Headshot of Maria Kuznetsova smiling framed by green line design. Event information in dark blue on gold background: 2025-2026 Creative Writing Series, Maria Kuznetsova, Fiction.

Please join us for the next Creative Writing Series event on April 8 at 4:30 p.m.: a fiction reading and Q&A featuring author Maria Kuznetsova!

Located in Shields Library, Rm. 205 (and live-streamed). bit.ly/creativewrit...

This event is free and open to all.

Headshot of Javier Zamora with an overlay graphic of his book, Solito, at an angle, on a light green background.

Have you read the 2025-2026 Campus Community Book Project selection, Solito: a Memoir, by author Javier Zamora? Student Services Librarian Matthew Conner created a bibliography with additional reading if you would like to continue exploring the theme of belonging: buff.ly/EF7cw31 #UCDavis

A nighttime exterior shot of Shield Library with text on the left reading “Shields Library, Finals Week Extended Hours” and Thursday, March 12 - Wednesday, March 18, open until 2:00 am, Thursday, March 19, open until 1:00 am.

Finals are right around the corner, but we've got you covered with extended hours at Shields Library starting Thursday!

Check out library.ucdavis.edu/hours for our full schedule. #UCDavis

Educators, join us online Tuesday, March 3 for our 2026 AggieOpen Invited Speaker Katie Healey! She will explore how digital accessibility, Universal Design for Learning and upcoming ADA Title II requirements align with the broader mission of open education. Please register: bit.ly/4aG6SgH #OEWeek

Composite of 2026 Grad Prize Winners Li Yor, Safa Uraizee and Andrea Guggenbickler.

Congratulations to our 2026 Library Graduate Student Prize winners:

Yi Lor, Ph.D. candidate, Epidemiology

Safa Uraizee ’25, Master of Public Health

Andrea Guggenbickler, Ph.D. Candidate, Public Health Sciences

Learn about the winners and their projects: bit.ly/gradprize2026

#UCDavis

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UC Love Data Week is next week! Advance your data skills with free virtual workshops hosted by UC Davis DataLab and fellow UC data orgs. DataLab and UC Davis Library session topics include data cleaning, data repository finders, AI, and data visualization. Register now: buff.ly/YEc3muC

UC Davis Coffee Center Director William Ristenpart; Starbucks co-founder Jerry Baldwin and wife Jane; Audrey Russek, library curator for Food and Drink; and University Librarian and Vice Provost William Garrity, with the original Starbucks manifesto at the UC Davis Library.

A world-class coffee collection for research, teaching and discovery is taking shape at the UC Davis Library, made possible with recent donations by coffee industry pioneers Jerry Baldwin, Russ Kramer and the Specialty Coffee Association. buff.ly/xsGa9Aq

#UCDavis #UCDavisEngineering

Jemimah Wei in a dark blazer framed by green line design. Event information in dark blue on gold background: 2025-2026 Creative Writing Series, Jemimah Wei, Fiction, Thursday, Jan. 29 | 4:30 p.m., Shields Library, Room 205 and livestreamed via Zoom

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

A small white cup of coffee with a foam heart design next to three staggered bags of Aggie Blend medium roast whole bean coffee, with illustration of a steaming coffee cup and saucer in foreground and a tree and Unitrans double-decker bus in the background.

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

Image description: Photo taken from left-hand side of Shields Library, featuring Bookhead. There is a text box at the top reading “Shields Library, Martin Luther King Jr. Day Adjusted Hours”, with text at the bottom reading “Sunday, January 18, open from 12:00 pm - 6:00 pm, Monday, January 19, open from 12:00 pm - 12:00 am.

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

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.

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

10 book covers in stacked 5x5 orientation that were published in 2025 and cited UC Davis Library Archives and Special Collections in their publication.

Check this out: 10 works published in 2025 that cited our Archives and Special Collections in their publication: buff.ly/UEBFgcs

A snowy winter scene with a graphic of Shields Library being snowed on with hills of snow piled up near the entrance with text reading “happy winter break”, and “Shields Library will be closed December 13 - January 4.”

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.

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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

White text on the top reading "Thanksgiving Break Hours” and a side box with text reading “Happy Thanksgiving! Shields Library will be closed Nov 27 & Nov 28.” Two turkeys walking along the sidewalk surrounded by nature with an orange gradient frame.

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.

A collage of “The Coyote” newspaper featuring headlines on Native American education, activism and culture, arranged in an overlapping display.

Coyote student newspaper, Winter/Spring ’75, with an illustrated header, short articles, and cartoon graphics of a

Coyote newspaper page listing spring 1975 Native American Studies classes, community announcements, and small illustrated ads.

Coyote newspaper issue with the headline “THINK INDIAN,” featuring short articles, illustrations, and a photo on the right of a man with glasses standing upright.

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

Nine covers of indigenous ecological titles in a grid layout over a filtered background of the same titles.

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

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!

Suad Joseph speaks at the podium.

(L-R): Linda Bisson, Professor Emeritus, Viticulture and Enology; Subhash Risbud, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Materials Science and Engineering; Suad Joseph, Distinguished Professor, Anthropology, Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies; Nicole Ranganath, Assistant Professor, Middle East/South Asia Studies; and Ken Burtis, Professor Emeritus, Molecular and Cellular Biology.

Suad Joseph (center) with Ignacio Sanchez-Alonso, University Archivist (left) and Kevin Miller, Head of Archives and Special Collections (right).

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!

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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

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

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."

A variety of special collections on a table, including folders, bound albums, wine corks.

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

Our Author Talk with UC Davis alumna Janet Kaidantzis will begin at 5:30 p.m. in Shields Library. Please join us!

Warren Winiarski (left) and Steven Spurrier (right) shake hands in front of a display on The Judgement of Paris with a wine bottle in a glass case.

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

Photo of the four 2024-25 Library Graduate Prize winners holding award certificates on teal blue watercolor background with white text that reads Library Graduate Student Prize, Prizes up to $1,000!, Apply by December 5, bit.ly/GradPrize, UC Davis Library logo.

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

Add the Archives Crawl to your Saturday plans! Read about it in the Arts Blog weekender!

Colorful archival illustration of Sacramento with buildings, mountain, boats, stagecoaches with title "Sacramento Gateway To the Garden Valley of the World" and details about the Archives Crawl.

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.

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Camille Ralphs in dark suit, striped shirt and polka dot tie with red glasses seated with hand rested on knee, with greenery in background. Event information in dark blue on gold background: 2025-2026 | Creative Writing Series, Camille Ralphs, Poetry, Wednesday, Oct. 8 | 4:30 pm, Shields Library, Room 205 and livestreamed via Zoom.

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