Spotlight exhibits at the UC Berkeley Library
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Capturing Struggle: Ukraine Through American and Ukrainian Lenses

Capturing Struggle: Ukraine Through American and Ukrainian Lenses

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Letters | الحروف

Letters | الحروف

How Artists Reimagined Language in the Age of Decolonization

This online exhibit is the companion to an exhibit in the Brown Gallery, Doe Library, UC Berkeley, March-August 2023. This exhibition was created as a part of the

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BUNKER: the optimism of the pessimistic

BUNKER: the optimism of the pessimistic

This exhibit puts in conversation the contemporary works of photographers and scholars Richard Ross, Bradley Garrett, and Adam Reynolds with Paul Virilio’s 1975 series

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Visualizing Place

Visualizing Place

Maps from The Bancroft Library

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Centering Philippine and Filipinx American Histories

Centering Philippine and Filipinx American Histories

Selections from The Bancroft Library

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Shelf Life

Shelf Life

Preserving the Library’s Collections

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Tumbling the Ivory Tower

Tumbling the Ivory Tower

Creating the Race Requirement at UC Berkeley

What could be so important that faculty on campus would agree on creating a new campus-wide requirement? So asked Professor Bill Simmons, first director for the Center

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The Daily Californian: The First 150 Years

The Daily Californian: The First 150 Years

This online exhibit is the companion to an exhibit in the Brown Gallery, Doe Library, UC Berkeley, December 2021 - July 2022. These exhibits celebrate the 150th

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Becoming 'The First Free Town in the Americas': Claiming and Celebrating Blackness in Yanga, Veracruz

Becoming 'The First Free Town in the Americas': Claiming and Celebrating Blackness in Yanga, Veracruz

This virtual exhibition was created to honor Duncan Wanless whose undergraduate thesis titled, "Becoming the First Free Town in the Americas: Mobilizing Afro-Mexican

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¡Viva la Revolución Mexicana: 1920-2020!

¡Viva la Revolución Mexicana: 1920-2020!

This exhibition is dedicated to the November 2021 conference, "México : La Conquista-Independencia-Adaptación, 1521-1821-2021," which unpacks questions surrounding the

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Library Exhibition Posters

Library Exhibition Posters

Bernice Layne Brown Gallery, Doe Library

Using didactic posters to guide viewers through a Library exhibition.

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Indonesia: Spectacles of Small-scale Gold Mining

Indonesia: Spectacles of Small-scale Gold Mining

This exhibit, “Indonesia: Spectacles of Small-scale Gold Mining,” consists of photos taken in the West Kalimantan region of Indonesian Borneo by UC Berkeley’s Professor

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Global Influence

Global Influence

Preserving Moving Images from Environmental Movements in the West, 1920-2000

Funded through the Council on Library and Information Resources Recordings at Risk program, this audiovisual collection documents the environmental movements in the

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I Gave my Dreams to Liangshan

I Gave my Dreams to Liangshan

The Yi People in the Chinese Literary Imagination

James Kennerly began with the ultimate challenge: conduct ethnographic research involving no human interaction. Instead, Kennerly made the Library his field site. His

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The Nineteenth Amendment

The Nineteenth Amendment

The Fight for Women's Suffrage as seen through 'The Woman Citizen'

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Mapping the Bay

Mapping the Bay

The maps in this online exhibit include highlights from the Earth Science & Map Library's Historic Maps of the Bay Area Collection, supplemented with additional

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Négritude : Sharing spaces in the Caribbean and Latin America!

Négritude : Sharing spaces in the Caribbean and Latin America!

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Power and the People

Power and the People

The U.S. Census and Who Counts

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The Fallen Weichafe

The Fallen Weichafe

State Violence and the Struggle for Indigenous Rights in Chile

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Science Gets Graphic!

Science Gets Graphic!

Cartoons, Comics and Graphic Novels in the Sciences

Illustrated works and graphic novels from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Libraries collections that aim to teach college students and the general public about

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Illustrating Mexico one page at a time-Print Art of José Guadalupe Posada

Illustrating Mexico one page at a time-Print Art of José Guadalupe Posada

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Art for the Asking: 60 Years of the Graphic Arts Loan Collection

Art for the Asking: 60 Years of the Graphic Arts Loan Collection

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Women Who Figure

Women Who Figure

An Exhibit Inspired by the Mathematicians of Hidden Figures

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We're Here, We're Queer, and We're in the Public Record!

We're Here, We're Queer, and We're in the Public Record!

The LGBTQ Movement and Life as Seen Through Government Information

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Cuban Poster Art

Cuban Poster Art

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Life and Resistance in the Mapuche Territory, Chile.

Life and Resistance in the Mapuche Territory, Chile.

Vida y Resistencia en el Territorio Mapuche, Chile.

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The Russian Revolution Centenary: 1917-2017

The Russian Revolution Centenary: 1917-2017

Politics, Propaganda and People's Art

This exhibition is dedicated to the centenary of the Russian Revolution that took place in October of 1917. This revolution was a tragic social experiment that came to

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The Logan Collection

The Logan Collection

Highlights & Shadows: Books on Photography from the Reva and David Logan Collection

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The Paul Kendel Fonoroff Collection for Chinese Film Studies

The Paul Kendel Fonoroff Collection for Chinese Film Studies

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A Brief History of Literatura de Cordel

A Brief History of Literatura de Cordel

Doe Library Exhibition, University of California, Berkeley

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Project IRENE

Project IRENE

Using optical scanning to digitize ethnographic field recordings on wax cylinders

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Digitized Collections - C.V. Starr East Asian Library

Digitized Collections - C.V. Starr East Asian Library