Announcements

Survey about On-Campus Study Space

Students: Share your thoughts on the quality and quantity of study and work spaces available on campus! The Provost’s Work Group on Student Study and Work Space (in which the library participates) has developed a short online survey, and we want to hear from you. The information gathered by ...

April 15, 2018

Library Update: April 2018, Volume 9

Stories in this issue: – MacKenzie Smith Named Vice Provost of Digital Scholarship – Price the Vintage: Crowdsourcing Prices from Vintage Wine Catalogs – Student Maps World War II Stories – Advancing Open Access Scholarly Publishing – Picnic Day at Shields: Shining a New Light on Campus ...

April 13, 2018

Library Open House on Picnic Day

Don’t miss our annual Picnic Day Open House on Saturday, April 21st from 11 am – 2 pm. ► Grab free environmental, agricultural and biological book covers for Earth Day ► Coloring for all ages! Relax and enjoy a coloring sheet celebrating UC Davis student life ► Visit our ...

April 11, 2018 • Jillian Kido

New Exhibit at Blaisdell Medical Library Confronting Violence: Improving Women’s Lives

Did you know nurses played a leading role in raising awareness about domestic violence? See how they advocated, educated and worked together to get domestic violence recognized as a health issue through the National Library of Medicine’s traveling exhibition, Confronting Violence: Improving Women’s Lives, now on display at the ...

April 9, 2018 • Jillian Kido

Become part of a worldwide movement for social change. Join the Human Library at UC Davis.

Have you ever faced discrimination? If you haven’t, have you wondered how that would feel? To foster greater mutual understanding on our diverse campus, the UC Davis Library is currently seeking participants for its inaugural Human Library at UC Davis event. And if you answered ‘yes’ to either question, ...

April 3, 2018

National Geographic Explores Same Issue as 2017 Lang Prize Winner

National Geographic is wrestling with its past portrayals of non-Western cultures — the very same topic explored by Harley Wong, one of our 2017 Lang Prize winners. Specifically, Wong dedicated her research for an art history graduate seminar to analyzing National Geographic’s photographs of nude non-Western women. In her ...

March 22, 2018 • Jillian Kido

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