The university says it can’t find the money in its $3.1 billion budget to keep three of them open.
and other issues that typically attract more attention, the latest battle at UC Berkeley threatens the heart of the university: its libraries.Distressingly, the university says it, including its anthropology library, because it says it can’t find the money in its $3.1 billion budget to keep them open.
The mathematics statistics library and the physics-astronomy library would also shutter under the so-called long-term space plan. Some of the books will be transferred to the main library, but others will be sent to its off-site “shelving facility” in Richmond, miles from the campus, where another 48,000 anthropology volumes are stored.
But what does this say about university’s priorities? Losing the anthropology library represents not only an assault on the most prominent symbol on theThe library is a “crucial component of anthropological inquiry at Berkeley, both for its legacy and for what it has to offer to future generations,” wrote anthropologist Charles Hirschkind, the department chair, in an anguished letter to university officials last fall.
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