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.
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  • Type: Library
  • Description: primary special-collections library of the University of California, Berkeley
  • Also known as: “Doe Annex” and “The Bancroft Library”
  • Address: CA

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Sather Tower and C. V. Starr East Asian Library.

Clock
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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 in .

Library
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is situated 630 feet northwest of Bancroft Library.

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is a prominent landmark separating Sproul Plaza from the bridge over , leading to the center of the University of California, Berkeley campus. is situated 750 feet south of Bancroft Library.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Northside and Southside.

Neighborhood
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is a principally residential neighborhood in , located north of the University of California, Berkeley campus, east of Oxford Street, and south of Cedar Street.

Neighborhood
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, also known by the older names South of Campus or South Campus, is a neighborhood in . is located directly south of and adjacent to the University of California, Berkeley campus.

Neighborhood
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is the central business district of the city of , 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

Latitude
37.87225° or 37° 52′ 20″ north
Longitude
-122.25888° or 122° 15′ 32″ west
Elevation
299 feet (91 metres)
Inception
1949
Levels
5
Operator
University of California, Berkeley
Open location code
849VVPCR+VC
Open­Street­Map ID
way 24024508
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­library
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­yes
Geo­Names ID
5325980
Wiki­data ID
Q4854158
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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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