Students are staging an open-ended occupation of the anthropology library after the University of California, Berkeley, announced it would shutter the 67-year-old institution to save money.

A group of University of California at Berkeley students is in its fourth day of an open-ended occupation of the school's anthropology library in an effort to thwart plans for its closure.

Distressingly, the university says it wants to close three libraries, including its anthropology library, because it says it can’t find the money in its $3.1 billion budget to keep them open.

Students at the University of California at Berkeley are rallying to save the anthropology library and are now occupying the library full-time to do so, The New York Times reported. The university ...

Yet the fate of the anthropology library and its nearly 45,000 volumes are at the forefront of a planned transformation of the entire library system at the oldest public university in the UC system.

Home to many of the university Library's special collections, including one of the largest collections of Western Americana, the library was founded with Hubert Howe Bancroft's 19th century gift of ...

The placement of Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom, over the main entrance reflects Berkeley's aspiration to become the "Athens of the West." The building was placed on the National Register of ...

Collins’ next adventure? Retirement. On June 26, she’ll celebrate a twin milestone: the final day of her 24-year career at ...

The library is not Berkeley’s only namesake. The University of California, Berkeley, was also named for the philosopher. According to the Berkeley Historical Society, trustees of the then ...