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Please join us for the next Creative Writing Series event on January 29: a fiction reading and Q&A featuring author Jemimah Wei!
This event is free and open to all. Join us in person in Shields Library, or register for the livestream: bit.ly/creativewriting-jan29
This event is free and open to all. Join us in person in Shields Library, or register for the livestream: bit.ly/creativewriting-jan29
January 22, 2026 at 10:36 PM
Please join us for the next Creative Writing Series event on January 29: a fiction reading and Q&A featuring author Jemimah Wei!
This event is free and open to all. Join us in person in Shields Library, or register for the livestream: bit.ly/creativewriting-jan29
This event is free and open to all. Join us in person in Shields Library, or register for the livestream: bit.ly/creativewriting-jan29
Join us on January 28 for Savor: Coffee Unfiltered — Thinking Outside the Cup! Whether you're new to the perfect pour or an advanced-level caffeinado, this panel discussion on the complex factors transforming coffee culture in the United States will perk you right up! Register: buff.ly/h2ACdsD
January 17, 2026 at 4:33 PM
Join us on January 28 for Savor: Coffee Unfiltered — Thinking Outside the Cup! Whether you're new to the perfect pour or an advanced-level caffeinado, this panel discussion on the complex factors transforming coffee culture in the United States will perk you right up! Register: buff.ly/h2ACdsD
In observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Shields Library will be open reduced hours:
Sunday, January 18th: 12 pm - 6 pm
Monday, January 20th: 12 pm - 12 am
The 24-hour study room remains open. Check library.ucdavis.edu/hours/ for more information.
#UCDavis #OurUCDavis
Sunday, January 18th: 12 pm - 6 pm
Monday, January 20th: 12 pm - 12 am
The 24-hour study room remains open. Check library.ucdavis.edu/hours/ for more information.
#UCDavis #OurUCDavis
January 15, 2026 at 9:52 PM
In observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Shields Library will be open reduced hours:
Sunday, January 18th: 12 pm - 6 pm
Monday, January 20th: 12 pm - 12 am
The 24-hour study room remains open. Check library.ucdavis.edu/hours/ for more information.
#UCDavis #OurUCDavis
Sunday, January 18th: 12 pm - 6 pm
Monday, January 20th: 12 pm - 12 am
The 24-hour study room remains open. Check library.ucdavis.edu/hours/ for more information.
#UCDavis #OurUCDavis
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This month’s Book Club is all about connection. Connection to our families, to our histories, and to the stories that shape who we are.
Find your next favorite read at the Letters and Science Magazine:
@ucdavis.bsky.social
@ucdavislibrary.bsky.social
Find your next favorite read at the Letters and Science Magazine:
@ucdavis.bsky.social
@ucdavislibrary.bsky.social
Seeing Shared Connections with L&S Authors
This month, explore how connections are formed, maintained and shared with letters and science authors. In this collection of books, our authors and scholars mine their own families as their inspiration for memoirs, poetry, fiction and analyses.
lettersandsciencemag.ucdavis.edu
December 12, 2025 at 4:45 PM
This month’s Book Club is all about connection. Connection to our families, to our histories, and to the stories that shape who we are.
Find your next favorite read at the Letters and Science Magazine:
@ucdavis.bsky.social
@ucdavislibrary.bsky.social
Find your next favorite read at the Letters and Science Magazine:
@ucdavis.bsky.social
@ucdavislibrary.bsky.social
Check this out: 10 works published in 2025 that cited our Archives and Special Collections in their publication: buff.ly/UEBFgcs
December 16, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Check this out: 10 works published in 2025 that cited our Archives and Special Collections in their publication: buff.ly/UEBFgcs
If you'll be sticking around during winter break, please note that Shields Library will be closed Saturday, December 13 to Sunday, January 4. The 24-Hour Study Room will remain open throughout the break.
Blaisdell Medical Library will remain open to @UCDavisHealth badge holders.
Blaisdell Medical Library will remain open to @UCDavisHealth badge holders.
December 10, 2025 at 5:03 PM
If you'll be sticking around during winter break, please note that Shields Library will be closed Saturday, December 13 to Sunday, January 4. The 24-Hour Study Room will remain open throughout the break.
Blaisdell Medical Library will remain open to @UCDavisHealth badge holders.
Blaisdell Medical Library will remain open to @UCDavisHealth badge holders.
December 1 is #WorldAIDSDay2025. We invite you to explore our Resources for Understanding: HIV & AIDS, which includes fact sheets, California-based research and advocacy organizations, graphic novels and memoirs, documentaries and more: buff.ly/vtzIuqa
December 1, 2025 at 8:45 PM
December 1 is #WorldAIDSDay2025. We invite you to explore our Resources for Understanding: HIV & AIDS, which includes fact sheets, California-based research and advocacy organizations, graphic novels and memoirs, documentaries and more: buff.ly/vtzIuqa
Wishing everyone a relaxing Thanksgiving break! Shields Library will be closed Thursday, November 27 and Friday, November 28. Blaisdell Medical Library will remain open to @UCDavisHealth badge holders.
Check out library.ucdavis.edu/hours/ for a complete schedule of our hours.
Check out library.ucdavis.edu/hours/ for a complete schedule of our hours.
November 25, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Wishing everyone a relaxing Thanksgiving break! Shields Library will be closed Thursday, November 27 and Friday, November 28. Blaisdell Medical Library will remain open to @UCDavisHealth badge holders.
Check out library.ucdavis.edu/hours/ for a complete schedule of our hours.
Check out library.ucdavis.edu/hours/ for a complete schedule of our hours.
In celebration of Native American Heritage Month, we're highlighting “Coyote,” a student-run newspaper first published by the UC Davis Native American Student Union in spring 1970. The Coyote archive is part of our University Archives Serials and Native American History and Culture Collections.
November 25, 2025 at 8:20 PM
In celebration of Native American Heritage Month, we're highlighting “Coyote,” a student-run newspaper first published by the UC Davis Native American Student Union in spring 1970. The Coyote archive is part of our University Archives Serials and Native American History and Culture Collections.
Dear grad students, professional students and postdoctoral scholars,
Friday, Dec. 5 is just around the corner — have we received your application for the Library Graduate Student Prize? You could be awarded $1,000 for amazing research you're already doing!
Sincerely,
UC Davis Library
Friday, Dec. 5 is just around the corner — have we received your application for the Library Graduate Student Prize? You could be awarded $1,000 for amazing research you're already doing!
Sincerely,
UC Davis Library
It's time to apply for the 2025-26 UC Davis Library Graduate Student Prize!
Currently enrolled UC Davis graduate students, professional students and postdoctoral scholars can win up to $1,000 for their research.
Learn more and apply by December 5: bit.ly/applyGradPrize
#UCDavis
Currently enrolled UC Davis graduate students, professional students and postdoctoral scholars can win up to $1,000 for their research.
Learn more and apply by December 5: bit.ly/applyGradPrize
#UCDavis
November 25, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Dear grad students, professional students and postdoctoral scholars,
Friday, Dec. 5 is just around the corner — have we received your application for the Library Graduate Student Prize? You could be awarded $1,000 for amazing research you're already doing!
Sincerely,
UC Davis Library
Friday, Dec. 5 is just around the corner — have we received your application for the Library Graduate Student Prize? You could be awarded $1,000 for amazing research you're already doing!
Sincerely,
UC Davis Library
In recognition of Native American Heritage Month, we’re sharing highlights from our collection effort for the scholarship of Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Indigenous Knowledge Systems, and Indigenous Science.
Learn more and explore Indigenous voices in STEM: buff.ly/bJvsWsb
Learn more and explore Indigenous voices in STEM: buff.ly/bJvsWsb
November 24, 2025 at 8:58 PM
In recognition of Native American Heritage Month, we’re sharing highlights from our collection effort for the scholarship of Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Indigenous Knowledge Systems, and Indigenous Science.
Learn more and explore Indigenous voices in STEM: buff.ly/bJvsWsb
Learn more and explore Indigenous voices in STEM: buff.ly/bJvsWsb
We're one month away from the Grad Prize application deadline (December 5)! Win up to $1,000 for graduate research using library resources.
It's time to apply for the 2025-26 UC Davis Library Graduate Student Prize!
Currently enrolled UC Davis graduate students, professional students and postdoctoral scholars can win up to $1,000 for their research.
Learn more and apply by December 5: bit.ly/applyGradPrize
#UCDavis
Currently enrolled UC Davis graduate students, professional students and postdoctoral scholars can win up to $1,000 for their research.
Learn more and apply by December 5: bit.ly/applyGradPrize
#UCDavis
November 7, 2025 at 7:40 PM
We're one month away from the Grad Prize application deadline (December 5)! Win up to $1,000 for graduate research using library resources.
Save the date for November 19! We are looking forward to this event at Shields Library!
Join us and Shields Library for the International Open House. Novermber 19th, 3-5pm. Learn how the UC Davis Library supports students, no matter where they are from. Enjoy free food, take a 20-minute tour, meet librarians, and browse books in more than a dozen languages.
Shields Library International Open House
Find out how the library can support you — no matter where in the world you’re from. All are welcome at this open house event co-hosted by the UC Davis Library and Global Affairs.
siss.ucdavis.edu
October 30, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Save the date for November 19! We are looking forward to this event at Shields Library!
What a wonderful celebration last week in honor of the 20th anniversary of UC Davis Middle East/South Asia Studies, and its founding director Distinguished Professor Suad Joseph. We continue our recognition of faculty achievement tonight at the Letters & Science Authors Celebration!
October 22, 2025 at 7:23 PM
What a wonderful celebration last week in honor of the 20th anniversary of UC Davis Middle East/South Asia Studies, and its founding director Distinguished Professor Suad Joseph. We continue our recognition of faculty achievement tonight at the Letters & Science Authors Celebration!
Happy UC Open Access Week!
We invite the UC community to join UC libraries this week for a series of free workshops on open-access publishing, open data, open-source projects and tools, and more! See the full schedule, including the Symposium at Shields Library on Friday: buff.ly/j7KSYAi
We invite the UC community to join UC libraries this week for a series of free workshops on open-access publishing, open data, open-source projects and tools, and more! See the full schedule, including the Symposium at Shields Library on Friday: buff.ly/j7KSYAi
October 20, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Happy UC Open Access Week!
We invite the UC community to join UC libraries this week for a series of free workshops on open-access publishing, open data, open-source projects and tools, and more! See the full schedule, including the Symposium at Shields Library on Friday: buff.ly/j7KSYAi
We invite the UC community to join UC libraries this week for a series of free workshops on open-access publishing, open data, open-source projects and tools, and more! See the full schedule, including the Symposium at Shields Library on Friday: buff.ly/j7KSYAi
Have you visited the David Bacon exhibit in Shields?
"Outside special collections and inside a back study hall of Shields Library, the breadth of work ultimately seeks to make the invisible visible—acknowledging the existence and dignity of working people who often feel overlooked by the world."
"Outside special collections and inside a back study hall of Shields Library, the breadth of work ultimately seeks to make the invisible visible—acknowledging the existence and dignity of working people who often feel overlooked by the world."
Shields exhibit visually documents farmworker movement
When famed farmworker photographer David Bacon started working for the United Farm Workers as an organizer in the 1970s, people asked what he — a “white boy” who “didn’t speak
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October 16, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Have you visited the David Bacon exhibit in Shields?
"Outside special collections and inside a back study hall of Shields Library, the breadth of work ultimately seeks to make the invisible visible—acknowledging the existence and dignity of working people who often feel overlooked by the world."
"Outside special collections and inside a back study hall of Shields Library, the breadth of work ultimately seeks to make the invisible visible—acknowledging the existence and dignity of working people who often feel overlooked by the world."
We are pleased to offer grants to support travel costs for scholars interested in using our distinctive collections in Archives and Special Collections and/or our Food and Wine collections.
Four grants of $2,500 each will be awarded. Learn more and apply by October 30! buff.ly/NjyreJG #UCDavis
Four grants of $2,500 each will be awarded. Learn more and apply by October 30! buff.ly/NjyreJG #UCDavis
October 14, 2025 at 10:44 PM
We are pleased to offer grants to support travel costs for scholars interested in using our distinctive collections in Archives and Special Collections and/or our Food and Wine collections.
Four grants of $2,500 each will be awarded. Learn more and apply by October 30! buff.ly/NjyreJG #UCDavis
Four grants of $2,500 each will be awarded. Learn more and apply by October 30! buff.ly/NjyreJG #UCDavis
Our Author Talk with UC Davis alumna Janet Kaidantzis will begin at 5:30 p.m. in Shields Library. Please join us!
Join us at Shields Library on Oct. 9 for a fascinating talk by author and UC Davis alumna Janet Kaidantzis! She will share her research into the stories of trailblazing women who built successful tourism businesses at Lake Tahoe, 1900-1930.
Free and open to all. Register: buff.ly/LuXHvy0
#UCDavis
Free and open to all. Register: buff.ly/LuXHvy0
#UCDavis
October 9, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Our Author Talk with UC Davis alumna Janet Kaidantzis will begin at 5:30 p.m. in Shields Library. Please join us!
We are accepting applications for the 2025-2026 Spurrier-Winiarski Wine Writer-in-Residence Award. The $50,000 award supports one three-month residency at UC Davis for research, writing and publication on a current or historical aspect of wine. Apply by October 30. buff.ly/6Uoe7NK
October 8, 2025 at 11:03 PM
We are accepting applications for the 2025-2026 Spurrier-Winiarski Wine Writer-in-Residence Award. The $50,000 award supports one three-month residency at UC Davis for research, writing and publication on a current or historical aspect of wine. Apply by October 30. buff.ly/6Uoe7NK
It's time to apply for the 2025-26 UC Davis Library Graduate Student Prize!
Currently enrolled UC Davis graduate students, professional students and postdoctoral scholars can win up to $1,000 for their research.
Learn more and apply by December 5: bit.ly/applyGradPrize
#UCDavis
Currently enrolled UC Davis graduate students, professional students and postdoctoral scholars can win up to $1,000 for their research.
Learn more and apply by December 5: bit.ly/applyGradPrize
#UCDavis
October 3, 2025 at 10:03 PM
It's time to apply for the 2025-26 UC Davis Library Graduate Student Prize!
Currently enrolled UC Davis graduate students, professional students and postdoctoral scholars can win up to $1,000 for their research.
Learn more and apply by December 5: bit.ly/applyGradPrize
#UCDavis
Currently enrolled UC Davis graduate students, professional students and postdoctoral scholars can win up to $1,000 for their research.
Learn more and apply by December 5: bit.ly/applyGradPrize
#UCDavis
Add the Archives Crawl to your Saturday plans! Read about it in the Arts Blog weekender!
Catch all the happenings in music and art at #UCDavis and beyond in the Arts Blog weekender www.ucdavis.edu/arts/blog/we... @ucdlands.bsky.social
Weekender: Mondavi Season Opens With Rock and Jazz; 1st Noon Concert includes Music from Johannes Brahms
Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts opens Thursday with Talking Heads film and talkThe University of California, Davis, Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts this 2025-26 season...
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October 3, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Add the Archives Crawl to your Saturday plans! Read about it in the Arts Blog weekender!
Looking for something fun to do this Saturday? Join the Sacramento Archives Crawl, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.!
Meet our archivists and check out items from our new exhibit, "Bound in Time: Exploring Women's Journeys through Scrapbooks and Photo Albums," and from our Author Talk on Oct. 9.
buff.ly/lCwxrK2
Meet our archivists and check out items from our new exhibit, "Bound in Time: Exploring Women's Journeys through Scrapbooks and Photo Albums," and from our Author Talk on Oct. 9.
buff.ly/lCwxrK2
October 2, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Looking for something fun to do this Saturday? Join the Sacramento Archives Crawl, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.!
Meet our archivists and check out items from our new exhibit, "Bound in Time: Exploring Women's Journeys through Scrapbooks and Photo Albums," and from our Author Talk on Oct. 9.
buff.ly/lCwxrK2
Meet our archivists and check out items from our new exhibit, "Bound in Time: Exploring Women's Journeys through Scrapbooks and Photo Albums," and from our Author Talk on Oct. 9.
buff.ly/lCwxrK2
Join us Wednesday, Oct. 8 at 4:30 p.m. for the first Creative Writing Series event of 2025-2026: a poetry reading and Q&A featuring poet Camille Ralphs!
This event is free and open to all. Join us at Shields Library Rm 205 or register for the livestream here: bit.ly/creativewriting-oct2025
This event is free and open to all. Join us at Shields Library Rm 205 or register for the livestream here: bit.ly/creativewriting-oct2025
October 1, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Join us Wednesday, Oct. 8 at 4:30 p.m. for the first Creative Writing Series event of 2025-2026: a poetry reading and Q&A featuring poet Camille Ralphs!
This event is free and open to all. Join us at Shields Library Rm 205 or register for the livestream here: bit.ly/creativewriting-oct2025
This event is free and open to all. Join us at Shields Library Rm 205 or register for the livestream here: bit.ly/creativewriting-oct2025
Join us at Shields Library on Oct. 9 for a fascinating talk by author and UC Davis alumna Janet Kaidantzis! She will share her research into the stories of trailblazing women who built successful tourism businesses at Lake Tahoe, 1900-1930.
Free and open to all. Register: buff.ly/LuXHvy0
#UCDavis
Free and open to all. Register: buff.ly/LuXHvy0
#UCDavis
September 30, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Join us at Shields Library on Oct. 9 for a fascinating talk by author and UC Davis alumna Janet Kaidantzis! She will share her research into the stories of trailblazing women who built successful tourism businesses at Lake Tahoe, 1900-1930.
Free and open to all. Register: buff.ly/LuXHvy0
#UCDavis
Free and open to all. Register: buff.ly/LuXHvy0
#UCDavis
Going to Terra Madre Americas in Sacramento this weekend? Stop by the @ucdavis.bsky.social booth from 2-4 pm on Saturday for a taste of food history trivia, or contribute to our community mosaic, both hosted by the UC Davis Library.
September 25, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Going to Terra Madre Americas in Sacramento this weekend? Stop by the @ucdavis.bsky.social booth from 2-4 pm on Saturday for a taste of food history trivia, or contribute to our community mosaic, both hosted by the UC Davis Library.