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Doe Memorial Library | |
 Doe Library from Memorial Glade | |
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| Location | University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, California |
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| Built | 1911 |
| Architect | Émile Bénard |
| Architectural style | Classical Revival |
| MPS | University of California, Berkeley MRA |
| NRHP reference No. | 82004639 |
| BERKL No. | 148 |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | March 25, 1982 |
| Designated BERKL | February 25, 1991[1] |
TheDoe Memorial Library is the mainlibrary of theUniversity of California, Berkeley Library System. The library is named after its benefactor, Charles Franklin Doe, who in 1904bequeathed funds for its construction. It is located near the center of theBerkeley campus, facing Memorial Glade, and is adjacent to and physically connected with theBancroft Library. In 1900,Émile Bénard won an architectural competition for the design of the library, and theNeoclassical-style building was completed in 1911. The Doe Library building is the gateway to the underground Gardner (Main) Stacks, named in honor ofDavid P. Gardner, the 15th President of the University of California.
The library is home to the Mark Twain Papers, an extensive collection of the private manuscripts, sketches, essays, poems, notes, photographs and letters ofSamuel Clemens’ works as Twain.[2] At the library's entrance is a statue of Clemens holding a copy ofAdventures of Huckleberry Finn, sculpted byGary Lee Price.[3] The statue is commonly mistaken forAlbert Einstein, with whom Twain shared a likeness.
The Gardner (Main) Stacks is a four-story underground structure consisting of 52 miles of bookshelves, most of which aremobile shelving. It is home to 2.3 million of the 4.5 million volumes in Doe Library's research collection; the rest are stored off-campus at the Northern Regional Library Facility in Richmond. The Main Stacks is home to most of UC Berkeley's books covering the arts, humanities, and social sciences, although collections for certain specific fields (e.g., East Asian history) are housed separately in other libraries on campus.
The Main Stacks wereconstructed in 1994 with four large skylights to allow for natural lighting of the underground structure. It is located immediately in front of the Doe Library building, underneath Doe's entrance plaza and a significant portion of Memorial Glade (all of which were dug up during the mid-1990s and then later rebuilt). The main entrance to the Gardner (Main) Stacks is through Doe, but the stacks are also connected to nearbyMoffitt Library by means of an underground hallway to form a single gigantic library complex.
Because Doe's regular circulating collection is now stored underground in the Main Stacks, Doe's aboveground building is now visited primarily for its large reading rooms and to access non-circulating reference collections.
Prior to the construction of the Main Stacks, Doe Library's book collections were stored inside the main building in a central space called theDoe Core. Since then, this space has been used for temporary libraries displaced underseismic retrofitting on the Berkeley campus. Doe Core is 70 feet tall.
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