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Relaxed Café

Doe Library

Opens Thursday at 9:00 AM

Northside, Berkeley

📚"coolest libraries we've ever visited" (HoneyTrek)
🛋️Morrison Library is the university's "living room"
🎧Record player with LPs in the no-tech zone

Step inside Doe Library and feel time slow down. Worn marble steps lead to hushed reading rooms where students have focused for nearly a century, and a tucked-away corner bans electronics for the rarest of escapes: analog reading by vinyl and lamplight.

Historic architecture
Quiet study spots
No-electronics zone
Neoclassical grandeur

They recommend it:

Berkeleyside
Berkeleyside
AAA
AAA
Google
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4.8
Free

What are you into?

  • Historic architecture
  • Quiet study spots
  • No-electronics zone
  • Neoclassical grandeur
  • Northside
  • Berkeley

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