The Berkeley Revolution
A digital archive of the East Bay's transformation in the late-1960s & 1970s
PROJECTS
The Flatlands’ War on Poverty
Berkeley Women’s Music Collective
The Asian Community Library
The Black Panthers’ Education Revolution
The Integral Urban House
The Countercultural Kitchen
A Place for Every Body
The Secret History of Recycling
Pacific Center
Threads of Rebellion
Citizens vs. Developers
The Women and Girls of Telegraph Ave
Berkeley’s Public Schools
The Rainbow Sign
The Third World Liberation Front
Transgender Berkeley
PEOPLE
Nacio Jan Brown, photographer
Mary Ann Pollar, activist and impresario
PLACES
Telegraph Avenue
The Keystone
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Author Archive
Asian American Studies letter of support for the Asian Community Library
Archive Entry Date: 04/07/2014
Lillian Galedo linked up Cal's Asian American Studies program to the Asian Community Library
Judy Yung interview (excerpt)
Archive Entry Date: 03/05/2014
Judy Yung on the ACL's constant relocations during her tenure as head librarian
East Bay Asian Consortium Letter to Oakland Planning Commission
Archive Entry Date: 05/20/86
A coalition of Asian organizations called for Oakland's planning commission to fulfill its promises to the Chinatown community
Meeting Minutes from the Friends of the Asian Library
Archive Entry Date: 05/15/85
It was "imperative" for the Library to be looped into Chinatown's redevelopment, the FAL underlined
Meeting Minutes from the Friends of the Asian Library
Archive Entry Date: 07/18/84
The Friends of the Asian Library dealt with a range of library business
Judy Yung Addresses a Federal Panel on Libraries and Cultural Minorities
Archive Entry Date: 6/1981
Yung called for more federal support for the Asian Community Library and cultural minorities in general
Asian Bookmobile Schedule
Archive Entry Date: 1970s
The Asian Bookmobile enlarged the reach of the ACL by stopping at nonprofits in Berkeley and Oakland
Asian Community Library Bookmobile
Archive Entry Date: c. 1977
The ACL used its Bookmobile to serve the larger Asian community in the East Bay
Asian Community Library: First in the U.S.
Archive Entry Date: 03/1978
Judy Yung described the ACL's services in its first year of operation and its vision for the future
Project: Asian Community Library
Archive Entry Date: 1977
Just a year after its opening, the Asian Community Library was already a model
Asian Community Library LSCA Application
Archive Entry Date: 1977
The Asian Community Library took stock in this application for a third year of funding
Asian American Poetry Reading
Archive Entry Date: 10/28/1976
SF's Kearny Street Workshop brought Asian-American poetry to the Asian Community Library
Oakland Public Library Gets Woman Director
Archive Entry Date: 06/76
After a campaign for female representation in the Oakland Public Library, Leila White was appointed as its new director
Judy Yung and the Asian Community Library (in Chinese)
Archive Entry Date: 2/18/76
East/West publicized the opening of the Asian Community Library to its Chinese-speaking readers
Judy Yung Brings a Wealth of Experience (English)
Archive Entry Date: 2/11/76
East/West profiled its former editor Judy Yung as she launched the new Asian Community Library
Characteristics of Contrasting Chinatowns
Archive Entry Date: 1976
A portrait of Oakland's Chinatown community, by a mental health worker looking to improve outreach
Serving Chinatown—Judy Yung
Archive Entry Date: 05/73
Judy Yung on her upbringing, her frustrations with conventional library science, and her vision for future libraries
Libraries to the People
Archive Entry Date: 1972
Radical librarians argued that libraries needed to serve the liberation movements of their moment