World-renowned writer and Bay Area literary icon Amy Tan is now a part of the Bancroft Library archive. A Bay Area native and critically acclaimed writer, Tan is best known for capturing the ...

UC Berkeley's Bancroft Library recently acquired a collection of personal papers, articles and photographs from local disability rights advocate Anthony Tusler, offering students a look into four ...

As a postdoctoral scholar at UC Berkeley’s Bancroft Library, Giuliano Sidro is a serious expert on ancient writings, but his seriousness turns to silliness when he explains one of the findings in a ...

America's great age of sailing ships produced the beginning of another great American era - the age of advertising. This is the message of a new exhibit at UC Berkeley's Bancroft Library and a small ...

HOPEDALE — The interim library director hired to temporarily lead the Bancroft Memorial Library in Hopedale has been announced as the library's new permanent director. Tricia Perry, who has been ...

In 1905, the University of California decided to purchase the personal library of publisher and historian Hubert Howe Bancroft, a San Francisco bookseller who later established a business that grew to ...