Bancroft Library
The Bancroft Library is the main special collections library of the University of California, Berkeley. The original collection, acquired in 1905 from its founder Hubert Howe Bancroft, is the largest collection of materials on Californian history and Western North America in the world.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Library
- Description: primary special-collections library of the University of California, Berkeley
- Also known as: “The Bancroft Library”
- Address: CA
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Doe Memorial Library and Sather Tower.
Doe Memorial Library
Library
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The Doe Memorial Library is the main library of the University of California, Berkeley Library System. The library is named after its benefactor, Charles Franklin Doe, who in 1904 bequeathed funds for its construction.
Sather Tower
Clock
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Sather Tower is a bell tower with clocks on its four faces on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley. It is more commonly known as The Campanile for its resemblance to the Campanile di San Marco in Venice.
C. V. Starr East Asian Library
Library
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C. V. Starr East Asian Library is situated 630 feet northwest of Bancroft Library.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Northside and Southside.
Northside
Neighborhood
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Northside is a principally residential neighborhood in Berkeley, California, located north of the University of California, Berkeley campus, east of Oxford Street, and south of Cedar Street.
Southside
Neighborhood
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Southside, also known by the older names South of Campus or South Campus, is a neighborhood in Berkeley, California. Southside is located directly south of and adjacent to the University of California, Berkeley campus.
Downtown Berkeley
Neighborhood
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Downtown Berkeley is the central business district of the city of Berkeley, California, United States, around the intersection of Shattuck Avenue and Center Street, and extending north to Hearst Avenue, south to Dwight Way, west to Martin Luther King Jr.
Bancroft Library
- Categories: academic library, rare book library, library building, building, and education
- Location: Alameda, California, United States, North America
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Latitude
37.87225° or 37° 52′ 20″ northLongitude
-122.25888° or 122° 15′ 32″ westElevation
299 feet (91 metres)Levels
5Open location code
849VVPCR+VCOpenStreetMap ID
way 24024508OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Spanish—“Bancroft Library” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Biblioteca Bancroft”
- Chinese: “班克罗夫特图书馆”
- Chinese: “班克羅夫特圖書館”
- Czech: “Bancroft Library”
- Dutch: “Bancroft Library”
- French: “Bancroft Library”
- French: “bibliothèque Bancroft”
- German: “Bancroft Bibliothek”
- German: “Bancroft Library”
- German: “Bibliothek Bancroft”
- Indonesian: “Perpustakaan Bancroft”
- Irish: “Leabharlann Bancroft”
- Italian: “Bancroft Library”
- Japanese: “バンクロフト・ライブラリ”
- Japanese: “バンクロフト図書館”
- Persian: “کتابخانه بنکرافت”
- Slovenian: “Bancroft Library”
- Slovenian: “Bancroftova knjižnica”
- Spanish: “Bancroft Library”
- Spanish: “Biblioteca Bancroft”
- Spanish: “The Bancroft Library”
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Explore places such as Circle of Freedom and Panoramic Hill.
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