Shields Library is closed through January 1. Requests for books, digitization services, and interlibrary loan will be fulfilled after the new year.
Events and Workshops
Current Exhibits at Shields Library
By Any Means Necessary: Marginalized Students Give Voice in the Third World Forum
Through April 22, 2024
Dark Edge of Nature: The Literary Archives of Jordan Fisher Smith
Through May 3, 2024
Upcoming Events
Mindfulness Tea Meditation
Tuesdays | 9:30 – 9:45am
Location: Online (register for Zoom link)
15 minutes of practice for less anxiety and stress. You will need a bowl, tea and hot water for the session.
Open Access Support Workshop
Thursday, April 18, 2024 | 10:00 – 11:00am
Location: This workshop has been cancelled. Please join us in May or June.
Picnic Day: Library-Palooza! Shields Library Open House & Children’s Storytime
Saturday, April 20, 2024 | 11:00am – 2:00pm
Location: Shields Library Lobby & Courtyard
Join us for storytime in the Shields Courtyard at 11:15, 12:15 or 1:15. See the library’s 19th-century printing press in action and print a custom Picnic Day souvenir! Explore our latest exhibits, including the history of the Eggheads, or express your creativity with Egghead coloring sheets (indoors) and sidewalk chalk (outdoors).
Picnic Day: Data Science Experience with DataLab
Saturday, April 20, 2024 | 11:00am – 2:00pm
Location: Shields Library Lobby
Explore how we develop and use Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) for research and teaching at UC Davis. Make mountains in our AR Sandbox and see what happens when it rains – or a volcano explodes (ages 5+)! Then go on a virtual hike of your landscape in VR (ages 13+). Learn about coding and geospatial coordinates as you draw and color alongside our team of data scientists (all ages). Ask us the hard questions like what are data scientists doing in a library?! Learn more at https://datalab.ucdavis.edu.
Worlds Encompassed: Premodern Making and Mingling
Thursday, May 2, 2024 | 4:30 – 7:00pm
Location: Shields Library First Floor, Lobby & Room 167
Learn about the marvels of the premodern world through expert talks, graduate student posters, and a guided tour of the library’s exhibit of rare books and materials. Undergraduates are welcome and encouraged to attend.
Co-hosted with the Medieval and Early Modern Studies Program, with the generous support of MEMS affiliate departments: Classics, East Asian Languages and Cultures, English, French and Italian, German and Russian, History, ME/SA, Music, Religious Studies, and Theatre and Dance.
Open Access Support Workshop
Tuesday, May 7, 2024 | 12:00 – 1:00pm
Location: Online (register for Zoom link)
Find out how to get help with the publishing process, financial support, and any questions you may have about open access publishing for articles or books. Open to everyone, including faculty, researchers, graduate students, grant administrators and departmental finance officers.
Open Access Support Workshop
Wednesday, June 5, 2024 | 12:00 – 1:00pm
Location: Online (register for Zoom link)
Find out how to get help with the publishing process, financial support, and any questions you may have about open access publishing for articles or books. Open to everyone, including faculty, researchers, graduate students, grant administrators and departmental finance officers.