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new year ✔️ new semester ✔️ same beautiful campus ✔️✔️✔️ UC Berkeley students are back and locked in for the spring semester. 📚💪 #GoBears

A must-read for anyone interested in the history of how @UCBerkeley became a powerhouse of #innovation and #entrepreneurship 🚀🌟

Berkeley’s commitment to innovation is transforming lives — on campus and beyond. 💡🌍 At a @UCBerkeley Library talk, leaders highlighted the programs, partnerships, and people powering a new era of purpose‑driven entrepreneurship. 🚀🐻 🔗 ucberk.li/luncheon-2026

Julia Morgan, Class of 1894, was born January 20, 1872. The first woman licensed architect in California, the only woman in her Cal civil engineering class & the first woman admitted to the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, she is most famous as the architect of Hearst Castle.

📸: @CalPoly’s Julia Morgan Papers collection (left) 📸: Interior of the Berkeley City Club (right), designed by Morgan

UC Berkeley’s materials on Morgan include an oral history, drawings, and photos. 🗣️ Read an oral history about Morgan. 🔗 ucberk.li/morgan-ohc 📏 Explore @ed_archives’ collection. 🔗 ucberk.li/morgan-collect… 📸 View photos + more. 🔗 ucberk.li/morgan-photos

“My buildings will be my legacy … they will speak for me long after I’m gone.” ✨ Architect Julia Morgan, born #OTD in 1872: 🐻 Studied civil engineering at Cal 📐 Was the 1st woman architect licensed in CA ✏️ Designed buildings in Berkeley + beyond, including Hearst Castle

Welcome back, Bears! 🐻🫶🌱 A new semester is here! Remember to: 😮‍💨 Take a deep breath 🍃 Spend time outside 🏛️ Explore the Library The Library is here for you — for jobs, research help, books, movies to stream, and more! 🔗 ucberk.li/welcome

📸: Helen Nestor/UC Regents

In this 1967 photograph, King delivers his final large-scale Bay Area speech, on the steps of @UCBerkeley’s Sproul Hall. Learn more about the FBI records. 🔗 ucberk.li/fbi Read about the speech in the Library’s @dailycal archives. 🔗 ucberk.li/mlk-daily-cal

“Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” 🕊️💙 Martin Luther King Jr. was born #OTD in 1929. King spent his life fighting inequality, earning the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. The Library holds records of the FBI’s efforts to undermine the civil rights leader.

📸: Helen Nestor/UC Regents

In this 1967 photograph, King delivers his final large-scale Bay Area speech, on the steps of @UCBerkeley’s Sproul Hall. Learn more about the FBI records. 🔗 ucberk.li/fbi Read about the speech in the Library’s @dailycal archives. 🔗 ucberk.li/mlk-daily-cal

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” 🕊️💙 Martin Luther King Jr. was born #OTD in 1929. King spent his life fighting inequality, earning the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. The Library holds records of the FBI’s efforts to undermine the civil rights leader.

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American Literary Realism, Vol. 58, No. 2, is a special issue in honor of Robert Hart Hirst guest edited by Kerry Driscoll (@UCBerkeleyLib @mtpo). Featuring work by @AuthorRChernow2, @RonPowersauthor, and more on @ProjectMuse: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55974

Workshop coming up Feb 19, 11a-12p, Zoom: Publish Digital Books & Open Educational Resources with Pressbooks. RSVP for the demo and learn the basics of creating and sharing digital books. update.lib.berkeley.edu/2026/01/13/feb… @UCBerkeleyLib

Are you a UC Berkeley faculty or researcher publishing results arising from federal grant funding? Join us January 14, 1-2pm on Zoom for a dive into agency public access policies affecting research publications and data. RSVP now! update.lib.berkeley.edu/2026/01/07/rem… @UCBerkeleyLib

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New year, same library. 🏛️💙✨🐻 As we turn the page to 2026, we look forward to sharing knowledge with the thinkers and dreamers who are building a better world. Here’s to a year of adventure and possibility. 🫶 Happy New Year! 🎉