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Libraries
Students enrolled in a graduate program at U.C. Berkeley have access to the following library resources.
- The Art History-Classics Graduate Service
- The Art History-Classics Graduate Service consists of a suite of seminar rooms and a graduate reserve collection on the third floor of the main library maintained by the Art History/Classics Service. This collection contains most of the basic source material, texts, and periodicals for classical history, art, and archaeology and provides AHMA students with a private location for extended study.
- The George and Mary Foster Anthropology Library
- The George and Mary Foster Anthropology Library, located in Kroeber Hall, is a branch library of The UCB Library System and functions as part of the larger Anthropology complex which includes the Department of Anthropology, the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, the Archaeological Research Facility, and the Folklore Archives.
- The Graduate Theological Union (GTU)
- The Graduate Theological Union (GTU) has an extensive library open to use by UC students. The collection focuses on religion (including New Testament Greek, Coptic, and Hebrew) and the history and archaeology of Syria-Palestine for all periods.
- The Robbins Collection
- The Robbins Collection holds more than 250,000 titles in several related fields: religious law encompassing the canon law of the Roman and Greek churches and the law of the Protestant churches, Jewish and Islamic law, and secular law including classical Roman law, ius commune, civil law, and English common law. Also among these titles are extensive collections in comparative law, jurisprudence, and legal history. Included are 225 manuscripts, the majority of which are medieval, 183 incunables, and another 2,000 titles printed before 1600. In addition, the Robbins Collection holds several thousand mircofilms of manuscripts, including all the medieval canon and Roman law manuscripts in the Vatican Library.
- Center for the Tebtunis Papyri
- The Tebtunis Papyri consist of the papyrus documents that were found in the winter of 1899/1900 at the site of ancient Tebtunis, Egypt. The expedition to Tebtunis, led by the British archaeologists Bernard Grenfell and Arthur Hunt, was financed for the University of California by Mrs. Phoebe Apperson Hearst. The Tebtunis Papyri are the largest collection of papyrus documents from a single site in the United States. Although the collection has never been counted and inventoried completely, the number of fragments contained in it exceeds 21,000.
- UC Berkeley Main Library
- With an ever growing collection of nearly 4,000,000 bound volumes and an impressive array of computerized catalogs, journal indexes, CD/ROMs, and other research tools, the U.C. Berkeley main library is often the first stop in any research effort.