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春节快乐! Happy Lunar New Year! 🐍 Wishing you prosperity, wisdom, and personal transformation in 2025 — the Year of the Snake! — The UC Berkeley Library

“One must look for signs to believe in them.” Next week: Immerse yourself in a world of poetry with a reading by … ✨ Megan Fernandes ✨ 📍 Morrison Library (inside Doe) 🗓️ 12:10 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 6 🔗 lunchpoems.berkeley.edu

Acclaimed author Amy Tan’s archive recently landed at UC Berkeley Library! This exhibition contains drafts of her published works, including her career-defining novel, “The Joy Luck Club,” and offers a bird’s-eye view of a singular literary life. news.berkeley.edu/2025/02/12/amy…

🚨📜 New arrival of ancient Egyptian texts! 📜🚨 Next week: Join a talk (on Zoom) by Giuliano Sidro about The Bancroft Library’s recently received papyri, part of the largest collection of papyrus texts in the Americas. 🗓 12-1 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 20 🔗 ucberk.li/journey

Amy Tan’s archive has arrived at The Bancroft Library! Bancroft director Kate Donovan spoke to the New York Times about the collection. You can read the story here: nytimes.com/2025/02/12/art…

You are invited! ROUNDTABLE: The Long Journey of Some of The Bancroft Library’s Papyri: Egypt 1899, Oxford 1900, Berkeley 2024 Feb. 20, 2025 | Noon | Zoom Register at ucberk.li/journey

World-renowned writer and Bay Area literary icon Amy Tan is now a part of the The Bancroft Library archive dailycal.org/news/campus/am…

Want to see Amy Tan’s creativity take flight? 👀🖼️🐦 A stunning new exhibit features original artwork from Tan’s book “The Backyard Bird Chronicles.” 📍 The Bancroft Library’s gallery 🗓️ Open through June 27 ➡️ Learn more: ucberk.li/tan-archive

Founded in 1967, the Black Stuntmen’s Association was established to help advocate for Black stuntmen and stuntwomen in finding studio work. This one-of-a-kind photo directory features portraits of the association’s members. 📸

You are invited! ROUNDTABLE: Pre-Industrial Transportation and Commodity Flows in Colonial California 🗓️Mar. 20 at Noon 📍Zoom Register: ucberk.li/transport

93 years ago construction first began on the Golden Gate Bridge! 🌁

The African Americans in the San Francisco Bay Area Photograph Collection, 1963-1974 includes 140 press photographs collected by James Abajian. #UCBerkeley

You are invited! 2025 Barbara Boxer Lecture: A Conversation with Julie Chávez Rodriguez 🗓️ April. 17, 2025 | 4:00 - 5:15 PM  📍Banatao Auditorium Register at: eventbrite.com/e/2025-barbara…

Join us this Friday for a Photobook Pop-Up Exhibit! 🗓️ April. 11, 2025 | 1:00 - 4:00 PM  📍The Bancroft Library

Did you know #MarkTwain developed a board game in the mid-1880s? Mark Twain's Memory Builder is a knowledge-based board game that tests players' memories of historic events and dates. #UCBerkeley

Studying for finals feeling ruff? 🤦🏻🐶 Take a paws! Today: Cuddle with some Pet Hugs therapy dogs! 🐾🥰 Below, Joey, a very good boy, graciously accepts head pats from students. 📍 North entrance, Doe Library 🕰️ 12-1 p.m. 🔗 uhs.berkeley.edu/pethugs Joybound People & Pets

You are invited! ROUNDTABLE: California Publics: Parks, Universities, and Nativism in California, 1875-1930 📍May 15, 2025 | Noon | Zoom Register at: ucberk.li/nativism #BancroftLibrary #UCBerkeley #Roundtable #Library

This week, The Bancroft Library shares a series of photographs from the Julian P. Graham Collection of Photographic Negatives from 1924-1942. #BancroftLibrary #UCBerkeley #Monterey

“This is just biographers heaven.” 🥰 Ron Chernow relied on The Bancroft Library’s Mark Twain Papers & Project for his bestselling book on the literary legend. Today, the MTP’s future hangs in the balance after the termination of funding from National Endowment for the Humanities. 🔗 ucberk.li/chernow

“We were close to freedom and yet far from it.” Miné Okubo was born #OTD in 1912. The writer and artist was among the Japanese Americans incarcerated during WWII. Okubo: 🖊 Made 2,000+ drawings while imprisoned 🐻 Was a Cal alum 📘 Penned a graphic memoir, “Citizen 13660”