50 Features of Special Collections: Final Feature

50/50 It is with great enthusiasm that UC Davis Special Collections celebrates its 50th Anniversary in 2016/2017. The Department was established in 1966 to house the library’s rare…

Exhibit for April: Diamond Jubilee of the Shields Library Building: 1940-2015

The year 2015 marked 75 years since the building, now known as the Peter J. Shields Library, opened. Now through April 2016, Special Collections presents an expanded version of our…

New online exhibit: Celebrating A Century of the Biological & Agricultural Engineering Department

The Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department celebrated its centennial with a gala dinner held at Shields Library on October 3, 2015. As part of the celebration, Special Collections created…

New exhibit: California in Song

We are pleased to announce that our latest exhibit, California in Song, has just been installed in the exhibit cases outside of Special Collections. This exhibit, created by Music…

Happy 45th Birthday, Unitrans!

On February 28, 2013, Unitrans will celebrate its 45th Birthday. In the late 1960s, the Associated Students of UC Davis (ASUCD) explored possibilities for providing bus transportation to students traveling…

Radical Political Pamphlets Debuts in Civility Project Exhibit

The library was pleased to participate in the campus Civility Project. The project was developed in response to recent incidents of incivility across the UC campuses.  The interdisciplinary…