Library. ASUC Senators moved to co-sponsor Senate Resolution 22/23-038 to indefinitely postpone the impending closure of the library. The meeting’s public comment forum was crowded with faculty, researchers, undergraduates and graduate students in support of keeping the library open.

“I never once thought that I would come to a UC system school and they would take books away from you. The very tools you came for … they’ll take away from you,” alleged Jun Sunseri, a campus professor of anthropology. 

Campus currently has the only public anthropology library in the country. Sunseri added that because of its public status, anyone could access the library’s unique literature including records of federal recognitions, land rights and water rights...

Full story at https://www.dailycal.org/2023/03/09/asuc-votes-to-indefinitely-postpone-anthropology-library-closure.

There may be things in that library from back in the day that are, well, annoying:


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